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Speaker 1: Mailbag episodes, and the beauty is I'm going to go

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Speaker 1: First question comes from Bart Bird from one of from home,

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Speaker 1: my future longtime residency I'm hoping, which is Penscola, Florida.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Bart, first question, Thank you for not being

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Speaker 1: It has raised the standard of living. Trust me, the

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Speaker 1: standard of living in our poorest state is better than

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Speaker 1: it comes to the debt and deficit, that's for sure,

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Speaker 1: all right. Next question comes from William Watkins Temple Hills, Maryland,

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Speaker 1: as a fellow political history buff. I've often thought about

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Speaker 1: Trump's role in the GOP as analogous to Oliver Cromwell

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Speaker 1: disrupting traditional leadership and becomes sort of a lord protector

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Speaker 1: or will the movement keep sharpening the guillotine French Revolution

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Speaker 1: looked at it as is, Look, we know it's going

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Speaker 1: to evolve, and it'll it'll evolve into something different. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't go away. I think one of this idea that

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Speaker 1: somehow Trump goes away, Maga goes away, it's more of Remember,

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Speaker 1: bridge you know, Ronald Reagan bridged essentially the Goldwater wing

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Speaker 1: I think it more likely disperses into multiple different factions.

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Speaker 1: Bamberger and Mikey Cheryl, they didn't come from the left

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Speaker 1: wing of the Democratic Party. They very much came from

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Speaker 1: the more center left of the party. And I think

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Speaker 1: trans issues in general are used to try by the right,

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Speaker 1: by consultants on the right to try to paint Democrats

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Speaker 1: is out of the mainstream right, and it's been a

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Speaker 1: and a lot of So how else do you do that?

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Speaker 1: You do that by having by putting some legislation on

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Speaker 1: the floors of state legislatures, legislatures or Congress to sort

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Speaker 1: of create uncomfortable wedge votes that may not actually put

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Speaker 1: anything into law, but sort of put surfaces and issues.

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Speaker 1: My point is is that I don't think, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of these transgender issues run counter

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Speaker 1: to the libertarian conservative that also matters too, that still

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Speaker 1: exists on the right, you know, the sort of live

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Speaker 1: and let live. You know, I'm not going to you know,

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Speaker 1: get you know, you you know, you don't. I won't

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Speaker 1: go into your bedroom. You don't come into my bedroom. Right,

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Speaker 1: and they're particularly out west. The libertarian conservatives still exists,

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Speaker 1: if you will on that front. If this economy gets

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Speaker 1: more sour, I mean, I absolutely look it. What did

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Speaker 1: Democrats do? They didn't. They were trying to pivot away

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Speaker 1: from Biden, knowing Biden was a bit was was sort

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Speaker 1: of was. They couldn't really run on Biden's policies, so

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Speaker 1: they ran on another issue in twenty two. Right, when

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Speaker 1: do they run on abortion rights? Right? This is if

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Speaker 1: you can't run with Trump and you can't run on

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Speaker 1: Trump's economy. Well, the other ways into swing voters are

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Speaker 1: these cultural issues. Now. The problem is these cultural issues

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Speaker 1: don't resonate unless the economy is humming, right. They resonate

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Speaker 1: more when the economy is going well. When the economy

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Speaker 1: is not going well, then it looks like you're afraid

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Speaker 1: of confronting the issues that matter. You know, you're you

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Speaker 1: know and that, and it's why these trans issues, this

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Speaker 1: trans anti trans campaigning did not work in those two races.

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Speaker 1: It's not that they are blue states. They did not

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Speaker 1: work because the economic messages were simply stronger and more relevant.

