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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of From

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Speaker 1: Russia with Trend. Oh trend doesn't sound like love, Jael

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Speaker 1: doesn't at all. But that's that's what I got. My

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Speaker 1: name is Jack. That's Miles. That one. That trending title

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Speaker 1: courtesy of me, just realizing five seconds before we started

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Speaker 1: recording that I needed a trending title. All right, Miles, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Russia is trending.

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Speaker 2: Russia. Russia, Russia is what they do this time?

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Speaker 1: Yoj brother, what do this right time?

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Speaker 3: Right around the time we stopped recording the trending episode yesterday,

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Speaker 3: there's like this unsealed indictment from the Department of Justice

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Speaker 3: that shows that a Tennessee based media network that produces

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Speaker 3: shows for high profile right wing influencers such as Benny

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Speaker 3: Johnson and Tim Poole, Lauren Southern, Dave Rubin, and the like,

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Speaker 3: turned out to be largely funded by Russian state backed

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Speaker 3: news network RT Russia Today. The DOJ quote claims the

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Speaker 3: US company, along with other news outlets they were able

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Speaker 3: to identify, as Tenant Media, but it goes unnamed in

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Speaker 3: the indictment, posted hundreds of videos on social media that.

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Speaker 2: Pushed Kremlin approved talking points.

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Speaker 3: They were able to figure out because in the indictment

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Speaker 3: it said like like there was just something that just

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Speaker 3: was fully ripped off of like their YouTube channel, and

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Speaker 3: people were like, Oh, that's this place. And then when

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Speaker 3: they lined up like how many subscribers people had, They're like, Oh,

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Speaker 3: that's Tim Poole, Oh that's Benny Johnson.

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Speaker 2: What is going on?

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Speaker 3: So it turns out this is from Wired Quote posing

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Speaker 3: as outside video editors. The pair of Russia Today employees

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Speaker 3: allegedly were intimately involved in Tenant Media's operations. Kalishnikov, for example,

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Speaker 3: quote monitored Tenet Media's internal communications and edited content published

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Speaker 3: by the company.

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Speaker 2: The indictment claims.

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Speaker 3: Afanas Yeva, who allegedly used the fake personas Helena Shudra

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Speaker 3: and Victoria Pesti while working with Tennant Media, said to

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Speaker 3: have Quote edit, did, posted and directed the posting by

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Speaker 3: Tenant Media, and provided day to day direction to the

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Speaker 3: company's staff, alleging that she worked with Tenet Media, including

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Speaker 3: instructing the company to post pro Russian viewpoints such as

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Speaker 3: pushing a micro pushing a conspiracy theory that Ukraine and

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Speaker 3: US were responsible for a March terrorist attack, and a

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Speaker 3: music venue in Moscow. The indictment is full of many

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Speaker 3: damning little tidbits, like including some of the talking points

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Speaker 3: that they wanted disseminated, and when you read them, you're like,

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Speaker 3: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this is like Fox. Yeah, so

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Speaker 3: they say all the time, which is kind of odd

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Speaker 3: because like that Also in the indictment, they're saying that

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Speaker 3: these people were like unwittingly part of this scheme, but

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Speaker 3: it seems like.

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Speaker 1: So they didn't know they were working for the Kremlin.

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Speaker 3: They were somebody's Yeah, they're like they're offering me, like,

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Speaker 3: you know, timpoles like I want one hundred kN episode,

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Speaker 3: you know, or it's just not worth it for me,

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Speaker 3: and like it all like they got what they wanted.

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Speaker 1: There are wires did this investigation?

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Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, not why this is just like

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Speaker 3: this is just from one of the this.

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Speaker 1: Is why it is reporting on a DOJ investigation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And many people are now reporting on this because

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Speaker 3: it's pretty big and these are huge voices in like

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Speaker 3: right wing talker sphere, and when you like look at

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Speaker 3: the kinds of things that they've been saying, you're like,

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Speaker 3: oh right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 2: This all makes sense.

