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Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving from Clay Travis buck Sexton and everyone here

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Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about Biden's hypocrisy on Charlottesville all

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Speaker 1: throughout this week. Basically since October seventh has happened. We've

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Speaker 1: seen an increasing number of people on the left who

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Speaker 1: are stridently anti Israel, and we talked about that at

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Speaker 1: the open of the show today. The challenge that is

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Speaker 1: out there for Joe Biden in terms of the far

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Speaker 1: left in his community, and how there's a big article

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Speaker 1: about it in the Times about how they're now rejecting

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden and the pro Israel policies of many traditional

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Speaker 1: i'll say Democrats. But there's another story about Charlottesville that

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Speaker 1: I think we need to talk about and deserves a

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Speaker 1: decent amount of attention because of the scary precedent that

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Speaker 1: is being set here. So I am, admittedly Buck a

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Speaker 1: huge Civil War history nerd. I've said on this show before,

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Speaker 1: I went in high school to Civil War sleepaway camp

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Speaker 1: at Gettysburg College.

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Speaker 2: I believe it's called the Civil War Institute.

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Speaker 1: They study different aspects of the Civil War during the

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Speaker 1: summer bring in all these great speakers who've written books

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Speaker 1: nerd like I have been for much of my life,

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Speaker 1: I basically live almost on the battlefield of Franklin in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: For those of you who are familiar with Hood's campaign

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Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty four, Again this is super nerding out.

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Speaker 1: So I pay a lot of attention to the way

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Speaker 1: and is not permissible to even discuss surrounding the Civil War,

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Speaker 1: much less memorialized. So in Charlottesville, there was a big

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Speaker 1: iconic statue that was I think a historical piece of

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Speaker 1: That was one of the foundational elements of the Charlottesville protest.

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Speaker 1: Should that statue stay or go in the wake of

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Speaker 1: the George Floyd Blm protest, And that was really the

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Speaker 1: full crim upon which everything Charlottesville spun. And my position

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Speaker 1: on all of this has been add more, if you

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Speaker 1: don't like a statue, then tearing down a statue or

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Speaker 1: tearing down a memorial, to me is exactly the wrong

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Speaker 1: thing to do. It's what the Taliban does, It's what

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Speaker 1: the the isis infidels would have done. When you don't

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Speaker 1: to allow it to exist, you are sending a message

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, discourse. So this video went viral yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Not only did they tear down this statue, which is

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Speaker 1: a monument in many ways to the artistic creation of

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Speaker 1: The fact they took down the statue, I think was wrong.

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Speaker 1: The fact that they then melted the statue is I

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Speaker 1: think doubly wrong. The fact that they videoed it Buck

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Speaker 2: This was a major project.

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Speaker 4: This group, Swords into Plowshares it's called, had been fighting

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Speaker 2: There were numerous.

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Speaker 4: Court you know, court battles, lawsuits over swords into plowshares,

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Speaker 2: And what you can see is that there is a.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know what we've generally been told.

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Speaker 4: And I'm reminded of the more recent controversy in New

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Speaker 1: Which is, by the way, an iconic statue that they

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Speaker 2: And it's gone.

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Speaker 4: And this is another moment where you realize that the

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Speaker 4: iconoclastic left here. When it comes to historical artwork or

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Speaker 1: It belongs in a museum is one of the things

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm I mean, that's what I'm going for, right,

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Speaker 4: Like maybe we could just display it differently, so it's

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Speaker 4: in a museum you can have the context. But the

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Speaker 4: which is the ritualized melting down and erasure of this

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Speaker 2: That Robert E.

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Speaker 4: Lee would have a statue anywhere because of his role

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Speaker 4: where I think there's a lot of things to discuss

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Speaker 4: just about this clay. Although it shows people what the

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Speaker 4: I don't understand how if this is now the new normal,

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, this doesn't end.

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Speaker 1: And this is one of the things that Trump got

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Speaker 2: Biden, they knew right, they lied about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Biden cited those lies as his justification for

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Speaker 1: you're talking about New York City, Theodore Roosevelt. Didn't they

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Speaker 1: Now and at some point, and you guys are going

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Speaker 1: to some of you are going to think I'm crazy.