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Speaker 1: So to answer your question, I think you will see

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Speaker 1: more attempts at bringing these cultural issues in because there

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Speaker 1: that's what you do when you can't run on bread

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Speaker 1: and butter. That's what the Democrats do it when they

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Speaker 1: can't run on bread and butter. For their side, you know,

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Speaker 1: they find cultural issues that they think create a wedge

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Speaker 1: on the right, that that paint a conservative is out

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Speaker 1: of the mainstream. That's where abortion rights comes in, same

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Speaker 1: sex marriage, things like that. And then I think in

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Speaker 1: some cases trans writes fit right now fall into that

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Speaker 1: same bucket when it comes to campaign strategy. All right,

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Speaker 1: next question here comes from Yari and he writes, Hey, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: friends suggested your pod after a discussion we had recently,

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to hear your take. My sister's Instagram

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Speaker 1: business account, used to promoter nail Salon was permanently suspended

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Speaker 1: by Metaphor allegedly violating child sexual exploitation policies despite having

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Speaker 1: no such content. She's appealed without success, and it seems

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Speaker 1: this is happening the thousands of other users based on

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Speaker 1: flawed AI moderation. Yep. Do you see space for this

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Speaker 1: kind of issue, especially how metas policies are affecting small businesses,

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Speaker 1: to discussed more widely in the media. Boy, I look this,

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Speaker 1: I think this is this gets it to a larger

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Speaker 1: issue that I think is going to be going to resignate, resignate,

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Speaker 1: resonate quite a bit in both twenty twenty six and

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Speaker 1: more so in twenty twenty eight. The fact that you know,

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Speaker 1: we're we're not going to be for a computer deciding

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Speaker 1: whether or not our insurance company is going to cover

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Speaker 1: a certain procedure that a doctor recommends, and we're not

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Speaker 1: going to tolerate a computer deciding whether or not I

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Speaker 1: can advertise my business on Instagram. And you know, right

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Speaker 1: now there's a lot of this. You know, all of

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Speaker 1: this stuff is trying to be automated. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: automate all of it. And one could argue there's an

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Speaker 1: eight you know that it might be an eighty to

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Speaker 1: eighty five percent successful thing to do the problem is

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Speaker 1: when you when you you know, you may think, oh geez,

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Speaker 1: we're it works well for about eighty five percent of

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Speaker 1: this you know, to use AI to do this, but

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Speaker 1: for the fifteen percent it doesn't work well with that's

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Speaker 1: a huge you know, that's still millions of people, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, what's ten percent of the American population, thirty

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Speaker 1: three million people? Right, So you know, I always try

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Speaker 1: to remind myself of raw numbers sometimes instead of percentages,

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Speaker 1: to sort of truly put this. And so the point

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Speaker 1: why do I single that out? Because I think I've

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Speaker 1: not Your specific example is not one I've come across,

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Speaker 1: but it is similar to other examples I've heard, whether

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Speaker 1: it is in trying to get a mortgage application approved,

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Speaker 1: trying to get your resume read by a human being

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Speaker 1: versus an AI bot that sort of weeds it out.

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Speaker 1: This right, this is going to be I think where

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Speaker 1: a smart politician is going to exploit this fear. I

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Speaker 1: think it's I think it's worthy fear. Right, But to

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Speaker 1: government has to regulate these algorithms more. Government has to

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Speaker 1: regulate this usage of AI when it comes to making

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Speaker 1: you know, a computer making decisions and impact actual human beings.

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Speaker 1: I think this is all going to be in under

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Speaker 1: that larger bucket and having if you're going to use

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Speaker 1: AI to make some of these decisions, you're going to

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Speaker 1: have to have a human resource person of some sort

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Speaker 1: that actually is there to adjudicate issues like the one

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Speaker 1: you've addressed in yours. And right now, these companies don't

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Speaker 1: want to do that. I mean try, you know, just

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Speaker 1: for your own exercise. I do it. Whenever I'm looking

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Speaker 1: to solve a problem, I always want to talk to somebody,

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Speaker 1: and they constantly want to put me into an AI

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Speaker 1: chat bot or an a you know, some sort of

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Speaker 1: automated this, automated that, and you're constantly pushing zero or

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Speaker 1: one just to get to a see if you can

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Speaker 1: get to a live operator, a live person, and this

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Speaker 1: or that, and you know whatever it is. In every

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Speaker 1: company now, even regardless of whether they're a tech company

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Speaker 1: or not, makes it nearly impossible to find a human being.

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Speaker 1: I think this is going to just become a political

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Speaker 1: wedge issue, and I think companies that use human beings

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Speaker 1: are going to get rewarded and companies that don't are

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Speaker 1: going to get punished. And they're going to get punished

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Speaker 1: by the market. They're going to get punished by consumer behavior.

