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Wicked Radio 2-25: Alec Baldwin Snaps, V For Ohio, & Dirty Harry Made Roberta Flack A Star? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: The rise of the mega governors maybe well mega politicians
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Speaker 1: at the state level. Anyway, that's what we're starting to
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Speaker 1: see now with Vivek announcing in Ohio something very very
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Speaker 1: interesting happening in Florida. Also, Alec Baldwin finally snapped on
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Speaker 1: an influencer. I know he snapped before, but this is
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Speaker 1: a little bit different this time. I think you may
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Speaker 1: feel the same. This may be the first time ever
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Speaker 1: for me personally anyway on this or back in radio world,
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Speaker 1: in real life whatever it is, actually defending Alec Baldwin,
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Speaker 1: because I think he was one hundred percent right in
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Speaker 1: this case. And I'll go so far as to say
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Speaker 1: this may be the incident because it's a big viral
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Speaker 1: story now how this guy got in his face and
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. This may be the one that turns
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Speaker 1: public opinion on the side of Alec Baldwin. I didn't
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Speaker 1: think it was possible after the whole rust thing. I
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Speaker 1: really truly didn't forget that to talk about as well
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Speaker 1: as Dan Bongino, the new director Deputy director of the FBI,
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Speaker 1: upping a very big hint of what we could expect
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Speaker 1: out of that department, because it's fantastic because Dan still
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Speaker 1: has his show. You want to talk about transparency. So
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Speaker 1: we've got people in the administration now, a couple of them.
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Speaker 1: It's not just Dan who actually have podcasts and live
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Speaker 1: shows and live streams. We can actually see in real
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Speaker 1: time because they can't stop dropping hints what we can
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Speaker 1: expect out of these departments. Oh, it's fantastic. Oh it's
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Speaker 1: great stuff. And sadly we lost ROBERTA. Flak yesterday. Great
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Speaker 1: soul R and B pop rock singer rock two and
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Speaker 1: of all things, we can thank Clint Eastwood for her
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Speaker 1: becoming a household name. We can thank Clint for a
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Speaker 1: lot of things, including this one with ROBERTA. Flack. I
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Speaker 1: had no idea as long as I was in music radio.
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Speaker 1: I never heard this story until it came out yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Sadly with her passing. But anyways, let's get to it.
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Speaker 1: A lot to talk about. It's got rid of some business. First,
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Speaker 1: livestream show. All right, let's get to it. They calling
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Speaker 1: this V for Ohio, the V possibly maybe victory. We'll
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Speaker 1: see how it all shakes out. He's leading the poll
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Speaker 1: so far, but the V right now stands for Vivic
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Speaker 1: vivike Ramaswami. We all know him well. We know him
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Speaker 1: from the campaign. He was supposed to cohad doge with Elon.
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Speaker 1: Despite the fake news that said there was a big
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Speaker 1: falling out in that department. I don't think that's really true,
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Speaker 1: because he just received an endorsement from Elon and President
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Speaker 1: Trump for the governor's race, the gubernatorial race in the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio, and he announced it last night. It
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Speaker 1: sounded like this, I am honored to announce my candidacy
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Speaker 1: to serve as the next governor of the state of Ohio.
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Speaker 1: It's a perfect choice for him, I would see. Really
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Speaker 1: is he wants to make a difference. He loves he is.
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Speaker 1: You know, one consistent thing with VIVEG throughout the entire
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Speaker 1: campaign was he made it a point to refer back
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Speaker 1: to and you know, really try to stump for his
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Speaker 1: home state of Ohio. Is a Cincinnati guy born in Rased.
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Speaker 1: Before he went into the biotech industry became an investor
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Speaker 1: and entrepreneur. He always stuck up for Ohio. He's always
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Speaker 1: very proud of his Buckeye roots. It's perfect for him, really,
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Speaker 1: it really is. I think it's gonna be perfect. I
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Speaker 1: think the guy's gonna win in a landslide. That's just
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Speaker 1: my opinion. But there's something more important happening here for
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Speaker 1: everybody else outside of Ohio and the rest of us
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Speaker 1: in the country, and we're starting to see it now.
