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We have an amazing show for everybody today. What do we have, Crystal, indeed we do.
Let's to get to you this morning. So we are starting with all of the Republican candidates descended on the unsuspecting state of Iowa, some really interesting moments that unfolded. They were also going to bring in a reporter who was there on the ground to give us all of the juicy details. We're also keeping track of the very latest in terms of those horrific, deadly wildfires in Hawaii.
I mean, the news just continues to get worse and worse and residents getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of government support.
So we'll break all of that down for you. We also have some news.
In terms of potential new Trump indictments coming down this week and some new revelations about exactly what his team was up to there In Georgia, we also have more big developments in terms of a potential Big three auto shutdown, some very revealing moments from one of the big executives there. We're also going to tackle the surprise political hit topping the charts. Maybe guys have heard this and guess what, guys,
Crypto boy Wonder SBF has landed himself in jail. So we break all of that down for you in War. But we did want to start with what's going on on the ground in Iowa.
Yeah, that's right, we got to start with Iowa.
It's shocking and interesting developments, not really in terms of how everything went down. Ron DeSantis took the stage with Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa and was met with chance of we want Trump. Absolutely brutal, but also indicative of where the situation is.
Let's take a listen, ladies and gentlemen of the Iowa State Fair. Let's welcome Governor Kim Reynolds and Governor Ron Sentence.
They're hanging in there with us. Thank you so much. We really appreciate you being here as we have the opportunity. Well, first of all, welcome back to State Fair.
Ron.
It's great to have you here, So welcome back.
No, it's great to be here.
We're really excited to see everybody.
We appreciate.
Hey, you know what, you know what, we're in Iowa, and in Iowa we're Iowa nice. So let's give everybody the opportunity to hear our candidates.
So we'll stop.
We'll stop until you do.
But we're all going to have an opportunity to hear from each and every candidate. That's what we've been doing.
So Okay, what a savage moment.
So the woman scolding her her own constituents is the governor of the state, Kim Reynolds, who clearly crystal, if it was up to her, she would endorse to Santa tomorrow. She's been playing footsye with him the entire time. He has constantly kind of been kissing up to her, you know, over many interviews and other things that he has given.
And I just think it's a terrible look, you know, from a performance perspective, even to just give in the crowd and give him what they want whenever they're shouting we want Trump. I mean, yeah, they were loud, but guess what, you've got the mic, Like, you can at least get it on the record. You should just pretend not to notice, but to do the whole call out thing.
And Iowa nice. I just I think it was.
It showed her a lot of weakness, to be fair, I mean, DeSantis isn't the one that did it. But that's just the last thing that you want happening at, you know, kind of flagship political event in Iowa. And you know, people need to understand this is a big thing, the Iowa State Fair.
Yeah.
Well remember you know the butter cow with Ted Cruz in twenty sixteen. This is often the sight of some of the most famous like moments in a lot of primary politics.
Any epic corn dog pictures.
Many yeah, go car it's basketball for They all try to pretend they donned their human suits for like twenty four hours, try to pretend that they're just like us by eating like a what deep fried origans like.
I'm gonna wear a flannel and wear Yeah, I.
Can't stand it.
My personal favorite was a banner that was flying over the Iowa state.
Let's go and put this up there on the screen.
Seems to have been planted by the Trump campaign, says quote be likable Ron and puts Ron's logo like Jeb Bush Ron with a capital exclamation mark. So Trump, well, pretty much the unambiguous winner of the Iowa State Fair in Bristol, not dominating the event even whenever he's not on the stage, and forcing his only real rival to basically have to shut down his interview with the governor of the state, basically being openly disrespected by her supposedly her constituents.
I mean it actually low key made me feel a little bad for run deep above that too.
It's hard, brutal. I mean, what are you going to do.
There's no good way to deal with that state of affairs. And there's a couple things, because you have to in that moment as you're sitting there on the stage and you're hearing the crowd like jeering you among Republican base that very recently really love this guy, and so you're thinking, geez, did I not only screw myself in terms of this presidential race, but in terms of any political future. I think that is very open possibility at this point. And
then in terms of Governor Kim Reynolds. You know, if you are a governor of a state and you did well there, she won by a hefty margin, just got a pretty good reproval rating.
I believe in the state of Iowa, et.
Cetera, she's having a realization of just how shallow her support is. Like she doesn't command any sort of real like, she doesn't command any sort of real loyalty from her own constituents. Nothing, no one in the party compares to Trump. That's just the bottom line situation. So I was also thinking about the state of Iowa has been significantly demoted
in terms of the political season. You know, it's still first for the Republican side, but that race is looking all but over, you know, as evidenced by the chance that we show you there. And then on the Democratic side, you know, i always been completely demoted in a lot of ways for good reasons, because they completely screwed up the caucuses last time around.
But this is so central to that state's identity.
Yes it is.
I mean, being the first caucas site where the first votes are cast and having this every four years pageantry of all the candidates going around from place to place, and they're very used to meeting the presidential candidates in person and these little gatherings, et cetera. And you know that era, especially on the Democratic side, is completely over.
Yeah, you know, you're right.
And Vivek Ramaswami decided to warm up the crowd with a rendition of Lose Yourself by Eminem donning his old persona davec from back in the days whenever he was in college. Let's take a listen. So apparently what happened crystole is that's his open song. And he asked Kim Reynolds, he said, do you know this song? She said, no, I don't know the song.
Well, I'll show you.
That I don't exist and not know that song.
Listen.
Boomers are people in their own ride and they've got interesting tastes. I guess let's just put it that way. I'm sorry boomers who are paying audience. We love you, guys, don't worry. I just like to make fun of you.
That said it was an interesting move.
I think what I actually found kind of funny about the whole thing is that, you know, twenty years ago, that would have been one of the biggest stories in the whole country, like the whole Howard Dean scream, which I.
Think wasn't that of the Iowa stay Fair or it was a similar event.
It was after Iowa after it didn't do well.
Yeah, but yeah, so it was like something like or you know, Bill Clinton. I still remember, you know, like reading about how Bill Clinton playing the saxophone.
On what is it? Arsenio Holme was in a landmark moment. I remember reading that being like, right, that's so stupid, hard to wrap your head.
I mean, monoculture was a crazy thing, but you know, this is just one of those that goes like I semi viral ish on Twitter and then everybody just kind of moves on. Maybe that's probably for the good, so that people don't see their lowest moments. But I just thought it was funny and to show all of this. But I think that we have to come back to Trump. Trump was the central figure at this thing. He dominated every single event, even when other candidates were there.
Kim Reynolds was doing the rounds. At almost every turn.
It was we want Trump, we want Trump, and he got the biggest audience at the entire thing.
I would argue that at this point VI vac and the Santis are basically even in terms of being quote unquote Trump's top rival. Trump doesn't really have a top rival at this point. I'm also going to give you a little bit of a hot take on the dove Ake moment there.
I kind of like, I mean, I respect that, I don't hate it.
I respect the fact that you are actually willing to like publicly humiliate yourself to that degree, whereas if I mean, just even thinking about doing something like that makes me want to curl up in a ball and die. So respect for that. The other thing I would say is you were talking about how all these candidates like they don their human suits and try to be like, see, I'm just.
Like you people.
I at least Vivak is doing something that is true to his genuine pre put into personality, and it.
Reminds me a little bit.
I mean, this is like a wild comparison, but it reminds me a little bit to Trump's first fora at the Iowa State Fair. Instead of him let me put on the jeans and the button like the flannel or whatever, he showed up as he does. I remember he was giving people rides on I think his private helicopter, so he showed up as himself. And I do think that's one of the things that's like an enduring appeal of Trump.
He sets the standard for like who he is, how he's gonna approach this, what he's going to say, and you know, people, unfortunately, better or worse, can't get enough.
That is such a good point that actually just hit home. Trump never pretended to be anything but himself. He didn't ever want to spend the night in Iowa. He always liked to come home and sleep in his own bed and Trump Tower. He would rocket in on Trump Force one. He would come in on Trump Force one, he'd land in the Trump calicopter. He would roll around, he put on a big show, and then he would get the
hell out of there. And you know, and I remember, because we were covering it at the time, it would be have Ted Cruz, you know, doing the buttercow and Marco Rubio and everybody be in their jeans and Trump was just in a full suit. He just didn't care. And it was just one of those where he's like,
this is me, and people love him for it. And you know, if I was looking back at the polls, it's right around now when Trump started to dominate every single Republican primary poll, actually less so than he is even right now, which just gives you, you know, a good example. I think it was Harry Enton, the polling analyst, said that no candidate has ever led this much in a primary this early in the race and not gone
on to be the eventual nominee. So, barring some black Swan event or something like that, things are looking pretty clear. And Iowa clearly, you know, even at the grassroots level where Ted Cruz did have a lot of success, still doesn't seem to be manifesting for any of Trump's opponents. Trump himself gave a little bit of an answer on Stop the Steal at Iowa, showing us that he very much is the exact same man that he always has been.
Let's take a lesson to.
Win the Fairwell, he's way down in the bot.
Did you intend to overturn the twenty twenty election?
If he didn't hear that was, do you intend to overturn the twenty twenty election?
Trump quote? You know the answer? Well, I mean yeah, I think we do.
Know.
Listen, you know, once again we come back to he has never really told us that he you know, he has never presented himself as anything other than what he is, and I think that is what the primary voters in particular appreciate the most about him. And you know, even every answer, it's just vintage Trump. He looks exactly the same as whenever he was there, what's seven something years ago, and it's just you know, in the same flashback of just how well it appears.
