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Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundreds WLW Mike Allen Junior Sunday Night.

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Speaker 1: Excellent choice of music right after the Reds unfortunately take

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Speaker 1: the loss in spring training. It's just February baseball, folks,

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Speaker 1: But I know that there's there's something beautiful about hearing

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Speaker 1: the crack of the bat again. It just feels like renewal. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: we got a packshow tonight. And if you feel like

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Speaker 1: the temperature in this country and frankly the world is rising,

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Speaker 1: well you're not crazy. We finally got what feels like

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Speaker 1: kind of resolution on the Trump terrif fight. The Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court ruled six to three that essentially the law, the IEEPA,

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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was relying on to implement his sweeping

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Speaker 1: tariffs across the world, well, he doesn't necessarily have the

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Speaker 1: authority to do that. And I guess the bigger question

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Speaker 1: becomes who controls trade policy in this country? Is it Congress,

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Speaker 1: as Article one lays out, or is it the executive

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Speaker 1: branch using emergency powers? Because Congress is useless because what

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Speaker 1: we're watching isn't just a policy disagreement, it's a legitimate

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Speaker 1: constitutional fight. Well that's one fight. Now, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: another one. Earlier today, an armed man breached the perimeter

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Speaker 1: at mar A Lago. Secret Service engaged. He has now deceased.

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Speaker 1: The situation ended before it became something far worse, Thank

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Speaker 1: god for that. But here's the part that matters. And again,

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Speaker 1: we don't really know what this guy's political affiliation is,

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Speaker 1: but I think if you're showing up to a guy's

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Speaker 1: house with a shotgun and a gas can, I'd say

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Speaker 1: it's safe to say that you're not a big fan

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Speaker 1: of the guy who lives in that house. And for

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Speaker 1: years we've been told that rhetoric is violence, and that

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Speaker 1: words radicalize people, and tone matters and apocalyptic language lowers

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Speaker 1: the guardrails of society, which fine, cool, Let's just try

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Speaker 1: and apply that standard consistently for once. And you can't

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Speaker 1: spend an entire election cycle after election cycle, essentially for

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Speaker 1: ten years calling someone a fascist, a dictator, a threat

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Speaker 1: to democracy, the next hitler, or whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: call it, and then pretend that language has no downstream

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Speaker 1: effect that results in a guy showing up with a

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Speaker 1: gas can and a shotgun at the president's second home.

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Speaker 1: Just get really tired of the double standard here. And

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Speaker 1: political tension is high because political rhetoric has been nuclear for,

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Speaker 1: as I said, nearly a decade. And when you convince

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Speaker 1: people they're living in an existential moment where the president

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Speaker 1: is hitler, it's completely predictable that some unstable lunatic is

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Speaker 1: going to act like it's a war that is not partisan,

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Speaker 1: that is human nature. Also, while we're here at home

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Speaker 1: fighting about the tariffs, the world is not standing still.

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Speaker 1: Tensions whether on are still rising. Naval assets have been

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Speaker 1: repositioning all over the Persian Gulf, Regional actors are posturing.

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Speaker 1: The straight of Horn Moves is always lurking in the

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Speaker 1: background as the world's most important energy choke point. All

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Speaker 1: players involved in this know that folks and armada of

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Speaker 1: warships does not move for fun. When ships move, the

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Speaker 1: world notices, and when the world notices, markets notice, and

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Speaker 1: when markets notice, your gas price is noticed. So while

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Speaker 1: Washington argues about trade and elections, geopolitics has not paused.

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Speaker 1: And also if you have travel plans, listen to this.

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Speaker 1: In Port of Arta, major Mexican coastal tourist destination authorities

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Speaker 1: of warren vacationers not to leave their resorts after federal

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Speaker 1: officials essentially tried to capture but ended up killing essentially

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Speaker 1: one of the largest drug cartel leaders in parts of Jalisco, Guerrero,

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Speaker 1: and Nuevo Leone in Mexico. This is in near the

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Speaker 1: beach town of Pierto Varta. If you get on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: it does not look not look good. They're car fires everywhere,

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Speaker 1: buildings on fire, not not looking good. But tonight isn't

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Speaker 1: all tension, folks, because in the middle of all of

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Speaker 1: this chaos, the United States men's national hockey team went

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Speaker 1: out and won gold today. And they didn't just win it.

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Speaker 1: They took it in overtime, back and forth game, physical checking,

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Speaker 1: one of those games where every shift felt like it

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Speaker 1: could decide absolutely everything. And in overtime, sudden death, overtime,

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Speaker 1: one clean look, one moment of execution and the red

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Speaker 1: light comes on, folks, that's it. Game over, Gold secured.

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Speaker 1: And that's the kind of win I think that sticks

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Speaker 1: with a country. And if you're old enough, or if

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Speaker 1: you've watched the replay enough times, you remember nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 1: You remember Lake Placid, You remember the Miracle on Ice.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe in miracles? Back in nineteen eighty? That

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Speaker 1: wasn't just hockey, folks. That was a psychological reset for

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Speaker 1: a country that just felt tired and divided and totally

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Speaker 1: This wasn't just hockey, folks again, This was an entire

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Speaker 1: And tonight felt a little bit like or excuse me,

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Speaker 1: this morning felt a little bit like that nineteen eighty spirit.

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Speaker 1: And yes to our friends up north in Canada, we

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Speaker 1: love you, we really do. But tonight that gold is ours.

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Speaker 1: Keep your maple syrup, keep the snow. You can keep

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Speaker 1: your aggressively mediocre labat blue Beer. We're going to take

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Speaker 1: the hardware, give us the gold because most of the time,

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Speaker 1: competition is healthy, and we all know that rivalry sharpens you.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes beating Canada and overtime just feels right. It

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Speaker 1: matters because it shows that competition doesn't have to mean

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Speaker 1: hatred necessarily. You can light heart and still respect the rules.

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Speaker 1: You can represent your country without tearing it apart, something

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Speaker 1: that a lot of Olympians, especially in the United States

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Speaker 1: did not seem to really understand you could represent your

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Speaker 1: country without being a jack bleep. And maybe there's a

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Speaker 1: lesson in that. So tonight phones are open seven four nine,

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Speaker 1: the big one of the numbers that call. You want

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Speaker 1: to sound off on this tariff case and what it

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Speaker 1: means constitutionally, the mar A Lago incident earlier today, and

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Speaker 1: the broader climate of insane rhetoric. Also the rising temperatures

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Speaker 1: overseas with Iran and what that could mean. And yes,

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Speaker 1: the fact that we are celebrating gold, because if you're

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Speaker 1: feeling like everything is escalating at once, you're not wrong.

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Speaker 1: Escalation is not destiny, everybody. We will cut through all.

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Speaker 2: Of the noise. Tonight's stay with us.

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Speaker 1: So the United States, as I said, just pulled off

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Speaker 1: a mass of massive victory in the Olympics in hockey.

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Speaker 1: It's their first gold medal, second gold overall, first since

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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty Miracle on Ice. And they didn't just win,

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Speaker 1: they did it in overtime. And if you're old enough

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Speaker 1: because I was reading an article today in the National

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Speaker 1: Review that made a bigger point that this is bigger

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Speaker 1: than hockey, that this is bigger than overtime, it's bigger

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Speaker 1: than one tournament, and it sort of invoked the thoughts

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Speaker 1: of what it means to represent America, and that question

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Speaker 1: matters especial actually when some athletes don't.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of the figure skater that

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Speaker 1: to talk about is Eileen Gou and you may know her.

