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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show the Absolutes

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Speaker 1: Last hour of the week, fourteen hours up. We dive

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Speaker 1: into the fifteenth hour now. Appreciate all of you hanging

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Speaker 1: out with us. We've got a lot to discuss. We're

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Speaker 1: going to head out to western North Carolina on the

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Speaker 1: bottom of this hour, where I spent last Friday in Asheville,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, and we will discuss a bebby of things

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Speaker 1: there about how early voting is going, how the people

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Speaker 1: are recovering, and what the impact of the Hurricane Helene

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Speaker 1: is going to be. I appreciate everybody, by the way,

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Speaker 1: who came out to our Friday event at Ihaw Brewery.

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Speaker 1: We raised a lot of money, still trying to get

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Speaker 1: the final dollar figure there, but it was a great success,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate all of you who were involved in that.

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Speaker 1: Going to dive into some data here shortly to kind

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Speaker 1: of give you an idea of how early voting is

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Speaker 1: going and why I am so optimistic. But I'm still

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Speaker 1: enjoying the Al Smith fallout and reaction, and there is

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Speaker 1: at least one or two jokes that we haven't played

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Speaker 1: for you yet. I encourage you to go check out

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Speaker 1: the full Donald Trump wroset the speech that he gave

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Speaker 1: last night in New York City, and I believe let's

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Speaker 1: say we have not played cut eighteen, which is Trump

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Speaker 1: saying that Joe Biden has disappeared from view. This was

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Speaker 1: another of the comments that he made last night.

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Speaker 2: Joe has almost disappeared from view. The only way he

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Speaker 2: could be seen lessons if he had a show on CNN.

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Speaker 3: They've nothing, They've got nothing.

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Speaker 2: Fake news, right fake.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Biden is over in Germany right now, and

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Speaker 1: it looks like that's a mess.

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Speaker 3: Buck.

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Speaker 1: Just FYI if you're wondering where he is. A couple

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Speaker 1: of clips here, including one that I thought was incredibly

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Speaker 1: well said by Trump. They didn't have to do with

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Speaker 1: humor at all. But first he said he's supposed to

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Speaker 1: make fun of himself, but he didn't see the point.

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Speaker 3: Listen to cut nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Tradition halls that I'm supposed to tell a few self

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Speaker 2: deprecating jokes this evening.

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Speaker 3: So here it.

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Speaker 2: Goes, Nope, I've got nothing, I've got nothing, there's nothing

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Speaker 2: to say. I guess I just don't see the point

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Speaker 2: of taking shots at myself when other people have been

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Speaker 2: shooting at me for a hell of a long time,

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Speaker 2: and they.

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Speaker 4: Shoot all.

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Speaker 1: Right, and then finally buck again. This was a fund

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Speaker 1: raiser for Catholic charities and Trump even in the midst

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Speaker 1: of this humorous take, which again I would encourage all

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Speaker 1: of you to go watch because he was fabulous, he

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Speaker 1: talks about how, given that he's speaking to this audience,

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Speaker 1: he feels like it was only God that allowed him

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Speaker 1: to survive. This has cut twenty and I think it's

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Speaker 1: incredibly well said by Trump.

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Speaker 2: Listen, having recently myself survived two assassination attempts. I have

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Speaker 2: a chart that went down to the right. Fortunately, I

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Speaker 2: looked at my old time favorite piece of paper, but

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Speaker 2: it went down and I looked to the right, and

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, was that luck?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 5: Was that luck?

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Speaker 2: Or was that God that did that? And I think

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Speaker 2: it was God that did that.

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Speaker 4: I do all the.

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Speaker 3: But I have a very fresh cardinal.

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Speaker 2: I have a very fresh appreciation for how blessed we

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Speaker 2: are by God's providence and his divine mercy. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that was something I was not supposed to be here tonight.

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Speaker 2: That I can tell you. So with God's help, I

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Speaker 2: know there is nothing that cannot be achieved. We can

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Speaker 2: achieve so much good with this country and get together

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Speaker 2: and unify.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so again, really great speech, Buck, But I did

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Speaker 1: think even in the midst of the roast and what

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Speaker 1: is a humorous occasion, Trump showed a great deal of

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Speaker 1: humility there in discussing his good fortune to actually be

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Speaker 1: still alive. And as we have talked about, it's not

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Speaker 1: only his good fortune. Can you imagine where this country

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Speaker 1: would be right now if Trump had been shot, if

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Speaker 1: that bullet had been a quarter inch closer to his head,

