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Southwest Airlines Now Assigns Seats?!? · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: All right, is my career over?
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  Speaker 2: I saw you on Twitter and and I'm kidding, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm serious about this. You said something is very Mike,
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  Speaker 2: and you're very right, and I'm ready to join you
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  Speaker 2: on this train. It says it should not be controversial
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  Speaker 2: to say that an attack like this is bad. When
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  Speaker 2: eilan Omar takes a you know, sprits of something at
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  Speaker 2: a thing, is it also bad for Trump or me
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  Speaker 2: or anybody else because it's her and her deceptions are
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  Speaker 2: so infamous.
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  Speaker 1: Are we allowed a minute to go? Is this real?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Well, wait a minute. I mean, it's the It's
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  Speaker 3: the inevitable product of who she is, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: and second of all, it's a very weird scene. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: let's just let's just lay this out. There's all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of video conspiracies flying, as you know online. She allegedly
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  Speaker 3: nods at the guy right before he jumps up and
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  Speaker 3: sprays her.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pause on that because I saw that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: let's do it like the Zippruder film. Yeah, that pardon
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  Speaker 2: that announce by frame by frame. If I'm in an
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  Speaker 2: event and I'm talking and you're in the front row,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to look at you so you're it's he's
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  Speaker 2: directly in the line of sight. I attached no significance
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  Speaker 2: to that at all. His convenient presence in the front
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  Speaker 2: row is odd, his nonchalance as he approaches, he scorts
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  Speaker 2: her in the mid section, and we know nothing about
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  Speaker 2: him in the hours since.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the problem. Here's the here's the bigger problem.
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  Speaker 3: She's a sitting member of Congress and she gets sprayed
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  Speaker 3: with an unidentified substance. At the very least, you got
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  Speaker 3: to get her somewhere to evaluate her and to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that it's not some kind of an acidic, poisonous,
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  Speaker 3: deadly And you know what, there was no effort at
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  Speaker 3: all to evaluate what the substance was that she was
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  Speaker 3: sprayed with.
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  Speaker 2: This is why I love you. You're one hundred percent right.
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  Speaker 2: If you get squirted with something, and I'm saying, they're saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: what was it?
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  Speaker 1: Cologne? What was it?
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  Speaker 3: Water?
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  Speaker 1: What was it?
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  Speaker 2: And again I'm talking about the possibility that it's nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You're one thousand percent right. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that are odorless, colorless, seemingly innocuous, and they will
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  Speaker 2: kill you. You're a sitting member of Congress, you've been
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  Speaker 2: sprayed with something. That event is over immediate any and
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  Speaker 2: by the way, good for anybody who says, I will
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  Speaker 2: not let this stop my event. I'm going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to talk to the people, lovely spirit. No, you're one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent right. That adds to the weirdness that she
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  Speaker 2: was not taken to by ParaMed not ParaMed taken somewhere
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  Speaker 2: for medical attention immediately.
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  Speaker 3: Well or an evaluation. I mean, do we lett Now, Look,
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  Speaker 3: maybe maybe they already know and they're not telling us.
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  Speaker 3: But in the case of the guy, the frumpy, dumpy
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  Speaker 3: guy in the front row who did this, huh, Look,
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  Speaker 3: it can't be hard to figure him out. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's got a voting record, he's got people know who
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  Speaker 3: he is, people know his family.
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  Speaker 1: We would know all of it by now, well, mark
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  Speaker 1: mega connection, we would.
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  Speaker 3: If we all of it. If we don't find out
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  Speaker 3: about his background, there's your answer, then you got Jesse
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  Speaker 3: Smolette two point zero. If we don't find out, if
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  Speaker 3: this thing gets memory hold, if this thing gets completely
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  Speaker 3: blacked out, look by by by day's end, we ought
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  Speaker 3: to know everything about the guy, you know, and if
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  Speaker 3: we and if we don't, Big Old Red again, Big
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  Speaker 3: Old red flag, big old red flags.
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  Speaker 2: But in in vintage Mike kindness and decency, which which
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  Speaker 2: I always try to echo you with when I can listen.
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  Speaker 2: These are like like the the baseball shooting, like like
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk would at where a lot of people were
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  Speaker 2: decent while others were more monstrous conspiratu. When when things
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  Speaker 2: like this do happen and they are real, of course
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what party anybody is, and of course
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  Speaker 2: we condemn such attacks. Before I go to condemnation, I
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  Speaker 2: need verification.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, trust, but verify. Listen to you by the way
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  Speaker 3: I'm in, I mean the presence of greatness. I settle down.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to get used to Tony Jacopple. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: I'm having an open mind because they've got the Berry
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  Speaker 3: Weiss connection, and he's actually somebody who's pushed back against, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the woke ideology in the past. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a kind of an interesting different lip. Like the CBS.
