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Speaker 1: Hello, They're happy Monday, and welcome to another episode of

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Speaker 1: the Chuck Podcast. It is the last week in October.

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Speaker 1: Most importantly for you to be thinking about, it is

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Speaker 1: the last week of daylight saving time. Notice what I

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Speaker 1: did there, said saving not savings. When we have all

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Speaker 1: those different different debates, we'll be going for standard time.

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Speaker 1: And for those of you, this is this one week

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Speaker 1: oddity where it's only a four hour difference between New

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Speaker 1: York and London because London and the UK do their

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Speaker 1: time change a week earlier. Of course, here in the

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Speaker 1: United States we always seem to redebate this time change

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Speaker 1: all the time. I guess now that Marco Ruby is

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Speaker 1: not in the Senate, we don't have this annual six

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Speaker 1: month campaign to try to get rid of rid of it,

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Speaker 1: and everybody has their stupid debate lined up. Bottom line,

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Speaker 1: this is one of those debates that should serve to

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Speaker 1: inform a lot of other debates that we have repetitively

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Speaker 1: that just go round and round and in in the

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Speaker 1: same place. We've had this debate in the seventies, We've

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Speaker 1: had this debate in the nineties, We've had this debate

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Speaker 1: in the odds. So just let it be My only

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Speaker 1: complaint is I wish we could square it up at

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Speaker 1: six months. This whole chipping away where basically it's kind

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Speaker 1: of seven and a half months, four and a half months,

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Speaker 1: is kind of ridiculous. And how we split this up,

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Speaker 1: especially these last three weeks when it is so dark

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Speaker 1: in the morning out here. All right, that whining miss away,

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Speaker 1: but that is coming up later this week, and I

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Speaker 1: want to start with sort of the state of where

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Speaker 1: we are with congressional politics with the president now overseas

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Speaker 1: once again, right, just scrap this week. This is we

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Speaker 1: just are automatically going to go finish out October with

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Speaker 1: the government basically shut down, I say, basically shut down.

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Speaker 1: This sort of piecemeal attempt by the president to try

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Speaker 1: to do the military pay, including the unusual and possibly

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Speaker 1: it's not illegal, but it probably shouldn't be allowed to

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Speaker 1: do where you just sort of have a personal donor

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Speaker 1: decide to chip in on military pay. He's Timothy Mellon

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Speaker 1: of an Air of the Melon, Carnegie Mellon all those things, right,

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Speaker 1: that's the name, the melon name there. He wrote one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million dollars to contribute to military pay. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but that is it is one of those that you

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Speaker 1: don't want to say no to the help. But here's

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Speaker 1: my curiosity. Is he going to get reimbursed when the

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Speaker 1: government gets open? Should he get reimbursed? Do we do this?

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Speaker 1: This is a This is a It's one of those

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Speaker 1: precedents that we probably should not be setting. But again,

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Speaker 1: with all of the unethical and perhaps illegal things that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has done, this is pretty low on the list,

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Speaker 1: but it is unusual. So where are we We're going

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Speaker 1: to go another week with the government shutdown. November one

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Speaker 1: is an important date because that's when we're going to

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Speaker 1: have those healthcare of fee notices go out. More people

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Speaker 1: will see how large the increase in healthcare premiums is

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Speaker 1: going to be. That's likely to jumpstart some conversations here

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Speaker 1: when it comes to reopening the government. But I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you this, You know, most of you know my view

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Speaker 1: on this that I do think that Democrats have gotten

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Speaker 1: everything they can get out of this, and at some

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Speaker 1: point they need to be on the side of opening

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Speaker 1: the government up. And then you know, there's I think

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Speaker 1: they have plenty of leverage now, plenty of political attention,

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Speaker 1: to the healthcare issue. They've they've sort of gotten what

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Speaker 1: they wanted, and if anything, there's a fear that every

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Speaker 1: day they let it go by. They sort of allowed

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump to run run the government in a way

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Speaker 1: that they're going to regret because he's able to sort

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Speaker 1: of pick and choose what parts of the government he opens,

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Speaker 1: pick and chooses what part of the government he uses,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. But I think the Speaker of the House

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Speaker 1: has made a huge mistake by keeping his members out

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Speaker 1: is self marginalized. And it is the single easiest campaign

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Speaker 1: to run when you're running for Congress against an incumbent

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Speaker 1: member of Congress, is the fact this person won't does

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Speaker 1: not serve, does not do his job in Congress, does

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Speaker 1: not serve as a check on some of the things

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Speaker 1: that may be outraging you about government today. And you

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Speaker 1: could just run down the list, right whether it's some

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Speaker 1: of the personal business dealings, whether we're doing extra judicial

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Speaker 1: could just go down the list the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: Swing voters want Congress to be a check on the presidency.

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Speaker 1: Especially when it's an unpopular presidency. And this is an

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Speaker 1: to be a check on the president, on the party

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Speaker 1: votes with the president ninety five, ninety six, ninety whatever

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Speaker 1: midterm elections that the House has changed hands or the

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Speaker 1: Senate has changed hands, that ad I just described. Congressman Schmenghi,

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Speaker 1: Senator Schmenghi voted with President fill in the blank, is

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Speaker 1: it Bush? Is it Obama? Is it Trump? Is it Biden?

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Speaker 1: Ninety five percent of the time, ninety six percent of

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Speaker 1: the time? Shoot, I think I remember seeing one against

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Speaker 1: Susan Collins that said she voted with Trump ninety two

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Speaker 1: I think at Betty Republica that had voted with Trump

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Speaker 1: at that first midterm. But the point was anything in

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Speaker 1: the nineties right, sounds like a lot and certainly sounds

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Speaker 1: and looks extraordinarily partisan. And by shutting down essentially Congress

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Speaker 1: the way Mike Johnson has done this, not participating in

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Speaker 1: the governance at all, especially at a time when we've

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Speaker 1: seen the executive branch really overstep their traditional authority, the

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Speaker 1: biggest being what's happening right now in Venezuela. I mean

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Speaker 1: it is extraordinary, the lack of oversight, the lack of

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Speaker 1: right now, and Congress is not looking at this at all.

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Speaker 1: And again Mike Johnson, I said, so, I do think

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Speaker 1: he has now handed the Democrats a really easy issue

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Speaker 1: to run against Republican incumbents. Now, how many Republican incumbents

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Speaker 1: are vulnerable. Well, we're going to have the redistricting wars

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Speaker 1: and we'll see how that goes on. But this Republican

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson doesn't allow them in to govern. And you

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Speaker 1: can tell there are rank and file members who realize

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Speaker 1: how newterd they look. I mean, they really do look

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Speaker 1: like their Unix here. They have just no interest in

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Speaker 1: doesn't want them here. At first, it was strategic, and

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Speaker 1: I think the strategy in the first couple weeks made

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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. You jam the Senate. This is

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of other issues here and right now, basically,

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Speaker 1: the average House Republican looks like they're out to lunch,

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Speaker 1: that they're just on this extended vacation. Most of them have,

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Speaker 1: not like many of them are holding town halls to

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting, you know, you consider and say, do

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Speaker 1: you give this democratic strategy credit for this? Maybe if

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Speaker 1: this is how badly Mike Johnson was going to fumble this,

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Speaker 1: But in some ways I think Democrats are being bailed

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Speaker 1: out by the poor leadership of Mike Johnson. And there's

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Speaker 1: certain two quotes here that have really jumped out at

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Speaker 1: to serve as important fodder in the midterm campaigns. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump quoted the New York Times basically admitting how he's

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Speaker 1: marginalized Speaker Mike Johnson. He's quoted as saying, I'm the

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Speaker 1: speaker and the president. My God. Not only is that

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Speaker 1: music to fundraising ears for Democrats to be able to

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Speaker 1: put that out, but to be able to link now

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Speaker 1: every Republican to Donald Trump in that way, there is

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Speaker 1: That is just It's never easy as it is, but

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Speaker 1: The question, of course, is the one Trump card pun

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Speaker 1: it somehow inspires those Trump voters who only show up

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Speaker 1: I'm reaching, Okay, I don't buy it, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: ruling it out because you can't rule everything out right

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Speaker 1: in a situation like this. But that quote, wow, and

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Speaker 1: then I want to jump on one other quote, and

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Speaker 1: it leads me to sort of the longer issue I

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Speaker 1: I want to focus on James Langford, Republic Consenator from Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: He's a pastor, one of two pastors I think, James

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Speaker 1: Langford and Raphael Warnock in general. If we had more

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Speaker 1: We'd have a pretty functional Congress. I think there's something

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Speaker 1: about people that truly live their faith. There's people that

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Speaker 1: cease fire this week. A great new program that my

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Speaker 1: friend Sam Fist who runs Sea Span is put together

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Speaker 1: and Dashah Burns, an old colleague of mind in NBC,

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Speaker 1: is doing a fine job trying to moderate. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the idea is to try to have try to feature

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Speaker 1: SPAN is a terrific piece place for neutrality to do this.

