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Speaker 1: Right stateside. Mitch McCann, Morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, morning, Mike. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm well, you're gonna be loving doing what you're doing

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Speaker 1: it moment. I mean, hasn't this ended up well for you?

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Speaker 1: Living in the States, You got your new jobs. The

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Speaker 1: whole world's unfolding in a rapid pace. You've got to

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Speaker 1: be a pig and muck with us, don't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is pretty amazing sometimes, especially at some of

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Speaker 3: these Trump rallies. I think, you know, the people there

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Speaker 3: get tiring after about fifteen minutes, but it is quite

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Speaker 3: amazing being there.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes talk to me about Tim.

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Speaker 2: Is it Wols Wolves? Yeah, it's Wols. No tea, So

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Speaker 2: Tim Wols.

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Speaker 3: He was described this morning by commentator Mike as the

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Speaker 3: darkest of dark horses in the race because he didn't

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Speaker 3: have a huge amount of name recognition until a couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks ago. He is the governor of the state

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Speaker 3: of Minnesota. He's in his second term, and now he

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Speaker 3: is the running mate for Kamala Harris for Bryance President. Now,

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Speaker 3: one of the interesting things about Tim Wolls is he

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Speaker 3: as uniquely normal for this kind of job.

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Speaker 2: Mike.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't a hot shot lawyer, He wasn't a foreign

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Speaker 3: affairs expert. He was in the National Guard for twenty years,

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Speaker 3: so he's got a military back. But then he became

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Speaker 3: a high school teacher and a football coach. Now those

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Speaker 3: are great jobs, but they're not ones usually associated with

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Speaker 3: someone who goes on to become the president or the

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Speaker 3: vice president. Of course, Josh Shapiro was a prosecutor and

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Speaker 3: Mark Kelly was an astronaut, but they've been beaten out

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Speaker 3: by Tim Walls.

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Speaker 1: He's progressive, though, isn't he. So that's a left leaning ticket.

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Speaker 2: Very much so.

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Speaker 3: Some of his policies in Minnesota are free college tuition

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Speaker 3: for low income students, free meals for school children, legal

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Speaker 3: recreational marijuana, and protections for transgender people. And that's what

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Speaker 3: the Trump campaign is really going after him for. Today

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Speaker 3: they put out a statement saying that just like Kamala

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Speaker 3: Harrison Walsh is dangerously liberal extremist and the Harris Walsh

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Speaker 3: Californian Dreamers, Everyone's American nightmare. So that's what they're going

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Speaker 3: after him on being very progressive.

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Speaker 1: Is he eloquent?

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Speaker 3: Well, he's not as eloquent, perhaps as Josh Shapiro. He

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Speaker 3: was compared to someone like Barack Obama. Obviously, Barack Obama

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Speaker 3: was a great orator, and Jos Shapiro is a very

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Speaker 3: good speech maker. Tim Waltz is more of your sort

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Speaker 3: of folksy midwesterner and people just seem to really like him.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this on Monday, Mike.

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Speaker 3: There seemed to be this movement within the Democratic Party

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Speaker 3: from the hierarchy to try and push Kamala Harris towards

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Speaker 3: picking him. It's hoped he's going to bring some of

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Speaker 3: these Midwestern votes in. I mean, there's pictures floating around

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Speaker 3: of him hunting with big guns. You can expect some

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Speaker 3: people and parts of that, you know, states like Iowa, Ohio,

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Speaker 3: to really go for someone like that.

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Speaker 2: So I think that's what they're bidding on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, then we got the weather. Give us an update

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Speaker 1: on Debbie. Where are we at with that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so five people were killed by Debbi tropical Storm

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Speaker 3: Debbi in Florida. It's been downgraded to a tropical storm,

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Speaker 3: but it's still expected to cause a lot of havoc

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Speaker 3: today in South Carolina and in Georgia. I had a

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Speaker 3: look at the rain radar a short time ago, and

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Speaker 3: there is a huge amount of rain moving over Charleston

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Speaker 3: at the moment, So they're hoping to get out unscared,

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Speaker 3: but it remains to be seen how that's going to go.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff just quickly. Does he look like Warren Buffet

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Speaker 1: or is it just me he doesn't?

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Speaker 2: He does? Do you know he's only sixty years old?

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Speaker 2: I think he looked a little bit older than that.

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Speaker 2: He's only one year older than Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 1: You know what I look like, right?

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Speaker 2: You're very young?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, no, no need for the obvious plattery, but

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Speaker 1: I'm the same age as him.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't pick up, would Yeah he looks much older.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Nice to see. Yeah, I'll keep you on

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Speaker 1: the program a bit longer.

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Speaker 3: Mitch.

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Speaker 1: Very well, very well handled, Mitch McCann. Yeah, he looks

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Speaker 1: sixty eight all day long. Very Warren Buffettesque, by the way,

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Speaker 1: football coach. He joined the Guard as dad died when

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Speaker 1: of lung cancer when he was just nineteen, and he

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Speaker 1: spoke of how Social Security survivor Bennett's benefits sustained his mother,

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Speaker 1: how the GI Bill paid for his college education. So

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Speaker 1: it's a classic, it's that classic American story. He's been

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Speaker 1: a year teaching in China around the time of Tianaman Square.

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Speaker 1: Later honeymoon with his wife in China, organized summer educational

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Speaker 1: trips to China for US students. So a love of

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Speaker 1: China that I just can't help but think more, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll come back to bite them and the bump give

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Speaker 1: them the geopolitics of the Diabeta.

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