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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining, and honor and a

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Speaker 1: This is where you see, This is where it all

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Speaker 1: comes together. It's not about just keeping kids safe. It

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Speaker 1: is about being opposed to guns. Guns are a cultural

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Speaker 1: signifier in this country. If you say that you believe

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Speaker 1: in the Second Amendment, if you say that you believe

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Speaker 1: in a right to bear arms and individuals right to

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Speaker 1: own firearms to defend himself or herself and as a

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Speaker 1: collective American defense against tyranny. Yes, that is still real,

436
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Speaker 1: and yes we still believe that. If you say that,

437
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Speaker 1: then there are a whole bunch of other things that

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Speaker 1: generally but not always come along with that and have

439
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Speaker 1: a more traditional religious view. Um you know, you know

440
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: all they basically tend to be a Republican. You go

441
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: down the whole slew of different issues, more likely to

442
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: be pro life, more likely to any number of things.

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Speaker 1: And so that's why the gun issue just becomes a

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Speaker 1: signifier for everything else. And that's why solutions to school

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Speaker 1: shootings that aren't explicitly anti gun, anti firearm ownership, or

446
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Speaker 1: unacceptable to the left. Even though they're screaming do something,

447
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: do something, we come back and say, Okay, here's something.

448
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: They say, no, no, not that thing. Do this other

449
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Speaker 1: thing that we really insist on. But that won't work

450
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Speaker 1: and it's not a good idea. And also it's an

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Speaker 1: infringement on freedoms. Why do you not care about dead children?

452
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Speaker 1: They yell, Well, hold on a second, I thought we

453
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Speaker 1: were having an adult discussion. There's that term I mean,

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Speaker 1: but I thought we were having a responsible exchange of

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Speaker 1: ideas on what to do here. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: if you get a chance, you go back and you

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Speaker 1: see some of and we played some of the clips

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Speaker 1: for you, some of the listening, the listening session that

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Speaker 1: the President had with these families. This is important for

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Speaker 1: the country to see and people should be heard, and

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Speaker 1: they are being heard. I've also noticed though, that there

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Speaker 1: are complaints among some of the media that their favorite

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Speaker 1: students are not being heard from. They've already picked favorites,

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Speaker 1: you know, the ones that are saying the n r

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Speaker 1: A are child murderers. Those are the ones that we

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Speaker 1: should be hearing from all the time. Well, there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of students, as I said, three thousand in

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Speaker 1: the Douglas High School in Parkland, close to three thousands,

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Speaker 1: something like over hundred. I've seen a handful on TV

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Speaker 1: many times already. I don't think that's an accident. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they're the only ones who have opinions. And

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Speaker 1: I've already seen. So I'm going back to the blue

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Speaker 1: check Twitter, which is a journalist. It's like a big

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Speaker 1: chat session among all the different journalists on Twitter. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of you, like who cares about Twitter.

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Speaker 1: But it's just the way that we keep keep tabs

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Speaker 1: on each other and see what everyone's saying. A lot

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Speaker 1: of them are already complaining that they're not hearing from

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Speaker 1: the voices they want to hear from. Well, is it

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Speaker 1: about hearing from the kids that the high school in Parkland?

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Speaker 1: Or is it just about hearing from kids that pushing

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Speaker 1: agenda that some adult one. This is where we we

483
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Speaker 1: have to be very careful with what comes out of

484
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Speaker 1: this and what the direction is after this tragedy. It's

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Speaker 1: clear it's a very emotional moments, very difficult for the country.

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Speaker 1: I understand all of that. I want to band bump stocks, fine,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not about to fall on my sword

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Speaker 1: for bump stocks. I don't really care. But once we

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Speaker 1: start talking about assault rifle band we've already been there,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't stop anything. What is what is an assault rifle

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Speaker 1: under the context of a federal law? Anyway? Didn't didn't

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Speaker 1: help when Bill Clinton did it back in the nineties.

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Speaker 1: In fact, gun violence went up a little bit. Less

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Speaker 1: than two percent of all firearms related deaths involve a

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Speaker 1: long gun of any kind. Gun violence is almost entirely

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Speaker 1: a function of handguns which are not even under discussion

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Speaker 1: right now, and handguns which were used two of them

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Speaker 1: in the biggest single mass school shooting of all time,

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Speaker 1: which was at Virginia Tech. So we're skipping over are

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Speaker 1: a lot of facts and figures here to do what

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Speaker 1: feels good to one side of the political spectrum so that

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Speaker 1: that the other side in this case, conservatives don't feel bad,

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Speaker 1: don't feel like they're unwilling to budge on this. But

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Speaker 1: I do come back, and I'm not trying to just

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Speaker 1: take a hard line for its own sake here. I

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Speaker 1: come back to, is anything really different this time We've

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Speaker 1: we have been here before, the same. I almost want

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Speaker 1: to go back and I don't know, listen to my

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Speaker 1: own show. That'd be kind of weird. But you can

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Speaker 1: go back to some of the previous news cycles after

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Speaker 1: large scale shootings, school shootings and other shootings where the

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Speaker 1: gun debate became fierce and it's nasty, it's vicious, as

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Speaker 1: you know, these are all these are all things I've

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Speaker 1: heard before. The only thing that has gone attention. I

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Speaker 1: will say that is different this time around in terms

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Speaker 1: of policy solution or possible legal remedy for what's going on.

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Speaker 1: Is the temporary street any order based on a mental

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Speaker 1: you know, essentially a mental illness that would make you dangerous.

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Speaker 1: So temporary restraining order from buying guns. That's the only

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Speaker 1: one that I've heard that I'm like, Okay, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of new, or that's getting a little more and all right,

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Speaker 1: that that that strikes me as reasonable. That strikes me

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Speaker 1: depending on how it's worded and what the legislation is.

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Speaker 1: But here's what I'm Here's what I'm offering up to you.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's that wouldn't be acceptable either. They won't.

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Speaker 1: They the movement such as it is right now. They

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Speaker 1: want a band. They want no guns. Which guns, They'll

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Speaker 1: figure that out. They want a ban on guns though

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Speaker 1: guns equal bad. That's what this comes down to. It's

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Speaker 1: not about safety and schools first and foremost. It is

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Speaker 1: about a political position and an entire cultural backdrop to

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Speaker 1: all that as well. Eight four four, eight to five.

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Speaker 1: My friends, phone lines open, will take some calls. We

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Speaker 1: will be right back. What is your message to the

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Speaker 1: President Unites States? Here are voices, and take what we

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Speaker 1: say and put that into action, because um, we're dying.

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Speaker 1: Kids are dying, and it's it's a lot of this

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Speaker 1: is a life or death situation, and I think at

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Speaker 1: this point we really have to focus on the fact

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Speaker 1: that it's way too easy for teenagers to buy guns,

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Speaker 1: and it's ridiculous that nothing is being actively done for that.

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00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: I mean, here, we that was another one of the

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Speaker 1: students just speaking to press there. You know, when they

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Speaker 1: say things like it's too easy for teenagers to buy guns,

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Speaker 1: do they mean it's too easy for a while biding

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Speaker 1: adult with no criminal background to buy a gun. Because

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Speaker 1: once you're eighteen, you are an adult. You can say,

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Speaker 1: this is something that happens a lot. Right When is

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Speaker 1: it when do we refer to someone as a teenager

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Speaker 1: and when we refer to them as an adult? A

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Speaker 1: eighteen if you're nineteen, is in the case of the shooter,

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Speaker 1: you are an adult. If we want to start having

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Speaker 1: a whole nation wide discussion about changing that, that's one thing.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think we're there, and I think that

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Speaker 1: this is not a place where we're fine. We're not

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Speaker 1: gonna find a lot of solutions in Oh, let's let's

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Speaker 1: just raise the age of people to buy firearms. I

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Speaker 1: don't see that being being a way to handle this either,

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Speaker 1: especially because we had Sean Davison yesterday. A lot of

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Speaker 1: mass shooters are in their mid thirties, So what what's

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Speaker 1: what's the age? What's the age limn gonna be for

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Speaker 1: somebody to buy a firearm? You know, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna work. And at some point we

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Speaker 1: also have lost sight of the fact this is a

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Speaker 1: constitutionally protected right. There is a process for removing it.

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Speaker 1: It's not like it could never change. If this was

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Speaker 1: such a terrible thing the founding Dollars have done. There

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Speaker 1: is a government mechanism for changing it. It It would just

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Speaker 1: take a lot of people do agree, and they don't,

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Speaker 1: a lot of elected representatives to go in the same direction,

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Speaker 1: and they're not. But it is a constituently protected right,

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Speaker 1: has been for a very long time, and we're talking

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Speaker 1: about it like it's this or the media is trying

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Speaker 1: to get us to talk about it like it's this irritation,

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Speaker 1: This this anachronism that just results in unnecessary bloodshed. Charlie

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Speaker 1: and Ocean, Ocean City, Maryland. Hey, Charlie, Hey Buck, thanks

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Speaker 1: for taking my call. I've been I've been listening to

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Speaker 1: a lot of different people talking about this gun issue,

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Speaker 1: and they bring me to the point of Israel. I

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Speaker 1: haven't heard any mass shootings in schools in Israel, and

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Speaker 1: I would venture to say that that's for per population,

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Speaker 1: that's probably the biggest gun owners in the world, because

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Speaker 1: there have been attack every day forever, and they have

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Speaker 1: concealed carry people in schools, they protect their children. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the look Israeli security is often looked at as a

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Speaker 1: model for US counterparts, whether we're talking about airport and

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Speaker 1: airline security. So it certainly is worth looking at what

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Speaker 1: the Israelis are doing in schools. They have a particular

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Speaker 1: threat though, and that is that, on top of just

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Speaker 1: the possibility of a psychopath going into a school, Charlie,

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Speaker 1: they have had numerous terrorist entities uh Islamic jihadists who

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Speaker 1: have who would very much like to go into a

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Speaker 1: school and engage in a mass shooting for the purposes

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Speaker 1: of a political violence, for terrorism. So they have an

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Speaker 1: additional layer that they have to consider. But you'll notice, Charlie,

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Speaker 1: they the moment that people start talking about armoring, arming

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Speaker 1: war folks in schools, maybe concealed cary for teachers, more

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Speaker 1: training for teachers, and dealing with active shooters that involved

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Speaker 1: the teachers being able to shoot back. Now it's not

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Speaker 1: just do something, it's oh no, no, I didn't mean

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Speaker 1: just do something. I meant do the thing I want

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Speaker 1: you to do. Well, that's not the same, right, that's

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Speaker 1: a that's shifting the goalpost. But thank you for calling,

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Speaker 1: and Charlie appreciate it. Folks. I'm sorry there's you've been holding.

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Speaker 1: I've gone a little along here and we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: into the next hour talking about Russia collusion. So apologies

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Speaker 1: for my my rambles. We're gonna change up topics here

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Speaker 1: and discuss the latest on the troll farms. He's back

609
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Speaker 1: with you now, because when it comes to the fight

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Speaker 1: for truth, the fuck never stops. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: buck Sex and show everybody our two. We are gonna

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Speaker 1: get into some Russia investigation, Russia collusion, all that good stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna talk about now. Uh as a

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Speaker 1: as a an appetizer for this discussion, maybe as a

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Speaker 1: way of and textualizing where we're gonna go what's coming

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Speaker 1: up next here. I just want to take a little

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Speaker 1: trip down memory lane with you. You wouldn't mind you

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Speaker 1: recall this whole thing happened back back a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: different president at a different time in this country. Remember this,

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Speaker 1: this is my last les Basel. Yes, and that's not

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Speaker 1: my muntion that I have more poxibleyn't understand. Let's just

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Speaker 1: make this pumission to Lisima unless ever l t runsmit

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Speaker 1: disinformation to Vladimir I must break you. I mean, you know, really,

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Speaker 1: that was President Obama who is talking to Medvedev there,

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Speaker 1: and he's just saying, yeah, look, you know, don't worry,

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Speaker 1: I got more leeway to do stuff that will make

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00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: you guys happy after my next election. And that's for

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Speaker 1: the the same Russia folks that has been were all

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Speaker 1: kind of Russian hacking and Ukraine and Syria and putting

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Speaker 1: deep cover agents into the US and all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 1: That same Russia. Obama's caught right there saying, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well that's and literally you've got Putin's at the time,

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Speaker 1: right ahead, man med Videav being like able thruns mideast

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Speaker 1: of Lathermere, I will pass the information of your willingness

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Speaker 1: to sell out principles for the greatness of Russia. I mean,

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Speaker 1: no one really freaked out about it at the time.

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Speaker 1: Some conservatives like me, We're like, we've got a problem

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Speaker 1: with this. This is troubling to me. I see some

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Speaker 1: issues here. It was a little strange, and in light

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Speaker 1: of what we know now, it's particularly problematic because not

641
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Speaker 1: a lot of tough guy talk when it kind of

642
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Speaker 1: when it came to Russia when Obama was in office.