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Speaker 1: She is the Olympic skier that's been was born in

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Speaker 1: the United States, raised in the United States, graduated from Stanford,

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Speaker 1: trained in the United States, and she chose to compete

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Speaker 1: for China. So first and foremost, to the Karens out there,

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Speaker 1: this is not about ethnicity, This isn't even about heritage.

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Speaker 1: America is full of these hyphenated quote unquote stories Chinese American,

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Speaker 1: Irish American. That's our strength. This is about political choice here,

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Speaker 1: because when you choose to represent the People's Republic of

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Speaker 1: you can't help where you're born, but you can help

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Speaker 1: who you compete for. And when you go out of

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Speaker 1: your way to represent the Chinese Communist Party, you got

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Speaker 1: to stop pretending, like a lot of the world does,

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Speaker 1: especially in the business business arena, that the CCP is

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Speaker 1: just another government with different tax policies. No, this is

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Speaker 1: a communist dictatorship that is built on a twenty first

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Speaker 1: This is a regime that crushed Hong Kong's autonomy after

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Speaker 2: This is a regime that.

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Speaker 1: Locks up and in many cases, I'm just going to say,

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Speaker 1: it exterminates weaker Muslims and what can only be described

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Speaker 1: as a modern day genocide. This is a regime that

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Speaker 1: unleashes pandemics on the world, that threatens Taiwan daily well

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Speaker 1: at the same time pretending it wants peace with Taiwan.

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Speaker 1: This is a regime that is the world's leading leader

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Speaker 1: and intellectual property theft, that lies about its viruses, that

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Speaker 1: bullies its neighbors, that imprisons lawyers, that silences doctors, that

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Speaker 1: just does not tolerate criticism at all. And when an

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Speaker 1: American born talent competes under that banner, the CCP doesn't

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Speaker 1: see this as athletic excellence. They see validation. They see propaganda.

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Speaker 1: They see headlines that read, look, even Americans choose us.

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Speaker 1: That's not accidental. That's strategic. And the rumor is that

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Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party to do this. This is not accidental.

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Speaker 1: This is strategic, and this is what's called soft power warfare.

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Speaker 1: The CCP knows, that knows and understands that there are

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Speaker 1: shapes legitimacy. You don't win global influence with tanks. You

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Speaker 1: win it with image. You normalize authoritarianism through glamour, You

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Speaker 1: asking hard questions. Now again, legally, you know, she can

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Speaker 1: make this choice, miscoup. That's the beauty of America.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Freedom means that you can choose, but something a lot

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Speaker 1: of people forget. Freedom also means we can criticized that choice,

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Speaker 1: and we should because loyalty is extremely important. National identity

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Speaker 1: is extremely important, especially when you're dealing with a geopolitical

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Speaker 1: You know, this is not somebody who's a dual citizen

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Speaker 1: of Norway. This is not a dual citizen of Belgium. Like,

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Speaker 1: this is a one party authoritarian regime that does not

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Speaker 1: And this is the part that I think should bother

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Speaker 1: people because it really bothers me. The very system that

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Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party works overtime and has been working overtime

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Speaker 1: to weaken globally since their inception. Like that's the sort

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Speaker 1: of sad irony here is America allows you to leave,

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Speaker 1: and China punishes you for leaving. America tolerates criticism.

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Speaker 4: I e.

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Speaker 1: Watched the ungrateful little twerps standing with their gold medals

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Speaker 1: bashing America, while China criminalizes criticism. America will let these

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Speaker 1: monologues that some of these airheads go through. They will

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Speaker 1: broadcast this on the air live, while China would shut

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Speaker 1: down the feed literally mid sentence. So when our hockey

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Speaker 1: team goes into overtime and wins under our flag and

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the fact that it was queued up to

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Speaker 1: the goal was scored, was just simply epic. But the

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Speaker 1: bottom line is is when our hockey team does this,

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Speaker 1: it hits differently. It feels earned, it feels authentic, it

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Speaker 1: feels rooted in something very very real. So in nineteen

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Speaker 1: pushing back against a communist totalitarian ideology, one that flies

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Speaker 1: in the face of everything that the West holds. Deer

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Speaker 1: and tonight or excuse me this morning. While the stakes

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Speaker 1: were not identical, it's you'd be ignorant to say that

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Speaker 1: the geopolitical reality isn't the same. China is not just

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Speaker 1: competing in trade, it's competing in narrative. It's competing in prestige,

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Speaker 1: Hey Kevin, what's going on, buddy, You're on the Big One.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, the terris right, right, right.

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Speaker 1: I totally, I totally agree with you, Kevin. And something

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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you, Kevin. Hold it down to Chivia, man,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, are you talking about amending the Constitution.

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Speaker 5: Convention of States?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like that.

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Speaker 5: But where could the states do something and do away

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Speaker 5: with Congress or something? Because Congress is just hopeless and

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Speaker 5: I don't know how you'd fix that. Maybe you'd have

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Speaker 5: some comment on how you do that, but it's it's

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Speaker 5: it isn't good for the future of the country, and

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Speaker 5: China is just now We're the only thing in the

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Speaker 5: way of China dominating the world. Absolutely, the more they

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Speaker 5: weaken us, you know, that's what you got to say.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Hey, thanks Kevin. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's as much as I would love to

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Speaker 1: just say, hey, Congress, we're done, you can't really do

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Speaker 1: away with an entire branch of government. But he's got

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Speaker 1: a point. I mean, he's not wrong, and he's he's

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Speaker 1: essentially saying the same thing as I am, just differently,

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Speaker 1: which is they're useless. I mean quite literally. I mean

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Speaker 1: how many times have we I mean I want you

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Speaker 1: to try and put yourself in the in the shoes

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Speaker 1: of a guy in the nineteen fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties,

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Speaker 1: even nineties in Congress or in the Senate and somebody

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Speaker 1: says something to you, like, you know what, maybe let's

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Speaker 1: talk about blowing up the filibuster. Like you look at

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Speaker 1: them like they they they have rabbits coming out of

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Speaker 1: their ears. I mean that that's one where you go like, dude,

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Speaker 1: are you are you feeling okay? That's one of those

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Speaker 1: those guardrails that you just don't mess with. And that's

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Speaker 1: the thing is there when it comes to Congress, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's predominantly on the left, but you see

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Speaker 1: it on the right too, is that rules just don't apply,

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Speaker 1: Like they just don't apply, like their only purpose is

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Speaker 1: to suck up time on c Span ranting and raving.

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Speaker 1: I mean it, it's when a country and when a

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Speaker 1: country elects a president, whether it be Barack Obama or

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and what you would want to call a landslide, right,

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Speaker 1: that president or that candidate, that person who just won,

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Speaker 1: has spent the last year yell at probably beating into

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Speaker 1: the ground five or six issues. I'm going to do this.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to stop that, and then that president wins

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Speaker 1: in a landslide, or that president wins the popular vote.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 1: And for for example, Donald Trump on immigration, the American

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Speaker 1: people gave Donald Trump a man date, a mandate to

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Speaker 1: close the border and deport criminal illegal immigrants. Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: obvious enough that that's what the majority of the country wanted.

