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Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review,

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Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and I hope you were having

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Speaker 1: a fabulous Fourth of July weekend with your family being

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Speaker 1: safe on the road. If you're traveling as well. We've

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Speaker 1: got some major stories for you that you may have

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Speaker 1: missed this Fourth of July week First up, major victories

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Speaker 1: coming from the Supreme Court helping parents and also making

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Speaker 1: sure that you get to make decisions on what happens

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Speaker 1: when your kids go to schools. I'll have those details

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Speaker 1: in a moment. Also, legislation on school choice made it

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Speaker 1: into the big Beautiful Bill. There were many that wanted

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Speaker 1: to get rid of it, and we'll give you the

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Speaker 1: story behind how we kept it in the bill. And finally,

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Speaker 1: for a little fun for the fourth of July weekend,

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Speaker 1: the last ten great movies of the twenty first century,

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Speaker 1: given to you by none than Center Ted Cruz. It's

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Speaker 1: the weekend review and it starts right now. All right,

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Speaker 1: So let's start with universal injunctions and the Trump the

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Speaker 1: Cossack case. This is also, by the way, something that

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Speaker 1: you share the subcommittee hearing on that very issue earlier

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Speaker 1: this month. So explain why this is such an important

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Speaker 1: issue for everyone listening.

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Speaker 2: Well, this was a case challenging President Trump's executive order

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Speaker 2: on birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is the law that says

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Speaker 2: that a baby born in America is a US citizen,

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Speaker 2: even if that baby's parents are illegally, even if they

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Speaker 2: that baby is a US citizen. As a policy matter,

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Speaker 2: I think that is a very foolish policy. It is

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Speaker 2: a policy that incentivizes illegal immigration. You see people, I

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Speaker 2: We see everyday pregnant women coming across the border illegally,

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Speaker 2: coming across being brought in by human traffickers with the

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Speaker 2: express purpose of coming here to have their baby in America.

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Speaker 2: Because that baby then becomes an anchor baby, that baby

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Speaker 2: becomes a US citizen. That doesn't make any sense. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, most of the other countries on Earth

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Speaker 2: most other countries don't make them a citizen of that country.

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Speaker 2: It is an accident of American history that our law

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Speaker 2: has done that, and so for more than a decade

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Speaker 2: I have advocating for ending birthright citizenship. Now, Ben there

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Speaker 2: is an open legal debate about how you can end

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Speaker 2: birthright citizenship. There are some legal scholars who argue it

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Speaker 2: can only be done through a constitutional amendment. And the

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Speaker 2: reason is part of the predicate for birthright citizenship is

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Speaker 2: the language of the Fourteenth Amendment that talks about granting

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Speaker 2: citizenship to people born in America. Now, there's a phrase

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Speaker 2: in the Fourteenth Amendment which is subject to the jurisdiction thereof,

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Speaker 2: and legal skis argue back and forth. Some say you

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Speaker 2: can only change birthright citizenship through a constitutional amendment. If

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Speaker 2: that's the case, we should have an amendment because it's

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Speaker 2: a policy that is foolish. Others say Congress can pass

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Speaker 2: legislation to end birthright citizenship because someone who comes here

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Speaker 2: illegally is not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is not

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Speaker 2: subject to American jurisdiction, but rather came here illegally. I've

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Speaker 2: introduced legislation to end birthright citizenship through legislation. What President

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Speaker 2: Trump has done is he's tried to do it a

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Speaker 2: third way, which is through an executive order. That's going

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Speaker 2: to be a harder hurdle to get to get through,

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Speaker 2: but he's trying to do it, and on the policy grounds,

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Speaker 2: he is exactly right. So what happened is in this case,

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Speaker 2: there was a lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order purporting

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Speaker 2: to eliminate birthright citizenship, and the district judge issued a

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Speaker 2: nationwide injunction, a so called universal injunctions. So ordinarily, courts

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Speaker 2: have jurisdiction, have authority over the parties in front of them.

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Speaker 2: So if you have two parties in a car wreck

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Speaker 2: the other, the court has jurisdiction over those two parties

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Speaker 2: repairs and the medical bills of the person injured. That

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Speaker 2: is called under the Constitution, Article three of the Constitution.

