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Speaker 1: Welcome back to a numbers name with Ryan Grudusk. Everyone,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being here. Happy Friday.

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Speaker 2: We made it through the week.

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Speaker 1: So the State of the Union was on Tuesday night

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Speaker 1: and I had to go to tape for the Wednesday

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Speaker 1: episode before it aired, just because it was so late,

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Speaker 1: and you know, Trump never stopped speaking. So we are

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Speaker 1: taping our episode for the State of the Union today.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a couple of days old, but bear

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Speaker 1: with me. I have the great Scott Jennings on the show,

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Speaker 1: radio host, CNN commentator, my favorite news network, but he'll

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Speaker 1: be on to talk about it. But before I want

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Speaker 1: to actually start digging a little deeper into the State

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Speaker 1: of the Union. So Trump's not just the State of

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Speaker 1: the Union speech, but the state of the Union and

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Speaker 1: most notably the state of the Republican Party and Trump.

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Speaker 1: Trump's approval rating presid terms approv rating are near all

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Speaker 1: time loads. I put together a few aggregate polling services,

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Speaker 1: and that means it's a collection of recent poles, is

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Speaker 1: not just one singular poll. And they found that Trump's

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Speaker 1: favorable number is around forty one point three percent to

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Speaker 1: fifty five point six percent unfavorable. That is not good,

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Speaker 1: not where you want to be two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: eight days ahead of an election. And the problem for

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Speaker 1: Trump right now is now that there's one singular issue

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Speaker 1: guiding this. It's a bunch of issues. The most obvious

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Speaker 1: one is the economy. In Trump's first term, Trump term one,

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Speaker 1: his numbers the economy and the Brewer ratings, even though

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Speaker 1: his personal pre ratings were pretty low because of all

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Speaker 1: the you know, there was so much leaking going on

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Speaker 1: and people saying that he was working with Russia and

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Speaker 1: all the rest of it, but his numbers on the

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Speaker 1: economy were good. Of the entire administration, a Reuters IPS's

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Speaker 1: polls found that they were always around or above fifty percent.

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Speaker 1: Trump's current approval rating on the economy is a dismal

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Speaker 1: thirty six percent. It's nearly exactly where it was for

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Speaker 1: Biden at this time forty years ago when he was

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Speaker 1: looking at his midterm elections. They both have a negative

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Speaker 1: twenty point approval rating. Immigration, the issue that got him

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Speaker 1: to the White House twice, is not much better. He's

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Speaker 1: at thirty nine percent favorable. Ironically, that's basically where he

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Speaker 1: was four years or sor eight years ago. Rather when

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Speaker 1: his policies were not as aggressive as they are today,

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Speaker 1: but they were equally as controversial. So it's funny because

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Speaker 1: in my head he was very favorable, he had a

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Speaker 1: favorable opinion on immigration or in the first term, and

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Speaker 1: then I looked up and no, it was actually kind

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Speaker 1: of where it is today. It's at negative fifteen according

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Speaker 1: to that same Reuter's Ipses poll. That is nowhere near

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Speaker 1: Biden's numbers. Biden's numbers at this point right ahead of

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Speaker 1: the midterms was negative thirty. By the end of his

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Speaker 1: presidency almost almost negative forty. That's also that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's not great, but it's not the worst thing in

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Speaker 1: the world as immigration numbers. The one thing dragging his

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Speaker 1: numbers down across the board where's really really awful is

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Speaker 1: on cost of living. Trump is negative thirty three. According

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Speaker 1: to a CNN poll, Sixty eight percent of Americans believe

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Speaker 1: his eyes on the wrong issue, that he's not focused

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Speaker 1: on what they care about. You know, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: say that Trump's conversations that he's had have made him

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Speaker 1: look like he's focused on the wrong thing. A lot

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Speaker 1: of foreign policy stuff, a lot of good foreign policy stuff,

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Speaker 1: but America is not focused on foreign policy but other

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Speaker 1: things like trying to annex Canada or Greenland have been

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Speaker 1: a negative distraction for the president, and they make people

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Speaker 1: feel like, oh, he's talking about Greenland, He's not talking

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Speaker 1: about my wallet. It makes pep believe he's not focused

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Speaker 1: on them. Once again, he's at negative thirty six. Biden

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Speaker 1: was at thirty eight. When it comes to are you

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Speaker 1: focused on the correct issues? You shouldn't be where Biden is,

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Speaker 1: it should be a rule, don't be where Biden is.

