Hour 2: Missing child found at Olympia encampment, guest Sen. Rick Scott, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez hit piece

Thanks for downloading the Jason Ranch Show podcast. I really do appreciate it. Be sure to check out our brand new website, Seattlered.com. News, opinion, analysis without any of the left-wing spin covering the entirety of the Pacific Northwest. Check it out throughout the day, read stories, share stories, and watch exclusive videos. That's Seattle Red.com. Now, back to the Jason Ranch Show. Coach, the yellow light. I'm walking here. Good afternoon and welcome to the Jason Ranch Show. We are here live on Seattle, Red 770 a.m. on my fifth hour of radio today. Dear God. I mean, it's good for you because I've been filling in for Guy Benson and now I'm doing my own show, but it's a lot. I think I meant me personally. No, not for you. You still only get me for three hours. Everyone else got him for way longer than that. We got a lot to get to this hour. Senator Rick Scott will be stopping by to take us through the latest out of Iran and his response to this morning's Supreme Court decision on mail-in voting. But first, a missing child from Arizona was somehow found at an Olympia. Homeless Encaptment? That's what's trending. Brought to you by Legacy Group Capital's Northwest Fund. What's trending? The homelessness crisis. Federal law enforcement officials. found a missing child at a homeless encampment in Olympia on June 25th, so just a few days ago, which is obviously far away from Arizona, like very far away. It's a little closer than here is to Arizona, but still pretty far, yeah. It's pretty far. U.S. Marshals got a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children saying that a kid from Mesa. who went missing in May was seen in the Olympia area. According to the center, this kid might have been sex trafficked, which that can't be true because we allow these encampments to proliferate all across Washington State. Why would we allow them if anything bad came out of them? It's my understanding that all these people are just like you and me, one miss paycheck away from landing out on the streets. None of them are dealing with mental illness or drug addiction. They just got priced out of a home. Because you know, the cost of living is out of control. Housing is very expensive nowadays. And I know, like Jackson, for example, he was telling me this the other day. He was complaining. He said if my rent goes up just $17, I'm immediately homeless. I just, I'm going to have to be forced to live out on the streets. You got to sell my fiance's ring. Yeah, it's just, this is going to be all bad news. It's going to be able to figure this out. Although, you know, sell your fiance's ring. They get you at least three months of rent, right? A rent increase of $17. I was making fun because you didn't spend that much money on that. I got it. You got it? But I mean, isn't that what we're told all the time? Isn't that effectively the talking point? That the reason for homelessness is housing affordability and we should stop. bullying the people who are living in encampments. And now you have an example of, in this case, we're talking about what they call the jungle. It's on the site of 20 acres, this encampment, being allegedly the site of, you know, a kid who was sex trafficked. King 5 says on June 25th, marshals and officers from the State Department of Corrections canvassed the area and located the child. They brought her to the Olympia Police Department.

for victim assistance, for treatment. And now we're just kind of waiting on some of the additional details. But this is terrifying, but not shocking. This is why we say, at least in part, we should be cleaning these encampments. I'm not going to pretend that the first thing that comes to mind when I see an encampment is victims of sex trafficking and looking out for them. No, because normally we don't see children at these sites. But sometimes we do. Sometimes we do. And I don't know the circumstances in all of them, but I do know that they're unsafe to be living out in those encampments. But I also know we don't know who's actually inside of them. The homeless person who's out on the street corner screaming at the wind, we don't know who that person is. We don't know what they're capable of. I was, did we talk about this? I got a dog a couple years ago. Really? A couple years ago. Yeah, I know. I'm weird. It took me so long to bring this up. But I was walking my dog that I adopted a couple years ago. His name is D'Artagnan. And I walked right past this tent where it's a small tent. It's almost like a child's tent. And there were a pair of legs sticking out of it. Clearly belonged to a man. And I was thinking to myself of this person who was passed out inside, I'm assuming. passed out. Maybe they were dead of a drug overdose. And that's the sad part, like I legitimately don't know. I was saying to myself, who is this person? Do you know who he was? Who? Don't know. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know what he did in his background that led to him being homeless? No. Me neither. Is it possible it was something bad that makes them dangerous? Yeah, it does. But you're not supposed to say that, right? You're not supposed to hold those positions. Because they're just like you and me. No. You know the difference between me and that person? I live in a home. I'm not a drug addict. I might have a mental illness, but not diagnosable. Or at least not yet. That's the difference. So no, they're not just like me and you. They're human beings and we should offer them dignity. You know what dignity means? Not living outside in a tent with your legs sticking out of a child's tent. That's not. dignity. That's not compassion. That's effectively a death sentence for these people. It might not happen tonight. It might not happen tomorrow. It might not happen in a year. But it will eventually happen. They'll die outside. And I guess we're supposed to pretend that it's compassionate to keep them outside instead of bringing them indoors. Right. Let's find out what else is trending. What's trending on the campaign trail? We just learned that the Let's Go Washington campaign does have enough signatures to qualify, or we believe they have enough signatures that will allow them to qualify for the recall of the so-called millionaires tax. They're turning in their signatures. I believe on Wednesday, possibly Thursday. It's this week that they're bringing it out there. And they're going to do a big event to show the fact that they've got...