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Speaker 1: Others of you are going to say, you know what, No,

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Speaker 1: he's a hundred percent right. At some point, there will

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Speaker 1: be again a rising up and a demand, Hey, we

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Speaker 1: got to tear down the Washington Monument. He owned slaves.

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Speaker 1: We have to destroy the Jefferson memorial. He owned slaves too.

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Speaker 1: And let me I write about this in the book

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Speaker 1: the individuals involved were on both north and south.

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Speaker 2: And look, I've even done the research. Buck.

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Speaker 1: My family is from obviously Tennessee and Kentucky, which by

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Speaker 1: soldiers who fought on both sides. Kentucky in particular, I've

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Speaker 1: I feel like I can, you know, kind of look

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Speaker 1: and people from that family fought on both sides north

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Speaker 1: nine point nine percent of people fought for their state.

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Speaker 2: So it's not as if.

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Speaker 1: People were making like if you lived in southern Mississippi,

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Speaker 4: The formation of our union was by states that voluntarily

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Speaker 4: the secession from Great Britain and King George because of tyranny. Right,

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Speaker 4: So there was a there's a different historical context and

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Speaker 4: certainly a different historical thinking. That's not to say that

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Speaker 4: debate about all this stuff, but there were people who fought.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think, what's the stack, Clay, I think

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Speaker 4: it's three percent of Southerners owned ninety seven percent of

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Speaker 1: I mean a time about one in fifty Confederate soldiers

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Speaker 4: And I guess there's there's this question of what is

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Speaker 4: That's effectively the standard. And again I sit here and

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Speaker 4: I say, I don't know where this ends, and I

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Speaker 4: don't think. Well, rather, I think I know where they

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Speaker 1: And one of the things, you know, I mentioned that

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Speaker 4: See, history gives you an incredible context for understanding how

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Speaker 4: much better business play for all. Right, Clay, you know

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Speaker 2: It started in China. Another whole world is is that

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Speaker 2: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

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Speaker 1: We bring in now my friend and country music superstar

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Speaker 1: John Rich and John we've gotten to know each other

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Speaker 1: quite a bit over the last few years. Would you

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Speaker 3: No, I would not have believed if we would actually

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Speaker 2: John, do you get the science? It's back? And I

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Speaker 2: appreciate you being here with us on the show. You

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Speaker 4: That that creates, so to speak, whether in you know,

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Speaker 4: Are people starting to recognize that the shackles they're under

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Speaker 4: contrary to the ethos of creativity and really the ethos

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Speaker 2: You seeing it happening more?

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Speaker 4: Are you talking to people behind the scenes, or is

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the artists, the songwriters, you know, the creators,

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Speaker 3: It would bother me if they liked me at this point.

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Speaker 3: But I do empathize with a lot of these artists guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm curious when you're out and about what kind of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean when I travel around the country. You

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Speaker 3: And I can tell you what happened, man, is tens

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Speaker 3: No, it's not a safe space. Listen, man, you're talking

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Speaker 3: would never hear any of it. It would never be

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Speaker 3: allowed to get to the public. Seers.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to John Rich. I know, in addition to

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Speaker 1: country music, you are a monster college football fan, and

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Speaker 1: we did some of people have watched this. We were

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Speaker 1: on Big Noon together. I know you're a Longhorn fan

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Speaker 1: for all the Texas listeners out there, but your show

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Speaker 1: was on College Game Day on ESPN. For your song

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Speaker 1: was on College Game Day, which a very popular pregame

447
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Speaker 1: show for a long time, and then they took your

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Speaker 1: version off. I'm curious why you think that happened, and

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Speaker 1: a positive story here. Your song is going to be

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Speaker 1: on Big Noon, which is going to air on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports tomorrow. Kind of take people through the background story

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Speaker 1: of how that happened both at ESPN and now at Fox.

