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Speaker 1: It's what you've been waiting for all day. But Sexton

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Speaker 1: So when you start to think about it that way,

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Speaker 1: now you look at the realities of our policy choices

433
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Speaker 1: and you're like, Oh, in what universe? In what universe

434
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Speaker 1: are we able to get Kim Jong un to behave

435
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Speaker 1: differently because we're gonna get him. What we're gonna tell China,

436
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Speaker 1: this is always what I find to be fascinating. We're

437
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Speaker 1: gonna tell China to just cut off all fuel to

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Speaker 1: North Korea, cut off coal the North Korea, essentially bring

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Speaker 1: their military machinery to a screeching halt. What if China

440
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: just doesn't want to do that because China one doesn't

441
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Speaker 1: want a North Korea that crumbles, because then reunification with

442
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Speaker 1: a close US ally South Korea spells strategic problems for China.

443
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: China's whole um m O right now is to establish

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Speaker 1: regional dominance and push out beyond the states that we

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Speaker 1: are using our allies as a cordon for Chinese aggression

446
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Speaker 1: and expansionism. South Korea, Japan, the Philippines. Just go down

447
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: the list of all these different countries that we are

448
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: hoping to yes box in Chinese militaristic aggression, expansionism, and

449
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Speaker 1: uh irridentism. I mean, that's what we're hoping to to

450
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Speaker 1: accomplish visa of each China over the long term. Chinese

451
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 1: know this, So you think they're just gonna hand over

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Speaker 1: the Korean Peninsula to us. There's no there's nothing that

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Speaker 1: we can do. There's no inducement that we can bring

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Speaker 1: about that would push China so hard that they would

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Speaker 1: push North Korea to collapse. Never mind the fact that

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Speaker 1: you know, we think of, oh, there's pretty warm relations

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Speaker 1: between those countries, such as they are I guess now

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Speaker 1: as warm as they can be with North Korea. But

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Speaker 1: you know, Japan has fought against Korea, Korea has fought again.

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Speaker 1: You know, Korea has fought alongside China, Korea has had

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Speaker 1: I mean, Japan and China have problems. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of of entity between these different countries that

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Speaker 1: still exists. And you think China wants to make North

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Speaker 1: Korea it's problem, we don't have that leverage. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I think that one of the big problems here is

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Speaker 1: that the Chinese recognize these strategic depth against us. The

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Speaker 1: North Korea is for them because it's they feel like, look,

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Speaker 1: if North Korea really i mean blows up is a

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Speaker 1: bad term to use here, But North Korea really goes

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Speaker 1: after US, or goes after anyone. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: either Japan or the United States. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: I think, somewhere deep down in the Chinese Central Committee, psyche,

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Speaker 1: there's a part of them it's like, that's not our problem. Really,

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Speaker 1: you know, let let the West and its allies handle that.

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Speaker 1: And I just don't see China as this trump card.

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Speaker 1: Pardon the expression against North Koreat what are we potentially

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Speaker 1: risking now? If we say, okay, we're gonna go in

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Speaker 1: with some strategic military strikes to take out his nuclear weapons,

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Speaker 1: to possib take him out or at least remove him

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Speaker 1: from power. What is the risk? I mean, are we

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Speaker 1: gonna wind up with with so many people's lives gone

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Speaker 1: in South Korea in soul because we make that move.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, how do you feel about

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Speaker 1: dead Americans? Yeah? No, I mean I know this is

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Speaker 1: this is not this is not easy. This is not easy.

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Speaker 1: But does anybody think the decision will be easier a

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Speaker 1: year from now, or five years from now or ten

488
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Speaker 1: years from now. Roosevelt said, when you see a rattlesnake

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Speaker 1: poised to strike you don't wait until it has struck

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Speaker 1: before you crush it. There you have a former US

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Speaker 1: ambassador not the Nations, John Bolton. I I've worked with Bolton,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's a he's a very smart guy.

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Speaker 1: Um And I don't mean to be putting this at

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Speaker 1: his feet at all, but you'll notice that you know

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Speaker 1: he's presenting you with the option of North Korea can't

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Speaker 1: continue like we've got to do something about North Korea,

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Speaker 1: meaning that this state cannot be allowed to just do

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Speaker 1: what it has been doing because we are going to

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Speaker 1: be on the wrong side of this and it's going

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Speaker 1: to get very ugly and our options will Yes they're

501
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: all already not good, but they are just going to

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Speaker 1: get worse. Uh. And I wanted to note that when

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Speaker 1: it comes to areas of foreign areas rather where you

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00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: have an echo chamber effect that is so powerful that

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Speaker 1: it forces countless experts into just agreement and a refusal

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Speaker 1: to even begin to think for themselves. Foreign policy is

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Speaker 1: is the is really the ultimate echo chamber in the

508
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Speaker 1: sense that you know, you have long time horizons for

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Speaker 1: events to happen, you have uh, a desire to sound

510
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Speaker 1: smart today even if you know in six months, what

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Speaker 1: you're saying will be wrong. And look, I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: a lot of foreign policy experts out there also try

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Speaker 1: to be contrarian once in a while, and and if

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Speaker 1: they felt like the country was really in harm's way,

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Speaker 1: they would speak out. Although maybe I'm giving them too

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Speaker 1: much credit, but in general, the day to day effect

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Speaker 1: of foreign policy consensus UH is that the consensus is

518
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Speaker 1: hard to escape. The moment you break away from it, well,

519
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: well this is what the you know, the experts say

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Speaker 1: the following, and if you're not in agreement with the experts,

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Speaker 1: it is used to discount you as though the experts

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Speaker 1: were you know, medical doctors who have been studying treatments

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Speaker 1: for a disease for a long time, and you're just

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Speaker 1: some guy who walks in off the street. Doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: what your credentials are. If you break away from the

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Speaker 1: foreign policy consensus, you are to borrow a term from

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Speaker 1: the left, marginalized and on North Korea, if you were

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Speaker 1: to point out that the fancy k Street consultancies that

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Speaker 1: you international relations thinking and and various think hanks and

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Speaker 1: the foreign policy elites on both sides of the Aisland,

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Speaker 1: both parties have gotten this wrong. Over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again. You would probably get some sneer from assuming

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Speaker 1: that anybody who's going to challenge you on this, from

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Speaker 1: somebody who would say, hey, you know, maybe if you

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Speaker 1: could read Korean, or maybe if you were like this expert,

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Speaker 1: you'd feel differently. There's a difference between claiming expertise and

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Speaker 1: recognizing that something is not working right. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to be an expert in health care actuarial sciences to

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Speaker 1: know that health care costs keep going up and our

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Speaker 1: health care system has some big problems, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of it's based on redistribution and what are effectively socialist principles,

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Speaker 1: although it's not technically a socialist health care system. And

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Speaker 1: by the same token, you can look at what's going

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Speaker 1: on with North Korea. Are there nukes getting more dangerous

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Speaker 1: or less? Have they been firing off more missiles or less?

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Speaker 1: Has there been any stoppage, has there been any cessation

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Speaker 1: in its bellicos rhetoric, or it's uh, all of the

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00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: things that it does around the word, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: support for terror. I mean to say that North Korea

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Speaker 1: is part of the axis of evil might even be

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Speaker 1: an understatement. It's really the pinnacle of the axis of

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Speaker 1: evil in many ways, because it doesn't even love its

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Speaker 1: own people at all. It has no regard for the

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Speaker 1: lives of everyday average North Koreans. It's not that they're

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Speaker 1: pushing towards some grandiose goal like previous in North Korea

556
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Speaker 1: as a communist state isn't even really truly accurate. It's

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Speaker 1: given up most Marxist party doctrine along the way entirely.

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Speaker 1: And and Juche, which is its doctrine of North that

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Speaker 1: Juche is North Korea is doctrine of self reliance isn't

560
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Speaker 1: really a doctrine. And and there's plenty of reason to

561
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Speaker 1: believe that this is just something that people there say

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Speaker 1: in order to have something they can call a doctrine.

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Speaker 1: But it does don't really mean all that much. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't have any impact on the day to day policy

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Speaker 1: operations of the country. But nonetheless, you know, when when

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Speaker 1: you look at what is happening and where all of

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Speaker 1: this is going, and you begin to find yourself asking

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Speaker 1: questions about the experts who all along have been pointing

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Speaker 1: in a certain direction, you got to say, Okay, you know,

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Speaker 1: enough is enough. This is just getting worse all the time,

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Speaker 1: and the discussion is so circular that you know, there

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Speaker 1: are no new ideas, and I think we're at a

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Speaker 1: point where there should be some new There should be

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Speaker 1: some new ideas. And if that means that those ideas

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Speaker 1: that are shot down because they're either too uh to brutal,

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Speaker 1: meaning the casualties would be too high from implementing them,

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Speaker 1: or uh they would require much more in the way

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Speaker 1: of resources, we should at least know that right with

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Speaker 1: the people making the decisions about our policies visa in

580
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Speaker 1: North Korea should be honest with the American people about

581
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Speaker 1: what the future is gonna look like here if this continues.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Ambassador Bolton saying that you've got

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Speaker 1: to have the South take over the North. That is

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Speaker 1: the only way that this is gonna go, unless it's

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Speaker 1: gonna go with the North, uh engaging in some kind

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Speaker 1: of a first strike and waiting around until either they

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Speaker 1: believe that the US won't back up South Korea. That's

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Speaker 1: a possibility. You know, we can have an administration come in,

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Speaker 1: a commander in chief come in and decide that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna draw down our presence there. That's possible. Maybe they're

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Speaker 1: waiting for that, maybe they miscalculate. Maybe Kim Jong Lun

592
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Speaker 1: isn't as rational as so many people seem to want

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Speaker 1: to believe he is. I want to spend some time

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Speaker 1: team today, not just on all of the the biggest stories,

595
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 1: which right now I think is a combination of IRMA

596
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Speaker 1: and uh DACA, and of course North Korea's nuclear cause

597
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: we'll be getting to all of that. But I also

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00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: wonder if in fact Trump is going to manage to

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Speaker 1: get tax reform done. I've been thinking about this for

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Speaker 1: a while, and you know, I think at the corporate

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Speaker 1: level it's very possible. Now that would be good. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of reason to believe that the Trump administration

603
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Speaker 1: pushing for lower tax rates on corporations, particularly for small businesses,

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00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: would really accelerate hiring and would be a massive input

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Speaker 1: on the growth side of the equation. But for those

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Speaker 1: of us who keep hearing from Trump because he says

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Speaker 1: it things like, hey, your tax rate, there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a massive tax cut for all of you, I just wonder,

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Speaker 1: you see, there has to be groundwork laid for some

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Speaker 1: of these issues. You can't just come at it and

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Speaker 1: assume that people are gonna be with you every step

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Speaker 1: of the way, and that there's gonna be an ease

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Speaker 1: with which you can just push them into it because

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Speaker 1: of the force of your personality or because you're constitutionally sound,

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00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. You gotta get the people's

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Speaker 1: expectations in line with what is possible and also what

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Speaker 1: the costs are. Tax cuts are for conservatives, I think,

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Speaker 1: among the most widely uh supported things that you can

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Speaker 1: possibly push war right within the GOP. Forget about conservatives.

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Speaker 1: People love tax cuts, understandably, so I want to keep

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Speaker 1: more of my money. I get annoyed every time I

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Speaker 1: have to write a check to the I R S.

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Speaker 1: Every time I find myself going through receipts and trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out, hey, is this in fact a situation

625
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Speaker 1: where I can deductor? I can deduct? The tax code

626
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Speaker 1: is a nightmare. It is absolutely the most annoying thing

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Speaker 1: for all of us to deal with. And when you

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00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: start to look at the realities of it, I mean

629
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Speaker 1: you look at what really is in fact written in there,

630
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Speaker 1: you're like, this is just a giant give way a

631
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Speaker 1: special interest. So there's so much to work with. But

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Speaker 1: here's the part. Here's the part that the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: I don't think has really spent much time on if

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do these, if we're gonna do tax cuts

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Speaker 1: that are meaningful, there also has to be a willingness

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Speaker 1: to reduce government spending elsewhere. And this is why I

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00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: think it's, you know, we're getting a little bit too excited,

638
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: getting a little bit ahead of ourselves when it comes

639
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Speaker 1: to how easy this is going to be. Most taxes

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Speaker 1: that we pay are really all about a few things.

