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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with

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Speaker 2: you Center. We have got so much to talk about

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Speaker 2: Epstein quote files and people are demanding transparency.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's an absolute battle playing out in Washington, DC,

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Speaker 3: and you've got a battle about the Epstein files, President Trump,

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Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal, Pam Bondi, Cash, Betel, Dan Bongino.

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Speaker 3: It is chaos. We're going to do our very best

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Speaker 3: really important legislation that just passed Congress past the Senate,

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Speaker 3: defunding PBS, defunding NPR. This is a major conservative victory.

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Speaker 3: Stephen Colbert has been fired, he's been canceled. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: All right, So, Centater, let's break down some of the

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Speaker 2: frustrations with the Epstein hoopla. The media is just going

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Speaker 2: after Donald Trump. The left is now caring about Epstein

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Speaker 2: they never did before. They're trying to attack Trump saying

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Speaker 2: he's trying to hide something. And I think it's pretty

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Speaker 2: clear you've been an advocate for this. I have since

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Speaker 2: the beginning. I want transparency. I want to make sure

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Speaker 2: going to jail. And I want to make sure that

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Speaker 2: lied to us a lot. I don't think there's anything

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Speaker 3: Well, I think millions who could serve it as millions

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Speaker 3: the media has been just beside themselves trying to flame

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Speaker 3: a civil war. They wanted a civil war between mag

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Speaker 3: and Trump, and they're hoping that all of the elements

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Speaker 3: That's important. Number two, protect the victims a couple months ago,

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Speaker 3: I had dinner with Pam BONDI Pam as a good friend.

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Speaker 3: nobody wants to see children being sexually assaulted having their

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Speaker 3: It's not their fault. Number Three, and this is a

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Speaker 3: it all. That should be the basic standard. Put it

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Speaker 3: I think that is a simple and straightforward standard. And

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Speaker 3: then number four, predators should be prosecuted. Anyone who sexually

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Speaker 3: is what we should be demanding. Now we're going to

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Speaker 3: If they cared about the truth. By the way, Joe

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Speaker 3: Did CNN ever mention the words Jeffrey Epstein. They didn't

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Speaker 3: want Joe Biden to release the files. They didn't want

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Speaker 3: Mary Garland to release the files. They're not concerned about

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Speaker 3: We're going to break that down even further. But understand,

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, the people cheering on

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Speaker 3: complete hypocrites. Because if they didn't say a word when

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about what transparency looks like. And this was

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Speaker 2: people need to understand Donald Trump cannot just sign and

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Speaker 2: lot of the information we have on Jeffrey Epstein, and

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Speaker 2: they're trying to act like Donald Trump's the one that's

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Speaker 1: That's not the case.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and listen. The media and the Democrats

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Speaker 3: have been eager to fan a dispute between Pambondy, Cash Battell,

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Speaker 3: I want to caution everyone, do not take as true

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Speaker 3: you are, that Dan Bongino's screaming at Pambondi, that there's

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Speaker 3: Ptel threatening to resign. I don't know. I have not

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Speaker 3: Cash Pattel, I like Dan Bongino. I've known all of

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Speaker 3: them for a decade. I believe they are good people.

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Speaker 3: I believe they are principled people. I believe they're trying

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Speaker 3: and handle this the right way. But do not get

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Speaker 3: carried away with the media excitement of the people who

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Speaker 3: to be in a civil war. I very much hope.

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Speaker 3: I do not know, but I hope that Bondi, Patel

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Speaker 3: And do not believe the exaggerations of a civil war.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Senator, I want to get in also to

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Speaker 2: another big story that came out. It dealt with Epstein

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Speaker 2: and the Wall Street Journal report. The President punching back

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Speaker 2: extremely hard on this reporting.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: The Wall Street Journal reported this week that there was

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Speaker 3: had letters from a number of prominent people, and that

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Speaker 3: one of the letters was from Donald Trump. And this

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Speaker 3: was a breathless article. And you're right, President Trump is

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Speaker 3: tell you what the Wall Street Journal reported just on

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Speaker 3: the text of it. I go to admit, this thing

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Speaker 3: Street Journal reported. It reported. The letter said, quote voice over,

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Speaker 3: then it's this weird dialogue. Donald, Yes there is, but

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Speaker 3: I won't tell you what it is, Jeffrey, nor will

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Speaker 3: I since I also know what it is. Donald. We

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Speaker 3: have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey, Yes, we do,

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Speaker 3: come to think of it, Donald, Enigma's never age. Have

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Speaker 3: you noticed that, Jeffrey. As a matter of fact, it

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Speaker 3: a pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may

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Speaker 3: every day be another wonderful secret. And then underneath that

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Speaker 3: drawn on top of the hand drawn naked woman. Now, look,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if this is real or not. But

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Speaker 3: I got to say, that doesn't sound like Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: To me.