Hundreds of thousands of people have said, yeah, no, this is a horrible idea. And grant you that someone signing a petition doesn't ensure that they're going to vote. And even bringing in hundreds of thousands of signatures doesn't mean it's going to win once it goes up for an election. It does certainly send the right message that people are upset with the direction of the state. And Democrats can ignore it at their own political peril. They can pretend that this is just some wealthy MAGA guy. who's, I guess, scamming people into signing the petitions. But the reality is we voted 10 times to reject income taxes. The Democrats want you to think, well, this is a different kind of income tax. This is only for the millionaires. And it's certainly true that this one, to start, directly targets millionaires. You're going to get hit with a 9.9% tax above... $1 million in income in this state starting in a couple years. That's true. If you think this is only going to stick with the millionaires, You might be the most naive person. That's how all taxes are. I mean, that's how the federal income tax started too. It applied to barely anybody. It was super low and then look at it now. You know why? Because they were like, hey, we like this money coming in. And it's giving us a little bit of padding for our budget. And it means we don't have to stop spending money. We can spend more and just collect more. Isn't weird how that works out? I'd love to see a tax that just kind of stopped. You can't find a toll that just stopped. You can't find a fee that never goes up. coming from the government? You think they're just going to stop here? Of course not. Now, the Democrats will position this the same way Fitzgibbon did. I guess he put down the booze for a bit back in February, or maybe he didn't put down the booze. Maybe he just was able to sober up for an interview with coma. But at the time, he said, look, I expect everyone will get their voices heard. I think this is an important enough issue that that Washingtonians will weigh in. And we wouldn't be pursuing it if we didn't think Washingtonians would support it. Oh, yeah, I'm sure that's why. We'll see if this even goes to a vote, depending on a half. Well, it will go to a vote, but whether or not the court will take it up if this gets rejected. Let's find out what else is trending. What's trending? Let's get political. My next guest has been one of the sharpest voices in Washington on Iran. The timing obviously is important. Over the weekend, we and Iran traded strikes near the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump warned Iran will no longer exist if this continues that we will match violence with violence. And now both sides say they're standing down.