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Speaker 1: The national trauma would exist for generations from having watched

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Speaker 1: an assassination live on television, And I just we would

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Speaker 6: I do think that it's given him a new perspective

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Speaker 6: on just what the service to his country that he

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Speaker 6: has embarked on for a long time now entails, and

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Speaker 6: the risks involved. It's given him a sense of divine inspiration,

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Speaker 6: divine intervention. And I can just be we all know this,

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Speaker 6: right if Donald Trump weren't the one, if it had

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Speaker 6: been a Democrat who had just barely evaded a bullet

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Speaker 6: up on that stage, the narrative from the media, the

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Speaker 6: news media, would overwhelmingly be we have to just say

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Speaker 6: no to political violence by voting for the Democrat.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 6: Instead, what we get with Trump is them telling us

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Speaker 6: that if Trump doesn't stop what he's saying, there could

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Speaker 6: be political violence. And they say this without irony, They

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Speaker 6: say this with no self awareness.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 6: One of my concerns, Clay, honestly, is that I'm very

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Speaker 6: I'm very confident that Trump is going to win this election,

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Speaker 6: although I admit that everyone, no one can break the future.

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Speaker 6: Everyone makes mistakes in their predictions. But that said, even

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Speaker 6: if Trump does win, it's not like, Okay, now the

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Speaker 6: work is done. Actually, in a lot of ways, the

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Speaker 6: work just begins. And beyond that, I think that there

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Speaker 6: will be a a psychological epidemic among the Democrats. Not

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Speaker 6: all of them, but some of them are going to

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Speaker 6: really be unmoored, unhinged as a result of this, more

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Speaker 6: so than they already are. And I don't know what

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Speaker 6: that does to the country, but I know it does

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Speaker 6: bad things. I also think that with Kamala Harris supposed

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Speaker 6: Electoral College in Congress, I think that there's almost certain

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Speaker 6: to be some kind of shenanigans and they'll say, well, look,

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Speaker 6: Trump tried shenanigans, we're trying shenanigans. I can't imagine they

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Speaker 6: won't do that and throw the country into disarray with that.

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Speaker 6: Even though I think there's a good chance this may

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Speaker 6: not be a particularly close election, I think it'll be

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Speaker 6: very clear that Donald Trump won. It's not going to

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Speaker 6: be you know, fifteen thousand votes in Georgia or something

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Speaker 6: that are the difference. So you know what I mean,

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Speaker 6: there's a lot here that's coming together. It's not even

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Speaker 6: just if Trump wins everything all of a sudden it

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Speaker 6: can be celebrated and everything's great.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 6: They we have to take the country back from the

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Speaker 6: brink a little bit here, and the Democrats at least,

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Speaker 6: we have to get them to calm down. It's a

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Speaker 6: little bit like the masking epidemic during COVID, which there

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Speaker 6: are still people wearing masks. I see them. I see

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Speaker 6: We need to tell them all it's okay, this isn't

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Speaker 6: going to be Actually here, Ryan Gardusky, this has cut

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Speaker 6: four clay here he is saying, which political enemies has

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Speaker 6: Trump has had arrested? Like you people are insane? Play

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Speaker 6: play cut fo.

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Speaker 5: You know that there is a lot of reporting of

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Speaker 5: Trump both attempting and succeeding to direct his government to

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Speaker 5: go after his political enemies. You know that that is true, right?

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Speaker 6: Which political enemies that he get arrested?

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Speaker 5: He tried, he.

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Speaker 6: Really don't know which one, so that go to jail

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Speaker 6: and she didn't.

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Speaker 5: I said that he attempted to use the government against

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Speaker 5: his political enemies. That's that is true. And so the

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Speaker 5: idea that he said things and then doesn't try to

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Speaker 5: do them is not born out by fast. He says

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Speaker 5: things and then often tries.

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Speaker 1: To do them.

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Speaker 6: A lot of presence special with the political enemies using

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Speaker 6: the government. Trump did not get anyone.

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Speaker 7: I mean, that's the truth.

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Speaker 6: Obomby is the irs against his political enemies.

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Speaker 3: That did happen, by the way, I.

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Speaker 6: Mean, you know, I understand that you're having to speak

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Speaker 6: fast because you're gonna get interrupted by the host and

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Speaker 6: the rest of the panel. And that's the reality when

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Speaker 6: they're conservative. But notice the host here, Abby Phillip of CNN.

