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Speaker 1: This is twenty four, a weekly highlight reel from the Clay,

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Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show featuring all things election coverage.

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Speaker 1: Let's get started. Here are Clay and Buck. Let's go

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Speaker 1: ahead and dive in here. Buck, we got a couple

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Speaker 1: of different things that I thought were fascinating that I

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Speaker 1: was reading about this morning.

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Speaker 2: One, they don't really.

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Speaker 1: Know how to cover RFK Junior on CNN or MSNBC.

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Speaker 2: They don't know what to do. Axios had a.

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Speaker 1: Graph on how much coverage each candidate has been receiving,

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Speaker 1: In particular RFK Junior from each of the networks. MSNBC

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Speaker 1: is effectively pretending he doesn't exist, even though he was

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Speaker 1: running for the Democrat nomination. Shows that they are in

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Speaker 1: total cahoots with the Biden team. We're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about that some. He went on CNN made some intriguing comments.

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Speaker 1: What is his impact going to be? We'll discuss. But

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Speaker 1: down in your home state of Florida, there were two

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Speaker 1: major state Supreme Court rulings that came out yesterday that

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Speaker 1: I think we should discuss because they could have a

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Speaker 1: substantial impact in the state of Florida, which I think

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Speaker 1: for most people. We had just kind of written off

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Speaker 1: as a Trump state and Senator Rick Scott is up

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Speaker 1: for reelection, and we had effectively said, Okay, he's going

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Speaker 1: to win reelection pretty comfortably. Nothing to worry about here.

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Speaker 1: And so I want to get your read as a

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Speaker 1: native but as a current Floridian now. And also I'm

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Speaker 1: curious for those of you out there in Florida, how

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Speaker 1: you think this could be impactful, because I think it

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Speaker 1: is a recipe that Democrats have run before, and there

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Speaker 1: are other states where they will be trying to do

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Speaker 1: something similar. And here were the two Florida State Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court rulings by a six to one margin, and you

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Speaker 1: can correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.

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Speaker 1: Bucks six to one margin, the Florida Supreme Court said

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Speaker 1: the six week abortion bill that was signed and passed

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Speaker 1: by the legislature, signed by Ron De Santis, is valid

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Speaker 1: under the state Constitution of Florida, so it will go

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Speaker 1: into effect.

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Speaker 2: I believe on.

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Speaker 1: May first is the first day that that will become

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Speaker 1: state law simultaneously. Though by a four to three decision,

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Speaker 1: the Florida Supreme Court also said there can be a

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Speaker 1: referendum put on the ballot in the state of Florida

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Speaker 1: that would effectively make Roe v.

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Speaker 2: Wade the law of the land.

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Speaker 1: So you could have a situation where there is a

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Speaker 1: six week abortion law that is on the books for

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Speaker 1: about six months and then it's replaced by a effective

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Speaker 1: reformulation of Roe v. Wade under Florida state law as

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Speaker 1: opposed to under the Supreme Court. It is going to

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Speaker 1: be a mandate on the ballot. So, as a Florida

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Speaker 1: resident who has voted already in the primary season, Buck,

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Speaker 1: what do you think the consequences of this might be.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you my early read is I think it

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Speaker 1: probably takes three or four points off of Trump's number

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Speaker 1: and off of Rick Scott's number, because I do think

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Speaker 1: there will be more young women who Democrats are able

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Speaker 1: to motivate to come out and vote. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it changes the outcome of the state of Florida, but

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Speaker 1: I do think a bill like this, a referendum like this,

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Speaker 1: which we already saw happen in Michigan, for instance, when

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Speaker 1: Tudor Dixon Iran is going to be an attempt that

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Speaker 1: Democrats are trying to add on in several different states

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Speaker 1: here to come. How do you see it?