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Speaker 1: And when they ask him, Americans, what is the issue

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Speaker 1: you focus you want Trump to focus on the most?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even close. It was fifty seven percent. Cost

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Speaker 1: of living. Second highest was immigration at thirteen points. I

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Speaker 1: know some people will hear them be like, oh, Democrats

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Speaker 1: must be saying no, Trump stop with immigration. It was

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Speaker 1: actually Republicans that said that Trump wanted to focus on immigration.

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Speaker 1: Immigration was their second issue. Democrats second issue, especially Democrats

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Speaker 1: with the college degree, White democrats with the college degree,

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Speaker 1: was the state of democracy. That completely made up issue

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Speaker 1: that is not real whatsoever, and that they are obsessed with.

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Speaker 1: If they cared that much about it, they should have

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Speaker 1: demanded Democrats Democrats should have demanded that bill Clinton stuffed

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Speaker 1: According to Cimpul, Democrats care about democracy as much as

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Speaker 1: Republicans care about immigration. Republicans care about a real issue.

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Speaker 1: Democrats care about a made up one. Now talk about

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Speaker 1: the state of the Union. It was the longest state

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Speaker 1: of the Union in history. It kicked the Democrat response

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Speaker 1: out of primetime, which was smart. But Abigail Spamberger, the

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Speaker 1: Governor of Virginia, speech was so insanely boring. Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: don't think it would have really mattered whatsoever, as she

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Speaker 1: had these weird like applause lines, but they were like

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Speaker 1: the clapping stopped and started immediately, as if someone was

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Speaker 1: the fact and maybe because I'm reading too much into it,

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Speaker 1: Abigail Spamberger when she said that the mothers who are

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants living in fear, you know, have her heart

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Speaker 1: and as a mother of three, which I love it

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Speaker 1: when they put their own biography as that you know,

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Speaker 1: was fantasizing about murdering children. She didn't have that same

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Speaker 1: level of rage. I wonder why that is. Trump's speech

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Speaker 1: was good, but it was very much a blueprint for

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Speaker 1: Republicans going into the mid terms. She said, Hey, this

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Speaker 1: is the way we're going to talk about lowering costs,

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Speaker 1: the trump RX healthcare savings account, which sidebar if you

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Speaker 1: remember that part of the speech. He pointanti a woman

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Speaker 1: he said she was the first person to get reduced

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Speaker 1: he said that she was suffering from infertility and she

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Speaker 1: needed to use IVF. Okay, that's a little personal. Like

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Speaker 1: imagine if it was like and Tom over here, he

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Speaker 1: was a lot like that was a lot.

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Speaker 2: I felt like America didn't need to know her entire

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Speaker 1: I didn't think that that served necessarily a perple but

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Speaker 1: I just was like, Wow, this could have gone sideways

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Speaker 1: be NonStop standing ovations. But he It was good, but

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Speaker 1: it is also a very aggressive speech. At one point,

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Speaker 1: Trump prefer to Democrats as sick people, and he called

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Speaker 2: He made an ab lid line.

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Speaker 1: I looked this up. It wasn't actually in the speech,

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Speaker 1: he just made up. He said, stand up if you

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Speaker 1: think the government should serve American citizens over illegal immigrants,

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Speaker 1: and don't. I don't think a single Democrats stoop. Some

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Speaker 1: See that is Trump at his best, because he orchestrated

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Speaker 1: something that you will absolutely see on TV screens when

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Speaker 1: Republicans and their affiliated group spend some of the billion

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Speaker 1: statewide and congressional offices. When Trump was calling them sick

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Speaker 1: we do. They do not believe it's there to protect

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Speaker 1: American citizens. They are sick and nuts, he made, and

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Speaker 1: that was very, very very effective, probably the most effective

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Speaker 1: part of the whole speech. He made some claims that

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Speaker 1: were obviously not true. I'm not going to fact check everything.