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Speaker 1: But then you have Congress who they don't care about

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Speaker 1: what the majority of the country wants. They care about

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Speaker 1: what their base wants. They care about what their district wants.

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Speaker 1: And I understand that because you need to be accountable

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Speaker 1: to your constituents. That being said, though, how the hell

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Speaker 1: do we get anything done that way?

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Speaker 2: How?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we can't just have the and right now

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Speaker 1: it's functionally useless. So functionally what we have here, and

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Speaker 1: we saw it with tariffs, is the president the executive

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Speaker 1: branch doing something, putting forth some sort of policy, issuing

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Speaker 1: an executive order, and the other branch, the judicial branch,

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Speaker 1: putting checks and balances on that. Missing in all of

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Speaker 1: this is Congress, and we will see and you've seen

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Speaker 1: that for years with Trump, with Biden, with a is

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Speaker 1: the president putting forth executive action and the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: deciding whether or not that action is constitutional or not.

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Speaker 1: Name the last time you know, other than Roe v. Wade,

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Speaker 1: or actually that wasn't necessarily a congressional thing, that was

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Speaker 1: a state thing. But name the time, like it used

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Speaker 1: to be. In constitutional law, all I would learn about

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Speaker 1: is the Supreme Court determining the constitutionality of a act,

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Speaker 1: a law passed by Congress and through the Senate and

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Speaker 1: having the president sign it. Now it's just challenging executive orders. Pathetic.

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Speaker 1: We got a couple of minutes here. Let's let's talk

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Speaker 1: to Ken and Mason. Hey, Ken, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Buddy? You're on a big one?

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Speaker 9: How much?

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Speaker 2: Mike?

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Speaker 9: You tonight? Not too bad one elder guy to another.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Mike, I.

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Speaker 9: Agree with everything you're saying about Congress, but we also

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Speaker 9: need to realize our judicial system is broken too. We

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Speaker 9: have so many on the left now judicial activists that

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Speaker 9: are politically running the courts. They're not nothing to do

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Speaker 9: with the law anymore.

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Speaker 1: One federal judge can derail an entire presidential administration.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and that needs to be Mike, that's a great point.

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Speaker 9: I think that needs to be changed. I need that

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Speaker 9: needs to be looked at closely. I mean, what they're doing.

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Speaker 9: I think John Roberts is one of the most politically

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Speaker 9: corrupt judges of all time. Yes, no, I think he's

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Speaker 9: got Amy Coney, Barrett and Gorsuch on his side. Now,

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Speaker 9: those two should be embarrassed. What they're doing to Donald,

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Speaker 9: you know, and why they're getting involved in basically charrister

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Speaker 9: taxes and why they're getting involved in that is crazy.

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Speaker 9: I don't think they have any jurisdiction there at all.

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Speaker 9: I think that's a political power pay you know, on

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Speaker 9: his part. I mean, you know, I agree with you

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Speaker 9: in the power brainwashing our young people. You know, there's

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Speaker 9: been three high schools in Cincinnati protesting immigration in those.

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Speaker 2: College Hill tearing up that Kroger. I mean, yeah, that

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Speaker 2: was something else.

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Speaker 9: Those kids don't even know what ice means, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 9: they have no idea what's going on. They asked those kids.

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Speaker 9: Not one kid knew where Somalia was, Not one kid

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Speaker 9: knew where Somalia is. Not one kid understood what ice was.

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Speaker 9: These kids just want to get out of class, and

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Speaker 9: the administration should be a shame of themselves.

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Speaker 1: Can I agree? I hate to hate to cut you off. Man,

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Speaker 1: we're up against the break. But but yeah, he's you're

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Speaker 1: You're exactly right, Ken. At some point in time, we

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Speaker 1: got to find a way to, uh to to get

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Speaker 1: do something about the teachers' unions because they are they're

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Speaker 1: really screwing up our future, in the future of our kids.

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Speaker 1: It's it's unreal to me that that a a public

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Speaker 1: school can just open the door and say, all right, everybody,

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Speaker 1: get out of here, go protest, have a good day.

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Speaker 2: They literally monitor everything these kids do.

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Speaker 1: But just go ahead, walk out of the streets and

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Speaker 1: scream about ice for a little bit. Hey, we're up

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Speaker 1: against the break. Coming up at seven after the seven

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Speaker 1: thirty news, We're going me talking to the Walking Sports

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Speaker 1: Almanac Sean Porter about the United States hockey the big

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Speaker 1: win getting gold today in sudden death overtime. Also going

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Speaker 1: to talk about some some spring training stuff, what what

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Speaker 1: the divisions may look like, uh coming into the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six MLB season. Mike Allen Junior on News Radio

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Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 5: Now Jack.

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Speaker 4: Walk a cross.

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Speaker 3: Witches put the first time since the nine eighty bat.

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Speaker 4: Goal in the United States, takes the ball.

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Speaker 2: Jack boosting Ben Jack.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 2: That was something else.

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Speaker 1: If you were up today at nine o'clock in the more,

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Speaker 1: you just heard Jack Hughes bring home the gold for

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Speaker 1: the United States. Like I said, Canada, keep your keep

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Speaker 1: your maple syrup, keep your terrible, terrible whiskey, keep your

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Speaker 1: aggressively mediocre le bat blue. We're just We're just good

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Speaker 1: with gold down here in Cincinnati. We are not hockey experts.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is we have the Walking Sports

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Speaker 1: Almanac all the way up in Cleveland, Ohio. My friend,

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Speaker 1: your friend, our friend, University of Dayton School of Law.

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Speaker 1: Bad boy, Sean Porter, Sean, what's going on, my friend?

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Speaker 7: Hey, Mike, how's it going?

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Speaker 2: Hey? Not too bad?

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: I know you got your roots. Your roots are split

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Speaker 1: between Jersey and Ohio. What's it like seeing one of

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Speaker 1: the Devils bring home gold for the United States?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 7: Oh, it was amazing, Mike. I mean, as you know,

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Speaker 7: I'm a huge New Jersey Devils fan. So Jack Hughes

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Speaker 7: is the star of the team and this season has

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Speaker 7: kind of been kind of an overcoaster because he was injured,

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Speaker 7: like in a freak accident where, like I guess, him

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Speaker 7: and a bunch of teammates are at a steakhouse and

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Speaker 7: he hurt his hand, so he missed like twenty games,

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Speaker 7: and you know, it's been kind of frustrating. But to

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Speaker 7: see him like do so well in the Olympics and

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Speaker 7: excel and like just to win today was unbelievable. I

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Speaker 7: mean it really means a lot, you know's it was magical.

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Speaker 7: It really was like, I mean, he was great the

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Speaker 7: whole Olympics. He was phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sean.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's something you know down here, we got

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Speaker 1: our IHL Cincinnati Cyclones. We know what a goal is,

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Speaker 1: and we know we like to watch people fight. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, this has to be I'm not sure what

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Speaker 1: the turnover was as far as who was on the

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Speaker 1: uh you know, it was about a year ago. The

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Speaker 1: United States national team that lost that that heartbreaker to

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Speaker 1: Canada just about a year ago. I mean, it's got

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Speaker 1: to be like an unbelievable sense of revenge here, especially

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Speaker 1: after you know, the Canadians booed the United States national

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Speaker 1: anthem and all the crap that came with that.