643
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: It's certainly not when Hillary was trying to become the

644
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: next president United States, and they wanted to keep things cool,

645
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: keep things quiet. And now they're saying, or some say,

646
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: it's the biggest attack in the US and it's not eleven,

647
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: which strikes me as crazy. But this has become a

648
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: mass hysteria. This has become a delusion. As I have

649
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: told you, the Russia collusion delusion is powerful. It has

650
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 1: spread far and wide across the country, and it has

651
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: forced journalists to act in ways that not only destroy

652
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: any pretense of objectivity they may have, but also makes

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00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: some of them act like jerks. A lot of them

654
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: act like jerks because of the Russia collusion fairy tale. Now, remember,

655
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: Russian interference is not the same as Russian collusion. But

656
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: they're so desperate to keep Russian collusion alive. But they're

657
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: willing to magnify the Russian interference, which, as I've said,

658
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: was sure Facebook and Twitter campaign to tell people some

659
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: stuff about the election, as well as a whole bunch

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00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: of other things. That's all. That's what we're really that's

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00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: what we're really talking about here. I was aghast when

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Speaker 1: I first saw this clip, and I'm about to play

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00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: for you. You've got a woman who is down in

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Speaker 1: Florida and she was involved in uh in organizing for Trump,

665
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: and she's an ardent Trump supporter, but she's just a

666
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Speaker 1: private citizen. Her name is Floorine Goldfarv and she's a

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00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: Team Trump Broward County Facebook page I guess Facebook page founder,

668
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: or she set up a Facebook page for Trump. Completely legitimate,

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Speaker 1: audible very you know, yea civic doing or civic not

670
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: her civic duty, but engaging in her right as a

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00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: citizen to express her ideas and support of candidates. She's

672
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: a woman. I don't want to engage any agism here,

673
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: but she looks to me to be probably of retire

674
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Speaker 1: as she's a retiree age and she's just living at

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Speaker 1: her home in Florida. And CNN decides to send journalists

676
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: that she's a private citizen. Right, she just did some

677
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: hey like my Facebook group for Trump. This could literally

678
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: happen to any of you across the country, alright, anyone

679
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: who shares their views on Facebook, anyone who is on Twitter,

680
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: which I know not that many of you are, but

681
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure most of you, by the numbers, are on Facebook.

682
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen to you all of a sudden. You've

683
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: got some smug CNN reporter literally standing on your front

684
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: lawn and doing this. We're gonna play this clip, play

685
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: what part of it? And this is the cover up

686
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: what you're saying that's not true or what the Russians.

687
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: I don't care if they were involved or not. That's

688
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: that to me is the least important things. But they

689
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: were involved with you. Did you guys know that they

690
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: weren't involved with us? You know? Just make sure that

691
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: you reported correctly that you know what you guys were

692
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: involved with being patriotic, right, very very patriotic, but not

693
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:31,280
Speaker 1: being patriotic? Was the group that contacted and helped organize

694
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Speaker 1: some of these activities that you posted on your own

695
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: Facebook account. Those were legitimate. Those were Russians. They were

696
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 1: not Russians. I don't go with the Russians. That group

697
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: was Russians. I have nothing to do with the Russians.

698
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: Well apparently you did. Now maybe you didn't know it did.

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00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: When you're talking like this, I don't want to have

700
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Speaker 1: anything to do with you. Well, I'm talking what Those

701
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: people that were with me were all Trump's supporters, very

702
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: very much so, and all apparently following the direction of

703
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: groups that were associated with Russians who were actually infiltrating.

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00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: And please please report that. I don't believe that that's both.

705
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,959
Speaker 1: I know all the people that were with me, Okay,

706
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: they were at my meetings. They're all Trump's supporters. Okay,

707
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: but did you realize that you guys were in communication

708
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: electronically with Russian You were posting stuff on Facebook. Hillary

709
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: Clinton was, and so was all horror bandits some of

710
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: the stuff that you were in charge of the Facebook coup, right,

711
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: You were posting and reposting almost word for word, the

712
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: information that was coming out of this internet research agency

713
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: in St. Petersburg. You don't believe that you, First of all,

714
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: this is just mean spirited. The whole thing is I

715
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: think a breach. I don't even think there's such a

716
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: thing as journalistic ethics anymore. They're just all ativists there there.

717
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 1: You know, it's just let's stop with the games and

718
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: and the lies and and act like there's some this

719
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: is some this is some honorable profession of big j journalism.

720
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: You know, just tell people where you're coming from and

721
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: present them with the facts and let them decide this

722
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: is nasty. This woman was just trying to organize her

723
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 1: fellow Trump supporters in her area. She's just sharing things

724
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: and posting things on Facebook. And there's just nothing about

725
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: this that in any way is unethical or problematic or

726
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 1: anything else. And what really this turns into is it's

727
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: like the it's like a person and an older person,

728
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: which we're talking about social media usage also, I think

729
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: does come into the discussion. But you know, look, anyone

730
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: can be trolled, anyone can be uh, you know, catfish,

731
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: and this was kind of political cat fishing. And you know,

732
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: would it be nice if somebody showed up to a

733
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: retirees home who was just trying to share thoughts about

734
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: politics and and said, well, you know, you thought you

735
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: were talking to your friend who supports Trump, but it

736
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: was really someone named you know, Igor, who's in st

737
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Speaker 1: Petersburg and is just pretending to be a Trump supporter.

738
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: Who what does that have to do with anything? And

739
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: it's just it's a nasty thing to do. And put

740
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: this woman the spot. Just show up at her home

741
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: two docks her. I mean, her name is already out there.

742
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm only using because I want to defend her. You know, Oh,

743
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: look at this woman. The implication here is that this

744
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 1: nice old lady is somehow a part of the Russia

745
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: conspiracy because there was some Russian bots that were on

746
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: her Facebook page, or because you know, they were sharing.

747
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: I mean, keep in mind the stuff that the Russians

748
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 1: were dumping into the election, where things like you know,

749
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,479
Speaker 1: maga and vote Trump. So who the heck cares where

750
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 1: it comes from. It doesn't really matter. It doesn't undermine

751
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: the beliefs of this woman or any of the other

752
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: people that were part of her Facebook page. You know,

753
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: think about it this way. If you're at a protest

754
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: and you're holding up a sign that says, you know,

755
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton is the worst, which would be a great sign,

756
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 1: by the way, and you're surrounded a bunch of your

757
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: friends they all have signs that say Hillary Clinton is

758
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,919
Speaker 1: the worst, then you find out that some other people

759
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 1: showed up were actually Democrat operatives and they had Hillary

760
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: is the worst signs too? Does that mean that your

761
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: message is now invalid? That you're a stooge of of

762
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: Democrat operatives now means that they're playing dirty, But you're

763
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: still there with your message. There's nothing about this that

764
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: first of all, requires a CNN camera crew to go

765
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: up to her home. And I gotta tell you, if

766
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: you know, if this were like my grandma or something

767
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: I and I had been there, I would have been

768
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: very uh what is the word? Very aggressive with this

769
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: guy who wants to harass somebody for their completely legitimate

770
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 1: and in every way fine, And I would even say

771
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: commendable political activity, just trying to be a good member

772
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: of our community, trying to get people to support Trump.

773
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: And this is this was meant to be a swipe.

774
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: This was meant to be mean spirited. It's look at you,

775
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 1: you foolish Trump supporting Rube. The Russians tricked you, ha

776
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 1: ha ha. What do they expect her to say? Yeah,

777
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: you're right, some guy you know, Igor and an old

778
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: leg and the whole squad. You know, I was, I

779
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: was in on the whole thing. And what's she supposed

780
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: to say? It's just an ambush, it's meaningless, it's some

781
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: nasty thing to do. You know, are they gonna what's next?

782
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: By the way, they're gonna show up and ask people, hey,

783
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: you know you shared this tweet from the election. You

784
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: know that turned out out to be true. Do you

785
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: know that you're a purveyor of fake news? Like well,

786
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 1: just a private citizen. You know, people make mistakes, back off,

787
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: so you know how to investigate of team. But here's

788
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: the even better question. So now that we're establishing harassing,

789
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: semi stalking, and doxing private citizens because they were engaged

790
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: in political activity on the internet that the Russians intentionally

791
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: involved themselves in through subterfuge and in very few places

792
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: and with very with no real success. But anyway, did

793
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: happen somewhat a couple of people whatever, If that's the

794
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,280
Speaker 1: new standard, though, I want to know when CNN shows

795
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: up on James Comes lawn and says, excuse me, former

796
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: FBI director, did you know that a foreign agent Christopher

797
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: Steele fed you Russian disinformation to affect the outcome of

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Speaker 1: an election, lied to you in the FBI about it.

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Speaker 1: We think and almost changed the course of American history

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Speaker 1: through this foreign scheme paid for by the d n

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00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,879
Speaker 1: C and Hillary Clinton. Do you have a comment on that, sir.

802
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: They could wait outside at Comby's home. I'm sure they

803
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 1: could find him really easy, ask him, did you know

804
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: you were being duped? They could do the same thing

805
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: with McCabe, with Yates, all these fancy d o J

806
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: folks who thought they were doing the country a big

807
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: favor by making sure that they turned the screws as

808
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,760
Speaker 1: tight as they could on the Trump team. No, Sena

809
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: is not going to do that. I'm not gonna do

810
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: that at all. Oh. These these are the kind of

811
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: journalists that that can really they really stir, stir the emotions,

812
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: you know, they really make you feel make you feel

813
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 1: proud of big J journalism in this country. They are

814
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable. That's what CNN

815
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 1: likes to do, go after people harassed. It was gross.

816
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: I watched it a couple of times. I just thought,

817
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: I just will what what are they trying? You know,

818
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: he's trying to humiliate this woman. She didn't do anything wrong.

819
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: What are they trying to prove? What was the purpose

820
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: of that segment, you know. And by the way, do

821
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: we think that she now has also had people writing

822
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: her saying terrible things to her, targeting her, because of

823
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: course she does, right, We all can expect that every

824
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: left wing idiot out there is gonna be writing her

825
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: nasty stuff. And you know, you old blah blah blah.

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00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: Thanks CNN really doing your part to enlighten the conversation,

827
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,479
Speaker 1: really really doing your part to make sure that people

828
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: act responsibly and in a decent fashion to each other.

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00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: You know, if we're gonna get all these lectures about

830
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: how we need how we need to be treating each

831
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: other with with particular dignity in the aftermath of the

832
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: shooting from CNN, I would also like seeing then to

833
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: extend that beyond just the issue where they really mean

834
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Speaker 1: silence from the opposition. That's what they think dignity that,

835
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: that's what they think being respectful is. You know, just

836
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: be quiet while we lecture you. We got more on

837
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: the rush the thing too, because it's been quite a

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00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: week for that eight four four to five, eight four

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Speaker 1: four nine, much more coming. I'll be right back. We

840
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,280
Speaker 1: think that there's a bit of a revision of history

841
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: going on about how this president has confronted Russia and

842
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: dealt with Russia, and how the last administration dealt and

843
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: confronted Russia. Remember the Obama administration uh implemented the Russia

844
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: Reset policy, a failure of making concession and concession after

845
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: concession to putin with very little in return. Um, you know,

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00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:33,720
Speaker 1: this president has confronted Russia when appropriate. He has stepped

847
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: forward and authorized the sale of offensive weapons in Ukraine.

848
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: He did authorize air strikes in Syria over Russian objections.

849
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Speaker 1: Just last week, the White House called out Russia for

850
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: the largest cyber attack in global history. We have been tough,

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00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: we have been measured, We have been smart and appropriate

852
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: and dealing with Russia. You know, what you had from

853
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: the administration is a lot of hot rhetoric with very

854
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: little results. That's Ron Shaw, who's the White House Deputy

855
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 1: Press Secretary, and he raises some very important points when

856
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: you look at actions not words, the Trump administration has

857
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: done many things that are not in Russia's interest that

858
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: you would not expect someone who is overly friendly towards

859
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: Russia to do. Perhaps most notable of all, You know,

860
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: if you really want to curtail Putin's power. If you

861
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: want to put Russia in a tough spot, among the

862
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: very best ways for America to do that that does

863
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: not involve, obviously anything crazy and military, would be what

864
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: the Trump administration is doing, which is just trying to

865
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:44,720
Speaker 1: open the floodgates of US energy exports onto the global market.

866
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: That has a much bigger influence on Russia's future and

867
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: Putin's power than anything else that they're talking about. You

868
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: want to talk about sanctions, Russia with the price of

869
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 1: a barrel of oil where it is now is a

870
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: very different place than Russia with soil at a twenty

871
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: dollars a barrel, and that affects their military spending, that

872
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 1: affects their everything. It affects their ability to project power

873
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: by supporting regimes that do their bidding right. And so

874
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: some of what Trump does has the added effect of

875
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: annoying Russia, but just also happens to be good for

876
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: the United States. So it's not a nice thing. He

877
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: doesn't go around picking on necessary fights with the Russian government,

878
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: and he's not full of all this anti Putin bluster.

879
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: I would also note that you know you had I

880
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: played the audio for you of Obama with Medvedev when

881
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: he was the Russian premier. You know, Obama is like

882
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 1: holding his hand and saying, tell Putin that I've got

883
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 1: his you know, we're gonna be able to work more

884
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: together and everything else. Putin was just as bad then

885
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 1: than he is now. This is just a complete historical

886
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: rewrite they're engaged in. It's a you right on how

887
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 1: seriously they took the election interference. It's a rewrite on

888
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 1: the Russia reset of Hillary Clinton. Did she have the

889
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: dumb button for that one or was that the Asia?

