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A New War Is Brewing In The Homeland: Trump Vs Springsteen · I Do, Part 2

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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Friday, April third, and we
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Speaker 1: are rooting for, but not very hopeful for a romance
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Speaker 1: between President Trump and Bruce Springsteen. And with that, welcome
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Speaker 1: to this episode of Amy and TJ. Why is the President?
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Speaker 1: This was a weird insult that got my attention this morning,
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Speaker 1: and now we're looking into it a little more. But
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Speaker 1: there is a back and forth between Trump and one
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Speaker 1: of the greatest artists of all time, quite frankly, and
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Speaker 1: it involves plastic surgery and boycotting concerts, robes. It's an ugly,
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Speaker 1: very public back and forth. They're just insulting each other.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's one thing to disagree with one another politically,
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Speaker 2: but this is way beyond that. And look, Bruce Springsteen
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Speaker 2: the boss. He is basically America. I mean you think
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Speaker 2: about just iconic American singers that embody the working man
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Speaker 2: up there on stage making good like that's Bruce Springsteen,
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Speaker 2: Jersey Gap right, yeah, like the heart of America.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: So it just seems so interesting to see President Trump
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Speaker 2: make America great again and Bruce Springsteen, a absolute symbol
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Speaker 2: of American greatness, going at it publicly.
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Speaker 1: Robes. They have the same audience these two men have
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Speaker 1: the exact same audience for the most part, So is
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Speaker 1: that group torn. This is a I was gonna be
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Speaker 1: a little dismissive, Robes, but this is now going to continue.
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Speaker 1: So if you haven't been keeping up, folks, it got
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Speaker 1: my attention because last night, at nine to twenty one,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of war, the President of the United
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Speaker 1: States put out a truth social post one sentence again
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Speaker 1: at nine twenty one last night, Robes. And one of
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Speaker 1: the first things we do every morning when we get
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Speaker 1: up is we check the President's truth Social feed because
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Speaker 1: he often makes news. He's talking about the straight of
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Speaker 1: horror moves, he's talking about who's negotiating with and Iran,
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Speaker 1: he's talking about the budget, he's talking about DHS and
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Speaker 1: so I was thrown to see this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he slipped this one in last night is well, wow,
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Speaker 2: I can't believe I just said it, like that is
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Speaker 2: Bruce Springs going to sue his plastic surgeon. It just
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Speaker 2: seemed like this strange truth Social tree.
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Speaker 1: He didn't even sign off with DJT or thank you
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Speaker 1: for your attention to this matter. That was like a
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Speaker 1: random among the toilet message.
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Speaker 2: So it I think he was operating under the belief
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Speaker 2: that people are glued to his truth social feed and
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Speaker 2: have actually been listening. But you must have missed thirteen
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Speaker 2: hours earlier when he posted it write a lengthy, scathing
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Speaker 2: post about Bruce Springsteen. So it was funny he started
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Speaker 2: the day thinking about Bruce Springsteen, and it's almost as
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Speaker 2: if he ended his evening thinking about Bruce Springsteen.
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Speaker 1: But this goes back in for this goes back quite
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Speaker 1: a ways. This goes back some say years and years
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Speaker 1: and years, back and forth, and the beast between these two.
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Speaker 1: Yes they have different politics, that is fine, but things
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Speaker 1: have turned it seems as of late robes as there's
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Speaker 1: a lot more name calling and less policy disagreement. There
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Speaker 1: is name accusations of treason, people being losers, needing plastic surgery,
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Speaker 1: and what in God's name. So it's been going on
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Speaker 1: for years and really rodes. It started off again this
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Speaker 1: week because the Springsteen tourists starting this week. He was
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Speaker 1: a part of the No Kings rallies, and I guess
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Speaker 1: that's what really set the president off. On the previous
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Speaker 1: social media pokes.