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  Speaker 2: I like that newscast. I like it is, Is it perfect?
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  Speaker 2: Has it has it become conservative?
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  Speaker 1: Not at all?
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  Speaker 3: Not really, it's but it's but.
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  Speaker 1: It's fair fairer than somewhat somewhat.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're not exactly you know, we're not ready
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  Speaker 3: to give out any wax.
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  Speaker 1: It's not known to be will be much better than NBC.
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  Speaker 3: It's not. It's not ABC with David Muhr and all
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  Speaker 3: those folks. I mean, those folks are as biased as
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  Speaker 3: can be.
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  Speaker 2: But there I am, even though I love them for
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of days because they put my name
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  Speaker 2: on the newscast.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's what I was gonna say. Well, not only that,
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  Speaker 3: but CBS. I settled down to CBS and there's Greg
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  Speaker 3: Abbott an interview. He's he's weighing in on a hot topic,
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  Speaker 3: and they're yep, the Mark Davis Show. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: love that courtesy before yesterday. Now, now I won't nitpick
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  Speaker 3: and say, why didn't they say six sixty am the answer?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let me pull the curtain back a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, it's it's it's it's no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to pull the curtain back and go straight
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  Speaker 2: to this and in fact share a little something else
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  Speaker 2: with you with divulgence. When my favorite thing when I'm
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  Speaker 2: on any kind of national TV show where I'm kindly invited,
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  Speaker 2: is Mark Davis show six sixty am he answer Dallas
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  Speaker 2: for it Orth, that's a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of characters.
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  Speaker 2: How about a second favorite, Mark Davis, Salem Media, that's
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  Speaker 2: our parent company. At sure, what I'm usually getting these
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  Speaker 2: days is Mark Davis.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas talk show host.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know, if it's just crediting me for audio,
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  Speaker 2: it's not like I'm on screen. It's just audio courtesy
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  Speaker 2: of the Mark Davis Show. That was ABC last night,
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  Speaker 2: night before last, that was CBS. I'm totally fine with that.
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  Speaker 2: I when I was on Will Kine, Yeah, listen, this
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  Speaker 2: is five.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: When I was on Will Kane the other day, I
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  Speaker 2: shot them a little text because they hadn't asked. I said,
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  Speaker 2: if you'll never refer to me Mark Davis six sixty
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  Speaker 2: and the answer or Mark Davis, Taylor Media Group. And
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  Speaker 2: then when I was on so kindly welcome by then
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  Speaker 2: talking to Will it was great. I think it said
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  Speaker 2: Mark Davis, Dallas talk show host. I am not going
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  Speaker 2: to quibble. I'm just happy to be there. And on
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  Speaker 2: that particular beat, when I walked out of Will Kane,
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  Speaker 2: they said, this is cool. Maybe we'll do this every
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  Speaker 2: couple of months. Guess when I'm back tomorrow tomorrow. You're good,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back. Well, here's it's like, I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what you call me, just call me. Well yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: that's but you're the talent. And sometimes I look at
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  Speaker 2: things from a company perspective. Here's my gentle pushback, and look,
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  Speaker 2: this is way way inside baseball. I would I would
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  Speaker 2: look at every national opportunity you have as a way
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  Speaker 2: to promote the radio station, because Dallas talk show host
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything to somebody who lives in Dallas who
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  Speaker 2: might want to find you and they don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Where you are, you know, I mean, there's an assumption
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  Speaker 3: Al Gore.
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  Speaker 2: Did invent this thing called the internet. Anybody with five
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  Speaker 2: seconds can find me. But true, still, right, you're true.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, right there, there's always an assumption. It's the
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  Speaker 3: weirdest thing. When I went from one station to the
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  Speaker 3: other in South Carolina, nobody knew. A lot of people
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  Speaker 3: didn't even know I was on the other station, and
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  Speaker 3: they did some billboards and they made they had a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of an effort, and we're way inside baseball here.
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  Speaker 3: But I just I just think, if I'm your boss,
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, by golly, Mark, you better tell him six
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  Speaker 3: sixty am. But but it's a good It is a
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  Speaker 3: good opportunity to tell everybody where you are.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it's always my favorite thing. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: I always tell him, Hey, here's how to identify me.