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Speaker 3: Well, so coming to your city was the theme for

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Speaker 3: College Game Day on ESPN in for fifteen sixteen seasons

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Speaker 3: something like that. I mean, basically people had grown up

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Speaker 3: listening to that. That was a Saturday morning tradition for

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Speaker 3: a lot of people. When you hear it coming to

458
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Speaker 3: your city, you know it's time for college football. Well,

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Speaker 3: for whatever reason, ESPN decided, Hey, we still want to

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Speaker 3: use the song, we just don't want you guys to

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Speaker 3: be the one singing it anymore.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that was, by the way, a political

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Speaker 1: decision by them or what do you attribute it to?

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Speaker 1: They had somebody else record the song, right right?

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Speaker 3: I mean it would be me speculating about that, But

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Speaker 3: why else would you do it? Maybe there's another reason.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that having a guy, especially like me that's

468
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Speaker 3: as outspoken as I am as a conservative, there was

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Speaker 3: bound to been somebody in the ranks of ESPN going,

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Speaker 3: you know what, we don't really want to look at

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Speaker 3: his face every Saturday morning. Now, that was never told

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Speaker 3: to me. I can't prove that, but that's kin. That's

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Speaker 3: what my assumption is. But it is only an assumption,

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Speaker 3: so I don't really know. In any case, we weren't

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Speaker 3: real happy that we don't get to sing our own

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Speaker 3: song anymore. I mean, we weren't really happy about that.

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Speaker 3: So this opportunity comes along from Fox Sports and they said, hey,

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Speaker 3: we love Big and Rich and Cowboy Troy. You guys

479
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Speaker 3: want to do something with us, Like, of course, we

480
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Speaker 3: want to do something. Let's go. We love college football,

481
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Speaker 3: so we actually took Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy,

482
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Speaker 3: which is the biggest song we've ever had. We took

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Speaker 3: that music and wrote an entire special piece of music

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Speaker 3: for Big Noon Kickoff. It's going to air tomorrow, man,

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Speaker 3: and we are absolutely pumped to have graduated to a

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Speaker 3: major network like that and have our voices heard again.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. It's gonna be fun. It'll be on tomorrow

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Speaker 1: from ten to noon Eastern all over the country. They'll

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Speaker 1: be playing your new song on the Fox Sports pregame show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it's rocking, dude. I'm so happy and thank you

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Speaker 3: for you were instrumental man and kind of connecting those wires.

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Speaker 3: And it's been a blast working with everybody, easy people,

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Speaker 3: down the Earth people. And Yeah, tomorrow, my two sons

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Speaker 3: cast and coach the we're getting up extra early, man.

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Speaker 3: I know it's Saturday, but we're gonna watch. We got

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Speaker 3: to see you on there, man, We got to check

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Speaker 3: it out, so we'll have it cranked at our house.

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Speaker 1: By the way, you also played for Donald Trump at

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Speaker 1: his most recent fundraiser.

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Speaker 2: I saw you there.

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Speaker 1: You came out and played a song for people who

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Speaker 1: don't know Donald Trump. Why are you such a big

503
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Speaker 1: Trump supporter, he what has he been like for you?

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Speaker 3: Because the entire system hates him, and the entire system

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Speaker 3: is corrupt, and so you are known by your enemies.

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Speaker 3: And that's what I think, and I think that's what

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Speaker 3: most Americans think. Is Donald Trump a perfect human being?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: Is he the perfect role model for everybody? Absolutely not.

510
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Speaker 3: He's a very flawed individual. But the entire system despises

511
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Republicans hate him, Democrats hate him, Tech hates them,

512
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Speaker 3: the media hates them, business hates them, the banks hate him.

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Speaker 3: All the systems in our country that keep their boot

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Speaker 3: heel on the neck of the American people hate Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: And for me, that's all I need to know that

516
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Speaker 3: he's the right guy to step back forward and try

517
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Speaker 3: to put this thing back into check. Our country is

518
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Speaker 3: literally catching on fire and it's just getting started. Who's

519
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Speaker 3: the only one holding the fire extinguisher? Who's the only

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00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,199
Speaker 3: one that can reverse this mess? Name somebody other than

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump that you think would have a chance at

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Speaker 3: least of reversing the destruction we see going on in

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Speaker 3: this country. I personally can't name anybody else, and so

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Speaker 3: that's why I support him.

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Speaker 1: John Rich country music superstar, Love you man, see us soon.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys, take care.

