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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Third hour Clay and Buck kicks off right now. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for rolling with us, everybody. We've got Bridge Colby joining,

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Speaker 2: former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Strategy and Force

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Speaker 2: Deployment at the Pentagon under the Trump administration, co founder

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Speaker 2: and principal of the Marathon Initiative. His book is Strategy

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Speaker 2: of Denial American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict,

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Speaker 2: also known as Denial.

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Speaker 3: It's not just a river in Egypt? What's going on? Bridge?

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Speaker 4: Good to have you, Hey, Buck, great to be with you.

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Speaker 2: So we got a bunch of foreign policy things. First off,

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Speaker 2: we mentioned at the top of the show. So it

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Speaker 2: looks like Kataibe Hesbaalah managed to break through our defenses

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Speaker 2: and Jordan killed a few Americans, wounded a few dozen more.

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Speaker 3: Biden does some reprisal strikes. Is this just is? And

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Speaker 3: does it stop here? What do you see happening?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean I don't. I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 4: it's looking like it's stopping. And they've done more strikes

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Speaker 4: the administration over the weekend, including against the huties, and

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Speaker 4: they're telegraphing. As Sullivan said yesterday. J Sullivan, the National

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Speaker 4: Scuit Advisor, said that they're they're going to do more strikes,

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Speaker 4: and I don't see it really changing the fundamental calculus

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Speaker 4: on the part of Iran or its proxies at this point.

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Speaker 4: I mean my view is, you know, look, they've killed Americans.

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Speaker 4: Obviously there needs to be effective reprisal, you know, kinetic,

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Speaker 4: consistent with our focus on Asia and then also financial.

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, I think we need to

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Speaker 4: ask real hard questions about why we're leaving you know,

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Speaker 4: soldiers and other personnel a kind of in these lily

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Speaker 4: pad bases, kind of like an Indian country and Syria

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Speaker 4: and Iraq, possibly even Jordan, you know, essentially as like

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Speaker 4: hostage as the fortune or a hostages escalation by Iran

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Speaker 4: and it's proxies. It just seems like a bad because

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Speaker 4: some of the critiques saying, oh, we should you know,

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Speaker 4: take it to a run. I mean, look, we don't

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Speaker 4: want a war at least not because Ron's good. We

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Speaker 4: can't really afford one on multiple levels, so you know,

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Speaker 4: we don't have enough missile defense to go around. Let's

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Speaker 4: think about rationalizing our posture there and looking at what

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Speaker 4: we really need. I mean, does the administration really have

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Speaker 4: a compelling case for what a lot of these these

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Speaker 4: soldiers and these posts are doing.

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Speaker 3: I haven't really heard it Bridge.

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Speaker 1: When you look at in addition to what's going on

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Speaker 1: in the Middle East, there's a big debate about how

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Speaker 1: much more money we should give to Ukraine. Senate Bill

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Speaker 1: out there would give them. I believe it's sixty billion

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Speaker 1: dollars more. Seems quite clear we've entered into a stalemate.

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Speaker 1: Neither side is moving very much. There's minefields, there's trench warfare.

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Speaker 1: It feels almost like the battle lines are fixed. Where

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Speaker 1: is this going? Are we throwing good money after bad

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Speaker 1: at this point, in your mind, is a negotiated piece

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Speaker 1: where Ukraine gives up some territory inevitable.

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Speaker 3: How would you assess as we begin.

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Speaker 1: Shortly a third full year of Ukraine Russia conflict.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think sixty one billion dollars that's

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Speaker 4: a lot of money, especially in a situation where I

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Speaker 4: mean J Powell I think said over the weekend that

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Speaker 4: our debt is becoming a real problem, and obviously Americans

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Speaker 4: are feeling it, and we've spent a ton of money

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Speaker 4: already in the last few years, with the pandemic and

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Speaker 4: so forth. I think that money would be far better

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Speaker 4: invested in our primary challenge, which is China Asia. And

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Speaker 4: you'll hear advocates for this kind of funding say that

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Speaker 4: we're going to deter China and Ukraine. That's just not true.

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Speaker 4: And I think, you know, we can go into why

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Speaker 4: that is. But if you're going to deter China or

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Speaker 4: in the supplemental that's going towards Asia. Representative Gallagher, the

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Speaker 4: head of the China Committee, called a joke a few

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Speaker 4: months ago. So I think our priorities are totally off.