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Speaker 3: I've known President Trump a long time. That exchange just

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Speaker 3: sounds strange. I've seen online. I've never heard President Trump

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Speaker 3: use the word enigma as an enigma's never age. That's

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Speaker 3: not the language President Trump speaks in this sort of weird, existential,

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Speaker 3: response on this, it was not ambiguous, it was not slight,

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Speaker 3: it was not conflicted. Here's what President Trump said in

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Speaker 3: response to this. He said on truth quote. The Wall

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Speaker 3: Street Journal and Rupert Murdock personally were warned directly by

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Speaker 3: President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they were

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Speaker 3: printed by President Trump to Epstein was a fake all

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Speaker 3: caps and if they print it, they will be sued.

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Speaker 3: Mister Murdoch stated that he would take care of it,

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Speaker 3: but obviously did not have the power to do so.

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Speaker 3: The editor of the Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was

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Speaker 3: told directly by Caroline Levitt and by President Trump that

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Speaker 3: the letter was a fake all caps, but Emma Tucker

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Speaker 3: malicious and defamatory story. Anyway, President Trump will be suing

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Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal, newscorps, and mister Murdoch shortly. The

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is such a big message, I think to

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Speaker 3: For at all. The government should not be in the

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Speaker 5: Public broadcasting has long been overtaken by partisan activists, plain

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Speaker 2: Senator, there is just some news that shocked the left.

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Speaker 2: now they're just like, yeah, we're done. I mean, it's amazing, right,

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Speaker 2: you alienate half the country, you hate half the country,

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Speaker 2: you mock half the country.

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Speaker 1: No one could have seen this coming.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I got to say you and I talked

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Speaker 3: about just a few minutes ago. I'm not tired of winning.

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Speaker 3: Yet Stephen Colbert is a vicious, dishonest, partisan leftist. He

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Speaker 3: is utterly consumed with Trump derangement syndrome, and he hates,

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Speaker 3: he despises more than half of America. He thinks we're idiots,

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Speaker 3: he thinks we're racist, he thinks we're morons. He is

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Speaker 3: a condescending, arrogant jackass. Now, look, I say this with

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Speaker 3: direct experience. I've been on Colbert Show. There used to

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Speaker 3: be a time.

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Speaker 1: Listen.

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Speaker 3: I'm someone. I love comedy. I love late night comedy.

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Speaker 3: I grew up watching in SNL. I grew up watching

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Speaker 3: Johnny Carson and Jay Leno and like really fun late

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Speaker 3: night comedy. And by the way, if you've got a

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Speaker 3: sense of humor, you can laugh at both sides. I'm

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Speaker 3: okay with late night comics making fun of Republicans, making

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Speaker 3: fun of Democrats. Look, both sides are funny. There's lots

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Speaker 3: of jokes to tell. There used to be a time.

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Speaker 3: I've been the Senate thirteen years. When I got there,

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Speaker 3: it was part of the job. I've done just about

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Speaker 3: every late night show. I've done Jay Leno, I've done Colbert,

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Speaker 3: I've done Jimmy Kimmel, I've done Jimmy Fallon. It was

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Speaker 3: a fun part of the job. It's disappeared none of

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Speaker 3: the late night shows have Republicans on anymore. They don't

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Speaker 3: invite anyone. In fact, it was really fitting Stephen Colbert's

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Speaker 3: show where he announced I've been canceled, I'm pulled off

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Speaker 3: the air. You know who his guest was Adam Shiff

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Speaker 3: because of course it was Adam Shiff because and Colbert's

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Speaker 3: the worst of them. He's a vicious, nasty So I

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Speaker 3: remember when when I first did a show. You know,

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Speaker 3: you know, the hosts come by and they talk to

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Speaker 3: you in the green room, and and they chat with you,

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Speaker 3: and and you know, I said, look like all of

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Speaker 3: these late night comics they think they're going to be

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Speaker 3: you know that they're going to be this like meet

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Speaker 3: the press, Like we're going to ask you really tough questions.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Democrats they have love fests, they laugh,

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Speaker 3: they joke, they kid around. But with the Republicans, they're

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Speaker 3: going to nail you to the ground. And I'm like, look,

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Speaker 3: you want to ask tough questions, that's fine, But you

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Speaker 3: go on a late night comedy showed to to to humanize,

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Speaker 3: to say a little bit of who you are to laugh,

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Speaker 3: and Colbert just got angry. He's just like, I want

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Speaker 3: to prove you are evil. You are the devil. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, they don't even do that anymore. They

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Speaker 3: just don't have Republicans on and and Colbert, of all

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Speaker 3: of them, was the worst. By the way, Jimmy Fallon

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Speaker 3: of the late night guys is the best.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Fallin.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting Fallin inherited Jay Leno's audience. Jay

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Speaker 3: Leno inherited Johnny Carson's audience. Their audience is a lot

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Speaker 3: of Midwestern conservatives. And so Jimmy Fallon like like, I

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Speaker 3: had a great time. I did Jimmy Fallon back back

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Speaker 3: when I was running for president. He had a very

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Speaker 3: funny skit where he dressed up as as as Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump and and called me and went back and forth.