He's going to be doue he's doing this race.
And yet the lack of sort of drama and interest in the Iowa state fair. I mean, this is really a blip on the radar. It is sign of just how little competition there is and how much of a foregone conclusion both of these primaries feel like. And listen, I mean, when you have an incumbent president, you know, that's fairly typical, right, They're very likely to get the
nomination on the Democratic side. But you know what isn't typical on the Democratic side is the total ambivalence of the Democratic electorate towards their guy who is in the presidency. I mean, you know, Barack Obama, even at his lowest point, the Democratic base loved this guy, still loves this guy. Very different set of affairs with Joe Biden. And then on the Republican side, you know, this should have been
really contested. There was a lot of media hype about the challenge to Trump and all of this, and it looks like just as much of a foregone conclusion on the Republican side as it does on the Democratic side.
The fact that the governor of the state basically threw in for DeSantis and no one cares whatsoever that you had a bunch of evangelical leaders, include some in the state of Iowa who signal they wanted to move on from Trump also didn't matter, even a state that you know, where the religious right has always historically been very important and you know, liked people like my Cuckabee, like people like Rix Santorum, like people like Ted Cruz.
It just shows you.
That, you know, whatever drama is going to come in this primary season has not manifested itself yet, let me say, and may have less to do with who the eventual nominees are and more to do with some of the legal battles that we're going to be talking about a bit.
You are absolutely right, all right.
We got a great guest standing by Shelby Talcott we're going to put her in the show now because she was on the ground in Iowa.
She's going to give us a little bit of an insight. Let's get to it.
So very lucky to be joined by Shelby Talcott. She is a politics reporter for Semaphore and she was there in Iowa. She's actually still in Iowa and so we're going to talk to you about the political candidates and also she can evaluate all of the Iowa State Fair food for us as well.
Shelby, great to have you, Thanks for having me.
Yeah. Yeah, So we're just showing some of the kind of viral moments from the fair. DeSantis being chanted down with we Want Trump and the ronbe Likable banner and the Dove ake, the vake Ramaswami rapping talk to us about the overall mood of people who were actually at the fair and the way that your report specifically talks about the way that Trump was able to exert sort of maximal influence over the fair.
Yeah.
What I thought was really interesting is when we're talking to voters on the ground at the fair, they're interested or they tell us that they're interested in the Trump alternatives.
So the vague drew pretty big crowds.
Ron de Santas obviously drew pretty big crowds, plus some left leaning protesters who were eventually kicked out, which he wears as a badge of honor.
But then you have Trump swoop in and.
It is like no other presidential candidate exists, right, And so it's something we've seen time and time again, and it was front and center at the fair.
He came in for less than two hours.
I think it ended up being on Saturday, when all of these other major candidates were there, and during that time period, it was like all eyes on on him.
He drew the biggest crowd.
He had pro Trump voters shouting down Ron DeSantis as DeSantis was grilling at the pork tent, And it's just kind of reminiscent of the It represents the broader idea of sure, we have all these voters who say that they want alternative candidates, but we also have all of these voters who at the end of the day also love Trump still, right.
I mean, Shelby, can you just go into a little bit of that also from the voters that you spoke with, and some of the color from actually being on the ground I mean, what does the energy difference look like. It's something I always noticed in twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen when Trump was running that people were just not picking up on that at a national level.
Yeah, I mean there's a lot of energy, and campaigns have been telling us constantly. We see that there's an opportunity, particularly in Iowa, to take votes away from Trump. And when you're out on the ground talking to these voters, I'm seeing that also based on what the vote are telling us. And so when candidates are hitting the ground here, they're doing at heart, they're going big. You had Ron DeSantis, who was not known for his retail politics.
I think we talked about this last time.
I was on do retail politics pretty much all day at the Iowa State Fair, even going into the Agricultural Building and manning the egg on.
A stick tent, which is exactly what it sounds.
He was putting sticks on eggs and handing them out, which is a very popular attraction at the state Fair. You had the Vagramswami, as you said, wrapping. He also hired a revolutionary war band that started playing songs after he ended his Kim Reynolds event. You had Donald Trump come in and drop twenty thousand dollars for fairgoers.
For food and drinks. So candidates are taking this very seriously.
And it's kind of like a go big or code go home type situation before the first debate.
I'm pretty shocked by the whole egg on a stick situation. I've heard about many of the Iowa State Fair foods, the fried oreos and the corn dogs, and like typical fair, isn't there like butter fried butter I think is the thing as well?
Never heard about the eggonistick.
You have this part in your piece about I mean, this is just classic Trump, how he makes everything a show. He knows how to one up everybody in terms of the showmanship. Soccer and I were talking about how everybody else, like all the other cannons, they'll put on their genes and try to be one of the everyday folks. Trump just shows up as Trump does his thing, you say. He arrived at the event with an entourage of Florida lawmakers, well known to conservative media as the.
Santas flip Burger's.
Trump's private plane strategically flew overhead, distracting fairgoers who turned to take photos and videos at the moment. A Trump aid confirmed the campaign was responsible for a smaller plane that flew above the fair throughout the day with a banner reading be Likable Ron. And as you mentioned, he also just dropped twenty grand to help subsidize the fair food for people who were there.
Yeah, I mean, it's classic Trump, right.
A big part of Trump's campaign is trolling, quite frankly, and if you talk to his campaign, they will openly admit that part of Saturday was designed to troll Ronda Santis in every way possible. And we saw that and it was effective because what had ended up happening. If you read all the headlines, if you search Desanta's Trump Iowa State Fair, every headline will read Donald Trump dominates at the Iowa State Fair. Donald Trump trolls Ron DeSantis.
And so it's this really interesting thing. But on the flip side, you know, as you're talking about this piece, they also are taking the Iowa State Fair in Iowa as a state really seriously. They have thirty plus staffers here every single day throughout the entirety of the festivities. They're having. Marjorie Taylor Green is coming next Saturday. They
had Carrie Lake here, They had Wesley Hunt. They have a number of surrogates who are going to be on the ground, participating in fair activities, talking to press, talking to voters, because this is really an opportunity for both Trump and the other candidates, but particularly Trump to kind of sway some of these less politically inclined voters to his side.
Yeah, Shelby, I mean that's an important point.
There's a big there's a lot of courting right now of Governor Kim Reynolds, so clearly seems to have some sort of preference for Ron DeSantis, but she has said that she's not going to endorse until later on in the race. How is Trump, How is the Trump dynamic influencing her own decision about endorsements.
Well, I think it's very obvious that that is a tense situation right now.
If you talk to.
Reynolds staffers, they will argue, argue that she has no problem with Trump, but is Trump who has a problem with her?
And I think to an extent that's accurate.
But I also certainly think as Trump continues to do these things and say these things, and he keeps going after her, you know, it wears on her and the result is You've seen her really step up with how many events she's doing, particularly with Ron DeSantis after the Iowa State Fair, which she spent a portion.
Of the day with him. She even did the you know, the he did.
The soapbox with her, and then she spent some of the afternoon with him, and then she went to an event with him that evening, And so she seems to I know, she says that she's not going to endorse until later in the race, but I think part of what really frustrates Trump is that her actions are suggesting kind of who she is.
Leaning or right.
Yeah, And DeSantis has also made no secret of trying to court her, brings her up in all these interviews and talks about her pro life record and all sorts of things. When you talk to the non Trump candidates and campaigns, what is their theory of the case of how they make the comeback? I mean, the lead seems insurmountable. In fact, if you look at history, no one has been able to overcome this much of a deficit to
be able to pull off the nomination. What is their theory of how they might be able to change what looks like and you know, coronation at this point.
And that's the thing.
There's no solid plan that I've personally heard in terms of and when I talk about a solid plan, I'm thinking step one, step two, step three equals we beat Donald Trump. Right. It's more broad ideas of, well, we're hearing from voters on the ground that they're interested in alternative true, so we're going to be out on the ground twenty four to seven trying to court them true also.
And then the third thing I hear a lot is.
That eventually, particularly with all of these indictments, voters are just going to end up tiring of Donald Trump. But the problem with that is it all kind of depends on voters actually ultimately coming over to your side. And so I think this is the broad idea behind this whole presidential campaign is there's only so much Trump rivals can actually do. And at some point, I think in a way it's you know, it's up to the voters.
Well, yeah, yeah, it's always good to get inside from you.
Hope is not a strategy, as they as they say, Shelby, thank you so much. Great to have you and great to have your insights. We really appreciate your time.
Thank you, Shelby.
So by now you've probably seen some of the horrific images coming out of the state of Hawaii after those deadly wildfires, the deadliest wildfires already in more than a century. Let's go ahead and put some of this up on the screen for those who haven't seen.
This is a before and after picture of the town of China.
