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Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: fun show today with a happy warrior, A good friend

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Speaker 1: join us, a man that you know from probably going

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Speaker 1: viral on CNN. Scott Jennings is going to join us

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Speaker 1: to talk about a really cool book he's written where

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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: We have a terrific guest on our show today, Scott Jennings,

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Speaker 3: the intrepid conservative warrior who goes on CNN every day.

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Speaker 3: He battles the crazy comedies on CNN. He does so

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Speaker 3: He absolutely dominates the lefties. And he's written a brand

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Speaker 3: new book and the book is entitled A Revolution of

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Speaker 3: Common Sense How Donald Trump stormed Washington and fought for

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Speaker 3: Western civilization. Here's the book. I would encourage you go

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Speaker 3: by it. And we're going to talk to Scott right

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Speaker 3: now about this book and about battling for truth and

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Speaker 1: All right, it's really fun on Verdict when we get

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Speaker 1: to take a moment to have a good friend on

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Speaker 4: Cenator. You're in Washington, d C. I'm obviously in Houston.

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Speaker 4: This man.

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Speaker 1: I get to do battle with the comedies on CNN.

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Speaker 1: Often they've stopped putting us together. I think that's on purpose.

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Speaker 1: I think they didn't like it was an unfair fight.

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Speaker 1: When you have the brilliant brain of Scott and then

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Speaker 1: you know I'm there as well. I'm not saying I'm brilliant,

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Speaker 1: but I'm saying it's a nice duo here.

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Speaker 4: But it's really fun.

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Speaker 1: To have Scott Dinnings with us on the podcast where

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Speaker 1: a really cool book he has put out.

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Speaker 3: Well, Ben, I will say, you spent seven years battling

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Speaker 3: the comedies on CNN and then I love you man,

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Speaker 3: But you ran scared for the hills. Ah.

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Speaker 4: You came to the.

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Speaker 3: Safe confines of the Verdict podcast swhere. Other than some

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Speaker 3: ridicule about old miss and you used to have a

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Speaker 3: football coach. Other than that, you avoid any confrontation.

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Speaker 1: Yes, outside of that, I'm Switzerland, as you put it, sir,

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Speaker 3: So and I will say Scott Jennings has joined us.

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Speaker 3: I got to tell you Scott is on CNN now.

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Speaker 3: He is battling with these Bolshevik idiots and I actually

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Speaker 3: the clips on Twitter. I'll confess I do not watch CNN,

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Speaker 3: is so all right. And let's be clear. Why is

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Speaker 3: the book. So it is eleven forty three at night.

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Speaker 3: This poor man has to get up at four in

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Speaker 3: He is here for one reason only. It's not that

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Speaker 3: Here because he is selling a damn book.

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Speaker 4: So it's a good one.

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Speaker 3: It's a good So his book is a revolution of

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Speaker 3: common sense, how Donald Trump stormed Washington and fought for

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Speaker 3: Western civilization. And there's a great picture of Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: and a bright red tie. So go buy his book.

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Speaker 3: His book is on Amazon, It's on Barnes and Noble.

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Speaker 3: I feel confident you can get it. And any place

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Speaker 3: books are sold, yes, sir, other than a lefty bookstore

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Speaker 3: in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they will not have this book, but

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Speaker 3: they will have how to be a transgender Witch and

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Speaker 3: study Marxism. So if you want that book, go to

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Speaker 3: that bookstore. But anywhere else you can get a revolution

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Speaker 3: and common sense. Scott, Welcome to Verdict.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me on, and it's a true story

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Speaker 5: about the bookstores. We've been setting up book tour events

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Speaker 5: these people want to buy you a couple hundred books,

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Speaker 5: and we've been hung up on We've been told no.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm like literally trying to filter, you know,

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Speaker 2: Bookstore, and they literally won't do it.

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Speaker 5: And so we talk about these lefties constantly complaining about

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Speaker 2: The only one I ever.

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Speaker 2: It would carry it, all right.

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Speaker 3: So how did you come? How did you start to be?

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Speaker 3: And Sea tell us the start of how this began.

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Speaker 5: I did it. It was very part time. But then in

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Speaker 2: So I've been a long time.

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Speaker 1: Scott, I want to ask you real quick about this book.

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Speaker 1: And the cool part about this book is a lot

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Speaker 1: of people write books, but one of the things is

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Speaker 1: you actually talked to the White House the President about

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I went to see him in February. You know

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Speaker 5: so I went to pitch a president on it. Truthfully,

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Speaker 5: I didn't really know him. I talked about him a lot,

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Speaker 2: And so we discussed it. He agreed.