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Speaker 1: One of those was that data centers and AI companies

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Speaker 1: frankly completely on true when there was a bill to

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Speaker 1: do that and congressional Republicans opposed it. But that's neither

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Speaker 1: here nor there. The company, Navigator Research, was a pretty

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Speaker 1: on how they reacted at certain things that Trump said,

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Speaker 1: and amazingly one of the things that they actually turned

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Speaker 1: the knobs down for, including Republicans, was when he talked

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Speaker 2: It's like fetch, It's just not happening overall.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean to nitpick, I just it was

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Speaker 1: a very interesting observation overall, though. It was very skilled speech,

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Speaker 1: and he outlined Republicans' plan for a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: Remember back a couple of weeks ago, there was a

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Speaker 1: talk about these issues, right, So talk about the Trump

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Speaker 1: about the big Beautiful bill and how it impacts taxpayers

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Speaker 1: and cost savings to tax payers. And the day after

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Speaker 1: the State of the Union, the ABC Washington Post poll

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Speaker 1: that Republicans are at a two point disadvantage overall voter's

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Speaker 1: favorite Democrats forty seven to forty five. That's not that bad.

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Speaker 1: It's not where you want to be, but it's it's

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Speaker 1: not horrendous. It's not as bad as other polls. Another

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Speaker 1: recent QUINNIPC poll from just Pennsylvania gave Democrats a six

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Speaker 1: of paying attention to was voter enthusiasm. Seventy nine percent

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Speaker 1: Trump voters. Among young people, it's even more lopsided. Seventy

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Speaker 1: seven percent of young Harris supporters will vote, fifty one

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Speaker 1: an eleven point skew fifty five to forty four Democrat.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of Republicans who are just not

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Speaker 1: amptp to vote this early they're still very apathetic. That

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Speaker 1: is why, aside from the economy, Trump was mentioning so

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Speaker 1: many red meat issues for Republicans, immigration, DEI, culture issues,

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Speaker 1: you know, the transing of children, calling out Democrats for

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Speaker 1: refusing to stand up for America, talking about the two

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty anniversary America. You know, all those things were

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Speaker 1: to say, hey, Republicans, wake up, there's an election, and

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Speaker 1: I'm still your guy. You may not have liked this

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Speaker 2: be better off if we imported the worst people from

436
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Speaker 2: the Third World all over this globe. They must really

437
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Speaker 2: believe that, because they are fighting tooth and nail to

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Speaker 2: get them here and to keep them here. And I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you one more thing, Ryan, I think people are

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Speaker 2: connecting that posture to this debate over the Save America Act,

441
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 2: and they're asking themselves, well, wait a minute. Democrats worked

442
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Speaker 2: really hard to open the borders, they're working really hard

443
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Speaker 2: to keep people here, and now they're working really hard

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Speaker 2: to stop us from showing an ID to vote in

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Speaker 2: a federal election. I think people aren't stupid. I think

446
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Speaker 2: the American people are pretty smart, and I think they

447
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Speaker 2: see the through line and all these, you know what,

448
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Speaker 2: I think are politically insane positions for the Democrats to take.

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Speaker 2: Did you see the Democrats counter convention that.

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Speaker 1: They had with the people of juss up as ducks

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Speaker 1: and Jackow.

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Speaker 2: You didn't see that? Oh I didn't see it? Oh

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Speaker 2: you did? Yeah, Yeah, none of this looks like I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's it's crazy. And here's the thing. If you just

455
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Speaker 2: like looked at a clip of it, you might say,

456
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Speaker 2: wait a minute, is this AI or convention? These are Democrats.

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Speaker 2: This is how crazy they dress up as things. They've

458
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Speaker 2: got grannies out here doing aerobics in front of ice facilities.

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Speaker 2: They're making up folk songs. These are not serious people.

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Speaker 2: And then they're elected representatives. That's who they're beholden to.

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Speaker 2: And so then they go in the halls of Congress.

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Speaker 2: And that's why they can't stand up when the president says, hey,

463
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Speaker 2: are we all here? Do we all agree that we're

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Speaker 2: our highest dudios to the American people. That's why they

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Speaker 2: can't stand up, because they're beholden to these nutty radicals

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Speaker 2: that you see doing all this performative crap on the

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Speaker 2: streets of America. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Jay Powell, the Democrat from Washington, was screaming about transgendered children.

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Speaker 1: I mean screaming, And I said, if you were to

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Speaker 1: see something like that on a corner, you would tell

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Speaker 1: your child to avert their eyes, because that is so insane.