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Speaker 2: Correct correct, Bruce Springsteen said that he is not going
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Speaker 2: to be shy or afraid to get political and to
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Speaker 2: say what he really thinks about this president, and he
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Speaker 2: did so on stage. And that makes now a lot
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Speaker 2: more sense when you hear what President Trump wrote about
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Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen a few hours earlier. He said, bad and
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Speaker 2: very boring singer Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried
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Speaker 2: up prune, who has suffered greatly from the work of
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Speaker 2: a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible
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Speaker 2: and incurable case of Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to
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Speaker 2: as TDS. You doctor, he is the chief diagnoser, by
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Speaker 2: the way. Okay, President Trump goes on to say this
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Speaker 2: about Springsteen. The guy is a total losers who spew's
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Speaker 2: hate against a president who won a landslide election, including
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Speaker 2: the popular vote all seven swing states and eighty six
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Speaker 2: percent of the counties across America. Under Sleepy Joe and
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Speaker 2: the Dems, our country was dead and now we have
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Speaker 2: the hottest country by far anywhere in the world. Maga
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Speaker 2: should boycott his overpriced concerts, which suck. Save your heart, sorry, suck,
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Speaker 2: suck seeing your herd earned money. America is back. And
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Speaker 2: he wrote that last thing about the boycott in all caps.
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Speaker 1: M that's incredibly personal. Is it because Bruce Springsteen has
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Speaker 1: such a big stage, has such a big audience and
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Speaker 1: such a big microphone that he feels like he needs
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Speaker 1: to combat this guy word for word publicly.
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Speaker 2: Almost Yes, I think he really, I think Actually it's
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Speaker 2: a compliment that makes kind of not a lot of sense,
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Speaker 2: but maybe it will when you think about it. It's
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Speaker 2: a compliment to Bruce Springsteen. He knows the power this
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Speaker 2: man has, he knows the following he has. And so yes,
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Speaker 2: you've got pictures of Bruce Springsteen on stage in a
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Speaker 2: sold out crowd holding up a no King sign in Minneapolis,
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Speaker 2: and yes, opened up his The Land of Hope and
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Speaker 2: Dreams tour, basically bashing President Trump. In his first speech,
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Speaker 2: he said that America is currently in the hands of
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Speaker 2: a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration. Them are
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Speaker 2: fighting words.
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Speaker 1: Okay, racist, treasonous, I mean, I don't know what reckless words.
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Speaker 1: So you can get in this country at least if
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Speaker 1: he look feels that way, he feels that way, you
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Speaker 1: can feel how you want to feel about him expressing himself.
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Speaker 1: He has a right to certainly don't like the words
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Speaker 1: he's choosing. You could take issue with it. Where do
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Speaker 1: we then robes, Well, we have the expectation. Presidents get
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Speaker 1: criticized more than anybody, any celebrity who's ever been attacked
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Speaker 1: in a tabloid. Absolutely, presidents get all kinds of incoming.
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Speaker 1: They don't do this, they don't take on all comers
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Speaker 1: in this where he could have a policy discussion, and
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Speaker 1: of course he's not going to do that. But I'm
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Speaker 1: just saying it's it's not that he's being criticized, is
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Speaker 1: that he is taking like tit for tact. It seems
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Speaker 1: he needs to give back to him in the middle
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Speaker 1: of war.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's taking things as he always has. Let's be honest.
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Speaker 2: Very personally, he I think it's fair to say he
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Speaker 2: is the most or at least the most I've ever
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Speaker 2: seen thin skinned president I've ever witnessed in my lifetime.
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Speaker 1: Some will say this is toughness, not going to be
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Speaker 1: able to talk about. Really I am, and I'm not
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Speaker 1: just turn it. I'm saying people flip it. We're in
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Speaker 1: a place where we can now justify. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what person, what parent would tell their child to behave
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Speaker 1: this way. You wouldn't tell your child if you get
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Speaker 1: it insult. You need to hit them harder, give the
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Speaker 1: same insult back. Make sure you punch down where you
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Speaker 1: would never So I'm saying, why is it we can
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Speaker 1: look at this and defend this in some circles as
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Speaker 1: if this is okay when robes nobody does.
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Speaker 2: That, And what's the And President Trump, what he's saying
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Speaker 2: is you got bad plastic surgery, you're old, and you're boring,
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Speaker 2: going after his music, going after his looks, going after it.
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Speaker 2: Just it's so superficial and so childlike.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for explaining what my issue is. That's what
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Speaker 1: it is. He calls them a prone, he calls them.
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Speaker 1: That is not saying you got issue with my policies.
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Speaker 1: Well I got it. That's so yes, that's the thing
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Speaker 1: that got me. You talked about last of this tour
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Speaker 1: is now officially kicking off the US leg, but he
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Speaker 1: was doing it overseas even last year. And I think
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Speaker 1: this was the first one that really got President Trump's attention.