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Speaker 3: I was, so, what are the biggest ticket issues from

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Speaker 5: Well, at number one, I thought the volume of executive

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Speaker 2: To immigration is a big issue in this book.

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Speaker 2: And probably his biggest success, and it's the biggest promise.

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Speaker 5: And they're all sort of worked together to overwhelm you.

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Speaker 5: Spending time observing him with the team, he got the

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Speaker 3: And they had spent four years thinking about exactly what

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Speaker 2: There's so much we don't know where to start. That

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Speaker 5: He overwhelmed the forces that normally try to engulf and

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Speaker 3: So you and I met twenty five years ago when

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Speaker 3: So if you remember, in two thousand and one, George W.

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Speaker 3: They're repealing regulations, they're implementing policies that the media are

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Speaker 3: Do you see that on a daily basis?

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Speaker 5: Yes, I mean every day you're going to get some

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Speaker 5: So I showed up over there this afternoon and for

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Speaker 2: This is crazy.

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Speaker 5: And so yes, they have to pick something and try

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Speaker 2: And that's so.

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Speaker 3: Tell me, do you think it is a good political

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Speaker 3: and if you elect us, the Democrats, we will bring

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Speaker 3: MS thirteen to your neighborhood. Like, help me explain, Help

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Speaker 5: I'm only moderately good at math. But no, I don't

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Speaker 5: I also think they're doing it again on this narco

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Speaker 3: You look at the loud style fasherman. Fisherman don't have

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Speaker 5: And also threatening these I mean essentially that like Mark

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Speaker 5: that's what they're It's all about throwing sand in the gears,

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Speaker 3: They're the party of hate, Like the unifying theme of

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Speaker 2: I agree with you.

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Speaker 3: And if you look at the two parties, one part

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Speaker 3: every issue that's eighty twenty. Yes, they went across the

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Speaker 3: Like those are mainstream, middle of the road positions. Those

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Speaker 3: that are extreme? Well, he's deporting illegal aliens, you know,

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Speaker 5: Well, it's very simple fear, and they operate out of fear.

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Speaker 3: Their words, Yeah, their words.

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Speaker 5: So they're using the language of the French Revolution to

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Speaker 3: That would be a ninety ten okay, that don't disintegrate

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Speaker 5: There may be a dark niche corner of the Internet

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Speaker 5: that takes the other side of the toilet issue. But

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Speaker 4: Scott. I want to ask you your question.

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Speaker 3: Quick as side hold on part of Verdict is bringing

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Speaker 3: you inside the Senate. So I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 3: a funny story. So when the Democrats, when Harry Reid

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Speaker 3: had the majority, just off the Senate floor, there is

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Speaker 3: a restroom that is the senator's restroom, and when the

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Speaker 3: Democrats took over, they replaced the toilet paper with little

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Speaker 3: square strips of Kleenex. And it was the most frustrating.

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Speaker 3: I assume it's some lefty environmentalist idea that like a

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Speaker 3: tiny little like four by four square is what you

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Speaker 3: would pull off one at a time. And it was infuriating.

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Speaker 3: And that's what the.

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Speaker 1: Democrats are saving the environment, sir, You were saving the

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Speaker 1: environment one square at a time.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: So when we retook the Senate in twenty fourteen, Richard

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Speaker 3: Shelby became the chairman of the Rules Committee, Republican from Alabama.

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Speaker 3: Richard is a good guy. It's good friend, and I'm

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Speaker 3: on the rolls Committee. I came to Richard. I said, okay, Richard,

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Speaker 3: I got a simple request, and could you put some

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Speaker 3: friggin toilet paper in the restroom that actually works? And

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Speaker 3: like two weeks later, I go to the restroom and

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Speaker 3: there's a roll of toilet paper there, and I will confess.

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Speaker 3: I went to Richard. I said, Richard, I've got your

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Speaker 3: reelection campaign slogan. You need to make a bumper sticker

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Speaker 3: right now, Richard Shelby, he gets shipped done.

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Speaker 2: And I will confess.

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Speaker 3: Even when Schumer took over, he did not return to

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Speaker 3: the little squares of paper and it remains remains fixed

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Speaker 3: to this day. But why is that complicated? And yet

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Speaker 3: for the Democrats? Like, all right, is there any person

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Speaker 3: on earth that does not hate a paper straw that

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Speaker 3: disintegrates in your mouth and doesn't actually serve the function

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Speaker 3: of taking the liquid in your cup?