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Speaker 1: Maybe over time will be tolerant of this, but not

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Speaker 1: right away right And I think that that's where I

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Speaker 1: think this is going to be an issue that resonates

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Speaker 1: quite broadly within the electorate. It's going to cut across

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Speaker 1: ideological lines. You know, I don't know about you, but

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Speaker 1: if I were running for office, I'd run as a

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Speaker 1: pro human, not as an anti human. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's very easy to be a populist on issues like this.

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Speaker 1: And I think with everybody sharpening the pitchforks and coming

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Speaker 1: at the elites, you know, using a robot to deal

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Speaker 1: with actual human problems is I think going to be

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Speaker 1: a political net negative for the foreseeable future. So I

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Speaker 1: do think this will only get more attention, more coverage

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Speaker 1: of how AI is harming people's lives one way or

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Speaker 1: the other, all inadvertently perhaps, but how the lack that

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Speaker 1: basically this technology isn't working well enough yet to cut

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Speaker 1: the human element out. Hello, check and everyone at the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear a discussion about the ways that

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Speaker 1: Trump administration may try to rig the next election. Texas

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Speaker 1: mail and ballots, troops and blue cities, et cetera. What

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Speaker 1: other ways Trump try to affect the election. How effective

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Speaker 1: could they be? How would Dems fight back? Sent from

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Speaker 1: Planet Earth edge of the Milky Way. Well, look, I

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Speaker 1: understand this concern, and I'm not saying that it isn't

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Speaker 1: concern you should you know that this isn't something that

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Speaker 1: we should be vigilant about. But I think it's proving.

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Speaker 1: I guess what I would say is, I'm curious if

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Speaker 1: you're at all reassured that the redistricting efforts have actually

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Speaker 1: not gone as well as Trump thought they would, that

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Speaker 1: he's gotten more pushback in more places than he expected,

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Speaker 1: that Democrats have enough firepower to fight back and to

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Speaker 1: sort of marginalize this, that you actually do have a

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court that isn't a six' Three trump. Court it

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Speaker 1: is a three three three, court meaning there's three that

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Speaker 1: will support Whatever trump. Wants there's three that are going

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Speaker 1: to pose just about Anything trump, wants and there's three

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Speaker 1: that are that are want to be favorable to conservative

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Speaker 1: principles but struggle with some of the things that are asked.

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Speaker 1: For right That's Robert barrett And, kavanaugh and And i'm

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Speaker 1: sure that doesn't give you you, KNOW i, KNOW i

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Speaker 1: know How barrett And kavanaugh and to a lesser Extent

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Speaker 1: roberts are seen by. Some but if you look at that,

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Speaker 1: court there's there's a just there's three distinctive, groups not

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Speaker 1: two and and The republican, appointees which is probably the

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Speaker 1: better way to describe. Them there's three distinctive, buckets. Right

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Speaker 1: one is one is a bit you, know one wants

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Speaker 1: to sort of roll back roll back. Time one is

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Speaker 1: trying to sort of live in the, moments, uh and

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Speaker 1: three are a bit more uh liberal or. Progressive SO

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Speaker 1: i think THAT i guess What i'm saying is that

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Speaker 1: the things we should the things that would be concerning

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Speaker 1: me more as if he were trying to nationalize and federalize.

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Speaker 1: Things as long as the states have the power to

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Speaker 1: hold elections and the states have the power to just draw,

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Speaker 1: lines and the states have the power as long as

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Speaker 1: that stuff is still state, based it's it's you, know

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Speaker 1: if The Justice department gets more aggressive at at purging voter,

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Speaker 1: files that's when you, know those would be little things

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Speaker 1: that we could expect that WOULD i think raise some

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Speaker 1: alarm bells if he if he messes around with the certification,

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Speaker 1: dates if he tries, to you, know create essentially loopholes

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Speaker 1: that would throw ballots out so they wouldn't be, counted you,

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Speaker 1: know saying all ballots have to be counted by a certain,

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Speaker 1: date and you know that would usurp sort of state

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Speaker 1: authority about them deciding when does a postmark count things like.