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Speaker 7: You know, Yeah, yeah, it was I mean when that happened,

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Speaker 7: that was I mean, that was just unfortunate because usually,

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Speaker 7: you know, both sides are pretty respectful about the national

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Speaker 7: anthem when it comes on. But yeah, and that kid

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Speaker 7: kind of came out of nowhere. But yeah, the four

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Speaker 7: Nations last year was really devastating to lose an overtime

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Speaker 7: like that. You know, mccarr McDavid obviously was the one

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Speaker 7: that won the game last year, and obviously he's on

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Speaker 7: the Olympic team for Canada. Yeah, and I mean, I

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Speaker 7: knew this would be a slug fest today, Mike, Like

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Speaker 7: I people are asking me what I thought. I was like, honestly,

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Speaker 7: you could go either way because both teams are so

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Speaker 7: talented and both teams have great coaching. And it was amazing, Mike.

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Speaker 7: I actually found out that, you know, we've been the Olympics,

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Speaker 7: the hockey team, the men's I mean twenty five times,

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Speaker 7: and we've been to the gold medal game eleven times,

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Speaker 7: but we've lost eight times and we've only won three,

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Speaker 7: which includes this year and then nineteen eighty and of

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Speaker 7: course nineteen sixty. So it's it's really amazing, you know,

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Speaker 7: the times that we have won. I mean, we've been

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Speaker 7: underdogs and like no one's really giving us a shot.

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Speaker 7: And I don't know if it was like that this

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Speaker 7: time around, because I think, you know, we have NHL talent,

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Speaker 7: so like, I mean, I think it was a little

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Speaker 7: different than what was like in Lake Placid in nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, you know, I it was amazing either way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, nineteen eighty that was something completely different because

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Speaker 1: back then you had to be amateur. I mean, those

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Speaker 1: were college kids staring down the barrel the best hockey

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Speaker 1: players on planet Earth. I mean, that was This wasn't

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Speaker 1: like that, but boy, it felt really really good, man,

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Speaker 1: especially that you know, that's like hockey is like America's

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Speaker 1: fourth most popular sport. It's literally everything in Canada. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that our fourth most popular sport essentially just

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Speaker 1: stole gold from the people who invented the sport. It's

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Speaker 1: like it'd be like Canada beating the United States in

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Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic, you.

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Speaker 7: Know, or in basketball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right right. That's actually a really good point, man.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but moving along, dude, we're coming up towards

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Speaker 1: the end of February. Here, Red's it looked like a

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Speaker 1: freaking football score. Today they blew it towards the end

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00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: of the game. But you know, that's why it's February man,

647
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: it's just time to get that crap out of the way.

648
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: But I guess how about this, man, We'll start with

649
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: the NL, and if we got time, we'll move to

650
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: the AL. Let's start with the NL. East Man, I

651
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: think for me it's either the Mets or the Braves.

652
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: I think this is another one where it's kind of

653
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 1: wide open in the NL. East Man, what do you think?

654
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: And who wins the division? And how do they win it?

655
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 7: That's funny, said the Braves, Mike, because I actually I

656
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 7: actually had the Phillies because they kept Schwarber. Yeah, they

657
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 7: kept Schwarber. They have good pitching. I think that they

658
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 7: still kind of bringing back the same team, but I

659
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 7: think they'll be really solid. So I have them at

660
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 7: like ninety three and sixty nine. I have my Mets

661
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 7: at eighty nine and seventy three. I you know, it's

662
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 7: been a really roller coaster offseason as a Mets fan,

663
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 7: because you know, it's it was sad that see p

664
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 7: Alonso go and it was sad that win Diez goo.

665
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 7: But I do like some of the moves they made.

666
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 7: You know, they got Bogashett, you know, they got Louis

667
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 7: Robert Junior. So I do like some of the things

668
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 7: they did, and they got that ace from Milwaukee as well,

669
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 7: So I think they're gonna be eighty nine and seventy three.

670
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 7: I actually think the Braves are gonna be eighty three

671
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 7: and seventy nine.

672
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 2: Really, So you don't think the Braves crack ninety ninety wins?

673
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 7: No, because I think they they're manager resigned after you know,

674
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 7: the one that won the World Series with them, and

675
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 7: I think, you know, the guys that's coming in in

676
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 7: his first year. So I think they're kind of like

677
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 7: not rebuilding, but they're kind of trying to reload a

678
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 7: little bit, so I think, you know. And then obviously,

679
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 7: Mike the Marlins. You know, I think they're improved, but

680
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 7: I think they're seventy eight and eighty four at beast.

681
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 7: And then the Nationals, I have seventy wins.

682
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: That's so let me ask you this, John, do you think,

683
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: not to veer off course, do you think the Nationals

684
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: will be the worst team in baseball this year?

685
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 7: Yes? I yeah, I just want.

686
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 1: To hear seventy wins. I go, Man, if there's anything

687
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: under that, I'd be shocked.

688
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 9: Yeah.

689
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 7: No, o oh no, Actually, actually, Mike, one team is lower.

690
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 7: I have the Klorad Rockies, I have a sixty two.

691
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 2: We can't forget about them. Good God shown all right,

692
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 2: now what matters?

693
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: And frankly Man, I think it's the division that every

694
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: especially the last five or six years, it just feels

695
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: like anybody can win it. The NL Central I I

696
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: hate to say it because I hate him. I do

697
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: think it's going to be the Brewers. But as far

698
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: as as far as who fills out the rest, I

699
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 1: have absolutely no idea.

700
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 2: What do you think?

701
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 3: I think?

702
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 7: You know, I actually this might be a little surprising, Mike,

703
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 7: because I remember last year I came on your show.

704
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 7: I said the Cubs would kind of take a step back,

705
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 7: and they did it. Really Yeah, I actually think they're

706
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 7: gonna they're gonna win the division.

707
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 2: Wow.

708
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 7: But they're only going to be eighty seven and seventy

709
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 7: five because they got Kyle Tucker. Yeah, and you know

710
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 7: they they lost Kyle Tucker, but they got Alex Bregman,

711
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 7: they got Edward Cabrera, they got you know, they brought

712
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 7: back soda, am am. I guy, I think it's how

713
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 7: you pronounce this name. That one pitcher and then the Brewers.

714
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 7: I think eighty five and seventy seven they lost you know, Peralta,

715
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 7: they lost Royce Hoskins. You know, the only big addition

716
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 7: they made was Gary Sanchez. Like they didn't really improve.

717
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 7: I feel like they got worse. Yeah, and then the Reds.

718
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 7: I have a mic for you, Buddy eighty three and

719
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 7: Sead Me nine.

720
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: I do like some of it's almost the exact same record.

721
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: I think is last year, right man.

722
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 7: You got JJ blight A and then you know you

723
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 7: Genio was I think that was a good pick up.

724
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 7: You know, one year for fifteen million. I think that

725
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 7: was a good signing, but you had lost Wade Miley,

726
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 7: Austin Hayes, Gavin Lucke's you know, Emilio Pagan. I I

727
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 7: don't know, like not that all those guys really made it.

728
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: Pick Yeah, I think, yes, Pegan is the guy. I

729
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: think that really is the one that people aren't gonna

730
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: are gonna they don't think about it now, but they'll notice,

731
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: you know.

