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Speaker 1: Welcome in.

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Speaker 2: We are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program.

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Speaker 3: Let me hit you with some good news.

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Speaker 2: Right off the top, we are within seven points of

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Speaker 2: an all time high in the S and P five hundred.

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Speaker 2: SMP five hundred is the five hundred largest companies in

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Speaker 2: America all rolled into an index. If you want to

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Speaker 2: just never have to worry about your stocks, what I

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Speaker 2: do is SMP five hundred index funds. They set an

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Speaker 2: all time high in February. If you remember, you may

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Speaker 2: be old enough to remember that back in the day,

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Speaker 2: back in April, they started telling you that everything was collapsing,

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Speaker 2: that it was a disaster, that you needed to run

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Speaker 2: for the hills. Buck and I said, hey, stay strong.

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Speaker 2: If you have some drug powder, some extra money, maybe

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Speaker 2: it's good time to invest. Dollar cost average stock prices

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Speaker 2: dropped tremendously right now, the S and P five hundred

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Speaker 2: as I am talking to you, six thousand, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty nine, the all time record six thousand, one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty seven. So we are within about seven

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Speaker 2: points of setting an all time high for stock prices.

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Speaker 2: So even if you bought back in February at the

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Speaker 2: absolute height of the market at the all time high.

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Speaker 2: If you just did nothing, you have basically the same

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Speaker 2: amount of money now on paper as you did then,

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Speaker 2: maybe a bit more because you probably would have made

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Speaker 2: a little bit in dividends. Again, long term horizons, don't panic.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to panic, particularly in a social media era.

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Speaker 2: Try to make long time decisions. If you're too emotional,

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Speaker 2: maybe don't check stock prices. But every quarter, every six months,

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Speaker 2: every ten years, on average they're gonna double. But man,

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Speaker 2: you can do the opposite of buying low and selling high.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of sell low and buy highs out

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Speaker 2: there when you try to time the market. So just

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Speaker 2: a positive. Sometimes we don't spend enough time. I'm as

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Speaker 2: waiting for clay to go full.

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Speaker 4: Greed is good. Gordon Gekkis, I'm in a redow is

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Speaker 4: going to fix that ailing corporation of the USA.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you capitalism is in fact a good

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Speaker 2: economic system, better than all the rest. And anyway, sometimes

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Speaker 2: I feel like on a day to day we aren't

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Speaker 2: giving the long term horizon. I think we gave great

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Speaker 2: advice to everybody back in April, and my advice would

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Speaker 2: remain the same. I buy s and P five hundred

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Speaker 2: in dex funds and I sit on them and don't

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Speaker 2: worry about the day to day. I know sometimes it's

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Speaker 2: tough to do, but all of us, anyone who has

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Speaker 2: a four to oh one k anyone out there who

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Speaker 2: has stocks, you are headed for record highs. Potentially today

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Speaker 2: stock prices in the first six months of the Trump

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Speaker 2: era potentially going to set an all time high. All right,

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Speaker 2: we've been talking about Eric Adams and mom Donnie, the

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Speaker 2: New York City mayor situation. But just a few minutes ago,

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Speaker 2: our friend Caroline Levitt, as I told you, was hosting

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Speaker 2: a press briefing. And this follows the early morning press

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Speaker 2: briefing that Pete Hegseth hosted that dealt with the leaks,

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Speaker 2: which tried to suggest that there was not success from

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Speaker 2: the Iranian nuclear site attacks on Saturday, and man Caroline

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Speaker 2: Levitt went scorched earth on the CNN reporter who initially

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Speaker 2: he said, Hey, these attacks did not have their desired impact.

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Speaker 2: This is what it sounded like. Play cut.

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Speaker 5: Twenty six, Nataja Bertrand published an article in Politico from

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Speaker 5: the Intelligence Agency. She said that John Ratcliffe was speaking

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Speaker 5: without any evidence when he said Iran was attempting to

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Speaker 5: undermine President Trump's presidential campaign. And then we of course

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Speaker 5: found out that was absolutely true. In fact, the Biden

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Speaker 5: administration declassed an Intel report which said they had high

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Speaker 5: confidence that Iran had done exactly what Ratcliffe alleged. They

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Speaker 5: did run an influence campaign to hurt President Trump's candidacy.

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Speaker 5: In fact, we know the Iranians tried to take President

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Speaker 5: Trump's life.

