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Speaker 1: Hey guys.

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Speaker 2: Here we are back again on normally the show with

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Speaker 2: normalist takes for when the news gets weird.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mary Catherine.

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Speaker 3: Young and I'm Carol Markowitz.

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Speaker 2: We're getting close to election day, so we're going to

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Speaker 2: do horse race. What's going on in the horse race? Carol, Well, it's.

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Speaker 3: The top question I get from people, you know, not

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Speaker 3: even in politics. Friends of mine text and say, what

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Speaker 3: do you think is going to happen? And I think

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Speaker 3: people love this conversation. I love it less in like June,

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Speaker 3: but in October, like, let's do it, you know, why not,

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Speaker 3: Let's lean right into the numbers. And I would say,

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Speaker 3: you know today we're recording this a day in advance.

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Speaker 3: Its October twenty third. It's a Donald Trump race to lose,

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Speaker 3: and obviously anything could happen. And what I tell everybody

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Speaker 3: who texts me is it all comes down to turn

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Speaker 3: out cheesy as that may sound, but to get your

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Speaker 3: voters to the polls, and that is really the name

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Speaker 3: of the game. It doesn't matter how many amazing appearances

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Speaker 3: you have or how many celebrities come out for you.

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Speaker 3: It matters which voters show up to.

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Speaker 4: Actually cast their votes.

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Speaker 3: So looking at the real clear averages. Again, it is

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Speaker 3: very much Donald Trump's race to lose. If you look

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Speaker 3: at Michigan one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

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Speaker 3: ten polls two ties one for Harris, the rest for Trump.

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Speaker 3: And there are a range of polls, you know, the

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Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal, Quinnipiac, Rasmussen, Trafalgar. So it's not like

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Speaker 3: it's only one side or the other. It really is

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Speaker 3: a mix. And so the number one state, of course

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Speaker 3: that everybody's watching is Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, the last ten polls

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Speaker 3: have three for Harris, the rest for Trump. I think

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Speaker 3: the Trump campaign should be feeling pretty good right now. Again,

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Speaker 3: I hope that they're devoting massive resources to outreach to

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Speaker 3: get people to come vote. I think that's something that

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Speaker 3: the Democrats do very well. Republicans play a little bit

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Speaker 3: of catch up with that. But this is the first

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Speaker 3: election that I've seen Republicans take early voting very seriously. Currently,

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Speaker 3: Republicans in Florida are up on early voting, up on Democrats, which,

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Speaker 3: even though Florida is a deep red state at this point,

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Speaker 3: still is a surprising thing because Republicans tend.

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Speaker 4: Not to vote early.

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Speaker 3: They are very much the party of vote on election day.

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Speaker 3: So the fact that this is shifting is a good

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Speaker 3: thing for Republicans, and so I think, you know, Trump

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Speaker 3: campaign campaign ship feel pretty good right now.

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Speaker 2: Nevada is a place where early voting is looking extremely

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Speaker 2: good for Republicans. Now that does not mean every single

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Speaker 2: Republican who votes is not necessarily voting for Trump, but

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Speaker 2: you get a good sense of where votes are coming

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Speaker 2: from in the early voting, and what used to look

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Speaker 2: like an urban Clark County, Las Vegas firewall for Democrats

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Speaker 2: has turned into a rural firewall for Republicans from the

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Speaker 2: outlying areas of Nevada. If that pattern holds in other places,

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Speaker 2: that is not great for Democrats. Nevada is a place

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Speaker 2: where embracing early voting and looking at some early voting

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Speaker 2: data is more predictive of what might happen than other places.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to read early voting data.

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Speaker 2: So beware, but Nevada is one of the places where

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Speaker 2: the change has been most obvious. North Carolina is another

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Speaker 2: place that is really emphasizing early voting. Virginia will as well,

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Speaker 2: though that's not really a battleground state. But we have

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Speaker 2: youngkin so he's she has pushed this, so the messaging

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Speaker 2: has changed for Republicans, which it needs to. It needed

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Speaker 2: to a while ago. The other thing I wonder is

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Speaker 2: when it comes to horse race, I do think the

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Speaker 2: momentum is ticking in Trump's direction, but I use the

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Speaker 2: term ticking because it's not. It's ain't a big momentum shift, right,

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Speaker 2: So I want to be careful about taking like tiny

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Speaker 2: be honest about the fact that I've learned many times

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Speaker 2: over in the past several cycles that my predictors don't

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Speaker 2: necessarily pan out because each one of them keeps getting

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Speaker 2: ticks knocked off, And hey, you know, better to have

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Speaker 2: mo than not rights, that's.