You can, I mean, it's just horrific to look at this historic area absolutely burned to a crisp. Let's go ahead and show this next one, which is absolutely horrifying. There's video of people who were jumping into the ocean in or to try to escape these wildfires. As I said before, deadliest now already based on the current body count in over a century, ninety six people confirmed dead, more than a thousand still missing. So this is just an absolutely horrific death toll. And then let's put this
next one up on the screen. You can see the completely apocalyptic images here. This is, you know, an area that used to be bustling. You can see these skeletons of cars, everything just completely burned down. And basically there was a confluence of terrible factors that led to this outcome. This area in Maui had been subject to drought for a while. They also had an issue with these non native grasses that had grown up across the region which
were super flammable, especially with the drought. And then you had hurricane strength wins that helped to spread this unfortunately like wildfire and leads to this terrifical, just terribly awful result. I was looking at some of the history here, Sager, in terms of deadliest wildfires in American history. As I said, this is the worst that we've had in over a century already, which is astonishing given the you know, technological
advances that we've made in that time. The worst in history that we've ever had was a fire in Wisconsin in eighteen seventy one that killed one thousand, one hundred and fifty two. It was at the site of a sawmill, so there was all this dry sawdust around and just the whole town went up in flames. But the next closest to this wildfire and the deadly nature of it was in nineteen eighteen they call it the Cloaquette Fire, when railroad sparks and nited a wildfire raged for more
than four days, decimating northern Minnesota. That set a death toll of four hundred and fifty three as a result of that fire. And you know, unfortunately, I think everyone's expectation is that the death toll is going to rise significantly from the ninety six that it's all ready at.
Given the number of people who are still unaccountable.
I was going to say, you know, you got days in now, and you got multiple hundreds of people who are missing. So it's like that is a terrible situation and something we've been trying to track here Crystal, which is really put on the radar by both producers but
also some of our audience, people who actually live in Hawaii. Yeah, is aid actually flowing to Hawaii in the nature that it should And there's some indications right now from actual residence on the island that they are not happy with the federal government and the Biden administration about the delivery of set aid.
I'm not getting what I need from the government. The community on Maui is extremely strong, and the crowdfunding and the community effort to support each other right now is so unbelievably immense. It's chaotic, and it's extremely hard to organize who needs want and who needs where.
A lot of the big box stores are running out of supplies and things are starting to get a little weird.
After natural disasters happen like that, a.
Lot of people are setting their hard earned money and they're taking their personal vehicles and they're driving into law through the danger to deliver supplies because we are not receiving in any capacity that we need to be received on a larger level.
But as of now, we are seeing very little support from from big organizations. We hear that there is Coastguards or National Guards that that's assisting with organization in Lohina, But at the same time, we are in contact with a lot of residents in Lohina that are stuff up north between Kahana and kay who are out of power, out of out of water, out of gas.
It's troubling stuff there, Crystal in terms of what's coming in. And you know, I've seen a good point Mike Glover Fieldcraft's survival guy, beiging a disaster relief. He's like, we got one of the biggest military bases in the entire country, like a couple of miles away. What are we doing? Why are we not surging? And you know this has been coming out residents. Let's put this up there on the screen. This is a screenshot from an Instagram story
that was taken by a local dive company. They say, quote, the government has blocked entry roads to Lahaina, leaving people feeling abandoned and confused, unable to locate missing family members and get much needs supplied to those in need. This has not stop the strong community of Maui from finding ways to help. Apparently one of the biggest problems on the island is lack of cell service. There's lack of internet. But you know, this is not just one story. We're
hearing this from a lot of different people. There are viral videos floating around out there of actual residents saying they have been blocked actually by the local and the state and the federal government by coming to the island. Apparently FEMA wants to be the single source of control. And I'm not saying they're doing this intentionally. It just sounds like a complete bureaucratic incompetence nightmare, all of which
we witness in the time in Katrina. The problem is this is so far away and so remote, and we don't have enough media resources on the ground that were you know, who knows what in terms of the information and some of the stuff filtered out here is a real scan.
Yeah, we're really having to rely on the residents to tell us what is going on. And you know, these aren't just isolated incidents. At this point. We're seeing a lot of commentary coming from people who are impacted there on the island, who are saying, please, you know, someone report on this, someone come to our aid. Put this next one up on the screen. This is another post. They say, this was posted two days ago. They're saying, for what it's worth, I'm hoping for a writer to
write this complicated yet very simple story for MAUI. Yes, it feels ridiculous because I know no one in these high places knows what I'm doing. Donations, we need them all. This is a plea New York Times, NPR, CNN, anything large and limit legitimate. Do you know someone screenshot share?
I beg.
He goes on to say, where's the Navy, the hospital ship, helicopters, the military, the natural disaster relief infrastructure that should have been here by now, so you know. Of course, the Biden administration says they're doing everything they can. National guardsmen have been mobilized to the area, but clearly just a lot of devastation and frustration mounting among resonents there on the ground as the death toll continues to mount.
Yeah, and President Biden actually was asked yesterday and on his beach vacation while he was quite literally on the beach, Mister President, do you have any comments about the rising death hole in Hawaii?
Quote?
No comment, he said, before heading home. You know, I mean this is pretty disgusting stuff, to be honest. And look, it's often a trope the whole like, we send money over there, but we don't have money over here. It doesn't necessarily have to be a zero sum game, but the politicians are the ones who have turned it into that zero sum game.
So I think the analysis is fair.
But you know, we got time to be requesting twenty five billion dollars more for Q one to go to the Ukrainian military, including thirteen billion dollars of disaster relief.
Included in there.
And these people are American citizens out there pleading for money on Instagram while one of the world's largest military bases is forty some miles away from this disaster suit. What the hell is going on here? You got people there saying that they're being blocked from bringing pro pain
energy to their freaking relatives. I mean, can you imagine, you know, you got relatives who are not that far away whose house just burned down, you had infrastructure going there, and somebody tells you you can't go see him, and you can't.
Yeah, you'd be losing your mind. You bulldozing past them if you can.
These people have already lost Just it just boggles the mind. I can't believe Biden's on a beach. I genuinely can't
believe that. I think if this happened in the mainland fifty yeah, if this was Pennsylvania, if this was Virginia, if this was somewhere that you know, was closer to home that they felt more personally connected, There's no way that the President of the United States would, you know, just go to the beach and say no comment about the whore that is unfolded again, deadliest wildfire in more than a century.
You could see from the photos the level of devastation.
And to be that cavalier about it, I am actually genuinely shocked by it, to be honest with you. And the other thing I'd say is, let's and I was reading into is there a climate change connect with this particular white It's always difficult to say in any particular disaster, what is the climate change connect. There's an indication they've been increasingly in drought in Hawaii in a way that they didn't used to be. That may be caused by
climate hard to say. The increase you know, in hurricanes and strength of winds may be caused by climate change hard to say. But what we do know is we are getting these disasters more and more often. We are going to continue dealing with these disasters more and more often. So we better get damn good at it. We better get damn good at mitigation. We better get damn good at relief. We better have the money cued up ready to go, and you know, a plan in place, ready
to help residents when they are impacted. This because this is the new reality. Whether or not this particular incident was climate change driven, which again it's very difficult to say.
In this particular incident, we.
Know we're seeing once in a century floods coming year after year. We're seeing increased strength and hurricanes. We're seeing wildfires that are absolutely historic in their eyes and scope, and we're seeing so much disaster that you know, in a place like Florida. This is something we're here in more and more too, about people who can't get home and owners insurance because of the threat of rising threat
of repeated natural disasters. So we better get our game together here because this is the new reality.
Yeah.
No, I mean, look, and the problem too is the fact that these people are like pleading for resources online. You know that one guy's screenshot about the media and all that. It's just like, how can they be so ignored by what's going on? And I you know, Obama, to his credit, I guess because he's from there, was one of the first people, you know, really.
To start actually funds and all that.
Yeah, I mean literally, I think as he grew up in Hawaii, but pretty much everybody else has been has been gone. You know, it'd be a good opportunity, like when Trump, what is it when the Trump campaign went to go visit East Palestine even though Hawaii's a blue state, you know, plane flies, like you should get over there. People should people should know that people actually do care about what's going on. Luckily, with the Internet, some of the word is getting out there. I hope it will continue.
Maybe we'll put a link to one of the disaster relief organizations that's down in the description.
But yeah, it's terrible situation. We're going to continue to keep an eye on it.
Yeah for sure.
At the same time, we've got a lot of developments on the Trump potential indictment front. Let's put this first piece up on the screen, all right. So we had the Jacksmith indictments here, we had the Alvin Bragg indictments, we had the Documents indictments. Now we're looking at what is going to happen with this Atlanta grand jury. They are hearing Trump's cases as early next week, but this was written last week, so we're now talking about.
Today and tomorrow.
Basically, they are hearing the Trump case, and it looks very much like they're going to be handing down indictments this week. Could be twelve or more people who are indicted as part of this alleged scheme, they said. Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis's timeline became clearer on Saturday. Two witnesses in the investigation said they'd been summoned to testify on Tuesday. Legal experts have said they expect the presentation of evidence to take a around two days, so
you do the math. If they're starting on Tuesday, a couple days hand down indictments, that's what it's looking like. So probably towards the end of this week we may be hearing something. There are two grand juries meeting in Fulton County through the end of August, one on Mondays and Tuesdays, the other on Thursdays and Fridays. Latest developments suggest Willis will begin her presentation of the case on Monday.
That would be today.
Public could know whether Trump and others have been indicted by Tuesday evenings, so we are definitely on indictment watch. At the same time, CNN got a scoop about we reported here a while ago this little county in Georgia, Rural County, Coffee County, where the election administrators there and certainly the Republican Party officials, were very favorable towards Trump. I think the county went like seventy percent for Trump.
So this was Trump country and they really wanted to give him, you know, whatever he was looking for in terms of these dominion voting machines. And so we had previously reported based on you know, what was in the press that they had given access to sensitive election infra and these sensitive voting machine systems, which you are not allowed to do. That is wildly illegal to these data consultants.
