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Speaker 1: Hey, yes, and welcome to you. Normally the show with

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Speaker 1: normalist takes for when the news gets weird. I'm Mary

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Speaker 1: Catherine Ham and I'm Carol Markowitz. And you know what, Carol,

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Speaker 1: before we get started today, I have to hear about

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Speaker 1: the baby picture that goes harder than any baby picture

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Speaker 1: she must explain to me.

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Speaker 2: So it was taken in Italy. We came from the

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Speaker 2: Soviet Union to Italy and that was the holding place

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Speaker 2: because back when we had immigration laws in America, we

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Speaker 2: So our holding spot was Italy. And in the picture,

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Speaker 2: I'm asleep in a baby carriage. I am way over

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Speaker 2: bundled because I think it's like July. And the little

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Speaker 2: note that my parents have underneath it says like sleeping

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Speaker 2: outside while the parents are in the bar. Because leaving

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Speaker 2: your kids outside in the stroller used to be something

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Speaker 2: that people did all over the place. I was responding

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Speaker 2: and so I was like, guh, yeah, mine used to

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Speaker 1: I need that. I need that in my neighborhood. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I have a baby picture that goes that hard,

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Speaker 1: but we do have video of my littlest brother circa

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, just like camcor Old Cam Quarterer video,

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Speaker 1: And he's sitting with a toolbox just full of sharp

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Speaker 1: things and he's one and a half and he's pulling

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Speaker 1: them out and kind of like just experimenting with them,

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Speaker 1: and my mother is filming him the entire time, and

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Speaker 1: I just think, like the arc, the arc, we've come

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm okay, your brother's okay, We're fine.

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Speaker 1: Turned out fine, Yeah, turned out fine. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: get to them to it.

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Speaker 2: So we've talked about my governor on here quite a bit,

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Speaker 2: and let's get a little bit into your governor Glenn

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Speaker 2: youngin Virginia doing some very interesting stuff and obviously getting

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Speaker 2: a lot of hate. I think he's racist now possibly

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Speaker 2: also sexist and moodynist.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's you know, within a month of an

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Speaker 1: election and Governor youngin of Virginia is following the election

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Speaker 1: laws in the state of Virginia why and that became

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Speaker 1: a problem for the Department of Justice under this administration.

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Speaker 1: So the Department of Justice has sued the State of

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Speaker 1: Virginia Glenn youngin According to a law passed in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and six in Virginia and signed by then Governor

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Speaker 1: Tim Kaine, who is a Democrat in the US Senate,

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Speaker 1: they have to vet the voter roles in Virginia for

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Speaker 1: non citizens. The way they do this is that they

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Speaker 1: this was non controversial in two thousand and six. The

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Speaker 1: way they do this is that the DMV has a

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Speaker 1: box you check of whether you're a citizen or not,

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Speaker 1: and if it says you're not a citizen, then the

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Speaker 1: Board of Elections works together with the DMV to look

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Speaker 1: at that information and then send it to your local

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Speaker 1: registrar and say like, hey, is there an issue here.

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Speaker 1: The dj does not want them doing this within ninety

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Speaker 1: days of an election, and they say it violates the

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Speaker 1: federal motor voter law. Weirdly, no one's ever had a

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Speaker 1: problem with this. Right.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say Governor Kane a racist also or

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Speaker 1: It turns out it was okay for him to do it,

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Speaker 1: and it's okay for anyone to do it in any

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Speaker 1: election up until this one thirty days away. And I

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Speaker 1: Kim Kuchinelli, and he was like, this is pretty clearly

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Speaker 1: for show because this can't even be adjudicated before the election.

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Speaker 1: Like the next filing deadline for our response is twenty

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Speaker 1: one days from now, which puts you almost done. Youngin

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Speaker 1: of course, is like, uh, I have to enforce the law.

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Speaker 1: I don't even have a choice here, guys. So it

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Speaker 1: is a demand from the DOJ for Virginia not to

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Speaker 1: follow its election laws in the thirty days before the election.

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Speaker 1: And I love him calling it out for what it is.

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Speaker 2: So Glenn Youngin, it's not this crazy right winger guy.

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Speaker 2: He's just a very normal, staid, trustworthy guy. And he's saying,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not going to let that happen. So I

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Speaker 2: think the fact that it's Glen Youngin really is important here.

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Speaker 2: It goes beyond just a Republican governor said, or this

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Speaker 2: and I think he brings a gravitas to the situation

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, with the support of our Attorney general,

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Speaker 1: we will defend these common sense steps that we are

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Speaker 1: legally required to take with every resource available to us.

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Speaker 1: Virginia's election will be secure and fair, and I will

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Speaker 1: not stand idly by as this politically motivated action tries

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Speaker 1: to interfere in our elections. Period. And the funny thing

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Speaker 1: concern about the elections. No, he's just following the law,

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Speaker 1: which is required to do, and you guys are trying

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Speaker 1: about the election. That's what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And again, I think because it's Youngkin, I think

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Speaker 2: that point of view is actually not getting as much

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Speaker 2: here and that he is. He's like, I'm just following

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Speaker 2: the law. This is the law. You guys had no

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Speaker 2: problem with this law before. Now you do, what's.

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Speaker 1: Up with that?

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Speaker 2: So I like that that your governor's on that.

