Eddie Scarry on the prospects of the midterms

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Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon on The John Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Back home in California on Monday, mister Randy Wighing is downstairs.

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Speaker 2: John. There is a revolt among Safeway shoppers in the Bay Area because apparently there is a shortage of paper bags, so they no longer have the ones with handles, and people are pissed.

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Speaker 1: I would be two, although the handles always break, So what's the difference, really.

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Speaker 2: Especially if you're putting liquor bottles in them?

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Speaker 1: What do you think I'm buying? Every time I go to the grocery store, it's like my parents are gone for the weekend. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number one eight hundred two to two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is author of the book Liberal Misery, available online at Amazon dot com. He's a journalist at The Federalist in the New York Post. You can get him on substack at Eddie Scary that's two rs and Scary dot substack dot com and follow him on x at e Scary Eddie Scary. Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Hello, good to be with you, John Well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for stopping by. And I've got to tell you, I know it's Friday afternoon, Friday evening where you are. People are starting to wind down. They're starting to think about their dinner plans, their cocktail plans, what they're going to do over the weekend. But as I sit here thinking about those things, and believe me, I am, I'm also thinking that if President Trump and the Republicans are not going to get killed in the midterms, he's got to have a lot more fridays like this where people are looking at the stock market and they're going, okay, the stock market did great this week, where we have no problem with that, the straight in the Middle East that's open, we're going to have the flow of oil, the cost of oil is going down. And Eric Swalwell and his scandal is still spinning off the rails where new accusers are coming out. It seems like on a daily basis, it seems like this was a good week for the President and for the Republican Party, but he needs a lot more of them if they're going to be able to hang on to control of Congress.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Oh gosh, I don't don't think I agree with you at all at all, And I'm wondering you're gonna regret. Honey on here, I just I like, I don't see it that way. I see the prices of the price of gases sow up places sw up, and it's not not even so much. I mean, yeah, okay, you could get you could look at the prices and say, yeah, okay, that that happens sometimes and maybe it's maybe it's worth it sometimes. But what we're doing in the Middle East right now, is it worth it? And like, why are we doing it? I the average person has got to be asking, because I ask myself that, and I'm not the actual person. I know this stuff like I'm paid to like understand this stuff, and I look at it every single day and I go, how do I like what? Like, how do I make sense of it? And it just to me does not does not make sense. I mean, yeah, but to your point, I will say, I will say that Democrats are not in good shape. And no matter how much they look at like certain special elections and you know, as as things are I think right now, especially when you look at bowls and poles are often very very stupid. You look at the poles and the not that good for the administration. Republicans Democrats are not in a very good shape. You can if you look at individual races, they're not in very good shape for the midterms, especially when you look at the Senate and then for individual races like in your staying California. So I'm I'm not really sure what's gonna happen, but I don't think it's a particularly sunny picture for Reublicans, even given this week.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think so either. I think if they're not going to get killed in the midterms, the cost of gasoline in particular has to go down to where it was. The cost of living is going to have to get under control, and people have to feel confident in the economy so that they're not worried about losing their job to AI, or they're not worried about a war breaking out overseas. It's going to get their kid drafted, those sorts of things, and I think the President has a lot of work to do to make sure that people feel confident that those things are going to be okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because it just looks really really bad right now. You know, It's funny because we've been told one that the war is over. We've been told that there has been regime change. We've been told any number of things, and yet the resident will come out today, today or yesterday and say, actually the war's over, it's it's it's over, but actually it's over in two days, and then actually it's really over in tweeks and actually the regime has changed, but we're dealing with people who are the same regime. Uh so, you know, and that has screwed up real everything we were We were on such a strong, strong, strong pathway in twenty twenty five, first year of his election, everything was going very well. It was like it was a really really strong course correction to the previous four years. Yet this voluntary venture that we've embarked on with in Iran has kind of undone everything. And the way that the average person looks at it, the average voters goes, you know, they're there. The average voter understandably is very generous, generous when it comes to you know, am I am I doing well? Okay? Then I'm okay with you know, deportations are a big of a deal to me. You know, welfare is not that, you know, welfare waste, that's not really because I'm doing well. But when they're not doing well, they're a lot less serous. And I think that that's where people are right now. I'm certainly right now.