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Speaker 1: He was on stage over there and used that same
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Speaker 1: word you talking about treeson us, called him treason us
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Speaker 1: talking to a foreign audience about what's happening in America.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people take issue with that, but he's
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Speaker 1: an entertainer, he's not a politician. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at this point, and Bruce Springsteen has
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Speaker 2: kind of said, I'm at a point now where I'm
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Speaker 2: going to say and basically, I've earned the right and
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Speaker 2: I'm an American and I have a stage, and i
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Speaker 2: have a platform, and I am going to say what
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Speaker 2: I think about this president. And I don't care if
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Speaker 2: it alienates half of my audience. I don't care if
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Speaker 2: it has any sort of impact on ticket sales or
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Speaker 2: music downloads, because at this point, it's dangerous not to
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Speaker 2: And that's basically the line he drew.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's cool to have. You can't do nothing
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Speaker 1: to me money, and he does. I mean, he has
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Speaker 1: just reached that level. I do wander ropes. What is
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Speaker 1: there going to be a conflict? Is there going to
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Speaker 1: be a battle among these two guys who have the
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Speaker 1: exact same audience, These two guys who represent robes I thought,
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Speaker 1: the almost the exact same thing, or at least mindset,
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Speaker 1: or they represent.
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Speaker 2: Seeing white working class white guys.
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Speaker 1: What does he said? Both of them are seventy five.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're about the same same generation. Look and yes,
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Speaker 2: have a similar audience. That is very true. Now it's
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Speaker 2: interesting because, look, people do start to take sides. We
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Speaker 2: don't know if this will have any impact when the
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Speaker 2: president calls for a boycott, which he very clearly did,
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Speaker 2: called for a boycott of Bruce Springsteen's concerts, will people
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Speaker 2: follow suit? Will people feel loyal towards the president and
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Speaker 2: say I no longer like Bruce Springsteen?
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Speaker 1: What would you say? You know what? Don't give me
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Speaker 1: your answer to that just yet. Stay here. Well, let
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Speaker 1: you know we talk told you this really got set
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Speaker 1: off last year with Springsteen his comments on a stage
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Speaker 1: at a concert in Overseas. Well, let you hear the
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Speaker 1: president's original scathing response to that, which I would argue
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Speaker 1: Rose might have been worse than some of the stuff
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Speaker 1: he's tweeted in the past twenty four hours. And we'll
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Speaker 1: also get the answer from roboch do we really think
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Speaker 1: this is going to make a difference in the President's
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Speaker 1: support versus Springsteen's ticket sales?
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Speaker 2: Stay here, Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy
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Speaker 2: and TJ. Worthy. Well, the very public dueling between Trump,
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Speaker 2: President Trump and Bruce Springsteen has reached a fever pitch.
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Speaker 2: It's been simmering now for a little over a year
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Speaker 2: where Bruce Springsteen made some comments about the president overseas.
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Speaker 2: He's his tour now kicking off in Minneapolis over the weekend,
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Speaker 2: and now he'll be performing by the way in Portland,
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Speaker 2: Oregon this evening on Friday night. Pretty sure he'll have
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Speaker 2: a pretty uh, just a like minded crowd with him,
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Speaker 2: given what he said. And then he goes on to
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Speaker 2: LA after that, which again he'll probably have a very yes,
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Speaker 2: a safe crowd, a very supportive crowd, generally speaking, performing
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Speaker 2: in Portland, Oregon and then in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: I'm checking. Now you have an idea. I assume it's
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Speaker 1: going to be a huge tour. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: many tour dates he has lined up. But the president
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Speaker 1: needs to be I say he needs to be. He
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Speaker 1: probably is concerned about that role. This guy's going to
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Speaker 1: have the stage damn near every night for the past
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Speaker 1: for the next few months. And he is going on
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Speaker 1: stage to some of these concerts he's already done. He
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Speaker 1: stops and makes little political speeches throughout these concerts. These
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Speaker 1: are almost political rallies.