890
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was the Russia reset button, right, she

891
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: had like this is She's like, oh the button, I'm

892
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 1: gonna press the button. And she pressed it and nothing

893
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: happened except corruption because she's Hillary. So you know, Hillary

894
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: sneezes and foreign despots throw money at her. But you know,

895
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm seriously, there was nothing that came of that that

896
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: was notable from the whole Obama period in power. And

897
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: this isn't what about isn't this is just history. This

898
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,919
Speaker 1: is just understanding the context of the discussion that we're

899
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 1: currently trying to have. It just seems to me to

900
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: be so clearly one sided and unfair to take this

901
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: view of trumpus so pro putin win his actions. He

902
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: also is as a put through under the Trump administration,

903
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: the Pentagon is sending lethal the Ukraine to fight against

904
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: Russian paramilitaries, largely in Eastern Ukraine. That's a big deal.

905
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: Didn't get a lot of media coverage because they don't

906
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: want to talk about it, but that's something that means that,

907
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: that's something that could actually result in Russian casualties. And

908
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: the Obama administration explicitly chose not to do that. They

909
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: did not want to do that because they didn't want

910
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: antagonize Russia too much. So Trump is willing to do

911
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: things in Ukraine that Obama and his team was not

912
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: willing to do because they thought it would be too antagonistic.

913
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: But Trump is the Russia patsy. I just does somebody

914
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: who want to try to explain this other than just

915
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:43,919
Speaker 1: to call me and tell me, well, yeah, they're lying,

916
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: which yet correct they are. They're being dishonest about all this.

917
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: So that's what I think it port to keep mind.

918
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: By the way, we will, I think we're gonna have

919
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: to have a little Nancy Pelosi discussion coming up here

920
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: because she said some stuff recently that will be worth

921
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: our time. Uh, and we'll have a lot more also

922
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: come up the next hour. We'll talk about jerrymandering. Whoa

923
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: you like that? Back in just a few other shows,

924
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: just talk at you in the Freedom Mud. We have

925
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: a mission. We fight for the truth in a team

926
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: effort and buck us back with our next play. When

927
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: did politics and money from the n r I become

928
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: more important than our lives? We're doing it so that

929
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 1: our legislators, so that our lawmakers will make a change,

930
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: so that they will take us seriously, so that they

931
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: will not dismiss us any longer, so they won't reschedule,

932
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: so they won't push us into another room if they

933
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: dance around our questions. But we will not be silenced.

934
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: It has gone on long enough. Those in power have

935
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: not taken action. They've been using their words. They have

936
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: used political double talk as much as they can. The

937
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: laws of our beloved country allowed for the range gunmen

938
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: to purchase a gun legally. The law has failed us.

939
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: All students, maybe some are a voting age, I don't know,

940
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: but some are certainly not. All students are talking about

941
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: what they want right now, which is gun control, and

942
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: how they want action and I wanted to return to

943
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: the gun control issue for a moment here. I thought

944
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 1: we had left it behind for the show. But there's

945
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: a there's a reason, not just because I want to. No,

946
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: I've in it with you once again. Just saw this piece.

947
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:37,479
Speaker 1: You remember what I said to you yesterday. I remember

948
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: I said, you know, it doesn't really some of the

949
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: signs you see at protests, you kind of get a

950
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: sense that this isn't just some spontaneous thing. And also,

951
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: why are other schools involved in this if it's just

952
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: about the traumatized students from what is it Marjorie Douglas

953
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: High School? What's what's with now? The school? In the

954
00:59:56,600 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 1: DC suburbs people are marching, And I would note, so

955
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: there's one school. I just saw this here. A school

956
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: district down in Florida will actually suspend kids who leave

957
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: I'm seeing here. This is from CBS local affiliate in

958
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 1: Florida district will suspend kids who leave class to protest

959
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: Florida shooting. Quote. We are here for an education and

960
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: not a political protest. Yeah, you don't say true. By

961
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: the way you want to protest, you actually should be

962
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: protesting on your own time, should not be school walkouts

963
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: for this. What about the students that actually want to

964
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: have class and learn. They're deprived of an education because

965
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: some people wanna go petition their legislators. You do that

966
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: on your own time. What about the adults are with them?

967
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: By the way, they're paid by the state, They're they're

968
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: holding placards and signs on school time. I wonder if

969
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: you poked around, I bet you'd see plenty of it.

970
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: But here's the bigger, the bigger thing right now. As

971
01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,919
Speaker 1: I said to yesterday, because this is this was an

972
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 1: fitable and they were trying to fight against it until

973
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 1: they really had it all in place. Well, here's the

974
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: big story on the Washington Post just went up as

975
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: we're on air. Students take charge of gun safety movement

976
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Speaker 1: with some help from existing groups. Mm hmm, Wait a second,

977
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: what do you mean help from existing I thought this

978
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: was just spontaneous. I thought we if you listened to

979
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: the kids, help from groups like like what groups? Oh,

980
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: like every Town for Gun Safety, the Michael Bloomberg group.

981
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: Bloomberg the billionaires started this group and just goes all

982
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: over the country advocating against the Second Amendment in every

983
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: possible way, at every and every time. So like the

984
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: single biggest opponent of Second Amendment rights in the country

985
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: as an organization, right, the anti n r A, if

986
01:01:54,040 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: you will, is is connected to this already, these are

987
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: they're they're already ready. And now, by the way, what

988
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 1: they're telling you in this in this story, I'm sure

989
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: it's just the beginning of the reality here. A lot

990
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: of these students found their way very quickly to see

991
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: an n Anchors and to national news coverage, and all

992
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: of this wasn't an accident. These are decisions, editorial decisions

993
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: being made by the networking about which students get put

994
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: on TV H. And also you have these upcoming marches

995
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:29,919
Speaker 1: which they're saying is going to be like the Women's March,

996
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: These upcoming marches that have received money, I think did

997
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: they get money from Oprah and Cluney too? I think so.

998
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: So now we're in that phase of this where they're

999
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: gonna Now now they've got em talking about it and

1000
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: we're all focused on it, they want to move into

1001
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: the part of this where they can't hide entirely that

1002
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: anti gun groups are very much involved in this whole thing.

1003
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: That adults who have raised money, who have a political

1004
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 1: agenda are involved in the organization, behind the scenes and

1005
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: all that other stuff. This is the beginning of us

1006
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 1: coming to that realization, which you and I have known

1007
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 1: now for a couple of days, but maybe longer. It

1008
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: wasn't okay to say it until now. Oh you're you're

1009
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: you're undermining their message. You know, you're I've seen a

1010
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: few people that are because someone somewhere said something nasty

1011
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: about one of these kids. Now, any conservative that questions

1012
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: the message comes under fire. I also know that there

1013
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: was a a video I forget the name of the

1014
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: you never the name of the guy he went into

1015
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 1: buy an A R fifteen, and it went totally viral.

1016
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: And in fact, one of the students from the Parkland

1017
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: High School who was at the Trump listening session in

1018
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 1: the White House mentioned because I was watching it before

1019
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: we came under mentions mentioned this activists, you know, anti

1020
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,479
Speaker 1: gun activists, who went into a store, a gun store

1021
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: in Florida and he says, you know, I haven't expired,

1022
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: I d and I'm twenty and I bought in an

1023
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: A R fifteen in five minutes or something like that.

1024
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. That this got a

1025
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: lot of play. Um uh, it's got a lot of play.

1026
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 1: And here's the problem with it. He didn't buy the gun.

1027
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: I mean he walked in I was able to see

1028
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: and unloaded, you know, a R fifteen, and they looked

1029
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 1: at his idea, you know, they looked at his I D.

1030
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 1: But they didn't process any paperwork, they didn't do a

1031
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 1: background check. Nothing happened. He didn't walk out of there

1032
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: with a rifle. But the story became I could go

1033
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: in there as a twenty year old with with an

1034
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 1: I D that's expired, not fake, and buy a rifle

1035
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: in five minutes. This is not what happens. Not true.

1036
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: He didn't go through the background check. He didn't. He

1037
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 1: didn't actually buy it, and the press were running around

1038
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: with well it doesn't matter, right, It just shows you

1039
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 1: how easy it would be had he tried to buy it.

1040
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, there's a pretty big difference here. It's

1041
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: a pretty big difference. If somebody walks into a liquor store,

1042
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: let's say, and they're underage, and they walk around and

1043
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 1: they look and they see some peach snaps, and they

1044
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: see some soco and lime and you know all that

1045
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 1: other stuff that I used to drink when I was

1046
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: in college. Not really. Peach snaps with the other stuff

1047
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: and they walk and they look around and they and

1048
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 1: they say, you know, hey, you've got a great selection

1049
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 1: of alcohol here. And then they walk out and say

1050
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: I could have bought booze in two minutes in there,

1051
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: or they said I bought booze in two minutes. You'd say, well, no,

1052
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 1: you didn't. You didn't actually purchase it. You didn't go

1053
01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: through the process here, and that's a lie. That's just

1054
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 1: not true. You did not purchase They did not check

1055
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: your I D which they probably would have rejected. But

1056
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: the narrative is too important for facts to get in

1057
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: the way. That's what it really all comes down to.

1058
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: Jake in Hawaii, what's up, Jake? Fuck? Wow, it's really

1059
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 1: cool to be uh thought into you. Um So, first

1060
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: of all, I love your show. I'm not oss but

1061
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 1: pretty close, and uh yeah, it's a great show, all right.

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Speaker 1: So the reason I wanted to call in though, is,

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Speaker 1: uh so, I'm listen. I'm a podcast listener. I'm listening

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Speaker 1: to the Yesterdays and you're you're talking about the reasons

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Speaker 1: why you think there's so many of these kids are

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Speaker 1: on the news right now and uh, and I do

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Speaker 1: think you're you're right that um there. You know, maybe

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Speaker 1: somebody's kind of pushing that agenda. But I mean, I've

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Speaker 1: got little kids, and I think little kids are the

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Speaker 1: same as the old kids. The thing that kids want

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Speaker 1: more than anything is attention. And so somebody has given

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Speaker 1: him a microphone and put them in front of a camera.

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Speaker 1: And and so you somebody, you know, one kid sees

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Speaker 1: somebody get put in front of a microphone. Well now

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01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:45,439
Speaker 1: they've got a big opinion that they want to share

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01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: it too. I think it's we're just sort of getting

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Speaker 1: them fired up because it gets some attention. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: I I don't I I understand what you're saying, Jacob.

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Speaker 1: I would just say that I don't want to automatically

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Speaker 1: out of hand, you know, in Pune, the earnestness or

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01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: the motives of any of the kids who are speaking

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01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,200
Speaker 1: out of you know, look, they're not only allowed to

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01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 1: share their opinions. I understand why they would want to.

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01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 1: That said, if somebody says that the n r A

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01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: is full of child murderers, I have a problem with that.

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01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: I don't care what's happened to them, right, I don't

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01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 1: care what their backstory is that's not a true statement,

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01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:21,479
Speaker 1: that's not a fair statement, that's not something that should

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01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 1: go unchallenged. And you've seen that the media has given

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Speaker 1: a particular amount of attention and platform. I should say

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01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 1: to those who take that approach, right, who take the

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Speaker 1: scorched earth, there's one side here that's good, the gun controllers,

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01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 1: and there's one side that's evil, the Second Amendment crowd,

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01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 1: and that that's not helpful. It's it's a distortion. And also,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you really look at all this stuff, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that we're not hearing from the

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01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 1: full spectrum of opinions. And you've got these organizations, these

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01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: anti gun organizations that are behind this stuff. How much

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01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: we don't know yet, but we'll find out more and more.

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01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:02,920
Speaker 1: This was that they swooped in and were very much

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01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 1: involved in choreographing some of these marches and everything else.

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01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: There's just no way. And then why why do we

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01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:11,360
Speaker 1: see the Washington Post writing the story today? Yeah, you

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01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 1: know that the students are in the lead, but they're

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01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: actually established groups that are involved here too. We weren't

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Speaker 1: hearing that yesterday. It was just the students. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: organized port portion of it. I couldn't agree with you more.

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01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 1: And uh. And the thing that I don't I don't

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01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: know if the other side realizes, is that the more

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01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 1: that you, you uh, project bad intentions on someone who

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01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,640
Speaker 1: doesn't have bad intentions, the more you sort of infuriate,

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01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 1: infuriate that group of people and that person because you know,

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01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:44,639
Speaker 1: we don't we don't want kids to get shot. I mean, legal, lawful,

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01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 1: responsible gun owners are the people you want protecting your kid,

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Speaker 1: not the ones you want to take guns away from. Yeah,

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01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: and you know, and events set a thousand times. Lawbreakers

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01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 1: don't care about laws against guns. They're going to figure

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01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 1: out a way to get them. But the way that

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01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,920
Speaker 1: they impugne you or whatever it is that you believe in,

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01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:04,080
Speaker 1: it's a detailed belief and then they throw it in

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01:09:04,080 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: your face and say that that actually makes you that person.