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Speaker 4: The Europeans need to take much more responsibility, and they

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Speaker 4: are moving in that direction. They're they're actually doing more

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Speaker 4: countries like Germany. Obviously, they're very real and I think

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Speaker 4: appears Presidence Lenski is trying to fire, which seems I mean,

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Speaker 4: I'm not an expert on it, but he wrote a

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Speaker 4: last week in CNN saying, look, we should shift more

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Speaker 4: That seemed very prudent to me. Pushing the Europeans to

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Speaker 4: whether it's formal or not. You know, it could be

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Speaker 4: something like a stalemate like in Korea. If they don't

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Speaker 4: it could be worse. I mean, I don't think it's

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Speaker 4: impossible to rush. Could make more progress, which would be bad,

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Speaker 4: but I think that, you know, realistically, there's going to

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Speaker 4: of mantra that we heard for a number of years.

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Speaker 4: I mean Russia. Unfortunately, Russia is not going to go

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Speaker 4: the Ukrainians are going to have to put up a

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Speaker 4: stout defense in order to make negotiations credible and Putin's

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Speaker 4: best option, and that's going to require somebody to step up.

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Speaker 4: But it's not going to be the American taxpayer. The

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Speaker 4: American taxpayer spent I think one hundred and thirteen billion

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Speaker 4: on Ukraine already. That's way more this is in Europe,

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Speaker 4: so Europe should take primary responsibility for it.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Bridge Colby, his book is Strategy of Denial

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Speaker 2: and Bridge wondering what your your senses of the enormous

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Speaker 2: win for Bukali in El Salvador, I mean, just for

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Speaker 2: everyone out there, Kaylee turned around El Salvador from being

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Speaker 2: one of the highest per capita murder states in the

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Speaker 2: drug gangs, and through this crazy idea known as really

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Speaker 2: serious law enforcement against gangs, murderers, rapists, and thieves. He

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Speaker 2: won by ninety percent plus margins. What do you make

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Speaker 2: of the Bukale victory in El Salvador? Bridge and are

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Speaker 2: other Latin American countries' populations watching that and thinking, hey,

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Speaker 2: maybe we don't have to have like four of the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think it sounds like I haven't

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Speaker 4: A couple of things. I mean, one is, look, I

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of people, particularly in what's called

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Speaker 4: growing economies, they want reliable energy, they want government that's

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Speaker 4: should be focused on working with countries. You know, a

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Speaker 4: say the Indian government, but they're delivering growing prosperity for

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Speaker 4: well over a billion people. So I think that's a

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Speaker 4: model that Americans can get behind and less behind the

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Speaker 4: sort of lecturing everybody. And also it means that you know,

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Speaker 4: they're partners. I mean, I think one of the things

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Speaker 4: in lecturing countries. Our model should be we work with

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Speaker 3: Bridge you just mentioned China. I'm doing some fun reading

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Speaker 3: over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Japan stock market peaked in nineteen eighty nine and is

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Speaker 1: just now whatever it is thirty five years later, basically

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Speaker 1: eighty nine. And if we'd had this conversation in nineteen

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Speaker 1: a real threat on the economic horizon. Instead they collapsed.

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Speaker 1: China is starting now. You may think this is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you sign on to it a little bit to

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Speaker 3: Down, Youth unemployment rate is very high in China.

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Speaker 1: They haven't been able to really get their economy to

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Speaker 1: United States. Does that make it more or less likely

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Speaker 1: in your mind that they invade Taiwan? How would you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I mean it's a great question. I mean, look,

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Speaker 4: I don't have a crystal ball on that, otherwise I'd

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Speaker 4: But the I mean, I think, Look, I think the

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Speaker 4: very real and they're not going to go away easily.

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Speaker 4: they've got to make structural reforms that are going to

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, there's a lot of talented people there.

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Speaker 4: They've already broken They're already at the forefront of a

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Speaker 4: them competitive going forward. It's worth thinking about. You know,

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Speaker 4: Japan didn't really collapse, like there's still effective Japanese companies.

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Speaker 4: You go to Japan, it's still a very rich country.

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Speaker 4: other thing that I'm concerned about is that Chinese believe

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Speaker 4: because the other analogy to Japan is Japan nineteen forty one,

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Speaker 4: when we put an embargo on Japan without having a

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Speaker 4: So I guess my least bad option is to lash

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Speaker 1: Just set an open court. If I'm state side, it's

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I've thought this all along, that they the guidelines

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Speaker 2: They'll have this trial right leading up to the election,

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Speaker 2: Now look, I wasn't really well done. I think we've

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Speaker 3: You know they they will.