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Speaker 1: And so this is a reporter who has.

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Speaker 5: Been unfortunately used by people who dislike Donald Trump in

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Speaker 5: this government to push fake and false narratives.

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Speaker 1: She should be ashamed of herself.

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Speaker 5: And that's not what reporting is. Journalism is trying to

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Speaker 5: find the facts in the truth. And this week we

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Speaker 5: saw this same reporter being used to push a fake

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Speaker 5: narrative to try to under mind the President of the

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Speaker 5: United States and more importantly, the brave fighter pilots who

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Speaker 5: conducted one of the most successful operations in United States history.

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Speaker 4: I mean, she's laying it down. I just would say,

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Speaker 4: Clay that I've been doing this. You know, we had

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Speaker 4: our four year aniversary of the show. I've been doing

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Speaker 4: this media thing for about about fifteen years, and we

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Speaker 4: had gotten so used to on the right before Trump

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Speaker 4: have this one way courtesy where no matter what the

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Speaker 4: media says, no matter how they lie, how they attack,

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Speaker 4: how they do all these things. You know, if you

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Speaker 4: go back to the Bush era GOP, it was all, oh, well,

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Speaker 4: we'll have to get back to you on that, or

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Speaker 4: you know, let's stick to the matters at hand or whatever. No,

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Speaker 4: if someone takes a swing at you in a bar fight,

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Speaker 4: there's really only one thing that you can do in response.

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Speaker 4: And that is one of the brilliant changes that has

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Speaker 4: been brought about by trump Ism. Not only we see

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Speaker 4: by Donald Trump himself, but also with Pete Hegseth dealing

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Speaker 4: with the media, Caroline I.

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Speaker 1: Levitt dealing with the media.

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Speaker 4: You'll notice there's a lot of questions that get asked,

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Speaker 4: and it's fine, and they're getting information and they can

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Speaker 4: write their stories. If you want to ask a real

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Speaker 4: question to the White House Press secretary or to the

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Speaker 4: Secretary of Defense, now, hey, can you tell us more

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Speaker 4: about the following? Hey get you know, they'll respond and

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Speaker 4: they're respectful. But if you want to say, when did

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Speaker 4: you stop beating your wife? So to speak, they treat

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Speaker 4: that like a hostile either interrogation or hostile prosecutor in

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Speaker 4: a court, as they well should. And I just think

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Speaker 4: that it's it's such a for so many of us

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Speaker 4: who've been doing this and watching this for a long time. Clay,

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Speaker 4: it's such a relief that we don't have to just

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Speaker 4: watch everyone on the right get skewered and humiliated in

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Speaker 4: public because that's.

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Speaker 1: What decorum demands.

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Speaker 4: It really doesn't, and this is a much better way.

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Speaker 4: You know, you meet respect with respect, you meet at

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Speaker 4: tax with counterattacks.

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Speaker 2: I also think this is a sign of how much

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Speaker 2: better Trump two point zero is than Trump one point zero.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to take a tax take shots

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Speaker 2: at the people who worked for Trump in the first administration.

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Speaker 2: There is just so much talent, and the talent has

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Speaker 2: a variety of different perspectives. It doesn't get enough attention.

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Speaker 2: Sulca Gabbert ran for president against Trump in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: as a Democrat. Now she's in the cabinet. You had

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Speaker 2: RFK Junior, who's the most famous Kennedy, lifelong Democrat. Trump

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Speaker 2: brought him into the coalition as well. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of you out there listening the MAHA moms who otherwise

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Speaker 2: wouldn't have voted Republican, but have found your way into

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Speaker 2: this as a reaction to what you saw happen related

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Speaker 2: to COVID, the tent, the coalition that Trump has built.