Well, let's think about it. The filibusher was not, you don't need 60 votes to pass a bill. Yeah. You only need a majority to pass a bill. The filibuster is actually to say, when do are you going to stop talking? So you look at the Civil Rights Act. They didn't even close to have the votes they needed when they started talking. So what we need to do is if we're not willing to get rid of the filibuster, which I'm fine whether we get rid of or not. And if we're going to keep the filibuster, then we're going to enforce a filibuster. You have to talk. Are you talking when you run out of talking, then we're going to vote. Otherwise, if we're not going to enforce the filibuster, I want to get rid of the filibuster. It's one or the other. You can't have both. You can't have to say, oh, we have this process where you have to talk. Oh, but you don't have to talk. So it's one or the other. Either get rid of it or you got to talk. You got to talk until you drop, and then we vote. Give everybody a shot, see how good you are, then we vote. That's the way we're set up, but it's being abused. Senator Rick Scott of Florida joining me on the line. Let's talk about this weekend and what is supposed to happen tomorrow. President Trump says Iran requested a meeting that will happen in Doha. Iran's chief negotiator said there are no technical talks that were scheduled this week. I don't necessarily trust anything coming out of Iran. But obviously this comes after some skirmishes over the weekend. So are we actually standing down with Iran? What's your understanding of this meeting tomorrow? Well, I'm going to get a briefing today at 2 o'clock Eastern Time, so I'll have a little bit more information then. But whatever a ramp puts out, it's a lie. We know that. I mean, and they've got a lot of internal issues. So first off, I'm proud of the president because he's the first president that says, I'm not going to just sit here and allow them to have a nuclear weapon and kill Americans and continue to kill Americans. He said, I'm going to start defending Americans. Because they've been killing us for 47 years, and they wanted to kill us big time with a nuclear weapon. So first off, he's clearly either limited their ability to have a nuclear weapon or he's clearly delayed it a long time. So we've won already. Now, number two is I trust the president in what he says. And I'm inviting him to the lunch I have. We have lead a lunch with the conservative senators where all of the senators come on Wednesdays. I also met with him on Thursday. He said, look, if they don't come to the table, we will bomb the living daylights out of them. And so that's what's going to happen. They're either going to either come to the table, no nuclear weapon. Stop killing Americans. No money for the Houdi Samasa and Hezbollah. Start acting responsibly. Keep the straight open. Or you will be bombed until you stop. So this president's going to do it. He's been willing to do it. So I'm glad he's the president now because if he wasn't, they'd have a nuclear weapon. If Harris was there, they'd have a nuclear weapon today.

You said that Qatar is not our friend. And obviously dealing with mediators in the region, there are few options that Iran would even entertain. So how do you negotiate the end of all of this with a country that is not our friend? Well, you open your eyes. I mean, don't, don't have, you know, you can say, look, I've been glad to, you know, if you have to have a meeting there, that's great. But just understand, they host Hamas leaders. They have supported Iran forever. They give, they give money to Hamas. Right. So let's all remember that. So they're not, they're not like, say, they're out there and they're just like a, they're Switzerland where they're sort of, you know, neutral. No, they're not. They are for Iran. They're for Hamas. I mean, so, now, that doesn't mean you don't meet there, but you just do it with open eyes. And so, and look, Trump's smart, Wikkoff smart. I mean, they're walking into this stuff knowing how hard this is. This is hard. This is hard. They've been killing us for 47 years. They're crazy. But we've got a president that is, that has absolutely committed to our safety, which I'm glad we do. Do you believe that this war has actually brought us closer together with some of the neighboring countries, including Qatar? Oh, absolutely. I mean, they don't want to continue to be bombed by Iran. I mean, so at what point do they start becoming our friends in the more traditional sense? Because your point is well taken, and they're obviously, you know, not a friend to the United States. But they are, at least would appear to be that they're inching away from Iran, which inevitably puts them closer to the U.S. Well, I think they clearly would like not to have bombs, you know, dropped in their countries from Iran. So I think they all, I think whether they didn't want to get the middle of something, now they're in the middle of it when the UA is getting, you know, bombed, when Saudi is getting bombed, Kuwait's getting bombed, Iran's getting bombed, all these countries are getting bombed by Iran, they're saying, well, you know, maybe we didn't like this. have to be, you know, work with United States, but we have a common enemy here. They, you know, they want to kill our citizens. So, so I think, look, what Trump has done, he has completely changed the Middle East with the Abraham Accords, with, I mean, if you, and if you really, I think, admire what Israel's done. They live in a tough neighborhood, but they've been able to basically destroy Hamas. They've got it. framework for a peace, I guess a peace treaty with Lebanon, where his Bala will be eventually demolished, which is a big, think about that, what that does for the Middle East. If Iran doesn't have the money and can't give money to Houthouis and Bala Hamas, then that's a big deal for all of us because they want to kill Americans. And there's a greater chance for Middle East, peace, which is good for Americans.

