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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with

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Speaker 2: you as well, and we have got a loaded show

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Speaker 2: for you. The NAACP doesn't want you to go to Florida,

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Speaker 2: specifically if you are African Americans, saying it's unsafe on

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Speaker 2: the same exact week that Ronda Sants is announcing is

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Speaker 2: going to run for president. Yeah, there's no coincidence there

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Speaker 2: at all. Also, mothers standing up and saying no to

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Speaker 2: target coming after children. And now it looks like we're winning,

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Speaker 2: just like there was big victories with bud Light and

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Speaker 2: finally am Radio. Yes, it may be sticking around for

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Speaker 2: a little while longer in your vehicles.

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Speaker 1: We're going to give you an update on that.

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Speaker 2: But first, Senator, let's get back to this big story,

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Speaker 2: and that is the NAACP came out with I think,

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Speaker 2: which was one of the most disgusting warnings about Florida,

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Speaker 2: clearly political and saying they have a travel advisory to

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Speaker 2: Florida the exact same week that Rhonda Santis is announcing

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Speaker 2: he's running for president. What's funny about this is there

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Speaker 2: are actually several NAACP top executives that live in Florida,

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Speaker 2: I'm curious, are they going to sell their houses right away?

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Speaker 3: Well, it was obviously partisan, it was obviously political, and

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Speaker 3: it's sad to see what's happened to the NAACP. You know,

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Speaker 3: I have to say this topic sparked something of a

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Speaker 3: Twitter war, and I think it's worth it for listeners

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Speaker 3: of the pod to walk through the Twitter war. So

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Speaker 3: when the NAACP issued its quote travel advisory for the

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Speaker 3: state of Florida over the weekend saying that Republican Governor

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Speaker 3: Ronda Santis's policies constitute an all out of tack on

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Speaker 3: Black Americans and other minorities, I responded and said, quote,

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Speaker 3: this is bizarre and utterly dishonest. In the nineteen fifties

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Speaker 3: and sixties, the NAACP did extraordinary good helping lead the

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Speaker 3: civil rights movement. Today, doctor King would be ashamed of

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Speaker 3: how profound. Only they've lost their wib now. That comment

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Speaker 3: triggered a whole bunch of leftists, including one very lefty

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Speaker 3: professor at Maelma Mater Guid named Kevin Cruz kr Us,

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Speaker 3: who says, quote, in nineteen sixty five, doctor King called

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Speaker 3: for a national boycott of the state of Alabama, saying

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Speaker 3: that Democratic Governor George Wallace's policies constitute constituted a quote

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Speaker 3: reign of terror against black Americans. Well, from there, Norm Ornstein,

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Speaker 3: who's the big lefty Democrat commentator, said, quote guests who

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Speaker 3: would have been first in line to filibuster against the

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Speaker 3: Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act? Yes, Ted Cruz,

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Speaker 3: ooh they got me now. So I responded to Norm Ornstein,

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Speaker 3: and I said, quote nonsense, That shameful filibuster was led

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Speaker 3: by Democrats, your party, My party, The Republicans proudly voted

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Speaker 3: for the Civil Rights Act in much higher percentages than

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Speaker 3: the racist Dems. Now here's where it gets interesting. This

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Speaker 3: great scholar of American history, this learned analyst on all

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Speaker 3: things concerning race, Alexandria Keeja Cortes, sends the following tweet,

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Speaker 3: why don't you go ahead and tell people what happened

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Speaker 3: to the parties?

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Speaker 1: After that?

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Speaker 3: Ted, Well, I'm never one to turn down a kind

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Speaker 3: invitation from someone trying to be helpful to discussion, So

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Speaker 3: I happily replied, and I tweeted AOC and I said sure.

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Speaker 3: And what follows is a seven tweet thread which, if

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Speaker 3: you will indulge I'm going to walk you through sure. First,

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Speaker 3: the DEM Party founded the KKK. Then the DEM Party

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Speaker 3: wrote Jim Crow Laws. Then the DEM Party filibustered the

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Speaker 3: Civil Rights Act. Weet number two. Today, the DEM Party

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Speaker 3: filibuster's school choice, trapping millions of Black kids and failing schools. Today,

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Speaker 3: the DEM Party pushes abolishing the police, which results in

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Speaker 3: many more black lives murdered. Today, the DEM Party voted

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Speaker 3: against my bill to stop DC from throwing forty percent

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Speaker 3: of black kids out of schools because of the vas mandate.