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Speaker 1: And he's in a conversation with Chris Coons and they're

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Speaker 1: talking about the issue of that as well. And here's

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Speaker 1: James Langford. He basically admitted that partisanship is everything. He said,

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Speaker 1: if this was happening under the Biden administration, I'd be

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Speaker 1: apoplectic talking about essentially the lack of insight and explanation

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Speaker 1: to defend these extra judicial killings. Again, James Langford said,

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Speaker 1: if this were the Biden administration, I'd apoplectic. Dude, Come on,

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Speaker 1: welcome to what is wrong with everything in American politics? Right?

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Speaker 1: Everything in American politics is wrapped up in that one quote.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I'm going to take this further and We're

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Speaker 1: going to do an imagination. Okay, we're going to play

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Speaker 1: a little game of political imagination. Imagine just for a moment,

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Speaker 1: that everything we're seeing right now with the Trump presidency, Okay,

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Speaker 1: every business deal, every gift, every extra judicial killing, every

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Speaker 1: public private overlap, we're instead happening under President Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: Imagine if Biden were the one getting a four hundred

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Speaker 1: son was launching a mean coin that made millions trading

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Speaker 1: on his father's name. Imagine if the Justice Department had

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Speaker 1: lost profits at one of his family businesses. What do

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Speaker 1: power to investigate, it wasn't supposed to depend on who

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Speaker 1: was in the White House. The purpose was to keep

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Speaker 1: the executive accountable, no matter the party. But in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five, the House Oversight Committee looks more like an

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Speaker 1: opposition research shop than a constitutional watchdog. The Republican majority,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, continues to pour resources into investigating

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Speaker 1: the Biden family. That's a probe that began in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. It's yet to be able to prove significant

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Speaker 1: wrongdoing by the president himself, but it's still going. The

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Speaker 1: Democratic minority has been left to pick up whatever institutional

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Speaker 1: slack there is. They have launched their own letters and

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Speaker 1: inquiries into Trump's businesses, the guitar jet, potential conflicts of

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Speaker 1: interest that dwarf anything Hunter Biden ever touched. And let

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Speaker 1: me just state this clearly, because I has been one

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Speaker 1: of these people. I think that what Hunter Biden and

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Speaker 1: Frank Biden did while Biden was president was awful. It's said,

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Speaker 1: a terrible president president. They both profited off their last

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Speaker 1: name for nothing they did, but for what Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: did and for what office Joe Biden held, be it

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Speaker 1: the vice presidency of the presidency. They're not the first,

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Speaker 1: they're certainly not going to be the last, and they're

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Speaker 1: not the most egregious. It is wrong, and if you

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Speaker 1: want to hold Donald Trump's corruption against him, you better

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Speaker 1: be on your own high ground. And that's the problem here.

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Speaker 1: Democrats are not on high ground thanks to the Biden family,

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Speaker 1: even though everything Hunter Biden did pales in comparison to

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Speaker 1: what the Trump's are doing to the American taxpayer. This

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Speaker 1: is how polarization is going to corrode the mechanics of accountability.

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Speaker 1: If we get down this road where each side only

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Speaker 1: investigates the other's family, no one will investigate power itself.

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Speaker 1: And that's what this was all supposed to be about.

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Speaker 1: So let's go back to this thought experiment. If the

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Speaker 1: Biden family were doing with the Trump family is doing

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Speaker 1: right now, if Joe Biden were getting a foreign a

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Speaker 1: million dollar jet, or if Hunter had launched a mean

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Speaker 1: coin that enriched himself through speculative trading, the House Oversight

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Speaker 1: Committee would be holding hearings every single week. You'd see

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Speaker 1: subpoenas flying faster than you can say influence pedaling. Republicans

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Speaker 1: would be talking about impeachment, national security and the corruption

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Speaker 1: of that at the highest levels. We'd probably have graphics

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Speaker 1: titled Crypto Gait and Air Force Hunter. But because the

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Speaker 1: last name is Trump, and because the House Republicans are

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Speaker 1: in charge and they're so afraid of Donald Trump, the

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Speaker 1: same behavior as normalized. Instead you get things like when

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson says, well, he's very transparent and he tells

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Speaker 1: the American people exactly what he's going to do, you

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Speaker 1: might as well, Speaker Johnson say, he waves at the

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Speaker 1: security camera as he shop lifts the American taxpayer. And

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Speaker 1: here's the part we don't want to admit. This is

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Speaker 1: not about Trump. It's about what happens to Congress when

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Speaker 1: oversight becomes partisan entertainment instead of institutional discipline. Oversight used

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Speaker 1: to be a bit more bipartisan. During Watergate, both parties

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Speaker 1: eventually agreed that no president should use public office for

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Speaker 1: private game. In the nineties, the Clinton air investigations in

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Speaker 1: the white Water travel office campaign fundraising were aggressive, mostly partisan,

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Speaker 1: but it's and sometimes came across successive but they still

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Speaker 1: still operated under a shared understanding that the presidency itself

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Speaker 1: was accountable to Congress, and at least those House Republicans

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Speaker 1: were trying to broaden things out. That principle is just gone.

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Speaker 1: Republicans only investigate Democrats. They've not investigated a Republican. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: Democrats have only been investigating Trump. Shoot. They were not

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Speaker 1: interested in Epstein while they were in charge, and only

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Speaker 1: interested in it when it suddenly became an issue for Trump.

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Speaker 1: The public has stopped believing that owners oversight is about truth,

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Speaker 1: and why should they Because oversight is politics, right, whoever's

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Speaker 1: got the power of oversight goes after political enemies, pure

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Speaker 1: and simple. It is not about right and wrong. It

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Speaker 1: is about right and left. That is an erosion of trust.

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Speaker 1: And that's the real casualty here. So every time oversight

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Speaker 1: becomes partisan theater, real corruption gets normalized. It tells future presidents.

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Speaker 1: If your party controls the House, you're untouchable. That's why

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is so desperate to keep the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: That's why this redistricting, aggressive redistricting issue is happening. If

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Speaker 1: he can hang onto the House, he prevents any sort

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Speaker 1: of oversight of his business dealings. But I'll tell you this,

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Speaker 1: Democrats get control of the House, they'll get subpoena power,

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Speaker 1: and perhaps Trump will just stonewall stonewall stonewall. Private business

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Speaker 1: can't stonewall the companies that have essentially decided to allow

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Speaker 1: themselves to be shaken down, to be extorted to pay

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Speaker 1: to play. All of them, all of them are going

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Speaker 1: to have the lawyer up. They're all going to be

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Speaker 1: susceptible to suspen us, and they should be. They participated

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Speaker 1: in this scam, in this grift. They knew better the

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Speaker 1: law was actually on their side. They didn't have to participate.

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Speaker 1: If anything, when approached essentially for a pay to play

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Speaker 1: or an extortion price, they could have gone to them.

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Speaker 1: They could have gone to the law enforcement. However, what

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Speaker 1: do you do? Do you go to the FBI? Does cash

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Speaker 1: Ptel investigate? This is the situation we now live in.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't want to say this is

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Speaker 1: like the slight empathy I have for the business community

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Speaker 1: on this. If you're being extorted by this president, where

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Speaker 1: do you go? Can you go to the FBI? Can

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Speaker 1: you go to your local US attorney? Can you go

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Speaker 1: to Congress? No? No, and no. I think this is

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Speaker 1: bad politics for the Republicans. I think what has happened,

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Speaker 1: what Mike Johnson has done by surrendering during this government

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Speaker 1: shutdown and disappearing from Washington. We've already had this sort

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Speaker 1: of look the other way attitude when it comes to

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Speaker 1: all the different things, And all I focused on was

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Speaker 1: the personal enrichment issues. I didn't even get to the

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Speaker 1: abuse of power as a governing official with what's happening

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Speaker 1: with Ice and the mask agents, what's happening with Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: All of this is under the purview of Congress. They

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Speaker 1: are supposed to be the check of balance. They are

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Speaker 1: handing this Republican majority and Speaker Mike easily. Now, Mike

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Speaker 1: Johnson is now the weakest speaker we've ever had. I

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Speaker 1: thought Mike Johnson was excuse mean, Dennis Aster was a

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Speaker 1: week speaker. Move over, Dennisaster. There is a new champion

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Speaker 1: for weakness. This is the weakest speaker we've had in

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Speaker 1: the modern era, and he is now leading his party.