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00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: Healthcare for people sixty five and older, social Security, the

642
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: welfare state in one form or another, the permanent bureaucracy

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00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: of the federal government and the military. If you add

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00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: those things in, you pretty much covered spending. So where

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00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: are the cuts going to come or where are we

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Speaker 1: going to start spending less? It was fascinating to watch

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Speaker 1: Republicans bail on what was clearly a very modest spending cut,

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Speaker 1: clearly a very modest attempt to not even cut spending

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Speaker 1: with the sequester. I'm talking about sequestration. Now you remember this,

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Speaker 1: Remember sequestration. They were good. This is Paul Ryan and

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Speaker 1: Republicans were finally going to be responsible, and there was

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Speaker 1: a willingness to do what had to be done when

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Speaker 1: it came to budgetary matters, right, that's what we were

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Speaker 1: told at least to start it, to start the ball rolling.

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Speaker 1: They got rid of sequestration. All of a sudden, we

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Speaker 1: started hearing about how, oh, this base is going to close.

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Speaker 1: And because it was only about military cuts, the Democrats

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Speaker 1: played the game of thinking, well, that the Republicans will

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Speaker 1: never allow military cuts to happen, and at first no,

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Speaker 1: In fact, there were some cuts to the military that

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Speaker 1: the original sequestration that the Republican House was willing to

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Speaker 1: go forward with, willing to pass, and that was in

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Speaker 1: fact the the budget or the well, I should say,

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Speaker 1: the federal government spending. We don't really pass budgets anymore, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean we call it a budget, but in reality

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Speaker 1: it's it's a just a continuation of spending us into oblivion.

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Speaker 1: Where are we? Where are we going to see a

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Speaker 1: reduction in government spending. We can talk about tax cuts

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Speaker 1: all day, and I think we should, and I love

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Speaker 1: tax cuts. I want a flat tax. I want the

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Speaker 1: federal government to be taking much less money from people.

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Speaker 1: I think you'd have an enormous explosion of growth because

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Speaker 1: people would have money to do things that they know

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Speaker 1: that they know better than the government what should be

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Speaker 1: done with their money. I really do believe that that

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Speaker 1: would happen, and I think that small businesses, in particular,

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Speaker 1: from having a little more liquidity on their balance sheets,

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Speaker 1: would greatly benefit from a tax cut. I think that

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Speaker 1: that's something that is often overlooked in all of our

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Speaker 1: discussions about well, you know, what can the Trump what

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Speaker 1: can Trump really do? Not our discussions in the media

682
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Speaker 1: discussions what can Trump really do to jump start the economy?

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Speaker 1: The single biggest thing would be tax cuts. But where

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Speaker 1: do we see less spending? Because the government is currently

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Speaker 1: set up to do an amount of federal spending that

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Speaker 1: is mind boggling. It is vast, and that we couldn't

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Speaker 1: even would seequestration and start to bring the spending the

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Speaker 1: the spending cost curve in the other direction. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: really a cut, it was a decrease in the rate

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Speaker 1: of increase of government spending. They couldn't even do that.

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Speaker 1: So you can't be, on the one hand, somebody who

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Speaker 1: complains about a federal government debt that is out of control.

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Speaker 1: You can't say, oh, we're in debt, but we should

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Speaker 1: have all the spending that we have and we should

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Speaker 1: do tax cuts. I'm all four tax cuts, but they

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Speaker 1: need to be making the case for where we're going

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Speaker 1: to what are is it going to be cutting fraud, waste,

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Speaker 1: and abuse? I mean, how many times have we heard

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Speaker 1: that before? Are we really supposed to believe that if

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Speaker 1: only we had a federal government that was a little bit,

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Speaker 1: you know, more of a of a penny pincher. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're trying to manage programs better that we would be

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Speaker 1: able to make up for the hundreds of billions of

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Speaker 1: dollars in shortfall that have become kind of normal in

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Speaker 1: the budget and or in the in the debt process

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Speaker 1: right of the defice it year in and year out.

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Speaker 1: So as I look at all of this, I just

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Speaker 1: think to myself, this is where I think the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration can get it started. They get the corporate tax cut,

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Speaker 1: and I think that that can go because Democrats love

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Speaker 1: big business. They love getting donations from major multinational corporations.

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Speaker 1: When you look one of the only places that I

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Speaker 1: think you have a greater concentration of support for Democrats

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Speaker 1: in terms of dollars spent in the political process then

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Speaker 1: within journalism, because like over nine of journalists gave money

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Speaker 1: that that that listed their that listed their donations gave

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Speaker 1: money to Democrats. As we know Google ge these major

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Speaker 1: American corporations, a lot of the richest people in them,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the people that are running the show,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're talking about Silicon Valley, they give money

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Speaker 1: to Democrats. So businesses of all sizes certainly like keeping

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Speaker 1: more of their cash, and so it's popular. It's some

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Speaker 1: thing that as we see this playing out, we can

724
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Speaker 1: understand just how it is that you can get a bible,

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Speaker 1: you can get agreement. Finally, I mean we've been talking

726
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Speaker 1: about infrastructure a little bit. People say, oh, on infrastructure,

727
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Speaker 1: that's where Trump may have the ability to get Democrats

728
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Speaker 1: like yeah, because the government spending on corporate taxes. I

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Speaker 1: think you'll see some level of agreement because Democrats like

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Speaker 1: business too. It's on the individual tax right. It's the

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Speaker 1: marginal tax right, which I think the highest now is

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Speaker 1: there's talk among the Trumpsters of bringing it down to

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Speaker 1: thirty something like that. That's where the fight is because

734
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Speaker 1: that's where the class warfare happens, which is where the

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Speaker 1: Democrats get all of their political value. They really want

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Speaker 1: class warfare. It's helpful for the identity politics narrative. It's

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Speaker 1: helpful for the growth of big government. It is, and

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Speaker 1: it is absolutely necessary for the storyline of government has

739
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Speaker 1: to redistribute wealth more. It's necessary for economic fairness. So

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Speaker 1: that's where I think that the Trump administry, as we're

741
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Speaker 1: talking all this different stuff. Sure, there's I thought more

742
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Speaker 1: about taxes of the weekend, and I spoke to a

743
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Speaker 1: friend of mine. He's like, no, no no, no, don't don't

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Speaker 1: get to sour on this idea, because first of all,

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Speaker 1: it's one step, there could be many others. And second

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Speaker 1: of all, you may see a situation. You will see

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Speaker 1: a situation if the tax rate is cut from I

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Speaker 1: think thirty percent on the corporate side of where all

749
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: of a sudden, a business is gonna have a lot

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Speaker 1: more cash on hand. And a business that has more

751
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Speaker 1: cash on hand is in a place where it may

752
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Speaker 1: be able to hire new people do the things that

753
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Speaker 1: would bring about the economic prosperity that is so central

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Speaker 1: to Trump's message. Yeah, it's about immigration, it's about making

755
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Speaker 1: America grade, it's about national security. There's a lot of things,

756
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Speaker 1: but the twin pillars of Trumpism, I think, if you

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Speaker 1: could call them, that are economic economic growth and expansion,

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Speaker 1: and immigration and secure borders. Right though those immigration and

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00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: economics are are the heart, the beating heart of Trump

760
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Speaker 1: is um right now. And if it's going to be

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Speaker 1: worth anything, If this is, and I certainly hope it

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Speaker 1: is more than just having somebody in the form of

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump who is able to um. Somebody in the

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Speaker 1: former Donald Trump was able to fight the media and

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Speaker 1: and and push back against the lives. That's all great,

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Speaker 1: but the policies have to fall into place too. We've

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Speaker 1: seen now a deferral of action on deferred action for

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Speaker 1: child that arrivals. So we've seen a deferral of a

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Speaker 1: deferral taxes. This has got to happen. They're not going

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Speaker 1: to fight over the budget. I don't think the Wall

771
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Speaker 1: showdown is gonna happen. So we'll have to see from

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Speaker 1: right here. But also the change in spending. We've got

773
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Speaker 1: to hear about where the spending change is gonna happen too,

774
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: or else this thing is never gonna get very far.

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Speaker 1: Yet another hurricane poy to devastate the US bucks excon

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Speaker 1: back with you here, squad um I it's hard to

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Speaker 1: believe it really is. People are now reporting that this

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Speaker 1: Hurricane Irma may become the strongest Atlantic hurricane or I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: it is the strongest Atlantic hurricane outside the Gulf and

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Speaker 1: the Caribbean ever recorded. Here's the Miami Herald. Irma spun

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Speaker 1: into a monster storm Tuesday morning, with sustained winds topping

782
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Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty miles per hour, becoming the strongest

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Speaker 1: Atlantic hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

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Speaker 1: National Hurricane Center forecasters said earlier today. As the hurricane

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Speaker 1: turns closer to the US coast, its path becomes more certain,

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Speaker 1: with South Florida, particularly the Keys, increasingly likely to take

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Speaker 1: a hit. Tropical storm force winds could arrive as early

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Speaker 1: as Friday. Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of

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Speaker 1: emergency for all uh, a state of emergency for all

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Speaker 1: sixty seven counties, and has all seven thousand members of

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Speaker 1: the state's National Guard to report to duty on Friday. UH.

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Speaker 1: This this is a monster Irma. We just had Harvey.

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Speaker 1: We're still uh looking at the stories and and sending

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Speaker 1: money and doing what we can to help our fellow

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Speaker 1: Americans in Southeast Texas and Louisiana who got just battered

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Speaker 1: by Harvey and unprecedented flooding. That Hurricane Irma is now

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Speaker 1: scheduled to be a category five, a category five storm.

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Speaker 1: It just seems it just seems unthinkable. I mean, how

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Speaker 1: much can the you know, can the people of you know,

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Speaker 1: the the US Southeast and and UH southeast Texas here,

801
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Speaker 1: how much can they endure that this would happen one

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Speaker 1: and then the other in rapid succession. Mother nature can

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Speaker 1: be very cruel. I certainly hope that, you know, Florida

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Speaker 1: has the best possible response in place for this, because

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Speaker 1: it's looking like it's gonna be absolutely devastating and a

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five mile per hour super winds I

807
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: see here on the Drudge Report, and it's gonna hit

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Speaker 1: Florida and hit Florida hard. Already, you're seeing all of

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Speaker 1: the usual, uh expected reporting on this kind of a storm,

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Speaker 1: where people are there's a run on food and and

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Speaker 1: fresh water in stores has all gone, all the stuff

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Speaker 1: and the stores has gone, and the whole country it's

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Speaker 1: just mobilized. We've just been through this, this national outpouring

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Speaker 1: of sympathy, and more than just sympathy, of help. You

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Speaker 1: had to you know, you had the Cajun the Cajun

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Speaker 1: Navy showing up in Cajun Coastal Search and Rescue and

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Speaker 1: countless volunteers. You you had. It felt like every guy

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Speaker 1: with a bass boat from you know, northern Florida out

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Speaker 1: to the coast of Texas and back again was showing

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Speaker 1: up in in Texas trying to help people out, showing

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Speaker 1: up in Louisiana trying to help people out. And now

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Speaker 1: we may be subject to the American people may be

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Speaker 1: subjected to watching helplessly as our brothers and sisters down

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Speaker 1: in Florida get just just get hit and hit hard

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Speaker 1: with another monster storm. Um I am very concerned about this.

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Speaker 1: I wish that there was more to to say, and

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Speaker 1: you know, more to say about how we could help

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Speaker 1: other than everyone's got to batten down the hatches and prepare.

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Speaker 1: I hope people are gonna evacuate those are areas of

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Speaker 1: of Florida that are scheduled to get hit the hardest.