1122
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: The more that happens, the more it creates this animosity

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Speaker 1: in it in any way. I don't know about you,

1124
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: but driving me crazy now. And look, I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: calling in Jake from Hawaii, Thank you. Uh, And I

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01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 1: just say that, yeah, without any good faith in the discussion,

1127
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: it just breaks down into uh, it just breaks down

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Speaker 1: into a nastiness and it doesn't go anywhere. And if

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01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 1: one side is really going to keep saying that the

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Speaker 1: other side doesn't care about dead kids, which is a

1131
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 1: common refrain and the left, this is going nowhere. Um,

1132
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 1: I want to we'll talk about this clearance issue, with

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01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 1: this feud in the White House. I don't know how

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01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 1: much you guys care about that or not. I'm seeing

1135
01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:44,719
Speaker 1: a lot of news coverage of it. I could offer

1136
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 1: maybe some insight on it from the perspective of somebody

1137
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,680
Speaker 1: who's had actually, uh, you know, top secret clearance, So

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01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:52,840
Speaker 1: maybe we could talk about that for a little bit.

1139
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: After this, we will get Selina Zito on the line

1140
01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: in just a little bit, which we'll talk to us

1141
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:04,280
Speaker 1: about the jerrymandering situation in Pennsylvania and how that has

1142
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 1: implications for the midterms and the rest of the country.

1143
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm gonna tell you a nice story in

1144
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:14,320
Speaker 1: the third hour through some roll call. It's gonna be fun,

1145
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: So stay with me and we'll be right back. I

1146
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 1: was gonna talk about cleanerance issues in the White House.

1147
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 1: I don't know who cares. It's not really that big

1148
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 1: a deal. I don't know. The media seems to care

1149
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: more than I do. Uh. I thought it'd be more

1150
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:38,759
Speaker 1: fun to do a buck slap. Y. Yeah, we should

1151
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 1: probably get like a non karate chop noise for that one.

1152
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 1: But I've actually started to embrace the old school karate

1153
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: karate South Also, we really think about a karate chop,

1154
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 1: not a not a particularly effective you know, it used

1155
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 1: to be in movies like the guy would do the

1156
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:54,519
Speaker 1: karate chop and if you hit the person in the

1157
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:58,639
Speaker 1: right place, they'd like pass out. False, It's not how

1158
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 1: it goes I've seen. I've seen my fair share of fights,

1159
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:04,759
Speaker 1: and uh, I have never seen somebody pull the karate

1160
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 1: chop at exactly the right time and make the other

1161
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,679
Speaker 1: guy just yeah, like the vulcan isn't the vulcan grip

1162
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 1: or whatever? Yeah, doesn't really doesn't really work that way,

1163
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: But up up for a buck slop? Are we gotta

1164
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:17,440
Speaker 1: get into this now first? Just because it's fun. Uh

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01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 1: See Nancy Pelosi, she got she got heckled a little bit,

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01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: and I just want to play it because I enjoy

1167
01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:28,960
Speaker 1: the heckling of Pelosi. I really didn't intend, never intended

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01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:32,559
Speaker 1: one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth

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01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 1: while others live in abject, deadening poverty. Most people have

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01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: to struggle to make make ends meet. So now we're

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01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 1: not talking about that. So in any event, I don't

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01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 1: know if you can hear about there. But somebody at

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01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,160
Speaker 1: the back of the meeting, Pelosi's droning on about the usual.

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01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 1: You know, people are subtract thing and I want to

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Speaker 1: have that everything else. Someone's like, you know, Nancy, how

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Speaker 1: much do you really ever she really care about the

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01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 1: working folks? You know, what are you? What are you worth? Nancy?

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Speaker 1: It's just a little to preachy. Look, I know there

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01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: are a lot of wealthy politicians on both sides. Everyone

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01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: says they care about the working folks because most folks

1181
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 1: have to work. So that's a smart thing to do

1182
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: if you want to be a politician who gets votes.

1183
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 1: But Pelosi is a particularly odious private jet progressive. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she is among the if you're gonna talk about limousine

1185
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:31,679
Speaker 1: limousine liberals, Pelosi's limousine has got like a hot tub

1186
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Speaker 1: in it. I mean it's really also with like the

1187
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 1: the neon lights, you know, like on the undercarriage, the

1188
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 1: purple neon and the hot tub. That's her limousine liberalness.

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Speaker 1: But she's also got some policy proposals. As she once said,

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Speaker 1: he is a master legislator. A master legislator, I believe,

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01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:54,600
Speaker 1: was the the the particular term of art that she

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01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 1: used to describe herself, which was none too humble of her.

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01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 1: I was, wow, Nancy, that's how she decided to go

1194
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 1: with that. She what was the context of the other

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01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 1: It just I don't even know. I just I love

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01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:08,800
Speaker 1: the sound bites. I wanted to play it. But with

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Speaker 1: the mowing the grass, Where was this that she decided

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Speaker 1: to talk about this? I'm not just actly sure where

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Speaker 1: she was, but was in the context of it was

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01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 1: it was immigration alright, immigration alright? So she got she's

1201
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:24,760
Speaker 1: got a new idea to help on the issue of immigration.

1202
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: This idea is worthy of a buck slab. And here

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01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 1: it is like, let's talk about where that a more

1204
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 1: serious structure might be necessary, where fencing will do. We're

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Speaker 1: mowing the grass so that people can't be smuggled through

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Speaker 1: the grass, and that's something levies technology personnel. You guys

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01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:52,720
Speaker 1: all catch that. I mean, I guess maybe there's I

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01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know what she meant there, but

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Speaker 1: it's kind of funny, you know, mow the grass so

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Speaker 1: that illegals can't sneak through the grass. I don't know

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01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:06,719
Speaker 1: how how she thinks that really goes. But that's gonna

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01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 1: be some really tall grass, and you're gonna have to

1213
01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:14,599
Speaker 1: use a really big more for the Southern Porter if

1214
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:16,719
Speaker 1: you're going to prevent people from sneaking in the country

1215
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: because of that one. But there, that's that's Pelosi for you.

1216
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 1: So she's in for a bucks last and she's not

1217
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 1: the only one. Uh, there's others as well. On here.

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Speaker 1: Oh I didn't I was gonna get to Michael Moore,

1219
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:36,400
Speaker 1: but I guess that was yesterday over at MSNBC. That's right, MSNBC.

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01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: This is what she's a former Republican strategist or something.

1221
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:43,599
Speaker 1: Does she wh does she work for the Bush White House?

1222
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 1: I forget what she did. Nicole Wallace over there, here's

1223
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:51,440
Speaker 1: here's her nugget of wisdom over at MSNBC on Obama

1224
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:54,719
Speaker 1: versus Trump when it comes to the media. I guess

1225
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: one of the differences between UM any any stipulated UM

1226
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: lack of of fulsomeness in the Obama era response was

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01:15:03,320 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 1: it didn't have a network. UM distorting the truth for it,

1228
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, does Fox News existed as an echo chamber

1229
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:13,320
Speaker 1: for the politicians they supported. You don't have the politician

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01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: himself echoing the echo chamber. So it's I don't know

1231
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 1: what you call it, stereo in in in three for

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01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 1: it could not be more ironic. It couldn't be any

1233
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:26,040
Speaker 1: funnier then a conservative who's been or actions to conserve

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01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 1: a former Republican who's been brought over to MSNBC to

1235
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 1: bash the current Republican administration talking about the echo chamber

1236
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 1: effect of Fox versus Oh, nothing else like that exists,

1237
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 1: She says, Oh, hold on a second, I'm pretty sure

1238
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:46,600
Speaker 1: MSNBC was effectively state news for all eight years of

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Speaker 1: the obaministration. In fact, their numbers, their ratings dropped considerably

1240
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:56,640
Speaker 1: because they were so uh in the tank for Obama.

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01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:59,160
Speaker 1: They were so willing to bend over backwards and do

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01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: any of the obamais ration that even people on the

1243
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 1: left we're like, oh, gosh, stop too much, too much

1244
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: with the hugging and the p d A, and you know,

1245
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: there's too much and that's what was going on over there.

1246
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 1: So there's a lack of self awareness that is pervasive

1247
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: in in the media about why we just don't want

1248
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:22,360
Speaker 1: to hear it when it comes to how it was

1249
01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 1: better or more transparent under the obamabistration or any of

1250
01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 1: that stuff we've got. Oh, I do have some additional

1251
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics thoughts that I wanted to share with you

1252
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: my my follow up to my little screen about the

1253
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:40,640
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics from yesterday. Selena Zito will be joining. She

1254
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 1: can talk about jerry mandering. Is gonna be fascinating. Stay

1255
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 1: for that. Hey, all right, welcome to our three of

1256
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:49,759
Speaker 1: the buck Sucks and show everybody. We will be joined

1257
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Speaker 1: by Selena Zito here shortly. She'll be talking to us

1258
01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:56,479
Speaker 1: about should be talking to us about what's going on

1259
01:16:56,560 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: with redistricting, which doesn't sound necessarily like, oh wow, redistricting,

1260
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 1: but actually it could be the difference between control of

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01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 1: the House for the Republicans and the loss of the House.

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01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:12,880
Speaker 1: It has implications across the whole country. So it's one

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01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:15,800
Speaker 1: of those things that's really important. Even though it's not

1264
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 1: a shouting match with a dumb Hollywood celebrity, we don't

1265
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: we can all just kind of laugh at them, right,

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01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 1: This is actually something that's down in the policy reads

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Speaker 1: a little bit. We will have Selina joining because Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: is becoming a bell weather. It is a bell weather

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Speaker 1: for how this is all going to shake out. And

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Speaker 1: there's the country. You also have a special election coming

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Speaker 1: up there. We'll get to that. I just had some

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01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 1: other thoughts I want to throw in here, like, for example,

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Speaker 1: I'm not the only one who is, let's just say,

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01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: not deeply impressed by the whole Winter Olympics thing. There

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01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:52,799
Speaker 1: was a piece up on that was this PJ media

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01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 1: that I found that I found particularly of music. It

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Speaker 1: tells you about how you know some of these sports

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01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 1: it's really not that impressive when you look at the

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Speaker 1: background and what's going on here with some of them, right,

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Speaker 1: I know, downhill skiing is incredible and super competitive and

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01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:10,920
Speaker 1: all this stuff, But you know, I've always looked at,

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Speaker 1: for example, the guys who are on the ice luge,

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01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I know there's I'm sure that there's

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01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:20,639
Speaker 1: you know, talent and ability here. And this is where

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Speaker 1: someone's gonna yell at me for comparing it to being

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01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 1: a race car driver. But being a race car driver

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01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:29,040
Speaker 1: is an incredible skill, but I don't know if it

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Speaker 1: is an athletics skill. Because what are you saying now,

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01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like you could bob slid like that, I

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01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: could be up. I could do a bob slid, all right,

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Speaker 1: And that's not saying much when you look at some

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Speaker 1: of this stuff. I'm not trying to hate on the

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Speaker 1: Winter Olympics. I'm just trying to keep it real when

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01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: you look at some of this stuff you have. For example,

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Speaker 1: for example, and this is pointed out p J Media's

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01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: piece here, German Madrazo, who is across country skier from

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Speaker 1: Mexico and German from Mexico, finished dead last a hundred

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01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:10,720
Speaker 1: and fifteen out of a hundred and fifteen. But he

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Speaker 1: took up skiing. Let's just be clear. He took up skiing.

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01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 1: He's forty three years old, he started skiing last year,

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Speaker 1: and he's in the Olympics now. I people, you can

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01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: tell me as much as you want that it requires

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01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,680
Speaker 1: all this skill and everything else, but I can't even

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01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 1: tell you about this from my own experience. So you know,

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01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:33,639
Speaker 1: when I when I was in college, what they used

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01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 1: to like to do, or they would pick up all

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01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: the walk on athletes or people that were gonna walk

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01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: onto sports that weren't recruited, they wanted to pick them

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01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:47,240
Speaker 1: up for either crew or or rugby. Now, crew was

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01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: competing at the intercollegiate level. Rugby did, but also I

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01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: think rugby was was a lot of it was in

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Speaker 1: her mural. So it was did you want to get

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01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:56,840
Speaker 1: up at five o'clock in the morning or did you

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01:19:56,880 --> 01:20:00,599
Speaker 1: want to have some two pound dude squashing you and

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01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 1: like stabbing you through the heart with his cleats. Uh,

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01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: you know that was kind of the that was the

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01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 1: choice that you had. But the truth is that neither

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01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 1: of those sports at the college level required much more

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01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: than basic basic athletic ability and willingness to endure pain

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01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,720
Speaker 1: of different kinds. And I'm somebody who wrote cruise, I

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01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:22,600
Speaker 1: can tell you that's what crewis. Just it's it's endurance,

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01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:25,120
Speaker 1: but not just like physical endurance. It's you've gotta get

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01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: up at four thirty in the morning and you gotta

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01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 1: get out there, and it's freezing cold, and you're you

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01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:32,439
Speaker 1: chew up your hands on the wooden oar, and if

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01:20:32,479 --> 01:20:35,320
Speaker 1: you wear gloves you get made fun of so much

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01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to wear gloves. So there's like there's

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01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 1: some stuff that goes into it that has nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with being a good athlete. It's just do you

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01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: want to do this? So this is kind of how

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01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 1: I feel about the you know, winner limit. Whereas, for example,

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01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:51,719
Speaker 1: the you know, the amerst basketball team, there were guys

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Speaker 1: who are trying out, who are walk on. Never mind,

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01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 1: the recruits were like really good and they were way

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01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:59,680
Speaker 1: more really good basketball players than there were slots on

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Speaker 1: the team, many of whom had played at a high

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01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 1: level in high school, etcetera, etcetera. You know. It's whereas

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Speaker 1: in rugby was like do you like to run people over? Yeah,

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01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 1: that's right. I didn't like Yeah, rugby. I wasn't a

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Speaker 1: fan of rugby folks. Really, I'm just gonna be honest

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Speaker 1: with you. The Crew people were a little like we

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01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 1: wrote Crew, you know, there's some of that going on.