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Speaker 2: They will do whatever they have to do to elevate

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Speaker 2: anyone who they think is causing problems for Trump in

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Speaker 2: any capacity whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: This would be funny buck. I don't think he would

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Speaker 1: do it. But what if Trump just said publicly, hey,

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Speaker 1: i'll guest host SNL, he absolutely should do it. They

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Speaker 1: would never let him do it. They would not. But

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Speaker 1: if he put out the idea, you know, hey, I

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Speaker 1: saw you had Nicky Haley on Joe Biden can't read

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Speaker 1: off a teleprompter. I mean, Joe Biden trying to guest

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Speaker 1: host guestos Saturday Night Live would be incredible, riveting television

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Speaker 1: talk because he could barely do anything much less be funny.

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Speaker 3: But if Trump put it out on.

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Speaker 1: Truth Social if he just said, Hey, I saw you

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Speaker 1: had Nicky Haley on, I will guest host SNL. I

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Speaker 1: will show up in guest host love to do it

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Speaker 1: just let me know, they would would set off a

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Speaker 1: panic because they would never let him on. That all

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Speaker 1: of the left that loves SNL would talk about how

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Speaker 1: they're platforming Trump and mainstreaming his racism and sexism and xenophobia.

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Speaker 1: You know exactly. That's how it would play out. I

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Speaker 1: think it would end up being very beneficial to Trump

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Speaker 1: because it would show how far outside the mainstream his

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Speaker 1: detractors are. And I think it would play well for

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Speaker 1: him to have a little bit of fun at their

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Speaker 1: expense and basically call him out, because I think there's

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Speaker 1: no way.

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Speaker 3: They'd let him guest host.

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Speaker 2: Remember how upset they got at Jimmy Fallon, who my

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Speaker 2: understanding as recently, has gotten a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: slice of humble pie because of the way his staff

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Speaker 2: feels that from his treatment, I saw that.

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize that was a yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: Some of these guys, they managed to come across like, oh,

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Speaker 2: it's all fun and games. They're actually like everyone knew

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Speaker 2: David Letterman was a mean guy, but I didn't know

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Speaker 2: that Jimmy Fallon was considered to be a mean guy anyway,

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Speaker 2: neither to his staff at least. But remember when he

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Speaker 2: tussled Trump's hair, people were angry at. I don't just

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Speaker 2: mean a few random people on the internet. The general

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Speaker 2: Democrat cultural apparatus was angry at Jimmy Fallon because it

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Speaker 2: was a humanizing moment for Trump and made him seem

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Speaker 2: like a guy with a sense of humor about himself.

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden is an imbecile who takes himself very seriously.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump actually does have a.

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Speaker 3: Sense of humor.

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Speaker 2: He's quite funny, but he even has a sense of

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Speaker 2: humor about himself, and that's very endearing to people, and

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Speaker 2: so they recognize that even though that was just a

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Speaker 2: brief moment, it was something that's stuck with people. Nikki Haley,

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Speaker 2: by the way, also this was another moment from her appearance.

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Speaker 2: She wasn't guest hosting, but she appeared on SNL and

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Speaker 2: here she is talking about remember how she was asked

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Speaker 2: about the Civil War and didn't address slavery. This is

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Speaker 2: sixteen play.

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Speaker 6: Okay, we have time for one more question, and it's

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Speaker 6: actually four Ambassador Haley, I was.

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Speaker 7: Just curious, what would you say was the main cause

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Speaker 7: of the Civil War?

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Speaker 5: And do you think it starts with an S and

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Speaker 5: ends with a lavery?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I probably should have said that the.

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Speaker 1: First time, and live from New York, it's better to nice.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 2: Also, you and I could write a better comedy sketch

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Speaker 2: than this. That's the best that they can come up with.

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Speaker 2: The writing is just not good.

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Speaker 1: No, And I mean the problem is buck, anytime you

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Speaker 1: pull your punches in comedy, you can't be that good.

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Speaker 1: That's why South Park, I think, is the most consistently

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Speaker 1: funny show that has been on for years and years,

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Speaker 1: because to your point earlier, you have to kind of

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Speaker 1: consistently ridicule every direction, and as soon as you decide

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Speaker 1: that you're not gonna go in multiple directions in terms

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Speaker 1: of ridicule, you're not really comedy anymore. You're propaganda. And

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Speaker 1: when you become propaganda, you're often the enemy of humor.