Good for trades, everything you and I care about. Senator Rick Scott, joining me on the line. You're circulating just here at home. You're circulating a clean continuing resolution to avoid what we hope will be. Not this disastrous shutdown before the midterm elections. It seems like the strategy here is hoping Democrats take the blame if they were to shut us down again. But. They're not taking the blame, right? I mean, the media has not blamed them for the shutdown. And the public, as a result, at least in part of the coverage, in the past, just always seems to blame the Republicans. So why do you think this is going to play out any differently? Well, I think we ought to be vocal. I mean, we got to look, the Democrats were vocal to the first time. Yeah, but I'm going to keep being vocal. So I'm going to make sure in my state, everybody knows who the Democrats are. I just went to my Republican convention this weekend. I gave a talk about what Florians what, and actually they want the Save America Act, and Republican Democrat Independence want it. I can pay that all across my state. But I'm going to be very vocal that, look, that's a choice. If you, you know, if you like Democrats, just understand they want to not pay you. So if you're a federal worker and you like Democrats, they're the ones who are three times have shut down government. And there is a way to actually fund government. We did it for ICE and CBP. We can do reconciliation. So this is in our control, right? If we, but you can't do, you can't get to September 29 and say, oh, darn, gosh, they really are serious about shutting down government. No, they're telling us what they're going to do. They've walked away from the appropriations process. They've been very clear they want to shut down government. So we have got to do one. We've got to do probably two or two things. We've got to one start doing daily a continuing resolution and vote on it to show the American public, Democrats want to shut down government. That's number one. Number two is we need to start the reconciliation process, which is a process where you only need Republican votes. and fund the government whatever period of time. Do it through the election day. Do it through the end of the year. Do it through the March, whatever you want to do. But some time to get past the election because Democrats think shutting down government is their path to a majority. Now, I don't think it is, but if they're not responsible, maybe it is. So final line of questioning, you made reference to this lunch on Wednesday that you invited the president to, did you, to get into some of the drama, did you or did you not invite or at least get the blessing of John Thune? Oh, no, I run the Woodseat lunch. It's a conservative lunch. I bring in speakers every week. I bring in speakers every week. You know, I bring people in every week. You know why I'm asking. The leadership runs a Tuesday lunch. You know why I'm asking. The claim has been that you are.

trying to push John Thune out. And you made, I think it was over the weekend, you had a, I have no interest. A good point of no matter what it is you do, it's going to be seen through that lens. So if you don't do something, they're going to accuse you of not taking a stronger role in trying to bring speakers to speak to the senators on important issues. But if you do, it's now, oh, he's trying to get out John Thune. So how do you respond to a kind of a tricky position? I'm ready to be a leader. I don't want to, I'm not running again. The Republican, you know, they voted for John Thune and I wish on John Thune the best luck. But my job is to bring in, my job is I'm, the Wednesday is where we talk about policy. Yeah. The Wednesday is where we really, you know, I bring in, I bring in people to just talk about how's Medicare work, how's Medicaid work? So we have, we have good conversations so we can hopefully have good decisions when we vote. And so President Trump, I invite him to come. I let John Thune know. And by the way, they can invite Trump on any of their, on Tuesdays. I just told him, I'm invited him for Wednesday. If he won't invite him for Tuesday, invited for Tuesday. So it doesn't bother me. I just think my experience, I'm a business guy. I built, I built the largest hospital company, I built a bunch of manufacturer companies of the governor. I got all of my stuff done by meeting with people. What do you care about versus what I care about and say, okay, is there some common ground here? You know what the common ground is? Trump is trying to get a deal with Iran. Don't vote against, don't vote with the Democrats that just want to, you know, want to vote to say he has to withdraw the troops. I mean, Trump was furious that on Tuesday there was a vote. And Republicans voted with Democrats to say, he has to withdraw the troops when he's trying to negotiate a deal. Don't do that. Yeah, it made no sense. You're taking leverage completely away from the president needlessly, especially given the fact that we're in a ceasefire right now. That'll be for another discussion. Senator Rick Scott of Florida, thank you so much. I really appreciate you stopping by. See, Jason. Have a good day. Bye-bye. You as well. You're listening to The Jason Ranch Show. Back with more after this.