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01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:21,479
Speaker 1: But rugby was all like we ran out of keg bis,

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01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: so now we're going to run over each other. It

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01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 1: was a lot of that. Rugby was unimpressive at amirs.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, uh anyway, but with this Winter Olympic stuff,

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01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:33,559
Speaker 1: I look at it and I see some of these sports,

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01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, how good do you really have

1349
01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 1: to be? Just saying if you could pick up a

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01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:44,560
Speaker 1: sport for the first time and make it to the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: There's really only a couple of options here. One, you're

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01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:53,479
Speaker 1: competing from a country where potentially not all countries qualify, right,

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01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: So that's the thing, Right, So you're competing in a

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01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:59,040
Speaker 1: country to begin with, though, where there's not a lot

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Speaker 1: of competition and a lot of folks trying to do it.

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Speaker 1: You know, at some point, being the best bullfighter in Alaska,

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01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:07,920
Speaker 1: for example, would not be all that impressive. I think

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01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 1: we could say that it is in fact possible that

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Speaker 1: if I were to study bullfighting in Spain or Mexico

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Speaker 1: and then go up to Alaska, I may be the

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Speaker 1: most talented bullfighter in Alaska. But that wouldn't mean that

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Speaker 1: I was a good bullfighter. Also, by the way, I'm

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Speaker 1: very opposed to bullfighting. I think it's gross. But that's

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Speaker 1: a whole other discussion. Uh, this is kind of how

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Speaker 1: I feel about somebod these winter winter Olympic sports. The

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Speaker 1: competition is just not the same as it as for

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Speaker 1: other things. If you're the fastest human being on land

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Speaker 1: on the planet, that's incredible, right, And if you're even

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Speaker 1: close to one of the fastest human because everybody can run,

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Speaker 1: I mean pretty much right, everybody is able to you know,

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Speaker 1: is able to do some form of UH track and

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Speaker 1: field sport in one way or another. And so if

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Speaker 1: you're the fastest, that's really really impressive. But if you're

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Speaker 1: the best person at getting into a kind of year

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01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 1: snow space shuttle like thing and going real fast down

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Speaker 1: a hill, aren't you kind of just the best letter

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Speaker 1: among the people that are using sleds. I know that

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01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:13,040
Speaker 1: this is sacrilege to some people and they would yell

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01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:14,720
Speaker 1: at me and win or you know, but I just

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01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:18,320
Speaker 1: the moment you introduce that you need to have snow

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01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: and elevation for a sport to to go on, you're

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01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:25,519
Speaker 1: cutting out like a huge, popular, huge part of the

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01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:30,120
Speaker 1: world population. There's a reason why if you're in one

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01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:32,680
Speaker 1: of the most competitive soccer leagues on the planet, and

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01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 1: a lot of you are like boo soccer. But I'm

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01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 1: just saying it's because kids whether they are in the

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01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:44,360
Speaker 1: UH you know, in the the inner city of Guadalajara,

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01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:49,920
Speaker 1: all the way out to Spain, Italy to Germany, China

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01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:52,759
Speaker 1: to Japan. I mean, you know, they can play soccer

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01:23:52,800 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 1: anywhere all across the African content. They can play soccer anywhere,

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01:23:57,040 --> 01:23:58,479
Speaker 1: So if you're really good at it, it it means you're

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01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:00,200
Speaker 1: better than a whole lot of people. I feel with

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01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:03,960
Speaker 1: some of this Winter Olympics stuff, I'm just saying there's

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01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: some of these sports where it's like, well, do you

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01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: want to do it? Because if you want to do it,

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01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:10,960
Speaker 1: you're already like top five hundred in the world. You know,

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01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:13,960
Speaker 1: this is this is uh. This kind of reminds me

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01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 1: of a guy that I work with some years ago

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01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:18,720
Speaker 1: who used to tell me that, you know, he was

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01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 1: a professional lacrosse player, and I was like, how can

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01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 1: you be a professional lacrosse player? We we work together,

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01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: and he's like, well, you know, it's it's like a

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01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: it's a part time thing. And I'm like, well, is

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01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,000
Speaker 1: that the only league. Who's yeah, yeah, it's the only

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01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: it's the only professional across Because I said, it's so

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01:24:34,439 --> 01:24:36,719
Speaker 1: you're a professional in that this is not your full

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01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:40,800
Speaker 1: time job. I feel like that's saying something about the

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01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: level of interest and competition in lacrosse across the across

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01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:48,080
Speaker 1: the country. I think that's telling us something. I think

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01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:51,360
Speaker 1: the market is speaking there in some way, and that

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01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 1: factor is into then why is it that a professional

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01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:56,240
Speaker 1: across player maybe makes I don't know, I have no idea,

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01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:59,800
Speaker 1: but a salary that a person makes to do another

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01:24:59,840 --> 01:25:03,799
Speaker 1: kind a job, whereas if you're a baseball, basketball, football,

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01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:09,639
Speaker 1: et cetera player, you're making crazy money at the professional level.

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01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:12,920
Speaker 1: It has to do at some levels supply and demand. Yes,

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01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:15,200
Speaker 1: the the audience sets supply to mend with what they

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01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: want to see, but also the athletes. You know, this

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01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. You know, this is also how

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01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:24,000
Speaker 1: they try to game the system with college admissions. People

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01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:27,080
Speaker 1: say that I want my kid to learn the obo

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01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: because I want them to get into the school of

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01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 1: their dreams. Nobody really wants to play the obo, But

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01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:34,760
Speaker 1: if you play the violin, there are other people that

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01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 1: are gonna be playing the violin. If you play the obo,

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01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: they're like, oh my gosh, we have an obo player. Like,

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01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, you might be the best oboist, and you know,

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01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: best oboist in southern Louisiana. All actually, Louisiana's got great music,

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01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:48,639
Speaker 1: so that wouldn't be easy. But you know what I mean,

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01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:52,799
Speaker 1: you might be the best oboist and northern South Dakota,

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01:25:52,920 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it probably wouldn't be that hard.

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01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: I don't know how many oboists are running around up there.

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01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:59,240
Speaker 1: So this is this is kind of my feeling about

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01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:02,600
Speaker 1: the Winter Olympic. Others are noticing it too. Yes, I know,

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01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:04,760
Speaker 1: come at me, you can tell me I'm wrong, But

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01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:08,040
Speaker 1: I just think that it's it's not the same as

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01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:11,639
Speaker 1: the Olympics, where it's incredible feats of strength and skill

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01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: and speed on land. All right, I'm just saying that's

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01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 1: my thought. That's the last I'm gonna say about the

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01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 1: Wind Olympics. I promised. We've got Selena Zito on some

1441
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 1: politics coming up now, stay with me. You know, we're

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01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:25,000
Speaker 1: already thinking about the mid terms, but we are seeing

1443
01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 1: some things in the political landscape shift in advance of

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01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: those mid terms, particularly in Pennsylvania, which right now is

1445
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: at the heart of fights over jerrymandering. There's also a

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01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:41,720
Speaker 1: special election coming up there. This has given us a

1447
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:44,800
Speaker 1: sense of what to expect going forward, and a whole

1448
01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: bunch of other congressional races has national implications. But let's

1449
01:26:49,120 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: drill down into the Pennsylvania political scene for a moment

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01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,720
Speaker 1: so we can understand those lessons. To do it, We've

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01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 1: got Selena Zito with us now. She is a national

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01:26:57,360 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: political reporter. Selena, great to have you back. Thanks so

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01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:04,280
Speaker 1: much for having me. So tell me about, first off,

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01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:10,639
Speaker 1: the jerrymandering situation in Pennsylvania, which which has gotten pretty

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01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 1: gotten pretty interesting. Yeah. So, about to two and a

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01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:19,840
Speaker 1: half weeks ago, the State Supreme Court UH ruled that

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01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 1: the the redistricting, the jereman daring done here in Pennsylvania

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01:27:26,040 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: in two thousand eleven after the two census was was

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01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:36,720
Speaker 1: They said it was constitutional, unconstitutional because it's partisans Well,

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01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:43,040
Speaker 1: by definition, jerrymandering is partisan. But anyways, so through a

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01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: fight back and forth, as the state constitution or the

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01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 1: state Supreme Court said that the state, the state legislature,

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01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 1: which is majority Republican, had to redraw a map and

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01:27:54,000 --> 01:28:00,160
Speaker 1: have it approved by a Democratic governor. Tom Wolf, Well,

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01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. They can't even do a budget

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01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:05,479
Speaker 1: every year, let alone agree on a map. And it's

1467
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:09,639
Speaker 1: been you know, just a span of days now. But

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01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: so that you will understand what the court system, state

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01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:16,479
Speaker 1: Supreme court system is like here in Pennsylvania. It is

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01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:20,240
Speaker 1: elected and it is partisan. And in two thousand and fifteen,

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01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:23,400
Speaker 1: the Republicans did not have their eyes on the ball

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01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:26,439
Speaker 1: in the state. Despite being flushed with money, the National

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01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:31,440
Speaker 1: Party did not invest in the State Supreme Court um elections,

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01:28:31,520 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 1: which I found. I remember writing about it at the time,

1475
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:38,680
Speaker 1: thinking this is really foolish, because you know is the

1476
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: redistrict gen will come up in twenty one. Nonetheless, they

1477
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:48,720
Speaker 1: didn't invest. Democrats invested heavily. The Trial Lawyers Association and

1478
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: the unions spent millions and millions of dollars double digit

1479
01:28:52,479 --> 01:28:55,360
Speaker 1: at Democrats one. So this is a partisan court. The

1480
01:28:55,400 --> 01:29:00,599
Speaker 1: parties of court made the decision. And now they because

1481
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:05,439
Speaker 1: both the state legislative body which they directed to draw

1482
01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 1: the map, and the governor could not decide and or

1483
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:13,120
Speaker 1: agree on the map that the Republicans gave the figure

1484
01:29:13,640 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 1: um of the States Supreme Court, which is Democrat, drew

1485
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:23,360
Speaker 1: their own map, and shockingly, they drew a partisan map,

1486
01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:27,640
Speaker 1: the exact opposite of what their ruling said, which was

1487
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:30,439
Speaker 1: to draw a non partisan that they put the thumb

1488
01:29:30,479 --> 01:29:36,000
Speaker 1: on the scale. The district's now favor the Democrats, and

1489
01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:42,679
Speaker 1: it gives the um Democrats a a larger than fifty

1490
01:29:42,760 --> 01:29:48,519
Speaker 1: percent chance of at least splitting the eighteen congressional seat

1491
01:29:48,560 --> 01:29:52,040
Speaker 1: majority if not perhaps winning it. Now, why does this

1492
01:29:52,120 --> 01:29:55,840
Speaker 1: matter anywhere else outside of Pennsylvania, Well, for a couple

1493
01:29:55,880 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 1: of reasons. First of all, this is a really creepy precedent.

1494
01:29:59,400 --> 01:30:03,320
Speaker 1: And I I don't usually weigh down heavy on on

1495
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:06,280
Speaker 1: on partisan thing, but this is really bad to have

1496
01:30:06,360 --> 01:30:12,599
Speaker 1: the courts decide um to get into politics in this way.

1497
01:30:12,720 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 1: It's just it's just really bad. And and second of all,

1498
01:30:16,040 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania is a bell weather for this for this country. So,

1499
01:30:21,280 --> 01:30:24,680
Speaker 1: as I've written this several times, over as goes Pennsylvania,

1500
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 1: so goes the best the rest of the country. So

1501
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 1: the impact of the Republicans losing possibly eight seats in

1502
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:38,439
Speaker 1: this state could impact the majority in the House for

1503
01:30:38,560 --> 01:30:42,439
Speaker 1: the Republicans. Speaking of Selena Zito, she is a columnist

1504
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 1: for the DC Examiner and the New York Post, also

1505
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:50,280
Speaker 1: senn contributor. Tell me what is this? Uh? What is

1506
01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 1: this going to tell us? You think, Selena, about what

1507
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:56,720
Speaker 1: the Democrat plans are for jerrymandering elsewhere? I mean, is

1508
01:30:56,760 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 1: it just going to go into the courts? Then? How

1509
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:01,959
Speaker 1: is this supposed to because what is a non partisan

1510
01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:04,240
Speaker 1: juryman or? I don't really understand how this is supposed

1511
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:07,759
Speaker 1: to work. Right. I mean, by definition, to the winners

1512
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:11,280
Speaker 1: go the spoils. I mean, if you win the state

1513
01:31:11,439 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 1: legislative racists in the year before a census, it is

1514
01:31:17,040 --> 01:31:21,720
Speaker 1: your turn. You have earned the right through winning to

1515
01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:26,040
Speaker 1: draw the lines. We have done this since for over

1516
01:31:26,160 --> 01:31:29,320
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty years. It's not like we just

1517
01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:33,360
Speaker 1: started doing this. And for four years the Democrats had

1518
01:31:33,400 --> 01:31:37,280
Speaker 1: the power in doing this. They held the state legislative

1519
01:31:37,320 --> 01:31:42,040
Speaker 1: majorities in almost every state from from f DR up

1520
01:31:42,120 --> 01:31:46,639
Speaker 1: until the late nineties. It just started to flip in

1521
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:50,400
Speaker 1: in this century. Uh and and as of two thousand

1522
01:31:50,439 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 1: and nine, the Republicans held the majority of state legislative

1523
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 1: bodies across the country, which meant they held the majorities

1524
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:03,920
Speaker 1: of um uh the or they held the ability to

1525
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:09,800
Speaker 1: redraw the line. There are Democrats in frustration, unable to

1526
01:32:09,880 --> 01:32:14,639
Speaker 1: win down ballance seats, have um have taken to the courts.