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Speaker 1: I hope that there's um, you know, ample resources in

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Speaker 1: place for them to get out of this, get out

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Speaker 1: of the area as much as they can, although I

834
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Speaker 1: don't know in some places that it may be better

835
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Speaker 1: to to see how it shakes out. I'm I'm not

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Speaker 1: a storm expert. Well, we'll have some storm experts on

837
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Speaker 1: the show again later on this week. We certainly know some,

838
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: considering that we've had to reach out in just the

839
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Speaker 1: last week or so to get people, uh telling us

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Speaker 1: about what it means when there's massive flooding, and what

841
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Speaker 1: it means when there are serious public health issues that

842
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Speaker 1: come up as a result of this. And I know

843
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Speaker 1: that there is the possibility that this storm will shift

844
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Speaker 1: and that it will either lesson or or change course somewhat,

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Speaker 1: I think, and based on what I'm reading here, and

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Speaker 1: and I cannot claim to be a meteorologist or a

847
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Speaker 1: storm expert of any kind, but there is the possibility

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Speaker 1: that it's not quite as as a massive hit as

849
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Speaker 1: we are currently expecting. But you know, you just think

850
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Speaker 1: that this is this is jumping, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: if you jump into this shell, I mean into the

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Speaker 1: the crater left by an artillery shell, and somehow the

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Speaker 1: next round lands in the same the same crater. It's

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Speaker 1: just that's not supposed to happen, right, That's not the

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Speaker 1: way this is. You figure that, given how many years

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Speaker 1: we've had without a major hurricane, making landfall that we

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Speaker 1: get hit with two in a row. Uh, you know, psychologically,

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it's like right now preparing for

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Speaker 1: this and in South Florida. So those of you who

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Speaker 1: are are in Florida, as we get closer, I'm certainly

861
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,479
Speaker 1: gonna want to know if you can, you can weigh

862
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: in and tell me you know what you're seeing going

863
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: on and if the storm. I think the storm is

864
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: gonna hit really this weekend, so we'll have a sense

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00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: of how bad it is by by Monday when we're

866
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 1: back on air to be sure, after the last show,

867
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Speaker 1: which will be this week Friday. But it's looking like

868
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 1: this has just been getting more more powerful and there

869
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: are some very very real concerns here that we might

870
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 1: have a another natural disaster that causes tens of billions

871
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: of dollars of damage, and you know, there could be

872
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: loss of life from this too, So we'll be watching

873
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: it closely. I don't have more for it, other more

874
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 1: to to add right now other than just I can't

875
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. I've got another one irma now

876
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: after Harvey, another one looks like it's gonna be hit

877
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: in the US. M I have a friend, but that

878
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: I should know who is down, A dear friend who's down,

879
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: just as of I think the last couple of days

880
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: doing Harvey relief efforts. I'm gonna try to reach him

881
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: down there if I can. He's not somebody who particularly

882
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: is uh media, Uh, you know, I don't need a

883
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 1: friendly is not the right word, but not a public person.

884
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you really want to come

885
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: on and talk on air, but I'll at least be

886
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: touching base on them to hear about how Harvey relief

887
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: efforts are going, which they're gonna stretch on for weeks, months, years.

888
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: But already it looks like the biggest, uh well, the

889
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: most attention when it comes to storms and natural disasters

890
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: for the next few days is going to be directed

891
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:15,959
Speaker 1: towards what happens with Hurricane Irma. Maybe it lessons. I pray,

892
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: I really hope that it. Hope and pray that this

893
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: thing is not nearly as devastating as it is currently

894
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: expected to be. That just feels like, how could that

895
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: even be possible at this point that we would be,

896
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: you know, to hurricanes in such a short period of time,

897
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: to hurricanes that are going to be doing so much damage.

898
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: Um like, we'll watch it. Uh eight four four nine,

899
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: Buck eight four four to five. Do you give me

900
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: a call and love to hear from your team, and

901
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: we'll be coming back and I'll talk to you about

902
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: North Korea with big news out of North Korea in

903
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:00,320
Speaker 1: just a few Stay with me, okay, team welcome, Buck

904
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 1: Sextion here with you in the Freedom Hut. We had

905
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions announcing that DOCCA was rescinded. Today people are

906
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 1: weighing in on the politics of this, and there's a

907
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,879
Speaker 1: lot of heated emotions around it all. What about the legality,

908
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: or maybe a better way to put it, what about

909
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: the constitutionality, specifically of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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Speaker 1: We've got the one and only Andy McCarthy joining us now.

911
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: He's a former assistant U S attorney and a bestselling

912
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: author and contributing editor at National Review. His latest up

913
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: on National review dot com to end DACA. Follow the Constitution, Andy,

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Speaker 1: Great to have you, Thanks so much. Buck, All right,

915
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 1: and follow the Constitution and DOCCA? How you just ended?

916
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: There we go segment done, Now go ahead. The the

917
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: Obama administration actually didn't even put this out by an

918
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Speaker 1: executive order. DACA was installed by uh them a random

919
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: guidance memorandum that was issued in two thousand and twelve

920
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: by Secretary Thepolitano when she was running the Department of

921
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: Homeland Security. So the way to end it would have

922
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Speaker 1: been to simply withdraw that guidance. It's not even something

923
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Speaker 1: that you know, needed much of a formal process to

924
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Speaker 1: to do. And frankly, Um, you know, I've been disappointed

925
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Speaker 1: that they didn't do it on day one, as President

926
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Speaker 1: Trump said he would. Now, why do you think he didn't, Dandy,

927
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 1: I mean, what, what? What are the motivations at play? Well?

928
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Speaker 1: I think this is like a lot of things that

929
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Speaker 1: um Trump talked about on the campaign trail, which is

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Speaker 1: which is to say he has a h enough knowledge

931
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Speaker 1: to to talk about them, but maybe not enough to

932
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Speaker 1: understand them thoroughly. Things tend to be a lot more

933
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Speaker 1: complicated once you're governing than they are on the campaign trail,

934
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Speaker 1: when there's really no accountability for the things that you say,

935
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Speaker 1: at least not in in real time. So it's very

936
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Speaker 1: easy to say, you know, the minute I get in there,

937
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do this, that and the other thing,

938
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Speaker 1: and then you get in, you find that either the

939
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Speaker 1: things you were talking about a much more complicated than

940
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Speaker 1: perhaps you realized, or the process of getting out from

941
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Speaker 1: under them is more complicated than you realized. In this instance,

942
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Speaker 1: I think the process for getting out from under this

943
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Speaker 1: was a lot less complicated than they've let on, and

944
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Speaker 1: in fact, they've made it more complicated by continuing to

945
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Speaker 1: carry DACA out for the last eight months. Now, DACA

946
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Speaker 1: is in your in your estimation, your opinion, and he

947
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Speaker 1: just it's flagrantly unconstitutional, right, Yeah, And I'm not the

948
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Speaker 1: only one who says that President Obama used to say

949
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Speaker 1: it before he changed his mind and did it. I mean,

950
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Speaker 1: you know, Obama pretty flatly conceded that he didn't have

951
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Speaker 1: as president the authority to confer positive legal benefits, which

952
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Speaker 1: is what deferred Action for a child arrivals DOCTA does.

953
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Speaker 1: One of the things that DOCTA does, aside from conferring

954
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Speaker 1: a day facto amnesty on a category of illegal immigrants,

955
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Speaker 1: is give them positive legal benefits like work permits and

956
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Speaker 1: I believe social Security registration and the like. Those are

957
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Speaker 1: things that in our system only Congress has the authority

958
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Speaker 1: to confirm. So DOCTA one of the things I haven't

959
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: really understood well about President Trump's approach to this is

960
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Speaker 1: that we've discussed this in terms, especially in the last

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Speaker 1: week or two bucks of will Trump and DOCTA or not.

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Speaker 1: And what I've tried to point out to people is

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Speaker 1: had Trump not ended DOCTA, there was ongoing litigation before

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Speaker 1: the U. S. Courts that was going to attend going

965
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Speaker 1: to end DOCCA because it's unconstitutional. So the question really

966
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Speaker 1: wasn't um would Trump ended? The question, to my mind,

967
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Speaker 1: was was Trump going to act too, and that before

968
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Speaker 1: the courts did. I'm speaking to Andy McCarthy. He's a

969
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Speaker 1: former US Assistant U S. Attorney, bestselling author and read

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00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: his latest ump on National Review. And if I recall

971
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Speaker 1: when this was making its way through the courts under

972
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Speaker 1: the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security was planning

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Speaker 1: to just start distributing documents to people. If memory serves

974
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Speaker 1: that they were going to go ahead and as you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: give the doctor benefits before the courts could weigh in

976
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Speaker 1: on whether those benefits should be given by the federal government.

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Speaker 1: In the first place, I feel like they were trying

978
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Speaker 1: to make it a faded calm plea as I say

979
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Speaker 1: across the ocean. Yeah, well, Buck, you know, I think

980
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Speaker 1: we've talked about this as the Obama approach to a

981
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: lot of things, which you know, and I know people

982
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: get tired of hearing about a Lynskey, but that really

983
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: is the A Lynsky community organizer approach. That is that

984
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: you u your leverage as the person who was controlling

985
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: the levers uh in order to change the facts on

986
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: the ground so that um, like for example, with the

987
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: Iran deal, um, President Obama didn't follow the treaty provision

988
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: of the Constitution, but the deal was structured in a

989
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 1: way that so altered the reality of relations between Iran

990
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: and other countries that it was effectively impossible to undo

991
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: by the time the successor came to Tower. And I

992
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: think with respect to DOCTA, it's the same thing. They

993
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: tried to to get this program up and going in

994
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: so robust away that it would be both you know,

995
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: politically and practically very difficult to unravel it by the

996
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: time his successor came along. Yeah. And as everyone who

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01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: looks at the history of of immigration reform in the past,

998
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: stretching back all the way to Reagan and the amnesty

999
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: in the eighties, knows, the one thing you can be

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01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 1: sure of is the s. Everything else, the enforcement mechanisms,

1001
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: the legislation that's supposed to add you know, border security

1002
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: or whatever may be, that's always negotiable. But the amnesty

1003
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Speaker 1: ends up being forever, or rather the ambassy at least

1004
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 1: will definitely happen. Yeah, And the interesting thing about Obama's

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01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 1: approach to that buck is that realizing that he was

1006
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Speaker 1: never going to get a blanket amnesty on all the

1007
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: legal immigrants which they would like to have gotten, the

1008
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:30,479
Speaker 1: next trick instead was to do things like Dacca. And

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Speaker 1: you know, you can sell people on data because the

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Speaker 1: the typical immigrant that they have in their mind is

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01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: very sympathetic. That is, you know, somebody who would say,

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Speaker 1: eighteen months old, is brought into the United States through

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01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: no fault of his or her own by his or

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Speaker 1: her parents, and then grows up essentially as an American,

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01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: really knows no other country than the United States, and

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01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: at some point learns that you know, he or she

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Speaker 1: is a stateless person that you know, you're not really

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01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: from the country that you're purportedly a national of, but

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01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: at the same time you're not welcomed by the country

1020
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: is the only country that you've ever known as home.

1021
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: That's a very sympathetic set of circumstances. So they used

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01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: that to get data in the public mind is something

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01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: that you could you could wrap your brain around, and

1024
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 1: even immigration restrictionists have to say, you know, those are

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01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: people who might warrants some consideration. So then once you're

1026
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 1: established that, what you then do is try to make

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01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: the definition of who falls into dhaka as elastic as possible.

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01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,080
Speaker 1: So it turns out that we're not talking about like

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01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 1: people who were born here brought here as infants. Right

1030
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,479
Speaker 1: for the next thing, you know, it's anybody who's less

1031
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 1: than thirty seven who says he was brought here and

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01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: has continuously linked here, you know, at some point before

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Speaker 1: he was sixteen, um, And a lot of this is

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01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's very he does anyone have to how

1035
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: do you prove this? Andy? Do they have to prove

1036
01:02:56,720 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 1: it beyond just swearing that the yeah, I promise. Well

1037
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: here's another problem. We only got about twenty seconds, Eddy,

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01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: but I want to get you and sorry, go ahead. Well,

1039
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: those people think that, you know, it's up to the

1040
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 1: government to prove it, right, because we think about the

1041
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 1: criminal justice system where you're presumed innocent. But that's not

1042
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: the way this is supposed to work. It should be

1043
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: incumbent on them to prove it. All right, we'll have

1044
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: to see Annie McCarthy. Everybody check out his ladies to

1045
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 1: end DCCA follow the Constitution. It's up on National Review

1046
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:25,400
Speaker 1: dot com right now. And he always a privilege, Always

1047
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: a pleasure, sir, Thank you very much. Great to talk

1048
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: to you. I like to talk to you about how

1049
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 1: the progressive mantra of well our way or the highway

1050
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: or else will punch you like Antifa, uh, punches people

1051
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 1: that that's destroying the culture. This is not just an

1052
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 1: issue for political discourse and discussion, uh. And they're affected

1053
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 1: the culture in some pretty nasty ways. We've got Heather

1054
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: Wilhelm on the line. She's a columnist for National Review

1055
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: and a senior contributor to The Federalist. She's written a

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01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: piece about the death of Fun as we know it,

1057
01:03:58,160 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 1: and I want to ask her about this. Heatheryre, great

1058
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: to have you, Hey, thanks for having me on. All right,

1059
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Speaker 1: How is fun dead? And who killed? Uh? Well, you know,

1060
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Speaker 1: it is amazing to see the creep of politics into

1061
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: every single nook and cranny of our culture these days.