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Speaker 2: And I listen. Andy Basher, my governor from Kentucky, who

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Speaker 2: is the supposed moderate running for president, has apparently decided

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Speaker 2: to make the centerpiece of his entire presidential campaign dying

475
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Speaker 2: on the hill of mutilating children. He goes, it's the

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Speaker 2: number one thing he mentions in every interview. He will

477
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Speaker 2: die on this hill. Now, this is their moderate candidate

478
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Speaker 2: for president, dying on the hill of transgender surgeries for miners, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, was one of the issues that sunk

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris. They've learned nothing, Ryan. They are doubling, tripling,

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Speaker 2: and quadrupling down on the stuff that makes them seem

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Speaker 2: crazier than you know what rats and that I don't

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Speaker 2: get it, but that's what they've chosen to do. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And Jay Powell was the same Democrat, by the way,

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Speaker 1: who said that America was built by Somali Somali's Africans

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Speaker 1: and I forget the third I think it was probably

487
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Speaker 1: Mexican's but definitely not white men.

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Speaker 2: We're not including that number.

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Speaker 1: Whatso we did not We've been sitting here idly by

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Speaker 1: just being fanned by our servants. What did you think

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Speaker 1: of Abigail Spamberger's response.

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Speaker 2: You know, she is I don't know what to make

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Speaker 2: of her. First of all, she's another one of these

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Speaker 2: Democrats they like to position as a moderate. She's been

495
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Speaker 2: governor for a month or almost two months now and

496
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Speaker 2: has been the most radical Democrat governor in the country.

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Speaker 2: So that's number one. Number two. Even when she talks

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Speaker 2: about immigration, you know, she said, you know, she described

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Speaker 2: illegal immigrants as people who aspire to be Americans, Like

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Speaker 2: I mean, they keep coming up with these euphemisms to

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Speaker 2: explain why they want to abolishize and not have any

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Speaker 2: immigration enforcement at all, and they keep describing these populations

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Speaker 2: in terms that they would never describe American citizens. They

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Speaker 2: do not like American citizens. I don't know what has

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Speaker 2: happened to Democrats. They are an American political party who

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Speaker 2: hates their own constituents, and they love illegal aliens more

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Speaker 2: than they love the people that are their own constituents.

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Speaker 2: She fell into that trap last night.

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Speaker 1: So fetishizing. It's a fetishization of them. And here's the

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Speaker 1: thing is they say the word immigrant as if it's

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Speaker 1: like a bag of oranges. Is if we want to

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Speaker 1: take one, we got to take them all and as

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Speaker 1: if that there's equal outcomes among immigrant populations, which just

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Speaker 1: there are, and certain immigrant populations are enormously successful and

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Speaker 1: other ones not so much. And it's been like that

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Speaker 1: for a very very long time. I thought, you're when

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Speaker 1: your appearance in CNN, you had on the state representative

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Speaker 1: from Texas, the guy who the theater kid who's kind

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Speaker 1: of pretending to be MLKA junior, and you asked them,

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Speaker 1: is there a single immigrant that you would They're all

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Speaker 1: theater kids. It's unbelievable. Is there any immigrant you would deport?

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Speaker 1: And he he just sort of fillibustering about killing Americans

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Speaker 1: from Ice.

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Speaker 2: And also one other thing I want your opinion of.

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Speaker 1: There's been I think two hundred Americans detained by ICE

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Speaker 1: who were legal Americans of several hundred thousdands thousand encounters.

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Speaker 1: So if you were to if you were to make

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Speaker 1: that a parallel to a major metropolitan city in the

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Speaker 1: entire country, that's one of the better ones as far

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Speaker 1: as detaining someone who was not criminally charged or anything.

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Speaker 1: Every law enforcement agency in the country detains people at

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Speaker 1: the times who are not criminally convicted and innocent and

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Speaker 1: it just happens because no one's perfect.

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Speaker 2: Some of the people being detained are actively trying to

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Speaker 2: interfere with federal law enforcement detaining people who are illegal immigrants.

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Speaker 2: That's the reason they were detained, because they were part of, say, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, an illegal immigrant sting situation, and they're interfering.

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Speaker 2: They're in the middle of it. Somehow, they're part of it.

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Speaker 2: And so look, the Democrats throw out all these numbers

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Speaker 2: and they try to act like this is statistically, you know, abnormal.