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Speaker 1: THAT i GUESS i view that's where the alarm belt

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Speaker 1: the more anything he tries to take away from states

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Speaker 1: when it comes to governing our, elections because what makes

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Speaker 1: our democracy safer than most democracies is the fact that

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Speaker 1: it is. Diffuse it is not you, know we don't

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Speaker 1: have a national election board holding all this, elections, Right

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Speaker 1: it is individual fifty states and within their counties and within,

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Speaker 1: there you. Know so that is what sort of can

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Speaker 1: prevent some voter, fraud and it can prevent some, shenanigans

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Speaker 1: and it certainly it just makes it harder to rig an.

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Speaker 1: Election doesn't mean it isn't, riggable as we saw with

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Speaker 1: some of the absentee ballot fraud we've seen with Those

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Speaker 1: republicans in That North carolina congressional. District there was A

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Speaker 1: miami runoff back in the nineteen ninety, nine so THAT'S

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Speaker 1: i guess that's a way Why i'm not as it's

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Speaker 1: on my list of, concerns but it's not on my

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Speaker 1: top five list of. Concerns all, right next question in

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Speaker 1: this policy. Face that's the last one on That love the.

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Speaker 1: PODCAST i wanted your take on a few proposed constitutional.

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Speaker 1: Amendments all. Right, FIRST i think impeachment And senate conviction

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Speaker 1: votes should be confidential to reduce, partisanship like jury. Votes,

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Speaker 1: huh so members can vote their. Conscience that is an interesting.

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Speaker 1: Idea that should all impeachment trials be secret ballot for

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Speaker 1: the jurors AKA us. Senators. Huh that that is a

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Speaker 1: Huge that is a that is a fascinating. Idea let's

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Speaker 1: just SAY i agree my instinct just to agree with this,

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Speaker 1: Idea so thank, you B ray that's who wrote. This all. Right,

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Speaker 1: SECOND i SUPPORT scotus reforms like twenty two year term,

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Speaker 1: limits expanding to eleven seats and guaranteeing each president two

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Speaker 1: appointments per term with Timely senate. Votes, Finally i'd like

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Speaker 1: to see federal elections reformed with ranked choice, voting open,

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Speaker 1: primaries and Expanded house representation under The Wyoming rule to

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Speaker 1: reduce partisanship and improve access for independent. Thoughts, WELL i

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00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: assume The wyoming rule, is you, know the idea of

641
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 1: of you. Know, note look right, Now wyoming has six

642
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: times the voting power for president That california. DOES A

643
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: california voter, does, right an individual In wyoming has six

644
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: times more, influence, right and their vote counts. More if

645
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: you doubled the size of The house Of, representatives that

646
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: would go down to two and a half, times which

647
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: would to, me is the right say that's a better

648
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: ratio because our founders did want small states to have some, advantages,

649
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: right to be to sort of punch above their, weight

650
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: not get overwhelmed by the large. States BUT i don't

651
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: think they wanted our large states to have very little

652
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: influence on the ultimate. Outcome so six times the power

653
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: seems a little absurd for the small. States two and

654
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: a half times feels a bit more. Prescient SO i

655
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: want To i'm hoping that is The wyoming rule that

656
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: you're referring, to SINCE i sort of that's been part

657
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: of my plan to expanding The house Of, representatives, which

658
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: by the, way you don't need a constitutional amendment for

659
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 1: this is a it's up to The house Of, representatives

660
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: just An act Of. Congress they used to do it

661
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: every year or excually every ten. Years it was part

662
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: of The it was with The. Senate we haven't done

663
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: it since nineteen, ten and they disagreed on how to

664
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: do it nineteen, twenty and by nineteen thirty they locked

665
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: us into four and thirty Five house. MEMBERS i think

666
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: that's been a huge. Mistake there's no doubt we need.

667
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: That the only ONE i take issue with IS i

668
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: don't why do we guarantee HE i don't think you should.

669
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: Guarante we shouldn't guarantee any presidential term a certain number of.