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Speaker 4: I was disappointed to hear you both overlook Joe Peshy's

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Speaker 4: best role. Uh oh the range is hot. Maybe noteworthy,

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Speaker 4: oh just noteworthy? Will in Casino and My cousin Vinnie.

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Speaker 4: There is nothing that can compare with his role as

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Speaker 4: Leo gets in the Lethal Weapon franchise, bar none. Looking

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Speaker 4: forward to Clay's book this weekend. Gonna start it, keep

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Speaker 4: up the great work and shields high.

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Speaker 2: Well, he's got a great book to read.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps he also have a great a great movie to

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Speaker 4: download after he reads Clay's book, which would be give

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Speaker 4: a second shot to my cousin Vinnie, because I just

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Speaker 4: don't think you can compare Peshi in Lethal Weapon to

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Speaker 4: his his his dynamic role in My Cousin Vinnie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I will you know a flag here? I

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Speaker 1: said Casino? Now Lethal Weapon? Is it the best cop? Buddy?

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Speaker 2: Movie ever made. I have some I have some theories.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think Bad Boys might be a

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Speaker 2: better cop buddy. Oh my god, ye yeah, I know.

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Speaker 2: I just did it. I just did it. I know.

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Speaker 2: I know everyone's booing. But it's true.

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Speaker 1: You think Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as a cop

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Speaker 1: Combo are better than Riggs and Murtaw, than Danny Glover

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Speaker 1: and Mel Gibson.

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Speaker 2: It's different.

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Speaker 4: Eras Leith a Weapon is more iconic, and I understand that.

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Speaker 4: But if you're talking about which movie holds up more,

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Speaker 4: the first Leath a Weapon movie or the first Bad

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Speaker 4: Boys movie, I know.

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Speaker 2: It's a look.

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Speaker 4: This is a hot take that not a lot of

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Speaker 4: people would co sign, But I'm just throwing it out.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that anybody listening agrees with that opinion.

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Speaker 1: This might be the first time you've ever had an

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Speaker 1: opinion that you're wrong. A million to a million to one,

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Speaker 1: like two million. However, many people are listening at this

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Speaker 1: exact moment. Every single one of them is outraged at

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Speaker 1: what you just said.

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Speaker 2: Claiyas Einstein said, it doesn't matter how many think I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: It only takes one to prove me wrong.

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Speaker 1: I think I've already done it. I just by merely

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Speaker 1: saying Riggs and Murtaw, I think your argument is dead

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Speaker 1: on a do you remember can you name the two

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Speaker 1: cops in Bad Bad Boys.

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Speaker 2: Like their names? Yeah, Rigs, that's I mean, that's an idea.

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Speaker 2: It's Mike Lowry, that's one. Uh, the other guy. It

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Speaker 2: is impressive that you remembered one. Thank you. It's been

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Speaker 2: a long time since I've seen either.

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Speaker 1: I would even argue forty eight hours probably about that.

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Speaker 2: That's probably a better better And if you.

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Speaker 1: Want to expand it into a trio, I would argue

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Speaker 1: that Beverly Hills Cop with that trio, you know, got.

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Speaker 2: What's it Billy and and Beverly Hills Cop.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's Rosewood and it's Rosewood Foley and the other guy.

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Speaker 1: Billy Billy is his first name, Billy Hoyle. No, that's

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Speaker 1: a white man kid jumping Rosewood. Isn't that his last

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Speaker 1: name in the movie? Yeah, it's Rosewood. And then Murta

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Speaker 1: is it Murta?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: That lead the weapon? No crap, I'm forgetting.

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Speaker 4: But who's who's the Who's the curmudgeonly the one that

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Speaker 4: I feel like I identify the most with from the

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Speaker 4: first Beverly Hills Cop movie. You don't think go to

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Speaker 4: the Strip club and he said, he's Richard Nixon, Sergeant Taggart,

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Speaker 4: Thank you Taggart. Okay, Beverly Hills Cop maybe the best

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Speaker 4: cop movie of all time and is I think one

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Speaker 4: of the top ten comedies of all time. So that's

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Speaker 4: a whole that's a whole different. I don't think of

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Speaker 4: that though, as a buddy cop movie, although you could

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Speaker 4: make that argument to be fair.