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Speaker 2: It's not. You go back in the Obama years, they

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Speaker 2: also would detain American citizens occasionally. They also, you know, again,

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Speaker 2: they were having hundreds of thousands of interactions as well,

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Speaker 2: and you know, even people who died in custody, people

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Speaker 2: who had things happened to them in custody. I think

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Speaker 2: Obama had far more than Trump had, even by a percentage.

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Speaker 2: And so look, they are trying to paint an untrue

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Speaker 2: picture for the American people about what's happening. And they

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Speaker 2: want people to believe that no illegal immigrants are being detained,

550
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Speaker 2: that only American citizens are being harassed. It's illegal school exactly,

551
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Speaker 2: and that's not true. It's not true. And a lot

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Speaker 2: of these people have very violent criminal history, some of

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Speaker 2: them have nonviolent criminal history. Some of them are engaged

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Speaker 2: in fraud. But you know what the bottom line is,

555
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Speaker 2: if you're in the country illegally. Tom Holman has said,

556
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Speaker 2: you're on the board for us. You know, we're not

557
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Speaker 2: really interested in giving a past to anyone here just

558
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Speaker 2: because you haven't committed additional crimes to the crime of

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Speaker 2: coming into the country. That's what the American people voted

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Speaker 2: for because they know this. If you show leniency to

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Speaker 2: any illegal immigrant population, that's when the border reopens. The

562
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Speaker 2: reason the border is closed is because people know if

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Speaker 2: they come here, they're not going to get across. They're

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Speaker 2: going to be deporter, They're going to be stopped. Under Biden,

565
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 2: people came here by the hundreds of thousands because they

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Speaker 2: knew if they could get across, it would probably work

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Speaker 2: out for them. That is the difference in attitude. That's

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Speaker 2: why the border is closed. The Democrats act like, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, we should just leave anyone alone who doesn't

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Speaker 2: have you know, who's not a murderer. Let's just leave

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Speaker 2: all the non murders. No, that's that is an invitation

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Speaker 2: to reopen the border. Americans are not stupid. They know this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's it's also you're cutting a check for

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Speaker 1: the drug card. So human smugglers and the cartel. The

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Speaker 1: cartel made billions under Biden with human smuggling, and you

576
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Speaker 1: are cutting them a check because people stop paying them

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Speaker 1: because they know they can't get across the border.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, that's that's the truth.

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Speaker 1: How effective in your mind would a message around we

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Speaker 1: can't go back be for republic? It's because even I

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Speaker 1: sometimes forget the thousands of illegals crossing the border and

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Speaker 1: are Biden what that looked like? I mean, I really

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Speaker 1: I saw a clip and I was like, oh, right,

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Speaker 1: screw these people. They're all horrible everyone who advocated for this.

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Speaker 1: But how how effective of that kind of messaging go

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Speaker 1: to Because it's it's because COVID and the years after

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Speaker 1: COVID were so insane. Between BLM, between COVID, between the

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Speaker 1: open border, we kind of just can't believe we lived

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Speaker 1: through it. It's like when you were dealing with a

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Speaker 1: relative is sick and your whole life is in chaos,

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Speaker 1: and then they pass away and you're like, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe that was my life for two years like I

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Speaker 1: didn't sleep for two years. That's that's saying that that

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Speaker 1: was my whole life, that was our life for four years.

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Speaker 1: And I worry that so many Americans have just been like, oh, wait,

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Speaker 1: this is normal where we're just talking about if Trump's

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00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: too aggressive over trying to occupy Greenland. We forgot that.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were having language codes and people were

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Speaker 1: losing their jobs, and everything was race based, and you know,

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Speaker 1: boys and girls didn't exist, and there was no binary

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Speaker 1: on the gender scale, like we just I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people have forgotten, and I think that's a

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Speaker 1: big part of it. So how would effectively that kind

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Speaker 1: of message and go.

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Speaker 2: I think if you just look at the immigration issue,

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Speaker 2: it would be quite effective, if only because Democrats cannot,

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Speaker 2: in this moment today admit they were wrong and they

608
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: cannot come up with a moderate or reasonable alternative to

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Speaker 2: what Trump is presenting. The democratic median position is abolish ice,

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Speaker 2: abolish customs and border patrol, deport no one, no one,

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Speaker 2: even the most violent, don't get deported, and reopen the border.