670
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: APPOINTMENTS i just, don't, RIGHT i think that THAT'S i

671
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: think if you're going to put in sort of either

672
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: age limits or service limits for the federal, government AND i,

673
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: would by the, way service limits is the WAY i

674
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: would word, it because it should be both elective and. Appointed,

675
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: RIGHT i think twenty two years that's a pretty good.

676
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: One that feels better than eighteen in twenty two years,

677
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: combined you, know, say of combined service an elective or

678
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: appointed Pointed senate confirmed. Office you could make it. There you,

679
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: know offices that Are senate confirmed By, cabinet secretary Of

680
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: Supreme court, judges et. Cetera so twenty two years feels

681
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: pretty feels pretty good on that. Front maybe you would

682
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 1: extend it to twenty eight if you Combined congressional all

683
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: of it is, one but guaranteeing each president two appointments

684
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: per term is you, know none of, this none of

685
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: this will ever sort of be, clean right because you

686
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 1: Know Supreme court members might you, know don't die on a, schedule,

687
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: Right nobody dies on a, Schedule so no matter how

688
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: much you try to schedule, THINGS i think that that

689
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: that that makes it difficult to abide. By but that's

690
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: that's me being in. Technicality AND i assume you're expanding

691
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: to eleven seats because if we have eleven, circuits maybe

692
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: you have one per. Circuit that THAT i think you

693
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: don't expand THE Us Supreme court more than the number

694
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: of circuits that we, have SO i COULD i could

695
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: see that tying that. Together but that doesn't need to

696
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: have a constitutional amendment. Either by the, way the age

697
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: limits have to be in the constitution because we put

698
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: age minimums in the, constitution but this other stuff doesn't

699
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: have to be in the. Constitution that's an act of,

700
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: this that's An act Of. Congress on that, one They

701
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: congress can. Decide you, know they've, expanded they've created new, circuits,

702
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: right they can keep doing. This they've created all the

703
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: entire sort of ecosystem of the courts was created by

704
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: acts of. Commerce so all of this could be. Done

705
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: you don't need on that. One you don't need. THAT

706
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: i do think a constitutional amendment that prevents partisan, primaries

707
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 1: LIKE i. DON'T i actually think you shouldn't need. ONE

708
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: i think there's a case to be. Made you've heard

709
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,439
Speaker 1: me rant about this before THAT i think the equal

710
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: protection clause is violated the minute you tell ME i

711
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: can't vote in A republican Primary democratic primary Because i'm

712
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 1: not a member of that private club that's not a government.

713
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: Entity The Democratic party of The Republican party is not

714
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 1: a government entity at. All it's a Private it's a private, club,

715
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: right the political. Party it's a private. Club and you're

716
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: telling me taxpayer dollars are funding a a an election

717
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: that not everybody's allowed to vote. It how is that

718
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: not a violation of equal? Protection SO i THINK i

719
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: actually think we just need better, lawyering and we would

720
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: probably could get rid of partisan primaries without a constitutional.

721
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: Amendment but if you're saying we need, one, Man i'm

722
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: all for. It where you cannot all you cannot hold

723
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: an election that isn't open to all voters in that, district,

724
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: precinct or, state. Hardstop maybe we just have to have

725
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: a straight up constitutional amendment that does. That all, Right

726
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: i'm going to do one more question with part one

727
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: here and then we're going to get into part. Two hey,

728
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: check longtime, listener first time. Writer, well all, right fellow

729
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: cheesehead behind Enemy lines In, Stillwater. Minnesota, hey, good look at.

730
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: That and you know, What i've always felt, This The

731
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: bears have stunk my whole, lifetime except for like you,

732
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: know two, flashes, right the eighty Five bears and the

733
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: Accidental Super Bowl bear Super bowl Appearance bears with the

734
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: back in the in the mid mid ODDS i think

735
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: it was or. Whatever but, ultimately The bears have been

736
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: terrible in my. Life i've NEVER i, know it's the

737
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: longest rivalry for The, packers but it's for, me The,

738
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 1: vikings they've been the chief. Rival so, yes enemy enemy

739
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: lines is the Correct And Britt farv was in that

740
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 1: horrible purple uniform and all of those. Things so, ANYWAY

741
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: i just want to get it straight to all My viking,

742
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: friends and this means, you my Friend dennis, McDonough WHO

743
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,280
Speaker 1: i know is a. Listener The vikings they're the RIVAL

744
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: i take the most seriously as A packer. Fan The

745
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: bears whatever you, know they're they're sort Of it's not

746
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: a rivalry if you haven't won in a, while, Right

747
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: vikings they've been tougher, Anyway BUT i. Digress here's your, Question.