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Speaker 2: Courts are given jurisdiction over cases and controversies, so actual

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Speaker 2: disputes between real people. What the district judge did in

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Speaker 2: this case is issued an injunction prohibiting Donald Trump and

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Speaker 2: prohibiting the entire federal government from enforcing the birthright citizenship

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Speaker 2: executive order against anybody, not just against the parties in

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Speaker 2: this against anybody. It is a universal injunction. That is

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Speaker 2: something that for the first one hundred plus years of

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Speaker 2: but not that much more frequently. There have been over

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Speaker 2: forty universal injunctions issued against Donald Trump in the first

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Speaker 2: five months of his presidency. Now, now, how does that

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Speaker 2: compare to the historical record. There are more universal injunctions

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Speaker 2: There have been more in the last five months than

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Speaker 2: more universal injunctions issued against President Trump. Then we're issued

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Speaker 2: against all eight years of George W. Bush, all eight

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Speaker 2: Five months Trump has even more than that. It has

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Speaker 2: been an abuse of power. And as you noted, I

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Speaker 2: have been very vocal. I've been laying out the case.

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Speaker 2: I chaired Judiciary Committee hearing focused on exactly this abuse

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Speaker 2: of power. This is the next wave of lawfare. During

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Speaker 2: the last four years, we saw Democrat prosecutors indicting Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: that was using the courts to attack their political enemy

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Speaker 2: to try to stop the voters from reelecting Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: That didn't work, They failed once President Trump was reelected.

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Speaker 2: This was the next iteration of lawfair. Get Democrat attorneys general,

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Speaker 2: get left wing radical groups to go seek out radical

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Speaker 2: district judges put on the bench by Joe Biden and

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Speaker 2: Barack Obama to issue injunctions and shut down the entire

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Speaker 2: Trump agenda because and understand, these Democrat attorneys general, they

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Speaker 2: to elect someone to carry it out. Instead, they want

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Speaker 2: courts to stand in the way. Well, you and I

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Speaker 2: talked about an earlier podcast what I thought was likely

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Speaker 2: I said, I think the Supreme Court is going to

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Speaker 2: reign in universal injunctions. The Supreme Court is going to

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Speaker 2: make clear this is an abuse of power. And so

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Speaker 2: I was really optimistic because in terms of the tools

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Speaker 2: acting is by far the best. Well. On Friday they

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Speaker 2: did their decision was fantastic. It was six'. Three the

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Speaker 2: decision was written By Amy Cony. Barrett it is the

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Speaker 2: most important opinion she has written in her tenure on The,

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Speaker 2: court and it is very. Strong it makes clear that

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Speaker 2: individual district judges do not have the legal, authority they

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Speaker 2: don't have the jurisdiction to issue universal. Injunctions that is

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Speaker 2: a massive victory for the rule of law and it

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Speaker 2: is a massive blow against the lawfare that the radical

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Speaker 1: Trump and, finally the other one that you mentioned, Earlier

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Speaker 1: this one for me is so important for parental rights

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Speaker 1: there was a massive fight where parents were saying we

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Speaker 1: should be able to opt our kids out of THIS

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Speaker 1: lgbtq plus. Curriculum there was a, lawsuit it went To Supreme.

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Speaker 2: Left, yeah this case arose out Of Montgomery county In,

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Speaker 2: maryland And Montgomery county has a very diverse, population and

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Speaker 2: The Montgomery county School, board, unfortunately is one of the

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Speaker 2: more woke school boards In. America and so they put

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Speaker 2: Ideology and so they sued and and the school board, said,

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Speaker 2: well the District court and The court Of appeals both

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Speaker 2: Justice alito wrote the majority opinion for a six to three,

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Speaker 2: the government quote substantially interferes with their children's religious. Development

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Speaker 2: and so this is a great protection for parental. Rights,

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Speaker 2: for religious. Liberty if a parent wants to teach kids

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Speaker 3: Week now onto story number two, there.