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Speaker 1: You live in Washington, d C. When you come across people who work for the political arm of the White House, and I assume you do on a regular basis, do they seem to understand that or no?

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Speaker 3: Well, just because I want to be honest, I do not live in DC anymore, but I still talk with a lot of people in DC, and yes they are. There are people who are actually very like I'm talking of people who are in the communications office in the White House. They they I think that the understanding is that it's likely that they're going to lose. The Republicans are going to lose the House. The math isn't really there for Democrats on the Senate for them to take the Senate. But you know, I it's not a particularly upbeat food. It's not an upbeat mood. But it's also not doom and gloom. It's not doom and gloom. I think that once you if it were possible for the president to say, yeah, we actually were pulling out of Iran. We did everything we're gonna do. But that doesn't seem likely. But it were. If somehow there was some kind of deal made in something that made sense and was practical, you could actually see a shift in a big way, a shift in a big way in the opposite direction. You could get back to domestic things, get back to the deportations. You could get back to lowering prices, lowering housing costs, lowering a grocery price. You could do it. You could do it. It's just going to be choices, and also some of them are not really choices but just world events, and hopefully they'll go our way.

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Speaker 1: Let's shift gears and talk about the governor's race here in the state of California, where late last week one of the campaigns blew up. Of course, I'm talking about East Bay Congressman Eric swall Well, who has been accused by a number of women of sexual misconduct that includes allegations of rape and being drugged and all sorts of awful things. He has since suspended his campaign and announced that he is innocent of all charges and plans to fight all of these charges. Wherever it is that they present themselves. We know that there are some district attorneys who have started investigations into some of these claims, including in Alameda County in northern California, Los Angeles County here in the south, and then in New York City because some of the allegations took place there. Were you surprised that the Democratic Party apparatus was getting behind Eric Swalwell and trying to push other candidates out of the race when we have now learned they were aware that this guy had a serious problem when it came to inappropriate relationships with people who work for his office, people who work in politics, people who he certainly had a large degree of influence over inappropriate relationships, especially since the Me too movement. I don't believe that many of them knew about the rape allegations, but they certainly knew about inappropriate relationships with employees and subordinates. Are you surprised that they were all prepared to just get behind him one hundred and ten percent, full steam ahead, knowing his problems.

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Speaker 3: Not surprised at all. And I will say, with everything we know Puckly, so far, everything we know Puckly, if this was a person if he was a member of a party. If Eric S. Waller was a member of a party that believed in due process, he could actually he could have probably survived us. The problem is that they don't believe in it, and they opposed it actually every step of the way. So they opposed due process, which means they set up this standard for themselves, which is believe all women no matter what they say. You don't have to investigate it, just believe them. You believe the accusation. The accusation in itself is a conviction, so that no, if if if not jail time or imprisonment, you at least have to give up your livelihood, your reputation's gone. That's his party. They they live by that and they get to die by that because they set that up. I think that the evidence is all very very clear that they probably sat coming. Uh. Katie Porter, who's a trip, a real trip. I'm jealous that you get to live in that day where where she's just like there all the time and you get to learn all the time. But she's a trip and she she she had she with other people, some other Democrat operatives have had something. We're going to do this, this operation they were going to pull on Eric callwell they did it, and the other the other Democrats, the men I don't know if I call him smart, but they're those who at least live by well, we can't possibly can't possibly have set up this, this me too standard, and and then just abandoned it. So they saw coming and said, we're just going to have to get rid of them. Because as you and all your audience knows, the position that the Democrats are in, with the way that the elections are set up there, it's like, well, we have to get behind somebody. We have to consolidate the party. It's not going to be Eric Swawall. Because all this stuff is coming out and I don't know, I looked at it. Everything that's public, everything that's public that's there. I suppose we could see with Eric Swawall, nothing looks criminal in my opinion. I mean, he seems like a scumbag. I always thought them. But as far as with women concerned, he seems, you know, just kind of you know, he's doing some bad things. He has a wife, he's kids coming, he's doing some wrong things. But it wasn't criminal.