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Speaker 3: Well, So, there's the abortion component and the marijuana component

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Speaker 3: of this, and the state Supreme Court was just looking

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Speaker 3: at whether there was enough clarity for these ballot initiatives

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Speaker 3: to go forward, effectively not weighing in on the merits

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Speaker 3: of either thing or either issue, but just is this

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Speaker 3: something that has enough clarity does not violate the state

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Speaker 3: constitution in any way that we can put it on

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Speaker 3: a ballot. And I think that we're going to see

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Speaker 3: a real test of just how much of the inflow

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Speaker 3: to Florida, which I'm a part of, so I can

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Speaker 3: speak from the individual and I perspective, how much of

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Speaker 3: this inflow are true red Staters, if you will, or

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Speaker 3: rather people who fled blue states but have a red

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Speaker 3: state mentality and want conservative policy, versus how much of

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Speaker 3: it was COVID, which I think for some people crossed

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Speaker 3: and completely counterproductive, and based in nothing other than the

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Speaker 3: hysteria of the authoritarian left on the abortion issue. I'm

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Speaker 3: concerned because Republicans have lost in state after state on

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Speaker 3: this issue. Right now, the clarity of the issue is

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Speaker 3: always something that you know, what exactly is the public

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Speaker 3: actually on the ballot with this initiative. So I don't think,

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Speaker 3: I mean Florida's going to go red. I still believe

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Speaker 3: but I think that's where it may end up being.

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Speaker 3: And on the marijuana issue, I will tell you this

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Speaker 3: some level I was had or I was bamboozled for

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Speaker 3: a long time, and I haven't smoked marijuana, and oh

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Speaker 3: So it's been I was going to say, I can't

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Speaker 3: decades since I've touched anything looking like a marijuana cigarette

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Speaker 3: or weed of any kind, and yet I've been pro

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Speaker 3: legalization because I was sympathetic to the if you have alcohol,

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Speaker 3: why can't you have weed argument you shouldn't lock people

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Speaker 3: ends up happening when you legalize it, unfortunately, is it

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Speaker 3: becomes a major quality of life issue. I'm not saying

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Speaker 3: That's not what happens really here in Florida or any

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Speaker 3: of these states anyway anymore. But if you fully legalize it,

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Speaker 3: like he's walking to the store and buy weed, you're

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Speaker 3: it in New York City. You're going to smell weed everywhere.

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Speaker 3: People who smoke weed are going to smoke it all

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Speaker 3: over and they're going to do it in all the parks.

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Speaker 3: They're going to do it and all that, and you're

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Speaker 3: And I also do think it's bad for society. I

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Speaker 3: think weed is really bad for your mental health. I

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Speaker 3: think we'd the connection. We should have Alex Bernson on

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Speaker 3: by the way, he's been on this for a long time.

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Speaker 3: The connection between marijuana use and psychosis is much stronger

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Speaker 3: one's going to go through in Florida because people kind

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Speaker 1: I think you're right to a large extent, not only

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Speaker 1: on marijuana, but look at what happened in Portland, because

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Speaker 1: I intended to be on the libertarian realm of drug use.

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Speaker 1: And the problem that you run into is you mentioned

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Speaker 1: that you are eighteen, you soake marijuana. The marijuana that

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Speaker 1: more my understanding, it is far more effective in its use,

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Speaker 2: This is a disaster.

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Speaker 3: We can't just today. This is actually the timing of

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Speaker 3: the this is really important. Today Oregon recriminalized the state

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Speaker 3: You go into the interior and people actually understand America

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Speaker 3: a bit more. But you know, they had this, Clay.

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Speaker 3: It's a nightmare. It makes everything worse. It means your

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Speaker 3: kids are gonna see drugies in the park and drugies

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Speaker 3: You can't lock them up because they're addics. And they

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Speaker 3: It makes everything worse for everyone. If Oregon couldn't make

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Speaker 3: this work, Clay, no state is going to make this work.

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Speaker 3: It is nothing but downside. And the Libertarians are pushing

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Speaker 3: weed legalization for all those years, feeling really smug about it.

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Speaker 3: They were wrong and they fooled me, which makes me

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Speaker 3: even angrier, I was wrong about it too.

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Speaker 1: It's also fentanyl, obviously, which is so much more dangerous. Again,

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Speaker 1: people can smoke weed, they can even use cocaine occasionally,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's important. There's a real conversation I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you've heard it too, of a difference between an

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Speaker 1: And hey, I'm trying to take something that's not very

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Speaker 1: You've been poisoned because you're taking a product that is

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Speaker 2: And so all of this is deeply connected. I think.

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Speaker 3: I think also on the issue because I know what

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Speaker 3: people are going to say, You're not gonna win the

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Speaker 3: war on drugs. I know all you know, all the

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Speaker 4: Everything else.

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Speaker 3: When you legalize what happens is this in the current situation,

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Speaker 3: if somebody wants to get merri well, in some places

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Speaker 3: it is already legal, and it's ruining those states and

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Speaker 3: ruining those cities where it is. But it's not hard

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Speaker 3: And honestly, people don't really care all that much. No

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Speaker 3: one's you know, should be breaking down doors and so on.