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Speaker 2: That is the median Democrat position. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: you look at these Senate and House races, who's winning,

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Speaker 2: it's to people with that radical position. They're the ones

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Speaker 2: with the energy in the Democratic primaries. So if they

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Speaker 2: could even just bring themselves to say, actually, you know what,

617
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Speaker 2: we went too far. We should deport X, Y and Z.

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Speaker 2: When I debated that guy the other night from Tennessee,

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Speaker 2: I thought for sure he would say, well, you know,

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Speaker 2: anyone who committed a violent crime, they're out. He couldn't

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Speaker 2: even say that because the Democratic base will not permit

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Speaker 2: them to say that. So I think because they don't

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Speaker 2: have a current position, that's reasonable. You can pen the

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Speaker 2: old position on them, pen the current position on them,

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Speaker 2: and say, listen, whatever you think about immigration, what everything

626
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Speaker 2: about ice? Your choices here are close the border and

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Speaker 2: deport illegals, reopen the border and keep everybody rapists and

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Speaker 2: murderers and child molesters and child traffickers included. I know

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Speaker 2: where the American people are going to fall on that.

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Speaker 2: They are going to back Trump. They will back him,

631
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Speaker 2: and Democrats don't have the wherewithal to stop them because

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Speaker 2: they can't admit how wrong they were. All right, I

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Speaker 2: have one last question.

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Speaker 1: It's an immediate question for you just and you don't

635
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Speaker 1: have to answer it, but someone who i'd be. Being

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Speaker 1: the foil on CNN has been great for you because

637
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Speaker 1: you get the most airtime because they have to You

638
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: get to be the bad guy. I got to be

639
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: the bad guy for like a nanosecond, but you get

640
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: to be the bad guy.

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Speaker 2: See a lot more attention has there effort.

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Speaker 1: What is the moment where you couldn't believe someone said

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Speaker 1: something out loud where you were like, did you just

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Speaker 1: literally like that's actually what you believe? Was there ever

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Speaker 1: a moment you're like, this is the craziest thing I've

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Speaker 1: ever heard, and you're just you believe it and you

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Speaker 1: said it on national television. Anything agreeing out.

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Speaker 2: To you, Well, I've been on for some crazy moments

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Speaker 2: of a way while back, I was on with a

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Speaker 2: guy who literally sat there next to me. Terrey is

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Speaker 2: his name. He doesn't work for someone. He's awful. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he got fire for some He literally said he did

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Speaker 2: not believe that Donald Trump was shot at Butler, Pennsylvania's.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about political violence and I said, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, the president has some experience with this, and

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Speaker 2: he said, well, I don't. I don't know if he

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Speaker 2: was shot. And I you know, I thought for a

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Speaker 2: minute he might be kidding. No, he actually does. He's

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Speaker 2: an honest to goodness ear truther. He does not believe.

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Speaker 2: And his reasoning wasn't there. I wasn't there, But he's

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Speaker 2: an ear truth. I heard that. I was on the

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Speaker 2: other night with somebody and I said, would you honestly

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Speaker 2: advise somebody if they witnessed a federal law enforcement situation

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Speaker 2: to like literally walk up to the middle of it

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Speaker 2: and put their hands on a cup or get in

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Speaker 2: the middle of it or interfere and the person, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I would advise them to do that. I'm like, you

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Speaker 2: would not advise somebody to commit a felony. Surely you

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Speaker 2: didn't say that. No, No, I really would. I've heard that.

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Speaker 2: I heard all kinds of crazy.

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Speaker 1: Newman kid who accused Trump of I forget he he

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Speaker 1: had to apologize or after, I guess his lawyers called

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Speaker 1: more like, you have to take this back.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you're going to sue. Oh crazy allegations. He made

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Speaker 2: crazy allegations against the president that are not supported or

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Speaker 2: corroborated by any evidence whatsoever. I've heard that out there.

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Speaker 2: You know, even even the other night that Pearson fellow

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Speaker 2: from Tennessee not able to come up with a single

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Speaker 2: kind of illegal immigrant that you would want to deport.

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Speaker 2: That that even to me. I mean, this guy's running

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Speaker 2: for Congress from Tennessee. Yes, he's running. He's running against Cohen,

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Speaker 2: who's the only Democrat left in the Tennessee delegation.