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Speaker 1: Tweet number three.

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Speaker 3: The Republican Party was founded to oppose slavery. Our first

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Speaker 3: the Civil Rights Act in a much higher percentage than

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Speaker 3: racist Democrats. Tweet number four. Today we produced the lowest

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Speaker 3: African American unemployment ever under the Trump economic boom. Today

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Speaker 3: we produce the lowest African American poverty levels ever under

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Speaker 3: the Trump economic boom. Tweet number five Today. In twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 3: I passed the largest expansion of federal school choice ever,

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Speaker 3: making five twenty nine plans cover k through twelve over

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Speaker 3: the objection of every single Senate Democrat Tweet number six. Also,

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Speaker 3: just two years ago, the Democrat governor of Virginia had

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Speaker 3: put the photo of a man dressed as a KKK

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Speaker 3: Democrat President, Joe Biden gave in twenty eleven a flowery

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Speaker 3: eulogy for an exalted cyclops of the KKK and final

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Speaker 3: Democrat Party aggressively supports open borders, which has led to

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Speaker 2: It's amazing how easy it is for the left to

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Speaker 2: you had that Twitter thread with her. I also think

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Speaker 2: this is going to clearly be part of the strategy

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Speaker 2: It seems to be the strategy that they're going to

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Speaker 2: use no matter what, on anybody that they see as

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Speaker 2: a threat a conservative that's up and coming. The fact

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Speaker 2: that the NAACP has now done this. They've not put

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Speaker 2: and they don't like he's about to announce he's running

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Speaker 2: for president, so therefore we're going to label him a racist.

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Speaker 2: And sure enough, it worked because in a lot of

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Speaker 2: Ron De Santis is going to announce he's running for president,

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Speaker 2: and the NAACP has said it's not safe for African

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Speaker 2: Americans to go to Florida. Tiger Woods lives in Florida.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be moving anytime soon.

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Speaker 3: And vast numbers of African Americans are moving to Florida

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Speaker 3: because Florida has been an oasis of freedom. Just like Texas,

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Speaker 3: Texas and Florida, people are moving, they're voting with their feet.

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Speaker 3: They're leaving Democrat states like New York, like California, like Illinois.

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Speaker 3: They're fleeing in vast numbers and coming to states like

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Speaker 3: I said in my initial tweet, I really do respect

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Speaker 3: sixties standing up against segregated schools, which coincidentally had been

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Speaker 3: to be concerned. If they actually cared about civil rights,

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Speaker 3: the NAACP would join me in leading the fight for

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Speaker 3: school choice, in leading the fight to say every African

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Speaker 3: American child in this country has a right to access

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Speaker 3: quality education, and we're not going to accept politicians trapping

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Speaker 3: the response of many hyperpartisan Democrats that are suffused in

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Speaker 3: never report on what they're saying. So I actually think

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Speaker 3: what she typed in, why don't you tell us Ted

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Speaker 3: what happened to the parties after that? That it never

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Speaker 3: So there's some lefties on Twitter that are like, oh,

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Speaker 3: your staff researched this and wrote this Twitter thread. Let

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Speaker 3: me be clear, and you spent a lot of time

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Speaker 3: I read the idiotic tweet from AOC and I sat

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Speaker 3: these seven responses because I was so pissed at her dishonesty.

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Speaker 3: Because the Democrat party record on race is shameful and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.

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Speaker 2: And I seeing you, by the way, I've witnessed you

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Speaker 3: If she does respond, yeah, if she does respond, it'll

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Speaker 3: Republican Party was founded to end slavery, was fighting for

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Speaker 3: Now here's the weird Democrat fiction that all of these

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Speaker 3: how exactly does that work? You know, I just wish

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Speaker 3: Like what on earth? It's a bizarre idea. And by

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Speaker 3: But they're selling these quote tuck bathing suits for three

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Speaker 1: You click if you go to Target dot com. And

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I first heard the story. I'm like that, that's nutty.

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Speaker 2: Go to Target dot com slash Pride and there's children's

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Speaker 2: It's a it's a book for young young children, not

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Speaker 3: So ben Ben, I want to ask a serious question.

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Speaker 3: And my reaction was always, it's not that don't say

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Speaker 3: Just let kids be kids. And you know what's infuriating

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Speaker 2: I tell everybody that's listening right now, go look at

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Speaker 1: Look at it.