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Speaker 2: He actually warned. He did some interviews beforehand, and he
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Speaker 2: told reporters just letting you know, I am going to
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Speaker 2: be very very political, So he basically said, hey for
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Speaker 2: coming out to this concert. I think people know what
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Speaker 2: they're getting. They love his music, they've been fans for years,
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Speaker 2: but they also recognize he's been very very specific and
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Speaker 2: overt about what this concert means to him, how he
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Speaker 2: feels about the current administration, and how he is going
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Speaker 2: to voice his opinion in between his music, about how
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Speaker 2: he feels about where this country is and who it's
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Speaker 2: being led by.
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Speaker 1: Twenty dates between now and May twenty seven, twenty dates.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about those cities? Portland, La La,
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Speaker 1: San Francisco, Phoenix, Newark, Sunrise, Florida, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Belmont Park,
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Speaker 1: New York, Philly.
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Speaker 2: He's made some wise choices. He's no dummy, Brooklyn. I
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Speaker 2: don't see I don't see a lot of red cities
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Speaker 2: in that.
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Speaker 1: Lineup, Boston, DC, point take.
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Speaker 2: He's got some safe cities. They don't think given those audiences,
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Speaker 2: his ticket sales should probably suffer at all.
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised he doesn't do more in the heartland.
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Speaker 2: If you will, Well, maybe with this particular tour, he
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Speaker 2: knew exactly what he was going to do. And who
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Speaker 2: his audience was. I think he probably made a very
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Speaker 2: specific choice about where he was going and who was
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Speaker 2: going to be in the audience. Truly, you wouldn't want
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Speaker 2: to put yourself at risk the way things are these days,
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Speaker 2: you think, I mean, I hate to even say, Charlie Kirk,
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Speaker 2: but look, we've seen what happens when you have folks
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Speaker 2: come into some of these arenas where you were on
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Speaker 2: a stage, and some people take it as an opportunity,
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Speaker 2: and especially when you're outspoken, especially when you say this
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Speaker 2: is how I feel and I'm not going to be
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Speaker 2: shy about it. Yeah, you invite I was just thinking
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Speaker 2: about what security might be like forget ticket sales. I
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Speaker 2: would be a little concerned about security at those venues.
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Speaker 1: And I haven't seen anything. I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: have anything that suggested ticket sales were being hurt in
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Speaker 1: any way, shape or form. I have not.
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Speaker 2: I have not. Okay, you were really excited about reading
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Speaker 2: this is what the president said? How long ago did
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Speaker 2: he say this last year?
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Speaker 1: In response? Last year we covered this one.
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Speaker 2: We might have, but it's just it's worth revisiting given
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Speaker 2: the latest tweets we've just seen from the President, who
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Speaker 2: was still stuck and harboring and harping on. Excuse me,
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Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen. So here is what he wrote last year.
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Speaker 2: I see that a highly overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to
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Speaker 2: a foreign country to speak badly about the president of
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Speaker 2: the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music
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Speaker 2: or his radical left politics, and importantly, he is not
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Speaker 2: a talented guy, just a pushy, obnoxious jerk who fervently
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Speaker 2: supported crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent fool and our
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Speaker 2: worst ever president who came close to destroying our country.
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Speaker 2: If I wasn't elected, it would have been gone by nows. Wow,
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize he said.
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Speaker 1: That America was at risk.
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Speaker 2: We would have been blown off the map. Okay, sleepy
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Speaker 2: Joe didn't have a clue as to what he was doing.
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Speaker 2: But Springsteen is dumb as a rock and couldn't see
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Speaker 2: what was going on, or could he? Which is he
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Speaker 2: even worse? This dried out prune of a rocker. His
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Speaker 2: skin is all atrophied. Ought to keep his mouth shut
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Speaker 2: until he gets back into the country. That's just standard fair.
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Speaker 2: Then we'll all see how it goes for him. So
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Speaker 2: it looks like that maybe Bruce Springsteen did take some
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Speaker 2: advice from him and waited till he came back to
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Speaker 2: the country and then opened his mouth again. And now
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Speaker 2: the president is still very unhappy.
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Speaker 1: Then we'll see how it goes for him. That's a
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Speaker 1: weird threat threat. Yes, okay, I'm serious. Some people might
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Speaker 1: get joy out of this. Think it's cute, think it's funny,
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Speaker 1: think it's no big deal, and that's fine. I just
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Speaker 1: I just I wish cooler heads would prevail.
