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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Steph.

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Speaker 1: I've never told you your production of I Heart Radio. Okay, Annie,

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Speaker 1: it is gonna time stamp thus because you know, as

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Speaker 1: per usual and as what we've seen, Uh, nothing makes

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Speaker 1: I feel like. Um, today is January seven of one,

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Speaker 1: and yes it is the day after the big coup, um,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like we've already lived through two years

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Speaker 1: of Uh. So happy new year everybody. Yeah, this is uh,

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Speaker 1: this is our first time recording in this a new year. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, if we sound a little rusty, Um, there's

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Speaker 1: so many reasons, but yes, that is one of those reasons.

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Speaker 1: But Annie, I have a question for you. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to start off the question, oh, the first question of

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Speaker 1: did your family teach you a lot about politics and

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Speaker 1: were they really involved in them? Yes? And yes, yes, yes.

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Speaker 1: My dad was a lawyer and he taught political science

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Speaker 1: growing up, and he carried around pocket constitutions and handed

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Speaker 1: them out. He had the worst like arguing with him

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Speaker 1: as a child when you were in trouble with the

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Speaker 1: worst because he would say like ignorance is not devisible

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Speaker 1: you couldn't win in those um but also very um

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Speaker 1: My family was very liberal, and in fact, because of that,

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Speaker 1: whole family could talk and not get outraged. That changed later,

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Speaker 1: and growing up it wasn't necessarily we were being anti

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Speaker 1: who is Nancy Pelosi? Yes? And and also before we

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Speaker 1: Inclusion and will bring new rules that quote will honor

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Speaker 1: all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in

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Speaker 1: the House rules to be gender neutral according to the Hill. Um.

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Speaker 1: And of course the anti LGBTQ plus reps are not

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Speaker 1: happy about this and have already started to mock and

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Speaker 1: disrespect the concept of pronoun preferences. Um. She actually did

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Speaker 1: state that she's making sweeping changes when it comes to

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Speaker 1: things like this, So it is exciting to see that

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Speaker 1: she's getting ready, like she's ready to move forward in representation.

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Speaker 1: So that's lovely to see. Um. And of course, with

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Speaker 1: the most recent Similars package, there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: negotiations and compromise. But as the country takes a turn

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Speaker 1: and tries to find the balance in the economy as

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Speaker 1: well as the health care industry, whether we're talking about

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Speaker 1: vaccine access, health care access, and overall pandemic procedures, UH,

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a massive overall to the system. We

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Speaker 1: already know. President elect Biden has already made conversations about this,

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Speaker 1: and UH Speaker Pelosi has been an adamant supporter in

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Speaker 1: giving more relief. So we'll see what happens with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we will see, of course, with what happened with the

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Speaker 1: recent insurrection. UM. You know, people in her office taking pictures. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and continued controversy of the electoral voting process, which was successful.

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Speaker 1: I mean, right now, it's so hard to have faith

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Speaker 1: in the system, right, I mean it was voted and

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Speaker 1: counted and accepted as of last night, with all the

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Speaker 1: contention that happened. Um, as we said earlier, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: did not into the middle of the night because of

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Speaker 1: the storming of the capitol. Oh and yeah, going into

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Speaker 1: her office and taking her envelopes and getting into her

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Speaker 1: email that was opened because she was rushed out of

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Speaker 1: her office. Uh, it's gonna be interesting for sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So we're holding our breath. I'm actually going to start

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Speaker 1: the new year. I've given up already on I'm going

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Speaker 1: to start it. After inauguration day and trying to restart

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Speaker 1: it was very funny because I was like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drink list and then that happened. I was like,

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Speaker 1: where is my box of life? I think everybody was like, well, drn.