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Speaker 2: And I will say this to all the moms out

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Speaker 2: were teaching our kids in our schools. And this is

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Speaker 2: another example of the success we have as conservatives when

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Speaker 2: we stick together.

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Speaker 3: Ben, let me ask my one more question. You know,

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Speaker 3: one thing I noticed about all the press stories on

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Speaker 3: this is it says that Target is reconsidering this in

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Speaker 3: their othern stores. Now, I'm gonna say I find that amazing.

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Speaker 3: I certainly believe that that parents in Texas and Florida

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Speaker 3: and other store places in the South are unhappy about this.

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Speaker 3: But is it really the case that parents in New

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Speaker 3: York are happy about this, that that in the Midwest,

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Speaker 3: that that in Nebraska they think it's a good idea

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Speaker 3: for Target to be sexualizing our kids. If they're just

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Speaker 3: addressing this in the South, I find it hard to

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Speaker 3: believe that that in in many states, but maybe in

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Speaker 3: San Francisco, maybe in the most aggressively left wing places

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Speaker 3: in the country, but in most of the country, I

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Speaker 3: think parents don't want sex of any kind, straight or gay,

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Speaker 3: being thrust upon their kids. And and and it's remarkable

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Speaker 3: that Target thinks it's only the ignorant Rube Southerners in

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Speaker 3: their view that care about this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pandering, and that's why we've got to keep

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Speaker 2: it up no matter where you live, like you said,

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Speaker 2: all over the country, because it's just an emergency meeting

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Speaker 2: that we were described for southern states. And to be clear,

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Speaker 2: they're just moving the merchandise from the front of the store,

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Speaker 2: where it was prime shopping location, back into the sections

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Speaker 2: where the stuff, you know, would normally go, like the

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Speaker 2: children's section, the adult section of clothing, instead of having

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Speaker 2: this massive amount of square footage they're doing at the

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Speaker 2: front of the store. This is pandering. Don't be hoodwinked

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Speaker 2: by this. Don't think that they're doing you a favor.

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Speaker 2: This stuff is still in their stores, and that goes

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Speaker 2: back to the buying issue.

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Speaker 2: there was a big victory that took place this week.

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Speaker 2: You were instrumental in it. A lot of people may

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Speaker 2: not know about this, so I want you to give

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Speaker 2: a little bit of the background. There are a lot

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Speaker 2: of car manufacturers that we're going to get rid of

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Speaker 2: AM radios. AM radio is something that a lot of

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Speaker 2: people rely on in emergencies. AM radio in the signal

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Speaker 2: of AM is very different than FM, and when there's

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Speaker 2: outages and cell phones go down, whether it be in

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Speaker 2: tornadoes or natural disasters, or terrorism attack herebon Forbid, or hurricanes,

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Speaker 2: AM radio has the ability to reach people with the

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Speaker 2: crank AM radios that you have that you don't even

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Speaker 2: need power for. They were looking at taking these out

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Speaker 2: of cars, and it looks like now we've had a

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Speaker 2: victory where we one manufacturer saying, hey, we now understand

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Speaker 2: this safety side of things. We're going to keep them

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Speaker 2: in our automobiles. Tell people a little bit more about that.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. There were multiple big car manufacturers

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Speaker 3: that we're talking about taking am radio out of cars,

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Speaker 3: and there are lots of downsides of that. Number one,

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Speaker 3: as you noted, is the downside of emergencies and a hurricane,

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Speaker 3: in a tornado, in a time of emergency, you often

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Speaker 3: have FM stations going down, and much of our emergency

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Speaker 3: broadcast system is designed to go out over AM radio,

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Speaker 3: so it would place people unable to hear the essential

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Speaker 3: communications during an emergency. But Man, I also think more

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Speaker 3: broadly than that, I think there's a reason that big

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Speaker 3: car companies were open to taking down AM radio, which

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Speaker 3: is AM radio is where a lot of talk radio

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Speaker 3: is found, and talk radio is overwhelmingly conservative. And let's

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Speaker 3: be clear, big business doesn't like things that are overwhelmingly conservative.

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Speaker 3: If the only source of your news is watching CNN

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Speaker 3: or MSNBC or even the big networks, your news is

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Speaker 3: going to skew hard left talk radio, and whether it

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Speaker 3: was Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Mark Levin or

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Speaker 3: Ben Ferguson goes out and has an enormous impact over

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Speaker 3: AM radio. I think that was a major reason why

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Speaker 3: you were seeing multiple car companies move in that direction.