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Speaker 3: But he was he was the one late night host

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Speaker 3: who was not a jerk. Actually Leno wasn't either, but

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Speaker 3: that was that was early on. Colbert is directly responsible,

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Speaker 3: along with his compatriots, with destroying late night comedy.

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Speaker 1: And I want to play by the way, it's because

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Speaker 1: it wasn't humor.

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Speaker 3: It's not funny.

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Speaker 1: It's just I hate you. I hate you. It is

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Speaker 1: not funny.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also By the way, the reason why I

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Speaker 2: think Shank Gillis was at the s p's because historians

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Speaker 2: like humor. Humor is actually back, and Colbert turned his

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Speaker 2: show into this like sanctimonious woke lecture every night, attacking

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Speaker 2: half of a mayor.

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Speaker 3: Well, and let me prove it. I want to play

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Speaker 3: just just a a selection of you know, he became

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Speaker 3: this this like scold for you must get the COVID vaccine.

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Speaker 3: And here are a couple of examples of this bizarre

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Speaker 3: song he did. You're gonna listen to it. I wish

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Speaker 3: you could see the videos because the videos have him

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Speaker 3: dancing like a fruitcake nut dressed as a human syringe.

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Speaker 3: But just listen to it because you can get a

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Speaker 3: sense of just how sanctimonious he was. Give a listen.

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Speaker 4: Find out the way the vaccine is changing the scene

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Speaker 4: in our new recurring segment, the vac scene longer stall.

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Speaker 4: Why the can can you ask? I asked that myself.

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Speaker 4: The answer public domain. It's the answer of most things, really.

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Speaker 7: The vaccine shot, the vaccine. We have a vaccine.

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Speaker 3: Get your shot right now in your arm.

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Speaker 5: Your mom get.

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Speaker 3: Your shot, your mom.

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Speaker 1: Get your shot.

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Speaker 2: But by the way, I just wonder, like how many

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Speaker 2: of those segments had vaccine commercials from pharmaceutical companies in there,

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Speaker 2: and it's like, hey, I got you, I'll do a

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Speaker 2: big thing.

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Speaker 3: They play in this even Colbert sponsored by Pfizer.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly, they put this thing out. It's ten minutes

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Speaker 2: and forty nine seconds long. By the way, I say

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Speaker 2: they literally the video we just played for you was

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Speaker 2: the quote vaccine the box set the Late Show with

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Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert.

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Speaker 1: They put this out themselves and were that proud of it.

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Speaker 3: Now they were proud of it. And it's it's vicious,

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Speaker 3: it's nasty, and it's not funny, like I'm fine with

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Speaker 3: a comedy host that makes fun of everyone. That's you know,

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Speaker 3: one of my favorite movies. And we didn't include this

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Speaker 3: one we did on July fourth our our movie section.

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Speaker 3: But one of my favorite movies was Team America World.

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Speaker 3: Please did you ever see that?

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Speaker 1: Ben?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great movie, hysterical movie, and it's done. It is.

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Speaker 3: It's puppets and it makes fun of both sides and

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Speaker 3: make fun of Republicans, but it makes fun of Democrats

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Speaker 3: and it's now I will warn you it is profane.

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Speaker 3: I had the incredibly poor judgment to play this video

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Speaker 3: for my laws on a family vacation, and I will

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Speaker 3: tell you about nine minutes into it, when they had

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Speaker 3: dropped the thirty second F bomb, I was like, okay, wow,

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Speaker 3: this was a really bad idea. And my mother in

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Speaker 3: law is frowning at me, and I'm like, wow, okay,

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Speaker 3: never mind. But unbelievably funny because it's actually comedy. It's

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Speaker 3: making fun just watching Stephen Colbert saying I hate Donald Trump. Yes, Stephen,

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Speaker 3: we got you. But you know what, Stephen Colbert is

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Speaker 3: now unemployed. He's been canceled. He's been canceled because, oddly enough,

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Speaker 3: Americans don't like to listen to someone screaming at them.

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Speaker 3: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. I'm

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Speaker 3: smarter than you. I'm a left wing elitist. I make

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Speaker 3: millions of dollars and I despise you. And so I

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Speaker 3: got to say, in response to his musical medley urging

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Speaker 3: everyone you must get the vaccine, I have a different

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Speaker 3: musical medley that I want to say, not just to

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Speaker 3: Stephen Colbert, but also to NPR and and to PBS.

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Speaker 3: Here's my musical.

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Speaker 2: Boons, truly amazing. You gotta love that song right there.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget we do this podcast. The show, I say,

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Speaker 2: as a podcast three days a week, so make sure

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Speaker 2: you subscribe to Verdict with Ted Cruz wherever you get

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Speaker 2: your podcasts. Have a fabulous week the Cent and I

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Speaker 2: will see you back here on this radio station wherever

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Speaker 2: you are next weekend, and hopefully you'll hear us three

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Speaker 2: days a week on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Have a great