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Speaker 1: But well, this let me stop you there. I mean, two of the allegations say that he drugged them, he slipped something in their drink and then raped them when they were unconscious.

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Speaker 3: Well, so what they said it, They said that, They've said that, They've said about a lot of people, and can they print no what I saw. I saw that they said that. The one girl said, well, I realized after the fact, after the fact, I couldn't consent he raped me. I'm sorry. At some point, at some point, you're going to have to take responsibility for your self, and that point I don't know when you shift it to somebody else. But it's very interesting. I think that he could have if not for being a part of the Democrat Party, which has set up this ridiculous stare to believe all women and believe every single accusation, every single accusation is a conviction. He could have survived it, but that's his party.

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Speaker 1: We're speaking with Eddie Scarry, author of the book Traders, available online at Amazon dot com. Eddie, we know that there are big cities in the United States that are comfortable electing a socialist candidate to be mayor. We've seen it happen in Seattle and Chicago. In New York City. We could have that happen right here in Los Angeles if Nitia Rahman is successful. But we have yet to see an openly an open socialists get elected as a governor of a big state. In California, we don't have a member of the DSA who's running for governor who has a chance at winning. But we do have Tom Steyer, who certainly plays foot see with that crowd, who is supporting the wealth confiscation tax that has driven over trillion dollars of wealth already out of the state and certainly could trigger more billionaires to move out of state. We know that he wants to get rid of Prop thirteen. He believes in the split role and wants to remove Prop thirteen protections for commercial property. We know he believes that I should be abolished, an ICE agents should be arrested if they're in California, and he also believes in single payer health care. Do you think a state as large as California could elect someone with politics that extreme to be governor?

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, so remind me, did he not run for president or something as a real centrist like within those like five or six or ten year something like that he.

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Speaker 1: Ran for president, but he didn't run as a centrist or a blue dog. He wasn't as far to the left as he is now. He moved significantly to the left. He wasn't for single payer healthcare before he is now. We certainly didn't have the wealth confiscation text as something that we were discussing at the time, so who knows which way he would have come down on that this time around. He came down in favor of it. But he is certainly decidedly to the left of where he was as a presidential candidate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that guy. I remember when he was running and it just reeks of I mean, I don't want to give the voters, I mean voters of California a ton of credit. Just is like I would say that about the country in general. But he reeks of fraud. He just reeks of And he looks like Ted Bundy, if he's the person I'm thinking of, just doesn't he just he could just says whatever he thinks is in vogue. He's behind. He's behind by about ten years because you know, the whole defund everything that was maybe in California it works, but the defund ice defund you know the police all that that's from, that's from two thousand and one, that's from twenty twenty. Uh and he thinks that that's like Billa saying, it's like he's just moving in a way. It doesn't It just doesn't work. It didn't work for him before. I don't think it's gonna work. He got a lot of money. He's got a lot of money. But we've seen what money does. We've seen it doesn't get you very far. You've got to have a message, you have people who believe you. Bloomberg, Michael Burke, he ran for president. He put more money into a into a priory than I think we to this day. I think we've never seen that kind of money. A billion dollars I think into a primary, didn't get a single vote, didn't get a single vote. So I would put Styre into into the same the same league. These people who think that they saw Donald trumpet, they saw Donald Trump who you know, he had a lot of money, he had a lot of leberty, and they thought I can do that. No, you have to have message and people have to believe you. And it's just if it comes across fate, which he does, it just doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: You cover the presidential races, and I'm certain you're keeping a close eye on California Governor Gavin Newsom. What do you make of the fact that he hasn't selected a candidate that he wants to replace him. It's almost as if he doesn't care. There was a CNN article that came out this week that said that he has a low opinion of all of them. But that is a strange attitude to have. I mean, typically it doesn't even matter if you're talking about governor, if you're talking about a member of the state legislature, a member of Congress, a member of a city council. They all want to pick their successor. They all want to pick the person who replaces them and takes over their office. And it's like he doesn't seem to even care.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, to me, look like you don't have in California. It doesn't look like on the Democrat side, he's a Democrat, it looks like there are any good options. He as grotesque as Gavin Newsom is, He's not stupid. I always hate when Republicans say, like, oh, Democrat, like you know, Kamala Harris is stupid or Gavin newsom is stupid. They're not stupid. They're not stupid, but they know, they know very well what they're doing. They're not stupid at all. They're wrong, they're wrong, and they're deceptive, impulative and evil and often cases, but they're not stupid, not stupid. What he wants he wants to put his name behind somebody who you know, you know. He could very well say oh, well this is someone who's got the biggest chance. But no, he he wants to run for president. So that question coming up of well do you endorse this parton who's been a complete train wreck on top of your train wreck administration? Uh? Do you want to stay by that? Now? He doesn't want to do that. He would create more problems for himself. He did that, So no, he I think probably doing the very very very smart thing in this case part thing, because he's not stupid.