Well, guess what.
We now have direct indications of who exactly hired those consultants and set up this whole deal. Let's put this up on the screen. This is the New York Post telling of it. They say, Trump blastphony Georgia DA after report prosecutors have text and emails linking him directly to
that voting system breach. Georgia prosecutors investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election results are in possession of text messages and other communications that time members of the former presence legal team, including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. By the way to a January seventh, twenty twenty one voting systems breach in the state. According to US Sunday report, one of the text reads just landed back in DC
with the mayor, the mayor being Rudy Giuliani. Huge things starting to come together. Most immediately, we were just granted access by written invitation to Coffee County systems yay again, that is illegal. The person who was most directly involved here as a woman by the name of Misty Hampton, former Coffee County elections official. She delayed the certification of Biden's win. She refused to recount results by the deadline.
I think she may have been the one. She published some video alleging fraud with the dominion voting machines, so she went that extra mile and actually helped enable them allegedly potentially commit some crimes here. It's pretty ironic, Zaga, when you're so concerned about election fraud that you go ahead and commit some yourself.
This is basically the exact same thing that happened in Arizona.
If we'll recall, during the whole audit of the machines, it turned out that we'd rendered many machines unusable because they were like basically seized and or improperly examined by
the investigators who were looking into frauds. This has happened so many times now at this point where it's like this clownish and ridiculous gambit in order to try and prove the fantasies not only just a man, but really have a lot of people around him, we just don't want to admit, you know, that they lost the election. I think that the most honest reading Crystal that I've seen so far from many of these Republicans who is they're basically like, well, we just got to embrace mail
in balloting. We'll just call it ballad harvesting, even though it's just you know, male in balloting, and we have to outdo the Democrats. I'm like, yeah, that's actually correct. You work within the rules that you have here.
And try to win. Yeah, shocking. I know. You look at the rules of the game. You decide to place that game, and when you lose, you lose.
And if you want to win, well, you know, you look what you did bad last time, You're going to try and do something else.
Unfortunately for them, if that hasn't really.
Been working out, and they've been their own worst enemies and trying to prove you know, like this is the problem with Sidney Powell, with Rudy Giuliani, with all Mike Lindell, all these folks, is they were so like, they believe this so much that they were literally committing crimes in the process of trying to quote unquote prove that the election was stolen.
Yeah, and some of them.
I don't know, Julian, I really believe this. I have no idea, I really, I genuinely don't. But I also think they just this is a group of people in certain instances that just feels like they're above the law, like the rules.
Don't apply to them.
So you know, if Rudy Giuliani was looking at a Democrat who was breaching voting systems in some county somewhere, I mean, they would see very clearly that that is in fact a crime, that you can't do that.
But then when it came to.
Them, they're like, Yay, we get access to the voting systems we've been invited in, so it must be fine.
Pretty wild.
There's also reporting this suggests originally this Grand Jury in Georgia was being presented a lot and they were looking deeply into that call that Trump had in which he calls a perfect call with Brad Raffensberger, where he asked him to quote, find eleven seven hundred and eighty votes.
But as time is worn on, they've also taken a lot of time to dig into what was going on in Coffee County with this voting system's breach, and you know, this is one of those where sort of like the Document's case, it's more there's more of a clear line here that you can cross versus you know, some of the January sixth stuff could potentially be contested. Obviously I support the indictments, but there's legal arguments that can be made on either side. To me, the voting system's reach
is a little more clearcut. So we'll see when the indictments come down. Of course, we'll be following it really closely here and bring you breaking news as soon as we have it. What exactly has contained in it, what they're laying out, who's involved, what's the conspiracy that's alleged. We've heard a lot about potential racketeering charges, so we'll see if.
That is part of it.
Yeah, we look, we have no idea.
Also, do you remember the Georgia Jerry for woman and her media tour.
Oh?
Yeah, that was weird. Definitely going to be you know.
That's probably going to come back to bite, I think if any of that ends up coming back to coming into the public sphere. So the real point of this whole thing is to just prepare everyone for another indictment. Looks very imminent, what they said early next to Tuesday evening, these Tuesday evening, So I guess we'll be uh yeah, watch as usual here over at BP. And the real one is that this also opens up a mountain of different charges and a legal battlefield. Because this is not
in the federal court system. This is in the state court system. It will be very different in terms of its interpretation and also, in my opinion, actually might be the strongest on the grounds of election law because in our federalist system, crystal states are the ones who have near supremacy over the way that they run their elections and have the much more capacity to charge, you know, on these specific grounds than the Feds of January sixth or any of these others. It's one of the problems
that's been really for him from the beginning. And you know, if you look at it a state by state thing, the New York one pales in comparison to the level of legitimacy that they could have. Yeah, you're in this case, this is one of the strongest cases actually they might be able to bring against him, could very well be.
And especially with this new information about the voting system's breach, might be clear cut. We'll wait and see the details. At the same time, you know, one aspect of all of this that I find really interesting is it's like, Okay, Trump, if you and your team really so strongly believed that there was election fraud, you're about to have these trials go prove it to the public. He was recently asked
some about you know, does he still believe it? And he's still you know, on his bs about all of this. He was also asked about whether or not he would take a plea deal, a stake a listen to what he had to say.
But I can tell you one thing.
There was a lot of Sanetian's going on with the elections. Whether you look at Jasi.
Fule, whether you look at the fifty one intelligence agents mis or rigg, when you looked at Twitter, at FBI and at DOJ, and take a look at what happened with dj Take a look at what happened with Twitter.
It's in display, so good, John, Is.
There any chance you take a bleed deal? Is there any Florida delegation is or governor? Is there any chance you take a plea deal? And George ideas, we did nothing.
Wrong, and you don't ever take a sir, Yes, sir.
We don't take bleevia.
It's a wise guy.
Question wise guy questioned, no plea deal floating two thousand mules, which you know you could go back and watch my commentary on that. It's you know, absurd flames. But listen, buddy, go prove it in court. Yeah, a chance in front of the whole nation. Go show how rigged the election.
As we often said at that time, we're like, listen, man, you know sixty one cases, sixty one losses.
Before the court, and you know it.
It is interesting, you know, when you really probe it, it's like the mag of people really want you to believe that the courts were rigged in multiple Republican states, with multiple Republican judges across multiple jurisdictions local, state and federal, and that somehow in every single case at the hand of the Feds was able to come down and to interfere and said this to not prove and what they've
effectively resorted to. I've noticed this actually on Twitter is resurfacing old clips which have all been completely debunked around like, oh, look, they pulled ballots off from underneath the table and it's like every single time, I'm just you know, it's like if that's what, if that's all they got, then you know, it's not a it's not a wonder why they lost in the in the core system in the first place.
Yeah, every single one of these has been looked into people.
You know, you can retweet it all you want. That doesn't make it true. Yeah, it will remain true in their minds.
Let's talk about some of the very interesting things happening on the labor front. So we covered how UPS came right up to the brink of a strike which would have been huge, historic, et cetera, but they were actually able to come to a deal and no rank and file members still voting on it. But looks like a pretty good deal and it has a good chance of
I think, getting passed by the Teamsters membership. One of the provisions is those who are full time at the sort of top of the salary spectrum are going to be making one hundred and seventy.
K year, so pretty good salary.
This has some folks really wringing their hands, very concerned about God forbid, working class person makes you know, a decent salary and is able to maybe even actually afford a home. Jim Kramer among those very concerned about this deal.
Stay to listen to what he had to say.
That's the way that UPS stock initially went up on that deal, and then people see that maybe the Teamsters got the vestigator. Although it's a good thing for the US economy that there is not going to aba UPS. I'm so going you mentioned that because that was very important for the US. I do want to know whether FOD is going to talk about whether there's more of.
An issue with the UAW.
Then Carolsermy talked about the issue with team Stirs are important to watch that because because when you look at the way GM traded, it started going down when Mary bar the CEO, glossed old union issue.
That's a big mistake.
Showan Fate reminds me of the nineteen thirties UAW, which we don't want.
Which we don't want.
We'll get to the UAW in just a minute, but here's some of the details that.
Have caused stir. People are very upset about put.
Those of THEMS.
I can't imagine being upset about people earning a different decent living. But anyway, full time UPS drivers will earn one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year on average in new con according to the CEO of that company. Salary ranges for full time and part time drivers among the details to come out this week. Here's a little
bit of a quote from the CEO. She says, when you look at total compensation, by the end of the new contract, average UPS full time driver will make about one hundred and seventy k annually in pay and benefits. And for all part time employees that are already working at UPS, by the end of this contract, they'll be making at least twenty five seventy five per hour while
we're seeing full health care and pension benefits. That part time piece is really important, soccer, because a lot of the drivers are actually part time, so there is a good swath of their workforce that will not be earning this kind of a salary. But you know, there's a lot to say about this because I find it so interesting.
UPS is phenomenally profitable. Okay, they actually are more profitable than FedEx, even consistently more profitable than FedEx, even though FedEx has a non union workforce that does make considerably less than their cohort over at UPS. So in spite of that, UPS has been a well company. Perhaps because their employers are employees are happier. Perhaps that might be part of why the company is consistently more profitable. So
it's not like the company is suffering. I can't imagine grudging people a decent income and using their This just shows you the power of unions. Yes, they use their collective power. They elected their leader, new leader Shan O'Brien, to force a tough deal on UPS after taking years of conception. Last contract was really concessionary. The membership had actually voted it down because they were unhappy with it.