748
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: Jake is it really as there are some game between

749
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: legacy and independent media or is traditional media is still

750
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: essential for news while independence mostly react and. Analyze also

751
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: loved Hearing packers. Talk are they just playing spoiler now

752
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: or can they make a real playoff? Front let, MEAN i,

753
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: WILL i. Will this is a good way to make

754
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: this last of this, RIGHT i get to end with

755
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: the little. Sports but, no it's funny you say. That

756
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: let me give you my sense of where you, know

757
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: mainstream media is, dead long lived mainstream. Media that's been

758
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: my mantra of. Late what DO i mean by? That

759
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: mainstream media constantly is evolving and. Changing we just don't

760
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: mark time very well with. IT i don't know how

761
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: familiar you are with something Called life, magazine BECAUSE i

762
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: don't want to presume that you're of a certain age

763
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: that remembers When Life magazine was. Relevant but there was a.

764
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: Time Life magazine And Look magazine were two of the

765
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: most important news entities out there because they were one

766
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: of the few places you could get the pictures of

767
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: the events that were taking place around the world or

768
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: in this. Country and you, know they became essential parts

769
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,439
Speaker 1: of mainstream media for a period of time for about fifty,

770
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: years and then we got moving pictures and television be

771
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,800
Speaker 1: can and so then the idea of the great. Photograph

772
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: and don't get me, WRONG i love me a good

773
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: iconic photograph out Of Sports illustrated Or time Or Life

774
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 1: magazine or The National. Geographic but it doesn't have you,

775
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: know it. Doesn't it. Doesn't it still pales when you

776
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: can see it in real, life right moving. Pictures so

777
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: my point is is That Life magazine was in the

778
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: mainstream media and then it. Wasn't you, know mutual radio

779
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: was part of the mainstream media until it. Wasn't SO

780
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: i do believe all of this is technologically driven and

781
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: that we go through AND i think media is a

782
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: cycle of this meaning and in, fact if you look

783
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: at the last one hundred and fifty, years this cycle

784
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: has repeated itself and we're in the middle of it.

785
00:49:55,520 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: Now new technology comes along and initially there's. Fragmentation eventually there's.

786
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: Consolidation so you had the printing press and everybody could

787
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: be could do their own. Newspaper in the nineteenth, century

788
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: it seems like everybody had their own, newspaper and then

789
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: you started to have. Consolidation but when you figured out

790
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: how to, reprint how to print, photographs we got a

791
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: proliferation of. Magazines then we got some, consolidation right time

792
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: life all that, stuff more, consolidation and then eventually the

793
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: technology became less. Relevant when television first started acsuse, me

794
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 1: when radio first, started there were smaller radio stations popping up.

795
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: Everywhere over, time eventually you'd have consolidation and we had

796
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: a network, effect and then that's where the initial broadcast

797
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: television was built off of CABLE. Tv, right, fragmentation then

798
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,479
Speaker 1: the bundles and, consolidation and so we're in the middle

799
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: of this. Now so it's not that there is a

800
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: it's a ZERO i don't think there's a zero sum.

801
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: GAME i think there's always a new media that's pushing

802
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: what is the mainstream media of that, moment and the

803
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: definition of mainstream media changes with our times and with our,

804
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: culture right and so right, NOW i, think you, know it's.

805
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,479
Speaker 1: Funny it's like there's all these debates about, like, oh

806
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: the new anchor of THE Cbs Evening news, Who and you,

807
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: Know Megan kelly did a tweet that's sort of really

808
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,919
Speaker 1: sort of, saying, ah this is, irrelevant no one cares.