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Speaker 1: I think to doom this is politically absolutely, he's self

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Speaker 1: neutered the inability to do any of this stuff. They're

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Speaker 1: all gonna wish they were doing something to have some

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Speaker 1: They're gonna wish someday they tried to hold Trump accountable.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but perhaps November of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. So I'm gonna stop there sneaking a

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Speaker 1: quick break and after we will talk George orwell, can

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Speaker 1: you believe what you're seeing? Will we ever be able

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Speaker 1: to believe what we see? Again? Okay? I am really

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Speaker 1: this is you know, sometimes I'll pull a muscle padding

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Speaker 1: myself on the back is one of the jokes I

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Speaker 1: used to tell my staff all the time. But I

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Speaker 1: love my weekly history segment. I look forward to figuring

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Speaker 1: out what am I going to do this week? What

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Speaker 1: is going on? What is on? What is in the

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Speaker 1: time machine memory bank that will inspire an important history lesson? Well,

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Speaker 1: I was excited the week. So we are looking at

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Speaker 1: the week of October twenty seventh through November sixth. That

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Speaker 1: is the window of anniversaries that I was looking at

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Speaker 1: throughout history, and I'm going back all the way to

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Speaker 1: the eighteenth century. That's right. Did you guess where I

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Speaker 1: was going? Because it was this week. In seventeen eighty seven,

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Speaker 1: a little New York newspaper called The Independent Journal ran

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Speaker 1: an unsigned essay my mysterious author named Pubulus. That column,

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Speaker 1: just a few paragraphs long, would become the opening salvo

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Speaker 1: in what we now call the Federalist Papers over the

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Speaker 1: next eight months. Publius Publius, however you wanted to pronounce,

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Speaker 1: That actually was Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.

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Speaker 1: Together they published eighty five of these essays across three papers,

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Speaker 1: The Independent Journal, the New York Packet and the Daily Advertiser.

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Speaker 1: They came out every few days like a running public

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Speaker 1: cinema seminar on how to build a republic from scratch.

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Speaker 1: Think of it as the first American political blog, right

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Speaker 1: just set in seventeen eighty seven and printed in ink.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, mister Gutenberg for that ability, if you will.

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Speaker 1: As you know, I've talked about various federalist papers in

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Speaker 1: the Path Taken together. The Federalist papers are essentially the

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Speaker 1: instruction manual for how we put the Constitution together other

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Speaker 1: and what the rationale of the constitutional itself was for

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Speaker 1: the republic. I do look at it as the owner's manual,

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Speaker 1: and if you're trying to you can't figure out why

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Speaker 1: we're doing something as a government. Yes, sometimes the Constitution

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Speaker 1: doesn't have all the answers. You actually got to go

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Speaker 1: to the original instruction manual. These eighty plus essays the

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Speaker 1: original instruction manual of essentially how to be the American Republic.

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Speaker 1: So the opening question. Hamilton began the very first essay

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Speaker 1: with the question that still defines our politics today. He wrote,

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Speaker 1: whether societies of men are really capable of establishing good

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Speaker 1: government from reflection and choice? Or whether they are forever

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Speaker 1: destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.

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Speaker 1: That still is the choice we still face, isn't it

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Speaker 1: reason or rage? Hamilton feared that personal ambition, regional jealousy,

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Speaker 1: and demagogues posing as patriots could tear this young country apart.

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Speaker 1: He warned that men could quote deceive with specious promises

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Speaker 1: of change driven more by ego than principle. Sound familiar.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't just selling a constitution with these essays. Hamilton

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Speaker 1: was defending the idea that democracy only survives is citizens

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Speaker 1: stay calm enough to think and essentially don't become too emotional.

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Speaker 1: So that was Federalist number one. What I want to

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Speaker 1: do here a little bit, consider this a not a

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Speaker 1: homework assignment, but more like if you're asking me which

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Speaker 1: federalist paper I think you should read all of them,

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Speaker 1: of course, but if you're going to ask me which

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Speaker 1: one should you read in this moment, well, that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm going to single out for the rest of this

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Speaker 1: time machine segment. So Federalist number fifty one ambition versus ambition,

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Speaker 1: This is Madison. He picked up the pen to explain

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Speaker 1: the plumbing of the new system, and he said ambition

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Speaker 1: must be made to counteract ambition. Essentially, you need a

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Speaker 1: You're going to have to accept the premise that there'd

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Speaker 1: be a competition of some sorts. So the legislature would

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Speaker 1: make the laws, the president would execute them, the courts

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Speaker 1: would interpret them. Each branch, in some ways, he hoped,

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Speaker 1: would crave its own power so that no single man

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Speaker 1: each branch would really protect its turf, and if anything,

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Speaker 1: every once in a while try to expand its turf

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Speaker 1: and see which pushback. But the assumption was all three

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Speaker 1: branches would have the ambition of securing their power. In

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Speaker 1: today's politics, unfortunately, Congress just totally punts to presidents or

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Speaker 1: the courts. So Madison's warning feels less like theory and

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Speaker 1: frankly more like diagnosis. Our biggest problem in America right

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Speaker 1: now structurally is that we have an extraordinarily weak legislative

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Speaker 1: branch and an extraordinary weak Congress at this moment. Federalist

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Speaker 1: Paper Number ten is another one I would encourage you

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Speaker 1: to read. This was another one by Madison. It's arguably

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Speaker 1: his most famous paper because it was all about political parties,

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Speaker 1: or what he called them, factions. Liberty is to faction

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Speaker 1: what air is to fire. Okay, he knew that factions

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Speaker 1: would exist, but his cure for faction to sort of

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Speaker 1: prevent too much factionalism with size a large republic where

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Speaker 1: competing interests dilute one another. While the Internet age has

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Speaker 1: shrunk that big republicanto two algorithmic echo chambers. Hamilton and

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Speaker 1: Madison wanted an expected disagreement. They didn't want it weaponized.

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Speaker 1: And I would also argue that if you read this

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Speaker 1: paper carefully, the duopoly is something that I think Madison

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Speaker 1: and Hamilton would have. You know, they didn't want factions

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Speaker 1: any but if you were going to have, you know,

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Speaker 1: the only thing worse than one or two one political

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Speaker 1: party is two political parties. And if anything, if you're

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Speaker 1: going to have them, then you better have a whole

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Speaker 1: this is the moment where this is the paper that

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Speaker 1: makes it clear if you're going to have parties, you

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Speaker 1: cannot limit them to one or two. That you know,

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Speaker 1: you limiting the factions actually makes things work. What we

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Speaker 1: need is a thousand parties, right, We need more parties.

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Speaker 1: We need more representatives. We need more democracy, not less.

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Speaker 1: The less democracy we have, the more likely authoritarianism happens.

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Speaker 1: Federalist Paper number seventy A powerful executive Hamilton. He argued

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Speaker 1: that a single, energetic president was essential. So while he

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Speaker 1: wanted the executive branch to be somewhat weak, he was

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Speaker 1: hoping the head of the executive branch would have energy

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Speaker 1: and attempt to be strong. Be strong with your weak powers,

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Speaker 1: essentially right, that would be the balance because a feeble executive,

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Speaker 1: he argued, implies a feeble execution of the government, and

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Speaker 1: you can't have that. But he wanted decisiveness, but also accountability,

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Speaker 1: one person to credit or blame. Now we've actually kept

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Speaker 1: that energy. We give our presidents too much credit and

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Speaker 1: too much blame. But what we don't have is accountability

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Speaker 1: for these presidents. The every attempt at accountability for a

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Speaker 1: president has not worked in that sense. The cont what

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Speaker 1: we have with the constitutional guardrails are a failure on

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Speaker 1: that front. Federals Paper number sixty five. Impeachment and the

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Speaker 1: abuse of power. This was Hamilton again, and he saw

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Speaker 1: and he predicted that impeachment was going to be a

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Speaker 1: political exercise, not a criminal one. He wrote, the greatest

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Speaker 1: danger is that the decision will be regulated more by

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Speaker 1: the comparative strength of the parties than by the real

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Speaker 1: demonstrations of innocence or guilt. I would say that is true.