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Speaker 1: All right, So you're gonna as The only one I

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Speaker 1: hate more than that is the bamboo straw that cracks

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Speaker 1: every single time.

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Speaker 5: The paper straw story, which I tell in the book.

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Speaker 5: Actually I was in the Oval office today he signed

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Speaker 5: the executive.

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Speaker 2: Order on paper straws. It.

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Speaker 5: It was something funny actually when I was in there,

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Speaker 5: like some aid came in. He said, mister President, I

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Speaker 5: just found out they're still using paper straws in the

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Speaker 5: White House.

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Speaker 2: Mess He said something like, well, I guess they still

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Speaker 2: had a few left over, you know, from Biden or whatever.

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Speaker 5: But I tell the story of that paper straw because

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Speaker 5: it's it's even more absurd than you think. Number One,

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Speaker 5: they got the idea for paper straws because like a

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Speaker 5: little kid gave a school report one day claiming that

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Speaker 5: Americans were using like tens of millions of plastic straws

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Speaker 5: and they were going in the ocean.

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Speaker 2: It was completely fabricated.

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Speaker 5: And then the other thing about paper straws is that

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Speaker 5: they actually contain lots of these like chemicals and plastics

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Speaker 5: in the paper straws that you ingest because they dissolve

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Speaker 5: in the water. So it's terrible for you and it's

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Speaker 5: terrible for the environment.

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Speaker 3: I haven't heard that, but I can believe that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and so.

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Speaker 5: But because this kid one day in his like elementary school,

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Speaker 5: gave some report about supposed plastic straws in the ocean,

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Speaker 5: Democrats adopted this cause of banning plastic straws. And Donald Trump.

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Speaker 5: It took Donald Trump winning an election to finally bring.

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Speaker 3: Back all right, So let me ask you, it's amazing

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Speaker 3: a decade from now now, what is going to be

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Speaker 3: the legacy of Donald J. Trump. What are people going

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Speaker 3: to remember from the Trump presidency?

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Speaker 5: Broad macro foreign policy wins, bringing peace to all the

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Speaker 5: corners of planet Earth. I think he has been the

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Speaker 5: most consequential foreign policy.

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Speaker 3: So why what has But I agree with you, But

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Speaker 3: what has been consequential? What has mattered?

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Speaker 5: Well, what has mattered is you now have a strong

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Speaker 5: American president who's willing to engage. I mean, this was

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Speaker 5: the great failing of Biden. He was weak, and he

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Speaker 5: was indecisive, and he didn't fundamentally believe in engagement. And

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Speaker 5: they didn't trust him. The other players on the board

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Speaker 5: didn't trust him, and they didn't really care what he

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Speaker 5: had to say, and so he weren't afraid of him. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and that's a dangerous thing. I think our enemies should

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Speaker 5: be afraid of the commander in chief. And I will

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Speaker 5: tell you.

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Speaker 3: I talk with our allies, I talk with with our adversaries,

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Speaker 3: and our enemies are afraid of Donald J. Trump. That's

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Speaker 3: a good thing. I want Iran afraid of Trump. I

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Speaker 3: want North Korea afraid of Trump. I want Venezuela afraid

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Speaker 3: of Trump. I want Cuba afraid of Trump. I want

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Speaker 3: China afraid of Trump. And look, it goes back to

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Speaker 3: when Reagan was president. The philosophy of peace through strength,

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Speaker 3: that is what Trump is implementing. And I will say

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Speaker 3: there's a debate in our policy, in our party. There

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Speaker 3: are some who are arguing, oh, Trump is an isolationist.

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Speaker 3: He's never been an isolation never. He's not interested in

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Speaker 3: extending in unnecessary foreign wars. And I agree with him

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Speaker 3: in that, and he has been ending wars, which is

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Speaker 3: the right thing. But look, he stands up to our

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Speaker 3: enemies in one of the great faults. Both the isolationists

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Speaker 3: left and the isolationists right believes that if you don't

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Speaker 3: engage with your enemies, it will produce peace. History stands

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Speaker 3: to the contrary. I pointed out there's a reason nobody

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Speaker 3: studies at the Nevill Chamberlain School of Foreign fiew like

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Speaker 3: appeasement doesn't work. And if you want to avoid war,

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Speaker 3: the best way to do it is to be so

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Speaker 3: strong that your enemies are terrified as screwing with you.

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Speaker 3: And Trump is doing a fabulous job of doing that.