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  Speaker 2: You know who always does Chris call them on News Nation?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Goody? Well?
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  Speaker 2: And I love always getting call letters from him. Although
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  Speaker 2: he snapped a twig in gone nuts now, so I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, but and the good news is Will Kine
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  Speaker 3: has about fifty times the audience.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's And listen, what what do I have
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  Speaker 1: in common with Trump? On the Will Kine Show this week?
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  Speaker 1: Did you see will kin and Trump yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: As well? And this and this? They ought to use
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  Speaker 3: you a lot. Well, you're right there in Dallas, for
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  Speaker 3: a word, that's where the heart America is? He is
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  Speaker 3: he is? He in the Glenn Beck compound? Is that
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  Speaker 3: where he's still use downtown Dallas? Oh he's downtown interesting, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's the heartland of America. Yes, yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: a main street in downtown Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's an undetermined location. It's heart good for
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  Speaker 3: well good, I'm glad they're using it. Hey, can we
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  Speaker 3: speak North Texas for a moment, and one of the
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  Speaker 3: iconic companies there, and let's go off of politics for
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  Speaker 3: just a moment. Southwest Airlines began their uh assigned seating
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  Speaker 3: this week. Yep. Now I saw somebody post something about this,
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  Speaker 3: and now, look this is important because the Southwest is
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  Speaker 3: legendary around these parts.
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  Speaker 1: I love Southwest.
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  Speaker 3: So this guy posts something, he says, I happen to
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  Speaker 3: be flying on Southwest today on their first day of
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  Speaker 3: assigned seating.
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  Speaker 2: First, tell everybody the deal. Forever Southwest has been no
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  Speaker 2: assigned seating. You show up, it's a cattle call. You're
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  Speaker 2: on the plane. It's kind of part of the charm.
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  Speaker 2: And they're also kind of light and breezy. They're joking
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  Speaker 2: and it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fun airline. It's a airline to travel.
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  Speaker 2: For some reason, they looked at the marketplace and said,
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  Speaker 2: we kind of need to be like the other guys,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to now do as signed seating.
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  Speaker 3: Right. I mean with Southwest, it was always peculiar because
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  Speaker 3: you'd stand in these like lanes that are not always
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  Speaker 3: felt like a baby veal, you know, getting ready to
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  Speaker 3: but but nonetheless and you could still get advantages, like
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  Speaker 3: if you got in early, you could get a one,
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  Speaker 3: you could get toward the front. Because when you don't
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  Speaker 3: have assigned seating, it's like anything is the Wild West.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody gets on the plane, get the best seat you want. Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So this guy writes, I was flying today on their
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  Speaker 3: first day have assigned seating. They have figured out a
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  Speaker 3: system to generate additional funds. They auto assigned me middle
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  Speaker 3: seats on both flights. I asked the agent, can I
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  Speaker 3: get a non middle seat? She says yes, all, but
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  Speaker 3: there's a fee, he said, I'm not paying extra for
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  Speaker 3: something I always got free on the old system. Southwest
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  Speaker 3: had a niche in the market, free check bag, flexible seating.
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  Speaker 3: They ditched both of those concepts and are now like
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  Speaker 3: every other airline, but with even higher seat and luggage
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  Speaker 3: fees in the competition. Now, look, here's what I don't understand. Bags.
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  Speaker 1: The bags don't fly free anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently not. Now I guess there's a fee. But here's
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  Speaker 3: what I'm understand about the seating. Look, you fly a lot,
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  Speaker 3: I fly a ton. Who doesn't pick their seat? What
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  Speaker 3: does he mean he gotta signed a middle seat? Doesn't
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  Speaker 3: Southwest let you pick your seat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if I'm doing something on American, it's like, you
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  Speaker 2: take a look at the entire seat map.
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  Speaker 3: What about Southwest?
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  Speaker 2: And I have no idea. I haven't flown Southwest in
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  Speaker 2: the last forty eight hours. I wonder I wouldn't they
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  Speaker 2: change this rule. I have no idea that would. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that would be bad. If you get auto assigned a
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  Speaker 2: seat by Southwest, that's stupid, that's not even that's not
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  Speaker 2: even the same as the other airlines.