809
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: ANYMORE i thought she was overly brutal about it because

810
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: she sees it as a threat to her. Business AND

811
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 1: i get, That but the fact, IS i don't Think

812
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: megan's yet. Mainstream but she's, not and she's, independent but

813
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: she's part of a of a of a larger movement

814
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: that's within the larger definition of. Mainstream. Right, SO i

815
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: think what you're gonna see is consolidation of some sort

816
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: where you'll, have in the same, way you'll have these individual,

817
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: networks and some of them through four maybe six of

818
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: them end up being the most read or the most,

819
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: membered or the most you, KNOW i don't know how

820
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: we're going to count, it, right but sort of the

821
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:15,720
Speaker 1: most prolific that will fit what we call mainstream media

822
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: come twenty thirty, five and that could some of some

823
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:24,359
Speaker 1: of these consolidated players could have old legacy. Names now

824
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: DO i think LIKE i think we're in a moment

825
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: where major media companies are going to get out of

826
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: the news business. Altogether, Right disney is going to SELL

827
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: Abc news this calendar. Year that will be put up

828
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: for sale as soon as THE tegna Next our merger.

829
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: HAPPENS i promise YOU Abc news gets put up for.

830
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: Sale does that Mean paramount will PUT Cbs news up for?

831
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: Sale they? Could IS cnn going to be put up for?

832
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: SALE i think it. WILL i don't know ABOUT, nbc

833
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: but if the other two do, that it wouldn't surprise

834
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: me if comcasts followed. Suit the point being is THAT

835
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: i do think there's a that there is more acknowledgement

836
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: that shareholder driven companies aren't going to be trusted to

837
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: be the stewards of media organ of news. Organizations and

838
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: if you want those news organizations to survive in this,

839
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: era they need to have some sort of independence to. Them.

840
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: Right but there's still going to be, networks and it's possible,

841
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: that you, know maybe you, Know, Look i'm my joke

842
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: about What i'm doing. Now i've started a media, company

843
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 1: And i'm hoping to expand not just What i'm doing,

844
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: here but maybe in another in another, area but all

845
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: with the goal of sort of modernizing the information. Ecosystem

846
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: but you, know my joke, IS i hope to be a.

847
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: Consolidator but If i'm, consolidated maybe that'll be okay. TOO

848
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 1: i think we're in a we're at the tail end

849
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: of this of this web two point zero fragmentation right

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Speaker 1: with streaming and YouTube and, substack TikTok, et, cetera and

851
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: a consolidation is, coming you, Know and it could be,

852
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: like you, know Mister, beast WHO i saw Is hawk

853
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: and all sorts of candy bars at the targets and

854
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: the walmarts in these, days you, know is he his

855
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: own news network that also will have a news division

856
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: that you, know maybe he partners with somebody that runs.

857
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: That maybe it's my friends at the fourteen forty or

858
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: At All, sides or who, knows, Right but the point

859
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: being is THAT i THINK i wouldn't look at it

860
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: as a death march between legacy. Media we're in the

861
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: middle where there's a whole bunch of us that want

862
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:35,280
Speaker 1: to rebuild a new mainstream. Media right, Now today's independent

863
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: outlet is tomorrow's member of the mainstream. Media trust, me

864
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: there was a TIME cnn was a, disruptor then it became. Mainstream,

865
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: okay there was a time that cable news was a,

866
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: disruptor then it became the. Mainstream SO i guess to

867
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 1: just so for what it's. WORTH i think that's that's

868
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 1: HOW i frame. This as for The, packers my son

869
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: AND i my son accuses me of not being as

870
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 1: devoted of A packer fan as he. Is he will

871
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: say THAT i am, too that my obsession with The

872
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: hurricanes this year is trumping and it's making him sad

873
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: because he doesn't Think i'm as upset about This packer

874
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: failure this year he. Is, HARRISON i am just as

875
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:29,919
Speaker 1: obsessed about this as you. Are i've just been through

876
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: this a bunch of, times AND i went thirty years

877
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 1: with The packers. SUCKING i had to be the kid

878
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: that was a fan of The packers When David whitehurst was,

879
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 1: quarterback and NO i Love David, WHITEHURST i still wanted

880
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: to be. HIM i Loved Lynn, dickey but none of