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Speaker 6: I'm glad that CNN is trying to get people to

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Speaker 6: watch or giving them some reason to watch now by

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Speaker 6: having some decent conservatives on the air, you know, some

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Speaker 6: solid conservative voices. But Clay, they're worried that Trump is

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Speaker 6: going to try to imprison his political enemies while they

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Speaker 6: are trying to imprison Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: That is a fact.

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Speaker 6: They have multiple criminal trials that are absurd that they're trying.

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Speaker 6: And they're worried about what Trump.

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Speaker 3: Is going to do. Like what do you do to

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Speaker 3: people who are who are that deluded? I don't know

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Speaker 3: what the word is. I don't know how to explaining this.

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Speaker 6: Like they're sitting there crying themselves to sleep at night

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Speaker 6: because what if Trump wins, Maybe he's going to prosecute

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Speaker 6: his political enemies. They are prosecuting Trump as a political

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Speaker 6: enemy right now.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Trump will do what they're already doing. Oftentimes, Democrats

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Speaker 1: are telling on themselves.

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Speaker 3: I do you meant?

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Speaker 1: We played that clip of Ryan and he's been doing

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Speaker 1: a good job on CNN. He shared one thing that

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Speaker 1: I wanted to share as data. Democrats are not going

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Speaker 1: to have anywhere near the absentee ballot advantage that they

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. That is unmistakably true. Probably going to lose,

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Speaker 1: certainly going to lose, I should say, hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 1: of absentee ballots. Now Democrats are trying to say, well,

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Speaker 1: that's because of COVID, our people are just going to

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Speaker 1: show up and vote in person on election day.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll take that bet.

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Speaker 1: I actually think that Democrats are going to have far

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Speaker 1: fewer voters in twenty twenty in Pennsylva at twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four in Pennsylvania than they did in twenty twenty. Based

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Speaker 1: the same number roughly of absentee ballot request it appears

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Speaker 1: very encouraging data. The other thing I shared and you

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Speaker 1: to North Carolina where early voting has started the first

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Speaker 1: day of early voting in North Carolina was incredibly bullish,

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Speaker 1: very favorable for Donald Trump. North Carolina is one of

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Speaker 1: the battleground states. Buck that actually some of the counties

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Speaker 1: will break down who is voting based on the political

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Speaker 1: of Republican voters showing up on day one was far

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Speaker 1: on day one. Now, there's a lot of days ahead,

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Speaker 1: but the very to me day one voting, and I

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Speaker 1: think you'd probably sign on to this buck is very

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Speaker 1: much a sign of enthusiasm. If you are really wanting

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Speaker 1: to go vote the first day that you can for

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Speaker 1: early voting, it's because you're really committed to your candidate. Also,

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Speaker 1: I think some people just want to be done with

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Speaker 1: politics at this point, because you're so tired of seeing

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Speaker 1: the ads and you, in your mind, can check out

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Speaker 1: of it once you get your ballot in. I think

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Speaker 1: there's some element of that, but I think if you

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Speaker 1: vote on day one of early voting, you're pretty committed

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Speaker 1: to your party. There's way more enthusiasm for Trump across

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Speaker 6: You know, we have been very focused here on the

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Speaker 6: But I just wanted everyone to know this isn't like, oh,

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Speaker 4: Yes? Absolutely. I tried my best to get to the

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Speaker 1: By the way, a little thank you for calling in

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Speaker 1: York Times latest poll on young men. We've been talking

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate you

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Speaker 1: spinning missus Friday with us all across the country. A

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Speaker 1: in North Carolina began yesterday, early voting underway. Michelle Woodhouse, GOP,

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Speaker 9: Yes, and thank you so much for having me. Yes,

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Speaker 9: much to David Axelrod's dismay, the Hillbillies of Western North

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Speaker 7: It has been really.

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Speaker 9: A tremendous example of what neighbor helping neighbor really looks

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, And you know it's the question on everyone's mind.

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Speaker 9: We know this is Trump country with the exception of

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Speaker 7: How are people who lost everything is.

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Speaker 9: They saw Kamala Harris and stand there and tell people

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Speaker 9: And they took it seriously and they were deeply offended

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Speaker 7: We had sixty eight.

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Speaker 9: Hundred and sixty nine more people vote yesterday the first

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Speaker 1: Michelle, you mentioned twenty sixteen numbers. I'm assuming Trump did

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Speaker 1: would have ever done. Is that a fair way of

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Speaker 1: putting that so far? Based on what you're seeing in

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Speaker 1: western North Carolina.

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Speaker 7: Leg Yeah, we're looking.