Thanks for downloading the Jason Ranch Show podcast. I really do appreciate it. Be sure to check out our brand new website, Seattlered.com. News, opinion, analysis without any of the left-wing spin covering the entirety of the Pacific Northwest. Check it out throughout the day, read stories, share stories, and watch exclusive videos. That's Seattlered.com. Now, back to the Jason Ranch Show. This don't call me, Friedrich Merz Island, Des Moines. This is the big local on the Jason Ranch Show. Shoreline, Woodenville, Beer, and. Stories about you, not about Seattle. Hey, look at that 4.30 on a weekday afternoon. That means it's time for the big local. Brought to you by the Scott Jenning Show. Heard weeknights 8 to 10 right here on Seattle Red 770 a.m. This is a part of the show where we completely ignore the stories coming out of Seattle and instead focus all of our attention on the communities you live in and care about most. We start in Washugel, which we don't usually do a whole bunch of stories out of Washugel. But this time we're doing it because Marie Glucon-Comp Perez is in the news, courtesy of... If I'm being totally honest, it's a little bit of a hit job from the New York Post. I'm just going to read you the title of this article and you'll realize why everyone was clicking on it. Democrat Marie Glucentcomp Perez's wild past of fetish parties, drugs, and gruesome chicken stunt exposed. They're talking about what she apparently did or was accused of doing when she was in college. Much like her job, her college was also in Oregon. This is the whole small business owner from Washul. I mean, she is a small business owner who lives in Washulul, but the business is actually in Oregon. She went to Reed College, which is, it's in Portland, right? Read College. Pretty sure it is. I don't know. What do you not? Just go with me. She went there. And according to the New York Post, she was a, quote, budding college politician who presided over a latex fetish ball. but also drugged up nude frolics, and even an LSD giveaway, according to social media posts, unearthed by the California Post. Ex-Rumies further have alleged that the Democrat rising star, she's not a rising star, was once an avid dumpster diver who offered spoiled avocados in exchange for rent. Spoiled avocados. What was rent back then? That you thought you could. You could barter spoiled avocados. Oh my God. It's not even like a spoiled banana where you can turn it into banana bread. What are you supposed to do with a spoiled avocado? What does that do? Do you put that in guacamole? It's all brown. Right? Yeah. I don't understand why you couldn't get anything better than that. They also said she, quote, once sawed a chicken's head off during an ill-fated experiment in urban farming.

The hell did she do? What was the experiment? That you might have an ill-fated head chopping off. Not even chopping, sawed off. My God. They said the student sent its posts on X from the time that she was there in 2012. Show Glusencamp Perez securing $4,000 to throw a latex heavy fetish ball featuring a DJ and a dark room. I don't want to know what's going on in that dark room. The school's fetish club was known for teaching courses such as BDSM 201. So this is not 101. You better come with some knowledge, which introduced students to flogging and caning. Flogging is the whip? Kind of, yeah, I think. Oh, yeah, I'm sure you think. Caning is like a stick, right? I guess. What are he saying you guess? What is this violet wand? I'm not Googling that on this computer. Use your phone. Just look it up. What is a, what's violet, not violent, but violet, like V-O-V-I-O-L-E-T wand and basic rope bondage. Plus, they had a kinky crafts course on creating do-it-yourself bondage gear. The heck is Violet Wand. What could that possibly be? And how is it different from caning? I'm curious what you Googled. I don't know if I can say it over the air. Violet wand. Oh, you can't, you can't say what it is. It's a device used to... Don't say it. It's a device that does something bad. Okay. Oh, it's not that bad. It's electrical stimulation, right? Of nether regions. Yeah. Okay. Well, you said you would have been, you and I would have been perfect to go take BDSM 201 because these are things we should learn. They say she also fought to secure funding for an annual campus festival that includes freewheeling new jog by groups of students calling themselves picks. Okay, that's not that bad of a deal, right? It's a college campus. So the reason why I say this is a little bit of a hit job, and I say this fully supporting it, is that she has previously pretended to be this wholesome Washugel business owner who's this moderate Democrat. She's not a moderate Democrat. She takes votes when the Democrats are 100% going to lose anyway so she can go back to her purple district. and say she's a moderate. Do you think all of a sudden she's not going to vote with the Democrats if they have total control in D.C.? Or do you think she's going to be 100% reliable? She will be a 100% reliable vote for the Democrats. And this is a district that matters. This is a pro-Trump district. And the only reason that she is the current member of Congress is she was running up against Joe Kent, who was a weekend candidate. We did our best. We couldn't put him in office. And frankly, I'm okay with that now, given his pension for, you know, hating the Jews. But also, she goes to read college, you know, at least at the time, which wasn't that long ago, it was still expensive. You know how much it costs to go to read every year? $74,000. And New York Post, this I don't know about because I'm not from this area originally. They say it's known for its permissive drug culture. Isn't that any liberal arts college? Can you name a liberal arts college that isn't known for its permissive drug culture?