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Speaker 1: Where you want to be.

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Speaker 3: I also think it's good that nobody's comfortable, because I

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Speaker 3: very much, not the vibe right now, and it really

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Speaker 3: depends what happens going forward and who's able to run

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Speaker 3: that gootv operation, which is what this is all about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the twenty twenty two red wave famously did not

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Speaker 2: Republicans a had these early voting and absentee voting problems

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Speaker 2: charitable candidate quality problem problems in a lot of the

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Speaker 2: Senate and House races. Senate in particular, where candidates who

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Speaker 2: voters were bringing down the whole ticket. They have a

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Speaker 2: lot fewer of those problems now, particularly in Senate races

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Speaker 2: where the candidates have been very recruited from a very

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Speaker 2: good pool, so that might matter. And then for our

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Speaker 2: normy listeners who don't pay attention to polling all the time,

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Speaker 2: one of the things about these polls that we talk

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Speaker 2: So that's one of the issues in predicting elections is

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Speaker 2: might show up. So this early voting in rural areas

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Speaker 2: might tell you, oh, yeah, they've solved this problem from

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Speaker 4: That's exactly it. Right.

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Speaker 3: Also, looking back at that midterm election, I was worried

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Speaker 3: but I was looking at this. Even even the candidates

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Speaker 3: who weren't let's say, challenged with problems, they were running

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Speaker 3: just all these like nobody votes on biography. I think

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Speaker 3: that's one of the main things. And Republicans, I feel like,

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Speaker 3: almost fall forward the biography thing a little bit too

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Speaker 3: hard because they think, like, oh, look at this candidate,

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Speaker 3: he's got all this experience. People don't really care.

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Speaker 4: They want to know what you're going to do.

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Speaker 3: And I think this election has been much more and

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Speaker 3: particularly because it's been a Biden Kamala presidency for this

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Speaker 3: whole time, where this is what we're going to do,

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Speaker 3: this is how we're going to be different, and I

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back in just a moment on normally,

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Speaker 2: here's what's going on on the trail in Detroit yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I'll hand it to the Kamala Harris campaign for having

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Speaker 2: a pretty cool event. This is one of those events

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Speaker 2: that this is Democrat privilege.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: You get the big stars, you get at the rallies,

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Speaker 2: you get Megan, these Stallon Stallion concerts, and.

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Speaker 1: You can promise people Beyonce's going.

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Speaker 4: To show up.

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Speaker 2: But I will never stop talking about her. I will

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Speaker 2: never stop talking about how she didn't show up. But

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Speaker 2: in this case, someone did show up. Eminem came to

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Speaker 2: a Detroit rally last night. He doesn't come out a lot,

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Speaker 2: certainly for this kind of thing. And then he was

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Speaker 2: followed by the act of former President Barack Obama. And

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Speaker 2: let's just play a little bit about from Obama from

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Speaker 2: this rally.

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Speaker 6: I gotta say, you know, I have done a lot

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Speaker 6: of rallies, so I don't usually get nervous, but I

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Speaker 6: was feeling some kind of way following Eminem. Now I

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Speaker 6: notice my palms are sweating these week as a heaven

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Speaker 6: my sweater runner, Mom Spagetti, I am a surface, not

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Speaker 6: a tomb and run.

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Speaker 1: It for drop bomb, Okay, we get it.

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Speaker 4: Me for Phone.

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Speaker 6: I was gonna jump out.

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Speaker 1: You know, as you know, Carol, his sticks not for me.

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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not the honest, but I enjoyed the

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Speaker 2: beginning of that.

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Speaker 1: I think I would have cut it a little sooner.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he just de helps himself so much. It's so obvious.

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Speaker 3: He's like, I am the best.

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Speaker 1: Look at me, go, He's really I could.

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Speaker 4: Do that wrap okay, and does so.

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Speaker 2: He was really feeling himself as as he often does.

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Speaker 1: But what do you think about the celebrity gatherings? Do

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Speaker 1: they work?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I don't think they work, but you know, whatever, again,

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Speaker 3: good for them. I used to have a thing on

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Speaker 3: my blog, which is how I got into this business.

