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The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, handing out porn machines to prisoners in the state of California, paid for by taxpayers, as reported yesterday.

And we brought that story to you at the cost of $2,000 for tablet, much more than if you'd had gone straight to best buy anyway and that

they get to use them to look at porn he pushed back on that hard yesterday so well the the governor

pushed back on that story hard so we'll have to update you on that a little bit later in the

program joining us right now to talk about some politics of whatever pops in our mind gary dietrich

who's been joining the armstrong and getty show for many many years. He's a CBS television and I-Heart Radio political analyst. How are you today, Gary? Hey, Jack, I'm doing great, my friend. Yeah, well, no lack of things in the political world these days, eh? God, I'd say. We were having the discussion yesterday, Joe and I, on how, just talking about like the national mood where you see all these wrong direction numbers for the country and the economy and all that sort of stuff, it might just come down to when things are expensive, they want somebody different.

I mean, you know, you went to Harvard and political analysts and political scientists and all the complicated this and that's, who's got the best ads and who's got the most money in the bank for buying ads and who's got the endorsements and all these complicated things we talk about.

It might just come down to if things are too expensive, they vote for a different person.

You know, Jack, you're amazingly astute given the fact that we, back in 92, four words defined that presidential campaign, as you'll now remember.

It's the economy stupid.

Right.

Right.

And that is, that has continued to ring so true that it's now practically, you know, taped above every campaign

headquarters door.

I mean, and that's where right now the president and the GOP find themselves in a real conundrum,

you know, over this, over the recent inflation numbers, again, going up a little bit.

Of course, we know, you know, the Iran war, gas prices that lead to all kinds of other as you know

inflationary pressures and that's the challenge right now on a national perspective because

people are feeling it they were already feeling it as you know going into 24 that was supposed to

be relieved in 25 by the trump administration numbers were kicking down but as they go back up, people ain't happy.

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