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Speaker 1: Eddie Scary author of the book Traders, available online at Amazon dot com. You can get his substack at Eddiescary dot substack dot com and follow him on x at E Scary Eddie Scary, thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great weekend.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is cellphone number. What eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you want to email the show, you could do sell at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail dot com. If you've seen the ads for the cruise ship companies on your television screen, what you see blows your mind. They show you the new ships where it looks like human lasagna. They have roller coasters, they have ice skating shows, they have walls to climb, rock walls to climb, They have miniature golf, they have casinos, they have fancy bars, they have Broadway productions. They want you to know that it is a classy vacation and the old days where it's all about gluttney and hay seeds are over. That's not modern day cruising. And then every once in a while there's a story that pops into the news that says, maybe it's still about hay seed gluttony.

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Speaker 2: A Florida jury just awarded a Sacramento woman three hundred thousand dollars from Carnival Cruise Line because apparently she got so blitzed on a cruise she fell down a stairwell drunk.

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Speaker 1: Wait was this, Dana Williamson, It was.

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Speaker 2: Not for mar on the cruise lawsuit. Here is CBS Sacramento.

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Speaker 4: From overserved to serve with a lawsuit.

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Speaker 3: Carnival Cruise Line has now been ordered to pay three hundred thousand dollars to a local woman who they served at least fourteen shots of tequila.

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Speaker 2: To before fourteen shots.

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Speaker 1: Okay, where is her judgment? You know, on Carnival they cut you off at fifteen, so she didn't even hit the maximum.

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Speaker 2: This was apparently over the course of eight hours, but still served it. And if you're in the pool, everyone knows when you're in a body of water, you don't realize how drunk you are until you stand up.

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Speaker 5: Who they served at least fourteen shots of tequila tu before she took a hard fall down the stairs.

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Speaker 6: You can't overserve someone. And if something happens when the bar is in fact libel.

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Speaker 1: Oh, come, that's the entire reason that you go on a cruise because you want to drink and eat everything in sight.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us here at ten.

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Speaker 1: I'm Tony Lopez and.

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Speaker 4: I'm Marley Ginter.

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Speaker 7: Your reporter Ashley Sharp, joining us now with more on this case.

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Speaker 4: Ashley, Well, Marley, it's a story that's pretty much gone viral all across the country. The woman Diana Sanders, a nurse from Sacramento, tells.

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Speaker 2: Me, Oh good, she's a nurse.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I wonder how often she's been Well, never mind, Country, we're.

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Speaker 2: Not even started, and this story has got you so animated.

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Speaker 1: Well, how could you blame the bartenders? She's an alcohol with gunboat feet. The bartender's not her mother and father. Why is it their fault?

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Speaker 4: Country? The woman Diana Sanders, a nurse from Sacramento, tells me there's so much more to the story than just taking shots and being overserved alcohol. She says, it's about systemic safety failures, and for her attorney, the case highlights the dangers of over consumption and these popular all inclusive drink packages.