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Speaker 1: He nailed the twenty first two centuries. Early impeachment was

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Speaker 1: meant as a civic judgment, not a partisan trophy, and

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Speaker 1: yet partisanship has arguably driven both the three impeachments that

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Speaker 1: we have had in the last thirty five years and

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Speaker 1: the results that came with them. Federalist Paper number seventy

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Speaker 1: eight was about the judiciary, and this is one you've

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Speaker 1: heard me rant about before because I think this is

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Speaker 1: Hamilton's argument that you cannot politicize the judiciary. Hamilton called

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Speaker 1: the courts quote the least dangerous branch because they had

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Speaker 1: neither force nor will, but merely judgment. Did he underestimate

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Speaker 1: the power of that lifetime tenure was supposed to protect independence,

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Speaker 1: not politicize it. And if he could see our confirmation war,

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Speaker 1: as he'd recognized the danger that judges have turned into

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Speaker 1: politicians and robes. Here's what Hamilton never would have agreed

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Speaker 1: to if he knew it was going to be that

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Speaker 1: a simple majority would decide who gets to be a

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Speaker 1: judge a simple majority of the Senate that politicizes things

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Speaker 1: too much. Lifetime opponent appointments were supposed to shield us

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Speaker 1: from some of this partisanship that is not worked out.

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Speaker 1: We do this whole find the youngest possible person you

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Speaker 1: can appoint, then they have that. So the system got

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Speaker 1: gained right. This is one of those where there's where

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Speaker 1: essentially it's like figuring out the analytics of the old

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Speaker 1: rules of baseball, and that's why they had to change

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Speaker 1: some of the rules on a pitch clock and how

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Speaker 1: often you can go to the bullpen because everybody's figured

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Speaker 1: it out. And I think when you read all of

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Speaker 1: Federal seventy eight, it is crystal clear that a couple

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Speaker 1: things we should never be electing judges. That the fact

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Speaker 1: that there's even decisions that the public has. Any time

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Speaker 1: you make judges have to face voters, you politicize that judge.

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Speaker 1: That is a mistake and you should never have it.

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Speaker 1: We have this sort of step by step approach. And

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Speaker 1: if you want the most new again, what do you

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Speaker 1: want from judges? Neutrality or partisanship? Right now we have

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Speaker 1: a system that favors partisanship. We do not have a

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Speaker 1: system that favors neutrality in our judges. Hamilton argues for neutrality,

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Speaker 1: as much neutrality as you can get. Can you argue

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Speaker 1: right now that the system we have in place to

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Speaker 1: put judges in their place in our system is somehow

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Speaker 1: the least partisan way we could do it. No. Federalist

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Speaker 1: papers number fifty two, sixty two, and sixty three, these

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Speaker 1: were the Federalist papers on the House in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: I think you should read those if you were going

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Speaker 1: to cherry pick some Madison and Hamilton divided Congress for

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Speaker 1: a reason. The House was designed for immediacy to your terms,

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Speaker 1: local accountability, people's pulse. Frequent elections are unquestionably the only

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Speaker 1: policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured.

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Speaker 1: In number fifty two, the Senate was built for reflection,

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Speaker 1: six year term staggered stability. A due sense of national

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Speaker 1: character requires that the government should be so constituted as

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Speaker 1: to be consistent with the veneration which time bestows unstable institutions.

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Speaker 1: That was out of Federalists sixty three. What the founders

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Speaker 1: wanted was one chamber to move fast and another to

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Speaker 1: say slow. Down. Today we argue whether the Senate blocks

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Speaker 1: progress or preserves balance. The truth is it actually was

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Speaker 1: built to do both. And I think if you're trying

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Speaker 1: to make laws for three hundred and thirty million people,

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Speaker 1: it should be deliberative, should be absolutely the key word there.

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Speaker 1: Federal's paper number forty five is federal versus state power.

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Speaker 1: Madison reminded skeptics that most power would remain local, does it.

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Speaker 1: The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal

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Speaker 1: government are few and defined. Those which are to remain

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Speaker 1: in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. Oh are they?

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Speaker 1: I don't think he imagined a world of federal spending

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Speaker 1: bills the size of phone books. But Madison, but the tension.

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Speaker 1: Madison outline national standards versus local control still defines our

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Speaker 1: fights over education, policing, and healthcare. But we have made

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Speaker 1: it very much on the domestic side of things, where

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Speaker 1: where we seem to But let's be honest, the Feds

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Speaker 1: have encroached on what many of us thought should be

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Speaker 1: state rights for some time. Federal papers numbers fifty five

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Speaker 1: and seventy two were about corruption and self enrichment. Madison

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Speaker 1: warned that too few representatives would breed corruption in all

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Speaker 1: very numerous assemblies of whatever character. Passion never fails to

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Speaker 1: rest this scepter from reason. But Hamilton went further in

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Speaker 1: number seventy two, worrying about leaders who to view office

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Speaker 1: as a permanent career. The love of power and the

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Speaker 1: desire of reward are two principal human passions which operate

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Speaker 1: on the human hearts. Basically, it's human nature, right, So

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Speaker 1: you you've got to put guardrails in to fight against

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Speaker 1: human nature. He defended reelection, but only if voters stayed vigilant.

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Speaker 1: If public service became self service, the system would rot

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Speaker 1: from the inside. That sounds familiar. Some will read that

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Speaker 1: as a case for term limits. I also read it

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Speaker 1: as a case for it was a huge mistake to

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Speaker 1: stop expanding the House. We need too few representatives breed corruption. Hello,

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Speaker 1: we have too few members of the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys think. Some of you think. No.

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Speaker 1: The last thing you need is more politicians new right now.

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Speaker 1: The system we have is only enriched everybody. If you

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Speaker 1: want to cut down the cost of campaigns, cut down

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Speaker 1: the cost of the barrier to entry for normal people

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Speaker 1: to be representing communities of interest in Congress, you would

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Speaker 1: want to double the size of the house. Fellow's paper

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Speaker 1: Number eighty four, The Rule of Law and Civic Virtue.

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Speaker 1: Hamilton closed the series arguing that parchment rights meant nothing

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Speaker 1: without public virtue. The bill of Rights, he writes, would

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Speaker 1: even be dangerous because they could contain various exceptions to

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Speaker 1: powers not granted. Look at all the ways we try

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Speaker 1: to look for gaps in the Second Amendment. Right his point,

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Speaker 1: the paper doesn't protect you people do. Constitutions are just

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Speaker 1: words unless citizens choose to enforce them. You have a

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Speaker 1: right to free speech. The government cannot get in the

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Speaker 1: way of that. But if you choose not to use

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Speaker 1: the law Disney, if you choose not to use the

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Speaker 1: law paramount, if you choose not to use the law X,

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Speaker 1: choose not to use the law meta see where I'm

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Speaker 1: going here, then it is just words on parchment paper.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. There's your homework again. It's a choice.

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Speaker 1: But here's here's something that I'm hoping that we can

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Speaker 1: be thinking about soon, which is it's I will tell

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Speaker 1: you I've thought about this, and I'm curious how many

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Speaker 1: people would be interested in this. Should we redo the

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Speaker 1: Federalist papers with a modern twist. It's a podcast special

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Speaker 1: or series that I'm pondering putting together, sort of an

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Speaker 1: episodic one. Maybe we just literally do one at a time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a little dorky, but maybe, just maybe if you

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Speaker 1: put the rule book for how to keep for seeing

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Speaker 1: if we can keep this a republic, right, and the

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Speaker 1: infamous words have Ben Franklin, it's a republican or excuse me,

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Speaker 1: it's a republic if we can keep it, if we

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Speaker 1: want to keep it, maybe we need to update the

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Speaker 1: Federalist papers, and maybe we all need to reread them

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Speaker 1: in their original form as well. So there you go,

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Speaker 1: podcast time machine. It was this week in seventeen eighty

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Speaker 1: seven that these essays started making their way in the public.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do a little last Chuck, ask Chuck.