1527
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:18,040
Speaker 1: If there's successful in Pennsylvania in doing this, Katie har

1528
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:21,080
Speaker 1: um bar the door. This is going to happen everywhere.

1529
01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the upcoming special election

1530
01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:28,040
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania that gets a little copy, So the state

1531
01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:31,800
Speaker 1: legist state um special or the House special election in

1532
01:32:31,880 --> 01:32:35,040
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania in the district that I live in is to

1533
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:39,640
Speaker 1: replace um uh Congressman Kim Murphy. He left in a

1534
01:32:39,680 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 1: bit of a scandal UH in in October, and the

1535
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:48,760
Speaker 1: two candidates, Connor Lamb and Rix con Democrat and Republicans,

1536
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:52,800
Speaker 1: they have been redistricted out of the seat that they'll

1537
01:32:52,840 --> 01:32:57,080
Speaker 1: be running for, so they will no longer be in

1538
01:32:57,120 --> 01:33:02,800
Speaker 1: the district UH come November after the election, or I'm sorry,

1539
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:07,679
Speaker 1: come come March thirteenth, that district will cease to exist.

1540
01:33:08,080 --> 01:33:10,559
Speaker 1: So sort of takes the wind out of the sale

1541
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:13,960
Speaker 1: of this election because it doesn't really matter. Neither man

1542
01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:16,800
Speaker 1: will live in that district they have been the Democrats

1543
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:20,240
Speaker 1: placed the Democrats and mcconnor Lamb into a much more

1544
01:33:20,320 --> 01:33:23,880
Speaker 1: favorable district for him, and they placed Rick Scone in

1545
01:33:23,960 --> 01:33:29,400
Speaker 1: a horribly unfavorable district for him, placing him in the

1546
01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:33,719
Speaker 1: city of Pittsburgh. It actually should be the opposite. Um

1547
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:36,640
Speaker 1: Lamb should actually be in the city of Pittsburgh. But

1548
01:33:36,680 --> 01:33:39,920
Speaker 1: there's another Democrat there, so you know which, how does it?

1549
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:42,760
Speaker 1: How can they be how can they be German and

1550
01:33:42,800 --> 01:33:44,920
Speaker 1: outside the district? What does this mean? Again? Just so

1551
01:33:44,960 --> 01:33:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm trying to follow this right, it's so goofy. So

1552
01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:54,719
Speaker 1: the special election is March eighteen, but by the I'm sorry,

1553
01:33:54,760 --> 01:33:58,320
Speaker 1: March thirteenth, but they that that district will no longer

1554
01:33:58,360 --> 01:34:02,599
Speaker 1: exist any more. Are It's done, It's gone. So whoever

1555
01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:06,400
Speaker 1: wins that special election, what happens to them? Well, well,

1556
01:34:06,400 --> 01:34:10,240
Speaker 1: they'll hold that seat until November. But you know that beings,

1557
01:34:10,320 --> 01:34:12,040
Speaker 1: both of them have to go out not not only

1558
01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:15,080
Speaker 1: do I have to do get out the vote um effort,

1559
01:34:15,320 --> 01:34:19,080
Speaker 1: they also have to do petitioning in a district they

1560
01:34:19,120 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 1: don't live in anymore, or don't live in yet. So

1561
01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:24,800
Speaker 1: I see, so they're gonna be interim congress whoever wins

1562
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:27,519
Speaker 1: will be an interim congressman for not very long. And oh,

1563
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:30,600
Speaker 1: by the way, all their efforts will be in a

1564
01:34:30,760 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 1: district that they will not then be running for the

1565
01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:36,080
Speaker 1: next time around. It's like it's like they're switching schools

1566
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:39,280
Speaker 1: and they can't transfer all their credits over right. It's

1567
01:34:39,400 --> 01:34:43,600
Speaker 1: it's it's a terrible decision. And can I just reinforce

1568
01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:46,640
Speaker 1: the fact that this really creeps me out? But the

1569
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:49,519
Speaker 1: courts have gotten involved in this, I just I just

1570
01:34:49,640 --> 01:34:54,120
Speaker 1: find it fundamentally wrong. Yeah, because it shows an obvious

1571
01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:57,280
Speaker 1: partisan hand from the judicial side of things, which is

1572
01:34:57,320 --> 01:35:00,160
Speaker 1: always that should always make us uncomfortable. And it's one

1573
01:35:00,200 --> 01:35:02,320
Speaker 1: thing for Congress to have a winner, to take winner,

1574
01:35:02,320 --> 01:35:04,519
Speaker 1: take all of you of of what's going to be

1575
01:35:04,560 --> 01:35:08,120
Speaker 1: a partisan and somewhat arbitrary process anyway, But for judges

1576
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:10,240
Speaker 1: to get involved, it's like, oh, so, what kind of

1577
01:35:10,320 --> 01:35:16,880
Speaker 1: judge are you? Yeah, it's really it's it's just completely unnerving.

1578
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:21,920
Speaker 1: I really don't like the precedents this sets, and I

1579
01:35:21,960 --> 01:35:24,519
Speaker 1: don't care who holds power. I don't care if it

1580
01:35:24,600 --> 01:35:28,400
Speaker 1: was helping the Republicans in this stake. I just think

1581
01:35:28,400 --> 01:35:31,200
Speaker 1: it's a wrong direction for us to go and and

1582
01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:35,080
Speaker 1: I never like governing by this by the corps. Selena Zito,

1583
01:35:35,080 --> 01:35:38,000
Speaker 1: everybody read her ladies at the Washington Examine or the

1584
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 1: New York Post, check her out on CNN. Selna, thank

1585
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:42,400
Speaker 1: you as always for making the time great to talk

1586
01:35:42,439 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 1: to you. Thanks so much for having me, Dame. We're

1587
01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:47,760
Speaker 1: going to roll into a quick break and we come back.

1588
01:35:47,800 --> 01:35:50,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you a story because that'll be fun.

1589
01:35:51,080 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 1: You know. Occasionally, even though I'm deep behind liberal lines

1590
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:57,400
Speaker 1: here in New York City, once in a while I

1591
01:35:57,439 --> 01:36:01,880
Speaker 1: find myself getting to bump into a member of Team

1592
01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:04,600
Speaker 1: Buck out there, I get to chat with one of

1593
01:36:04,640 --> 01:36:08,639
Speaker 1: the one of the our own. Usually it starts as

1594
01:36:08,680 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 1: I passed on the street. You know, somebody will be like, hey,

1595
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:15,080
Speaker 1: that's everyone just says hey, you know, once in a

1596
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:17,680
Speaker 1: while the yell Buck, which I always really appreciate to.

1597
01:36:18,040 --> 01:36:22,599
Speaker 1: But hey, it's fine because you know, I'm a roughly

1598
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:26,080
Speaker 1: six ft tall, five eleven and three quarters, uh, white

1599
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 1: dude with a side part brown hair. New York City.

1600
01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:33,640
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly you know, uh standing out from the

1601
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:38,040
Speaker 1: crowd necessarily, especially walking in the the dense thicket of

1602
01:36:38,479 --> 01:36:41,800
Speaker 1: humanity that is New York City. But last night I

1603
01:36:41,840 --> 01:36:45,000
Speaker 1: was on my way home from the show and it

1604
01:36:45,080 --> 01:36:47,120
Speaker 1: was a great show obviously because that's the only kind

1605
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 1: of show we have here in the Freedom Hunt, and

1606
01:36:49,640 --> 01:36:51,880
Speaker 1: the guys walking past me and he pointed at me

1607
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:56,320
Speaker 1: and he goes TV Guy, and I was kind of like,

1608
01:36:56,640 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 1: you know, I was on my way home, and you know,

1609
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:00,840
Speaker 1: you know, I gave him, I gave him the friendly

1610
01:37:00,840 --> 01:37:04,320
Speaker 1: wave smile, right, but but still walking because you never

1611
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:08,559
Speaker 1: know if in New York City, TV Guy is going

1612
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:12,960
Speaker 1: to turn into TV guy. I hate what you stand

1613
01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:14,880
Speaker 1: for jerk blah blah blah. You know what I mean?

1614
01:37:14,880 --> 01:37:18,000
Speaker 1: Like you you never know, uh that hasn't knock on

1615
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:21,240
Speaker 1: would really happen in New York. I've gotten some people.

1616
01:37:21,760 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 1: There was a guy on the subway once who was like, uh,

1617
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:30,040
Speaker 1: he had seen me on CNN and he started off

1618
01:37:30,040 --> 01:37:33,280
Speaker 1: with you know you make you make very very good

1619
01:37:33,360 --> 01:37:35,479
Speaker 1: arguments on TV. And I said, well, thank you, and

1620
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:38,040
Speaker 1: then he said, but all of your arguments are wrong,

1621
01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:40,040
Speaker 1: and then he started asking me why do you think

1622
01:37:40,120 --> 01:37:42,160
Speaker 1: this and why? And I'm like stuck on the subway,

1623
01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:45,679
Speaker 1: I was really crowded, like, uh, I don't know about this.

1624
01:37:46,280 --> 01:37:49,599
Speaker 1: I didn't really sign up for this subway ride. So anyway,

1625
01:37:49,680 --> 01:37:52,280
Speaker 1: I passed this guy on the street last night and uh,

1626
01:37:52,439 --> 01:37:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, it's happened to be a a really warm

1627
01:37:56,160 --> 01:37:58,639
Speaker 1: night in New York City as it is today, it's gorgeous.

1628
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:00,320
Speaker 1: I'm walking around in a T shirt today here in

1629
01:38:00,360 --> 01:38:03,639
Speaker 1: New York, which for February is pretty great. I think

1630
01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna start getting cold and raining in a day.

1631
01:38:05,400 --> 01:38:08,040
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, you can just tell everyone's in a better mood.

1632
01:38:08,120 --> 01:38:10,840
Speaker 1: It's kind of amazing to think about it. We're ah, yes,

1633
01:38:10,920 --> 01:38:13,640
Speaker 1: it's human beings. We are simple creatures. If we have

1634
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:15,760
Speaker 1: great weather out of nowhere all of a sudden, we're like,

1635
01:38:15,800 --> 01:38:19,080
Speaker 1: I like the world. Things are good, things are okay

1636
01:38:19,160 --> 01:38:23,000
Speaker 1: after all. And I so I stopped and this guy

1637
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:26,600
Speaker 1: and he's like, he's like Fox News, right, And so

1638
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:28,160
Speaker 1: I realized, all right, this guy kind of wants to chat.

1639
01:38:28,160 --> 01:38:31,320
Speaker 1: So I kind of turned around and he extended his hand.

1640
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:33,240
Speaker 1: He kind of walked towards the extended hand to shake

1641
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:36,479
Speaker 1: my hand, and I was like, all right, you know,

1642
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:38,880
Speaker 1: this is a friendly gesture. You know, I'm gonna watch

1643
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:42,040
Speaker 1: what his other hands doing. You know, it's a friendly gesture.

1644
01:38:42,160 --> 01:38:43,840
Speaker 1: So he shook my He's actually the guy turned out

1645
01:38:43,840 --> 01:38:46,360
Speaker 1: to be really nice and he he says, you know,

1646
01:38:46,439 --> 01:38:49,920
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a Democrat. So he told me that,

1647
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: which is all right. You know, it's just let me

1648
01:38:52,280 --> 01:38:53,840
Speaker 1: know what I'm dealing with. I appreciate that He's like,

1649
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:56,960
Speaker 1: I'm a Democrat, and I just want to say that

1650
01:38:57,000 --> 01:39:01,000
Speaker 1: I saw you a few times on CNN in and

1651
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:02,640
Speaker 1: I thought this is really interesting to hear from a

1652
01:39:02,680 --> 01:39:06,679
Speaker 1: democratic perspective. He's like, those those guys were being really

1653
01:39:06,760 --> 01:39:09,320
Speaker 1: unfair to you, were trying to ambush you, and and

1654
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,600
Speaker 1: once or twice I really saw you like slice and

1655
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:14,720
Speaker 1: dice them, even though they were clearly coming at you.

1656
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:16,519
Speaker 1: And he's like, and they came at you for no reason.