No. No. They don't exist. That's part of the liberal arts college. Is Hillsdale technically a liberal arts college? No, I don't think anyone has ever called Hillsdale liberal anything. Well, I don't mean in like the political, but like the classical. I don't think it's called. Is it called? Is Hill still considered liberal arts? I don't think it is. They say they even circulated a user's guide to pot and alcohol, coke, amphetamines, benzos, LSD, DMT, mescaline, MDMA, PCP, ketamine, nitrous oxide, opiates, depressants, and psilocybin, authored by students. Her Senate offered an LSD giveaway in 2012 at the Student Union and promoted nitrogen day. I'm not giving her a hard time for any of this, but I am going to promote it. Does that mean, how many kinky fetish clubs did you go to when you were in college? Probably a ton. UPS? None. All over the place. No. I remember at Occidental College, they were doing this. It was always just. so pretend they had a public screening of like their version of sex education but it was just a porn video that was framed like here's how to do x y and z starring nina hartley who was like this big porn star like a legendary porn star as jackson wanted me to point out The legendary part. They did that and they pretended this was, it was just, they were just showing a porn, you know, porn. Again, I don't, it's college. I don't really care. But she's pretending to be something she's not. I do think Republicans very clearly and obviously see an opening with her for Washington's third. John Braun is the Republican running against her. I think this is part of that. Meanwhile, some bad news out of Bellevue. And really some bad news for the tech sector again in Washington State. Sony Interactive is letting go of a number of employees at Bungy. We talked a little bit about this on Friday. We have some more information, but Sony Interactive announced that they are laying off. Quite a few of its employees, 292 in total at the Bellevue facility. They put in what's known as a warn, a worker adjustment and retraining notification. And this is what you do ahead of layoffs or like mass terminations. And they got their announcement last week. This is directly a result of Destiny 2. I think that's a first-person shooter and what was supposed to be its replacement, just not doing well. This is part of the bigger issues that we've had in this region with the tech sector. And while I don't think Bellevue is completely making the one industry mistake of not diversifying its workforce, they are going to be subject more to the tech layoffs than, say, Tacoma.

or, you know, literally any other place but Seattle. Seattle has put a lot of its economy in the tech sector. The tech sector started to move courtesy of Amazon into Bellevue. Anytime tech jobs go, it's going to have a disproportionate hit on Bellevue in Seattle. This is not going to be Kenmore and Port Orchard feeling the pain because they have a lot of the tech sector there. And we saw layoffs from Google, Snap, Meta, Other companies you've not really heard of, but they work in the tech sector for a whole variety of reasons. And it's not necessarily because these businesses are struggling, although that is the case in this instance. But it's because of two letters. Do you know what those letters are? AI? No, I was going to answer it. Oh, I didn't know it was rhetorical. It was a rhetorical question. Do you know what those two letters are? No, I don't. Well, no, that was I was asking you to see if you were paying attention. Oh. Let's do this one more time. Okay? You ready? Do you know what those two letters are? Yeah. No, it was a rhetorical. I was going back to the rhetorical question I was trying to answer. What is wrong with you? Remember the book I bought you? Yeah. What was the name of it? It was something about improv. It was an improv book. It was an improv book. Do you read it? No. Well, clearly no. AI is the reason behind this. They're putting a lot of their money into AI, which can do a lot of the coding for them. It's taking away human jobs. And, you know, Michael Baumgartner on the show later to talk a little bit about AI, this is going to have some real world impacts that we're all going to feel. And I get the sense that we're not ready. I sincerely hope that people start paying a little bit close attention. I imagine if you're working in the world of tech, you're well aware. The problem I have are the people who don't work in tech, who don't realize that AI isn't just stopping at tech companies. You all know that, I hope. Certainly for those of you who have listened to the show for the last decade, I started the conversation back in 2015 with the $15 Now movement. I was like, okay, I didn't call it AI, but I said at the time, and I read about this in my book, an Amazon bestseller called What's Killing America? Did you know I got paid to write it and everything? Yeah, I know. So that's why you're so filthy, Ridge. Yeah. My God, every time you purchase one, I don't know what to get out of the books, but I get something. I know at the end of the year with that check that comes by. But I said it at the time. Activist groups, the unions, they were pushing higher minimum wage at the time, $15. And I was saying, you're just going to push people into automation. You're just going to push these businesses into automation. Because at that time, what did we already see? You know what we were starting to see more and more and more of? Now it's just we take it for granted. You go to a grocery store and it's self-checkout. You go to purchase concert tickets. This was back in the day. Did you know like animals? We had to wait in line. at like a blockbuster music or a tower records just for concert tickets. You know what you do now? It's all done online. It's done on an app. It's all automated. You don't talk to anyone. So what did you think was going to happen? We were just going to make this more, you know, prevalent faster. And that's exactly what happened. And now we're calling it AI. It's all the same. It's all connected.