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Speaker 1: This one comes from all right, my second favorite part

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Speaker 1: of Florida Pan. Long time listening to the show, been

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Speaker 1: listening since it was nineteen forty seven. Nice. You've often

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Speaker 1: said that Trump taps into something real but fails to

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Speaker 1: execute in a way that people like. Yes, I do.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it could be beneficial for Democrats to

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Speaker 1: flip the script and take an American first position for

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Speaker 1: the midterms, pointing to the Argentinian bailout foreign intervention tariffs

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Speaker 1: is not America first. You think the Democrats can even

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Speaker 1: consider that an option with their history of poor messaging,

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Speaker 1: love the college football, Taco Knights, All my best will

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Speaker 1: be a one hundred percent. I mean, this is one

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Speaker 1: of those cases again. The Democrats can't get political power

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Speaker 1: without winning over people that vote for Trump. And if

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Speaker 1: you don't, if you don't put your campaign together thinking

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Speaker 1: that that's some of the vote you've got to win,

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Speaker 1: then you're not gonna be doing it right. If you're

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Speaker 1: just trying to win a nomination by going as far

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Speaker 1: to the left or as angry about Trump as you

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Speaker 1: can get, you might be able to get a nomination,

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Speaker 1: but you're not gonna be able to win over the

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Speaker 1: skeptical voter who didn't trust the Democrats the last time

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Speaker 1: they had power. So one hundred percent. And that's the thing,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's securing the border, you saw Bernie

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Speaker 1: Sanders is trying to do it. Hey, Biden did terrible

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Speaker 1: on the border. Trump's doing well on the border, so

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Speaker 1: said Bernie Sanders, right, And I saw a bunch of

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Speaker 1: people on the left not happy that he said that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, that's the first time I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders do something that was designed to actually try

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Speaker 1: to win an election. You got to win fifty percent

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Speaker 1: plus one somehow, So yes, you know. And the question is,

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Speaker 1: just because you say you're America first, do you put

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Speaker 1: just wrote the I think you just inspired well, you

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Speaker 1: just wrote the campaign at right. Will you just simply

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Speaker 1: asked that question? My opponent says he's put in America first.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like he puts this American first? Do

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Speaker 1: you feel which Americans does he puts first? Does he

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Speaker 1: just put the Americans in Silicon Valley first? Does he

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Speaker 1: just put the the folks that are giving money for AI?

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Speaker 1: Does he put those first? Does he put the cryptocurrency

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Speaker 1: people first? How about putting you the American taxpayer first? Right?

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Speaker 1: I mean the point is you can go in a

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Speaker 1: million directions this way, but I I look co opt.

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Speaker 1: The most successful way to usually win an election when

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Speaker 1: you haven't won in a while is to co op

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Speaker 1: a successful message. It's somebody else at right. So the

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Speaker 1: fact is about your idea here again? You should? You should?

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Speaker 1: You're already doing better political consulting than ninety percent of

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Speaker 1: the political consultants that could hire for Democratic campaigns right now,

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Speaker 1: So will be put out a shanngle buddy, Call my

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Speaker 1: friend Steve Shale down in Florida. He'll like it. Next

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Speaker 1: question comes from Brian Beeves Silver Spring. Hey, Chuck, has

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Speaker 1: there ever has there been any talk about the growing

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Speaker 1: frustration with Act Blue? Actually there has been been a

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Speaker 1: regular Democratic donor since twenty twenty, but the volume of

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Speaker 1: unsolicited text and emails, especially since the twenty twenty four elections,

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00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: become overwhelming despite unsubscribing. If Act Blue claims not to

856
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: share donor info, how are all these campaigns getting my

857
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 1: contact details? I can't be the only one feeling burned

858
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,959
Speaker 1: and hesitant to donate again. Curious to hear your thoughts, Brian,

859
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: I hope you get a chance of you if you

860
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: may have missed the interview I did with Stanford professor.

861
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,240
Speaker 1: And also he has a sub stack basically that uses

862
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: data to do huge dives into various things. Adam Bonica

863
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:38,280
Speaker 1: went deep into any He sort of uncovered what appears

864
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,320
Speaker 1: to be just a scam pack operating on the left

865
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Speaker 1: and in these numerous ways. Now, the fact that Act

866
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: Blue wasn't able to sort of stop this kind of nonsense,

867
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: and his was not quite the way you described your

868
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: experience with Act Blue, per se, but he was describing

869
00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: how sort of the different that essentially this fundraising company

870
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: was using all of the telltale signs of elder of

871
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: taking advantage of the elderly. When you're trying to do

872
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 1: financial scams, there's almost like a rule book. If you're

873
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: going to scam old people, this is how you do it,

874
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: and this is what that fundraising entity did. And I

875
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,439
Speaker 1: think what you're describing here with Act Blue that there's

876
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: just a lot of now some of this look. I

877
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 1: think Republicans, again, you know, in our partisan oversight, even

878
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: though a lot of this has been happening quite a

879
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,959
Speaker 1: bit on both sides of the aisle. I think House

880
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: Republicans only want to investigate Act Blue because they're frustrated

881
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: that Democrats seem to be out raising Republicans, when really

882
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,959
Speaker 1: there is an issue of how fundraising tactics worth work

883
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: on both sides of the aisle. This is one of

884
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: those cases where if Congress could Act in the best

885
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: interest of the consumer. You and treat realize that donors,

886
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: whether they're Republican or Democratic, are consumers and should be

887
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 1: provided some sort of consumer protection here, because that's what

888
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: this is, is that you should be you should be

889
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: trying to protect the consumer. And so this is where

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00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: it would be nice to have some bipartisanship when it

891
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: came to oversight. We don't have it. You're not going

892
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: to You may have Republicans try to go to Act Blue,

893
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 1: but they're not even going to investigate it the right way.

894
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: But this is I think this is a growing issue,

895
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: and I think it's leading to some donor fatigue, and

896
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: you're going to have fewer and fewer people want to

897
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: respond to any of these messages. So in some ways

898
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 1: it's probably going to make this a less and less

899
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: useful way to raise money because more people are going

900
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,719
Speaker 1: to assume they're being scammed and you're just going to

901
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: have a collective decision to not participate at all. That's

902
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: the unintended consequence of this. All right, I'm going to

903
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: do two more questions here and then go into my

904
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:57,720
Speaker 1: recap of college football this weekend. This comes from Judith

905
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: and Vermont I'm wondering why there are no repercussions with

906
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: people such as Trump cabinet nominees lie to Congress, thinking

907
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: of RFK Junior as a prime example, Thanks for your

908
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: good work. Again, if there were, I think we know

909
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: if the Democrats were in charge of Congress with a

910
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: Republican Cabinet number one, Kennedy wouldn't have never gotten confirmed.

911
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,760
Speaker 1: But this is the problem, right The Republican Party does

912
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,359
Speaker 1: not hold Republican presidents accountable the way they would hold

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00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: a Democratic president accountable, and the Democratic Party does not

914
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: hold Democratic presidents accountable the way they would hold a

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00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: Republican president accountable. I go back to an idea. I

916
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 1: believe it's the Japanese and what they do in the DAT,

917
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: which is the oversight All of the oversight committee should

918
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: always be run by the party out of power, and

919
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: it just should be always this way. I'm sure it would,

920
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, if we made the joint decision to do this,

921
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: it would somehow get weaponized, you know, and maybe get

922
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: screwed up a little bit. But if you started with

923
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: that basic premise that the party out of power, the

924
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: leading opposition party would share oversight, I do think it

925
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: could bring some sort of Again, what the Trump era

926
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: should teach all of us is that you can't expect people.

927
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 1: You can't expect shame to be a guardrail. Shame doesn't

928
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 1: work anymore. People have proven when it comes to making money,

929
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: proven to be super shameless. So that isn't going to work.

930
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: You know, it's not going to work. So you're going

931
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: to have to put in all sorts of checks and balances.

932
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: And I think a big one, and this is one

933
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: you'd probably have to put in the Constitution in some way,

934
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: but a big one is to put all over sight

935
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: in the hands of the opposite party of the White House,

936
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: pure and simple. And that always has to be the case.

937
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: It is the only way we're going to get any

938
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: kind of legitimacy, legitimate accountability of runaway executives. All right,

939
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: final question here is Tyler. He says, Hey, Chuck'm Tyler,

940
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: a student at the University of Maryland, go terps and

941
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 1: a daily podcast listener on my commute to my internship.

942
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: All Right, Since tuning in the summer, I've shifted from

943
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: mainstream media to more independent voices. Thanks for that. I've

944
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: been thinking about your point that Trump only wants to

945
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: govern those who support them, and a recent example stood

946
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: out FEMA denied disaster aid to Western Maryland despite the

947
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: region strong Republican lean. Curious if you think moves like

948
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: this could backfire and Republicans in the midterms, or if

949
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: it's two under the radar to matter. Thanks again for

950
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: all the great analysis. So you've heard me point this out.

951
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: This is where I think. I think this is a

952
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: way for Democrats to start courting some Trump voters in

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00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: some blue areas. Am I expecting a whole bunch of

954
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: them to switch over? No, But this is how you

955
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: chip away at it. Whether it's those the flooding at

956
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: the camp in Texas where FEMA wasn't there in time

957
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: and sort of bad Republican governance that put them in

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00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: that situation it or what we've seen here when it

959
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: came what you noted with Western Maryland on those disasters,

960
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: those lack of declaring a disaster. It is this. There

961
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:16,439
Speaker 1: is a systemic approach to essentially punish. While I don't

962
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: think it's sadly a useful issue to say, hey, they

963
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: won't govern for you because of the other political party,

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00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: I think you just point out, for whatever reason, they

965
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 1: don't respect you enough here in the state of Maryland.