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Speaker 3: And the difference between Biden and Trump is weakness versus strength,

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Speaker 3: and weakness produces war and strength produces peace.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this will be an enduring legacy for him.

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Speaker 5: And you know, we talk about war and peace a lot,

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Speaker 5: and that's the phrase we may just talk about peace

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Speaker 5: and war because he is a peace president, yes, and

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Speaker 5: he's for smart engagement, but he's not for adventurism.

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Speaker 2: I think that's one. Number two.

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Speaker 5: I mean, clearly he showed us how to enforce current

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Speaker 5: immigration laws. That's a legacy. And number three, I think

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Speaker 5: what they're doing on AI actually putting the United States

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Speaker 5: in the position to win the AI race, to produce

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Speaker 5: enough energy to win it. That is going to be

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Speaker 5: talked about ten, fifteen, twenty years from today. Did we

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Speaker 5: do what we had to do to defeat China? I

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Speaker 5: think we are. I think most of our tech companies

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Speaker 5: think we are. And so if that comes to pass,

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Speaker 5: those are three pretty great legacies.

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Speaker 3: So let's talk about the third one for a second.

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Speaker 3: So on AI. AI is an issue I care about

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Speaker 3: a lot, and I agree with you that we are

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Speaker 3: in a race. AI is coming and either the United

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Speaker 3: States is gonna win or China's gonna win. And I

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Speaker 3: think the world is much much worse off if China wins,

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Speaker 3: and it's much better off of America wins. I will

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Speaker 3: tell you the polling on AI is terrible. AI is

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Speaker 3: unpopular in America. If you do almost any polling. I

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Speaker 3: use it's about seventy thirty. People are terrified. They're afraid

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Speaker 3: they're going to lose their jobs. They don't trust it,

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Speaker 3: they're scared of it. And I get that, And in fact,

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Speaker 3: I talk with a lot of the tech leaders and

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Speaker 3: I say, look, if you don't engage on this issue,

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Speaker 3: the easy political outcome. Every Democrat and a number of

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Speaker 3: Republicans are like, AI is horrible, We oppose it, and

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Speaker 3: that if you look at the polling, that's that's the

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Speaker 3: knee jerk response. I get that fear. I understand anytime

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Speaker 3: you have economic disloke, it is frightening, it is dangerous.

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I'm not a lot.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you can stop technological advancement. I'll give

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Speaker 3: you an example. If I could right now destroy every

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Speaker 3: cell phone in America, I would. I think these are

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Speaker 3: evil portals to everything harmful in the world. All three

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Speaker 3: of us are parents. These things invite every horrible force

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Speaker 3: to our children. But we don't live in that world.

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Speaker 3: We can't end that. I'd also like a world with

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Speaker 3: no nuclear weapons. Like if I could push a button

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Speaker 3: and every nuclear weapon disappear, I would, But we don't

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Speaker 3: live in that world. And if we're going to live

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Speaker 3: in a world with nuclear weapons, I sure want to

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Speaker 3: make sure the United States has enough that China and Russian,

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Speaker 3: our enemies, can't dominate US. I view AI in the

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Speaker 3: same world, even if you don't want it to happen.

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Speaker 3: It is coming, and one of two outcomes will occur

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Speaker 3: in five to ten years. Either China will have won

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Speaker 3: the race, in which case AI worldwide will reflect China's

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Speaker 3: values will be totalitarian, controlling will be censoring, will reflect

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Speaker 3: the values of communists China, or America will have one,

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Speaker 3: in which case, hopefully AI will reflect American values of freedom,

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Speaker 3: free enterprise, free speech. That is a massive shift between

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Speaker 3: those two worlds. World two is much better, where America wins.

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Speaker 3: Two questions. Number one, do you agree with that? And

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Speaker 3: number two? If so, how does the politics change? Do

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Speaker 3: you agree with my point that right now the politics

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Speaker 3: is against AI and that is dangerous?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I agree.

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Speaker 5: First of all on point one. I agree with everything

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Speaker 5: you said about which world we want to live in.

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Speaker 5: Number two, I agree with you on the polling, and

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Speaker 5: I think people have a healthier fear of how this

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Speaker 5: is going to upend their life and reasonable and which

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Speaker 5: is a reasonable fear? And so the next iteration of

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Speaker 5: this march towards AI is going to have to be

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Speaker 5: not how it's going to make your life worse?

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Speaker 2: How's it going to make your life better?