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Speaker 1: January is now out the window, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Damn it. So one day after we'll see, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: We're holding our breasthts um and yeah, we're hoping that

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Speaker 1: something can be done to contain the current back clash

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Speaker 1: of the continued conspiracy theories that are being propagated and

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Speaker 1: all of that, all of that. Um. And yeah, right now,

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Speaker 1: it's a conversation of whether or not we'll see the

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Speaker 1: twenty Amendment enacted. Um. I think there's a whole conversation

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Speaker 1: about the people have plans and I love seeing this, uh,

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Speaker 1: which is why I cannot get off Twitter to save

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Speaker 1: my life, because I feel like this is where I

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Speaker 1: get my news between talking about enacting the twenty fifth

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Speaker 1: Amendment and then impeaching him and then making sure he

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Speaker 1: doesn't run for office again, and then of course bringing

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Speaker 1: criminal charges. Um. But hey, I don't know, and I

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Speaker 1: know that Pelosi Speaker Pelosi has already kind of backed

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Speaker 1: down a couple of times, stating they we just wanted

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Speaker 1: to move on with it. Um. And it does feel

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Speaker 1: like a cop out, But again, I guess it's a

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Speaker 1: bit different being the leader as she is, so uh yes, yes, um.

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Speaker 1: But outside of that, we did want to throw some

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Speaker 1: random facts in there that I didn't know where else

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Speaker 1: to put. Yeah, so we're gonna do it here. Um.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, did you know that Pelosi is a big

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Speaker 1: fan of chocolate. Actually has a whole stash of gar

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Speaker 1: Delli chocolate in her office, which is, you know, a

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Speaker 1: homage to her hometown, well to where she represented San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: and she keeps it on the regular um and even

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Speaker 1: having chocolate ice cream apparently, like she has very like

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Speaker 1: two scoops of chocolate on cone for breakfast. She does

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Speaker 1: not care who she's eating with that she has. She's

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Speaker 1: had it for breakfast a majority of her time, so

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Speaker 1: people know this. She loves it and she's not gonna

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Speaker 1: back down because she's gonna eat her chocolate. That's funny

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Speaker 1: because I remember learning that and then it became this

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Speaker 1: thing like where I was like, well, Nancy Pelosi does it.

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Speaker 1: She's successful, she can do it. I can do it

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Speaker 1: to her and her husband own two vineyards that are

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Speaker 1: worth multimillion dollars. Right. I was very fascinating, don't I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think I saw where it was, but I lost

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Speaker 1: that content though. If you can tell me, people, audience,

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Speaker 1: what veneo would you stay? You let me know. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And she has been deemed one of the biggest fundraisers

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Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party, which has sparked a lot of

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Speaker 1: controversy Yeah, she raised two hundred and twenty seven point

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Speaker 1: nine million dollars before this past election in November. UM,

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Speaker 1: and I did want to say, like, we didn't really

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Speaker 1: get on get into it in this episode. We've talked

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Speaker 1: about it in other episodes there there she is the

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Speaker 1: leader of the house, so there there is a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of backlash you're going to get and criticism you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get no matter what. But I do feel like

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Speaker 1: there's been this gendered criticism of her, and like when

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Speaker 1: we were seeing the attack ads for again, she wasn't

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Speaker 1: the person running, but they would bring her up like crazy,

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Speaker 1: crazy agenda, and I just feel like there's something gendered

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Speaker 1: in it, and heard that hatred of her is something

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Speaker 1: pretty gendered. And I'm not saying she's by any means

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Speaker 1: perfect or it's just something I feel. No. Absolutely, Actually,

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Speaker 1: there was a report and I didn't include it in

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Speaker 1: here because Michael, I again I'm scattered, uh, in which

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Speaker 1: they did talk about the fact that, yes, most speakers

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Speaker 1: have been given like negative popularity ratings, including Paul Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Both of them were seeing very negatively, but when it

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Speaker 1: came to the point system, she was significantly less than him.