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Speaker 3: I mean people have been saying that for a while

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Speaker 3: now are regurgitating this stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for a while now, it's been very strange that

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party has like suddenly become very pro Russia

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Speaker 1: Party and Fox News' method for generating stories for a

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Speaker 1: long time now has been just like, see what the

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Speaker 1: types of people like Tim Poole are saying, and then

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Speaker 1: just like let that stuff bubble up essentially exactly, so it.

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Speaker 3: Goes from right wing shit talkers to then pretending it's

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Speaker 3: like real mainstream news and you're saying stuff like Ukraine

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Speaker 3: is the biggest enemy of the United States, and it's

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Speaker 3: just like kind of hard to to like understand because

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Speaker 3: a big rually these people just push whatever like the

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Speaker 3: like through that prism, like I can see how they

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Speaker 3: could have plausible deniability of or like, well, like I'm

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Speaker 3: just diametrically opposed to everything they say. So if they

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Speaker 3: our greatest enemy. But then you put this along the

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Speaker 3: lines of what these specific talking points that these people

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Speaker 2: And you're like, oh, well, what came first.

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Speaker 3: The propaly like the dissemination of you know, propaganda talking

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Speaker 1: What is all Tim Poole saying at this point and

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Speaker 1: we still do not know what is true on this one. Guys, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: He's like yeah with these then he but then he

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Speaker 3: He's like Putin is a scumbag, Russia sunk sucks donkey balls.

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Speaker 3: And to the journalists who wish to jump on, jump

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Speaker 3: the gun, create their own narrative or lie about what

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Speaker 3: is currently going on, you can my Irish ass.

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Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, Doug.

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Speaker 2: So just I don't know, it's all.

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Speaker 1: There's a great even more News episode or some more

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Speaker 1: news episode from Cody and Katie about Tempoole and just

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Speaker 1: like his instincts and like he'll there'll be like a

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Speaker 1: mass shooting and he'll be he will just like guess

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Speaker 1: exactly wrong as to like what's going on, and like

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Speaker 1: be proven wrong within twelve hours. But like go real

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Speaker 1: real strong on, like you know, I think we can

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Speaker 1: tell what's going on here, Yeah, exactly, just like get

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Speaker 1: the like get the person who's involved wrong. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it always felt like this is what was

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Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, and now we seem to have receipts

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: This is causing a bit of a stir on the

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Speaker 3: right as they're like trying to like Jesse Waters was like, well,

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Speaker 3: by this metric, everything I say on this show, we'll

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Speaker 3: have the earmarks of Russian propaganda. And you're like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: bad and they're doing their best to like spin this all.

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Speaker 2: Kinds of ways. But I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like there are many other countries who I

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Speaker 3: as well through uh, you know, intermediaries such as APAC.

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Speaker 2: But yes, today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, uh some ripples like Blaze just fired one of

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Speaker 1: this Blaze TV. The Glenn Beck's like weird little media

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Speaker 1: company just fired Lauren Chen who's involved. Yeah right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like she's an independent contractor. We actually don't know her

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Speaker 1: never never even talked to her. We just right churn intent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly, But yeah, this is this is all

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Speaker 3: everyone is like trying to explain away, like what is

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Speaker 2: It's just all very again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure this is going to continue to evolve

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Speaker 3: as the weekend goes on, because people are bracing themselves

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Speaker 3: for more revelations.

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Speaker 1: More revelations. So there's this guy, Licktman. He has predicted

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Speaker 1: successfully every presidential winner for the last forty years. At

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Speaker 1: about this time, so about a month out, two months out,

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Speaker 1: he runs the upcoming election through his thirteen keys and

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Speaker 1: outcomes result and as thirteen keys, we will take you

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Speaker 1: through what they are. They seem somewhat subjective. They're very

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Speaker 1: confusing to me. They don't like make clear sense to me.