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Speaker 1: Because it's, huge because that's not the only thing that

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Speaker 1: this bill also on school.

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Speaker 2: Choice so school choice has been my passion for thirty.

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Speaker 2: Years i've been very active of the school choice. Movement

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Speaker 2: in twenty, seventeen when we did the First trump tax,

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Speaker 2: CUT i authored the legislation that expanded college five twenty

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Speaker 2: nine savings, lands so now parents can save FOR k

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Speaker 2: through twelve. Education we got that, through it, passed and

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Speaker 2: it was at the time the most far reaching federal

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Speaker 2: school choice legislation that had ever. Passed and there are

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Speaker 2: took five twenty nine AND i expanded. THEM i expanded

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Speaker 2: what you can spend them for AND i raised the.

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Speaker 2: Cap it used to be you could spend ten thousand

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Speaker 2: on school. Choice that would be huge in any other.

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Speaker 2: Year but what we got in this year is the

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Speaker 2: federal government will now grant a federal tax credit dollar

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Speaker 2: for dollar for every taxpayer up to seventeen hundred. Dollars

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Speaker 2: Hour Winston churchill in the middle Of World WAR. Ii

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Speaker 2: Powerful Gary oldham does a terrific portrayal Of. Churchill highly recommend.

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Speaker 2: It twenty Eighteen Black. Panther Black panther was a terrific.

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Speaker 2: Movie it's a comic book. Movie but there's a reason

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Speaker 2: so many people go go light go see them because

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Speaker 2: they're really. Good twenty Nineteen once upon A time In

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Speaker 2: hollywood Another Quentin. TARANTINO i thought it was, terrific loved.

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Speaker 2: It Brad pitt was in it as. Well Brad pitt

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Speaker 2: When tarantino is directing him is really really. Good you

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Speaker 2: then get on to twenty twenty. Two Top Gun. Maverick

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Speaker 2: just a great fun, movie action. Film fun to go

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Speaker 2: to the theater and see the jets rocketing through the

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Speaker 2: sky fighting the bad. GUYS i will note that No

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Speaker 2: hollywood theater will now Make Communist china the bad, guys

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Speaker 2: because they all want to sell movies In, china so

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Speaker 2: the bad guys are always some made up fictional. Plays

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Speaker 2: onto twenty twenty. Three two movies in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 2: on the.

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Speaker 1: List.

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Speaker 2: Oppenheimer oppenheimer was, terrific true story, powerful, interesting really well.

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Speaker 2: Done same Year killers of The Flower moon another true,

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Speaker 2: story really, powerful well.

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Speaker 3: Done all, right full the.

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Speaker 1: SCORTURE i missed that movie apparently when it came. Out

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Speaker 1: what's it? About because Now i'm.

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Speaker 2: Interested So Martin scorsese did. It and it's based on

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Speaker 2: a true. Story so it's set In oklahoma in the

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Speaker 2: nineteen twenties and it focuses on a series of murder

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Speaker 2: Of Osage indians after oil is discovered on their tribal.

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Speaker 2: Lands and it's got a fabulous. Cast Leonardo DiCaprio's in,

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Speaker 2: It robert De niro is in. It and, look it's.

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Speaker 2: Brutal it doesn't paint a pretty insanitized picture of, history

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Speaker 2: but it. Is our history has moments of, brutality moments

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Speaker 2: of evil and. Oppression And scorsese can tell a story

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Speaker 2: as well as anyone in the.

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Speaker 3: Business, Awesome i'm gonna have to grab that movie and

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Speaker 3: check it. Out keep.

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Speaker 2: Going, well that takes us to twenty Eight and for

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Speaker 2: the last TWO i, said you, KNOW i, figured all,

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Speaker 2: right who ought to decide what are really good? Movies

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Speaker 2: AND i came up with a crazy, idea how about

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Speaker 2: the ticket? Buyers and SO i just pulled what are

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Speaker 2: the top ten highest grossing films from twenty to twenty twenty?

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Speaker 2: Five any idea with the number one film of the

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Speaker 2: last twenty five years has been in terms of box office, dollars.

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Speaker 3: And god's a hard. ONE i have no clue go for.