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Speaker 3: That part of it, I agree. But if you fully

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Speaker 3: legalize it, what happens is it's everywhere. It's on the streets,

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Speaker 3: it's in the parks, it's outside of schools. It's because

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Speaker 3: now there's no teeth to any rules around it, so

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Speaker 3: you just basically have a free for all this. Anyone

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you've experienced this. To Clay, you can't go

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Speaker 3: How optimistic? I know, you've got to win reelection.

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Speaker 4: Well, first off, it's sad because I talk to people

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Speaker 4: I think I think it's all. I think it's I

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Speaker 4: what he did in sixteen by picking Pence, I think

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Speaker 4: Pennce helped him win the election. I think I think

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Speaker 4: what's important now is I think Trump needs to take

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Speaker 4: his time and say, Okay, let's look at where the

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Speaker 4: electorate is. Electoral's votes are right now, who will help

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Speaker 4: him win the election. That's the most important thing he'scott

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Speaker 4: to win. So I couldn't tell you who it will

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Speaker 4: be because I couldn't tell you exactly today what but

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Speaker 4: what issues are going to be the most important, What

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Speaker 4: state's going to be the most important to try to

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Speaker 4: make sure he wins. But he made a good decision

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Speaker 4: in sixteen. I think he'll make a good choice this time.

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Speaker 3: Senator Rick Scott, appreciate you being with us, sir, good luck.

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Speaker 4: All right, have a great day. Take care you're listening

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Speaker 4: to twenty four The most Important Tier in Politics with

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Speaker 4: Clay Travis at buck Sexton.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't expecting to see this getting a lot of attention today,

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Speaker 3: or can see this at all. Dwayne the Rock Johnson

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Speaker 3: was on Fox this morning. We all know the Rock.

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Speaker 3: I think is he the highest paid actor in the

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Speaker 3: world per movie now or he's something close to that, right.

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Speaker 1: I'm going this weekend to see him Buck. He's come

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Speaker 1: back to WWE. I think he was talking to our

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Speaker 1: friend Will Kine because I saw this, and I think

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Speaker 1: you're to what you're referring was from that interview. He

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Speaker 1: is wrestling. I don't know what percentage of our audience

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Speaker 1: knows anything about wrestling. He is wrestling Roman Reigns in

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Speaker 1: what my wife would say is the most attractive wrestling

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Speaker 1: match in the history of mankind. So for women out there,

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Speaker 1: the Rock and Roman Reigns, I'm told are incredibly good looking,

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Speaker 1: and they are engaged in a wrestling match on Saturday

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Speaker 1: that we will be attending. Laura might not come back

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Speaker 1: with me so that she may stay in Philadelphia and

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Speaker 1: hang out with those incredibly good looking men. But that

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Speaker 1: is what he's doing all this prep for. I don't

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Speaker 1: believe he's been in a WrestleMania like a decade. That's

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Speaker 1: where he initially got famous. But to your point, I

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Speaker 1: think he's the highest paid actor in Hollywood basically.

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Speaker 3: Now maybe maybe Tom Cruise. Yeah, he's in at like

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Speaker 3: a thirty to forty million points on the back end

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Speaker 3: of the film, kind of range that people very few

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Speaker 3: people ever make it to. But here he is saying

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Speaker 3: that he regret retz endorsing. This was on Will Kane

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Speaker 3: with Wi Will Kane. Yeah, Will's an old old buddy

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Speaker 3: of ours. Will asked about this the Rocks, is he

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Speaker 3: regrets endorsing Joe Biden, And well, let's hear what he

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Speaker 3: says Play twenty one.

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Speaker 5: The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was

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Speaker 5: one I thought was the best decision for me at

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Speaker 5: that time. Am I going to do that again this year?

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Speaker 5: That answers No, I'm not going to do that because

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Speaker 5: what I realized, what that caused back then was something

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Speaker 5: that tears me up in my guts, which is division.

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Speaker 3: And that got me.