1657
01:39:16,560 --> 01:39:19,360
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, that's how it happens over there.

1658
01:39:19,439 --> 01:39:23,760
Speaker 1: That's the that's the way it goes. And he's like, well,

1659
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:25,280
Speaker 1: you did a really good job. And he's like, and

1660
01:39:25,360 --> 01:39:27,920
Speaker 1: you know what, as a matter of fact, just you know,

1661
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:33,240
Speaker 1: I happened to be the manager of a very swanky

1662
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:35,200
Speaker 1: nightclub in New York City. He's like, do you have

1663
01:39:35,240 --> 01:39:37,880
Speaker 1: a girlfriend? I said yes, in fact I do. Says, well,

1664
01:39:37,920 --> 01:39:41,639
Speaker 1: anytime you would like to come by the very swanky nightclub,

1665
01:39:42,640 --> 01:39:46,040
Speaker 1: you are invited here, and he gave me his card

1666
01:39:46,400 --> 01:39:48,960
Speaker 1: and I was like, look at this hook up for

1667
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:51,840
Speaker 1: the Freedom Hunt. This never happens in New York City.

1668
01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:54,600
Speaker 1: I told him. I told Miss Molly. I texted her.

1669
01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:57,360
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, honey, guess what happened. And then

1670
01:39:57,400 --> 01:40:00,240
Speaker 1: I wrote I'm a cool cat and I I sure

1671
01:40:00,240 --> 01:40:02,840
Speaker 1: were back, Yeah so hip, and I'm like see and

1672
01:40:02,840 --> 01:40:06,160
Speaker 1: then she went back I was being sarcastic, um, but yeah,

1673
01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:07,720
Speaker 1: so it was. It was a nice It was a

1674
01:40:07,800 --> 01:40:10,559
Speaker 1: nice little exchange so that happened. I got I got

1675
01:40:10,600 --> 01:40:13,040
Speaker 1: that going for me, which is nice. You know, you

1676
01:40:13,080 --> 01:40:16,280
Speaker 1: never know people in New York they'll uh will surprise you.

1677
01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:17,920
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's a lot of nice folks here.

1678
01:40:17,960 --> 01:40:20,760
Speaker 1: This gentleman was very was very friendly, very kind. Will

1679
01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:22,519
Speaker 1: you actually get me into a nightclub if I ever

1680
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:24,639
Speaker 1: call him? I don't know. Will I be the oldest

1681
01:40:24,680 --> 01:40:27,200
Speaker 1: dude in there? Actually tell you the truth? In New

1682
01:40:27,240 --> 01:40:30,680
Speaker 1: York City nightclubs, there's a lot of finance guys in

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01:40:30,720 --> 01:40:33,000
Speaker 1: their forties who are trying to go on dates with

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01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:35,320
Speaker 1: girls in their mid twenties. There's a lot of that.

1685
01:40:36,120 --> 01:40:39,360
Speaker 1: And by forties, I mean fifties and sixties too. But

1686
01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:43,680
Speaker 1: that's a pretty standard dynamic you'll see out at the

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01:40:43,960 --> 01:40:46,120
Speaker 1: swanky nightclubs here in New York City. I haven't really

1688
01:40:46,120 --> 01:40:49,439
Speaker 1: been out like that to a nightclub where it's like

1689
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:55,240
Speaker 1: I haven't been to one of those places. Oh my gosh,

1690
01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:58,719
Speaker 1: I don't even know. It's been years, man, it's been years.

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01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:01,040
Speaker 1: Like early thirties. I started to check out of that

1692
01:41:01,200 --> 01:41:04,919
Speaker 1: and I was never into that scene. But I definitely

1693
01:41:04,920 --> 01:41:08,680
Speaker 1: am not somebody who could tell you what the the

1694
01:41:08,720 --> 01:41:12,120
Speaker 1: coolest places to go are. I always like that SNL

1695
01:41:12,200 --> 01:41:14,840
Speaker 1: character Stephen with I can't do a good impression of it.

1696
01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 1: But with the different nightclubs, New York's Hottest club is

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01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 1: and then he would do all the weird stuff. I

1698
01:41:20,439 --> 01:41:22,600
Speaker 1: definitely am not up on what the cool places to

1699
01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:26,320
Speaker 1: go are. Producer Mike is And and Brandon Brandon can

1700
01:41:26,320 --> 01:41:29,240
Speaker 1: tell me where all the all the tunes are, but

1701
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:33,120
Speaker 1: I do not know these things. I am somebody who

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01:41:33,520 --> 01:41:37,320
Speaker 1: really enjoys quiet time, which is pretty much the exact

1703
01:41:37,360 --> 01:41:42,479
Speaker 1: opposite of nightclub time nightclub very loud. And I realized

1704
01:41:42,520 --> 01:41:45,719
Speaker 1: also as a as a youth out on the scene,

1705
01:41:46,200 --> 01:41:51,760
Speaker 1: I realized that nightclubs nullified one of my you know,

1706
01:41:51,800 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 1: I'm not. I wasn't a guy that could walk up

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01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:55,519
Speaker 1: to the lady and just expected to talk to him

1708
01:41:55,560 --> 01:41:58,360
Speaker 1: because I was so dashing and well dressed at everything. No,

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01:41:59,000 --> 01:42:01,160
Speaker 1: I usually need to say something self deprecating, a little

1710
01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:03,920
Speaker 1: funny maybe, and you're going to use use a little wit,

1711
01:42:04,439 --> 01:42:07,240
Speaker 1: maybe a little buck wisdom on the fly. And a nightclub,

1712
01:42:07,360 --> 01:42:09,439
Speaker 1: there's no way to be cool when you have to

1713
01:42:09,479 --> 01:42:12,360
Speaker 1: get so close to somebody that you're yelling in her ear.

1714
01:42:12,439 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 1: It's like, are you having a good night, and it

1715
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 1: does a thing where it tickles the inside of her

1716
01:42:17,160 --> 01:42:18,800
Speaker 1: ear drumlow but not in a good way, you know,

1717
01:42:18,880 --> 01:42:20,960
Speaker 1: And then she yells back to you. It's like, why

1718
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:25,800
Speaker 1: are you talking to me? I don't know you. It's

1719
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:30,679
Speaker 1: amazing to me. It's really the worst possible environment two

1720
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:34,639
Speaker 1: meet people. It's the worst place to try and meet people.

1721
01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:38,919
Speaker 1: And and there's this whole industry. You know, these clubs

1722
01:42:38,960 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 1: make millions of dollars. Not so much anymore. I feel

1723
01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:44,280
Speaker 1: like the internet and apps have really changed this scene.

1724
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:47,120
Speaker 1: But it used to be they would sell here in

1725
01:42:47,160 --> 01:42:49,360
Speaker 1: New York City and then they do this. They replicated

1726
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:51,800
Speaker 1: this model. Obviously they had an in l A, but

1727
01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:54,240
Speaker 1: now it's in every city across the country. They got

1728
01:42:54,240 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 1: the nightclub. They sell you a bottle of vodka that

1729
01:42:57,439 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 1: costs like four or five bucks to them wholesale. They

1730
01:42:59,800 --> 01:43:05,640
Speaker 1: sell it to you for literally five bucks. That's like baseline.

1731
01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: And but they're selling you real estate. So then you

1732
01:43:08,400 --> 01:43:10,840
Speaker 1: get to sit at a little table and you get

1733
01:43:10,880 --> 01:43:13,360
Speaker 1: to look cool. And the whole idea is that you're

1734
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:16,479
Speaker 1: really buying social status at the nightclub so that you

1735
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:18,479
Speaker 1: can bring women over to sit at your tiny and

1736
01:43:18,520 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 1: when I mean tiny, I mean like it looks like

1737
01:43:20,080 --> 01:43:22,479
Speaker 1: a table for toddlers. Like it's a really small little table,

1738
01:43:22,920 --> 01:43:25,839
Speaker 1: and you've got your eight hundred dollar bottle of Absolute vodka,

1739
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:28,880
Speaker 1: which you all know it is not a steel, that

1740
01:43:29,040 --> 01:43:31,639
Speaker 1: is not a good value for you. And then you're

1741
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:34,800
Speaker 1: supposed to be like, hey, yeah, sure, calm do my

1742
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:38,360
Speaker 1: t It's the whole thing. I mean, I've I've been

1743
01:43:38,400 --> 01:43:41,040
Speaker 1: there before, I've been through it. I've I am a

1744
01:43:41,120 --> 01:43:45,519
Speaker 1: veteran of the New York City, uh nightclub scene, but

1745
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:50,120
Speaker 1: well in small doses, only a few times. But I

1746
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:52,120
Speaker 1: will go, I'll go check this place out because it's

1747
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:55,200
Speaker 1: cool and uh, you know, Ms Molly, I want to.

1748
01:43:55,240 --> 01:43:57,000
Speaker 1: I want her to know that I'm a hip I'm

1749
01:43:57,040 --> 01:44:02,120
Speaker 1: a hip cat, daddio, I'm hip. So uh that's that's

1750
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 1: my plan with with all that. I'm not somebody though,

1751
01:44:05,000 --> 01:44:07,920
Speaker 1: who usually likes to find the place that's loud. I'm

1752
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:10,479
Speaker 1: actually people are always amazed that I'll do this. I

1753
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:13,000
Speaker 1: actually did this. Uh you know Sean Parnell and I

1754
01:44:13,240 --> 01:44:15,759
Speaker 1: you guys know from the show we're out grabbing, grabbing

1755
01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:18,240
Speaker 1: beers after the show. What was it last week or

1756
01:44:18,240 --> 01:44:20,400
Speaker 1: the week before and we're in a place. It just

1757
01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:22,400
Speaker 1: happened really loud. There were a lot of people in there,

1758
01:44:22,400 --> 01:44:23,439
Speaker 1: and I just asked. It was like, hey, you know,

1759
01:44:23,520 --> 01:44:26,479
Speaker 1: can you guys just maybe like turn them it's super

1760
01:44:26,520 --> 01:44:28,120
Speaker 1: loud in here for no reason. There's no one like

1761
01:44:28,120 --> 01:44:29,840
Speaker 1: can we turn the music down a little bit? They're like, yeah,

1762
01:44:29,880 --> 01:44:31,519
Speaker 1: I think we could probably do that, and Sharon's like

1763
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:36,040
Speaker 1: really like yeah, asking did so. If I can't talk

1764
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:37,840
Speaker 1: to you, dude, and you're sitting right across the table

1765
01:44:37,920 --> 01:44:41,000
Speaker 1: from me, what are we doing here? Dwo dudes trying

1766
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:42,840
Speaker 1: to talk about freedom in America? I don't want to

1767
01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:46,760
Speaker 1: be yelling across the table. So I'm that guy. I

1768
01:44:46,800 --> 01:44:48,760
Speaker 1: will even if I'm the only person at the borrow. Though.

1769
01:44:48,760 --> 01:44:50,559
Speaker 1: This has got me into trouble. I've been like, hey,

1770
01:44:50,920 --> 01:44:53,559
Speaker 1: that giant flat screen that you've got like right next

1771
01:44:53,600 --> 01:44:56,320
Speaker 1: to my face? Do we really need that on? I

1772
01:44:56,320 --> 01:44:57,960
Speaker 1: will tell you that the bar owner tends to not

1773
01:44:58,320 --> 01:44:59,920
Speaker 1: I tend to not get my way with that one.

1774
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 1: I've gotten, uh gotten told once or twice. Any buddy,

1775
01:45:04,360 --> 01:45:06,320
Speaker 1: why don't you why don't you check yourself before you

1776
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:09,640
Speaker 1: wreck yourself? But you know, hey, you don't ask, you

1777
01:45:09,680 --> 01:45:11,840
Speaker 1: don't get you know, you know, the customer is not

1778
01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:14,760
Speaker 1: always right, but the customer can always ask. It's had

1779
01:45:14,760 --> 01:45:18,000
Speaker 1: a nice little nice look exchange and we'll see how

1780
01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:20,479
Speaker 1: it goes. If I do venture out, I'll do kind

1781
01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:23,200
Speaker 1: of an after action report of bucking ms Molly out

1782
01:45:23,240 --> 01:45:25,920
Speaker 1: at a nightclub. Although also as a guy who's got

1783
01:45:25,920 --> 01:45:28,360
Speaker 1: a very serious lady in his life. You know what,

1784
01:45:28,360 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 1: what do you even doing a nightclub? Most of it,

1785
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:31,960
Speaker 1: I feel like for guys is to and you know,

1786
01:45:32,080 --> 01:45:33,920
Speaker 1: the girls are there to dance, and the guys are

1787
01:45:33,920 --> 01:45:36,200
Speaker 1: there to be around girls who are dancing. For the

1788
01:45:36,240 --> 01:45:38,400
Speaker 1: most part, that's mine or that that's my understanding of

1789
01:45:38,439 --> 01:45:41,639
Speaker 1: the business model. But it's been a while and I'm

1790
01:45:41,640 --> 01:45:43,600
Speaker 1: getting a little old for this stuff, so let you

1791
01:45:43,640 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 1: know how it goes. Oh, I didn't even get to

1792
01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:48,439
Speaker 1: some role calls. So why don't we do some role

1793
01:45:48,479 --> 01:45:52,840
Speaker 1: call coming up right after the break? All right, it's

1794
01:45:52,880 --> 01:45:55,320
Speaker 1: that time in the hut when we get to hear

1795
01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:58,160
Speaker 1: from all of you, which is a great way to

1796
01:45:58,160 --> 01:46:01,680
Speaker 1: top things off and close things out. Closing Tom on

1797
01:46:01,720 --> 01:46:04,840
Speaker 1: the Bucks acton show. I know that was not in key,

1798
01:46:04,920 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 1: but that's all right, It's all right. Producer Mike I'm

1799
01:46:07,439 --> 01:46:09,760
Speaker 1: getting better, all right. If I don't, if I don't

1800
01:46:09,800 --> 01:46:12,920
Speaker 1: share my music with people, they'll never know I don't

1801
01:46:12,920 --> 01:46:16,479
Speaker 1: show them my creative side. People are changing the dial

1802
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:19,680
Speaker 1: right now. Okay, let's get to it. We've got roll call.