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Speaker 1: But he was one of the only people who picked

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump to win in twenty sixteen who wasn't like

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Speaker 1: actively working for the Donald Trump campaig. And the one

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Speaker 1: place that he was off is Al Gore. He predicted

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Speaker 1: Al Gore would win in two thousand, George W. Bush

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Speaker 1: one in two thousand. But he's like, actually not really though,

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Speaker 1: if Florida had not fucked up the vote counting, which

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Speaker 1: I mean is an argument. I think it would just

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Speaker 1: that was the only one that was marginal. But anyways,

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Speaker 1: he has run the numbers on the upcoming election and

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Speaker 1: they I think it's of the thirteen keys, he has

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Speaker 1: like ten of them going for Kamala Harris. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: because like the way the article in the the article

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Speaker 1: Which yeah, not the most so like this this should

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Speaker 1: put just put what we're saying in the proper context.

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Speaker 1: This person is like somewhere between the octopus who could

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Speaker 1: predict the world outcome and Nate Silver, you know, who

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Speaker 2: He's not weird hair. Is that a wig? You think?

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Speaker 2: Have you seen this guy?

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Speaker 1: Is the braids? I don't what is it? Who lickman?

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Speaker 2: Yeah he's got oh wow. Yeah yeah, Now I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying that's a wig, but yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a wild head of hair on top

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Speaker 1: of his head.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But I mean a lot of people are a lot

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Speaker 3: of people are picking It's not just the Daily Mail,

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Speaker 3: but like a lot because you know, because of his

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Speaker 3: sort of nickname.

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Speaker 2: As like election nostrodamus.

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Speaker 3: You're like, whoa, another little another, Let's put another check

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Speaker 3: pollmark on that side for the horse race.

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Speaker 1: The other key, which direction myke ken burns ass hair

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Speaker 1: is pointing When I wake up the morning before the election. Hey,

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Speaker 1: uh so I'll just the keys. The thirteen keys include

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Speaker 1: mid term gains, incumbency, primary contest, third party, short term economy,

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Speaker 1: long term economy, policy change, social unrest, white House scandal,

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Speaker 1: incumbent charisma, challenger charisma, foreign policy failures, and foreign policy success.

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Speaker 1: And like, the article by the Daily Mail is weird

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Speaker 1: because it's it says like, well, two of these things

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Speaker 1: swing the election. But then it goes on to say

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Speaker 1: that even if those two factors switched, Trump would only

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Speaker 1: have five keys in his So I don't know why

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I would expect nothing less from a

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Speaker 3: conservative rag to like try and put a nice blanket

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Speaker 3: of cope around the bad news.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but yeah, great.

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Speaker 1: It seems who knows. Other people are talking about how

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Speaker 1: Trump's attack ads on Kamala Harris might be working. According

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Speaker 1: to the Economist, which.

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Speaker 3: Is the one where he's like, she's she does sex

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Speaker 3: acts on people for her career.

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Speaker 2: Like what the like that ship that he's been saying, Okay, she.

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Speaker 1: Murdered people and used immigration as the murder weapon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're all voting for all.

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Speaker 1: Right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: And we're back. We're back, And I guess that here's

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Speaker 1: one thing that Lichtmann's model isn't taken into account. Trump TikTok.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's got a new ad out. I guess

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Speaker 3: you call it an ad. It just looks like a

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Speaker 3: direct to camera rant that he's doing. But telling all

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Speaker 3: the young ones out there that I love TikTok and

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Speaker 3: you should vote for me. This is him with his

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Speaker 3: latest plea to help him from legal jeopardy.

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Speaker 4: For all of those that want to save TikTok in America,

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Speaker 4: vote for Trump. The other side's closing it up. But

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Speaker 4: I'm now a big star on TikTok. Have TikTok Jack.

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Speaker 2: And what's that say, TikTok Jack. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: Are you TikTok Jack?

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Speaker 1: I mean I do have a TikTok.

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Speaker 4: Even have TikTok Jack, and we're setting records. We're not

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Speaker 2: Do we even have TikTok Jack?

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Speaker 1: Even is tick is the person who owns TikTok named Jack.

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Speaker 2: Don't we don't we folks? We love Havana syndrome, don't

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Speaker 1: But the big news is UH. A institution that is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was. It predates this show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those things don't predate this show. My second kid doesn't.

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Speaker 2: So Cia, you got a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 3: If Blake Wexler came back from there and was like,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you came back from there flush with cash though

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Speaker 1: will talk to you all tomorrow.

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