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00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: Even though you're a good Trump supporter, you've been a

967
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: loyal Trump supporter. When you need help, he's not there.

968
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: You know, regardless of how you vote for well, how

969
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: you vote, I'm going to be there to help you,

970
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: because government should be there regardless of who you support. Right,

971
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: you can you you can make you can hear how

972
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: the TV AD or the or the digital ad would work.

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00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: I think it's a potentially another It's sort of there's

974
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: no one issue that's going to be a silver bullet

975
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,400
Speaker 1: for these minterms. But I do think between the what

976
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: Mike John has done or not done with the House,

977
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: what Trump is doing, the sort of the unitary leadership,

978
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: if you will, of Washington through Donald Trump, He's actually

979
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: making it quite easy to run an oppositional campaign, a

980
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: good old fashioned let's have a check on Trump. He's

981
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: going to be at forty three to forty six percent.

982
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 1: That's an unpopular presidency. It is not a very hard

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01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: campaign to execute. It is how Democrats won control of

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01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: the House and Senate No. Six. It is how Republicans

985
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: one control of the House in ten is how Republicans

986
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: one control the Senate in fourteen. It's how Democrats one

987
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: control of the House in eighteen. That's it's a simple message.

988
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: It is something that resonates with swing voters because we

989
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: don't try because here's the bottom line. Here's the bottom

990
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 1: line about American politics today in Washington. If you don't

991
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: have divided government, the moderates have no role in here whatsoever.

992
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: And when the moderates have no political juice, we can't

993
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: get things done. I know some of you out there

994
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: on the left and the right, you know, think the

995
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: moderates are too squishy to this, to that. But let's

996
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: be realistic. When we have divided government and moderates are

997
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: empowered to cut deals, the public is a hell of

998
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: a lot happier without politics functions. Maybe the two political

999
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 1: parties don't love it, but the American people seem to

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01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: like it. And when we don't have divide like, why

1001
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: are we in this mess right now in the shutdown

1002
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: because the moderates have no power and they have a

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01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:30,600
Speaker 1: bit empowered. Divided government empowers moderates. When you don't have

1004
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: divided government, the moderates have no power. And I think

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01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: that's the situation we currently are in. All right, before

1006
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: I go let me do my weekend college football breakdown

1007
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 1: here a little bit so full confession, I didn't get

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01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: to watch a majority of the Miami game. I was

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01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 1: at one of my favorite charities that I support, the

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01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: Arlington Free Clinic care in Arlington, Virginia. For what it's worth.

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01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: I'm a huge believer that you should support charities where

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01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: you live. I live in Arlington. I support the Arlington

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01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 1: Free Clinic. I support the Arlington Food Bank. You know,

1014
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 1: if we all just try to help our own communities first, right,

1015
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: we can rebuild. I think quite a few communities quite well.

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01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: So I'm a huge believer in that. And that's where

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01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: I was last night. It was our big fundraising dinner

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01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 1: for the Arlington Free Clinic, which essentially it's exactly what

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01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,280
Speaker 1: it says it is. They don't take any government money,

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01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: they don't take any Medicaid money. Okay, this is all

1021
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: one hundred percent private donations, some grants, and we just

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01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: take care of people that don't have the ability to

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01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: take care of themselves, can't afford healthcare for whatever reason

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01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: there is. And it's a lot of people who's a

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01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 1: lot of doctors and nurses who just simply volunteer their

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01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 1: time to the Free Clinic, in addition to those of

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01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: us that can contribute some money anyway. So there's my

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01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: little shout out for the Arlington Free Clinic. It was

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01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 1: a terrific event. Kudos to They're just it is. It

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01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 1: is exactly the way the type of charity that they

1031
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:21,720
Speaker 1: just behave, the way you would want a charity to behave.

1032
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: And they don't waste money. It's not very frivolous stuff.

1033
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: It all just you know, it all goes to what's intended.

1034
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: And they also don't bite off more than they can chew.

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01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: It's been a little bit at a time over after

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01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: about ten years, we added a dental clinic. Anyway, the

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01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: point is is that it's been. It's I it's I'm

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01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: really proud of the very very very small role I've

1039
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 1: been able to play to help to help out in

1040
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: my community like that. But what it meant, and this

1041
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: has happened before. I remember there was a big fundraiser

1042
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: for the Arlington Free Clinic and I missed Game four

1043
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 1: of the World Series. The Mats were in it. We

1044
01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 1: all were freaked out about that, But that's how much

1045
01:03:59,880 --> 01:04:03,439
Speaker 1: we care about this charity. So I missed the live

1046
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,760
Speaker 1: portion of the Miami Stanford game, but I caught those

1047
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: awful uniforms. Yes, they're awful. Look, I man, I had

1048
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: been so proud of Miami all year long we had gone.

1049
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: We were playing with the traditional unis, mostly the orange tops,

1050
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: the white bottoms, all the ones where we win all

1051
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 1: our national titles. You know, I hate behaving like Oregon,

1052
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 1: where there's a different uniform every week, and you know,

1053
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 1: we hadn't dabbled in that. I get it. Adidas doesn't

1054
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: pay us a bunch of money at the University of

1055
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: Miami just to use the same old uniform all the time.

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Speaker 1: They want to make a couple of bucks, So I

1057
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: get it. Man, University of Miami doesn't fit with the

1058
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: Camo culture. And I say that, I don't mind. I

1059
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 1: think there are certain like I love the San Diego

1060
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: Padres Camo uniforms, and there's something about San Diego, a

1061
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 1: military town, where it feels relevant. It just didn't feel

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01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: it just didn't feel like the un urcy in Miami.

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Speaker 1: And again I'm not saying there's plenty of great veterans

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Speaker 1: that went to the Uncery Miami. We you know that

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Speaker 1: is not what this is about. But there's just not

1066
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: a cameo community. I don't know how else to put it.

1067
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: So it felt weird. I mean, how do you wear

1068
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 1: green and it not feel like the right green anyway?

1069
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 1: Hated the uniforms, please guys, no more. I don't mind

1070
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 1: the black, the sort of black neon I think messing

1071
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: around with the little neons. Nothing wrong with that a

1072
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: little bit either, having some green helmets every once in

1073
01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 1: a while. Look, some of these color schemes haven't bothered

1074
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 1: me as much as I thought they would. All Right,

1075
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: I hate the single color color schemes case you're wondering,

1076
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: In case anybody wants my opinion on that. Now, let's

1077
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: talk about the game itself. Didn't love the slow start.

1078
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: I have rewatched a little bit of it so I

1079
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: can get a feel of it. This is a pattern

1080
01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:59,919
Speaker 1: of this coaching staff, which they have a game plan

1081
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: and they're just determined to see if they can make

1082
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: that game plan work, sometimes a bit too long, and

1083
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 1: then when they finally just go into hey, let's just

1084
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 1: figure out what works. So the good news is they

1085
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: made a couple of adjustments and they scored thirty five

1086
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: points in the second half. It's what should have happened.

1087
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: It's what I expected to happen. I was glad to

1088
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 1: see the backups go in there and they shoved a

1089
01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:25,680
Speaker 1: touchdown in Mario Christobal never likes to cover the spread.

1090
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: I never those of us Miami fans don't bet on

1091
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: Miami to cover big spreads because we all know this.

1092
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:35,360
Speaker 1: But I will refuse to ever bet against Miami, so

1093
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: I won't try to take advantage of what I think.

1094
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: So anybody that assumed Miami couldn't cover that thirty and

1095
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:42,800
Speaker 1: a half, I'm kind of glad the backups sort of.

1096
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:45,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to see a little bit of aggressiveness. So

1097
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: while it was a slow start, I'm mostly satisfied. We

1098
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: got a big game next week at SMU. I'm going

1099
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 1: to that as some of you might have expected me

1100
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: to be there, since I'm going to have two kids

1101
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 1: on opposite sides of this game, of the big Miami

1102
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 1: SMU matchup here, I will one thing that might be

1103
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 1: on the line. I'm I don't want to start to

1104
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: get too worried or excited about whether or not Miami

1105
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 1: can make it into the ACC Conference title game or not.

1106
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: Because of the weird scheduling and the weird tiebreaker rules

1107
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: the ACC. I'm one of those who believes that have

1108
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: all of this stuff will likely work itself out, and

1109
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 1: the two teams that are in the conference title game

1110
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:29,280
Speaker 1: are probably the two teams that belong. But if for

1111
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: some reason, Miami's the highest ranked ACC team and not

1112
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:38,200
Speaker 1: in you know, either the you know, a top ten team,

1113
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: and they're not in the ACC title game, they probably

1114
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: have to rethink how they do it the ACC, that is.