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Speaker 5: How is any other technological evolution all stimately made your

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Speaker 5: life better? And so that explanation has to come. And

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Speaker 5: then point four is just going to be how are

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Speaker 5: we going to power it all? And you know, are

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Speaker 5: we going to be able to produce enough energy to

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Speaker 5: do what we have to do now?

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Speaker 2: Plus what we.

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Speaker 3: Have to do AI is energy, and if we don't

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Speaker 3: not leash energy, we cannot win the race FRAEI.

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Speaker 5: One other issue on this that is on my mind

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Speaker 5: is how are we going to build enough of these

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Speaker 5: data centers to win this thing? I'm noticing in local

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Speaker 5: communities in a lot of places, folks are like rising

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Speaker 5: up against data center development.

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Speaker 3: So the polling is terrible in most communities. But I

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Speaker 3: will say, by the way, one of the few exceptions

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Speaker 3: is sort of West Texas. You've got West Texas in

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Speaker 3: the Panhandle and you're seeing a ton of data centers

661
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Speaker 3: come in there, and Texans are like, all right, we

662
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Speaker 3: want jobs, we want investment. We want billions in investment,

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Speaker 3: and there'll be jobs for construction, there'll be jobs for

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Speaker 3: running the data centers. Look, I think in dense urban

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Speaker 3: areas people are afraid. They're afraid it will suck power,

666
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Speaker 3: it will drive up their electricity prices, it will suck water,

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Speaker 3: And I get those fears. Look, anyone, if you're given

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Speaker 3: a choice, do you want something that will make your

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Speaker 3: life worse or better? People are naturally going to say,

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Speaker 3: I don't want something that makes my life worse. And so.

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Speaker 1: I think the guy by the way, Sentata, I had

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Speaker 1: a guy the other day that said to me in

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Speaker 1: the AI industry, he said, the hardest part for them

674
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Speaker 1: now is overcoming what you're describing, because he said they're

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Speaker 1: polling that internally says that the fear and a lot

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Speaker 1: of parts of the country right now are at the

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Speaker 1: level of where they were with nuclear reactors back in

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Speaker 1: the eighties.

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Speaker 3: Yes, interesting now, and there's been a lot of demagoguay

680
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Speaker 3: and but there's also the demagoguery is there. But I

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Speaker 3: will say the fears of AI are real and justified.

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Speaker 3: And all right, Look, with every great technological change, there's

683
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Speaker 3: been economic dislocation. So when the automobile was invented, the

684
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Speaker 3: horse and buggy industry was decimated, and if you were

685
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Speaker 3: in the buggy business, you were screwed. The difference with

686
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Speaker 3: AI is twofold. Number One, the volume is greater. I

687
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Speaker 3: think there are going to be more jobs that are

688
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Speaker 3: going to be threatened by AI than have been in

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Speaker 3: previous technological innovations. Number two, it's a different contour of jobs.

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Speaker 3: So often in the past it's been blue collar jobs

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Speaker 3: that have been at risk. Many of the jobs that

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Speaker 3: are at risk with AI are white collar jobs. There

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Speaker 3: if you look at Mondami, part of what elected Mandami

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Speaker 3: is you have young college graduates who have two hundred

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars in college debt who were told I can

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Speaker 3: go and be an investment banker, a consultant, or an accountant,

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Speaker 3: and they're seeing those jobs being eliminated as AI is

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Speaker 3: replacing thousands and thousands of those jobs. That's a level

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Speaker 3: of I guess I would call elite discontent that is

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Speaker 3: politically complicated and so and I get those concerns are

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Speaker 3: very real. If you've gone and worked hard, and you've

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Speaker 3: got a degree, and you took out loans and you

703
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Speaker 3: were told this is what I got to do, and

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Speaker 3: then suddenly you come out and you can't get a job,

705
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Speaker 3: you're pissed like. That's a very real concern. And so

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Speaker 3: I actually think as policy makers, as people in an

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Speaker 3: elected office, we need to have real solutions to that

708
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Speaker 3: problem because that disc content is not illegitimate, but it

709
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Speaker 3: is driving much of this resistance, and it's a very

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Speaker 3: real battle.

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Speaker 5: We've got, well and you have now, for you know,

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Speaker 5: many years, people teaching their children here's the course you

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Speaker 5: got to get on. If you well in school, go

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Speaker 5: to college, you can get one of these white collar jobs.