732
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you guys still have DIA. I wanted to

733
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 7: ask you that.

734
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so, yeah, oh you do absolutely no, no, no, no,

735
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:44,240
Speaker 2: we let him go man.

736
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 7: Oh you did, okay, Okay.

737
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: I was wondering about that and that's that's why I'm

738
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: saying the Amelio Pagan thing, that's that's gonna be what

739
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: shows up.

740
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 4: Dude.

741
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: You know, the Reds had an up and down year

742
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: with their bullpen last year, but I think it it

743
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 1: it towards the end of the year really settled into

744
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: almost an anchor of the team. But yeah, I mean

745
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: it feels like, really since since Rice ell Iglesias, we've

746
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 1: had issues with with figuring out a steady, permanent, consistent closer.

747
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 7: You know, I agree, I agree. That's why I think,

748
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 7: you know, you guys have me Chieto is going to

749
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 7: be obviously coming back is going to be huge.

750
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 9: You know.

751
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 7: I think you guys getting a playoff experience, even though

752
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 7: I know it wasn't the greatest showing at the Dodgers

753
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 7: last year, I still think you're getting that experience is

754
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 7: going to really help you guys down the line. Yeah,

755
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 7: I mean, Mike, to round out your division, I would

756
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 7: say the Pirates seventy seven eighty five. I don't really see,

757
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 7: you know, besides Paul's schemes, I don't really see any

758
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 7: threats there, you know. And then the Cardinals. Man, I

759
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 7: think the Cardinals I have a seventy and ninety two.

760
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 3: Wow.

761
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, but what have they done?

762
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 7: You know what I mean, Like, what are they?

763
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 6: Yeah?

764
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 2: In that's we're not.

765
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: Used to out of them, you know what I mean.

766
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: It's you're not used to the Cardinals just having this.

767
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: I mean because it's been a long time for them.

768
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: You know, they usually don't have skids that last this

769
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:55,760
Speaker 1: many years.

770
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, like they got rid of contraras. I mean, I

771
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 7: think they're like when I read about my line, it

772
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 7: pretty much said that they're like on a full rebuild mode.

773
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 7: Like that's literally what they're doing is they're trying to

774
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 7: real And I was like, Wow, the Cardinals rebuilding. That's

775
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 7: very rare.

776
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's something you don't see very often.

777
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 4: Man.

778
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: I feel like we're laughing here when we actually try to,

779
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: you know, say, who's going to win the NL West?

780
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like that's just given. It's going

781
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 2: to be the Dodgers, right.

782
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, I have them too. I Mean, there's way

783
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 7: too much talent there.

784
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 6: You know.

785
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 7: I think the Padres will be like three or four

786
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 7: games back because I do think they're talented with Tatis,

787
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 7: you know, you know, obviously I said earlier the Rockies

788
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 7: will have sixty wins. I think the Diamondbacks, I think

789
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 7: will be around eighty three because they're like kind of

790
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 7: just like in the middle of the tier kind of team,

791
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 7: you know. I think the Giants will be like eighty

792
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 7: five because I don't know if they won that Devers trade.

793
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 7: I mean, he was okay last year, but I don't

794
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 7: see them doing much better than that.

795
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, man, let's go.

796
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: Let's go to the AL unless I miss some in

797
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: the NL and it's it's just it feels like it's

798
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: every single year, man. And in my opinion, the AL

799
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: East is one of Baseball's deepest, toughest divisions. I think

800
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays rotation strength is just is phenomenal. I

801
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,439
Speaker 1: think the Orioles they're gonna probably challenge for a wild card.

802
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. I think Boston is maybe gonna

803
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: just sit one out this year. I'm not really sure.

804
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: It was rough last year.

805
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 2: What do you think?

806
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Mike, I have the Blue Jays at ninety

807
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 7: three and sixty nine. You know that run last year.

808
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 7: I mean, they were so close to winning the World Series.

809
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 7: I've never seen a team have so many chances to

810
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 7: win the World Series or not. I think it was.

811
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 7: You know, I think they are going to compete and

812
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 7: win that division. I think the Oriols will be ninety

813
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 7: and seventy two because I like the addition of Alonso.

814
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 7: I think they really improved that bullpen a lot. The

815
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 7: Yankees at eighty four and seventy eight because I just

816
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 7: they just are bringing back the same team. I just

817
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 7: don't see, like, what are they, you know? And then

818
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 7: the Red Sox. Yeah, I'm like eighty one eighty one,

819
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 7: and that's being nice, I think.

820
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 3: Real.

821
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: So you think that the Red Sox will get the

822
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: five hundred huh?

823
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 6: Yeah?

824
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 7: They always do somehow, I don't know what it is,

825
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 7: but they're never that bad, you know what I mean.

826
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 7: They never have sixty wins or seventy wins. They're always

827
00:46:58,920 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 7: like a round five hundred.

828
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And that's the thing.

829
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,280
Speaker 7: Go ahead the Rays, sorry, and then the raise seventy

830
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 7: five wins.

831
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:06,919
Speaker 2: Yes.

832
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 6: Yeah.

833
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: That's the thing about back to Boston, man, is that

834
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: it feels like every time August, August September hit, you know,

835
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: April May they're abysmal, and then August September hits. They

836
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: go on a run and usually even the run just doesn't.

837
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 2: Matter, you know.

838
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like they you'll either maybe sneaking into the

839
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 7: wild card or they'll be like two or three games

840
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 7: out at the end of the season.

841
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 8: You know.

842
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, Jean, I think I think you're

843
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: gonna tell me what I already know about the Al

844
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: Central Man. I got the Guardians winning this thing they got.

845
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they just feel like a complete team. They

846
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 1: can hit, they can pitch. I think the Tigers are

847
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: going to be right behind them. What do you think?

848
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, I actually have Yeah, the Guardians actually had ninety wins,

849
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 7: ninety and seventy two. I mean, they are kind of

850
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 7: bringing back the same team as last year, but they

851
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 7: got on a really good role and I feel like

852
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 7: they can seriously compete, like in that division. I think

853
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 7: the Tigers, I mean, while they did get Burl Lander back,

854
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 7: you know, they did get bold As in free agency.

855
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 7: I have eighty five wins. I mean, I just they're

856
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 7: hitting is really hotter cold sometimes.

857
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

858
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 7: The Royal seventy nine and eighty three. I mean, you

859
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 7: know that team, I kind of like, besides Salvo Perez,

860
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,479
Speaker 7: you know, there's really not that many threats on that team.

861
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 7: And then the White Sox at seventy five wins. I

862
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 7: think Colston Montgomery theyre a LEFTI hitter is like, is

863
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 7: a up and coming start. Yeah, And I do think

864
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 7: the White Sox and they made that one signing with

865
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 7: that Japanese player for overseas. Yeah, and so I think

866
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 7: the White Sox will be improved, but they're they're not

867
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 7: ready to be a playoff team yet.

868
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not sure. I got a couple of

870
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: friends that are White Sox fans. Boy, they are, They're

871
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: They're getting incredibly impatient. I don't know if anybody can

872
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: be as impatient as Reds fans. But all right, man,

873
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,919
Speaker 1: last one, Al West, I think I think this one

874
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: is just sort of mailed in at this point. The

875
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: Houston Astros, they're pitching depth. They just seem to have

876
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: continuity year in and year out. I don't think the

877
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: Mariners are far off from them, but I think they'll

878
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: be second.