1115
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: But then again, Ohio State lost the Big Ten title game,

1116
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:54,439
Speaker 1: didn't they How'd that work out for them last year?

1117
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: So all right, a few other things about the rest

1118
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: of the weekend. If I'm Virginia Tech, Shane Beemer is

1119
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: no longer a candidate, I would no longer want him

1120
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: to be my coach. Why do you say that? So

1121
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: let me take you to the fourth quarter of that

1122
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 1: South Carolina Alabama game. South Carolina had the game potentially

1123
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: in hand. They're up by a point. They score a touchdown,

1124
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:23,720
Speaker 1: so they're up one point, fifteen to fourteen. They score touchdown,

1125
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 1: they're up twenty one to fourteen. If they kick the

1126
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 1: extra point, they're up eight one score. If they go

1127
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 1: for two and make it they're up nine, they're up

1128
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 1: two scores. It is a no effing brainer decision, Shane Beemer,

1129
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: and they just kick the extra point. This is not

1130
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: the first time this has happened. I believe I pointed

1131
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 1: this out at a game. I think it was an

1132
01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 1: Iowa State game if I'm not mistaken, and I think

1133
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 1: it ended up not biting them. This one bit the

1134
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: game cocks right in the you know what, right in

1135
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:03,680
Speaker 1: the gamecock. And this was a gigantic coaching mistake. How

1136
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: do you not understand this math? Because even if you

1137
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:08,720
Speaker 1: don't make it, you're up seven. It's not like Alabama

1138
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna is going to go down there and go

1139
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: for two. They would either way. You're looking at a

1140
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 1: tie game at worse. But if you could go tohead

1141
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:22,560
Speaker 1: two scores, you're in an entirely different situation. The decision

1142
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 1: not to do that took away an opportunity for them

1143
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 1: to win that game. I for the life of me,

1144
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 1: in all this day and age of the analytics, and

1145
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:36,559
Speaker 1: you know, and I hear Bill Simmons saying this a lot.

1146
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: I think he's right. More of the I think many

1147
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 1: of these coaches they don't watch enough football they watched

1148
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:46,519
Speaker 1: their film, and they watched the film, and they watch

1149
01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:49,600
Speaker 1: football of the teams that they're but they sort of

1150
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 1: don't actually, right, They're so narrowed that they don't watch

1151
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 1: the totality of games. And in some ways, you know,

1152
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 1: the armchair gamblers. And if I were head coach of

1153
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 1: a football team, I'd want a gambler who bets and

1154
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: watches games all over the place. I mean, these guys

1155
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: that Vson and Action Network, man, they watch they watch

1156
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 1: more college football than anybody I know. Get one of

1157
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,760
Speaker 1: those guys as you're sort of like analytics guru. They

1158
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:22,160
Speaker 1: see so many scenarios because they have money on the line.

1159
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 1: That's why they care, and they give a darn about it.

1160
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:30,040
Speaker 1: But gosh, South Carolina, you had every chance in the

1161
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: world to knock off Alabama. You covered the twelve points,

1162
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 1: which that was a no brainer. You know, that was

1163
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: the sort of the sharp side everybody. There were so

1164
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 1: many people on that side that I started to worry

1165
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:44,880
Speaker 1: it was going to become a public side. However, it

1166
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: just drove me crazy because I wanted to see Alabama

1167
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:51,560
Speaker 1: lose another game number one. But you have the opportunity,

1168
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 1: all right, A few things in the NAUCLA turns out

1169
01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,679
Speaker 1: after three weeks of putting all your new offense on film,

1170
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 1: when you have a really good coaching staff who have

1171
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 1: the ability to dissect it, Oh boy, watch out. Thanks

1172
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: for playing UCLA. It was a nice little run while

1173
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: you had it. I'm uncle on Indiana. I think we

1174
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:13,839
Speaker 1: all thought this was a well coached team with players

1175
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: that probably are not big time. That's not true. I

1176
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 1: am done with that. Texas A and MLSU Boy at halftime,

1177
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 1: this looked like an upset in the making. It looked

1178
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:28,680
Speaker 1: like the nighttime aspects of Baton Rouge. We're going to

1179
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 1: bite our friends at Texas A and m Boy not

1180
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:37,280
Speaker 1: at all, and they turned it on. It's over. I

1181
01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 1: think we all know it's over for Brian Kelly. Again.

1182
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 1: This is a school that has fired two coaches who

1183
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 1: won national titles, Les Miles and ed Ojeron. You don't

1184
01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:50,680
Speaker 1: think they're going to fire a coach who hasn't won

1185
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: a national title at any school he's been at. So

1186
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:59,599
Speaker 1: if I'm Brian Kelly, I'm starting to court Virginia Tech.

1187
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:06,719
Speaker 1: I'm starting to court at or A, Wisconsin because those

1188
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: are probably the best openings that he's I don't think

1189
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,479
Speaker 1: Florida's going to hire Brian Kelly because they're gonna, you know,

1190
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna. I don't think of Florida's going to hire

1191
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: James Franklin. Right, if you've been let go from one

1192
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 1: of these big schools because you were a top ten

1193
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 1: team but you couldn't make it to that next level,

1194
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:24,719
Speaker 1: I don't think if you think you're in that level,

1195
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 1: and Florida thinks they are, even though actually they really aren't.

1196
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:31,160
Speaker 1: They've really been a mediocre football program for seventy years,

1197
01:12:31,439 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: with two brief periods of excellence, a brief period with

1198
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,679
Speaker 1: Steve Spurrier and a brief period with Urban Meyer. Every

1199
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 1: other time they've been sort of, you know, seven, you're

1200
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,680
Speaker 1: more like a consistent seven and four. They've really been

1201
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:48,639
Speaker 1: Wisconsin football. They've not been. They think they're Miami, Florida

1202
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 1: State or Alabama LSU. They've never They've never been on

1203
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: that level Florida's perceived to be because Miami and Florida

1204
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,519
Speaker 1: State were so strong for so long. It was just

1205
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: small periods that Florida would be. But that doesn't mean

1206
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: they're not going to throw money around like they think

1207
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:06,840
Speaker 1: they belong in that upper tier. But I do think

1208
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 1: if Lane Kipping can get into the playoff, gets in

1209
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 1: the semis with Ole, miss why would he want to

1210
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: go to Gainesville Oxford, Mississippi is a much better place

1211
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 1: to live than Gainsville, Florida. Just trust me on that.

1212
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:20,800
Speaker 1: It was interesting to see Oregon have a bit of

1213
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:23,599
Speaker 1: a hangover Wisconsin because they did something. Oregon did something

1214
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 1: that other teams have been able to prevent. Oregon allowed

1215
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 1: Wisconsin to score touchdown. I don't think I will allowed

1216
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 1: Wisconsin to score touchdown. Not a lot to say. I'm

1217
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:43,519
Speaker 1: mildly surprised at BYU Iowa State. I think everybody, if

1218
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: I am in the college football Playoff, the team I

1219
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 1: want to play in the first round is BYU I

1220
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 1: think I don't if maybe they'll luck their way in,

1221
01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 1: but something feels awfully artificial there. We already know UVA

1222
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:00,519
Speaker 1: is the team with all the luck on their side.

1223
01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:03,840
Speaker 1: I assume the luck runs out at some point on

1224
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 1: UVA and that they blow it before they get their

1225
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:10,759
Speaker 1: shot in the a SEC title game. We shall see,

1226
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:13,920
Speaker 1: but boy do they have I guess you could say

1227
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 1: they have a horseshoe up there. You know, what on

1228
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: that one? And then there was the crazy Texas Mississippi

1229
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: State game and all of the drama around Texas and

1230
01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:28,800
Speaker 1: the morning sort of social media buzz with Steve Sarkisian.

1231
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 1: I will just say I thought his agent. When your

1232
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:34,880
Speaker 1: agent's Jimmy Sexton, you're never going to be believed. He

1233
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 1: is sort of the agent of most college football coaches.