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Speaker 1: We're glad to have him. I did I looked up

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Speaker 1: all the statutes the other night because and this is

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Speaker 1: what always happens time. Yeah, well what always happens with TV,

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Speaker 1: and Carol will know this is that they give you

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Speaker 1: a list of things to study, and if you really

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Speaker 1: study something, it's definitely not coming up. So it did

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Speaker 1: not give up.

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Speaker 2: Right, if you're ready to go, it's not happening.

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Speaker 1: But I read all of the statutes and called some

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Speaker 1: people and verified all sorts of things, and sure enough,

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Speaker 1: yet it's right there in the Virginia statutes that you

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Speaker 1: have to do this. So this is this is nonsense.

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Speaker 2: Right, and look look at all this research paying off,

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Speaker 2: you know, on normally.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, I did it, guys, All right, what

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Speaker 1: else do we have on our plate? Kamala Harris she

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Speaker 1: is chasing male voters and I don't mean that in

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Speaker 1: any sort of suggestive way. It's just a campaign and

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Speaker 1: they need mail voters and it's not working out. So well,

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Speaker 1: we'll be right back in just a minute. On normally.

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Speaker 2: So we last saw the Kamala Harris campaign over the

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Speaker 2: that was awkward as all. I mean, it was. It

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Speaker 2: was really bad. It was very hard to watch. He

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Speaker 2: he had trouble lowing the shotgun. I just you know,

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Speaker 2: the main thing that I think that they're missing here

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Speaker 2: is that pretense is the killer of campaigns. That's really

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Speaker 2: what it is. Like voters can smell when you're not

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Speaker 2: being authentic, and that was inauthentic. If these people could

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Speaker 2: just be themselves a little bit, I think it'd be

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Speaker 2: so regimented and so driven on the idea that oh,

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Speaker 2: we need the mail vote. Men like hunting and you know, shooting,

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Speaker 2: and we gotta we got to portray ourselves in that way.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump does not go dosant hunting, you know.

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Speaker 1: What I mean.

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Speaker 2: He is just himself. Can you imagine him in that outfit, you.

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Speaker 1: Know what I'm we don't need. It's good, he's good.

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Speaker 1: But this is the thing he wouldn't because he's not

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Speaker 1: He would to do something that's not him. Right, He's

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Speaker 1: an authentic weirdo, but it's not that guy.

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Speaker 2: So this Wednesday, Donald Trump is actually going to try

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Speaker 2: to appeal to women. And what he's going to do

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Speaker 2: is not go like put on makeup and go shopping

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Speaker 2: Mary Catherine, He's doing a town hall with an all

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Speaker 2: female audience. I don't know that seems like the better

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think engaging with voters is a good thing

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Speaker 1: to do, and it turns out that Walls and Kamala

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Speaker 1: I look I like the fact that Vance has at

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Speaker 1: times noted like this is just a weakness of ours.

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Speaker 1: We understand that, and now we're speaking to the issue.

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Speaker 1: For instance, when he talks about abortion laws and having

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Speaker 1: exceptions and sending decisions to the states, but he also

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Speaker 1: says women have other concerns, which is something that has

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Speaker 1: always been true for me, right, not my number one

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Speaker 1: concern as the feminists would like for it to be,

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Speaker 1: so speaking about those issues could probably matter to them.

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Speaker 1: I've also have this thing that I haven't researched enough,

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Speaker 1: which is that I am interested in the woo woo

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Speaker 1: mom demographic. It's like sort of nutrition moms. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: the RFK fangirl sort of demo. Ye, what kind of

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Speaker 2: I feel like I've seen some moderate friends on like

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Speaker 2: Instagram who I don't know that they're voting for Trump,

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Speaker 2: but they love RFK and they are make America Healthy

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Speaker 2: driving up female support. This was quite successful for them,

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of truth to that. I

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Speaker 2: And of course there's a panic going on right now

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Speaker 2: that I will really play out on election Day, we'll

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Speaker 2: have to see. I have to say, though, I think

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Speaker 2: that the anti man thing really has backfired. And it's

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Speaker 2: been going on for several years, and you felt it everywhere.

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Speaker 2: The first company I ever boycotted ever was Jillette because

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Speaker 2: they produced this ad that I thought was anti men,

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Speaker 2: and it portrayed men as angry and violent, and I

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Speaker 2: a political party doing that kind of messaging and saying

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Speaker 2: terrible all around, I think you're going to not only

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Speaker 1: Yeah. This has always bugged me, and it's it's so

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Speaker 1: funny because Democrats will say, like, oh, as if you

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Speaker 1: sort of need supporting evidence for this claim that they've

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Speaker 1: been a little hostile to men, I would just say,

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Speaker 1: what's the word most frequently associated with the word masculinity

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Speaker 1: for the past five to ten years. It's toxic, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And that didn't come from the right. The term that

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Speaker 1: They have seen this happen. There's been an erosion, by

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. Obviously Obama consolidated them in huge numbers,

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Speaker 1: but it fell from ninety five to eighty seven percent,

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Speaker 2: But it's funny because I think that we mostly hear

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Speaker 2: Well it's Tuesday and we have our occasional Tuesday segment.

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Speaker 2: And I remember arguing about these studies and saying these

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Speaker 2: is why this continues to be what we are mad about.

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Speaker 1: Bro still men, I would the accountability for the people,

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Speaker 1: the people who had to live through the bad decisions. Yes,

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