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Speaker 6: When you do take these people on your cruise ship, you are responsible for their well being.

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Speaker 4: What started as letting loose on a cruise vacation left this Sacramento nurse Diana Sanders suing Carnivalio.

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Speaker 1: Would you want to have a nurse with no judgment taking care of you in the hospital. The fact that she's willing to attach her name to this story shows you that her judgment hasn't gotten any better.

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Speaker 4: Aboard the radiance. In twenty twenty four, a federal lawsuit claims crewmembers served her approximately fourteen alcoholic beverages within a span of approximately eight hours.

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Speaker 2: Now, the thing is, fourteen drinks sounds like a lot, But fourteen drinks over the span of eight hours, if you're eating enough food, you shouldn't be that far gone.

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Speaker 1: Well, and on the cruise ships they measure the shots, so it's not like you're getting a hand pour. That many shots over the course of eight hours is nothing. Everyone I know has done that before.

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Speaker 4: And due to her inebriated state caused by this, If.

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Speaker 2: She wasn't stuff in her face with shrimp in between the tequila shots, that's on her, she was either starving herself or on some kind of meds, let's say charitably.

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Speaker 4: And due to her inebriated state caused by this over service of alcohol, she suffered a severe fall.

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Speaker 6: You can't overserve someone, and if something happens when the bar is.

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Speaker 4: In fact libel Mark Rerechael is a Sacramento area defense attorney, and Carnivals should count themselves lucky as a jury found the cruise line to be sixty percent liable for failing to exercise reasonable care and Sanders forty percent negligent for her own consumption forty percent.

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Speaker 2: Come on, So that's why it was only three hundred thousand dollars. If they would have sent that she was completely blameless, she would have gotten the millions.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all we now know is her name, her occupation, and how much money she got from Carnival cruise lines. Correct. Yes, Okay. Without having seen a picture of this woman, can you please give me a physical description of her?

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Speaker 2: I think I'll pass. Okay, let me just.

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Speaker 1: Ask a few questions and then maybe we can narrow it down that way. How many tattoos on her cleavage? Do you think she's one of those white laid that gets off the ship at a Caribbean island and has her hair turned into dreadlocks where she looks like whoopee Goldberg. You know that happened too. How many sizes too small are her clothes? Because let me tell you, as someone who knows the cruise industry pretty well, you have elegant lines. You have the river cruises, you have Crystal cruises, you have Silver seas, and then you have the mid level ones where people are employed yet ambulatory like Royal Caribbean, Norwegian those lines. And then you have Carnival that's a whole separate animal, probably the most successful cruise ship company in America. And they have a lot of the new fresh ships with all the toys and everything. But she was on the Radians. That's not one of their new mega ships. That's not the Marty Graw, that's not the celebration. This woman was on section eight of the seas and she was getting obliterated. On section eight of the seas.

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Speaker 4: We're talking about international waters for a cruise ship. How does that weigh in?

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Speaker 6: You know, silks, where do they do business out of? And it is international waters? But where did they leave from?

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Speaker 4: A Florida jury ordered Carnival pay Sanders three hundred thousand dollars. She claims she was visibly.

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Speaker 2: How about you want to bet the jury just made this decision not on the merits of the case, but because it was Carnival.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so she got three hundred thousand dollars out of this deal. Huh Yes, Okay, I just asked Grok, what does a new liver cost? Okay, here's what gra has to say about that question. The total build cost for a liver transplant typically ranges from eight hundred thousand to just over a million dollars according to the most recent data. The pre transplant evaluation and care that's between sixty thousand and one hundred thousand. The organ procurement is one hundred and seventy five thousand. Now that's assuming you don't go to any of those Chinese organ thieves. You have the surgery in the hospital stay that's between five and six hundred thousand. That's the biggest chunk of the surgery. The physician and the surgeon fees that's sixty thousand dollars. Post transplant care is between one hundred and forty and two hundred thousand, and lifelong medications are between twenty and forty thousand dollars per year. So she didn't make enough money for a new liver. In fact, she can't even cover half a liver.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm starting to understand why Dana Williamson stole all that money from jave aer PISERA.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd have to. Livers aren't cheap these days. No surgery is surgeries. The cost of surgeries. This is serious here. The cost of surgeries have shot through the roof due to inflation. I mean, have you talked to anyone who's ever gone through a sex change operation. The cost of penises is just shooting through the atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: Let's move on, shall we.