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Speaker 9: At those twenty sixteen numbers for a couple reasons. He

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Speaker 9: won North Carolina buy a little over three points, and

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Speaker 9: for our state that's a landslide, and he won in

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Speaker 9: twenty twenty by about one point three percent. But you know,

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Speaker 9: because of COVID and twenty twenty, the early voting numbers

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Speaker 9: are difficult as a benchmark to measure true trends, and

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Speaker 9: so we really looked at sixteen to your point, that

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Speaker 9: was when Donald Trump had his highest water mark in

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Speaker 9: in North Carolina.

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Speaker 7: And what we're seeing here.

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Speaker 9: Is that the energy and enthusiasm is so high, but

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Speaker 9: people had to work really hard in western North Carolina

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Speaker 9: to get to the polls.

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Speaker 7: Yesterday it was you know, roads are closed.

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Speaker 9: And washed out, and communities are completely devastated and people

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Speaker 9: are trying to rebuild. But it didn't matter. They were

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Speaker 9: taking the time out of their day yesterday. They're taking

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Speaker 9: time out of.

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Speaker 7: Their day today.

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Speaker 9: We're seeing people that truly they don't have a home

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Speaker 9: or a car, and they're getting to the polls to

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Speaker 9: vote because they know the future is very clear for them.

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Speaker 9: If Kamala Harris becomes president, we have three and a

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Speaker 9: half more years of devastation to our communities, and they

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Speaker 9: know Donald Trump is the right answer for the forgotten

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Speaker 9: men and women right here.

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Speaker 1: Michelle, do you think and this may sound counterintuitive, but

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Speaker 1: I'm curious, do you think the hurricane might actually be

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Speaker 1: driving up turnout because people like you said David Axelrod

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Speaker 1: talked down to them, because they think the federal government

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Speaker 1: hasn't shown up for them, that it's even strengthened their

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Speaker 1: resolve to vote more so than if the storm hadn't

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Speaker 1: even hit. Is that a crazy take or do you

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Speaker 1: since that?

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Speaker 7: I sense it.

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Speaker 9: I really do, and I'll tell you we were seeing

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Speaker 9: it in action. I've seen multiple people showing up at

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Speaker 9: Republican Party offices since the storm hit, registering to vote,

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Speaker 9: voting for the first time. We were evacuated from our neighborhood.

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Speaker 9: Not a knock on the door that anyone wants to get.

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Speaker 9: We had a mud slide. We were evacuated by the

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Speaker 9: National Guard, and on Friday morning, in the midst of

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Speaker 9: this unbelievable storm, I'm disembarking off of the National Guard truck.

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Speaker 9: My neighbor, who isn't uber political, pats her fanny pack

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Speaker 9: and says, I packed my absent tee ballot.

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Speaker 7: Can we fill it out while I'm here?

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Speaker 9: Moved about ninety seconds to evacuate, and she grabbed her

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Speaker 9: absent tee ballot.

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Speaker 7: I think that you are seeing people here.

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Speaker 9: The storm was a catalyst for many and I think

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Speaker 9: what people are seeing happen here.

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Speaker 7: In western North Carolina.

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Speaker 9: You all have done such a great job of keeping

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Speaker 9: it in the forefront. It is resonating with people in

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Speaker 9: rural Pennsylvania, people in my home state of Michigan, where

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Speaker 9: I grew up, in northern parts of Michigan. Rural communities

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Speaker 9: across this country are looking at us and thinking, I

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Speaker 9: know their prayers are with us. They're here helping us

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Speaker 9: and donating, but they know, Gosh forbid, this could be

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Speaker 9: them someday. And they are seeing the response of Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 9: and it's resonating and motivating people across thee because they

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Speaker 9: can relate to Western North Carolinians.

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much for being with us, and anything

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Speaker 6: else you wanted to say in terms of what people

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Speaker 6: in Western North Carolina need to know about how to

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Speaker 6: get to how to get the polling location nearest them,

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Speaker 6: or just want to put it out there for you

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Speaker 6: to have a closing moment to speak to that community,

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Speaker 6: especially given what they've been through.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, and thank you anyone in western North Carolina that's listening.

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Speaker 9: You can visit the congressional District's website, which is NC

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Speaker 9: eleven dot org. We are arranging rides to the polls.

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Speaker 9: If that's in a car, an atv or.

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Speaker 7: On a horse, we will get you to the polls.

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Speaker 7: And if you're willing to help your neighbors get there,

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Speaker 7: please visit the website as well.

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Speaker 9: But Western North Carolina is turning up, We're turning out,

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Speaker 9: and we will deliver for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: How many?