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Speaker 2: Look, I think, Look, I don't know how powerful we
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Speaker 2: were looking. And there's some headlines that the Musicians Union
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Speaker 2: now has come out and support of Bruce Springsteen. I
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Speaker 2: didn't know there was a musician's union, but it is
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Speaker 2: interesting what they've said. I think this speaks volumes, and
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Speaker 2: maybe they are concerned about not just ticket sales but
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Speaker 2: concertgores or people being turned off by Bruce Springsteen based
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Speaker 2: on what the pre president said. They put out this
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Speaker 2: statement in response to the President's call for a boycott.
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Speaker 2: We cannot remain silent as one of our most celebrated
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Speaker 2: members is singled out and personally attacked by the President
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Speaker 2: of the United States. Bruce Springsteen is not just a
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Speaker 2: brilliant musician. He is a voice for working people, a
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Speaker 2: symbol of American resilience, and an inspiration to millions in
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Speaker 2: this country and around the world, from Nebraska to Born
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Speaker 2: to Run. His music has spoken truth to power for decades,
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Speaker 2: and that is exactly what he is doing now. Musicians
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Speaker 2: have the right to freedom of expression, and we stand
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Speaker 2: in complete solidarity with Bruce and every member who uses
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Speaker 2: their platform to speak their conscience. Local eight h two
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Speaker 2: and Local forty seven will always defend that right.
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Speaker 1: What's Nebraska?
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Speaker 2: That's a song of his?
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Speaker 1: Oh? How you saw the list states? From Nebraska to
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Speaker 1: to what Oklahoma? I mean?
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Speaker 2: Sorry, Okay, you're a Bruce Springsteen fans.
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Speaker 1: President and I might agree on we were not necessarily
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Speaker 1: fans of the music, but I respect it. I know
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Speaker 1: who that guy is, I know what he means. I
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Speaker 1: think I know he's an Ald timer. Never got into
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Speaker 1: his music, Fine, no big deal, but damn.
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Speaker 2: Literally, Born in the USA is Bruce Springsteen's song like
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Speaker 2: Born in the USA, the Streets of Philadelphia, thunder Road,
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Speaker 2: I'm on Fire, dancing in the dark, Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 2: all of his amazing.
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Speaker 1: Video that they were out in the cornfield and the House,
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Speaker 1: House in the House on the that's.
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Speaker 2: Jack and Dianea, isn't it with John Mellencamp. Wait, I
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Speaker 2: don't know if you're thinking about one Glory Days? What
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Speaker 2: Glory Days? No? What Damn, I don't know what you're
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Speaker 2: talking about.
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Speaker 1: I was.
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Speaker 2: I'm not as big of a music video person, so
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Speaker 2: I'm not as sure about Okay.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, folks, we thought it was interesting. It's worth noting
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Speaker 1: these are two you could you could very easily say
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Speaker 1: ropes iconic Americans when it comes to what America is
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Speaker 1: traditionally seen as viewed as supposed to be. These guys
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Speaker 1: are these rough and gruff and not people look at
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Speaker 1: white men who have big white followings of middle age
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Speaker 1: and older white guys.
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Speaker 2: That's very true.
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Speaker 1: These are really icons in those lanes to the way
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Speaker 1: you can't really describe for a forty five year old
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Speaker 1: white guy except the Maga bass bigger icons than these two.
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Speaker 2: I wonder, I wonder, you know, I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: can't get in the head of anyone, but when I
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Speaker 2: know I've known some avid Bruce Springsteen fans in my life,
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine that they would be willing to just
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Speaker 2: stop listening to the music they love, because when you're
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Speaker 2: as Bruce Springsteen fan, you weren't just like, oh, I
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Speaker 2: like Bruce's music, No, you are like you bleed the
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Speaker 2: Boss like Bruce. So it's just it's hard to imagine
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Speaker 2: that those folks would be willing to abandon their hero
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Speaker 2: out of allegiance to the president. But I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's in people's hearts, and I don't
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Speaker 2: know if they had to choose who they would pick.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes divorce is hard, right, You got to pick your friend,
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Speaker 2: Which one do you go with? Who do you hang
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Speaker 2: out with? That might be what some folks are having
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Speaker 2: to figure out today.
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Speaker 1: All right, and before we go, Rope, tell us who
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Speaker 1: you would take. I'm just kidding with that, folks. We
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