1062
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Speaker 1: And that was what ore, That was what my column

1063
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Speaker 1: was about. It's exhausting. And uh, a couple of examples

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Speaker 1: that I gave were, you know, just last week. It

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01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 1: seems you know, maybe like a hundred years ago, maybe

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Speaker 1: it was earlier this week, the big bruhaha about Milannia

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01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 1: Trump's high heeled shoes. Uh, you know, this is this

1068
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 1: is an outrage. This was the end of America as

1069
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: we knew it. That Milannia Trump wore high heeled shoes

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Speaker 1: for a twenty ft walk to a private plane and

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Speaker 1: then changed her shoes once she got on the ground

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Speaker 1: in Texas to you know, basically take some pictures with

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01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: the president to raise awareness about the hurricane. This became

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01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: a whole media issue. New York Times wrote pieces about

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01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: at The Washington Post wrote pieces about it. Politic co

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01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: wrote pieces about it, all deadly serious. H And at

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01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: a certain point, You've got to ask, this is just

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01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: taking over people's minds, and it's just crushing every little

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Speaker 1: bit of fun in our society. Another example I gave

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Speaker 1: was Taylor Swift, who, of course, uh, as I said

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Speaker 1: my piece, she's got the drama, you know, she's got

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01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 1: the breakups, she's got the laughing all the way to

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01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:27,360
Speaker 1: the bank. She's she's a brilliant performer. And all of

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01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 1: a sudden with this latest that she's releasing a new album,

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01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: and everyone's very concerned with Taylor Swift politics. So people

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01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 1: think that she might be a Trump supporter just because

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01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 1: she didn't weigh in in favor of Hillary. It's amazing

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01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: she she she had, you know, she had the temerity

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01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: not to you know, bore us all with her political views,

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01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: which in my opinion makes her a hero today's culture.

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01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: And even that freaks people out. You're right, there's you know,

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01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: whispers that you know, well, if she's not talking about politics,

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01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe she did vote for Trump. There

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01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 1: was an article in New York Magazine talking about how

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01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: her new song was a perfect anthem for the Trump era. Uh,

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01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: you know, it just goes on and on and on,

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01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 1: and you know, the point of my column was, you know,

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01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: politics has its place, and unfortunately we're letting it seep

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01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: into every corner of our culture. And I think that

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01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:24,080
Speaker 1: that's in effect kind of destroying fund for a lot

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01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: of people, myself included. I have to say, one of

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01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:32,360
Speaker 1: the more surprising because it's so obvious. This uh, this ploy.

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01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 1: One of the more obvious ones that I say, are

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01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: one of the more annoying and obvious ones that I

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01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 1: see is when people who and I've only seen this

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01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 1: from one side of the political and I follow a

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01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:44,000
Speaker 1: lot of different folks on social media, from left and

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01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: right and all over the political spectrum, but you only

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01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 1: see this from leftist journalists the whole My four year

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01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 1: old came up to me and asked me why we

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01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:56,240
Speaker 1: were returning to a status similar to Weimar Republic Germany

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01:06:56,320 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 1: under the Trump administration. And it's like, I'm pretty sure

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01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: your four year old have you seen this? I'm I

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01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: mean for people that think I'm really I'm exaggerating just

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01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:09,160
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's the woke children effect is something

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01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 1: that you see with people all the time. It's like,

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01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: can't you leave your kids out of your political discussions?

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01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 1: When I say kids, I don't mean you know, you're

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Speaker 1: young people out of like eighteen, I'm talking about five

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Speaker 1: year olds. No, you're right, that's a whole That's a

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01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 1: very common thing, and you'll see it on social media.

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01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: And I was actually laughing about this because on the

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Speaker 1: same day I saw the very serious article about how

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift is emblematic of the Trump era. Um, I

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01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: played her new song for my children, and I said, oh, guys,

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01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, Taylor Swift has a suen a new song out.

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01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 1: It's not that great. I'm gonna play it for you.

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Speaker 1: So I played it for him. They listen sort of wrapped,

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01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 1: and for those who haven't heard the song, there's this

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01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,240
Speaker 1: sort of absurd moment where she says, in a very

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01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,640
Speaker 1: dramatic voice, she says, I'm sorry the old Taylor can't

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01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: come to the phone right now. She's dead. I didn't

1133
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:59,040
Speaker 1: know that. I'm just kidding. Sorry, she's dead. And my

1134
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: boys just started. They laughed for about ten minutes and

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01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: went home and all declared that they were going to

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01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: write her a fan letter just based on that. U

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01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: based on that line in the song. And that is

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01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: the appropriate response to Taylor Swift, right, um, instead of

1139
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: you know, hemming and hawing about her political views. And

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01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 1: another example I used in my column speaking of children again,

1141
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: is a magazine that is, you know, it's target audience

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01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 1: is probably twelve year old. Is teen Vogue, which is

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01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 1: this publication that is morphed from you know, a simple

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01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: young people's fashion magazine to a rage pamphlet. There are

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01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 1: these terrifying articles that you'll see in teen Vogue, which

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01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 1: is suddenly decided it's a political publication like everything else

1147
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,080
Speaker 1: in the world. One was talking about how women are

1148
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 1: mad all the time, walking around like time bombs ready

1149
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,639
Speaker 1: to explode. Can you imagine your poor little eleven year

1150
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 1: old because she's going to get some makeup tips and

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01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:53,600
Speaker 1: she's opening teen Vogue and all of a sudden, you know,

1152
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: all bets are off. It's terrifying. We're speaking to Heather Wilhelm.

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01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 1: She is a National Review colum a senior contributor to

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01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 1: The Federalist. Heather, you know, the the Antifa group is

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01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: possibly going to be listed as or people are talking

1156
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 1: about listing it as a gang, which you know, you're

1157
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: not going to get them listed as domestic terrorists, I

1158
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 1: don't think, because of the hurdles that would have to

1159
01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 1: get over at the federal level. And but but to

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01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:20,800
Speaker 1: get them listed as a gang, what do you think

1161
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: about that? Because then you have police task force that

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01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 1: come to bear. There's different laws that come into effect

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01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:28,840
Speaker 1: depending on the state. I think that's interesting. Well, I

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01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: think the whole idea of antifa is interesting, right, I mean,

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01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:37,640
Speaker 1: that's that's one way to put it. Well, you know,

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01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: and again, I feel like in today's politics, especially with

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01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: the Internet, with social media, with you know, there's this

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01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 1: new networking capability that allows crazy people to get together

1169
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 1: and you know, make these public events to you know,

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01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,559
Speaker 1: get violent, and I think people get and my thoughts

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01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:00,599
Speaker 1: on this or I think people get really worked up

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01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 1: on the Internet in these fake worlds, and I think

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01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:06,840
Speaker 1: antifa is a great example of this um and it

1174
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: almost gets out of control. I mean, I think that

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01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:10,640
Speaker 1: this is a lot of these are a lot of

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01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: people who are just clueless, young people, right, who get

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01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 1: you know, roped into this um. They need a cause,

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01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:19,680
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean, can I can I just

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01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 1: push back on this a little bit? Is that minimizing

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01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:25,640
Speaker 1: though a movement that exists in a whole bunch of

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01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 1: different cities has attacked people, And maybe you can say, well, yeah, buck,

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01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: that's all that all comes with being weirdos who think

1183
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,679
Speaker 1: that you're fighting a revolutionary struggle against the state. When

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01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: your parents are like picking you up at the end

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01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 1: of the day, you know, in the in their in

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01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: their suv. But there is an ideological sympathy in the

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01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 1: media for this movement, right, They're not treated as derre

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01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 1: licks and clowns. Yes, and that's exactly that's that's a

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01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: that's a fantastic point. I think they should be treated

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01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: as derre licks and clowns, and instead you see the

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01:10:56,600 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: media taking them very seriously and taking their cause very seriously. Right,

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01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,680
Speaker 1: And that's why we get the message that we have

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01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:06,719
Speaker 1: and say Berkeley, right, I mean, this is a group

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01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 1: that should be written off as as an un serious

1195
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 1: clown show, but instead, you're you're right, there's this gravitas

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01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: that's added to it by certain commentators. Um and the gang.

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01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 1: You know, how to deal with Antifa? How should we

1198
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:26,080
Speaker 1: just tell me that forget about the gang thing or not,

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01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:27,720
Speaker 1: because that's just maybe that's not I don't think it's

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01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:28,840
Speaker 1: going to go anywhere. I just thought it was an

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01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:32,439
Speaker 1: interesting thought. But how to deal with Antifa? Heather Wilhelm style.

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01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:36,760
Speaker 1: You're a mom, So I feel like you want to

1203
01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:39,760
Speaker 1: give them a time out, right, because I think we

1204
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: might have to escalate a little bit from the time out,

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01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: you know, when they start punching people and yeah, yeah,

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01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:49,640
Speaker 1: well look, I mean you have the right to peacefully demonstrate.

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01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:52,200
Speaker 1: You have the right of assembly, you have the right

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01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 1: of free speech, you know. I mean, these are all

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01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:57,559
Speaker 1: freedoms that are guaranteed in America. But you know, when

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01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: you start punching people and gassing people, attacking cops, it

1211
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: turns into an entirely different program, right, And then that's

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01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 1: true for demonstrators of any political stripe. So uh, you know,

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01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:11,719
Speaker 1: I mean I think I respect the right of free speech,

1214
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 1: but I also think, you know, if you're out there

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01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: like they didn't Berkeley, just wreaking havoc on the streets,

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01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,760
Speaker 1: I mean, they should be arrested. That's, you know, all right,

1217
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 1: and they shouldn't and well and nobody should and you

1218
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't have reporters apologizing for you either. Okay, last last one,

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01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,800
Speaker 1: real quick Heather that the latest tailor or the first

1220
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:31,240
Speaker 1: of Taylor Swift's new songs, the single that came out.

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01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:34,600
Speaker 1: Is it catchy and amazing or is it kind of

1222
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: awful and derivative? Well, you know, it's blowing up the charts,

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01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: So if I say it's awful and derivative, I am

1224
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 1: obviously outnumbered. It's okay, Tyrone in here just gave me

1225
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:47,679
Speaker 1: the thumbs down. So he said, no, no, thumbs down.

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01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like, look what look what Swift made

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Speaker 1: me do? Thumbs down? Heather Roll'm everybody of Nash Review.

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01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 1: Check out our late at the Death of Fun as

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01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:56,639
Speaker 1: we know it. Heather, thank you so much for joining.

1230
01:12:57,160 --> 01:13:00,679
Speaker 1: Oh thank you, hey, team buck Sexton back here with you. Now,

1231
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 1: how many of you have heard about the fact that

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01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 1: there's currently a sitting US senator who is undergoing a

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01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:14,960
Speaker 1: criminal trial, a felony criminal corruption trial. If the answer

1234
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: to that is very few, I can't say I'm even

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01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:24,440
Speaker 1: the least bit surprised. In fact, Bob Menendez, a Democrat

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01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 1: senator from New Jersey, hasn't been much covered at all

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01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 1: in the media. They don't feel the need to talk

1238
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 1: about this corruption trial now, just if if you don't mind,

1239
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 1: Compare the corruption trial coverage of another New Jersey politician,

1240
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: whether you like him or not, Chris Christie. Good, thank you,

1241
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:47,640
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you all very much, and

1242
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for the idiot over there, yeah, Chris Christie.

1243
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:56,080
Speaker 1: Compare the coverage of the Bridgegate scandal, which ended in

1244
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 1: no Chris, no charges against Chris Christie whatsoever, not even

1245
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 1: charges compare the I'm a Rachel matt Out and I

1246
01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 1: do not exaggerate. I believe called it the most delicious

1247
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: political scandal of of her lifetime or something like that.