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Speaker 1: And that is where much of comedy in America has gone.

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Speaker 1: I think comedians are afraid. I think what they have

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Speaker 1: seen happen with cancel culture means that they pull their

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Speaker 1: punches in their jokes. How many comedians out there now

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Speaker 1: get up on stage and say, hey, I'm not even

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Speaker 1: gonna allow you to have cell phones because they're afraid

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Speaker 1: of of moments going viral from their comedy sets. And

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Speaker 1: I just come back to if you get offended by

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Speaker 1: a joke, regardless of the joke, to.

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Speaker 3: Me, that's on you, right like. And I would like.

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Speaker 1: America more if we had even handed comedy like we

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Speaker 1: did in the eighties and nineties. I think people in

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Speaker 1: whole would like it. And really, what happened to late

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Speaker 1: night television We've talked about on the show. Stephen Colbert's

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Speaker 1: show stunk. He was in last place on CBS, nobody

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Speaker 1: was watching him, and then they decided, hey, we're going

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Speaker 1: to turn this into a left winging sport, I mean

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Speaker 1: a left wing comedy program, and we're just going to

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Speaker 1: ridicule Republicans, and his rating skyrocketing and then everybody else

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Speaker 1: followed him. And I think there's I mean, you've seen

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Speaker 1: with Greg Gutfeld, there's actually a huge percentage of people

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Speaker 1: out there that just kind of want to laugh. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Greg Guttfeld, Buck, It's kind of crazy. It doesn't get

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Speaker 1: enough attention. Greg guttfelds his show on Fox News has

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Speaker 1: more nightly viewers than Kimmel, than Colbert and then Foulin

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Speaker 1: on ABC, CBS and NBC. It's a pretty amazing testament

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Speaker 1: to Greg Guttfeld's reach, but also to the demand out

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Speaker 1: there that is not being sated. And by the ways

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Speaker 1: we go to break here, Buck, I want to hit

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Speaker 1: you with these numbers and we can react to him

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I've been teasing this for a while

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Speaker 1: on NBC. This is NBC News poll that came out

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Who do you trust more on border security?

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Speaker 1: Trump plus thirty five? Who do you trust more on

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Speaker 1: the economy? Trump plus twenty two.

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Speaker 4: Who do you.

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Speaker 1: Trust more on dealing with crime and violence? Trump plus

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Who do you trust more on being competent

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Speaker 1: and effective? Trump plus sixteen. Who do you trust more

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Speaker 1: on improving America's standing in the world? Trump plus eleven.

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Speaker 1: Who do you trust more on having the necessary mental

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Speaker 1: and physical health to be president? Trump plus twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Biden on protecting democracy buck only plus two. He's got abortion,

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Speaker 1: but even on protecting democracy, that's all fading. We'll react

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Speaker 1: a little bit to that when we come back, But

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Speaker 1: that to me stood out again. Dealing with the issue

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Speaker 1: of abortion. Biden plus twelve. Not even that big of

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Speaker 1: a favorite on abortion. But if you're wondering what their

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Speaker 1: method and madness is going to be in the campaign,

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Speaker 1: they basically lost the issue of Jan six. According to

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Speaker 1: this NBC poll, abortion is going to be there. But

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Speaker 1: Trump is winning every major issue by fifteen twenty even

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Speaker 1: thirty or thirty five points. Pretty extraordinary, I agree, extraordinary

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Speaker 1: stuff and important that everyone keep it in mind going forward,

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Speaker 1: and also important that uh.

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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised, but I didn't know TikTok was giving

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Speaker 3: We're not even talking about I don't know our crew.

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Speaker 1: don't know if we missed it late last week. I mean,

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Speaker 1: found to be objectionable that we say on this radio

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Speaker 1: show that they will not allow us to share on TikTok.

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Speaker 1: I think that would be illuminating to a lot of

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Speaker 1: our audience out there, because TikTok has certainly shown itself

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Speaker 1: in terms of Israel and Palestine to not exactly be a.

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Speaker 3: Fair purveyors as bad as that story.

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Speaker 2: It's as bad as Twitter was before the Elon takeover,

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Speaker 2: maybe even worse. All these social media companies are atrocious

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Speaker 2: in this regard. I know that X is not perfect,

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Speaker 2: but I'll tell you X is uh It's it's the

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Speaker 2: only wide scale, global free speech social media platform right now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Rumble does great stuff too. I have total respect

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Speaker 2: for them. Continue to build their brand and what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: And I put stuff up on Rumble. And obviously there's

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Speaker 2: truth Social, but I'm just telling you your your your

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Speaker 2: lib neighbor with dyed purple hair is not on truth social, Okay,

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Speaker 2: So you know there's there's a limitation to you know.