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Speaker 5: Not that I'm afraid of it at all, but it's

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Speaker 5: just I realized that this level of influence. I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: keep my politics to myself and I think it's between

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Speaker 5: me and the ballot box. But I will tell you this, well,

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Speaker 5: like a lot of us out there not trusting of

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Speaker 5: all politicians, I do trust the American people, and I

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Speaker 5: trust that whoever they vote for, that's going to be

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Speaker 5: my president, and that's who I'm going to support one

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Speaker 5: hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's a bad answer. I think that

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Speaker 1: is the answer that almost every politician, every major celebrity

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Speaker 1: in the world of sports and entertainment would have given

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Speaker 1: in the eighties, the nineties, the two thousands. That's the

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan answer, that's the Tiger Woods answer. That's the

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Speaker 1: Rock answer. I'll just point this out. Men are going

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Speaker 1: to vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. It may be nationwide men. Fuck,

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Speaker 1: it may be men plus twenty five or thirty. I

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Speaker 1: mean we're talking about sixty forty sixty five. Thirty five

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Speaker 1: is in play for men who are going to vote

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Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. I think a lot of athletes got

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Speaker 1: seduced by social media. I actually saw I give him credit,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Hart. Did you see this as amazing quote? He

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Speaker 1: was talking about how when he got involved in BLM

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Speaker 1: that people on social media were calling him a black

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Speaker 1: king and he's a comedian. He's like nobody he's five

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Speaker 1: four or whatever he is. He's like, nobody's ever called

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Speaker 1: me a king of any thing. He's like, I got

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Speaker 1: kind of all caught up in it. He was like,

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Speaker 1: I went to the George Floyd funeral and he said

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Speaker 1: he was dressed like Carlton from The Fresh Prince and

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Speaker 1: he said, and again this is comedically, but he's talking

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Speaker 1: about He's like, that's not my lane. There are people

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Speaker 1: who are social justice warriors and they want to be

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Speaker 1: focused on politics and they want to bring change. It's like,

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Speaker 1: I just want to tell jokes and entertain people. And

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Speaker 1: I thought his revelation that he got seduced by the

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Speaker 1: response that he got on social media. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys lebron the Rock. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of them look and pay attention to social media and

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Speaker 1: then they realize it's not the real world. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what the math for Lincoln Financial Field would be

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Speaker 1: on WrestleMania Saturday and Sunday. Like I said, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be there with my kids and my wife. I

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Speaker 1: bet it would be a very pro Trump audience, fucking

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Speaker 1: the same way. You know, every time Trump walks into

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Speaker 1: an arena in the UFC, the entire place is on

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Speaker 1: its feet, chanting USA, USA and cheering Trump. Sports fans,

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Speaker 1: I think do not respond well to Joe Biden, and

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Speaker 1: they certainly don't respond to the idea. Do you see

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Speaker 1: Letitia James up in New York we're talking about the earthquake.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I still think this is kind of a

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Speaker 1: political earthquake. They're suing Nasau County to ensure that men

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Speaker 1: who identify as women can compete in women's athletics.

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Speaker 2: And did you see that? La?

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Speaker 1: I was like, what is going on in the world

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Speaker 1: If you're just a random sports fan guy out there.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you ever anticipated that your daughters would

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Speaker 1: be competing against men and that you would be getting

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Speaker 1: called a transphobe if you didn't. And this comes back

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Speaker 1: to to me, there are a lot of people who

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Speaker 1: are legacy Democrat voters. I grew up a voting Democrat.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this on the show. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people stay committed to the team even when the team

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Speaker 1: doesn't represent what they believe anymore. When did you first

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Speaker 1: realize that Democrat was not the way to be? What

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Speaker 1: was likerul Do you.

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Speaker 3: Remember like a first time Yeah, like a like you

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Speaker 3: had to realize Jesus moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've talked about this a little bit. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I've done it on the show. It was

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Speaker 1: actually a sports story. University of Missouri had a hunger

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Speaker 1: strike that they were doing because they said there was

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Speaker 1: racism on campus. Do you remember the story, like there

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Speaker 1: was like a a sazooka remember, yeah, at MISSOO And

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Speaker 1: I knew that story well because I was covering college football.

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Speaker 1: I knew that campus well. I knew a lot of

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Speaker 1: people there. And you can criticize, you know, the University

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Speaker 1: of Missouri probably for many different things. Missoo's not a

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Speaker 1: racist place. It's a very welcoming, it's fabulous school, I think.