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Speaker 4: Florida jury ordered Carnival Page Sanders three hundred thousand dollars. She claims she was visibly intoxicated, blacked out and woke up at the bottom of a crew only Stairwell.

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Speaker 2: How'd she get there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, That's what I'd like to know.

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Speaker 4: Or she suffered a head injury and was covered in bruises.

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Speaker 8: They gave me conflicting information. They treading like a criminal. I was very concerned that they wouldn't tell me exactly what happened to me, Sanders in this TikTok.

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Speaker 2: I think she was going around and any any glasses, any cocktails that people had left on a table that had just a lit little bit of booze left in him. She was sipping oh yeah, oh yeah, It's entirely possible that was going on.

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Speaker 4: Sanders, in this TikTok posted by her attorney, says she filed the suit because the cruise Line would provide no video showing what exactly happened to her.

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Speaker 2: I'm to find out they they have all of You don't want to see a video of what you were doing when you were blackout drunk. It doesn't end well.

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Speaker 1: When you're that drunk. You not only don't want to see any video yourself, you don't want to see the text message that you sent the night before.

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Speaker 8: Time to find out they they have all the tapes right before, but nothing afterwards, and they will not show us what happened that day.

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Speaker 3: And when you serve somebody who's visibly intoxicated repeatedly, drink after drink after drink, it can.

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Speaker 4: Lead to disastrous consequences.

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Speaker 2: That's what people get on the ship for.

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Speaker 1: Well, isn't that all in the eye of the beholder though, because from her point of view it's a disastrous consequence, But from the point of view of all the spectators it slapstick comedy.

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Speaker 2: You know that'd be a great name for Carnival's newest ship. The disastrous consequence in every room and every door has upside down pineapples.

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Speaker 4: Sanders had purchased a drink package on the cruise. Do you think that makes a cruise line rethink a service like that? Because I mean that is the culture, right is to keep drinking to get your money's worth.

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Speaker 6: You couldn't be more right that the expectation of what they're purchasing is the experience that she had.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think when people are along these cruise ships, how many really go for it with the all you can drink packages?

00:31:45
Speaker 3: Oh?

00:31:45
Speaker 1: Every single one. That's why they cut you off at fifteen. With the amount of booze that she consumed, she should not have been that drunk.

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Speaker 6: You know, I think it's within limitations, and the the alcohol is the limitation.

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Speaker 4: Now, Sanders did tell me she wants to share her side of the story, but she was not yet ready to do that on camera today.

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Speaker 2: Now it's just on TikTok with her lawyer.

00:32:12
Speaker 1: Well, if you want to interview her, you better catch her before happy hour.

00:32:16
Speaker 3: Now.

00:32:16
Speaker 4: As for Carnival's response, they said they disagree with the verdict and plan to pursue an appeal and even a new trial.

00:32:23
Speaker 2: There you go, the judgment against Carnival Cruises by a Florida jury giving three hundred thousand dollars to a Sacramento nurse who had way too much to drink and fell down the stairs.

00:32:39
Speaker 1: What do you think the odds are she had an especially made shirt for that cruise that said girls Trip.

00:32:50
Speaker 2: See a lot of those, do you?

00:32:51
Speaker 3: Oh?