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Speaker 3: And the consequence, an awful lot of people listen to

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Speaker 3: talk radio when they're driving to work or they're driving home,

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Speaker 3: and so removing AM radio means that people wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 3: By the way, this also impacts farms and ranches, rural

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Speaker 3: and agricultural listeners, where there are a lot of places

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Speaker 3: where you're out in the country where AM radio stations

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Speaker 3: can be the only choices you have to hear what's

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Speaker 3: going on on agmatters or music or talker news. And

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Speaker 3: so what I did I joined with Ed Markey. Ed

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Speaker 3: Markey is a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, maybe one of,

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Speaker 3: if not the most liberal senator in the entire US Senate,

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Speaker 3: and Ed Markey and I together introduced legislation that would

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Speaker 3: mandate that car manufacturers include AM radio on their cars,

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Speaker 3: that they not remove the ability of customers to listen

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Speaker 3: to AM radio because in my view, as I said,

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Speaker 3: it was an effort at censorship to silence conservative voices. Well,

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Speaker 3: I got to say number one, for Ed Markey and

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Speaker 3: me to introduce a bill together in the world of

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Speaker 3: Washington is a pretty shocking thing, because look, Markey and

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Speaker 3: I agree on very very little. And the most conservative

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Speaker 3: member of the Senate along with one of the if

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Speaker 3: not the most liberal member of the Senate, joining together.

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Speaker 3: I think that kind of freaked a lot of observers

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Speaker 3: out in Washington. It may have made them think it

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Speaker 3: was a sign of the apocalypse. And what happened yesterday

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Speaker 3: was a big deal. The CEO Ford Motor Company, and

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Speaker 3: Ford was one of the companies that said they were

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Speaker 3: going to pull AM radio. The CEO of Ford Motor

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Speaker 3: Company sent out a tweet and I will read it

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Speaker 3: to you. After speaking with policy leaders about the importance

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Speaker 3: of AM broadcast radio as a part of the emergency

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Speaker 3: alert system, we've decided to include it on all twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty four Ford and Lincoln Motor Company vehicles. For any

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Speaker 3: owners of Ford Electric vehicles without AM broadcast capability will

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Speaker 3: offer a software update. So that is a terrific victory.

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Speaker 3: And look I hope with Ford making this decision, the

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Speaker 3: other car makers will follow suit because that ensures that

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Speaker 3: customers have choices. And I actually view this very similar

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Speaker 3: to the fight we had earlier this year where DirecTV

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Speaker 3: had deplatformed Newsmax. I I engage vigorously to press Direct

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Speaker 3: TV to put Newsmax back on air, because I think

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Speaker 3: customers deserve the right to choose to watch Newsmax if

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Speaker 3: they want. I know a lot of Texans enjoy watching Newsmax.

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Speaker 3: I enjoy watching Newsmax. And when you have giant corporations

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Speaker 3: deciding we're only going to allow left of center news

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Speaker 3: to be consumed, that's a real problem. I viewed the

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Speaker 3: removal of AM radio from cars in a similar light,

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Speaker 3: and so we have a lot to celebrate. Ford is

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Speaker 3: a huge seller of cars. So congratulations to Ford on

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Speaker 3: doing the right thing. Your customers appreciate it, and I

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Speaker 3: think it'll be rewarded in the marketplace.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and I'm one of those obviously do

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Speaker 2: a radio show on AM and have my virtually my

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Speaker 2: entire life since I was started at twelve. But for me, yes,

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Speaker 2: I was terrified of the aspect of the censorship that

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Speaker 2: you just mentioned, but if you know anything about AM radio,

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Speaker 2: it saves lives when they're our natural disasters, and that

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Speaker 2: for me far it was part of the shock I

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Speaker 2: think of this plan as so many of these car

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Speaker 2: makers were really just lockstep one after another. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: not going to offer and we're not going to offer

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Speaker 2: AY and we're not going to offer AM anymore. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, it costs nothing just to put just

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Speaker 2: so people understand AM radio.

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Speaker 1: Technology and cars.

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Speaker 2: Is I mean, we're talking pennies to put it in

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Speaker 2: if you're already putting in all the other FM technology,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. And that's where it was like, Okay, not

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Speaker 2: only do they seem to not understand the safety aspect

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Speaker 2: of this, but is it about censorship? And that's why

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you guys got together to do this.