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  Speaker 3: That's regressive. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny though, I do remember the last time I
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  Speaker 2: booked something on American. It is so funny because we're
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  Speaker 2: the listeners and I are in the great Unwashed, because
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  Speaker 2: this is a where Mike has not lived in fifteen
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  Speaker 2: or twenty years, first class MIC and that is I
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  Speaker 2: will say, when I see a price, let's save a
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  Speaker 2: flight to LaGuardia tomorrow. And it's three twenty five. But
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  Speaker 2: that is that is like the bargain basement where they
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  Speaker 2: might actually assign it for if you do want to
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  Speaker 2: pick it, it might be three sixty nine, So they
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  Speaker 2: do start you at a bargain basement level. That might
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  Speaker 2: not that might involve them assigning it and I saw
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  Speaker 2: it's funny you mentioned Southwest and their reaction to it.
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  Speaker 2: I saw another reaction to Southwest from somebody who's been
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  Speaker 2: flying them forever, and they said they're baffled as well.
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  Speaker 2: They now have all the negatives of the other airlines
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  Speaker 2: and none of the positives. It's like, this is what
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  Speaker 2: made Southwest kind of special, where if you knew how
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  Speaker 2: to play the system, you could get treated pretty well
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  Speaker 2: for the same price. And now it just seems like
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  Speaker 2: they've lost their charm and lost the advantage that they had.
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  Speaker 3: It's too bad, because you're right, there was something that
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  Speaker 3: was special about Southwest. So while you and I are talking,
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  Speaker 3: I pulled this up on my Southwest app. I have
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  Speaker 3: a Southwest app on the phone, and I picked a
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  Speaker 3: flight from Tampa to Dallas at the love Field. Here's
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  Speaker 3: here's how they do it. View seats. All right, you
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  Speaker 3: got first basic gopher lest standard seat assigned at check in,
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  Speaker 3: last to board. That's the cheapest fear. Then you've got choice,
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  Speaker 3: choose a standard seat at booking, general boarding, no cancel, Dan,
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  Speaker 3: it's a little bit more choice. Preferred. Choose a preferred
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  Speaker 3: seat so you can, I guess pick your I guess
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  Speaker 3: you can pick the category. I don't want to pick
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  Speaker 3: the category. I want to pick right where I'm sitting.
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  Speaker 3: I know I want the seat where I want it.
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  Speaker 3: You want a foot rub at a pot roast, I
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  Speaker 3: want to. I want a martini and I want some
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  Speaker 3: shrimp cocktail extra chill. That's weird. That's a well too bad,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's part of But I'll tell you what this is.
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  Speaker 2: Why you gets I have not done Frontier or some
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  Speaker 2: of these other folks. I mean, where the just the
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  Speaker 2: understood social compact is. It's a lower rate, but you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be paying extra for like everything you want
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  Speaker 2: to plane with wings, Oh, that's gonna be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more, and don't gonna be started on spirit.
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  Speaker 3: So some of these I did a legion a couple
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  Speaker 3: of months ago. It really wasn't bad. And let me
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  Speaker 3: give you the big secret. I don't know if they're
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  Speaker 3: in North Texas yet. Breeze Airways, Holy cow, it's a
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  Speaker 3: great airline.
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  Speaker 1: Are they from another country?
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  Speaker 3: No, they're Utah.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're based on insert your own joke here.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm kidding you.
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  Speaker 1: There's an iron I don't know why. I'm thinking of
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  Speaker 1: Ryan air they're out of.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty thirty second. They have final final thirty seconds. How
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  Speaker 3: do we receive the news that Alex pretty apparently got
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  Speaker 3: a rib broken in another confrontation that he had with
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  Speaker 3: federal law enforcement a week or two before he was killed.
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  Speaker 3: How do you what do you make of that? Neiche?
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  Speaker 2: It shows that he may well have done noble things
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  Speaker 2: as a nurse caring for veterans, but he was in
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  Speaker 2: this season an absolute wilful troublemaker on the street, and
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  Speaker 2: even that didn't mean he necessarily needed to get shot.
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  Speaker 2: Still a pretty uncomfortable shooting to look at, but he
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  Speaker 2: was prodded onto the streets by the rhetoric of those
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  Speaker 2: so called leaders that this is what sets the stage for.
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  Speaker 3: Such all right, you big TV start.
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  Speaker 2: You know, hey, listen, let's not bury the lead. You
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  Speaker 2: look and sound like you feel much better.
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  Speaker 3: I do feel better. I gotta find an allergist, though,
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  Speaker 3: because I can't go through this again. Every time the
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  Speaker 3: damn wind blows and there's trees around, I'm in the
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  Speaker 3: bed for five days. That's stupid. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what that that no, But I do feel a
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  Speaker 3: lot better. I'm a little stuffed up but I feel better.
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  Speaker 3: I feel a lot better and ready to take on
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  Speaker 3: the day.