Now they're able to use the tight labor market, use the more militant leadership that more accurately reflects the needs of the rank and file, and.
Cut a better deal for themselves. We should all be celebrating.
So from here's some data that I can find, just to put forward. Last year twenty twenty two, UPS did an annual gross profit of seventy four point one point five billion UPS annual gross profit for twenty twenty one, seventy one point nine to three billion UPS gross profit for twenty twenty two. For twenty twenty sixty four billion. Each one of those was an increase year over year. Twenty twenty and twenty twenty one each respectively showed a
thirteen to twelve percent annual gross profit increase. It's on twenty five percent over a two year period, under which UPS drivers actually basically made the entire economy run. Yea, you know these people delivered goods to people, were working from home. They were essential workers that worked in bad conditions on average. These people are walking like miles and miles per day. You know, you should go look at the fitbit data for some people who drive full time
for UPS. No joke, You need some actual physical requirements. Actually sit and take have a conversation with your UPS driver if they have the ability even in time.
Yeah, they don't have the time. Driving the trucks is also not a joke as well. I didn't know this.
Apparently they're not allowed to turn left because it stops the amount of uses too much fuel. So they have custom driving routes that cause them to drive inconveniently, which are all about fuel compensation, which saved some billions of dollars per year.
So everything is right terms for the UPS truck. Obviously they have.
Yeah, it is kind of I had no idea. They have a custom software apparently that does. It saves them a lot of money. But it's no joke. You're driving with sometimes ten twelve hours a day. The time when everybody else is off is whenever you're the most on Christmas Eve.
All of that. That's that's game time. You know.
That's the time when you got to work even more than everybody else. So the hours are no picnic. That's why you get paid money. But it also comes back to more of a philosophical conversation. I don't really know why people are so angry about this. I've seen all these memes I've been posting online, but it's like ups drivers after five years driving a Lamborghini.
I'm like, okay, Like, hold on a second. I live here in Washington, DC.
I know plenty of people who make one hundred and seventy and they make a hell a lot more of them one hundred and seventy grand a year. These pole can't even afford to buy a house, So what are you talking about. These people are driving Toyota CAMRA's. I mean, it's like, not sure we live in one of the top five, Like most expensive cities in the country.
So it's not like pay Ooria, Illinois or something like that. I just no offense, paywork.
I'm just pointing out, you know, it's not normal middle class plays. But if you look at the median home price on average across the country, specifically in what the top ten metro areas where a lot of these people have to work are nearby, we're talking about half million dollars. We're looking at major interest rates. We're also I mean, last time I checked, you know, you want to be
able to raise a family. I personally would love to live in a society where people can raise a family on an income of one These people work incredibly hard. I don't see why they shouldn't have this other There just seems to be this like philosophical anger at this.
I've seen it a lot amongst white collar workers.
As well, and I think it's because what it comes down to is the pandemic was a sorting mechanism. We found out what's really valuable and what's not. So a lot of tech workers who were making this same money to become like a you know, product marketer or whatever, got fired, and they're pissed off. People who work on their feet, with their hands and all that are making so much so it doesn't bother me at all. And in fact, I think the economy should look a lot more like this than not less men.
Yeah, I mean, who doesn't want an economy where people might be able to afford to have a house, might be able to afford to have a family. That's what we're supposed to all be aiming for here, And I really do think it reveals just a level of sneering contempt for working class people.
That's the only thing you can really attribute it to.
Because no one blinks an eye at someone, you know, sitting in an air conditioned office looking at a computer screen making this kind of money that we just that's fine, and it is fine, you know what, It is fine, But.
Guess what, These people work so hard.
I challenge you to spend a day in these guys shoes trying to run these routes and deliver these packages, and the heat and in everything else, every other condition.
This is a brutal job. I've known people who do this job.
I know the training they go through, I know how long it takes for them to be able to get to this position of being a full time driver. I know how difficult it is on their bodies to do this kind of work day in and day out. So yeah, one hundred and seventy k all day long. I am one hundred percent happy. I would like to see many more working class or service sector jobs that are essential to this country, that make this whole thing.
Work, earn a decent standard of living.
By the way, there's also a lot of commentary about, you know, the labor markets so tight and all, we can't find workers and we're having trouble, we're short staffed, et cetera. They're not gonna be having that trouble at UPS. Put this Axios report up on the screen, fifty percent increase in job searches with the key terms UPS or United Parsonal Service in the week following the deal's announcement. UPS jobs, Axios says are hot after union deal wins
major pay bump. So they're gonna be able to get, you know, the cream of the crop. They're going to be able to have their pick. And by the way, part of why this deal is so important, what do you think FedEx is going to have to do? Oh yeah, they're going to have There is a huge golf between. I think I was seeing FedEx workers make more like eighteen dollars an hour. This is off the top of my head. I could be wrong, but I know there's a huge golf between what UPS workers are making and
what FedEx workers are making. So if they want their drivers to be, you know, top of the top notch, if they want to be able to fill out their workforce, they are going to have to up their.
Compensation and compete.
And that's you know, at a different time in America when you had larger union density, even shops that were non unionized, those workers also benefited from what the union workers were able to negotiate because their employers also had to compete.
So I am one hundred percent year and look.
The company's still profitable.
The main reason people hate this deal is because Wall Street doesn't like it because the gross profit is going to go down.
But here's the thing. These people have plenty of money.
UPS is paying a three point three percent annual dividend on the stock.
They're paying out billions.
It's so traders who want to be able to squeeze and up that dividend. They want to juice the gross profit and they want to be able to pay out even more and possibly even have UPS do its own stock buybacks rather than pay it out to the employees, and the employees did what you know they should be doing. We have a wildly profitable business, doing year over year billions of dollars an annual gross profit, and the vast majority of that value is going to the company executives
and to the stockholders. Why should it not go to the drivers whenever they have the ability to make that concession? So I think a lot of a lot of the like freak out over this is really bad faith. And you know, I mean I think about this all the time. It's like, hey, if you want to go and do something that has real value, then do it.
You know, nothing is stopping you.
A lot of this is just anger from the fact that it's like, yeah, you did what you were supposed to do.
You went to college, you.
Got your white collar job, you've got a lot of student debt, and you're not getting paid what you think is fair. And I sympathize with that, I really do, because society told you that the UPS guy's a loser and that you're not. But you know what, you know, sorry, reality has a way of catching up to people. So if you want to go make one hundred and seventy grand, not a single thing is stopping you from being able to lift seventy pounds and walk ten miles a day
only turn right, Yeah, exactly. You can apply next time, or you can go create your own business. You could try and do something. You can see something in the market generally does have some value for So, yeah, I think that a lot of this is just outrageous. Yeah, some of the way that people are, if any may they're trying to make them feel bad for like bargaining for a good way. But when you look at the situation, you're like, this is the this is clear as day.
It's not going to hurt the company at all.
There's an element too of white collar workers who do earn this kind of salary, you know, one seventy, two hundred whatever, who don't want to see the ups guy, I mean the same.
Class as they are. You're right, and who you know, don't think they quote unquote.
Deserve to have the decent life that they are very happy to enjoy. The last thing that I would say is unfortunately one hundred and seventy k it is a good salary, it doesn't go nearly as far as it should given the price of housing.
This is astonishing.
We're going to cover this in a separate segment, probably to drop on the weekend. Just put this up on the screen from Bloomberg. Sixteen percent of Californians can afford to buy home in the state.
You know why, you.
Have to earn two hundred and eight thousand dollars just to be able to qualify for a thirty year mortgage. So like your standard issue mortgage, you got to be earning two hundred and eight thousand dollars. So even in the ups, drivers doing well one hundred and seventy k
in California still probably can't afford a house. And that's a big part of the story of why, you know, the middle class has just been decimated in this country and why it is so so difficult no matter what you're doing, to be able to get your foot on that ladder of financial security.
Yeah, no, absolutely correct, And you know the UAW relates a lot to this as well.
Yeah, that's right. So a lot going on with the UAW. As I brought you before, there is a potential strike looming among the Big three automakers. That contract expires on September fourteenth. They also, like the Teamsters, have a new more militant president who was just elected by their members to take a more aggressive stance and posture in terms of these negotiations.
So there's a little bit of a backstory here.
One of the executives of the Big Three, Stilantis that's now called he has been putting out all this Oh, you guys got to be understand economic reality and you've got to be reasonable.
In your approach.
You put on this letter that just was so patronizing and absolutely enraged the membership.
They also came to the table.
With a deal that was flat out rejected by the new UAW president John Fain as not serious as expecting them to take concessions at a time when they are very much expecting to make up for some of the concessions that they took in the past, in particular in the way the workforce bailed out the Big Three along with taxpayers back in that two thousand and eight two
thousand and nine era. Well, now it comes out that this dude, the executive CEO of Stilantis, while these negotiating negotiations have been going on and not even in the country. He's in his second home, vacationing in Acapulco. Take a look at us. So he is out there living it up while he's putting terrible deals on the table and calling for workers to accept economic realism.
Soccer Apparently he and his.
Husband just bought one of the most expensive mansions in all of Detroit. His husband is also an Amazon executive. Apparently got this beautiful mansion, second home in Acapulco that he's spending lots of time in during these negotiations. It's just absolutely unbelievable and really does tie into they think they're entitled to this life, and then the workers who you know, create the profits general do the labor to generate these profits, are entitled to just the minimal scraps.