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Speaker 2: I have to ask you, how did this alliance between

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Speaker 2: the two of you happen and what was his mindset

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Speaker 2: about this going in?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, and I'll say the boycott on AM radio

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Speaker 3: started with electric vehicle manufacturers who argued that the electric

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Speaker 3: vehicle technology interfered with the AM radio antenna and the

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Speaker 3: signal and it caused interference. Now, technologically on an electric vehicle.

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Speaker 3: It's relatively simple to solve by understanding is with a

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Speaker 3: quite inexpensive shield, you don't have the interference. But they

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Speaker 3: didn't want to add the shield, and so they were

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Speaker 3: removing AM radio. And when it was limited to a

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Speaker 3: couple of electric vehicle manufacturers or models, it was still

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Speaker 3: a pretty small presence in the marketplace. What had happened

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Speaker 3: now is that more and more big manufacturers were extending

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Speaker 3: this more broadly, and we were facing a very real

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Speaker 3: scenario where a significant percentage of new vehicles sold would

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Speaker 3: not have AM radio at all, and that would be

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Speaker 3: a real problem from an emergency response perspective and a

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Speaker 3: real problem from a censorship perspective. So I'll tell you

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Speaker 3: Markey reached out to me. I'm the ranking member on

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Speaker 3: the Senate Commerce Committee, and Ed is on the Senate

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Speaker 3: Commerce Committee. I don't know what his motivation was, but

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Speaker 3: I look for many Democrats, they are in favor of

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Speaker 3: all sorts of mandates, and so they're often willing to

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Speaker 3: mandate that a manufacturer provide all sorts of things. As

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Speaker 3: a general matter, I'm pretty skeptical of mandates and so

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Speaker 3: on many things we don't see eye to eye. But

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Speaker 3: in this instance, the emergency response factor persuaded me, and

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Speaker 3: the viewpoint discrimination targeting talk radio in particular, that moved

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Speaker 3: me significantly. I don't want to see important voices in

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Speaker 3: free speech silenced, and I think pulling AM radio out

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Speaker 3: of automobiles would have done that, And so I agreed

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Speaker 3: to sign on and the two of us rolled it

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Speaker 3: out together. And I think the fact of our legislation

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Speaker 3: played a pivotal role in forcing Ford to change its policy,

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Speaker 3: and I hope that other car manufacturers will follow suit.

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Speaker 2: One other thing that's really cool about the history of

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Speaker 2: AM radio. The first first station in history to be

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Speaker 2: programmed for African American programming is still on AM radio

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Speaker 2: only in my hometown of Memphis, and CWDA and the

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Speaker 2: many African American radio stations in America also came together

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Speaker 2: over the last several weeks as well to demand that

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Speaker 2: Have you picked a tea team at the end of

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Speaker 3: Look To be honest, once, once the Rockets are out

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Speaker 3: My rule on sports is that I root for any

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Speaker 3: not a good Rocket season. That's a rebuilding season. They

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Speaker 3: the Rockets aren't in it, The Spurs aren't in it,

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Speaker 3: the Mavericks aren't in it. So I haven't watched it close.

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Speaker 3: I've watched a couple of the games. I do think

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Speaker 3: the NBA was really really hoping for a Lakers Celtics matchup. Yes,

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Speaker 3: the basketball gods decided that was not what was going

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Speaker 3: to happen. You know, I'll probably watch some of the

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you I loved

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Speaker 2: watching the Nuggets sweep the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Senator.

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Speaker 2: That was I was hoping you were going to go

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Speaker 2: there at the beginning of your response, because watching the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: I'm just not a fan of the Lakers get swept

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Speaker 3: I listen, Lebron James my last re election campaign, he

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Speaker 3: no part of me is weeping that Lebron is going

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Speaker 3: to be watching the finals on TV. You know that's

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Speaker 3: you know karma. Karma has a wonderful uh sense of humor.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I will say this on a light note that I

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Speaker 3: I love the podcast. I listened to it three days

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Speaker 3: he said, was awesome. I listened to it this morning already.

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Speaker 3: His name was Salvatory. And I was having dinner with

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Speaker 3: a gentleman, a friend of mine who is older, who

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Speaker 3: and so I asked Salvatory. I said, Salvatory, can I

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Speaker 3: ask you something? Will you come with me to my table?

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Speaker 3: And I introduced Salvatory to my friend. I was having

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Speaker 3: it and my friend said, so are you from Texas?

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Speaker 3: Are you? And I'm laughing, but no, he's the bartender

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Speaker 3: That happens every day as I travel across Texas and

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you.

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