879
00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 2: What do you think?

880
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have I have the Astros at ninety two wins.

881
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 7: I think that, Yeah, they're bringing back not like the

882
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 7: same team, but you know they do have some you know,

883
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 7: they have Albarett, you know Alvarez, like I think they

884
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 7: have a lot of good pieces there, obviously without two

885
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 7: A as well. And then I think the Mariners will

886
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 7: be right behind them at like eighty seven or eighty

887
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 7: eight wins. I think they'll compete for a playoff spot.

888
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 7: But you know, I I don't know. They're kind of

889
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,720
Speaker 7: bringing back the same team as well. And then the Rangers.

890
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 7: I mean I think at like eighty five in the

891
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 7: seventy seven. But one team I will say about the

892
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,439
Speaker 7: Al West MIC is intriguing as the last Vegas Athletics. Yeah,

893
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 7: because they out of nowhere, you know how like when

894
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 7: they were in Oakland, they wouldn't spend any money. Yeah,

895
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:40,720
Speaker 7: and then all of a sudden they go to Vegas

896
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 7: and they're and you know, Rooker is signing a seven year,

897
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 7: eighty million dollars deal. You know, they signed that catcher

898
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 7: Kurtz to like an eight year deal. So all of

899
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 7: a sudden, the eight I think they're intriguing. I don't

900
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 7: think that, like I think they're like three or four

901
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 7: years from competing, but I do think they'll get like

902
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 7: seventy seven wins and then they an Angels MIC. I mean,

903
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 7: they're they're at a sea sixty eight wins for.

904
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 2: Me, Lordie, not even to seventy.

905
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: That's amazing, all right, Sean, we got we got like

906
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: thirty seconds Man World Series.

907
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 2: Who you got? If you had to choose right now.

908
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 7: If I choose right now, I would I would, unfortunately,

909
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 7: say the Dodgers at this point, Yeah, just because of

910
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 7: how loaded they are. They're pitching, they're hitting. I mean,

911
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 7: they get every good free agent. I just don't understand it.

912
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 7: But hopefully I'm wrong.

913
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:23,720
Speaker 4: I'm hopeful.

914
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 7: Hopefully the off season proves otherwise.

915
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 4: Yeah.

916
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely.

917
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Speaker 1: Hey Sean, thanks a lot for h for all your time, man,

918
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it, especially on the hockey stuff, because

919
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 1: we're all ignorant to this stuff down here in Cincinnati.

920
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 7: Buddy, all right, Mike, I'll talk to you later, all right,

921
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 7: all right, Hey.

922
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: No problem man, go buck guys. Yeah, that's our walking

923
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Speaker 1: sports walking sports Almanac. Sean Porter. Always happy to have

924
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: him do a school list of stuff that we're not

925
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 1: really keen to down here in Cincinnati. But when we

926
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: come back, we will talk to our residence Democrat Patrick

927
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 1: Reagan about all things percolating in politics. Mike Allen Junior

928
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 1: on News radio seven hundred WLW.

929
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 2: They were back.

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Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred WLW Mike Allen Junior Sunday Night

931
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 1: to be a round and third and headed for home, folks,

932
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: A great show tonight. Talked about the United States and

933
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: all their Olympic glory hand in Canada, the big Big

934
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: l and taking the gold medal today for the first

935
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: time since a miracle on ice. Amazing story one that's

936
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 1: been captured in the movie Miracle It is. You ever

937
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: want to feel like you want to run, you could

938
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: run through a brick wall. Listen to the coaches speech

939
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty before before that game when he says,

940
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: go out and take it from him. Ooh, I love

941
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: that anyway, Ladies and gentlemen, the United States Supreme Court

942
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,720
Speaker 1: has just handed it down, a ruling that affects your wallet,

943
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: your grocery bill, your retirement account, and more importantly, the

944
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: balance of power in Washington. In a six to three decision,

945
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: the court struck down President Donald Trump's use of emergency

946
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 1: powers to impose sweeping tariffs across the globe. And now,

947
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: before you think this is just law school seminar nonsense,

948
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: this is actually really simple. It's about who gets to

949
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:27,439
Speaker 1: tax you. Congress or the president and that's the fight.

950
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: And to help us break it all down in plane English,

951
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:34,240
Speaker 1: is our resident Democrat, my friend, your friend, our friend,

952
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: Patrick Reigan, Patrick, how the hell are you?

953
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 2: My friend?

954
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,479
Speaker 8: Well, I think in terms of talking about running through

955
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 8: brick walls, the president hit one on Friday, I think

956
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 8: it was Thursday or Friday morning when the tariff case

957
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 8: came down.

958
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 1: That was a good one, buddy, this morning, Yes, sir, No, Yeah,

959
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: the Congress it gives or excuse me, constitution gives Congress

960
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 1: the power to lay and collect duties. I felt like

961
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: that was sort of a basic premise. And if Congress

962
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 1: wants to give mister president this economic authority, the Supreme

963
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 1: Court is saying, uh, sir, we have to give you.

964
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: The Congress has to give you that authority, very very clearly,

965
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 1: and that's under the Major Questions doctrine. But Patrick, what

966
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: sort of blew me away about this? Was the Was

967
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: it one? Two three Republicans that joined the liberal justices

968
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: to strike this thing down.

969
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:31,280
Speaker 4: Two of whom he appointed.

970
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is appoint Barrett right right.

971
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: So to me, this isn't really a cartoon partisan hit

972
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: job here, like this was a serious, legitimate separation of powers.

973
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: Fight here, man, what do you what do you say

974
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: about all this first impression?

975
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 8: I guess well, number one, the real question now is

976
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 8: what do we do in terms of refunds?

977
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: And of course the Supreme Court punted, you know, they

978
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: just they can't.

979
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 4: They didn't deal with it.

980
00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 8: No, no, So it's do you go and sue stoms

981
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 8: and Border patrol that that collect tariffs and try to

982
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 8: get a refund that way, or does the Treasury Department

983
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,799
Speaker 8: set up a refund portal. It's it's really unclear, but

984
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 8: I have to admit what I absolutely loved it was

985
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 8: Governor J. B. Pritzker's response He literally sent Trump a

986
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 8: bill for the impact on Illinois families, because I mean

987
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 8: any It's like that scene in Ferris Feeler's Day Off

988
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 8: where Ben Stein goes through economics and tariffs are inflation

989
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:35,240
Speaker 8: by executive order. It's a tax on the middle class

990
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 8: because people in the middle and lower economic classes disproportionately

991
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 8: pay more of that tariff in terms of how much

992
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 8: they consume. Those at the top are kind of insulated

993
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 8: from the effects of tariffs on raising prices on things

994
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 8: like bacon, lumber, coffee.

995
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 4: But people in the middle class, we feel it.

996
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 8: So, I mean, this is a tax on America in families.

997
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 8: But the question is now, how do we handle the refund?