They're the ones who have to face the economic reality.
Well, you know, you don't need a second home in Mexico. You know it sounds nice, must must be nice, actually be able to jet away and issue statements and all work like this and all of that. Apparently the CEO of the company made twenty five million dollars last year and they're head of bargaining. As you said, he just
bought the most expensive house in all of Detroit. I genuinely wonder if these people don't understand public rect It's like, do you know what this is going to look like whenever you're saying these types of things, or I mean, to be honest, I think it just don't care. How many people are really going to cover it us a couple of local Detroit papers that's pretty much yet, And
that's part of the problem. You know, nobody really does cover labor that well in the country, and a lot of these people, unless you know Ted Cruz, everyone's all somebody gets in trouble for going to kankun But this is business as usual and have kind of has been for a long time. So it's discussing, but as the part of the worst is like how banal it is actually in the context of how normally these things kind of go.
Yeah, so it's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. I mean, right now, it looks very much like a month from now they could be heading towards major strike. Obviously, this would be huge, it would be you know, certainly one of the largest strikes in recent history. Put this up on the screen, A little bit of the backstory here the ongoing tensions. They say tensions rise in UAW contract talks with Stalantis as
strike threat looms. UAW President Sean fain said in a statement that Stalantis has broken a pledge not to seek givebacks in this round of talks in which the union is seeking more than forty percent general pay raises over four years, restoration of pensions for new or higre's cost of living increases, and end to wage tiers and other benefits. So Sean Fainn and the UAW have made it very clear they're not taking a concessionary contract period, end of story.
So when Stillant has showed up with a contract that was like, but how about you take some concessions, they were understandably outraged by the way that forty percent pay raise that they're seeking over four years. The reason they pick that number is because that is the pay raise that the CEOs of these companies have gotten over that same timeframe. So they're saying, listen, if you're doing well, that's great, God bless let us in on a little bit of this prosperity.
And again, these automakers are doing well.
Stillant is actually the most profitable of the Big Three at this point. So you know, they're making some big asks. They feel like they have a unified workforce, they have a real commitment, they've got militant leadership, they've got a tight labor market, and they're willing to go to the table and push really hard for what they think they deserve.
And again, keep in mind that these workers all took a big haircut and gave up, among other things, their cost of living increases as part of the auto bailout back in two thousand and nine. So you know, we remember the taxpayers bailed out the Big Three. That was good, we should have done that, protect American industry jobs, et cetera. The workers also were part of helping with that bailout, such that their pay you know, in absolutely when you account for inflation, is way down from where it was
during that period. And so they're looking clawback a bit of what they have given up over those years to make these automakers profitable.
Yeah, exactly.
And you know, one thing good thing too, is that history and politics is really on the side of the UAW here because in previous times, what would they do. They're going to slash and burn and they're going to outsource to China, to Japan, or sorry to outsource Japan to China and to Mexico. But because of the political wind shifting completely against that, they don't have that option this, Yeah,
and I think that really is to the benefit. The main part is we've got to get our trade policy unified such that foreign competitors can't come in and do what they did in the nineteen seventies, which was basically undercut the American market with cheaper made goods because of
our ridiculous free trade policy. So if you make sure you protect that and you actually give the union, you know, if you give the union the living wage and then also focus things on the quality control side and all that, we actually could have what we haven't seen in a long time, which is an actually good, you know, well made, American,
union made car. There's a lot of things have gone wrong with the car market over the last fifty years, but outsourcing was one of the original sins that killed it completely.
So this is a good thing though. That's really on there.
Yeah, And in the ev transition, if they want to take advantage of the incentive tach laid out by the Biden adminstration, it's gotta be here. Now, the Biden administration did screw up and get crosswise of the union on their ev incentives because they didn't require these new factories to have union labor or to match the wages of the workers who are building the traditional gas power cars. So that's a major sticking point. It's part of why the union has not endorsed Biden when most other unions
have fallen in line. So there's a lot going on there too. But this is one to watch, guys. This is getting more and more heated and could have huge implications for the economy and for workers in general.
Certainly could. We're going to keep an eye on it.
Okay, let's get to it. The Song of the Summer, isn't that what the kids call it? There is a new number one hit in this country. Let's go ahead and put it up there on the screen. Oliver Anthony, he's a Southern Virginia gentleman, has now reached the number one spot in the United States on the iTunes chart with the blue collar anthem quote Richmond.
North of Richmond.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that some of you guys have actually heard it. We can't play it for you because of YouTube copyright law, music in particular is pretty vicious. But we do have some of the quotes that we can go ahead and pull out for people. So let's go ahead and put mister Anthony playing this up there on the screen. So in terms of the actual lyrics to the song, there's been a lot of analysis of said lyrics Crystal, and it's interesting because it
certainly has struck a chord. So it opens, it opens, and I think with some good lyrics. He says, I'm quote living in the new world with an old soul. These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows, they all just want to have total control, want to know what you think, want to know what you do. And they don't think you know, but I know that you do because you're dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end because of Richmond, north of Richmond. Richmond north of Richmond,
of course, referring to people here in Washington. So I think that the first thirty five forty seconds of this song are the reason why the song is such a success. It doesn't get into any like politics and turn right, I think up until an interesting lyric about Jeffrey Epstein, you.
Have to be online enough in order to know this.
He says, quote, I wish politicians would look out for minors and not just miners on an island somewhere. Lord, we got folks in the street and got nothing to eat, and the obese milk and welfare.
So in that specific state, is it a stanza? Is that what it's called? All right?
Sorry, mus again, I don't know enough. That's where things take an interesting turn. He has me up until Epsteine. Then things become a little bit more interesting. He says, quote, well, God, if you're five foot three and you're three hundred pounds, taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds. Young men aren't putting themselves six feet in the ground because all this damn country does is keep on kicking
them down. So here's my analysis of the song, Crystal, and I understand people are very people love the song. This should be put in a time capsule as what the Republican Party of today is for real, And that's why it's taken off for several reasons. Yeah, it gets to the class anxiety in the first thirty five to forty seconds, right, bullshit, pay over time, subs abuse being neglected by the elites, but then somehow takes a hard turn to Ted Cruz conservatism by going after food stamps,
obese people, and welfare. So the two parts of the song don't really actually fit together to me. But the ideological confusion of the song actually is the perfect emblem of the Trump movement, where you have working class people like backing Trump, and then he goes and passes the largest tax cut in history and right, no, no, no, He's
fighting for the working man. And it's one of those where it, ultimately, I think, comes to the cultural anxiety which belies the plight of mister Anthony and a lot of the people around him. As I understand he has terrible substance abuse problem. He found God and has now found music.
God bless you.
It's for real, you know, and it takes and I wish this man absolutely nothing but success, and I continue to hope he does well. I'm more trying to look at it as a cultural sensation, and I think that the ideological confusion of that song is it really is the perfect view of what the Republican Party is today. It's like free market libertarian because you also, if you notice he talks about taxation on the dollar and all
of that. So he's like, well, I want lower taxes, but I'm also not making enough money, and I also am not for redistributed programs like food stamps. By the way I looked into the data, obese actually does seem to go down as a result of the foodstamp program.
And so yeah, anyway, curious stuff to buy is crap. Yes, And here's the other thing that's not necessarily a foodstamp problem. That's much more like a macroeconomic problem. I got a big a problem, which, yeah.
Which you know, if you care about big government, you know, why are we propping up some of these filthy companies that are actually making everybody ridiculous you obese whole other conversation. But like I said, we've got class anxiety backstop by libertarian economics. Yes, this song to me is the Republican Party, and that is why it's taken off so much.
I like your peoples a lot.
It's true because I'll hear a lot.
There's a lot of like working class rhetoric that's been embraced by the Republican Party. And then you're like, okay, what do you what are we going to do? About it, and it's like we're going to have a dead ceiling shutdown to cut food stamps.
Like wait a second, he lost me.
Yeah, I mean the fact that there's lines back to back that are concerned about people with not enough to eat, and then the very next line is like, so let's go after the welfare queens and cut food stamps. What I mean, Listen, lots of people on both sides of the aisle have confused politics that if you really flesh.
It out, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
I totally agree with your view of the politics embodied by this.
It's like if you take some.
Ron Paul libertarianism and you mix it up with some like Ronald Reagan welfare queen throwback politics, that's basically the song that you get. What I was thinking about, too, is why did this touch such a nerve and why did it blow up? Because let me be honest, like I actually do enjoy some music in this genre. So it's not like I'm opposed to blues or country or whatever. I just don't think it's a good song. Like putting lyrics aside, politics aside, I just genuinely don't think it's
a good song. It blew up because of the politics that are in it, and I think there's a few things going on here. First of all, I think it's part of a trend of like this. You can think of Sound of Freedom. On the other side, you could think of Barbie and some other sort of like liberal liberal type of art that there's a real desire for people to wear their politics through their art, the signal like who they are through the art that they're talking
about and at least pretending to enjoy. I've been reading I know you already read this book, The Fourth Turning. We've been trying to get the author on the show, Marshall. You guys had him over on the Realignment. We'd love to have you on, by the way. And yes, he had this line that about the particular phase of history that he posits we're in right now, which is like the crisis.
He has this theory of the periodicity of history, and he.