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Speaker 1: And it absolutely has a gender bias. Whether it's because uh,

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Speaker 1: she is either to too forward, not forward enough again,

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Speaker 1: to liberal not liberal enough, And of course we can

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Speaker 1: talk about the whole perception of yes, she is a bureaucrat.

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Speaker 1: She has been in politics all her life, so it

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Speaker 1: doesn't look wonderful when you look at a system that

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Speaker 1: you feel is already tainted. Um, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: the conversation as having now. But yeah, she for no

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Speaker 1: reason at all, she has been perceived as this way.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, like one of the things that they used

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Speaker 1: is her constantly talking and picture her as nagging that

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Speaker 1: it is the ridiculousness of it all, and as in

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Speaker 1: fact the clapping and oh no, the ripping of the speech.

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Speaker 1: She was raped over the coals by the conservative saying

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Speaker 1: how disrespectful she was and how she didn't keep it

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Speaker 1: in lyning all of these things, and she just said, essentially,

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Speaker 1: his words were lies. This is a page of lies,

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Speaker 1: and that's why she ripped it up and it was

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Speaker 1: absolutely true. And this was of course after he snubbed

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Speaker 1: her and wouldn't shake her hand because she and he

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Speaker 1: had the argument about border control and all of the

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Speaker 1: such things which she is adamantly against you know. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's definitely one of those things, as well

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Speaker 1: as the fact that as we've seen the level of

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Speaker 1: tactes that have happened within this administration, that everything they

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00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: do seem so mild in comparison to how extreme the

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Speaker 1: other side is going, including bringing up lies, absolute lies,

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Speaker 1: and willing to do it in front of UM their

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Speaker 1: parties and during a process of political tradition. I guess

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Speaker 1: the best way to put it in UM in the

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Speaker 1: constitution and taking that apart. Uh, they're willing to do that,

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Speaker 1: and they're willing to bring in people to life for them.

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Speaker 1: They're willing to have calls telling them do this for me,

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Speaker 1: even though it doesn't reflect the truth. And instead of

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Speaker 1: outright going after them, they're trying to play polite games.

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Speaker 1: And that's that is infuriating. As in fact, yesterday none

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Speaker 1: of them truly truly called out what has been happening

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Speaker 1: and what is going on and putting responsibility where it

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Speaker 1: needs to be. Uh, it's definitely frustrating to see that.

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Speaker 1: So they are all all of these things, but she's

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Speaker 1: not the only one. But because she is a leader,

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Speaker 1: she's being pointed out and raped over the calls even harder.

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Speaker 1: And she's not only being attacked by the left, but

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Speaker 1: the right. No, she's not only being attacked by the right,

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Speaker 1: but some by the left, and rightly so because when

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Speaker 1: you want to see change and you don't see people

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Speaker 1: following that line. And and again, her big talent apparently

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Speaker 1: is towing that line, is keeping people in check, and

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Speaker 1: it it is that could be infuriating and and it

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Speaker 1: is honest. Um, it was very very close in her

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Speaker 1: not gaining this position again like it was by Slim margins.

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Speaker 1: So that's significant in itself. Uh So, it's interesting to

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Speaker 1: see where we are. And she definitely plays that political

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Speaker 1: game game when it comes to money, and that just

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Speaker 1: feels dirty in essence. Um. And again she's like like,

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Speaker 1: we know she's not the only one, but because she

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Speaker 1: is in this place, because she's been around since the eighties,

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Speaker 1: because her whole life has been around politics, it does

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Speaker 1: way on who she is and how we see her

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Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah. Yeah, Um, I couldn't believe when I

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Speaker 1: told you, I didn't couldn't believe when I learned she

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Speaker 1: was eight. Right, she looks good, she does, she does.

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Speaker 1: Uh So that's what we have to say. About Nancy

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Speaker 1: Pelosi for now. UM, we hope all your listeners are

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Speaker 1: doing okay out there. We're sending hugs yes, virtually safe

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Speaker 1: pos uh and we would love to hear from you

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