998
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,320
Speaker 8: And obviously the President had to crash out on national

999
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 8: television afterwards. That was a record setting press conference. And

1000
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 8: I think what's fascinating is the timing of this because

1001
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 8: Chief Justice Roberts, he's always wanted to keep the court

1002
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:25,800
Speaker 8: ever since the King versus Burwell decision came down regarding Obamacare,

1003
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 8: he's really tried to keep the Court as far away

1004
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 8: from partisan politics as possible. But the State of the

1005
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 8: Union is this Tuesday, and the case came out this Thursday,

1006
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Speaker 8: and the justices sit in front of the President during

1007
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Speaker 8: the State of.

1008
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: The Union's all I can think about right now is

1009
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:45,879
Speaker 1: waiting for Tuesday to see that.

1010
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 8: Oh, I'm not going to try to do a Trump oppression.

1011
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 8: It doesn't usually go see why. I just can't pull

1012
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 8: that one off. But I can only imagine what he's

1013
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,240
Speaker 8: going to say when he sees Justice Roberts and Justice

1014
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 8: is Barrett and Cours, which will probably get more of

1015
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,399
Speaker 8: the brunt from the crash out because he put them

1016
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 8: on the bench. But this this one, I always figured

1017
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 8: they would strike the tariffs down. It's almost like when

1018
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 8: Truman tried to nationalize the steel mills. Sometimes the president

1019
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 8: just clearly oversteps and the law he was using to

1020
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 8: justify doesn't mention tariffs. And again, it's a tax, and

1021
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 8: Congress has the taxing Authority Article one, and if Congress

1022
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 8: wants to pass the tariff, they can. And as a Democrat,

1023
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 8: I welcome the Republicans increasing prices on people if they

1024
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 8: so choose, because I'm sure it's going to be excellent politics.

1025
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: Well, I guess actually an excellent point. And again, and

1026
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: you know, as somebody is an attorney, you've been through

1027
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: law school like I have, it is so deeply frustrating

1028
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: when the Supreme Court will answer a question but then

1029
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: provide zero zero answers towards a solution, i e. In

1030
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: this case, who the hell is entitled to the money?

1031
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 8: The other the other thing is it's when companies get

1032
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 8: the refunds, they're not going to pass right on to

1033
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 8: the consumer.

1034
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 4: Right, So all the extra money we've.

1035
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 8: Been paying at the grocery store for clothing and furniture

1036
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 8: and toys at Christmas, we're not going to see that

1037
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 8: come back. And you're going to see a lot of

1038
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 8: people very angry when that realization sets in.

1039
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this, Patrick, and I guess

1040
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: to that to that point in that same vein, isn't

1041
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: what's what's the idea? You know, there was a lot

1042
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: of talk about Trump, you know, Trump inflation checks or

1043
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: excuse me, trump tariff checks going out to uh two folks.

1044
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: I mean in your mind, was that a way you know,

1045
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: his attorney's probably coming to him and going, hey, look,

1046
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: you know this might mitigate this to the point where

1047
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: you're not going to have Gorsach and Cony Veret flip

1048
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: on this. I mean, because it seems like the court

1049
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: really harved on this is a tax and people are

1050
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: entitled to their money back, but we're not going to

1051
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: tell you who those people are. Do you think that

1052
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: was seen as you know, Trump cutting these checks like

1053
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: kind of the terraff stimulus check for lack of a

1054
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: better term, is a way of mitigating this and hopes

1055
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 1: that this wasn't going to go down in flames.

1056
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 4: Not so much.

1057
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 8: I think, you know, when he ran for president the

1058
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 8: first time in twenty sixteen, he said I'm going to

1059
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 8: make We're going to build a wall and make Mexico

1060
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 8: pay for it. I think it was like the tangible

1061
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 8: version of we're going to bring back trade and make

1062
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 8: China pay for it, and by the way, here.

1063
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 4: You go, here's your refund for that.

1064
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 8: Trump Trump has a very it's it's I don't want

1065
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,919
Speaker 8: to sound rude and say simplistic, but it is a

1066
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 8: very sort of first spaghetti at the wall and if

1067
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 8: it sticks kind of way of communicating and.

1068
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 4: The we're going to build the wall and make Mexico

1069
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 4: pay for it.

1070
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Speaker 8: That's that's a line that he constantly deployed it and

1071
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 8: it resonated with people, and so I think this is

1072
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 8: sort of a it would have been a tangible way

1073
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 8: of putting in people's hands that message of well, we're

1074
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 8: going to make China pay for this, we're going to

1075
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 8: make Canada pay for that, We're going to make Mexico

1076
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 8: pay for that, and by the way, here's your check.

1077
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Speaker 8: So I think that's what that probably fed more into.

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Speaker 8: But I think from a legal standpoint, it's just frankly,

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Speaker 8: it's unclear how companies are going to get their refunds.

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Speaker 8: And these tariffs have been going on for quite a

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Speaker 8: while now, and it wasn't just Trump that did tariffs.

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Speaker 8: Biden did tariffs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's something else is it's kind of hard

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Speaker 1: for me when I go, okay, but if the Orange

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Speaker 1: guy does it, then it's you know, let's go to

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Speaker 1: the Supreme.

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Speaker 8: Court, right, right, exactly. Now, granted President Biden's were much

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Speaker 8: more targeted national security base, but but but still you

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Speaker 8: had an issue where the president was signing an executive

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Speaker 8: order or in his case, he was largely keeping some

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Speaker 8: of Trump's tariffs. But long, long story short, say the

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Speaker 8: Republicans try to bring up a vote in the House

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Speaker 8: to codify trump tariffs, you're basically writing democratic attack.

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Speaker 2: That's right there. It's time to let that go.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Patrickan, Not so much lately

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Speaker 1: or recently, but in the past, we'd heard from Democrats,

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Speaker 1: you know, stack the court.

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Speaker 2: This court is rogue. Trump owns this court.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it seems to me that that kind of

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Speaker 1: just goes out the window at this point, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: is that an argument that's just you know, can we

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Speaker 1: throw that one into the trash bile at this point?

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Speaker 8: Well, let's look back to the mechanism that puts some

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Speaker 8: of these justices on the court, and honestly, I think

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Speaker 8: almost anyone in the legal professional really the public at

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Speaker 8: large would agree that we need to do some things.

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Speaker 8: For instance, maybe some age and term limits, maybe a

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Speaker 8: code of ethics, some financial disclosures. For instance, state and

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Speaker 8: local judges here in Ohio they have to do annual

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Speaker 8: financial disclosures, they have extra cl requirements. Supreme Court justices

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Speaker 8: don't have to disclose hardly anything. You might find a

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Speaker 8: little bit out here and there, but not nearly as

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Speaker 8: much as some state and local judges. And it calls

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Speaker 8: into question the integrity of Article three the judiciary in

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Speaker 8: people's minds.

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Speaker 4: And we need that for the rule of law.

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Speaker 8: So I would say it's a confluence of many different parties.

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Speaker 8: And I'm not talking political parties. I mean between businesses

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Speaker 8: and interest organizations that influence at the court, whether it's

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Speaker 8: in the way of who gets to practice and argue

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Speaker 8: before the court, who determines which test cases make their

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Speaker 8: way up to the court, and who buys the ads

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Speaker 8: to pressure senators to vote for or against these judicial nominations.