1248
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: You could not have hyperbole. Uh well, there was no

1249
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 1: such thing as hyperbly when you're talking about New Jersey

1250
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 1: and Bridge Gate and Chris Christie and all the things

1251
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: that he was doing there because he's a Republican and

1252
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 1: in fact, he was a Republican presidential candidate, and they

1253
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:29,880
Speaker 1: thought that they had him. So that was a wall

1254
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 1: to wall coverage story, and people were saying all kinds

1255
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:37,639
Speaker 1: of crazy stuff. They even had some journalists who were

1256
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: musing out loud that maybe there should be murder charges

1257
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 1: considered against Chris Christie because the traffic jam at a

1258
01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 1: bridge that he ended up having nothing to do with, uh,

1259
01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:53,559
Speaker 1: could have stopped an E. M. S vehicle from getting

1260
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:56,000
Speaker 1: to a hospital. I mean, this stuff that people were

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01:14:56,040 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: saying was completely bonkers. And yeah, here we have Menendez

1262
01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: and I've got to go to a British tabloid to

1263
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,519
Speaker 1: see a major Menendez story. I mean, there's some other

1264
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: places covering it, to be sure, but here's what The

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01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 1: Daily Mail writes about this. Senator Bob menendez Is corruption

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01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: trial kicks off with tales of international jet setting, night

1267
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:27,559
Speaker 1: hotel rooms, and alleged affairs with models and actresses. Beyond

1268
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:31,760
Speaker 1: the tabloid angles, this week's corruption trial of U. S.

1269
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:35,680
Speaker 1: Senator Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend promises to put

1270
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:39,759
Speaker 1: the very business of governing under a microscope and could

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01:15:39,760 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: eventually lead to a Republican taking over his seat in

1272
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 1: the deeply divided Senate. Uh So, this is all about

1273
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 1: this this Florida ophthalmologist Solomon Meligan, Dr. Solomon Meligan, and

1274
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:57,479
Speaker 1: his relationship with Menendez. Uh So they're charged with. Here,

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01:15:57,520 --> 01:15:58,800
Speaker 1: let me give you a little more. They're charged with

1276
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,960
Speaker 1: a conspiracy in which pro secutors say Menendez lobbied for

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Speaker 1: Meligan's business interests in exchange for political donations and gifts

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01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 1: that included luxury or vacations, flights on Meligan's plane, and

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Speaker 1: stays at his private villa in an exclusive Dominican Republic

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Speaker 1: resort frequented by celebrities including Beyonce and Jay Z. The

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Speaker 1: indictment also alleges Menendez pressured State Department officials to give

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Speaker 1: visas to three young women described as Meligan's girlfriends that

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Speaker 1: both men Menendez and Meligan have pleaded not guilty and

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Speaker 1: deny the allegations. This is quite a story, isn't it

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Speaker 1: A sitting U. S. Senator, I mean the the the

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Speaker 1: Senate seat possibly in the balance. You have a sitting U. S.

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Speaker 1: Senator who is up for criminal conspiracy charges and involving

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Speaker 1: what would be, if proved in a court of law,

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Speaker 1: clear quid pro quo corruption, corruption violation, which that's always

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Speaker 1: the big issue in these corruption trials. Was there something

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Speaker 1: done for something given? Keep in mind, my friends, that

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Speaker 1: Democrat federal prosecutors, because most federal prosecutors, unfortunately our Democrats

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01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:19,879
Speaker 1: went after former Virginia Governor Bob McDonald and his wife

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01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 1: on a on corruption charges that could have sent them

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Speaker 1: away for eleven years to federal prison. Had to be

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Speaker 1: overturned their conviction by the Supreme Court. But they went

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Speaker 1: after them and there was no official favor done. They

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Speaker 1: could not find And if it was just this guy

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Speaker 1: gave nice gifts to McDonald and gave gift to his

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01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: wife and hung out with them. If hanging out with

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Speaker 1: somebody is now a crime if there are in a

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01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: political office or their wife even I mean, it was

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01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: so beyond the pale. And I'm not saying it wasn't sleazy.

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Speaker 1: It was gross, but it was a political question, not

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01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,559
Speaker 1: a criminal legal question. The voters should have said, look,

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Speaker 1: this guy's being sleazyes with this businessman is why if

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01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 1: his you know, getting stuff and I don't like the

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01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:04,840
Speaker 1: way this looks, that doesn't mean send somebody to prison

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01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:09,080
Speaker 1: for a decade. It was insane. Here we have now

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01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,760
Speaker 1: that was Bob McDonald, former Virginia governor and at one

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Speaker 1: time mentioned as a presidential candidate. Now we've got Menendez

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01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:19,920
Speaker 1: and what would have to be under any other situation,

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01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:24,759
Speaker 1: a juicy political story that would be getting a ton

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01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: of coverage. And yet here I sit and I scrolled

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Speaker 1: to the very bottom of like CNN dot com for example,

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01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 1: and everything you should know about Menendez trial is just

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01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:39,679
Speaker 1: above an ad for will blood test be game changer

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01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: for Alzheimer's disease and clues for us in Australia's bad

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01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:50,799
Speaker 1: flu season. Um, it's not exactly a major news item,

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01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: is it. It is below uh broncos cut, three time

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01:18:56,320 --> 01:19:00,719
Speaker 1: pro bowler. It is way below that. It is below

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01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: Dad goes viral after sitting next to the singer. I mean,

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01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: this is like a page C seventeen news item on

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01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 1: at CNN, and you've got to think, well, hold on

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01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 1: a second, how is this not a more important story?

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01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: If nothing else, If the if the lura details about

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01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 1: favors for girlfriends and jets setting and all, that doesn't

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01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: get anyone's attention for a sitting US senator. And I

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01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 1: think the allegations that set thousand dollars of donations were

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01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: directed to Menendez by Meligan. But if that's not enough,

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01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:39,000
Speaker 1: there is a US Senate seat that's it's in the

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01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,879
Speaker 1: balance here that could be up for grabs if Menendez

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01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:46,840
Speaker 1: has found guilty, which could have an enormous impact on

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01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 1: Trump administration agenda, on the Republican Senates agenda, and on

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01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:54,839
Speaker 1: everything that the Republican Party that the GOP is trying

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01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:58,799
Speaker 1: to get done. Here, keep in mind that the skinny

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01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:03,160
Speaker 1: repeal of Obamacare failed by one vote, and if you

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01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:06,880
Speaker 1: want to fast forward a little bit before that, were

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01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:11,520
Speaker 1: it not for a an unethical and trumped up corruption

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01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: charge of a Republican Ted Stevens, Republican from Alaska, if

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01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:18,120
Speaker 1: it were not for that, you would not have had

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01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:20,280
Speaker 1: an open Senate seat that was necessary, and that the

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01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 1: necessary for the passage of Obamacare. Remember, Democrats got that

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01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:28,640
Speaker 1: Ted Stevens Senate seat. So one Senate seat here and

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01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:32,240
Speaker 1: one Senate seat there can make an enormous difference to

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01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 1: the future of the country. This is a story. I mean,

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01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:43,160
Speaker 1: this is a long time powerful Democrat senator and nothing

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01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:47,600
Speaker 1: really from the media. I mean, very very scant coverage

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01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:51,360
Speaker 1: of this issue. And in case you were thinking, well,

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01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: hold on a second, hold on a second, buck there

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01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 1: there's gotta be And I'm looking on politico site right now, Um,

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01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: where is let me see where is? Yeah, prosecutors challenged

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01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:06,960
Speaker 1: jury story. I mean it is way down the list

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01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,000
Speaker 1: of stories. And that's for political which is all about

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01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: politics in d C. If you thought that I was

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01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: just imagining this, The New York Times and Kelly and

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01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 1: Conway tweeted out the Daily Callers piece on this and

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01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 1: then was challenged by all these reporters. The New York

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01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:27,320
Speaker 1: Times in an initial hundred word peace on the Menendez trial,

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01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:29,519
Speaker 1: which I'm not saying they're not writing about it. I'm

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01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:32,720
Speaker 1: just saying it's not prominently displayed. It's there's not a

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01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:35,479
Speaker 1: ferocity of interest around the story with the media, I

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01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: think for very obvious reasons. But she initially retweeted this

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01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:43,759
Speaker 1: Daily Caller piece on how there was a thirteen hundred

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01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 1: word right up of the Menendez which is is lengthy

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01:21:47,960 --> 01:21:54,200
Speaker 1: of the Menendez trial, and not once, not once in

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01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:58,879
Speaker 1: the piece did it initially mention that that Bob Menendez,

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01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 1: Senator from New Jersey is a Amocrat. How how is

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01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:05,639
Speaker 1: that possible? I mean, really give it now. I should

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01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:08,200
Speaker 1: note that the New York Times did insert it later on,

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Speaker 1: I think it was in the fifth line. They changed it.

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01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: But there was this initial outcry of oh, look at

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01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: how dumb these Republicans are, these conservatives out there saying

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01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:18,479
Speaker 1: that they didn't saying that the New York Times didn't

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01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 1: even note what the party affiliation of this individual, of

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01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 1: this of this U S. Senator was, And the truth

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01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:33,360
Speaker 1: is they didn't. Now you can say that that's an oversight,

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01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:37,800
Speaker 1: but wow, that's quite an oversight. Or you could say

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01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: that it was just an ideological bias playing it's playing

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01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:45,800
Speaker 1: itself out in print, that they just didn't think it

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01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 1: was important that Menendez as a Democrat for whatever reason.

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01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:53,120
Speaker 1: They're not hiding it, but it's so sloppy. It begs

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01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:58,840
Speaker 1: the question only zelotry, I mean only deep ideological conviction

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01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 1: at a place like the New Times, I think would

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01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: make them so sloppy. Welcome back to the Freedom Hunt

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01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: team buck sex in here. I've told you a little

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01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 1: bit before about my time at Amherst College, and I

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01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 1: still draw upon it, and in particular, I have some

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01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: experience and knowledge of the women's colleges that are around

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01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:25,439
Speaker 1: Amherst College as as a visitor. I it may not

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01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 1: shock you to here, spent a fair amount of time

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01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 1: on the Smith College and Holio College campuses when I

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01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:37,680
Speaker 1: was a student at Amherst, because you know, there were

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01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:39,880
Speaker 1: a lot of ladies there, and I thought that that

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01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 1: might be what what I think you could consider favorable odds.

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01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,920
Speaker 1: So I, you know, spend time over there, and I

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01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:49,639
Speaker 1: got to know a bit of what it was like

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Speaker 1: on those campuses. In fact, I even dated a Smithy

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01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 1: for a time, and I can tell you that the

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01:23:57,240 --> 01:24:03,120
Speaker 1: hostility to x Y chroma zone folks was pretty widespread,

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01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 1: and the anti male attitude that was prevalent on the

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01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:12,559
Speaker 1: campus was really widespread. It wasn't always completely in your face,

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01:24:12,640 --> 01:24:16,639
Speaker 1: but it was definitely there. I mean, they required male

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01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: visitors to sign in with a state I d like

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01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: a driver's license, as though we were, you know, convicts

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01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:25,439
Speaker 1: visiting family members or something. I mean, it was really

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01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:27,760
Speaker 1: off putting at times. And this was back in the

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01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:29,600
Speaker 1: early two thousands. I mean, I don't even know what

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01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: it's like now. Um, but I'm getting a sense of

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01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: what these schools are up to. Here's a story from

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01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 1: just Over the Weekend, courtesy of The Washington Post. Until

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Speaker 1: last year, Ninotska Love would have been barred from attending

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01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 1: welles Ley College. She's an accomplished student who has persevered

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01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 1: through hardship, but under longstanding rules, the college would have

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01:24:55,240 --> 01:25:00,280
Speaker 1: rejected her. Now the rules have changed. This week, Love

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Speaker 1: will become one of the first transgender women to attend Wellesley.

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01:25:06,320 --> 01:25:09,799
Speaker 1: And here is a quote from the individual in the piece.

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Speaker 1: For me to be accepted to one of the best

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01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 1: colleges for women in the nation, it is a big

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01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:17,719
Speaker 1: validation of the person that I have become. At first,

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01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it, said Love, who was born in

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01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 1: Ecuador but fled to the US in two thousand and nine.