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Speaker 5: And you know, for you know, a few generation we've

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Speaker 5: been telling people this is the path. It may not

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Speaker 5: be the path anymore. We're going to have to reorient

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Speaker 5: how we're educating kids, what we're teaching them to do,

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Speaker 5: What other skills can we teach them to do. I

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Speaker 5: agree with you on the white collar versus blue collar issue.

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Speaker 5: Also creatives, I mean I speaked out. I've seen Ai

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Speaker 5: apps and a matter of seconds write songs that sounded

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Speaker 5: like they had a whole team of musicians and writers

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Speaker 5: over weeks putting them together in California, And it literally

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Speaker 5: happened on my phone in a matter of seconds.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I'll tell you in politics, it's interesting.

727
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Speaker 3: I'll pull up AI and I'll ask something like, what

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Speaker 3: has Cruz said on the following issue? And listen, I've

729
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Speaker 3: been doing this a long time, so I don't remember

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Speaker 3: every comment I've given in every newspaper interview ten years ago,

731
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Speaker 3: and in like four seconds it comes out with he

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Speaker 3: said this here, he said this here, and it like

733
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Speaker 3: traces and it's like.

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Speaker 4: It's insane.

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Speaker 3: It is insane. The ability of power you have on

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Speaker 3: your cell phone.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean, and it's basically free. I mean

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Speaker 5: information for the first time in human history is basically

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Speaker 5: accessible to all and free to all and instant. And yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's I can see why the pulling on this is bad. Now,

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Speaker 5: the positive outlook here is how can we use these

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Speaker 5: tools to make your life easy, make you more productive,

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Speaker 5: and maybe make you more economically successful. Maybe you haven't

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Speaker 5: conceived of how that will work yet, but that's the

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Speaker 5: challenge of these companies that are developing the technology.

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Speaker 3: Well, in past, technological inventions that have increased productivity have

747
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Speaker 3: created brand new jobs, created grand, brand new focuses, and

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Speaker 3: so dislocation doesn't mean that people lose jobs forever. But

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Speaker 3: it is complicated. All right. Let me ask you this. Yep,

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Speaker 3: you're listening to this podcast right now. You're trying to

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Speaker 3: decide do I buy Scott Jennings' book. What's the sixty

752
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Speaker 3: second pitch for why you right now should go on Amazon.

753
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Speaker 3: As you're listening to this, click on and buy the book.

754
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Speaker 3: What's the most powerful reason to buy the book?

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Speaker 5: Because most of the political narrative and information narrative you

756
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Speaker 5: get on Trump, I think is totally misguided.

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Speaker 2: A lot of it's false.

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Speaker 5: This is a true inside account of how Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: retook power, what he did with that power, how he

760
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Speaker 5: overcame the interest to execute on the promises that he made.

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Speaker 5: I think you'll see some eye popping quotes in here

762
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Speaker 5: from people like Marco Rubio, Scott Bessen, and Elon Musk,

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Speaker 5: who I interviewed on his one hundred and first day

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Speaker 5: in office, and I could tell by the way he

765
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Speaker 5: was bent out of shape that day and really worried

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Speaker 5: about the future of Western civilization. I didn't know he

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Speaker 5: was going to have his dramatic momentary break.

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Speaker 3: But how quickly after your interview did that happen?

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Speaker 2: Just a couple of weeks. Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was day one oh one, and of course he

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Speaker 2: got been out of shape.

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Speaker 3: So I was actually sitting in the Oval office when

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Speaker 3: Elon like really unloaded on Trump and unloaded on Twitter,

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Speaker 3: and it was I will say, I was having a

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Speaker 3: meeting with Trump on school choice, where I had brought

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Speaker 3: Byron Donald's and Burgess Owen's in and We're in the

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Speaker 3: middle of the one big, beautiful bill, and I was

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Speaker 3: trying to make the case, mister President, there's nothing we

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Speaker 3: can do that's more important in this bill than school choice.

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Speaker 3: This will be a legacy. I said, if we get

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Speaker 3: this done, you will go down in history. Your critics

783
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Speaker 3: will never acknowledge this, but you will go down in

784
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Speaker 3: history as the greatest civil rights president of our lifetimes.

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Speaker 3: We ended up getting it done, so we adopted the

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Speaker 3: school choice provision that I wrote. But in the middle

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Speaker 3: of that meeting, as I'm pitching it to Elon sent

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Speaker 3: I will say his most aggressive tweet against Trump. And

789
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Speaker 3: so Trump is actually not on his phone a ton.