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Speaker 1: But everybody suddenly in sports media, I think this was

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Speaker 1: like twenty fourteen, this was pre Trump. Everybody in sports

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Speaker 1: media just accepted that Missoo was a horribly racist place

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Speaker 1: and even was saying, Oh, it's so brave. The football

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Speaker 1: team Bucks said they weren't going to play based on

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Speaker 1: this alleged racism on campus, and I just said, okay.

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Speaker 1: First of all, there were like three instances. Somebody yelled

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Speaker 1: the end word somewhere allegedly not a student. Somebody drew

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Speaker 1: a poop swastika, if you remember, nobody knew who did it.

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Speaker 1: And somebody else had like scroll the racial slur somewhere

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Speaker 1: in a bathroom, and they were protesting. They were having

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Speaker 1: campus sit ins, they took over the quad and I

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Speaker 1: actually did the research and wrote about it and I said,

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Speaker 1: this is all BS and it was. That's one of

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Speaker 1: the first times it's two things that was identity politics

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Speaker 1: in sports where it was like, oh, the sport doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Oh these poor black athletes, how dare they have to

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Speaker 1: go to the University of Missouri on scholarship and I

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Speaker 1: didn't stand.

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Speaker 2: I was like, this is not right.

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Speaker 1: The other one was when ESPN gave Caitlyn Jenner the

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Speaker 1: sp And I know Caitlyn Jenner. Now I'm not judging

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Speaker 1: Caitlyn Jenner as an awful person, but the idea that

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Speaker 1: that was a heroic and courageous thing to decide to

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Speaker 1: change your gender, and that it was worthy of every

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Speaker 1: athlete standing and cheering. I those were two moments where

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Speaker 1: I just started to say, hey, the world is like

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Speaker 1: discordant and this is a record scratch moment for me.

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Speaker 1: So it was gender and race politics that actually were

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Speaker 1: the thing that first got you moving in the in

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Speaker 1: the other direction. And yeah, I've said before when I

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Speaker 1: was I mean, I was in high school and I

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Speaker 1: was just sort of thinking about the formation of my politics,

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Speaker 1: and I think it was a sophomore and there were

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Speaker 1: just discussions going on about how basically, and you know,

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Speaker 1: this was that I was considered a very elite school.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you even had a prayer of getting

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Speaker 1: into an Ivy League school, for example, or something like

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Speaker 1: an Ivy League school from my high school and you

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Speaker 1: were a white or Asian student, you I mean, it

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Speaker 1: was like fifteen hundred and up or else you're wasting

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Speaker 1: your time. Yeah, and then there were black and Latino

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Speaker 1: students in my class, and they were a couple of

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Speaker 1: hundred points lower, and already the college guidance discussion was

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Speaker 1: like do you want to go to Harvard or Yale?

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Speaker 1: And I remember sitting there saying like, they're they're they're

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Speaker 1: like some of these kids are literally Vietnamese immigrants, like

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Speaker 1: their parents came here from Vietnam, and their parents speak

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Speaker 1: no English and they have no money, and their kids

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Speaker 1: just worked incredibly hard and now they get the scholarship

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Speaker 1: to this high school, but they're being told that they

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Speaker 1: have to get two hundred points more than some kid

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Speaker 1: who's you know, who's you know, mom and dad are

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Speaker 1: both working professionals, but happened to be Puerto Rican or whatever.

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Speaker 1: And now you know, that was when I was like,

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Speaker 1: there's something wrong here. And people would tell me, oh no,

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Speaker 1: there's a history of I'm like no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: this is not and you know, I was like fifteen,

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Speaker 1: but still it was I could see it then. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Affirmative action in college admissions was when I first realized

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Speaker 1: hold on a second, there's a problem here with what

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Speaker 1: because I grew up in New York City, man, everybody

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Speaker 1: was a Democrat.

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Speaker 3: Everybody was a Democrat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and I wrote right about some of

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Speaker 1: this in American Playbook, and you you know see and

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Speaker 1: other people see. It's not people attack me, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you voted for this. I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to hide anything that I've done in my past. But

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Speaker 1: it's why I think I'm optimistic because in Churchill.

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Speaker 3: Switch parties three times, by the way, as a as

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Speaker 3: a politician, I think it was three times.

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Speaker 2: Definitely.

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Speaker 3: That's yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, certainly Reagan did right, I mean, and Trump, you

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Speaker 1: can argue pretty clearly was for much of his life.