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Speaker 2: Even look, people out there were in a position where

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Speaker 2: some people said, hey, we should never do the attacks

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Speaker 2: on Iran. Others you and I said, hey, we think

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Speaker 2: this probably makes sense. If they have the nuclear assets,

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Speaker 2: we should try to take him out. A robust debate

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Speaker 2: over that. There's nothing wrong with it, And in fact,

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Speaker 2: I think it reflects upon the strength overall of the

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Speaker 2: coalition that this is where we are. And I just

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Speaker 2: think Caroline Levitt, I mean talking about great communicators, Pete

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Speaker 2: Hegseth earlier today setting the agenda from the Pentagon, and

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Speaker 2: now you have Caroline Levitt coming out a little bit

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Speaker 2: later in the afternoon, also setting the agenda. And it

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Speaker 2: wouldn't shock me, given the fact that he talks to

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Speaker 2: reporters all the time, if Trump comes out and he's

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Speaker 2: the third batter of an agenda setting coalition all day long,

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Speaker 2: and I just think it's a credit to the team

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Speaker 2: that he's put together what exactly is going on. So

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Speaker 2: that was Caroline Levitt. I was also going to play

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a different angle here. We mentioned

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Speaker 2: the New York City race, the mayor's race. Chris Cuomo,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you heard this yet, Buck, Chris

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Speaker 2: Cuomo obviously younger brother of Andrew Cuomo. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of talk about the uncertainty of how things were going

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Speaker 2: to go inside of the Republican Caucus surrounding Iran. Well,

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Speaker 2: Chris Cuomo now has come out and said the AOC

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Speaker 2: socialist wing of the Democrat Party just needs to leave

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Speaker 2: the Democrats because they're not actually Democrats.

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Speaker 3: Listen to this, How do you.

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Speaker 1: Keep them from having the nuke?

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Speaker 6: Impeach Trump is the opposite of having a better idea.

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Speaker 6: You're killing your party. You're killing your party. And look,

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Speaker 6: I hope it works out for you. I hope you

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Speaker 6: guys splinter off and become you know, whatever you really

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Speaker 6: are because you're not a capitalist and you're not a Democrat,

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Speaker 6: and you know you can say, well, what do you know?

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Speaker 6: I was raised by a real one. I was raised

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Speaker 6: by a real one. Go ahead and criticize Mario Cuomo.

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Speaker 6: What's going to be your biggest insult? They spawned me

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Speaker 6: and Andrew, is that going to be the best you

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Speaker 6: have because you ain't compared to him?

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Speaker 1: WHOA wow?

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Speaker 2: I mean Chris Cuomo fired up his dad obviously. Mario Cuomo, Democrat,

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Speaker 2: Governor of New York. I do think that there is

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Speaker 2: an holy alliance which may may at some point explode

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Speaker 2: big tent, it means that you may have people coming

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Speaker 2: from a variety of perspectives. I was just talking about

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Speaker 2: the big ten of the Republican Party, and everybody spent

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Speaker 2: a great deal of time talking about the interventionist versus

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Speaker 2: the anti interventionist wing of the Republican Party over how

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Speaker 2: to respond to Iran. How about what Chris Cuomo just

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Speaker 2: said there Buck, there are big parts of the Democrat

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Speaker 1: That seems like kind of a big deal.

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Speaker 2: It used to be there were elements of the Democrat

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 4: I think that unfortunately for Bro Cuomo, the Bernie wing

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Speaker 4: at the demographic data on age, they they're more powerful.

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Speaker 4: The people who the Cuomos of the world who cling

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Speaker 4: the case you are now in. You saw this with Biden, right,

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Speaker 4: Biden was the facade, right, the dementia puppet used to

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Speaker 4: fool voters for the radically left wing stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 4: wing gender identity stuff, you know, racial divisial border policies,

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Speaker 4: not border policy. I mean Biden was a complete trojan horse,

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Speaker 4: which we knew all along. This was not a surprise

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Speaker 4: to any conservatives. I was saying that when this is

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Speaker 4: back in twenty twenty, you know a lot of people

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Speaker 4: on the right recognize this. But why would he be

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Speaker 4: a trojan horse? Will because they can't tell people who

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Speaker 4: they really are and win national elections. But that's who

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Speaker 4: actually runs the Democrat Party. It is the AOC Bernie

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Speaker 4: wing of the party that is ascendant, and that is

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Speaker 4: the central ethos now, and it's the other people who

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Speaker 4: false promise of moderation. They're not moderate. The Democrat Party

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Speaker 7: Hey, man, I have figured out CNN's message. We didn't

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Speaker 2: Whatever makes Trump look bad is what they're going to

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Speaker 4: Well, also, if we only knack them back a few

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Speaker 3: Do you think Jamal Bowman? I think he's.