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Speaker 1: A Memphis set. Wow, the only Democrat seat in Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he could. I've heard a lot of crazy things

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Speaker 2: out there, and uh, when I hear them, it reminds

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Speaker 2: me a couple of things. One, Liberals live in a

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Speaker 2: very tight ideological bubble, like they talk only to each other,

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Speaker 2: and they say increasingly unhinged things to each other. And

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Speaker 2: then you know, when they end up interacting with a

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Speaker 2: Republican or a Conservative or even just a normal person,

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Speaker 2: they're shocked at how people react, you know, to these

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Speaker 2: positions that they hold. But understand, these are the median

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Speaker 2: Democrat positions. This is what most Democrats actually believe. So

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Speaker 2: it's not even like the things that I hear are

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Speaker 2: outlandish or on the fringe. Now, these are at the

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Speaker 2: dead center of the Democratic Party. So when I hear

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump at the State of the Union say these

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Speaker 2: people are crazy, it rings true to me because I'm

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Speaker 2: the one sitting out there listening to it or night

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Speaker 2: after night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the evolution of the governor of Minnesota, who

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Speaker 1: went from a legitimate moderate when he was in the

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Speaker 1: House Representatives to being a complete enough bag as governor.

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Speaker 1: Is what happens when you govern via Twitter. Like, governing

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Speaker 1: via Twitter is what has happened to the entire Democratic Party.

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Speaker 1: They're like, we cannot get dragged.

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Speaker 2: When Tim Walls, who is the biggest buffoon in American politics,

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Speaker 2: is openly fantasizing about it. He's out here openly fantasizing

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Speaker 2: about Minneapolis being the next Fort Sumter. This is something

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Speaker 2: he said. Can you imagine if a Republican governor was like, hmm,

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Speaker 2: I really envisioned my state as being the tip of

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Speaker 2: the spear in a new American Civil war, we would

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Speaker 2: be in twenty four to seven coverage of Republicans threatened

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Speaker 2: civil war. Tim Walls is out here fantasizing about being

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Speaker 2: the Jefferson Davis of the modern era. And it's just

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Speaker 2: not even like the blip. It's not even like a

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Speaker 2: blip for people. It's crazy to me how nuts he

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Speaker 2: has gone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he is office hinges. And also him

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Speaker 1: surviving a civil war is slim to none, so I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't recommend.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if it's crazy, he's nowhere, He's nowhere near

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Speaker 2: as crazy is that Lieutenant governor they got up there, Flanagan,

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Speaker 2: And she's probably going to be the Senate nominee in

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Speaker 2: that state. If you think Tim Walls is nuts, wait

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Speaker 2: till you meet Peggy flannagain. She it might be the

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Speaker 2: most left wing radical nut. The Democrats are running anywhere,

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Speaker 2: and that is a high bar to jump over, but

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Speaker 2: they might have it in planning. Well.

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Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Jasmine Crockett in Tennessee to win the

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Speaker 1: nomination from that role. I listen my African queen, Jasmine

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Speaker 1: crocket I'm all about it because she needs to be

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Speaker 1: the Democratic spokeperson for twenty twenty six. I am sold

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Speaker 1: on that that her black set and everything else that

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Speaker 1: she's got going on. Where could people go to listen

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Speaker 1: to your radio show, Scott.

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Speaker 2: We're on the Salem Radio Network, so we're on like

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Speaker 2: three hundred radio stations around the country, so terrestrial radio

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Speaker 2: one to three Eastern live every day. If you want

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Speaker 2: to watch it live but you're not near a Salem station,

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Speaker 2: you can go to the Salem news channel app it's

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Speaker 2: s NC dot tv and you can watch it live

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Speaker 2: and then we also post the audio and the video.

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Speaker 2: Actually it's now a video product. We post that on

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Speaker 2: the sat TV app every single day. I also try

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Speaker 2: to stream it on my ex account at Scott jennings Ky,

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Speaker 2: so we try to make it available. I also post

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Speaker 2: the clips of the different people that I interview. It's

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Speaker 2: become kind of a fun hang for a lot of

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Speaker 2: conservative leaders and we're having great conversations and I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: pretty happy with it. It's a two hours of radio

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Speaker 2: in front of a camera every day. Is a lot

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Speaker 2: of work, but it's a lot of fun as well. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, Scott, thanks for this podcast and fitting me and

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Speaker 1: I know you talk a lot. This is a lot

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Speaker 1: to ask for you, but thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Ryan. You're a great American. Thanks for doing what you

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Speaker 2: do and I'm sure I'll see you soon. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for the Ask Me Anything Second. If

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Speaker 1: you want to be part of the Ask Me Anything Second,

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Speaker 1: Eily Ryan at Numbers Gamepodcast dot com. It's Ryan Numbers

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Speaker 1: Plural Game podcast dot com. This question comes from Austin.