00:32:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, Whenever you see a flock of women all wearing t shirts with a date on it that says girls Trip, you know you know one of them is going to fall down a flight of stairs. You just know it. And from the point of view of the cruise ship company, knowing that these women are going to get blackout drunk every single day of the sailing, as long as they don't fall off the ship into the ocean, you're fine. If you can keep them on the ship, you've done your job. But you're not going to keep them from falling down a flight of stairs. It's just not going to happen. If one from the group, if it's only one that falls down a flight of stairs, then you're lucky. You could put that in the wind column, because sometimes the whole damn group goes down. And you know what kind of damage a Girls Trip group can do if they fall down a flight of stairs in front of let's say, oh, I don't know the buffet, you're gonna see a bunch of Japanese tourists go down like bowling pins. Well, the Girls Trip group just knocks them right over. Bam bam bam bam bam bam bam.

00:34:19
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:34:19
Speaker 1: Well, if that happens, that ain't the fault of the bartender. Let me tell you, the bartender didn't invent double Dutch chocolate. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com and Randy earmonitoring. In the mailbag, Susan writes in at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com with the subject line ridiculous Does anyone take responsibility for their stupid actions? I hope Carnival wins the appeal, and I hope she is never my nurse. Oh Can you imagine if she's your nurse, do you think there's any morphine left for you?

00:35:15
Speaker 2: I think we got a little Nurse Jackie situation going on in Sacramento.

00:35:19
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that, but if someone has no control of what, I don't know, drugs and alcohol they put in their body, it's certainly something to think about, now, isn't it. You know what, Before I stick this in you, I'm just gonna see if this is if this is good stuff or not. Yeah, like a bartender taking the taste of a drink with the straw.

00:35:47
Speaker 2: Or Brian Cranston when he plays the dentist on Seinfeld and he takes a hit of the laughing gas before he puts it on Jerry, which, by the way, he told a story a crew member told to do that and it was an improv and it was brilliant.

00:36:07
Speaker 1: Sometimes it just works out that way, all right. So we know that a lot of people take uber and lyft to avoid driving drunk on the roads, or some people just don't even want to own a car altogether. Well, the driverless car that's on the scene that you can order to take you from port A to point B is Waimo and they're amazing. Both Randy and I have taken them before. I love it. You decide what music plays, you decide what the temperature is. It's a great thing. However, waymos could be useful for more than just getting you to work or getting you to the airport.

00:36:45
Speaker 2: Waymos can be used to track and report potholes, which in La County and San Francisco and Oakland we have a lot of. For Mari Here's NBCLA.

00:36:56
Speaker 5: So the solution to our pothole problems be WAIMO while they driver less car company is now teaming up with ways to help smooth out our streets.

00:37:04
Speaker 2: Teaming up with Ways, so a thing that's owned by Google is teaming up by a different thing that's owned by Google.

00:37:11
Speaker 5: Help smooth out our streets. ENBC four as carmer Dickinson hit the road, the show is how.

00:37:15
Speaker 4: This might work.

00:37:17
Speaker 7: Potholes a persistent pain on LA roadways.

00:37:20
Speaker 2: Particularly Karen bess that she was going to fill them all.

00:37:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, keep waiting, particularly because usually your best chance of getting one filled is a call thing yourself. But many of us are more likely to dodge them than report them. But there's another set of eyes on the road.

00:37:36
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you miss that press conference, it was one of the best things that happened to Karen Bass all year. She does a stunt where she's filling a pothole and Eric Spilman of KTLA goes up to her and says, so you're saying that if people call three, well, one will fill the pothole. Well, we have somebody in our newsroom that's been trying to get one filled for the last six months and he calls three, one one every single day. Oh, that was a great one on one. You don't like KTLA anymore.

00:38:04
Speaker 3: Nope.

00:38:05
Speaker 7: Way, most as their self driving taxis are now not just sensing hazards, they're reporting them, and.

00:38:10
Speaker 8: We track potholes to improve the waymow drivers' behavior. We really heart consistently from city partners that pothole data is a really high priority, and we realized, hey, we're collecting it over here, let's figure out a way to get it to cities to meet that need as part of it.

00:38:24
Speaker 2: By the way, this is also happening at the same time where the food delivery robots are going to report all the broken sidewalks

00:38:31
Speaker 1: Well, they're going to have their hands full