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Speaker 2: I just don't buy very often big dudes being confronted

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Speaker 2: First of all, I don't think most people know who

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Speaker 4: Also, the way he tells the story. Did he do

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Speaker 1: So he put him on. Now I have to watch

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Speaker 4: He rolled them up, rolled them up nicely, gave them

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Speaker 1: So now this is my new move.

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Speaker 2: This is funny because on my flight up to Michigan

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Speaker 2: That is Jamal Bowman claiming that he's This also always

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Speaker 2: who Jusse Smallett is or was in that era was zero.

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Speaker 2: I mean there was nobody watching what was the show Empire.

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Speaker 2: The number of Trump voters watching Empire frequently enough that

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Speaker 2: they knew who Jusse Smallett was that they would feel

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Speaker 2: compelled to not only know who he was, but know

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Speaker 2: his politics and taunt him in Chicago at two am.

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Speaker 1: So one of the craziest stories on.

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Speaker 4: A freezing cold winter night to lie in wait with

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Speaker 4: the moose, yes, and some kind of thing to spray

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Speaker 4: on him because you're that angry about Jesse Smollette, who

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Speaker 4: nobody who voted for Trump had any idea whom he was.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that would be. That was a strange one.

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Speaker 2: And you would think that the media might have actually

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Speaker 2: questioned some of that, particularly because our good friend Jake

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Speaker 2: Tapper wants all of you to know what the role

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Speaker 2: an in jabal bowman saying he's getting taunted because of

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Speaker 2: who he is. Here is Jake Tapper lecturing everyone about

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Speaker 2: what it is the job of the media really is.

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Speaker 1: Asking questions.

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Speaker 4: Is literally our job demanding facts and answers instead of

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Speaker 4: just taking a president's word for it. No, that's actually

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Speaker 4: that is that's actually not their job though is This

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Speaker 4: is where I have a really I have a big

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Speaker 4: bone to pick with all these people who call themselves journalists.

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Speaker 4: We have seen what their job is, depending on where

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Speaker 4: they work. The job of a CNN employee is to

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Speaker 4: tell Democrats in the audience what they want to hear

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Speaker 4: and to hurt Republicans in terms of public perception in

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Speaker 4: every way that they can.

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Speaker 1: That is the job.

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Speaker 4: That's actually the job. If you don't do that, you

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Speaker 4: will be fired. So that's what the job is. This,

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Speaker 4: it's to ask questions and get the truth to the people.

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Speaker 4: That is a lie that is meant to cover for

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Speaker 4: the actual job, which is to tell democrats what they

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Speaker 4: want to hear and attack Republicans in every way you can.

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Speaker 1: What do you think.

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Speaker 2: Let's pretend that suddenly you or I were in charge

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Speaker 2: of CNN and they said, hey, we've been listening to

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Speaker 2: your radio show.

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Speaker 3: It's phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: They should do it as smart. We would shake that

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Speaker 4: place up. It'd be amazing. Okay, so is it salvageable? Like,

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Speaker 4: let me just give you a hypothetical.

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Speaker 2: If Meghan Kelly, who obviously had a very successful show

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Speaker 2: on Fox News.

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Speaker 1: Look at You, Look at You. I always given Mammy.

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Speaker 7: Look.

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Speaker 1: Meghan's great.

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Speaker 4: She was always great to me in my career and

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Speaker 4: everything else. But she's always number one on your list

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Speaker 4: for who's.

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Speaker 2: Gonna I think she's the smartest, most talented person in

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Speaker 2: digital space that I don't work with.

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Speaker 1: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 7: So?

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Speaker 8: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Who would you put top of this and send this to? Meghan?

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 1: I think she is.

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Speaker 3: I think she asked really smart questions.

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Speaker 2: I think she gets to the heart of issues if

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Speaker 2: I were running so But the question here is, let's

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Speaker 2: pretend that I am running CNN and I say, hey,

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Speaker 2: I want to change we kind of get away from

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Speaker 2: the Jake Tapper world. We can't have this stenographer for

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Speaker 2: the Democrat powerful anymore. We're gonna shake things up. Could

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Speaker 2: Megan Kelly, who I think I'm just telling you, I

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Speaker 2: think is the most talented independent voice in media today?

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Speaker 1: All right? All right?

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Speaker 4: I mean I think Megan's great too, But yes, okay,

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Speaker 4: could she alone?