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Speaker 1: He says, congrats on the podcast success. Love listening, Austin,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening. Has there ever been

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Speaker 1: an observable bump in election results for the party that

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Speaker 1: embraces US a pride coming out of the Olympics or

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Speaker 1: major team US, say sports like the Women's World Cup

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety eight. The last two days have

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Speaker 1: been nothing but videos of Olympic hockey games, winning goals,

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Speaker 1: celebrations of home videos or Alissa lose pure joy at winning,

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Speaker 1: and then the lefts are just writing articles posting about

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Speaker 1: it or not being proud. Could Republicans do something up

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Speaker 1: with a two and fifty celebration to bring voters out

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Speaker 1: that they love the USA? As Charlie Kirk said, men

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Speaker 1: must vote and this could be a way to drive

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Speaker 1: them out. Or is it a great or is it

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Speaker 1: just a great time with the Team USA? So in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, well one in past elections, when you

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Speaker 1: go back decades, Democrats level of patrioson was much higher

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Speaker 1: than it is now. Right, It's difficult because in the

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Speaker 1: past there was different levels of patriotism.

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Speaker 2: For the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Though I'm trying to think four years ago it would

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Speaker 1: have been a presidential election with the Olympics removed because

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Speaker 1: of COVID, and then you have to go four years

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Speaker 1: before that to twenty sixteen. I don't think that there's

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Speaker 1: been ever been a bump because of the Olympics related

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Speaker 1: to patriotism. Certainly, patriotism has rallied people in the case

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Speaker 1: of war to vote for Republicans. We've seen that in

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Speaker 1: the recent past with George W. Bush at nine to eleven,

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Speaker 1: and we've seen that all across Europe where the right

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Speaker 1: wing parties were winning elections after terrorist attacks happened. But

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Speaker 1: as far as it goes for I just don't think

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Speaker 1: that they happen at the right time. And even Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl happens after the election day. I guess the World

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Speaker 1: Series does, but it's too regional.

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Speaker 2: So no, I don't find that.

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Speaker 1: It's ever been the case that it drives people out

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Speaker 1: to go vote. It is an interesting thing, and yes,

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Speaker 1: men do need to vote more. It is a big

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Speaker 1: drag for the Republicans that men don't vote as often

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Speaker 1: as women do. If they voted more often, I think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we would want a couple more tighter elections

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Speaker 1: than we did if going into the summer. Republicans do

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Speaker 1: need to break out men and advertising into men's sporting

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Speaker 1: events will probably a big part of it. But some people,

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Speaker 1: especially in the South where football is huge, I know,

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Speaker 1: people don't want politics intruding on their things at all,

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Speaker 1: on their sports at all. I think that, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe trying to push into.

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Speaker 2: The frat societies and the frat culture. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's very, very tough. How do you individualize for men?

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Speaker 1: Obviously gun shows are a big thing. Obviously some other

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Speaker 1: stuff is big, like men's groups and men's societies. But

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Speaker 1: that's the problem with a buy for with a with

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Speaker 1: a with a culture that has very few unifying entities.

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Speaker 1: Everyone has kind of their own thing, and most of

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Speaker 1: the stuffs online it's not in person. So yeah, it's tough,

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Speaker 1: but you're right about that. But no, I don't know

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Speaker 1: of any evidence. And it's in nineteen ninety eight and

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Speaker 1: the Women's World Cup. The Democrats won that election because

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Speaker 1: of backlash over the monicol Olinsky trial that they thought

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Speaker 1: it was going too far. So yeah, I don't have

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Speaker 1: any I don't have any recent evidence. But great question, though,

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Speaker 1: very smart. All right, Austin, thank you so much, and.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys for listening to this episode.

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Speaker 1: If you like this podcast, please like and subscribe on

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get this podcast,

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Speaker 1: and

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Speaker 2: I will see you guys next week