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Speaker 2: Lethal weapon.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the franchise is iconic and it kind of started

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Speaker 4: that whole era of buddy cop movies. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 4: say it. I'm just gonna say it, since I'm already

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Speaker 4: upsetting a lot of people. Big fan of Turner and Hooch,

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Speaker 4: I think it overlooked, overlooked Tom Hanks movie.

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Speaker 2: I mean Tango and Cash is better than Bad Boys.

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Speaker 1: Uh you remember Tangoing Cash?

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Speaker 2: Take you in Cash?

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Speaker 4: A little overrated? Just gold throw it out there. It

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Speaker 4: doesn't really hold up. I'm just telling you.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't made a Dog and a Detective movie argument,

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Speaker 1: and you're taking shots now at Tango and Cash.

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Speaker 2: I just said I like Turner and Hootch.

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Speaker 4: There's also the Jim Belushi version of K nine, which

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Speaker 4: I saw, but I think the French Mastiff as opposed

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Speaker 4: to the German Shepherd added a little jeune Quah on

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Speaker 4: screen Starsky and Hutch. I never saw it, so I

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Speaker 4: can't speak to it. That's from our team. I'm sure

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Speaker 4: we're getting deluged right now. But I don't think there's

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Speaker 4: a single person listening that agrees with you about bad Boys.

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Speaker 4: I think that Mel Gibson's body of work is phenomenal

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Speaker 4: in terms of the movies. Terms of the movies, I

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Speaker 4: think Brave Heart is an excellent movie. I'm trying, Oh,

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Speaker 4: is Point Break a buddy cop movie?

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Speaker 1: Because that, again, it depends on how many cops you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. I would say that Point Break is a

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Speaker 1: heist movie, which is different than a buddy cutp movie.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: A heist movie is where for everybody out there, there's

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Speaker 1: a robbery planned, or there's a robbery attempting to be foiled.

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Speaker 1: And it's different than a criminal versus a cop movie,

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Speaker 1: which would be like Heat, you know, the iconic criminal

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Speaker 1: versus cop.

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Speaker 4: It's obviously it's like a dark, almost film noir kind

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Speaker 4: of vibe.

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Speaker 2: Training Day though, if you think of that as a

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Speaker 2: buddy cop movie. Is it as a movie? Probably the

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Speaker 2: best of all.

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Speaker 1: Training Day is better than Training Day is better than

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Speaker 1: we agree on that better than all of the if

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Speaker 1: you count it as a buddy cop movie. But again,

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Speaker 1: it's not really a buddy I mean, they're not buddies.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to in the event that somebody's like,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do, I'm finally gonna watch

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Speaker 1: Training Day on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: Spoil it, even though you've had twenty years to watch it.

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Speaker 2: But not really a buddy cop movie. At the beginning.

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Speaker 4: It might be it was The Last Boy Scout, which

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Speaker 4: is so bad that I can't even remember it. There

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Speaker 4: was a whole in the mid late eighties. They were

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Speaker 4: churning these things out so fast that even an action

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Speaker 4: movie junkie like myself couldn't keep up with all of them.

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Speaker 1: I've got another one for you that I forgot about.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty good. Chris Tucker and uh and who's the

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Speaker 1: Asian martial arts guy, Oh rush Hour, of course, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jackie rush Ower's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: That's a funny got movie.

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Speaker 4: I just want to point out with Clay with his

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Speaker 4: definitive blah blah blah bucks one hundred million percent wrong.

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Speaker 4: Our team looked it up. MovieWeb dot com agrees with me.

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Speaker 1: That bad yesterday just say that we can't cite these

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Speaker 1: random websites, whether like when we were talking about the

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Speaker 1: Seven Deadly or whatever natural wonders.

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Speaker 2: You're like, I don't trust that.

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Speaker 1: Now MovieWeb dot com is suddenly like an a gust authority.

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Speaker 4: I'm just going to change the rules of the game

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Speaker 4: as I need to before we get to break here'

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Speaker 4: That's how we do things