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Speaker 1: But that's something I control, nobody else controls it. I

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Speaker 1: don't talk politics off the air. I don't try to

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Speaker 1: convince people. Somebody say, you got to talk to my wife.

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Speaker 3: Here she is.

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Speaker 1: We talked to my wife, she's a liberal. No, I won't.

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Speaker 1: I won't. We'll talk about recipes, we talk about travel.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to convince her because she

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Speaker 1: arrived at this point after a whole lot of things

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Speaker 1: have happened. She probably doesn't know anything about politics. She

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Speaker 1: thinks she does. She's still angry her dad left her,

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Speaker 1: or her first boyfriend dumped her, or whatever else. She's

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Speaker 1: still sad that her career didn't measure up to what

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Speaker 1: she wanted to be, or she didn't get to date,

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Speaker 1: she didn't get to marry the boy she wanted to,

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Speaker 1: and that guy went off to be famous. I'm not

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Speaker 1: here to fix her. I'm here to fix me. I'm

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Speaker 1: here to live the best life I can and be

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Speaker 1: here for the people that I love. So if we

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Speaker 1: don't get to talk to you for the next week

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Speaker 1: because you're off for Thanksgiving, I just want you to

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Speaker 1: know I give thanks for you and everything you've done

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Speaker 1: to take back this country,