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01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful to be here. I just want to

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01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:30,240
Speaker 1: take a step back and take a moment here to

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01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 1: say to you all across the country what this article

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01:25:34,240 --> 01:25:37,719
Speaker 1: is really saying. Because it's a lot of celebration trans rights,

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01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:41,920
Speaker 1: breaking barriers, glass ceilings and milestones and you know all

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01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:46,120
Speaker 1: that stuff. Men can now go to all women's colleges,

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01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,680
Speaker 1: That's what they're saying, Which makes you question how exactly

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01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:55,200
Speaker 1: isn't all women's college still in all women's college now?

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01:25:55,800 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: And also how does sexual preference maybe fact you're into

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01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 1: this because it is my understanding and I cannot claim

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Speaker 1: to be an expert on the subject that trans men,

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01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:09,759
Speaker 1: men who believe they are women or is it trans

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01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 1: women whatever, Men who are trans to women, UH can

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01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:18,160
Speaker 1: still be attracted to women, so they may be heterosexual

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01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:20,599
Speaker 1: even if they are in fact themselves of the belief

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01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:22,639
Speaker 1: that they are women. I think that is the case,

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01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:27,280
Speaker 1: which means now that you would be UH in a

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01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 1: situation where you have a male who is attracted to

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01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 1: females living biological male, which is the same thing. But

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01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 1: I repeat myself, living in a UH in a dormitory

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01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 1: with women to whom he is sexually attracted, which is

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01:26:42,760 --> 01:26:45,400
Speaker 1: is I mean, that's already happening, right. Men are living

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01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:48,400
Speaker 1: in dorms with women and every but why is it

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01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:51,400
Speaker 1: in all women's college? Then what's the purpose of it

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01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 1: being in all women's college. It doesn't really make any sense,

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01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:56,479
Speaker 1: does it. If it's not, in fact just for women,

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01:26:57,040 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 1: then why doesn't all women's college exists? And it should

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01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 1: be noted that this is now common at a lot

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01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:07,679
Speaker 1: of schools. In fact, they talk to Um the director

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01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:10,920
Speaker 1: of the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,

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01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:13,760
Speaker 1: the uh state school that is down the street from

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01:27:13,840 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: the small college that I went to, and this person said,

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01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:19,600
Speaker 1: I think it's a step forward, one that's long overdue.

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01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 1: If they say they're women, then saying that they can't

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01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: attend is denying their identities and marginalizing them. Um, I

1458
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: start to get into a place where I've always had

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01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:37,120
Speaker 1: a high level of reading comprehension, and I've always loved language,

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01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,920
Speaker 1: and but some of this stuff just doesn't make sense.

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01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 1: I literally sit around thinking, what are they trying to

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01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 1: say here? What are these words that they're stringing together

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01:27:48,120 --> 01:27:51,240
Speaker 1: supposed to mean? And as I got deeper into this article,

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01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:53,720
Speaker 1: when I should note that this is true at a

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01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 1: lot of the women's colleges some of you listening probably

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01:27:56,240 --> 01:28:00,960
Speaker 1: attended women's colleges, right, A lot of them now take

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01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:04,680
Speaker 1: this same posture. Uh, there are a whole bunch of

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01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:08,800
Speaker 1: schools across the country, Smith and Holyoak among them that

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01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:12,599
Speaker 1: have let in trans students, but they won't track it.

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01:28:12,680 --> 01:28:15,599
Speaker 1: They won't tell anybody how many because they don't want

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Speaker 1: to get into They say a privacy concern issue here.

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01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:23,400
Speaker 1: But I was reading deeper into this piece and I

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01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:25,640
Speaker 1: realized that what they have the experts saying, now this

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01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 1: is a quote or well, if they say that they're women,

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01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:31,000
Speaker 1: I told you that, then they're marginalized if we don't

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01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: treat them as women. Um. But then they wrote the

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01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 1: following leaders at some schools counter that women's colleges were

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01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 1: founded to educate those who have been marginalized because of

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01:28:41,960 --> 01:28:43,679
Speaker 1: their gender. And then they quote one of these experts.

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Speaker 1: That's always been the historic role of women's colleges. The

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01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 1: definition of gender and gender identity has broadened, and yet

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01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:55,799
Speaker 1: it's still very much that mission. So what they're saying,

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01:28:56,280 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm trying to translate. I'm doing progressive translate

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Speaker 1: shin right. This is what it's almost like, taking one

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Speaker 1: language and having to write it out in another What

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01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:08,680
Speaker 1: they're saying, I mean using English words, but they're not

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01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:13,080
Speaker 1: using concepts that are based in the rational world. Uh,

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01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:16,160
Speaker 1: they're saying that women's colleges are now for the quote

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01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:21,759
Speaker 1: gender marginalized, which makes me want to ask the obvious question,

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01:29:22,439 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 1: at what point do we just start saying that these

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01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:30,560
Speaker 1: are colleges for the gender marginalized instead of women's colleges.

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01:29:31,320 --> 01:29:35,360
Speaker 1: And at what point do feminists who have female as

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01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: a part of the world right feminine female and the

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01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:40,679
Speaker 1: the basis for the root of the word is the same.

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01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:44,720
Speaker 1: At what point do feminists say, you know what, we're

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01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 1: not going to give over our institutions in part. And

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01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is right, but how can you

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01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:53,759
Speaker 1: be a radical feminist who says that women should because

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01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 1: they are marginalized in education, which the radical you know,

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01:29:57,640 --> 01:30:03,920
Speaker 1: feminist Marxist types all believe. Um, when do they say

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01:30:03,960 --> 01:30:08,639
Speaker 1: that they are not in fact going to take this

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01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:15,719
Speaker 1: position of allowing in transgender transgender men. You know, I

1503
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:21,240
Speaker 1: just wonder at what point, I just wonder when they'll

1504
01:30:21,280 --> 01:30:23,920
Speaker 1: cross over and they'll decide that, you know, there's no

1505
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:27,080
Speaker 1: longer an alliance at work here, because in the meantime,

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01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:32,400
Speaker 1: I sit around thinking to myself, this is just madness, right,

1507
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:36,080
Speaker 1: this is this strikes me as crazy. Well, I mean

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01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 1: I think it is crazy. Yeah, women's colleges are not

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01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:41,080
Speaker 1: for the gender marginalized. Also, this person, uh, this who

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01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 1: referred to as female all the time. Look, I will

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01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:48,479
Speaker 1: I will stay on the referring to people as their gender,

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01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:50,760
Speaker 1: their biological gender as long as I can until I

1513
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:54,240
Speaker 1: am forced as a matter of law, uh and workplace law,

1514
01:30:54,360 --> 01:30:56,080
Speaker 1: not to which I don't even know. I might already

1515
01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:57,680
Speaker 1: it might already be a thing that's happening. But I'm

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01:30:57,680 --> 01:31:00,920
Speaker 1: trying to do political commentary here, but no surprise. In

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01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:03,120
Speaker 1: this Washington Post piece, they also note that quote Love

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01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:07,120
Speaker 1: is considering a major and women's and gender studies and

1519
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:10,320
Speaker 1: hopes to become a civil rights lawyer for LGBT students

1520
01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:13,839
Speaker 1: and immigrants. It's a goal shaped by her own past.

1521
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:17,400
Speaker 1: Love says she illegally entered Texas from Mexico before being

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01:31:17,400 --> 01:31:21,680
Speaker 1: granted asylum because of her persecution in Ecuador. Let me

1523
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 1: unpack that one for you. So here you have a

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01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:29,200
Speaker 1: man enrolling in a women's college in Massachusetts, and competitive

1525
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:32,880
Speaker 1: women's college. That's receiving taxpayer dollars to subsidize it. This

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01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:37,880
Speaker 1: is a person who fled because of gender identity from

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01:31:37,960 --> 01:31:41,040
Speaker 1: his country of origin, came to the US illegally. I'm

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01:31:41,080 --> 01:31:44,559
Speaker 1: sure the gender identity card was very helpful in getting

1529
01:31:44,560 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: admission to this university where he is an illegal immigrant.

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01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:53,880
Speaker 1: You you would have to struggle to make this stuff

1531
01:31:53,960 --> 01:31:56,800
Speaker 1: up and people wouldn't believe you if you were saying

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01:31:56,840 --> 01:31:58,439
Speaker 1: that this is what was happening in the country in

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01:31:58,479 --> 01:32:01,439
Speaker 1: academia right now, if you were reading it on the

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01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 1: front page of the newspapers. So there you have it,

1535
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,519
Speaker 1: my friends, women's colleges are no longer for women. There

1536
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:11,360
Speaker 1: for the quote gender marginalized. I try to have a

1537
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:15,640
Speaker 1: life beyond just doing media all the time. Although, uh,

1538
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:18,040
Speaker 1: some of you who follow out of my work maybe thinking,

1539
01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:21,080
Speaker 1: how is he on radio and TV at the same time.

1540
01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 1: He must not have a life because he must be

1541
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: preparing for radio and doing TV and writing and doing

1542
01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:30,880
Speaker 1: other things all throughout the day. How can Molly stand him?

1543
01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:33,240
Speaker 1: Why would anyone deal with this? Those are all fair

1544
01:32:33,280 --> 01:32:36,800
Speaker 1: and valid questions. But I try to get out there

1545
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:42,240
Speaker 1: and do things beyond just the usual deep dives into

1546
01:32:42,320 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: all things news cycle and analysis of politics and national

1547
01:32:46,439 --> 01:32:49,519
Speaker 1: security and you know all that stuff. I try to

1548
01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:53,160
Speaker 1: have life experience as well. So I went. It was

1549
01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:57,479
Speaker 1: very fortunate. I got some last minute tickets given to

1550
01:32:57,600 --> 01:33:02,680
Speaker 1: me by Miss Molly Um and her family given to

1551
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:05,960
Speaker 1: us to go see the US Open last night, and

1552
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:08,000
Speaker 1: I want to see it. Now, this is not a

1553
01:33:08,080 --> 01:33:12,240
Speaker 1: tennis specific discussion. I'm not gonna sit here and say, well,

1554
01:33:12,280 --> 01:33:16,200
Speaker 1: you know, I think that clearly Federer versus Nadal is

1555
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:19,280
Speaker 1: the best possible final matchup. You know, I know a

1556
01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:20,960
Speaker 1: lot of you with tennis, you just don't want to

1557
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:22,600
Speaker 1: hear it. That's not what I want to talk to

1558
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:26,479
Speaker 1: you about. Although I'm going to use tennis as a

1559
01:33:26,520 --> 01:33:31,840
Speaker 1: means of achieving a well discussing something a life lesson

1560
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:37,200
Speaker 1: of sorts that I found particularly interesting and worthwhile. So

1561
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:40,679
Speaker 1: I'm there last night, and you know, sure enough, I'm

1562
01:33:40,720 --> 01:33:44,439
Speaker 1: watching Roger Federer play. And we had amazing seats. And

1563
01:33:44,479 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: I'm not used to having good seats to anything. I'm

1564
01:33:46,960 --> 01:33:51,679
Speaker 1: a nosebleed section guy, but I I have amazing seats.

1565
01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:54,439
Speaker 1: I'm there with Molly. It's an absolutely gorgeous night, and

1566
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:57,960
Speaker 1: we are in Queens, New York at at the tennis stadium,

1567
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:05,000
Speaker 1: this huge stadium, and were eight rows from this incredible match,

1568
01:34:05,439 --> 01:34:08,760
Speaker 1: and you have one of the greatest tennis players of

1569
01:34:08,760 --> 01:34:11,040
Speaker 1: all time, a lot of people would say the greatest

1570
01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:17,480
Speaker 1: tennis player of all time, squaring off against a very

1571
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 1: well regarded, highly ranked but kind of journeyman player from

1572
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:28,720
Speaker 1: Germany named Kohl Schreiber. And the reason I'm telling you

1573
01:34:28,720 --> 01:34:31,080
Speaker 1: about this is because, you know, at this level, because

1574
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:34,200
Speaker 1: I think that we can all draw some some inspiration

1575
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:37,240
Speaker 1: from this maybe or or maybe at least put things

1576
01:34:37,280 --> 01:34:40,720
Speaker 1: into perspective. At this level, the round of sixteen at

1577
01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:45,800
Speaker 1: the US Open, these people are absolutely incredible, right, this

1578
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 1: is the best of the best of the best, and

1579
01:34:49,280 --> 01:34:51,320
Speaker 1: in the case of one of these guys, right Feder,

1580
01:34:51,320 --> 01:34:53,200
Speaker 1: one of the best tennis players who ever lived. Now,

1581
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:55,479
Speaker 1: this is not about tennis, so don't some of you

1582
01:34:55,520 --> 01:34:58,240
Speaker 1: are like, ahhy, this is not about tennis per se.