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Speaker 1: I think he said publicly. I mean again, he's like

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Speaker 1: you New York City guy. I mean, I think he

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Speaker 1: kind of just engaged in the political landscape that was

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Speaker 1: around him. But my point on that is, I'm actually confident,

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Speaker 1: and maybe I shouldn't be, but I but I am

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Speaker 1: confident that if you make the right case, the American

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Speaker 1: people are persuadable, and so for me, I'm always thinking

651
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people like me, guys and

652
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Speaker 1: girls out there who may have grown up and just

653
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Speaker 1: kind of gravitated towards the Democrat Party for a variety

654
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Speaker 1: of reasons. But now they look at it and they

655
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Speaker 1: say that the Democrat Party of the of the eighties

656
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Speaker 1: and the nineties and even the early two thousands is

657
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Speaker 1: not anything at all like what it is today. And

658
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Speaker 1: I think Elon Musk has shared that meme, which I

659
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: think is so well done. I'm not sure who created

660
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Speaker 1: it the first time, but it's the guy who's a

661
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Speaker 1: little bit left of center and he's like, hey, this

662
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Speaker 1: was me in you know, two thousand and four, and

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Speaker 1: then he hasn't moved at all, and the Democrat Party

664
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Speaker 1: has gone so far left wing. And for me, identity,

665
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Speaker 1: politics and sports are connected, and I don't feel like

666
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Speaker 1: I've changed at all. But now I'm like a right

667
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Speaker 1: wing zealot. That's how people would describe me in the

668
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Speaker 1: world of sports. And I think I'm just a normal,

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Speaker 1: sane person. Yeah, I mean different stuff.

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Speaker 3: But Churchill was initially a conservative in Parliament and then

671
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Speaker 3: became a liberal and then became a conservative again.

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Speaker 4: So there you go.

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Speaker 3: Pretty good dude.

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Speaker 1: By the way, history, if you had to point to

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Speaker 1: somebody who was right about the biggest issue in the

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Speaker 1: history of his life, and he's like a transformative impact

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Speaker 1: on it.

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Speaker 3: He's like the Davy Crockett of Britain. That's well said.

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Speaker 3: He is very well said. Thank you, sir, That's what

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Speaker 3: I'm here for.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to twenty four the Year of Impact with

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Speaker 2: Clay and buck Well.

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Speaker 1: We are joined now by Stephen Miller, who is hopefully

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Speaker 1: going to have a very important job in the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration beginning in January of twenty twenty five. But before

686
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: we get into serious questions, I actually wonder if you

687
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: have seen Dune one and or Dune two yet, Steven.

688
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Speaker 1: You're a big pop culture guy. We agree on, for instance,

689
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Speaker 1: the Karate Kid the remake Cobra Kai, which is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Did you go see Dune one and or Dune two?

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Speaker 6: I haven't, But I have a very good excuse for

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Speaker 6: not having seen movies in theaters, which is that I've

693
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 6: had three kids under three, and so my going out

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Speaker 6: to movies portion of my life has taken a little

695
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Speaker 6: bit of a break. So I have to wait for

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Speaker 6: things on the streaming channels. But it's a good chance

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Speaker 6: for me to catch up on the all time classics

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Speaker 6: and so I've been on a eighties nineties action movie

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Speaker 6: bingch for a while. Now, that's sort of the Golden age.

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Speaker 3: Oh, now you're entering my world here, my friend, the

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Speaker 3: best action movie of the eighties, What is it?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: I hope I have the year right, I hope this

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Speaker 6: is the eighties and not the nineties. It maybe the

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Speaker 6: nineties actually, but blood Sport. I might actually be in

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Speaker 6: the early nineties with that one.

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Speaker 1: You just won bucks. Vote for anything you run for

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Speaker 1: for basically the rest of your life.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I know it is eighty eight blesse eighty eight.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Stephen Miller, you rich.

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Speaker 6: Don't hit back. That film is probably the pinnacle of

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Speaker 6: American cinematic excellence. You're raising a kid today. My kids

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Speaker 6: an't old enough yet for blood Sport. The oldest is

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Speaker 6: now just turned three. But if you're raising kids today,

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Speaker 6: don't even bother with anything after your two thousand. Just

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Speaker 6: show them all the best action films from the eighties

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Speaker 6: and nineties and they'll grow up very healthy and well adjusted.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to second that because one of them, my

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Speaker 1: boys are now sixteen, thirteen, and nine, and we've watched

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Speaker 1: every eighties and nineties classic and they are just enamored

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Speaker 1: of that entire era.