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Speaker 1: Let me have one more question for you, Michelle. How

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Speaker 1: long does early voting go? For people out there that

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Speaker 1: are listening and want to know, how long will the

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Speaker 1: polls be open?

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Speaker 9: Early early voting will go into the Saturday before election

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Speaker 9: day and each county does it a little bit differently,

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Speaker 9: So depending on the county that you're in, you can

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Speaker 9: visit your county's Board of Election website. You can visit

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Speaker 9: our congressional site at NC eleven dot org to get

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Speaker 9: specific hours, but it runs up until the Saturday before

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Speaker 9: election day. We have about we have seventeen days of

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Speaker 9: early voting here in North Carolina.

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Speaker 3: But get out, get your vote in.

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Speaker 1: And we are encouraged and incredibly proud of the bravery

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Speaker 1: and tenacity being shown by so many people in Western

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, despite the slings and arrows of Helene, to

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Speaker 1: be showing up and voting in these numbers. Extraordinary. Michelle,

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Speaker 1: thank you for all the work you're doing. One more time,

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Speaker 1: where should people go if they want to know how

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Speaker 1: to vote?

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Speaker 7: NC eleven dot org. NC eleven dot org.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Western North Carolina. We want to

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Speaker 1: hear from you. We want you to be able to

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Speaker 1: exceed the numbers that you posted in twenty sixteen and

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty for Donald Trump, and so far it appears

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Speaker 1: that you are. You just heard us talking with Michelle Woodhouse,

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Speaker 1: Republican Party district chair of the eleventh cong Congressional district

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Speaker 1: in Western North Carolina, about everything their party's doing to

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Speaker 1: make sure residents they are able to vote. Last week,

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Speaker 1: I was in Ashville at five seventy WWNC we had

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Speaker 1: the news director morning show host, so many of you

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Speaker 1: have reacted and reached out to him. A lot of

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Speaker 1: articles written Mark Starling to talk about how vital radio

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Speaker 3: Need a break from politics? A little comedy to counter

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Speaker 3: the craziness.

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Speaker 8: So now the Sunday Hang, a weekend podcast to lighten

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Speaker 8: things up a bit. Find it in the Clay and

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Speaker 8: Buck podcast feed on the iHeartRadio Apple or wherever you

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Speaker 8: get your podcasts.

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Speaker 3: Come back into Clay on Buck.

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Speaker 6: We're closing up shop here, my friends, and I want

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Speaker 6: to remind you to please download the iHeartRadio app. If

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Speaker 6: you don't have it to your phone, it's fantastic. I

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Speaker 6: use it all the time. I'll listen to my friends

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Speaker 6: Mark Simone or Michael Barry when they're doing their shows,

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Speaker 6: and wherever I am, I can listen to the iHeart app,

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Speaker 6: which is great. And also you can do the talkback function,

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Speaker 6: and the talkback function is so easy to press the

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Speaker 6: little microphone when you go to the Clay end Buck

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Speaker 6: page on the iHeartRadio app. And the more you use it,

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Speaker 6: the more all kind of easy and intuitive that app becomes.

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Speaker 6: It becomes second nature. And let's get to some of

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Speaker 6: those talkbacks. Here's a fun one in Spokane, Washington, listener

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Speaker 6: Jason says the following. He's a he's a five to

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Speaker 6: ninety KQNT listener, but he wrote to or spoke to

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Speaker 6: us rather on the talkback here he goes, I.

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Speaker 10: Gotta tell you guys that Kamala add even made me

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Speaker 10: feel masculine. And I can't cook or barbecue or fix

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Speaker 10: things around the house, and I play soccer. The only

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Speaker 10: reason I'm hanging on to a man card is because

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Speaker 10: I'm a welder. If I ever quit doing that, my

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Speaker 10: estrogen levels are gonna skyrocket.

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Speaker 6: See can I We have welders who call in who

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Speaker 6: will make jokes about their masculinity like that, that's our team.

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Speaker 6: Their team is like, excuse me, but we have the

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Speaker 6: most masculine Broadway dance choreographers you've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Sir Buck, I never would have believed that there would

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Speaker 1: be people angry at me over this. I think we

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Speaker 1: can call it ethyl gate. Ethyl gate so many people

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Speaker 1: vip Diane, listen to this.

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Speaker 4: Buck play was Lucy o'baal's friend on the I Love

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Speaker 4: Lucy Show.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's one reaction, Diane says, Clay, you've never heard

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Speaker 1: of anyone named ethyl really ethyl Barrymore of the famed

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Speaker 1: Barrymore acting family, Not really.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna respond as we go. Don't know her.