1583
01:34:58,320 --> 01:35:01,720
Speaker 1: This is a lesson through ennis. But I'm watching at

1584
01:35:01,720 --> 01:35:06,479
Speaker 1: this very high level. And after the match, Molly turned

1585
01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:07,800
Speaker 1: to me and because you know, what, what do you

1586
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:10,240
Speaker 1: think of of of the u of the guy that

1587
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:12,479
Speaker 1: Roger beat? How do you think he played? And it

1588
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:14,519
Speaker 1: occurred to me that I didn't even remember the guy's name.

1589
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:18,519
Speaker 1: Now you could say that that's because Buck is getting

1590
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:21,080
Speaker 1: old and he's forgetful. Now, okay, fine, that may be

1591
01:35:21,200 --> 01:35:25,240
Speaker 1: the case. But here I am watching people at the

1592
01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:31,680
Speaker 1: peak of their profession in this incredibly uh you know,

1593
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:36,600
Speaker 1: electric atmosphere of being in a major one of the

1594
01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:41,080
Speaker 1: four major tournaments. And this other guy I didn't remember him,

1595
01:35:41,120 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: and he played well, but he got absolutely trounced. Right.

1596
01:35:47,479 --> 01:35:51,000
Speaker 1: It was never a doubt that he was going to

1597
01:35:51,080 --> 01:35:52,679
Speaker 1: lose to Roger Feder, who was one of the greatest

1598
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:55,080
Speaker 1: that ever lived. And this makes me think about how

1599
01:35:56,040 --> 01:36:00,519
Speaker 1: we all can do only what we can do. This player,

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01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:04,800
Speaker 1: col Schreiber, whose name I forgot, uh, has spent his

1601
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:07,639
Speaker 1: entire life, probably since he was about five or six

1602
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:12,160
Speaker 1: years old, playing tennis. And that's at this level of competition,

1603
01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:15,439
Speaker 1: it's not possible to be competitive really without having been

1604
01:36:16,680 --> 01:36:19,040
Speaker 1: attached to a tennis racket varying age. And I know

1605
01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:21,000
Speaker 1: this is true of a lot of this true professional

1606
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:24,280
Speaker 1: football players baseball players. They grow up in the sport,

1607
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:27,240
Speaker 1: uh and this is such a huge part of their

1608
01:36:27,240 --> 01:36:30,400
Speaker 1: life for as long as they can remember. But this

1609
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:33,479
Speaker 1: guy grew up and He's just so many thousands of

1610
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:36,360
Speaker 1: hours in the tennis court, and there were periods in

1611
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:39,759
Speaker 1: his life where I'm sure in Germany he was he's number,

1612
01:36:40,080 --> 01:36:41,880
Speaker 1: he was in the top hundred in the world. He's

1613
01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:44,720
Speaker 1: ranked thirty in this tournament. But I'm sure there have

1614
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:47,519
Speaker 1: been periods in this guy's life when this tennis player

1615
01:36:47,520 --> 01:36:49,400
Speaker 1: whose name I can barely even remember, and I'm somebody

1616
01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:52,479
Speaker 1: who likes tennis, when he was considered a superstar, when

1617
01:36:52,479 --> 01:36:54,840
Speaker 1: he was a really big deal. He probably played in

1618
01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 1: the European Junior professional circuit, and and people thought that

1619
01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:01,200
Speaker 1: he was the next big thing, and he had coaches

1620
01:37:01,240 --> 01:37:04,559
Speaker 1: and sponsors and people signing on. But then he shows

1621
01:37:04,640 --> 01:37:07,880
Speaker 1: up year in and year out to these tournaments and

1622
01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: does everything that he can, puts it all on the line,

1623
01:37:11,080 --> 01:37:14,280
Speaker 1: and he loses time and time again to people who

1624
01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:19,240
Speaker 1: are just honestly more gifted at this sport of tennis,

1625
01:37:19,280 --> 01:37:23,640
Speaker 1: just have been given more naturally because to outwork the

1626
01:37:23,680 --> 01:37:27,439
Speaker 1: other people at this level, it's almost inconceivable. Uh, They're

1627
01:37:27,439 --> 01:37:29,840
Speaker 1: all working so hard, have so much time on the court.

1628
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: Physical trainers, mental trainers, coaching staffs. This is what they do.

1629
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:38,960
Speaker 1: They live, eat, sleep, and breathe tennis. True of a

1630
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:41,000
Speaker 1: lot of other professional sports too, So whatever your professional

1631
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:43,240
Speaker 1: sport of choices, you can just insert that into this,

1632
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:46,360
Speaker 1: into this if we call it a parable, but into

1633
01:37:46,479 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: some buck thoughts here. And I just thought, this guy

1634
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:54,840
Speaker 1: got his butt kicked in front of well everyone all

1635
01:37:54,840 --> 01:37:57,800
Speaker 1: of the world watching the US Open, but on this

1636
01:37:58,080 --> 01:38:00,880
Speaker 1: stadium court. And I know that there's the other is

1637
01:38:00,920 --> 01:38:04,519
Speaker 1: the alternative perspective here. Off, he's probably making a few

1638
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:07,559
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. He you know, he's out there

1639
01:38:07,640 --> 01:38:10,120
Speaker 1: doing this, and he's even at a very high level.

1640
01:38:10,120 --> 01:38:11,400
Speaker 1: There are a lot of other people. There are guys

1641
01:38:11,479 --> 01:38:13,760
Speaker 1: rank three or four hundred in the world. You know

1642
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:17,920
Speaker 1: what's that like? And I'm telling you this because I

1643
01:38:17,960 --> 01:38:21,559
Speaker 1: was thinking. You know what, though, I bet that if

1644
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:24,599
Speaker 1: you sat down and talked to this guy, Cole Schreiber

1645
01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:27,719
Speaker 1: first name, I can't even remember so that I watched

1646
01:38:27,800 --> 01:38:32,040
Speaker 1: him for two hours, almost three hours last night playing tennis.

1647
01:38:32,680 --> 01:38:35,120
Speaker 1: But if if you sat down and talked to him,

1648
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:37,559
Speaker 1: which would probably have to do like a little bit

1649
01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:40,320
Speaker 1: of this because he's a German and this dozen't speak

1650
01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:44,200
Speaker 1: English perfectly, I'm sure, Yeah, it's legs a tennis But

1651
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:46,599
Speaker 1: if you were able to ask and he said, would

1652
01:38:46,600 --> 01:38:49,400
Speaker 1: you would you change anything? I would bet not. I

1653
01:38:49,439 --> 01:38:51,479
Speaker 1: don't know this for a fact. I bet he'd probably

1654
01:38:51,520 --> 01:38:54,240
Speaker 1: say no, that this is what he was meant to do,

1655
01:38:54,280 --> 01:38:57,960
Speaker 1: this is what he wanted to do. You see, I'm

1656
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:02,200
Speaker 1: trying to more more and more as I gain wisdom

1657
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:05,760
Speaker 1: in years. Here look at what we what we all

1658
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:09,160
Speaker 1: do in our day to day lives, not as a

1659
01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:17,799
Speaker 1: pathway to certain achievements, but as processes that we should embrace.

1660
01:39:18,760 --> 01:39:21,040
Speaker 1: That you're doing what you should that you should pick

1661
01:39:21,120 --> 01:39:23,439
Speaker 1: things where you're doing what you should be doing because

1662
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:26,920
Speaker 1: you love doing it and hopefully success comes. And you know,

1663
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:29,800
Speaker 1: we're all told as kids that if you work hard

1664
01:39:29,960 --> 01:39:32,120
Speaker 1: enough and you play by the rules. And now I

1665
01:39:32,120 --> 01:39:34,439
Speaker 1: know it sounds like work hard enough, play by the rules,

1666
01:39:34,439 --> 01:39:38,920
Speaker 1: and hun, I'm not not making an Obama fairness doctrine

1667
01:39:38,920 --> 01:39:42,120
Speaker 1: talk here um or the fairness documents about radio, you

1668
01:39:42,160 --> 01:39:43,960
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I'm not I'm not going Marxist

1669
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:45,880
Speaker 1: on you all of a sudden here with you our

1670
01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:49,120
Speaker 1: work harder player ahead, play rules. But we're told that

1671
01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:51,880
Speaker 1: if you if you try hard enough, if you you know,

1672
01:39:51,880 --> 01:39:53,320
Speaker 1: if you want to be a professional athlete. If you

1673
01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:56,160
Speaker 1: work out enough in the gym, if you are dedicated enough,

1674
01:39:56,200 --> 01:40:00,600
Speaker 1: you know you'll achieve your dreams. And that's not true.

1675
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:03,320
Speaker 1: There are some people who won't. There's some people who

1676
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:05,160
Speaker 1: will never be number one. There's some people will never

1677
01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 1: be number one thousand. But I think part of success

1678
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:14,400
Speaker 1: is understanding that that's okay, that it's not about the

1679
01:40:14,520 --> 01:40:18,320
Speaker 1: end process. It's about or at the end state. It's

1680
01:40:18,360 --> 01:40:22,479
Speaker 1: about enjoying the process. You know it's and this is

1681
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:28,599
Speaker 1: all I suppose, summarized in classic like I'm gonna run

1682
01:40:28,640 --> 01:40:31,080
Speaker 1: off on a beach somewhere with the Pina Colade in

1683
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: a hand to be like, dude, it's not about it's

1684
01:40:33,160 --> 01:40:36,559
Speaker 1: not about the destination. It's the journey. But it's true.

1685
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:38,760
Speaker 1: It is. It has to be not about the destination,

1686
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:41,559
Speaker 1: has to be the journey with our careers, with our

1687
01:40:41,560 --> 01:40:48,040
Speaker 1: personal lives. Because you have no guaranteed outcome. It doesn't

1688
01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:50,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't guarantee anything. If you work really hard, it

1689
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:52,920
Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee. Yeah, you should do that, and of course

1690
01:40:53,120 --> 01:40:56,200
Speaker 1: that's a part of it, and that's a precondition. It's necessary.

1691
01:40:57,160 --> 01:40:58,600
Speaker 1: But for a lot of us and whatever it is

1692
01:40:58,640 --> 01:41:00,719
Speaker 1: we do, and if it's being a mom or a dad,

1693
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:04,679
Speaker 1: or a fireman, or a school teacher, or a small

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Speaker 1: business owner, a truck driver, whatever it is you do,

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01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:12,800
Speaker 1: you have the choice every day about how you do

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Speaker 1: it and how you treat the people around you. And

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Speaker 1: that's really it. You can put your heart and soul

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Speaker 1: into it. You can be the best mom or dad

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Speaker 1: you can possibly be. You can be the best truck driver,

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01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:25,120
Speaker 1: the best brain surgeon, the best you name it, you

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01:41:25,160 --> 01:41:28,439
Speaker 1: can possibly be. And that doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna

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01:41:28,479 --> 01:41:31,840
Speaker 1: be the best, but being as good at something as

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01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:34,519
Speaker 1: you can be. Being that guy who's ranked number thirty

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01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:36,479
Speaker 1: or number one hundred in the world who goes out

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01:41:36,479 --> 01:41:38,639
Speaker 1: there time and time again to get his butt kicked

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01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:40,360
Speaker 1: by the number one to the number five and one

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01:41:40,360 --> 01:41:43,439
Speaker 1: of the greatest of all time in tennis and Roger Federer.

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01:41:44,600 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 1: There's honor in that, there's integrity in that, there's joy,

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01:41:49,080 --> 01:41:50,960
Speaker 1: and I could even say there's love in it, because

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01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:52,880
Speaker 1: if it's really what you're meant to do, and if

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01:41:52,920 --> 01:41:55,479
Speaker 1: you really care about it, even if you don't win,

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01:41:56,320 --> 01:41:58,120
Speaker 1: you have a chance to win every single day. And

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01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:00,280
Speaker 1: I know this is where I sound like a coach,

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01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:02,439
Speaker 1: and I was a great soccer coach for one season.