Says, in the crisis phase, you don't ask what does this art say to me? You ask whose side does this art say that I'm on?
Interesting. That's a good call out.
And that landed so much for me. Listening to this song again, like Sound of freedom, Barbie or is that.
In a small town trying huge small sensation?
Such are so.
True, and I think it's especially true on the conservative side of the spectrum because they do feel very sort of like culturally sidelined. So anytime there's music, film, TV, whatever that they feel like represents their political perspective, you know, however imprecise or whatever, there's such a celebration of it because there's this deep desire to be like culturally visible
and relevant. So even if the song is like not all that good, the fact that it has a lyric about you know, welfare queens or about inflation or whatever, it's like yes or Jeffrey Fsa is like, yes, I'm going to embrace this. I'm going to love this because at least I feel like this person is like sort.
Of like me.
So I pulled my redneck friends and I said, all right, why do you guys love the song?
What's you know?
And look, I think it's yeah, I think it's good. I like, like I said, I like the opening part. Country music in general is not for me. I grew up in Texas bombarded with it, so I've rejected it ever.
Since I left.
They basically explained it this way pretty much is what you said. They're pissed off that quote. Nashville country has gone woke, and alt country is increasingly also going woke. People in particular right now are very upset at mister Tyler Childers for having a song about some gay coal miners. I don't really understand it, but apparently Childers played foot seat with BLM kind of when things went out and people were pissed at him, and so he went down.
But then he had a recent music video where there were like two gay coal miners in one of his videos. His fan base got pissed off at him. They're like, what are we doing here? Like what are you trying to do? And so it was seen as a kind of a betrayal. At the same time, we've seen Jason Aldean come out with Try That in a Small Town, which is a surge to a massive head in the country.
So I think that the line that you just said really encapsulates it, which is like, whenever you want your you want your art to reflect exactly like your personal political conviction. And that's I think Anthony's the thing is the other genius thing about the Anthony song. If you think about it is it renites the entire Republican coalition. You've got the small business Republicans who love.
The welfare line.
You've got the working class people who love the beginning lines about bullshit pay over time. You've got he's very religious. He opened his most recent show with a reading from the Bible, so you've got the evangelicals he was. You know, he's got all the hallmarks of like the evangelical, like saved by Christ from substance abuse and again listen, God bless you man. I truly wish this man the best. So anyway, that's my analysis. That's why I think it's
a search to a number one hit. I also think you can feel some of the appears from what I've learned a little bit about him, some of the pain that the man has gone through lives in Appalachia from you know, I think he genuinely was telling a story like mirroring his own life, yeah, work, earning very bad money, drowning his sorrow, and substance abuse, drugs and alcohol, and then you know, finding the Bible and then also turning
to music to kind of outlay that. So there is something about the authenticity of where he's coming from where.
You know, I don't want to doubt him.
I just think it's fascinating to look at it as a as like a piece and just to be like, this is it. Like if you were to ask me about what Republican politics at twenty twenty three, a look like it would be this right here.
Yeah.
You know.
Interesting side note about where he's fris from Farmville, Virginia. There's a very elite private boys' school, College Hampton, Sydney, Okay, that is in Farmville.
It's it's very rural. He's not like, you know, present, he's not like an elitist or what. I'm not saying that.
It's just funny because there is this like it's the sort of school that if you have.
A kid, sorry Hampton Sydney alums.
Out there, if you have a kid who doesn't do that well in high school, you can pay a shitload of money to send them to the school. And it's like they went to an elite school because of like the connections and whatever that they get.
That's Hampton's.
It's like Georgetown Prep anyway, Sidwell Friends or any of these places.
Yeah, so some of the problems that he's concerned about are very close to home.
That area is is a gen this is the other. So I saw some people be like, he's not even from malach It does that.
It's not an Ablachie. I wouldn't call farm bilobolage, call it rural Virginia. It's just very it's I mean, it's very rural. It's like farm, it's farmful. It's very country, rural farms, et cetera, just kind of in the middle of the state.
So, as a Northern Virginia resident, I take offense, mister Anthony. We're the one.
Who paid all your taxes, all right, SBF. We had to make sure that we covered this absolutely crazy development, and I know there was a lot of consternation around this. So that actually does seem like quote unquote justice is working out here at the very least.
Let's put this up there on the screen.
SBS have been officially thrown in jail and had his bail revoked. The judge determined that there is quote probable cause to believe the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses.
At least twice twice.
The most egregious allegation against him is that SBF actually allowed a New York Times reporter to come to his house and review the contents of his ex girlfriend, Caroline Ellison's diary. At the same time, what he did is apparently he used a VPN to watch a football game rather than a television quote says something about the mindset of some of the things that he was engaging in.
But the most crazy thing really was basically trying to provide dirt on the witnesses against him by inviting these reporters to come to his house, providing them copies of documents, showing them the contents of said diary, and then quote covering his tracks by trying to stop what was trying to stop from it being connected to him because he knew it was in violation of the actual bail agreement.
And at the same time, what they undersod what we understand is that there was a lot of consternation about the charges that were being dropped against him on campaign finance law. There was evidence we thought of corruption, but it actually doesn't appear to be that way at all.
Let's go and put this up there simultaneously. What we learned is that one of the most serious charges against him was only dropped because of a technicality, and that when he was facing extradition, the government had only agreed to send him to the US on fraud charges. Prosecutors, however, wrote that to keep the treaty obligations, they would have to scratch that charge to make the illegal political donations. But it doesn't mean he's getting away with it because
he's still faced with dozens of other charges. They are instead going to supersede with different charges that will not violate its treaty agreement with the Bahamas. So it's not that it was being dropped because he was quote unquote getting away with it. They are still going to be prosecuting under the current statues. And now he's got his ass thrown in jail for violating the terms of his agreement allowing reporters to read your girlfriend's diary.
That's a or ex girl, well, polycule diary.
I don't know what these people refer to each other as anyway, scumbag move don't think as much as a contle.
Yeah, And so what he did is because he I think she has probably flipped on him and is cooperating. And so what the judge is saying is basically he's trying to tamper with the jury and like turn them against her and make her look that. So, rather than him directly transmitting this diary to the New York Times, which would be easier to track, instead he invited the reports to come to his house so he could more surretitiously show them the diary. But apparently wasn't fooling anyway.
I mean, this is the other thing.
It's like, this guy thinks he's so frickin' slick. He really thinks he's pulling one over on everyone, and we see right through him at this point. So, you know, because of his own actions, his own stupidity, he now finds himself in for real jail until his trial.
It's just an astonishing turn of events.
And you know, if you read the diary entries, I don't even think that it was a smart play to try to turn people against her.
Name's Caroline, right, Caroline.
Against Caroline because she comes off kind of sympathetic, like she's almost like a pawn. They first of all, they totally pay her way less than all of the other.
Topics that gutve.
She's still making millions, so don't feel too bad for she felt completely overwhelmed, in over our head, like she didn't know what she was doing, like she wasn't up to the task, severe doubts about her own abilities to steer the ship. She feels like she there's no end in sight, et cetera, et cetera. And so what she comes off looking like is more of an easily wielded pawn than herself some sort of a mastermind player. Now we'll see that doesn't mean that she didn't commit fraud
knowingly that she didn't. You know, I'm not trying to let this woman off the hook. I'm just saying in terms of SBF trying to make some power play here. I don't even think that this was an intelligence. Don't think it worked out the way that he wanted it to work out.
I think he cultivated a relationship with the media, and he's addicted to it.
I know a lot of people like this.
He loved the profile that he was getting, he loved the publicity, and he just couldn't give it up. I mean, Michael Lewis, apparently you know who doesn't want to be written about by Michael Lewis, one of the great you know authors of our time. He's been spending a lot of time at his house, you know, writing a new book on SBF. SBF was always a guy to do DM and get on the phone. Remember he spoke by it about us. He's writing a book. Yeah, I actually can't wait to read. It's gonna be fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean he's one of those people who he just loves the attention. Remember he did multiple interviews. He did that one with the New York Times against the advice of his lawyers. He just loves the spotlight. I think he's I genuinely think is a mental I think is an addiction. I think is a sickness that causes him to act out see that in this way. And I think, you know, his hubris and all of that. As he said,
he thinks, he thinks he's the mastermind. And I think that he's cultivated that person persona in his head which caused him to pull off one of the most alleged biggest frauds really of all time, and to be a symbol really of like the zero interest rate crypto phenomena.
Yeah, I'm sure he's been told his whole life he's this genius boy, genius.
I mean, tonnad what wonder kind, et cetera.
And so he, you know, just blesses all of his actions with this supposed genius and thinks that he is so much smarter than everyone else in the room.
But didn't work out.
For no, it did not.
All righty area, you're looking at it well.
I want to start off by saying that, unlike most people who talk about the decline of San Francisco or any other liberal city for that matter, I'm not happy about what I'm about to go into. I've had some incredible times at San Francisco. I never really got to see it before it became a tech playground, but even when it was, it was relatively safe and it was a hell of a good time. Some of the best
meals of my life have been in that city. I have many friends and even family who have lived there for stintce who loved it.
Sadly, almost all those.
People have left, including my family, because in the last few years, it is slowly descending into the realm of a completely unlivable and New data from the University of Toronto, which analyzed mobile phones used in downtown areas of cities, shows that most major cities actually saw a drop of about one third. That's extraordinary in its own right, but San Francisco has seen a full drop of two thirds vacancy and activity in the city center.