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Speaker 1: Ethel Merman of legendary Broadway fame. Don't know her Ethyl Mertz,

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Speaker 1: Lucy and Desi's famous neighbor, I have.

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Speaker 3: One I love.

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Speaker 1: Lucy did not know what her neighbor's name was. You

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Speaker 1: might know this one, Buck, I didn't remember it. Ethyl

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Speaker 1: Beavers of Parks and Recreation. That's a somewhat normal, relatively

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Speaker 1: recent take. Come on, man, all exclamation boy. I just

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Speaker 1: we need to open invite to anyone named Ethel. If

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Speaker 1: you are listening to the show right now, next week,

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Speaker 1: I want you to call in. I don't believe anyone

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Speaker 1: in America has been named Ethyl or Ethel since eighteen ninety.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure any of you are alive right now.

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Speaker 3: If you are.

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Speaker 1: An angry parade of Ethyl's can line up next week, Buck,

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Speaker 1: and you can all rap me with your canes in

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Speaker 1: my knees for not respecting or pronouncing your name correctly.

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Speaker 1: There are lots of opinions I give where I'm like

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Speaker 1: a somebody might not agree with that. I did not

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Speaker 1: expect that ethyl gate would arise. I mean, Clay is

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Speaker 1: really racking up quite a special group of fan clubs.

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Speaker 1: We got flute players, we got soccer players, which we

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Speaker 1: both were actually, so that's kind of just a funny one.

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Speaker 1: But sorright, he still throws shade. We got Ethyl's who else?

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Speaker 1: We got seat recliners? Do you know I thought I

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Speaker 1: it's funny. I thought I was the grumpy one on

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Speaker 1: this show. But I'm just gonna tell you, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. Maybe Ginger's rubbing off of me a

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Speaker 1: little too much and I'm a little happy guy. Now

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Speaker 1: Clay is laying down the hate. Do you know any ethyls? No,

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Speaker 1: No one has been named ethyl since eighteen eighty I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying, and there's no one under the age of

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Speaker 1: ninety four that is named ethyl right now that is

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Speaker 1: listening to us. I really, I think that name is

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Speaker 1: just vanished. So I'm sorry that I didn't know how

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Speaker 1: to pronounce it. At no point in my life have

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Speaker 1: I ever met anyone that was named ethyl or ethyl

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Speaker 1: or et a any respect that I'm aware of.

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Speaker 3: Eel. Yeah, Poor Greg, by.

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Speaker 1: The way, can you imagine the angry calls he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get if there's any ethos out there?

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Speaker 6: Call again saying Clay Travis is just being a silly goose.

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Speaker 1: If there's any ethyls out there that operate leaf blowers.

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Speaker 1: This has been a rough week for them for sure.

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Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, I don't know what you're gonna I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna point this out.

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Speaker 6: If we find Clay unresponsive on Monday and he's been bludgeoned.

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Speaker 1: With walkers, we know what happened. The ethyls of the

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Speaker 1: world have found me. Also, we need to get Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk on the show. I know he's trying to put

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Speaker 1: us to Mars and he's like redefining the combustion engine,

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Speaker 1: and he's got a boring company and everything else.

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Speaker 3: Why can leaf blowers not be electric?

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Speaker 1: Why do we have to have gas powered, massively loud

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Speaker 1: leaf blowers. Would it not be possible to have an

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Speaker 1: electric leaf blower that people can use at whatever hour

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Speaker 1: they want to without but deviling the sleep patterns of

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Speaker 1: their neighbors. Is this a crazy suggestion for me? Why

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Speaker 1: are there no electric leaf blowers? Are we not trying

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Speaker 1: to save the world with leaf blowers? I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: make where's the green new deal when you need it?

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Speaker 1: This is something I could get behind.

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Speaker 6: Also, if you really want worlds to collide, we got

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Speaker 6: some emails that carburetors are still in use. It may

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Speaker 6: in fact be the case that the carburetors that the

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Speaker 6: white guys for or the masculine guys for Kamala don't know.

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Speaker 6: Don't exist in cars, do exist in leaf blowers. Did

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Speaker 6: I just blow your mind? You did, no pun intended.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday with the absolute latest on

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Speaker 1: what continues to be the role that Trump is on.

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Speaker 1: Hope y'all have fantastic weekends. Don't start the leaf blowers

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Speaker 1: till after nine