790
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Speaker 3: So when you're in the Oval, they will print out

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Speaker 3: tweets on a piece of paper and they will hand

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Speaker 3: it to him, and they handed it to him, and look,

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Speaker 3: Elon is a very good friend. President Trump is a

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Speaker 3: very good friend. I will say when that particular tweet

795
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Speaker 3: came out, he was pissed and our meeting was done.

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Speaker 3: We were there for another half hour, but our discussion

797
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Speaker 3: topic was gone because he was like unloading. So it

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Speaker 3: was And I'm very glad I spent a lot of

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Speaker 3: time with both President Trump and Elon. I'm very glad

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Speaker 3: that that acrimony has diminished substantially in that they've come

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Speaker 3: back together, because I think they're both incredibly important leaders

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Speaker 3: for the country, and I think we're better off if

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Speaker 3: they're rowing together than if they're antagonist.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the day that they had their break, I was

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Speaker 5: on CNN when it happened. I picked up a garbage

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Speaker 5: can and I put my head in it live on

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Speaker 5: the air to mimic how I thought all Republicans were feeling.

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Speaker 5: Because when they joined forces, yes, they worked together to

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Speaker 5: do nothing less than begin the process of saving the West.

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Speaker 3: Amen.

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Speaker 5: If we had not won the November twenty twenty four election,

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Speaker 5: we would be on a death spiral for the future

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Speaker 5: of the West.

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Speaker 2: Trump is our leader in this. Elon knows it.

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Speaker 5: He's worried about our fiscal situation, the mass migration crisis,

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Speaker 5: the birth rate crisis, and all these things converging to

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Speaker 5: destroy the West.

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Speaker 2: He knows that.

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Speaker 5: I think Trump and the Republicans are the only vehicle

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Speaker 5: to save it. And so when they had their break,

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Speaker 5: I mean it was a it was a vomit inducing moment,

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Speaker 5: but it appears to me that they're rea and by

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Speaker 5: the way, on much better footing.

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Speaker 3: Seeing the two of them come back together was important.

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Speaker 3: And listen, nobody who knows the two of them well

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Speaker 3: thought that the romance was going to last forever. So

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Speaker 3: the first several months where they were just like bosom buddies.

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Speaker 3: They're both alpha males. They every room they have been

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Speaker 3: in for the last thirty years, everyone in the room

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Speaker 3: has deferred to them and kissed the rear ends. And

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Speaker 3: you didn't have to be the most sophisticated analyst of

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Speaker 3: human nature to say, Okay, that's probably not going to

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Speaker 3: last forever as a harmonious when they're both used to

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Speaker 3: being the guy the a dog. That's going to end.

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Speaker 3: I don't think any of us envisioned it would end

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Speaker 3: quite so spectacularly in a technicolor manner. I think most

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Speaker 3: of us figured, Okay, they'll come a point where they say,

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Speaker 3: all right, let's just go our separate ways and do

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Speaker 3: our things. But and the good news is it got

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Speaker 3: really ugly. And by the way, I use the analogy

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Speaker 3: that I felt, like, you know, the children of divorced

842
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Speaker 3: parents saying, I wish mommy and daddy would stop fighting

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Speaker 3: because it like it was, it was painful. Because they're

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Speaker 3: both I admire.

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Speaker 5: Them, both agree I'm the same way. I've defended them

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Speaker 5: both on television. And the attacks Elon faced for the

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Speaker 5: sin of supporting a Republican and choosing to do public service,

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Speaker 5: that was his only sin.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, Elon demonstrates the utter hypocrisy of

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Speaker 3: the left. So the left for a decade has been

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Speaker 3: saying that climate change is destroying the world and nothing

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Speaker 3: matters more. We should produce massive human poverty to stop

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Speaker 3: climate change because if we don't, humanity will be extinct.

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Speaker 3: That's been their talking point for a decade. Sheldon Whitehouse

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Speaker 3: gives a damn speech on the Senate floor every single

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Speaker 3: week for years. I have presided during those they make

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Speaker 3: your eyes want to bleed, they're so bad. Elon Musk

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Speaker 3: has produced more electric vehicles than any human being who

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Speaker 3: has ever lived. Like, if you actually believe their rhetoric

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Speaker 3: about climate change, the left should be carving Elon's face

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Speaker 3: into Mount Rushmore.

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Speaker 1: But so they were firebombing Tesla doers. They were firebombing

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Speaker 1: so damaged to because.