881
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:50,439
Speaker 1: them Were Aaron, Rodgers Bred, Farver Jordan. Love so here's

882
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: my concern of The. PACKERS i just think we you,

883
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: know you're asking The packers to make a. Run although

884
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: if we're ever going to make our unlikely, run this

885
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: would be the year to do. It we're asking to

886
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 1: make a run with Our we've lost our best offensive,

887
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,879
Speaker 1: lineman which happened earlier this year In. JENKINS i don't

888
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 1: know what's going on With Zach. Tom we've had multiple

889
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:14,240
Speaker 1: receivers be out at, times including now our best arguably

890
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: our best wide receiver who happens to be a tight

891
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: end Is. Tuckerkraft jacobs hasn't been healthy all. Year our

892
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: best defensive guy is out for the. Year we lost

893
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: two more guys than, that, RIGHT i just don't think

894
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: we have the potties right to. Win we have to

895
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: win three road. Games so DO i think we can

896
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: play spoiler and destroy The bears? Dreams? YES i will

897
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: get plenty of satisfaction to sort of let those let

898
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: Those bears fans who are been nipping at our heels

899
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:50,479
Speaker 1: a little bit be reminded that this is a little

900
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: bit harder that even A packer team with one arm

901
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: time behind its back is still probably better than what

902
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: The bears have at the, MOMENT i say with less

903
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 1: with sounding LIKE i have, confidence but maybe SECRETLY i

904
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: don't have as much. Confidence But i'd like to think

905
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: we are still inside the head of The bears a little.

906
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: Bit but if you, look you know it's funny my

907
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: son AND i have gone. Through SO i prefer to

908
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: play The bears as the two, seven then The. Eagles

909
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: when you're listening to, this that was still a. Possibility

910
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: so if you told me we could play The, eagles

911
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: it should be The bears and knock them. Off then

912
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: the way THE nfl, works, right the lowest seed is

913
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: at the one, seed and it's The seahawks that are

914
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: the one seed and not The. Niners THEN i like

915
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: our chances in the second round of Beating seattle In

916
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: seattle VERSUS i like our changes better doing that THAN

917
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: i do trying to beat The niners In Santa. Clara.

918
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: Right The niners are like are kryptonite for The packers

919
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: in the, playoffs, RIGHT i JUST i never ever want

920
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: to see us playing The. Niners always feels like they

921
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: break our. Hearts. Right it goes back to that that

922
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: that that Damn Steve young To Terrell Steve, Young Toterrell. Owens,

923
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: uh not quite Hail, mary but pretty, close, right it

924
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: was last. Minute wasn't Hail mary? Throw it was just

925
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: a dart a. BULLET i mean to this, DAY i went.

926
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: THROUGH i felt LIKE i went through like Three packers'

927
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: hands and it falls Into Torell owan's. Hands, so but

928
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: it seems like ever since that, happened and what was

929
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: that ninety five ninety you know that The niners have

930
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: always been our. Kryptonite so so if you're telling me

931
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: we the one that we could, play The bears is

932
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: a two seed and The seahawks is the one, seed

933
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: and then THE nfc title game is oh between the

934
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: you know in so far against The, rams, right if that's?

935
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: Who so that's the path that The packers THAT i

936
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 1: could get The packers to the Super. Bowl It's, Bears,

937
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 1: Seahawks Rams i'd like to. HAVE i Think i'd like

938
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: to avoid The eagles And. Niners so that's my two.

939
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Speaker 1: Cents but, ultimately if you're asking me the, truth if

940
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: we win one, game we should be. Satisfied there's the

941
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 1: only good news is this, team if, healthy is the

942
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 1: best team in THE. Nfl maybe our years next year

943
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: are not this? Year all? Right with, that that's the

944
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: end Of part one of My mailbag. Episode coming up

945
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: in part, two it's going to get a few what

946
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: ifs in. There it's going to get a little. Personal,

947
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: yes they'll probably be a little bit more, sports but

948
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: also some book, PROMOTIONS tv, shows and who knows what

949
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: kind of fun political Predictions i'm forced to, make all

950
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: thanks to your wonderful. Questions so with, THAT i appreciate

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Speaker 1: you listening