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Speaker 2: Would she be able to produce an audience or CNN's

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Speaker 2: brand so broken that even if you put somebody who's

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Speaker 2: good at television and good at doing a show, people

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Speaker 2: wouldn't respond to it because their brand is broken.

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Speaker 1: In other words, how salvageable do you think it is? Right?

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Speaker 4: You would have to accept that during the change process

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Speaker 4: from being a Democrat propaganda outlet, you would lose a

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Speaker 4: lot of audience and then have to rebuild audience. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: the audience of CNN right now does not want want

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Speaker 4: anything to be told to them that is outside of

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Speaker 4: what the DNC would approve and send themselves. They don't

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Speaker 4: want to hear it, and so you would have to

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Speaker 4: accept that. There'd be that painful ratings transition period and

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Speaker 4: then I think you could build into something else. But

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Speaker 4: that's you know, that's a risk that executives at these

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Speaker 4: places are very rarely willing to take any risks. I

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Speaker 4: think CNN's brand is in terminal decline. I think CNN

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Speaker 4: will exist in kind of the way that ABC News

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Speaker 4: in some of these places. Yeah, sure they'll have some audience,

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Speaker 4: but a shadow of their former Now.

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Speaker 1: ABC News still has a.

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Speaker 4: Pretty big TV audience, but it's a shadow of what

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Speaker 4: it was twenty or thirty or thirty years ago. So

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Speaker 4: I think that that's where I don't think CNN is

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Speaker 4: going to be able to turn this thing around.

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Speaker 2: I know, to look at it purely from a business

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Speaker 2: market perspective. If Fox News has around seventy percent of

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Speaker 2: the news audience on cable, and it does, and it's

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Speaker 2: got an incredibly loyal brand, what is CNN's angle Because

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Speaker 2: that leaves thirty percent MSNBC, whatever you think about them,

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Speaker 2: has the left wing angle covered.

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Speaker 3: Why would you not go after some of the seventy

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Speaker 3: This is why.

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Speaker 4: And I was there and observe this when it happens.

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Speaker 4: CNN under Jeff Zucker's leadership, if you can call it,

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Speaker 4: that ignominiously ended in scandal, CNN decided to become MSNBC

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Speaker 4: with different letters, anti trump Ism, completely crazy, treat all

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Speaker 4: the actual conservatives who would have come on your air

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Speaker 4: like trash. You know, this is what they did. And

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Speaker 4: so that space that they were at least theoretically occupying

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Speaker 4: of somewhere in between Fox and MSNBC, that just became untenable.

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Speaker 4: They were just another version There were MSNBC with less honesty,

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Speaker 4: and that is not a tenable brand that that's not

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Speaker 4: a place where you can really be.

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Speaker 1: And so that's what ended up happening to them. But

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm happy. I mean, if you had told me,

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Speaker 1: if you.

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Speaker 4: Had told me when the Tea Party was getting their

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Speaker 4: thing going, don't worry one day. Not only will Trump

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Speaker 4: call CNN fake news to their faces, but he'll essentially

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Speaker 4: destroy the death star of propaganda that is CNN.

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Speaker 1: I would have said that sounds amazing, and we're pretty

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Speaker 1: much there, oh totally.

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Speaker 2: And again they only have about ten or fifteen percent

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Speaker 2: of the overall news marketplace. And you know what it

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Speaker 2: really comes through. It used to be when big news happened,

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Speaker 2: people would turn on CNN because they trusted them to

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Speaker 2: get big news. I still think about CNN back in

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Speaker 2: the day a Bernard Shaw and the scud stud whatever

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Speaker 2: that guy's name was, during the First Gulf War, when

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Speaker 2: that really made CNN's brand as somebody that could you

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Speaker 2: could trust. Now they don't even get turned on when

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Speaker 2: big news happens. Fox News I think had four point

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Speaker 2: nine million viewers when they Iran attacks happened. Nobody else

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Speaker 2: was even close to them. And it just feels like

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Speaker 2: CNN is in a terminal decline. And I wonder at

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Speaker 2: this point if there's anything they could do to change

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Speaker 2: the trajectory that they're on and I don't know that

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Speaker 2: they could, but I would be trying to undertake radical change.

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Speaker 2: I think if I were in charge of CNN.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it would have to be.

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Speaker 4: You know, when you're doing a you're doing some housing

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Speaker 4: construction stuff. But when you're doing a renovation and people

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Speaker 4: say I'm going to tear it down to the studs,

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Speaker 4: CNN really needs to be torn down to the studs.