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Speaker 2: All Right, that's fun.

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Speaker 1: I'll let Bucks start with a serious question for I

724
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Speaker 1: will say though Dune is of able on streaming.

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Speaker 6: Feel I feel it's good dad that I have and

726
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 6: everyone else is talking about it. And the last movie

727
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Speaker 6: I saw in the theaters, so wasn't it that long ago?

728
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Speaker 6: It was The New Mission Impossible Deman's Reckoning. I think

729
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Speaker 6: it was part one, which is actually an amazing movie.

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I liked it. That was pretty good.

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Speaker 3: And I saw I saw Ferrari in the theaters actually

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Speaker 3: on my birthday, and it made me want to end

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Speaker 3: it all in a fiery wreck myself, like it was

734
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Speaker 3: absolutely horrible. But anyway, Uh, Stevin, all right, it s

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Speaker 3: Bucks time to get serious. We have a a Axios

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Speaker 3: piece here Trump allies plot anti racism protections for white

737
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Speaker 3: people and that's supposed to be like very ominous. Tell

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Speaker 3: me because your organization, America First Legal is named in this,

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Speaker 3: which is also I think supposed to be for the

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Speaker 3: readership of Axios ominous. Uh what are they talking about here?

741
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Speaker 3: What would these Trump allies, I assume, including you, do

742
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Speaker 3: differently about the enforcement of the law when it comes

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Speaker 3: to issues of race.

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Speaker 6: Yes they yes, they try to make it all sound

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Speaker 6: very scary, don't they, and use lots of ominous sounding

746
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Speaker 6: language because they're living inside their little elite media bubble

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Speaker 6: here in Washington, d C. Normal Americans who've been out

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Speaker 6: there in the world earning a living for the past

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Speaker 6: twenty or thirty years, but of course with increasing intensity

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Speaker 6: over the last say five or six years. You know

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Speaker 6: that in every major corporation there is a hr policy

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Speaker 6: of establishing racial and gender and diversity quotas. So too

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Speaker 6: equivalently qualified people are applying for the same job, they're

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Speaker 6: going to choose the person who hits that specific quote.

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Speaker 6: And again that's really really amped up in a dramatic

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Speaker 6: way in the last few years, particularly with the inclusion

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Speaker 6: of mixing them the gender piece, where their Golden Canada

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Speaker 6: isn't only just the quote unquote right race, but also

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Speaker 6: is going to be somewhere in that LGBTQ plus continuum.

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Speaker 6: The problem, not just morally, but the problem legally, is

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Speaker 6: that all violates federal civil rights law, which is completely colorblind,

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Speaker 6: race neutral, and sex neutral. In America, it is illegal

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Speaker 6: to hire, fire promote, or advance an employee based upon

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Speaker 6: their race or their sex. That's been illegal for a

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Speaker 6: long time, for decades, and so the left is terrified

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Speaker 6: at the prospect the big powerful corporations that are in

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Speaker 6: the pocket of the left give them millions of dollars

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Speaker 6: in softam money. These are the same corporations of course

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Speaker 6: that pledged tens of millions of dollars. Is not more

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Speaker 6: than that to Black lives matter, terrified at the process

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Speaker 6: of these companies are going to be held accountable by

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Speaker 6: the DOJ Civil Rights Office, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,

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Speaker 6: to the plane letter of the law. That's it, but

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Speaker 6: nothing worth nothing less. If you run a major corporate

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Speaker 6: in this country, and if the DOJ Civil Rights Office

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Speaker 6: is doing his job, and if the EEOC and the

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Speaker 6: Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is

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Speaker 6: doing its job, then no major employer or minor. But

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Speaker 6: it's particularly problem with the big employers in America will

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Speaker 6: be able to hire an employee based on their skin color,

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Speaker 6: which means, guess what. All of your pilots will be

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Speaker 6: chosen by who's the best of flying airplanes. All your

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Speaker 6: air traffic controllers will be hired based upon who's the

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Speaker 6: best at controlling air traffics. All of your surgeons will

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Speaker 6: be hired by based on who has the best track

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Speaker 6: record doing surgery. And guess what, Americans, black, white, brown, Asian, Latino.

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Speaker 6: Everybody will be half here in this reality because every

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Speaker 6: person wants the best service, the best results, the best treatment,

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Speaker 6: the best everything. That's the whole point of living in

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Speaker 6: a meritocracy and not living in the Soviet Union.