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Speaker 3: It i'm.

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Speaker 2: Ready so number one Is avatar two thousand and nine

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Speaker 2: and it brought in two point nine billion. Dollars And,

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Speaker 2: Avatar i'm gonna Put avatar in my list because it's

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Speaker 2: a great. Film it really was novel how it sort

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Speaker 2: of stretched but brought you into an entirely different, world

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Speaker 2: and the effects were. Fantastic it was a well done.

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Speaker 2: Story the number two grossing film of the last twenty

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Speaker 2: five years Was Avengers endgame and that brought in two

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Speaker 2: point eight billion. Dollars i'm gonna include both of those

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Speaker 2: as the final two on my. List they're the top

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Speaker 2: two grossing. Films they're. FANTASTIC i like most comic book,

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Speaker 2: movies BUT i do Think Avengers endgame was was really really.

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Speaker 2: Good and it says something if you look at the

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Speaker 2: list of top, ten none of the top ten grossing

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Speaker 2: films are On hollywood's. List you have number three As

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Speaker 2: Avatar The way of The. Water number four Is Star

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Speaker 2: wars episode, Seven The Force. Awakens number five As Avengers Affinity.

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Speaker 2: War number six Is Spider Man No Way, home WHICH

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Speaker 2: i thought was the best of The Spider man. Movies

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Speaker 2: number seven Was Nieja. TI i don't know that movie Maybe,

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Speaker 2: CHINESE i JUST i don't know that. Movie number eight

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Speaker 2: Was Inside Out. Too number nine Was Jurassic, world and

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Speaker 2: number ten Was The Lion king in twenty. Nineteen it

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Speaker 2: says something when you have a product and the people

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Speaker 2: making the product don't like the product that people like

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Speaker 2: and are. Buying there's a real disconnect. There you. Know

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Speaker 2: you go back to That New York times. List most

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Speaker 2: of the movies on the list nobody has seen and

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Speaker 2: nobody wants to. See and that really is. Sad there

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Speaker 2: used to be a. Time look what's fun about going

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Speaker 2: to the? Movies you'll notice. Themes SO i like true.

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Speaker 2: STORIES i like war. MOVIES i like gangster, movies things

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Speaker 2: Like godfather And. SCARFACE i like, WESTERNS i like. COMEDIES

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Speaker 2: i like some. Musicals but BUT i like a. Story

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Speaker 2: WHEN i go to the to the, MOVIES i want

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Speaker 2: to tell me a. Story it can be a sad.

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Speaker 2: Story it can be a funny. Story it can bring

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Speaker 2: me in on an. Adventure you know classic MOVIES i

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Speaker 2: grew up, with Like Indiana, jones like like it can

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Speaker 2: be you Know Star, wars the Whole Star wars, series

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Speaker 2: The hero's. Journey, actually, Bet i'm going to tay something really.

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Speaker 2: Funny really good buddy of mine THAT i went to

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Speaker 2: high school, with you bet Him joel's's, name great friend

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Speaker 2: of mine came came to our place in D c last.

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Speaker 2: Weekend he and his family were in town and he, Said,

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Speaker 2: hey CAN i crash at your? PLACE i said, Sure

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Speaker 2: and he AND i have gone to a lot of movies,

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Speaker 2: together and he's a Huge Star wars. Buff and so

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Speaker 2: he went to The Star WARS i guess. Museum and

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Speaker 2: WHEN i get back to MY dc, apartment he's replaced

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Speaker 2: my sheets With Star wars sheets and A Star wars

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Speaker 2: comforter In Star wars pillowcases and it looks like a

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Speaker 2: nine year old boys. Room AND i just wrap up.

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Speaker 2: Laughing and then actually it was right AFTER i had

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Speaker 2: The Tucker carlson. Interview that was a lot of. Fireworks

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Speaker 2: so he Bought Tucker carlson's book and he rested it

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Speaker 2: on the, pillowcase SO i was doubled over laughing WHEN

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Speaker 2: i walked in walked In monday morning to the apartment

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Speaker 2: and saw my bedroom as.

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