1803
01:46:19,760 --> 01:46:27,000
Speaker 1: Pardon me there, it's time for roll call. Uh So,

1804
01:46:28,240 --> 01:46:30,000
Speaker 1: first up on the roll we'll go to some of

1805
01:46:30,040 --> 01:46:34,320
Speaker 1: the emails roll call emails, because usually we go mostly

1806
01:46:34,360 --> 01:46:36,880
Speaker 1: to the Facebook stuff. But I want to mix it up.

1807
01:46:36,920 --> 01:46:38,639
Speaker 1: If you want to write us an email, official Team

1808
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:45,200
Speaker 1: Buck at gmail dot com, thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions, uh sonnets,

1809
01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:48,879
Speaker 1: any kind of rhyming verse. Actually, we love that stuff

1810
01:46:48,960 --> 01:46:51,680
Speaker 1: and just just keep it clean. That's the only that's

1811
01:46:51,720 --> 01:46:55,479
Speaker 1: the only real proviso, because Mike gets to read them first,

1812
01:46:55,560 --> 01:46:57,639
Speaker 1: and producer Mike, we don't want to. We don't want

1813
01:46:57,640 --> 01:47:01,559
Speaker 1: to scar his his psyche with meme comments that are

1814
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:03,120
Speaker 1: meant for me, but he'll see them first and he'll

1815
01:47:03,160 --> 01:47:06,799
Speaker 1: feel bad for me. So be nice because on Mike's behalf.

1816
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:12,800
Speaker 1: All right, we have first here. Uh we got Alex

1817
01:47:13,680 --> 01:47:16,800
Speaker 1: Alex from South Carolina. Here he writes, Hey, Buck, my

1818
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:20,200
Speaker 1: father and I are both original Saturday Squad. That's O

1819
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:24,679
Speaker 1: s S. He is a Navy veteran and I uh

1820
01:47:24,680 --> 01:47:28,200
Speaker 1: and we are both active duty. My wife and I

1821
01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:30,479
Speaker 1: rather are both active duty. Thank you for being one

1822
01:47:30,520 --> 01:47:33,240
Speaker 1: of the few hobs to talk about the abhorrent budget deal.

1823
01:47:33,840 --> 01:47:36,799
Speaker 1: But unfortunately is much worse than just a deficit increase.

1824
01:47:37,200 --> 01:47:39,800
Speaker 1: An increase in military spending is not more money than

1825
01:47:39,840 --> 01:47:43,080
Speaker 1: the troops. And instead we'll just mostly go to contractors.

1826
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:45,719
Speaker 1: Since there'll be a rush to incorporate that budget increase

1827
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:50,799
Speaker 1: with little negotiations and more profit uh, we will instead

1828
01:47:50,840 --> 01:47:53,400
Speaker 1: get very little for this trillion dollar increase. Thanks and

1829
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:56,280
Speaker 1: shields high from Alex Wallox. Thank you very much. And

1830
01:47:56,840 --> 01:47:59,360
Speaker 1: I can't say that I know that much about the

1831
01:47:59,400 --> 01:48:02,560
Speaker 1: specifics of d D and military budgeting, only what I

1832
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:06,559
Speaker 1: would know from being a pundit who reads a lot

1833
01:48:06,560 --> 01:48:08,640
Speaker 1: of stuff. I've never been a part of that process,

1834
01:48:08,720 --> 01:48:11,760
Speaker 1: but I I believe it, man. I mean, there's the

1835
01:48:11,760 --> 01:48:14,920
Speaker 1: amount of waste in the government. I did tell you

1836
01:48:14,920 --> 01:48:18,559
Speaker 1: guys that there had never been until now a full

1837
01:48:18,640 --> 01:48:21,640
Speaker 1: audit of the military's budget until this year, and it's

1838
01:48:21,640 --> 01:48:25,519
Speaker 1: gonna cost like tens of millions of dollars. They've never

1839
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:28,080
Speaker 1: done it before. That's that's pretty crazy. You think about

1840
01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:29,759
Speaker 1: it like now we don't need to We didn't audit

1841
01:48:29,840 --> 01:48:32,400
Speaker 1: the budget of the military, Well, we want to do that.

1842
01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:36,200
Speaker 1: I want to know how we're spending money. Wouldn't work

1843
01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:38,840
Speaker 1: for a private company, probably shouldn't work for the military either.

1844
01:48:38,880 --> 01:48:40,640
Speaker 1: We should probably know where the money's going. But all right,

1845
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:44,800
Speaker 1: here we go. Next up is Carrie Shield tie Buck.

1846
01:48:44,840 --> 01:48:47,280
Speaker 1: I enjoy your radio show very much, especially when you

1847
01:48:47,320 --> 01:48:50,960
Speaker 1: do your Hillary voice that happens to sound exactly what

1848
01:48:51,040 --> 01:48:54,680
Speaker 1: I imagine her voice sounds like it does. I just

1849
01:48:54,720 --> 01:48:56,840
Speaker 1: wanted to say that from time to time, I can

1850
01:48:56,840 --> 01:48:59,960
Speaker 1: remember I was told constantly that anyone could grow up

1851
01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:03,639
Speaker 1: to be president, and I believe that my whole life,

1852
01:49:03,680 --> 01:49:06,559
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump just proved it. Proved it. I can't

1853
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 1: begin to express how much I've thoroughly enjoyed every single

1854
01:49:09,520 --> 01:49:12,800
Speaker 1: second of the Trump presidency. I'm so thankful to Trump

1855
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:16,080
Speaker 1: for having the willingness to take them all on and win.

1856
01:49:16,720 --> 01:49:18,760
Speaker 1: I feel like even the people that weren't too keen

1857
01:49:18,800 --> 01:49:21,439
Speaker 1: in him are impressed. Take care, Buck, and remember, Miss

1858
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:24,040
Speaker 1: Molly is always right, Carrie. We'll carry You're absolutely correct.

1859
01:49:24,080 --> 01:49:28,000
Speaker 1: Miss Molly is always right. And yes, I am impressed

1860
01:49:28,120 --> 01:49:33,519
Speaker 1: with Trump as well. I think it has gone very

1861
01:49:33,640 --> 01:49:37,160
Speaker 1: very is it has gone? It's been great so far.

1862
01:49:37,479 --> 01:49:40,439
Speaker 1: I can say that. Next, we got some Oh, Anthony

1863
01:49:40,479 --> 01:49:46,880
Speaker 1: wants to share share some Netflix suggestions. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

1864
01:49:46,920 --> 01:49:50,240
Speaker 1: You guys know this one. I am unfamiliar. Really great

1865
01:49:50,360 --> 01:49:54,640
Speaker 1: art deco and quite entertaining. I've never even heard of that.

1866
01:49:55,439 --> 01:49:58,559
Speaker 1: Ms Fisher's motor mries. I have no idea what that is.

1867
01:49:58,800 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 1: If you have Amazon pri the marvelous Mrs Maisie. Yeah,

1868
01:50:01,439 --> 01:50:04,639
Speaker 1: I watched that. It was good. Um and I'm original

1869
01:50:04,680 --> 01:50:08,280
Speaker 1: Saturday Squad. And if you ever if I could ever

1870
01:50:08,320 --> 01:50:10,720
Speaker 1: give you computer help, just ask all right, Anthony, thank

1871
01:50:10,760 --> 01:50:13,599
Speaker 1: you so much. I appreciate that, buddy. That is very

1872
01:50:13,720 --> 01:50:17,960
Speaker 1: kind of you. And with that, I think, yep, we'll

1873
01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:20,519
Speaker 1: go into some of the Facebook now. Now, now we

1874
01:50:20,640 --> 01:50:23,760
Speaker 1: get into the Facebook stuff. We have Chris up first

1875
01:50:23,800 --> 01:50:25,960
Speaker 1: here politicians. Oh and if you want to send me

1876
01:50:26,040 --> 01:50:31,160
Speaker 1: something Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton, Chris writes politicians.

1877
01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:33,439
Speaker 1: And now the high school students keep calling for common

1878
01:50:33,520 --> 01:50:36,680
Speaker 1: sense gun laws. I've tried searching for what these might be,

1879
01:50:36,760 --> 01:50:39,439
Speaker 1: but I can't really find a clear answer. Could you

1880
01:50:39,560 --> 01:50:42,960
Speaker 1: briefly discussed during tonight's show what they mean by common

1881
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:45,880
Speaker 1: sense gun laws? Well, Chris, I hope you've gotten what

1882
01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:48,880
Speaker 1: I mean, or what they mean and how I analyze

1883
01:50:49,120 --> 01:50:52,240
Speaker 1: what they mean from recent shows. Obviously, we've only got

1884
01:50:52,240 --> 01:50:54,960
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes here before I've got a close

1885
01:50:55,040 --> 01:50:56,840
Speaker 1: up shop for the night, so I won't get into

1886
01:50:56,880 --> 01:50:59,120
Speaker 1: too much more about the gun control issue right now.

1887
01:50:59,200 --> 01:51:01,880
Speaker 1: But it's not going away anywhere. This is this has

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Speaker 1: become the focal point of the left's organizing efforts, of

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Speaker 1: their get out the vote efforts that are gonna come

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Speaker 1: out for the mid terms, all that stuff, right, this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be the center of political gravity. Well, the

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Speaker 1: vote stuff is early, but you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: This is they're raising money off of this and uh

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Speaker 1: they're they're planning to use this as much as they

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Speaker 1: possibly can. Uh. So, thank you though very much. Uh, Levi,

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Speaker 1: You've probably been asked a thousand times, but are there

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Speaker 1: going to be any more podcasts of Shields High? The

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Speaker 1: work you've done on Shieldsy is really spot all on.

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Speaker 1: I like what you have to say in your history

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Speaker 1: is right on. It's outstanding, and appreciate your hard work. Levi.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yeah, I'm gonna do it. You

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Speaker 1: know why I'm gonna do because I love all of you.

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Speaker 1: Because right now, it's just a labor of love. There

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Speaker 1: is no it's just a it's just something that I do.

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Speaker 1: Right We're not h We would love to get a

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Speaker 1: sponsor for her. By the way, if there's somebody out

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Speaker 1: there who would like to sponsor the podcast, that would

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Speaker 1: allow me to turn them out master, because I could

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Speaker 1: devote time that I'm supposed to be devoted to the

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Speaker 1: radio show in the day to day of preparation to

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Speaker 1: actually putting that podcast together. So if you're listening and

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Speaker 1: you love history and you want to sponsor podcast, I

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Speaker 1: know a guy, get you a get you a good price.

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Speaker 1: But Shields High is is it's coming. There'll be more. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And this is also, keep in mind, kind of a

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Speaker 1: test run for what will eventually be a history series

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Speaker 1: on the Barbary Wars. I think that's where I'm heading

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Speaker 1: with all this, because I think you all enjoy that

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Speaker 1: very much. Uh. And now we have Joshua who rights Hey, buck,

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Speaker 1: I don't see why we have to knuckle under and

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Speaker 1: stay silent when the left screams, when kids are yelling

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Speaker 1: that if you aren't for gun control, then you like

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Speaker 1: child murder. Why do we have to just take it?

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Speaker 1: Why doesn't the right respond with if you want gun control,

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Speaker 1: you are allowing child murder by making schools gun free

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Speaker 1: zones and disarming the only people who may be able

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Speaker 1: to help. The point is we don't have to be

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Speaker 1: the silent majority. We could be the loud majority. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure why the rights stays so silent. Shields

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Speaker 1: high Josh, Well, Josh, hopefully, Uh. I'm part of of

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Speaker 1: the not being silent side of all this. Hopefully, you know.

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Speaker 1: We feel like the the other the counter message and

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Speaker 1: the other part of the argument, other side of the

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Speaker 1: argument gets out there. Certainly one of the things that

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Speaker 1: I try to do here on the show, and I

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Speaker 1: do find as you know, from listening to this show,

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Speaker 1: I find it really distasteful. I find it grotesque, but

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Speaker 1: not surprising that this issue has now been it has

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Speaker 1: been packaged and and formulated and weaponized as just a

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Speaker 1: pure partisan play. It's really not about saving lives, it's

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Speaker 1: really not about gun control. It's just about the left

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Speaker 1: finding ways to bash the right with impunity. Are we

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Speaker 1: gonna leave it there for today? My friends, back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Shields high