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Speaker 3: So it's really as.

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Speaker 6: Simple as that.

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Speaker 1: We're talking with Stephen Miller, who has great taste in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties and nineties movies, needs to catch up and

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Speaker 1: watch June one because I think you'll like it and

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Speaker 1: then want to watch June too.

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Speaker 6: That we've never talked sci fi. I'm also actually very

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Speaker 6: into SciPy, so we'll have to do that next time.

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Speaker 3: Is Battlestar Galactica. The best sci fi series of all time,

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Speaker 3: of all time.

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Speaker 6: Is battle Star Galactica.

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Speaker 3: Boom, Stephen Miller, It's like we're of the same womb.

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Speaker 3: I don't even saying you and Buck if if they're

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Speaker 3: my wife.

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Speaker 6: To watch all of that a starcal actor from start.

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Speaker 1: To finish, there's going to start to be rumors out

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Speaker 1: there on left wing blogs that you and Buck are

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Speaker 1: gay for each other. I'm just going to say, yesterday, Steven,

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Speaker 1: we got a listener who called me gay Travis and

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Speaker 1: called Buck cuck Sexton.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know the world is spinning in.

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Speaker 6: Wild directions on the diversity hiring list.

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Speaker 1: I was going for Steven as my twin Clay, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: go ahead. So, uh so, a question for you, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: because I bet you were involved in this. We started

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Speaker 1: off the show talking about the blood bath commentary and

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00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: how I think Trump has brilliantly pivoted to accurately describing

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Speaker 1: what would happen in the auto industry to now using

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Speaker 1: that word to directly describe what is going on at

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Speaker 1: the southern border. And I think Biden's blood bat at

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Speaker 1: the border is something that alliteratively connects Biden to the

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Speaker 1: worst aspect of his presidency so far. I bet you

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Speaker 1: were involved in that. How effective do you think that

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Speaker 1: line of attack is? How important will what's going on

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Speaker 1: at the border be to Trump's twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Four campaign in your mind? Is it number one of

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Speaker 2: all issues?

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Speaker 6: Yes? I believe that it is absolutely a lot of

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Speaker 6: good stuff in that question. So everyone, President Trump has

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Speaker 6: always been the master brander, and he realized very quickly,

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Speaker 6: as he always does, that you take their attack and

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Speaker 6: then you turn it into your attack. You own it.

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Speaker 6: So they want to make the word blood bath into

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Speaker 6: this big, terrifying awful word, then let's say, okay, let's

835
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Speaker 6: make that big terrifying awful word and apply it to

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Speaker 6: the most terrifying awful thing happening in the Western world,

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Speaker 6: which is Joe Biden's border blood bath, the Biden border

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Speaker 6: blood bath. And I think that's going to be an

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Speaker 6: incredibly effective piece of branding going all the way up

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Speaker 6: and through November. On the election point, my view of it,

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Speaker 6: in the sort of the macro sence, the election is

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00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 6: going to come down to two things. One mechanics, ballot operations,

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00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 6: ballot mechanics, ballot harvest thing, vote by mail, early vote.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 6: We can all loathe and detest the system as the

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Speaker 6: Left has reritten it, but there's very little opportunity to

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Speaker 6: restore it to anything that we would like in the

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Speaker 6: near future. The second is the narrative. If the Republican

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Speaker 6: Party as a whole is able to make the dominant

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Speaker 6: narrative nationally between now and November about the Bidom border

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Speaker 6: blood bath, then we are going to win the election

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Speaker 6: if we get number one right.

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Speaker 5: Too.

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Speaker 6: The Democrats, of course, will do everything in their power,

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00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 6: as will the deep state. You know, they'll bring up

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00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 6: all kinds of hoaxes between now and election day, not

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00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 6: to mention the prosecutions, to divert the tention and focus

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Speaker 6: and messaging of the Republican Party away from that issue.

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Speaker 6: So I think if we can get the mechanics right

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Speaker 6: and we can keep the focus on the border invasion,

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Speaker 6: then we'll do quite well in November. I really do

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Speaker 6: think at some level as as simple as that.

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Speaker 3: Stevid Miller of America, first legal man of great taste

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Speaker 3: in policy and movie. Sure, thanks so much, good to

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Speaker 3: talk to you.

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Speaker 4: As always, Thank you, Tuson