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01:42:02,479 --> 01:42:03,880
Speaker 1: But it really is true. I was thinking about it

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Speaker 1: last night. So my little German friend, Cole Schreiber, Um,

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Speaker 1: it's all right, my man. You're doing what you should

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01:42:09,400 --> 01:42:11,919
Speaker 1: be doing, even if you get your buck kicks sometimes.

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01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:16,120
Speaker 1: I hope you had a fantastic Labor Day weekend. I

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Speaker 1: trust that you got some relaxation time in hopefully. And

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that I made Brussels sprouts with yogurt,

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Speaker 1: mint sauce and a fig reduction drizzle that went over

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Speaker 1: quite well with the folks. Also, just on a whim,

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Speaker 1: decided to go super frou frou and do a bit

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Speaker 1: of charred cauliflower with roasted grapes. I know, it's like

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Speaker 1: I'm It's like I'm barely even American at this point. Right.

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Speaker 1: My dad was in charge of all the meat, so

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01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:54,719
Speaker 1: so he he was, you know, he he was getting

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Speaker 1: his man cooking on. And I'm over there with my

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01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:04,439
Speaker 1: charred uh Brussels outs and my roasted califlower. So they

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01:43:04,439 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 1: were both delicious, though, I can tell you, and maybe

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01:43:07,120 --> 01:43:11,480
Speaker 1: maybe my cuisine is slightly commy, but the food overall

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01:43:11,880 --> 01:43:14,280
Speaker 1: was delicious over the course of the weekend. I also

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01:43:14,320 --> 01:43:20,920
Speaker 1: made everyone my now signature hot sauce goat cheese scrambled

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01:43:20,960 --> 01:43:27,120
Speaker 1: egg sandwich mar It was so so yummy. So I

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01:43:27,120 --> 01:43:29,839
Speaker 1: had some great food this weekend. I also learned something

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01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:34,320
Speaker 1: which you know, it's an important thing for UH folks

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01:43:34,360 --> 01:43:38,920
Speaker 1: to constantly be in the process of learning new things.

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01:43:39,120 --> 01:43:42,040
Speaker 1: I think it is really critical for all of us

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01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: to feel like we are growing and expanding our horizons.

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01:43:46,840 --> 01:43:50,599
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm young enough I think that I can

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01:43:50,680 --> 01:43:55,439
Speaker 1: keep up with what pop culture is doing about of

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01:43:55,479 --> 01:43:58,080
Speaker 1: the time. Maybe, but I got a little lesson in

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01:43:58,160 --> 01:44:00,519
Speaker 1: how you know, there is a generation or to below

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01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:04,080
Speaker 1: me now and they're they're calling the shots on what's cool,

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01:44:04,640 --> 01:44:09,800
Speaker 1: and I'm sometimes about is as hip as UH in

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01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:13,360
Speaker 1: my generation? You know the mom or the dad was

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01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:15,880
Speaker 1: she came over and was like, hey, I made you

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01:44:15,920 --> 01:44:20,240
Speaker 1: guys some snacks there p h A T fat. You know,

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01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:23,960
Speaker 1: I that's gonna happen to me sometimes too. So the

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01:44:24,400 --> 01:44:27,880
Speaker 1: I've been thinking for a while. Among my favorite activities

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01:44:28,120 --> 01:44:33,679
Speaker 1: is to lie down in couch potato style and watch

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01:44:34,320 --> 01:44:37,839
Speaker 1: numerous episodes in a row of My favorite show binge

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01:44:37,840 --> 01:44:41,280
Speaker 1: watch is what is what the kids call it? And

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01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:44,280
Speaker 1: so I like binge watching Netflix. I haven't been to

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01:44:44,280 --> 01:44:46,080
Speaker 1: a movie theater and I don't I can't even remember

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01:44:46,080 --> 01:44:47,800
Speaker 1: the last movie I saw in a theater. It's been

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01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:52,120
Speaker 1: so long. But I do enjoy watching shows, and I'm

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01:44:52,120 --> 01:44:53,960
Speaker 1: in the process of trying to find a really good one.

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01:44:54,000 --> 01:44:56,640
Speaker 1: These days. I've got a few things that are keeping me.

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01:44:56,880 --> 01:44:59,080
Speaker 1: I watched a little bit of the show Ballers. I've

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01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:01,360
Speaker 1: been watching I need to fin Bloodline on Netflix. There

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01:45:01,360 --> 01:45:05,040
Speaker 1: are a few shows, but as there was a rainy

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01:45:05,320 --> 01:45:08,240
Speaker 1: where I was at least was rainy on Sunday. Over

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01:45:08,240 --> 01:45:11,400
Speaker 1: the weekend, I had a stay in there. Of course,

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Speaker 1: a lot of reading, reading my history books, getting prepared

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Speaker 1: to perhaps do a special on bock Sexton with America

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01:45:18,760 --> 01:45:21,840
Speaker 1: Now about the Siege of Malta, one of the most

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01:45:21,880 --> 01:45:26,479
Speaker 1: important sieges of all history. Probably haven't even heard much

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01:45:26,479 --> 01:45:30,160
Speaker 1: about it in school, I would guess, But I get

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01:45:30,160 --> 01:45:33,240
Speaker 1: ahead of myself. So I was doing some reading and

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01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:36,880
Speaker 1: thinking that I would also watch some shows. And so

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01:45:36,920 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 1: I was going around, I'm saying, you know what I'm

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01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:40,840
Speaker 1: gonna do today, And I swear I really didn't. I

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01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:44,000
Speaker 1: really didn't know. Okay, I really had no idea. I

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01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:48,440
Speaker 1: just this was what I I figured that when people say, hey,

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01:45:48,520 --> 01:45:50,960
Speaker 1: because I've seen the memes you know that are out there,

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01:45:51,040 --> 01:45:53,840
Speaker 1: I pick up on the memes. The memes are p

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Speaker 1: h A T fat um. So you know, I've seen

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01:45:58,479 --> 01:46:01,800
Speaker 1: the memes about Netflix and chill. And I thought that

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01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 1: that meant to literally watch Netflix and chill, like to

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01:46:06,920 --> 01:46:09,680
Speaker 1: watch shows that you like. Maybe you're gonna watch How

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01:46:09,680 --> 01:46:11,760
Speaker 1: I Met Your Mother reruns for a few hours, and

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01:46:11,760 --> 01:46:15,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna order in Thai food and you're not going

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01:46:15,320 --> 01:46:19,519
Speaker 1: to worry about an impending nuclear standoff with North Korea

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01:46:19,680 --> 01:46:21,760
Speaker 1: or or some such thing. You're not going to be

1787
01:46:21,840 --> 01:46:26,000
Speaker 1: diving deep into the political philosophy of Antifa. They say

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01:46:26,040 --> 01:46:29,120
Speaker 1: they're anti fascist, but they're actually fascist. This is the

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01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:32,160
Speaker 1: Great Iron But no, no, I just wanted to Netflix

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Speaker 1: and chill, or so I thought. MS. Molly, my girlfriend,

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01:46:37,160 --> 01:46:41,400
Speaker 1: who is a few years younger than me and so

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01:46:41,600 --> 01:46:44,400
Speaker 1: is cool and and it's just cool in general, but

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01:46:44,439 --> 01:46:48,720
Speaker 1: also is cooler because she you know, knows, knows like

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01:46:49,040 --> 01:46:51,640
Speaker 1: what is in style and what what people say these

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01:46:51,720 --> 01:46:54,920
Speaker 1: days we are below the age of thirty um, and

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01:46:54,920 --> 01:46:56,800
Speaker 1: and she's like, you know, you may not want to

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01:46:57,439 --> 01:46:59,840
Speaker 1: you may not want to say that, and I'm like, no, like,

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01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:03,160
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna Tallula and I were just gonna Netflix

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01:47:03,160 --> 01:47:06,280
Speaker 1: and chill that I referring to my parents French bulldog,

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01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:08,639
Speaker 1: and I am what I'm saying this, thinking that I'm

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01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:11,240
Speaker 1: gonna watch a show with the dog, you know, on

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01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:13,240
Speaker 1: the couch, and we're just gonna, you know, I'm gonna

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01:47:13,240 --> 01:47:16,280
Speaker 1: hang out. And and sure enough I found out I

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01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:18,200
Speaker 1: did not know this, and it was much to my

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01:47:19,320 --> 01:47:23,320
Speaker 1: much to my chagrin, that that, as the kids say

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01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:29,200
Speaker 1: it these days, netflix and chill is a euphemism for

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01:47:29,960 --> 01:47:35,120
Speaker 1: having relations of a carnal nature. I didn't know this.

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01:47:35,680 --> 01:47:39,120
Speaker 1: I thought Netflix and Chill actually meant to watch Netflix

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01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:42,639
Speaker 1: and Chill. But it turns out that, you know, when

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01:47:42,720 --> 01:47:46,559
Speaker 1: somebody texts somebody else and says they are looking for

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01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:52,200
Speaker 1: Netflix and Chill, it has absolutely, uh, very little to

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01:47:52,280 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 1: do with the completely acceptable activities of watching uh television

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01:47:58,400 --> 01:48:04,080
Speaker 1: on demand and being a lay about. Um hanging around.

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01:48:04,720 --> 01:48:06,720
Speaker 1: Lay about is probably not even the best term I

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01:48:06,760 --> 01:48:08,400
Speaker 1: could have used here, but you get what I'm saying.

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01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:11,800
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to be careful with acronyms. I've

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01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:16,320
Speaker 1: found out, Uh, there's some acronyms that you see popping

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01:48:16,360 --> 01:48:18,600
Speaker 1: up a lot in the social media, and if you

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01:48:18,600 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 1: don't know what they are and you toss them around,

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01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:23,920
Speaker 1: you may use it properly, but are not aware of

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01:48:23,960 --> 01:48:28,519
Speaker 1: the profane derivation. So like, if I were to tell

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Speaker 1: everybody that I am uh, I'm I'm loving this show

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01:48:35,520 --> 01:48:40,040
Speaker 1: is is cool a f um that does not mean

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01:48:40,280 --> 01:48:44,840
Speaker 1: amazingly fortitudinous. I'm just you'd have to google that one.

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01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:48,400
Speaker 1: I'm learning. I'm learning okay, but Netflix and Chill I've

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01:48:48,400 --> 01:48:51,120
Speaker 1: been walking around like an imbecile saying it thinking that

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01:48:51,160 --> 01:48:53,479
Speaker 1: it it meant what it says, but it actually means

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01:48:53,479 --> 01:48:56,000
Speaker 1: something else. So I'm The good news is this show

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01:48:56,040 --> 01:48:58,200
Speaker 1: forces me to to get a little more in touch

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01:48:58,280 --> 01:49:00,960
Speaker 1: with the pop culture. Please you download the show my

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01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:05,720
Speaker 1: friends Buck Sexton Uh with America now on iTunes is

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01:49:05,800 --> 01:49:07,680
Speaker 1: one way to go if you haven't already. If you

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Speaker 1: don't mind, please leave a review there. That really does

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Speaker 1: help us out in the rankings. It means that more

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Speaker 1: dot com slash store. A lot of members of the

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Speaker 1: Sexton family were hanging out and rocking their team Buck

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01:49:24,280 --> 01:49:26,680
Speaker 1: gear over the weekend, so we got to do some

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01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:31,200
Speaker 1: of that, which is great, and I'm of course going

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01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,639
Speaker 1: to be soon posting on social media some Team Buck

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01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:37,080
Speaker 1: gear photos. If you're not so much into the gear

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01:49:37,160 --> 01:49:40,800
Speaker 1: into the gear that's wearable, you can get a mug.

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01:49:41,560 --> 01:49:43,880
Speaker 1: We have Team Buck mugs and are always working on

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Speaker 1: other items to be offering up as well. So we're

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01:49:47,840 --> 01:49:49,960
Speaker 1: gonna have a very busy week here in the Freedom Hut.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be coming to you from Los Angeles Freedom

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01:49:53,400 --> 01:49:57,599
Speaker 1: Hunt Los Angeles on Thursday, so that'll be exciting. And

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Speaker 1: until tomorrow, where I will be in New York of

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01:50:00,240 --> 01:50:03,800
Speaker 1: course with you. Let me just say that it's gonna

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01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:06,280
Speaker 1: be back to you. Missed you all excited he get

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Speaker 1: some more time with you in the Freedom Hut. Until then,

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Speaker 1: as always, no matter what comes your way, Shields Hie