1234
01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:41,439
Speaker 1: He is he uses the media to get raised. Look,

1235
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:45,759
Speaker 1: he's a good agent for his clients, but it doesn't

1236
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: mean there's that he's honest in public. Okay, And when

1237
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:54,920
Speaker 1: you look at that denial about Sarkisian, they said it

1238
01:14:54,960 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 1: was patently false and then added what were the other

1239
01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:03,880
Speaker 1: words they added there? I made a big deal out

1240
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:06,800
Speaker 1: of this on x SO here I can quickly pull

1241
01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: it up here, But it was it was sort of

1242
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 1: over denial, and there's a point where you over denial things, right, Oh,

1243
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: this is what it was. So Jimmy sext It puts

1244
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:20,720
Speaker 1: out a statement that said any reports regarding communications is

1245
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:23,639
Speaker 1: about Sarkisian and wanting to be in the NFL. Any

1246
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:27,000
Speaker 1: reports regarding communications on coaching opportunities with NFL teams are

1247
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:30,839
Speaker 1: patently false and wildly inaccurate. Okay, if they're patently false,

1248
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:34,840
Speaker 1: then you don't have to say they're wildly inaccurate. But

1249
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:38,599
Speaker 1: the minute you add wildly inaccurate, it implies some part

1250
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:41,880
Speaker 1: of it had to be accurate because it's wildly inaccurate.

1251
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: But it's sort of like it is. It is an

1252
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:50,639
Speaker 1: imprecise way. It creates more ambiguity. It says here Sark

1253
01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 1: is solely focused on coaching the University of Texas football team.

1254
01:15:53,680 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: I believe he is right now. Anyway, that was that

1255
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: was a classic methinks they does protest too much. But

1256
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: I have to tell you that sort of rang all

1257
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,760
Speaker 1: sorts of alarm bells. If I'm a Texas longhorned fan.

1258
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 1: Is Sark looking at things and going his art ready

1259
01:16:13,520 --> 01:16:15,760
Speaker 1: his arts thinking about another school? Does he not like

1260
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: the spotlight of Texas? Is there all? What's going on here?

1261
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: It is? You know, he'd rather Sark wasn't oc in

1262
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 1: the and I think a QB coach in the NFL

1263
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 1: for a bit during his sort of after he sort

1264
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:31,600
Speaker 1: of driven out of coaching the first time due to

1265
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:35,719
Speaker 1: his personal issues, and the NFL was a good place

1266
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 1: for him to sort of re establish his credentials and

1267
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 1: he might be. I have to tell you, as cam

1268
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:46,559
Speaker 1: Ward supporter, I want to see cam Ward with a

1269
01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:48,560
Speaker 1: great coach because he doesn't have one right now, and

1270
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 1: he didn't have one the start of this year. Imagine

1271
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 1: him having an offensive mind like Sark with him. It

1272
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 1: could be a lot of fun to see what cam

1273
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: Ward can do. So I'll admit I'm happy for cam

1274
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Speaker 1: Ward if that is indeed a direction they will go.

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01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:05,519
Speaker 1: But wow, poor Texas because you know with all these

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01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: you know we're going to have this massive sort of

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01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 1: coaching spectacle, and I have a feeling that the big

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01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 1: names that move won't succeed. The names we've never heard of,

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01:17:16,160 --> 01:17:19,599
Speaker 1: that get plucked from obscurity will be the ones that

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01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:21,560
Speaker 1: come out of nowhere and have huge success. Did you

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01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 1: know who Calen de Boor was in twenty twenty twenty

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01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 1: when he was working his way up to become the

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01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 1: head coach at the University of Washington right exactly? So?

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01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 1: Did you know who Kurt Signette was when he was

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01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,880
Speaker 1: sitting over James Madison when Virginia and Virginia Tech went

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01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 1: through coach after coach after coach and they didn't hire

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01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:41,760
Speaker 1: him because they thought he was too old. So there's

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01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 1: plenty of good coaches out there. I wouldn't be hiring

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01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 1: a brand name one. I'd be hiring somebody who's doing

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01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 1: some innovating right now and trying and be finding new

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01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 1: not finding someone else's tarnished treasure, if you will. So

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Speaker 1: there have it for what I've seen this week, I

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01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 1: don't know how anybody would rank Alabama ahead of text,

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01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: A and M. I think you've put I probably. I

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01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:14,760
Speaker 1: think resume wise, you probably have to put Indiana and

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01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:17,760
Speaker 1: A and M one two and you could pick your order.

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01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:21,639
Speaker 1: And the only reason I'm for keeping Ohio State number

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01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: one is, hey, they're the defending champs and they haven't

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01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 1: done anything not to lose their spot. But they really

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01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: haven't beaten anybody yet. Then again, it's impressive that they

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01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: haven't found themselves in a game either. Everybody else sort

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01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: of has had a little bit of testing here there.

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01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 1: Indiana almost lost to Iowa, and by the way, don't

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01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 1: sleep on these Hawkeyes. I think when they almost beat Indiana,

1305
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 1: we all thought oh Indiana was having a rough game.

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01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: It's at Iowa. My goodness, this is a much different

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01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 1: Iowa team. If they had one losses set of two

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01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: we'd be talking about them in the playoff. If they're

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01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: a ten and two team, we might we might be

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01:18:55,280 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: talking about it. Are we going to debate the fifth

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01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 1: se we see team versus a fourth Big ten team? Right?

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01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: Could we really be debating Iowa and say Vanderbilt. All

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01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 1: depends how many losses. Another thing to keep track of

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01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:18,760
Speaker 1: this week. If you're a gambler, teams that acquired their

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01:19:18,880 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 1: third loss go basically you know you're out of it.

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01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:24,680
Speaker 1: If you if you thought you had a shot at

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01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:27,680
Speaker 1: the at the playoff and you've acquired a loss that

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01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: basically knocks you out for the most part, that's two

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01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 1: or three losses, depending on the conference you're in. Starting

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01:19:34,840 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm going to start to look for that as a

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01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: as a betting angle, just out of curiosity. And then

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01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:44,760
Speaker 1: speaking of betting, I'm going to close with this. We

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01:19:44,840 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: know all these betting scandals are out there. There's two

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Speaker 1: things generally that I do believe on this. One is

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01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 1: I think that the more we legalize, the more it

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01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 1: will be actually easier to find the crooks. Right. I

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01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:02,200
Speaker 1: think the fact that we have in some places it's legal,

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01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:05,759
Speaker 1: some places it's illegal. You know, California is in Texas.

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01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:08,680
Speaker 1: Basically there are two of our largest states where this

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01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:15,280
Speaker 1: stuff's illegal. I think invites more of this underground problem.

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01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:17,760
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, there is an argument to be

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01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:21,160
Speaker 1: made that bringing it out is a good thing and

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01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: you'll be able to see it. The second thing, though,

1334
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: is I am one of those who thinks player props

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01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 1: are not to be legal. And you could say I'm overreacting,

1336
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: but let me do I just look at it as again,

1337
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 1: I look at it as consumer protection. I will not

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01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: bet on player props because I do not believe it's

1339
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:42,320
Speaker 1: a fair market. It is too easy to corrupt. It

1340
01:20:42,360 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 1: doesn't mean everybody that has a player prop assigned to

1341
01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:51,679
Speaker 1: them is going to it is corrupt, but it's corrupt.

1342
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 1: Theble we're human beings. Go back to my history lesson

1343
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:58,479
Speaker 1: with the federalist papers. We're human beings and in some

1344
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: ways you've got to sort of you're going to have

1345
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 1: to have some rules and laws that prevent human nature

1346
01:21:03,439 --> 01:21:07,519
Speaker 1: from acting upon itself. And you know it is going

1347
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 1: to be too tempting with that sitting out there. So

1348
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: it is I think we the the we need sort

1349
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 1: of federal regulation of this UH sports gambling. Believe that

1350
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:27,320
Speaker 1: the state by state tapetry tapestry is turning into a

1351
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:30,320
Speaker 1: nightmare on this front. And again, when you have some

1352
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:33,880
Speaker 1: states where it's totally underground, you're going to have more

1353
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: corrupt practices, more mobsters involved, things like that. But the

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01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 1: player props, we need to think long and hard about them,

1355
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 1: long and hard about them. I am I am not

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01:21:44,439 --> 01:21:50,800
Speaker 1: convinced at all that this uh that the that there's

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01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:54,200
Speaker 1: a good libertarian argument for it, and I'm mostly I'm

1358
01:21:54,200 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: mostly looking for the libertarian argument to defend gambling. But

1359
01:21:57,240 --> 01:22:00,679
Speaker 1: player props. All of the scandals that we've had in gambling,

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01:22:00,680 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 1: whether legal or around the world, usually involved when one

1361
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: individual has an outsized impact on the line. Right, you know,

1362
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:12,719
Speaker 1: table tennis, there was a big scam on that tennis

1363
01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 1: around the world, individual players and player props. All right,

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01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: enough of my enough of my ramblings. For this Monday,

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01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,760
Speaker 1: we will take a break for forty eight hours so

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Speaker 1: until we upload a game.