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Speaker 4: You need to get all the way, you know, get

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Speaker 4: all the way into the dry wall and really pull

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Speaker 4: things apart in there to rebuild.

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Speaker 1: You can't just do a little coat of paint and

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Speaker 1: call it a day.

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Speaker 2: That's totally what's, by the way, happening with the intelligence

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Speaker 2: agencies right now too.

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Speaker 1: We's seeing how that's going.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for rolling with us, and it's good to be.

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Speaker 1: Back with the normal voice.

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Speaker 4: I gotta say it was your voice for like over

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Speaker 1: It can be.

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Speaker 4: Something that you take for granted before, you don't take

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Speaker 4: normal vocal register to address all of you here. We'll

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Speaker 4: went for a few days. Next week I camp play

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Speaker 4: Fourth of July Independence Day. Some people get very you know,

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Speaker 4: they get persnickety about this. They don't like when you

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Speaker 4: call it fourth of July. Whereas my grandmother one side

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Speaker 4: down in Charlottesville. So you know, this is a time

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Speaker 1: So there you go. Buck.

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Speaker 2: One of our podcast listeners has got an issue that

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Speaker 2: he wants to raise with you. As we finished the

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Speaker 2: Thursday edition of the program, this is Steve, who wants

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Speaker 2: to talk with you about your big flamingo discussion.

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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, oh, let's hear it. Let's hear it.

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Speaker 8: But check your history on the flamingos. I'm seventy years old,

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Speaker 8: and as a kid before long before Miamivice came out,

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Speaker 8: I grew up thinking flamingos were from Florida. Chat GPT

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Speaker 8: says that they were native, but then when it almost extinct,

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Speaker 8: So check it out.

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Speaker 4: All right, all right, buddy, all right, I don't know

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Speaker 4: the answer here.

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Speaker 1: I'm stepping out of this phray. This seems pretty intense.

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Speaker 9: Well, you know, when you make you know, the zoological

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Speaker 9: specificity necessary.

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Speaker 4: On this on this show is quite a thing, all right.

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Speaker 4: Let me let me just say this, uh, this is

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Speaker 4: what the truth is. As I understand, there were flamingos here.

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Speaker 4: They went extinct though for about two hundred years. Okay,

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Speaker 4: so they were gone in the eighteen hundreds and nineteen hundreds,

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Speaker 4: and then they wouldn't weren't able to find any and

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Speaker 4: then the twentieth century they started to try to reintroduce

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Speaker 4: some native colonies.

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Speaker 1: And now in Florida they're about one hundred of them.

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Speaker 4: But they are doing better than the dodo bird here,

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Speaker 4: but not much better, like they weren't around. And like

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Speaker 4: I said, it was the it was a flock of

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Speaker 4: imported African pink flamingos in Miami Vice that were not

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Speaker 4: indigenous to Florida that got everybody thinking about in the

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Speaker 4: eighties of Florida and flamingos.

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Speaker 1: Again, they didn't have They.

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Speaker 4: Didn't have flamingos in Florida for over one hundred years.

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Speaker 1: So and yet every everywhere you go there's flamingo.

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Speaker 9: This in flamingo that it's kind of weird, right, like

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Speaker 9: walking around Newfoundland being like, hey, the dodo birds, not

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Speaker 9: as many dodo birds.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this.

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Speaker 2: All over northern Michigan, they've got Bear in every business,

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Speaker 2: streets named after Bear. I don't think there's any bear

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Speaker 2: left up here. By the way, Jody Jody says, love

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Speaker 2: the show they used to have Flaminia. You got lit

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Speaker 2: up by flamingo people out there, also saying the same thing.

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Speaker 2: They were decimated for the feathers used in women's hats

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Speaker 2: back in the day. That's why they killed all the

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Speaker 2: flamingos off in Florida. So I don't know, sir, you

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Speaker 2: better step check yourself before you step into flamingo wars.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm just they were gone though.

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Speaker 4: That's my point is that there were no flamingos, and

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Speaker 4: everyone's talking about flamingos all the time. The only flamingos

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Speaker 4: you're gonna see in Florida are the lawn ornaance out there.

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you guys the truth. You can come

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Speaker 1: at me with whatever you like. We'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Who knows what colorful battles did