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Speaker 3: He supported Trump and who cares. Like every word they

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Speaker 3: said about climate change was all garbage. If you support Trump,

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Speaker 3: you must be destroyed. And it demonstrated the absolute hypocrisy

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Speaker 3: the left. And I gotta say, Scott, I commend you

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Speaker 3: because you work on CNN every day. You like you

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Speaker 3: swim in that hypocrisy. And what you do a nice

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Speaker 3: job of doing is you're not mean or bitter about it.

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Speaker 3: You do it with a slightly amused you're full of crap.

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Speaker 3: And look, if you were mean and punching him the face,

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Speaker 3: it wouldn't work. But you do it more gently, and

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Speaker 3: it is devastating and beautiful.

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Speaker 5: These are the lessons of President Reagan. We're all happy warriors.

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Speaker 5: We argue best when we argue with a smile on

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Speaker 5: our face and a little bit of humor and a

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Speaker 5: little bit of self reflection. And I found those debating

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Speaker 5: tactics to be of great use on CNN. I think

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Speaker 5: we're reaching people. I'll give you one other reason to

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Speaker 5: buy this book. Everybody has a relative that's like totally

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Speaker 5: lost to Trump derangement syndrome. I'll give you a piece

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Speaker 5: of advice. You buy this book and wrap it up

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Speaker 5: and put another Christmas tree. It'll be the most memorable

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Speaker 5: Christmas you ever had.

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Speaker 3: All Right, So the book is a revolution of common sense.

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Speaker 3: How Donald Trump stormed Washington and fought for Western civilization

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Speaker 3: is by Scott Jennings. We are at the beginning of December.

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Speaker 3: Christmas time is coming up. So I'm going to say,

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Speaker 3: don't just buy one by two, three four, Buy it

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Speaker 3: for your crazy uncle Joe, buy it for your kids.

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Speaker 3: Go buy the book. It is a great thing. I

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Speaker 3: will say it is almost as good before Ben Ferguson,

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Speaker 3: the Great Ben Ferguson. The previous co host of my

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Speaker 3: podcast was Michael Knowles. His first book was What is

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Speaker 3: It All? The Wisdom of the Democrats? I think is

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Speaker 3: what it was entitled. The book.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was an empty book.

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Speaker 3: The sob has made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling

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Speaker 3: a blank book, empty book genius, and he continues to

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Speaker 3: sell it. People go buy Michael every Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Christmas, Michael Knowles gets a great check and I'm proud

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Speaker 1: of that check he gets because people buy it for

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Speaker 1: their crazy kid or their crazy daughter's boyfriend who's a

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Speaker 1: woke liberal out there.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I will say the last book I wrote, I did

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Speaker 3: inscribe to Michael on the blank front page. I said,

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Speaker 3: I apologize, but I did plagiarize this page from your book.

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Speaker 3: That's great, So by Scott's book by Mouppies.

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Speaker 1: Grab the book wherever you can on Amazon, buy it

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Speaker 1: for your family friends.

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Speaker 4: It's an awesome book.

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Speaker 1: One thing I'll say about the book that I personally

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Speaker 1: think you're going to really like is the fact that

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Speaker 1: he talks about the cabinet members and what they had

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Speaker 1: to say. I think it's going to go down in

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Speaker 1: history is the most the biggest secret weapon of Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump is going to be this cabinet and how they

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Speaker 1: work so well with him. You get a lot of

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Speaker 1: what they had to say in the book as well,

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Speaker 1: because you sit down with those cabinet member Scott. I

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Speaker 1: think that's probably one of the coolest parts of the

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Speaker 1: aspect of this book.

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Speaker 4: So grab that as well. That's a really fun part.

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Speaker 3: And listen for our listeners. I will apologize in the

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Speaker 3: picture section of the book, Scott does include naked pictures

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Speaker 3: of him in Nantucket. I'm sorry for that, but you know, look,

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Speaker 3: you gotta do what you can to sell a book. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: this photo shoot for that was actually quite amazing. Useless

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Speaker 3: all right, I want the record to record. I've never

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Speaker 3: seen Scott Jenny speechless, and I think for at least

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Speaker 3: a half second.

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Speaker 2: You were Yeah, we took those pictures on a warm day.

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Speaker 3: What is that out of Seinfeld? The water is cold,

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Speaker 3: but it was cold.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's great.

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Speaker 4: Don't forget.

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Speaker 1: We do this podcast Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Hit that subscriber

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Speaker 1: auto download button. Grab Scott's book. Yes, it does a

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Speaker 1: great radio show as well in the Salem Networks. You

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Speaker 1: can you can listen to that as well in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: I will see you back here in a couple of days.