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Speaker 3: I had a blog, and I used to have a

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Speaker 3: thing Eminem is a Republican, and I would be like,

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Speaker 3: Eminem's a Republican exhibit one, but one hundred, Like I

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Speaker 3: had a whole bunch of these, because he's so obviously

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Speaker 3: it appears twenty years later he still has no idea.

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Speaker 1: I have to look this up. I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: About this is unfortunately offline. I wish, I wish I

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Speaker 3: things like you'd make comments and I'd be like, that's

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Speaker 3: because you're a Republican, Like.

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Speaker 1: You know, well what it is.

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Speaker 2: It is funny to watch people like him, funny slash

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Speaker 2: weird to watch people like him and Howard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just line up at the mic to be like

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Speaker 2: I used to tell you should distrust, you need to

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Speaker 4: Right right.

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Speaker 3: I support them, and.

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Speaker 2: I understand that Democrats still retain some of this like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, but don't know where it comes

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're very much the We literally have a

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Speaker 2: One last thing, Carol, have you heard that Harris herself

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she has this whole thing where Donald Trump is

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Speaker 3: too old and he's getting tired, and like he's out

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Speaker 3: there all the time talking to everybody. There's a story

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Speaker 3: right now that he's gonna he's going to be doing

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Speaker 3: the Joe Rogan show that you and I talked about

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Speaker 3: in previous episodes, where you know, Kamala Harris was rumored

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Speaker 3: to do it, but like Beyonce never came out. Let's just.

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Speaker 2: He beat her to McDonald's. He beat her to Joe Rogan.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to beat her to booking Beyonce,

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Speaker 2: but know, but he.

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Speaker 3: Could book he could Yeah, he could just say he's

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Speaker 3: bringing out Beyonce and never bring around Yeah. Right, So

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Speaker 3: fine with that, that's fine. But at the same time,

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Speaker 3: saying that Trump isn't working hard enough or he's lost

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Speaker 3: a step, I mean, come on.

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Speaker 2: Well, each of them is. Campaigns are going to shift quickly.

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Speaker 2: There looked like there was one gun on that in

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Speaker 3: Very similar vibes there. It just all around. I think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is actually like I do occasionally rant about

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Speaker 1: Never grilled try to grill yes, right, and they screw

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Speaker 2: They're always like they just took an apron out of

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Speaker 1: Wrong, you're not going to kill anyone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I would just say they need to take

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's absolutely right. But what's so interesting about

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Speaker 2: It's like, yes, okay, like I guess, I guess there

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Speaker 5: Hope and expectation. I see our very youngest attendee back there.

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Speaker 5: thank you for everything you've done to get us here

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Speaker 2: Place twenty thirty sure, fact check, this will not happen, ever,

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Speaker 2: By the way, we're actually high speed rail has been

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Speaker 1: So in California, let me just read you.

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Speaker 2: This is a twenty twenty four story from Reason magazine,

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Speaker 1: Hire thing that since two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 3: Polymat said counterpoint. When I wrote the tweet below, I

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Speaker 4: Not have a high speed rail.

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Speaker 2: You can just look at the evidence before you, more

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Speaker 1: Carol was in charge of a rural broadband program.

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Speaker 2: to lead the administration's forty two billion dollar plant forty

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Speaker 2: Today Today, Today, nearly three years after Congress hass the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know the forty billion. Do we still

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Speaker 1: No, it's it's crazy and some of the reasons for

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Speaker 2: So of course, in California, the high speed rail problem

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Speaker 3: Also, California has that weird thing where years ago, I

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Speaker 4: So I think they just are.

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Speaker 3: Probably still working on putting all the labels on all

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Speaker 3: the high speed internet this might cause cancer, and that

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Speaker 3: takes a.

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Speaker 4: While, America.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't take a while, you know, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, like people drive to western North Carolina with a

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Speaker 2: Starlink in their trunk for two hundred and fifty bucks

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Speaker 2: and they're like, let's just let's hook up some broadband.

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Speaker 2: I should note, and I think we noted it before,

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Speaker 2: that Elon Musk's Starlink has been refused some federal contracts

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Speaker 2: based on the idea that it's not fast enough service. Right,

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Speaker 2: And I would just say that forty two billion dollars

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Speaker 2: in three years later.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it is fast enough, so let's just take it.

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Speaker 3: Let's just you know, slow internet whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it might do the track well.

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