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Speaker 8: And the other thing is most Supreme Court cases are

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Speaker 8: actually pretty one side at the law seven to a

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Speaker 8: lot of yeah, a lot of eight to one, and

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Speaker 8: nine zero. It's always those last few blockbusters at the

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Speaker 8: end that are a fairly close call in terms of

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Speaker 8: the votes. So it's and I think that what has

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Speaker 8: become so dangerous in this country is how much we

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Speaker 8: have further politicized the justice system. Obviously, people being involved

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Speaker 8: with anything is going to make it a little messy

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Speaker 8: because humans are kind of messy. But when the president

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Speaker 8: talks about the justice system like it's his personal law firm,

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Speaker 8: which he has been doing more so this term. The

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Speaker 8: first term there that was kind of like an improv situation.

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Speaker 8: This one's way different.

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's very simple reason or reasons for

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Speaker 1: why he's doing. I mean, he's just like, all right,

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Speaker 1: choose on the other foot, half fun, y'all, Like now

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Speaker 1: it's it reminds me that scene in Billy Madison where

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Speaker 1: he's he's hiding and while the kids are all playing

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Speaker 1: dodgeball outside and then he comes out and it just

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01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: catches the ball and he's like, all right, now you're

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Speaker 1: all in big, big drum like schoos on the other foot.

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Speaker 1: Like that's all I could think about. But something else, man,

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Speaker 1: It's it's sort of midterm related, and i'd be nuts

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Speaker 1: if I didn't think, because truth be told, I can't

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Speaker 1: stand this person, Steve Hilton. I can't explain it. I

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Speaker 1: don't really have a reason. I just I don't like him,

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Speaker 1: and it's one of those things.

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Speaker 8: Paris Hilton for governor. I think that would be.

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Speaker 1: A lot long, exactly, and it would be at least

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Speaker 1: more entertaining. What the hell is going on in California?

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Speaker 1: What how is an obscure sheriff and a British guy

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Speaker 1: locking out the Democrat party for governor in California.

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Speaker 8: I have a feeling there's going to there will be

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Speaker 8: some dropouts and some consolidation. Maybe new simmer Pelosi come

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Speaker 8: in and endors and we kind of get the circle

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Speaker 8: the wagons on this. I think that there is probably

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Speaker 8: a better chance of a snowball surviving h E double

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Speaker 8: hockey sticks than there is a Republican becoming governor California.

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Speaker 8: This year, we just had too many Democrats in the field.

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Speaker 8: I think another one, the mayor of San Jose, Matt Mayhon,

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Speaker 8: just got in. We just need to consolidate. It's almost

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Speaker 8: like in twenty sixteen when Cruise and Rubio and Casick

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Speaker 8: and all that bunch. They couldn't get out of their

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Speaker 8: own way to consolidate around one of them to beat

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Speaker 8: Trump in the primary any cruise through. So I just

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Speaker 8: don't see Democrats making that fatal of a mistake in California.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess relative to California, obviously, Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: is at the top of the list to be the

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Speaker 1: presidential nominee for the Democrats in twenty eight does this

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Speaker 1: I mean, we all know sort of what, whether it

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Speaker 1: be jd Vance or Marco Rubio or whoever, we all

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Speaker 1: know the attack is just going to be pointing towards

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Speaker 1: the West Coast. I mean it's going to be Dude,

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Speaker 1: look at your state. It's a disaster. You guys don't

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Speaker 1: have water and fire hydrants for fires, like I mean

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Speaker 1: the rail thing that was just a complete financial just

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Speaker 1: literally setting billions of dollars on fire. I mean, is

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Speaker 1: this just another thing where they're going to be like, dude,

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Speaker 1: you guys, you did such a terrible job that you

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Speaker 1: and Nancy Pelosi had to step into the race for

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Speaker 1: governor of California. I Mean, it just seems to me

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Speaker 1: that every single terrible thing that happens in California, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Newsom's fault or not is just going to be

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Speaker 1: turned sideways and shoved where the sun don't shine on

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Speaker 1: him in the election.

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Speaker 8: I think that what Newsom gets really right about politics

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Speaker 8: right now is he understands it's all soundbites. He understands

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Speaker 8: how to go on a podcast and do it out

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Speaker 8: with someone and it's the ooh kind of moment. I

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Speaker 8: don't know how long that. I don't know how well

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Speaker 8: that goes in a Democratic primary. I don't even know

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Speaker 8: how well it would go in a Republican primary when

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Speaker 8: because both parties have an open situation for twenty twenty

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Speaker 8: eight and I think that there is there is an

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Speaker 8: anti California bias in most of the country. And that's

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Speaker 8: why to me, I look at someone like a Pritzker

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Speaker 8: as a far more appealing candidate nationwide. I think people

1203
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:56,439
Speaker 8: don't they don't hate Illinois like they hate California. There's

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Speaker 8: just an inherent anti California bias. And another the one

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Speaker 8: to watch is John Ossoff in Georgia. Oh ye, someone

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Speaker 8: who was great at the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent and

1207
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Speaker 8: seems to be on the path to winning and the

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Speaker 8: Republicans can't get their act together.

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Speaker 4: As to home too, run against him.

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Speaker 2: That's breathtaking. And that's the thing is is you know

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Speaker 2: you and I talk, He's breathtaking.

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Speaker 4: Have you seen that job? Oh my god?

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Speaker 2: Well my thing is like me and you talked about

1214
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Speaker 2: how star down there? Yeah he.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, but he and Mayor Frye I

1216
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 1: always get them confused.

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Speaker 4: But anyway I can understand. Yeah, they look like distant cousins.

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Speaker 8: Yeah right right, like Newsome and Patrick Bateman like distant cousins.

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Speaker 1: I think that's beyond distant cousins, man. I like the

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Speaker 1: rules of attraction. I can't remember the character and that,

1221
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: but that's supposed to be patri Sean Bateman, Patrick Bateman,

1222
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: and I feel like there's one more brother that we

1223
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 1: never got the book or movie on and he ended

1224
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 1: up governor of California. But anyway, Patrick, I obviously I

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Speaker 1: can't thank you enough.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm gonna holler at you next week. We'll

1228
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Speaker 1: do this all over again, because God knows, something else

1229
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 1: will happen in politics in twenty twenty six and literally

1230
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Speaker 1: in the next week, and it'll all blow up again.

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Speaker 8: And honestly, it's just fun to call in and the

1232
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Speaker 8: two of us just shoot the you know what on

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Speaker 8: the air.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because we just do what over text message over

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Speaker 2: the week.

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Speaker 1: Now everyone else gets to hear it, and God help

1237
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Speaker 1: us both neither of us are allowed to run for

1238
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Speaker 1: president because if people get into that text thread, then

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Speaker 1: we're in We're in deep trouble.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna make the Epstein Files look like a children.

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Speaker 1: Well that's the thing is, there won't be a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of children in it. They'll just be everything else.

1243
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Speaker 1: All right, Patrick, take it easy, buddy, Thanks again, man, alright,

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Speaker 1: you too, all right, Patrick Greggan. Everybody our resident Democrat,

1245
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Speaker 1: your friend, our friend in one thousand percent, my friend. Hey,

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Speaker 1: that's it for me, folks. Stick around. You got Willy

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Speaker 1: on the Late Show tonight. I will be in next

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Speaker 1: actually not next week, but the week after that. Have

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Speaker 1: a good one, folks. Mike Allen Junior on news radio

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Speaker 1: seven hundred w BLW