And we're going in that direction. So if you're in an industry that you don't think will be impacted by AI, different industries are impacted differently, but I don't know. They're coming for a lot of our jobs, including here at the radio station, right? I imagine we're going to be able to find things to automate. You're not going to be able to automate my, well, you might be able to automate my voice. And I imagine if you fed chat GPT or perplexity or cloud or whatever. my book and all my writing and maybe transcripts of my show, they can probably figure out the tone, not the literal tone, but my style. And then you can just upload my voice. And I did this once. I went to, I can't remember what the service was, 11 labs, something with labs in it, and a number. And it just said, read a bunch of different sentences or words. And it took... I don't know, 10 minutes to read everything. It was like, the cat got the basketball on a hill. Like, just random things like that just to get different sounds. And I did it. Within 10 minutes, it had cloned my voice. It was shockingly good. And this was a couple years ago. It was shockingly good. I'm guessing it's gotten much better. In fact, we know it's gotten much better. The only thing at the time it couldn't quite pick up is my inflection. Like, it can't read the words the way that in my head they're supposed to be read. So they're not going to get like this. It's just going to go like this the entire time. It's rather monotone. And that's about it. I'm guessing they fix that or will fix it. So we might be out of a job soon. Well, you first. I'm the talent. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm the talent. They still can't come up with my, although, again, they probably could come up with my positions. I'm fairly consistent. I don't really change my principles and values all that much. They know more about you than you. It's terrifying. No wonder, Claude is all suicidal all of a sudden. All of a sudden, it's just really depressed. 1-800, 465, 877 for your text. Did you know every qualifying new and used vehicle at the Sunset Auto Family comes with oil changes for life? It's going to save you thousands of dollars over the lifetime of your vehicle. So visit our friends at the Sunset Auto Family in Auburn and Sumner online at sunset autofamily.com. When we come back, you pick the news. Story number one, Huffington Post, which apparently is still around. Just published an incredibly embarrassing self-owned about how awful they are and how awesome we are. Or story number two. airlines have been urged to change rules for fat passengers after a photo of a man struggling to fit in his seat is shared online. Let's stop pretending that you're not going to vote for that one. We know you're going to vote for that one. So you don't even have to vote. We're doing that when we come back on the Jason Rancho. The all-new Seattle Red.com. Finally, conservatives in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest have a home dedicated to local news. When I'm out and about in Seattle or anywhere just because I like to go into the field. Conservative analysis and opinion. And the left is saying this is anti-democracy. Seattlered.com is a new experience for Seattle's conservative movements where your comments are welcome and we encourage thoughtful conversation and debate. This is the key piece here. Visit the all-new Seattlered.com.

You picked the topic on the Jason Rand Show. Okay. It's a story in the Daily Mail about a hip-hop group that I didn't know still existed. Do you remember Pretty Ricky? No, I don't. I don't know. But I think I was supposed to pretend to know who they were because what of their posts, I guess, went viral. It wasn't even their photo. They saw someone else posting a photo of a very fat man on a plane. And I mean, and not just fat, by the way, but tall. Dude is, I don't want to say a monster because that seems mean, but he's like a giant. Dude is enormous. Both directions. Wide and... tall and he was seated in a flight this was overseas i think it was like um norway to Jon Ossoff something like that and He was struggling to fit in his seat. And it wasn't just the person in the photo that you can pay attention to, but if you squint, you can sort of see a guy next to him really struggling as well. And the post said it's difficult for those sitting next to them. It's a difficult situation because an airline and the airline will need to think of a happy median. Airlines will have to have something in place for plus size passenger. This image was taken recently in a flight showing how difficult it is for people who are bigger than one seat. Um, yeah, isn't there an easy solution to this? You know if you're going to fit into a seat comfortably. You know if it's going to be a real struggle. You know if maybe you're going to be one of those people on the verge of needing to ask for a seatbelt extender, which I can't imagine what it feels like for the individual who has. That has to be incredibly embarrassing. I, you know, in a world in which that still exists, you would think that they would put it in, you know, if you check into a hotel, it can ask if you need any special accommodations. And when you do a flight with food, you can tell it, I want gluten free or something. They can't put a little option that says you would need a seatbelt extender so they don't. have to ask i feel awful for these people just like check a box right it just seems like that would be an easy one or just do what delta is doing have you been on a delta flight not a while so this is with lately meaning within the last probably year or two i noticed this their seatbelts by default now on all their new planes are massive you could fit three people