Other data is backing this up.
Wall Street Journal is writing, quote, Downtown San Francisco now trails nearly every other major urban center in economic health. It's twenty five point seven office vacancy rate is close to ten percentage points higher than the US vacancy rate of SA sixteen point four. That is particularly a problem because San Francisco's funding model is largely based on that of other cities like New York. They levy the vast majority of taxes on the super rich and the commercial
sector to pay for city services. Downtown San Francisco accounts for nearly seventy five percent of the entire GDP of the city, showing that hits like office vacancy leave them especially vulnerable, and the reason workers are fleeing is really not complicated, as pretty much everyone is seen from news reports in the last few years, property crime rates in San Francisco are some of the highest in the entire country. Theft is rampant across the city, both in retailers and
towards residents. Personal property. This is coupled with one of the worst homeless vagrant problems in the entire country, with many people reporting dangerous near missus on the street and a feeling of generally unsafe anytime they leave their homes. One recent piece of news really hit this Hundreds of federal workers at the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building working for the Department of Health and Human Services will now be working from home for the foreseeable future because crime is
so awful around the building. The building, which as you can guess, was brought to the city by Pelosi herself, is an eighteen story monstrosity that sits in the downtown area. It also happens to be next to quote one of the city's most brazen open air drug markets, where dozens
of dealers and users congregate on a daily basis. The San Francisco Chronicle rights that the Pelosi Building in particular is quote especially popular site for users to get high, socialize, or pass out, and that the order was given through the building already had a system in place, even where a security guard was walking employees to the metro so
they wouldn't get mugged on their way back home. Ironically, that order was actually given by the head of the building on the very same day that President Biden, so that more federal workers need to come back to the office. The order by the federal government is the ultimate admission of how bad the problem is. How can you convince people to come back to the office or even businesses to stay open when the Feds themselves say it is too unsafe for their workers to come into the office.
That bat signal has gone out to many businesses. You'll recall the news we've brought here. Previously, the largest mall in the city, the Westfield Mall, actually bought one of the ties that I Wear is simply giving up and turning the property over to its loan holders. Other retailers are following suit. Nord Trim said it's going to close both its locations in downtown San Francisco due to dropping
foot traffic in stores and rampant crime. Whole Foods also is closing his flagship store in San Francisco after just a year, citing concern for the safety of its workforce amid crime. Now look, individual stories of crime rarely tell the full picture of a city, but one woman in particular came a point of discussion this weekend after he posted a TikTok describing her experience. Now, first let's take a listen, and then we're going to discuss this on the other side.
I'm literally shaking right now.
I was just getting groceries and I live in San Francisco, and I.
Never really feel fully safe.
If you live in San Francisco, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
And I just caught groceries.
I'm walking out of the store and this guy's walking past me and says, move you, stupid bitch, and he spits in my face, fits all over my face, and.
Then I say, excuse me, did you just spit in my face? And he says move or all rape you.
There's also people everywhere, and everyone's just walking by because they're like, I can't handle something else. In San Francisco, it's always something else. I don't even know where I'm posting this. If you live in San Francisco, do you feel this way all the time. I don't feel safe ever. It literally never feels safe. It's better when it's daylight, but nighttime, no, not leaving my house.
She's distraught, and unfortunately, the response to the video largely from the rite. Actually really annoyed me. Almost immediately, people dug up her account history to say, oh, well, she votes blue no matter who or she supported def on the police. All that can be true, But over and over again, I'm noticing a trend where anytime something bad happens in a blue or a liberal city, the overwhelming response is a smug well, you shouldn't have voted that way.
And look, I don't even disagree on policy implications, but I do want to flip it around a bit. Scorting people who are dist and who are having a problem and reacting to the terrible conditions in their lives. It's just as bad when the right does it as when the left doesn't remember the whole learned to Code movement, when left wing intellectuals told coal miners they should learn computer skills to grapple with unemployment and their way of
life being completely destroyed. And in fact, the scorn and the lack of empathy that people often feel when liberals find themselves in big trouble is basically the same as when elite leftists have the what's the matter with Kansas hypothesis?
Over and over again, you hear them say why do these stupid Republicans who are borderlined on the poverty level keep electing Republicans who work to defund their healthcare, stop worker protections and minimum wage from being raised, and they push for free trade agreements that actually hurt their own constituents. And so when something bad happens to those red states, the discourse inevitably pops out a think piece or two about how Republican states are actually moochers who get more
benefits than they generate and are downtrodden. Recall Hillary's comment she won all the areas which are dynamic and not going backwards.
I just want to end on that note.
Scorning people for living in awful conditions and being unsafe because of the way they've voted at is the road to hell. And we will never fix anything if that's the attitude, because trust me, they got plenty of ammunition side on there too, should something bad ever happen to you.
So there's no point to this monologue. I just saw that video.
That's a lot of points to it.
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Com anyways, So, Crystal, what are you taking a look at?
Well?
A stunning series of events recently unfolded in a small town in Kansas that has serious implications for free speech for all of us. Marion County Record, small local newspaper serving Marion County, Kansas, saw their offices raided and ransacked by police, along with the home of their ninety eight
year old co owner. Computers, cell phones were taken, personal records photographed in a series of raids that were so aggressive they saw one of the paper's journalists injured by the chief of police, and which was so stressful to Joan Meyer, the paper's co owner, that she collapsed and died days later. The Kansas Bureau of Investigations has confirmed they're involved in whatever this so called investigation is, and the more that we learn about it, the more that
it stinks. It looks like powerful people in this small town did not like the reporting the paper was doing and decided to use the local and state authorities to meet out revenge.
All right, So here's what happened.
All started when journalists for the paper attempted to attend a public forum for their local congressman, Jake laturner was held at a local restaurant. The owner of that restaurant, a woman named Carrie Newell, kicked the reporters out, telling them she refused to allow any members of the media in her business. After writing about that incident, the paper then received a tip about miss Newell that she had a suspended license because of a DUI and had continued
to drive on that suspended license anyway. Now this had implications beyond local gossip. Newell was asking the local council for an ABC permit that could be put at risk by that duy. The paper was able to confirm the tip using public records, but they declined to publish the information because as they were concerned about the motivations of their tipster. Specifically, they thought that Newell's ex was behind the leak, was trying to get the upperhand in a
divorce dispute over who would get possession of the couple's cars. Now, up to this point, this is mostly some real, typical small town nonsense, but what happened next was deeply troubling. A pissed off nowle claimed that the paper must have obtained for DUI record by illegal means, and apparently she was able to convince the local cops to then pursue
a broad search warrant. This search warrant was then signed off on by a local judge, in spite of the fact that it appears to be in direct violation of federal legal protections for journalists. Privacy Protection Act explicitly requires law enforcement to subpoena materials rather than obtain search warrants. Search warrants allow the cops to show up unannounced and conduct a broad search and seizure. Subpoenas are more narrow and require subjects to be notified in advance, giving them
a chance to contest the authorization. Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge of VR signed the apparently illegal order and hasn't responded to request for comment from other news outlets.
So armed with this illegal search warrant, the entirety of the local police force plus two shriff's deputies, came in full force to this tiny newspaper's offices and again the home of the newspaper's co owners, Eric Meyer and his ninety eight year old mother Joan, snatching cell phones, personal computers, photographing personal documents, bank statements that were laying on tables
inside the Meyer residence. The chief of police was so aggressive in snatching one cell phone that he actually injured a reporter's hand. Days later, Joan Meyer, the ninety eight year old co owner of that paper, collapsed and died.
She had worked at the paper for more than fifty years.
According to her son, Eric, Joan had been quite a anguished by the raids, had been unable to eat or sleep in their wake. The Kansas Fure of Investigations has confirmed they have also brought into this investigation, all triggered by an unhinged local business owner with political connections who decided to try to throw or wait around. There's another layer to this as well, though, which may reveal why local law enforcement was apparently so willing to do the
bidding of the license suspended Dui Lady. The police chief, guy by the name of Gideon Cody, was also the subject of an ongoing investigation by this paper, The Marion County Record. He had taken the role of local ChIL chief only recently after taking early retirement from the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department under what appeared to be suspicious circumstances. The paper was looking into exactly what had happened to trigger Cody's Kansas City departure at the time of the raid.
Certainly convenient for him that all the notes on that investigation into what happened there, those have all been seized now by his department. That allows him access to the ongoing reporting, including notes and information from confidential sources, as well as hampering the paper's ability to conclude reporting out whatever that investigation was going to show. According to The Daily Beast, Cody defended this search as part of a quote to criminal investigation and also hinted that there may
be more a of yet unknown details. They'll provide further justification for the rate. We'll wait and see if any of those additional details are forthcoming. As for Eric Meyer, the co owner and publisher who just lost his mom, by the way, the message to his paper came through loud and clear, mind your own business, or we are going to step on you. For Meyer, the Marion County Record has really been a labor of love. He bought it with his mother and his father to save it
from corporate ownership. Takes no salary, distributes profits to his employees. He's single handedly trying to buck the trend of local newspapers getting bought up and killed off. But threats to
real journalism they don't just come from corporate greed. They also come from corrupt systems where the powers that be conspired to silence anything that might be uncomfortable for them or threaten their power, where the only stories allowed are toothless and cater those with power rather than challenge and hold them to account. This story might be about a small town in Kansas, but the lessons are unmistakable for every town, suburb, and city in the entire country.
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