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Speaker 2: Whereas Truth I believe is really a trump social media platform,

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Speaker 2: Rumble is a free speech social media platform, and X

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Speaker 2: is a global free speech platform.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how all kids get information these days,

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Speaker 1: so I can only speak to what I see in

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Speaker 1: my own and the Travis household. Sixteen year old boy,

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Speaker 1: thirteen year old boy, nine year old boy. Every single

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Speaker 1: bit of media that they consume other than sitting beside

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Speaker 1: me and watching sporting events is either YouTube or it's TikTok.

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Speaker 3: I bet.

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Speaker 1: If you have a teenager or you have a teenage

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Speaker 1: grandson or granddaughter, I would bet very strongly that they

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Speaker 1: are getting most of what they see from YouTube and TikTok.

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Speaker 1: If those algorithms are not feeding them fair headlines, then

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Speaker 1: they're getting a distorted sense of reality. And that's what

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Speaker 1: I in addition to the fact that I think it's

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Speaker 1: unfortunately not great for mental health of teenagers to be

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Speaker 1: super active on social media, to me, the big issue

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Speaker 1: out there as all of this continues to play itself out,

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Speaker 1: is these kids are getting fed information that is not

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Speaker 1: algorithmically what they made would have looked up before. But

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Speaker 1: they're not getting accurate information on many different issues, and

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Speaker 1: they're getting spoon fed propaganda. And that's why I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of curious what has been banned from us being able

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Speaker 1: to share. Not that we have a monstrous audience on TikTok,

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Speaker 1: but the fact that we can say things on the

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Speaker 1: biggest radio show in the country that TikTok won't allow

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Speaker 1: to be distributed on their platform.

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Speaker 3: It is a pretty big red flag.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty It's also a little kafka esque because no

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Speaker 2: one from TikTok would ever come on and explain to

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Speaker 2: us why what we say is unaccepted. Of course, they

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Speaker 2: all hide behind the terms in service bureaucracy, same crap

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Speaker 2: they were pulling at Twitter beforehand and which all got exposed.

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Speaker 2: You know, look, Elon Musk has done a lot of

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Speaker 2: amazing things, and among the most amazing, I mean, the

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Speaker 2: putting the rockets into space that he has is probably

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Speaker 2: number one. But number two is for me trying to

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Speaker 2: save free speech in America online and showing us just

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Speaker 2: how deep the rot actually went at these social media companies,

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Speaker 2: notably Twitter, but same thing going on at YouTube, same

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Speaker 2: thing going on all these companies, and they don't plan

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Speaker 2: to stop anytime soon, and they don't feel like there's

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Speaker 2: any punishment for what they do. So be very aware

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Speaker 2: as we go into this election cycle everybody that the

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Speaker 2: digital czars of propaganda are alive and well, and they're

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Speaker 2: still trying to do everything they can to get you

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Speaker 2: to vote for very very inept Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: No doubt, And that's super important because you may well

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Speaker 1: be listening to us aware of the propaganda that's coming. Remember,

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Speaker 1: if you're eighteen years old today and you're going to

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Speaker 1: be voting for the first time, you don't really know

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Speaker 1: what happened in twenty twenty and even if you're twenty

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Speaker 1: two or twenty three, aren't aware, Here you go.

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Speaker 2: This was Trump back in twenty fifteen, when he last

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Speaker 2: time he hosted SML before he was president.

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Speaker 3: Play it.

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Speaker 5: Let me say, gentleman, Donald, it's wonderful to be here.

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Speaker 7: I will tell you this is going to be something special.

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Speaker 7: Many of the greats have hosted, as you know this show,

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Speaker 7: like me in two thousand and four. A lot of

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Speaker 7: people are saying, Donald, you're the most amazing guy. You're brilliant,

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Speaker 7: you're handsome, you're rich, you have everything going.

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Speaker 5: The world is waiting for you to be president. So

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Speaker 5: why are you hosting Saturday Night Live? Why?

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Speaker 7: And the answer is I have really nothing better to do.

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Speaker 2: Love to see him do it again. But they won't

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Speaker 2: let it happen, that's for sure. But we'll see