In what, like, there's so much slack in the seatbelt now. It's clearly meant for the plus size passenger. So kudos to Delta for at least trying to do something to get out of the awkwardness. Although they probably just did it to get out of having a flight attendant and have to do extra work to accommodate because they're already kind of busy at the start of flights yelling at people who pretend like they've never put baggage in the overhead compartment before. People weighed in to. to respond to the photo. And everyone had exactly the same response, which is you know you're going to fit into two seats, buy two seats. Buy two seats. Now, I'll concede to you, there are some instances in which you might not be able to find two open seats next to one another. And so some people, I guess, saw that as a possibility. And they said, you should have certain seats that are specifically designed for the overweight, for the wide-bodied people and just charge them commensurate. And, yeah, there's some value to that. But that's also just kind of sad. When was the last time we went to a doctor's office? It's been a while. So I went to my dermatologist is at what used to be the polyclinic. I don't know. What is it called now, Otis or something? I don't remember what it is because I very, I go once a year. And they have fat people seats there. There are a bunch of normal width seats, and then there are some that are supersized. And I sat in one. I was like, ooh, this feels good. Get some extra movement. There's got some space. There's going to be no one sitting next to me. And then I realized, oh, wait a minute. This is for fat people. And then I just kind of sheepishly went to the normal people row. So I didn't take a seat from a fat person. I feel like that's bad, too. I don't know. What is the way around this that's sensitive? I don't think there's a sensitive way around this problem. Because it's not like you can ignore the fact that they're overweight and spilling into the other. I feel bad for the person who's seated next to these people. And I, you know, they've got to travel. They have to get on a plane sometimes. It's not like you can say, you know, take a bus drive. You're not having the same problem on the bus. And in the car. So what are you supposed to do? I do feel bad until the point I'm stuck next to someone. Then I'm just feeling rage. I was on a flight to the last New York flight. I think I said this. I've been getting lucky and having no one seated between us. And this time, I can't remember, I must not have, I must have texted this to Jake. I said, I feel bad. I feel lucky for the person who didn't have to sit between us because it was me and then on the far right at the window. And she, this is a big, uh, it was a big gal. And she was, you know, probably praying just like I was, just like anybody would be in that situation that no one would sit between us. But, oof, it was a.

It's a close call. We've all had that moment where you see someone coming down the aisle. Please know. Please, God, no. I've said, I do both. I say they please know, but also, okay, you're acceptable. Like it's a tiny Asian woman. I'm like, you know what? If I have to be seated next to someone, you are entirely acceptable. Please come over here. Yeah. Especially, and the worst is when you see the really thin, tiny person and then right behind them, quite the opposite. You're like, oh my God, I know someone's seated here. Because the app told me someone was seated here. Yeah. There's only two people left down this aisle. You're playing Russian roulette. Oh, no. Oh, no. Please, God, please. I don't know what I can do to make it so you intervene here. And I've been getting so, knock on wood, I've been getting so lucky lately on the flights. My next flight is on Monday to New York. I'm like, oh. Please. Oh, please, God. Please, God. 1,800, 465, 877 for your text messages. 1,800, 465, 877. You're listening to the Jason Ranch. Don't forget to become a podcast subscriber. Go wherever it is you get your podcast, search, Jason Ranch. Hit the subscribe button and hello to all the people who heard me on Guy Benson. Thank you so much for tuning in. One more hour coming up.