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Speaker 1: You can call it a trickle down effect, maybe I guess,
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Speaker 1: but it's really a progression of things to go. Now.
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Speaker 1: The talk over the past couple of weeks has been
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Speaker 1: a we love this Doge effort to clean up waste,
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Speaker 1: to get rid of waste and corruption and inefficiency, and
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Speaker 1: trim the fat out of the federal government. The people
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Speaker 1: have started to ask the question, well, how about at
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Speaker 1: the state level, are we gonna have doze departments in
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Speaker 1: this now a couple of states, and I'll throw Florida
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Speaker 1: into that mix as well. I think Glenn Youngkin two
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Speaker 1: in Virginia done a pretty good job cleaning up their
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Speaker 1: state rolls and trim it away the fat and the bureaucracy.
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Speaker 1: But is that going to be a trend going forward.
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Speaker 1: He can call it trickle down maybe, but that doesn't
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Speaker 1: start until you get guys like that. What I would
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Speaker 1: have to say is definitely. You know, he's definitely maga.
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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, go back to when Vivik was actually announcing,
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Speaker 1: remember before he had to drop out and fully endorsed
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Speaker 1: the Trump team Ramaswami to make a name for himself.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about radical he was.
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Speaker 1: Remember he was the guy that said on a debate station,
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Speaker 1: I want to get rid of all of them. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to just clean up waste. I want to
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Speaker 1: get rid of these departments, get rid of the get
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Speaker 1: rid of the alphabet departments. He just wanted to completely
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Speaker 1: eliminate the IRS and the CIA and the FBI. Even
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Speaker 1: that was like whoa. But that was to make a
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Speaker 1: name for himself. But now he's a guy who wants
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Speaker 1: to you can be sure, inact the same kind of
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Speaker 1: policies for the state of Ohio. Watch for this to
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Speaker 1: happen in other states as well. And it starts with
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Speaker 1: the Trump campaign. Trump endorsed America first mega candidates closer
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Speaker 1: to the local level. Case in point case DeSantis. This
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Speaker 1: is fascinating now also through that very impactful and consequential campaign,
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Speaker 1: Governoran DeSantis became a national figure. We've known him for
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Speaker 1: in my state of Florida, we've known him for quite
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Speaker 1: some time. Uh, winning twice now the gubernatorial race here.
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Speaker 1: It's done a great job in Florida. Most would agree.
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Speaker 1: When he dared run against Trump, Trump wasn't too happy
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Speaker 1: about that. When he put his name into the hat
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Speaker 1: before he had to drop out, Trump was not you know,
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Speaker 1: there was a falling out there before they patched things
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Speaker 1: up again, because before that happened, you might remember he
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Speaker 1: was Governora. He's my guy. I love this guy. But
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Speaker 1: when that happened, we all know how Trump is, you know,
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Speaker 1: run against him. Doesn't appreciate that too much. Well, seems
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Speaker 1: to be back in good graces, or is he? This
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Speaker 1: is fascinating to watch. DeSantis can't run again for governor.
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Speaker 1: He's probably not a lot of people are saying that
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Speaker 1: he's going to probably try to get the senator. See
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Speaker 1: maybe Rick Scott will go away run for Congress again
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Speaker 1: at the national level. Who the heck knows? Listen to
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Speaker 1: Casey desandis Ron's wife. By all intents I've interviewer wants.
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Speaker 1: Very nice lady. You know she's also a cancer survivor,
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Speaker 1: very brave. Fight there. Tell me, when you listen to this,
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Speaker 1: this isn't the person throwing her hat into the ring
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Speaker 1: to run in this governor's race. Because this sure sounds
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Speaker 1: like it. You have to lead, You have to have courage.
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Speaker 1: You have to show that our way works. You enact
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Speaker 1: bold policies, and you hold yourself accountable because if we
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Speaker 1: do this, we will continue to be a model for
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Speaker 1: the nation, We will be a beacon of hope for
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Speaker 1: the world, and we will continue to stay the free
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Speaker 1: state of Florida. Okay, I've heard that now three times isolated,
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Speaker 1: and this is why I like to play the audio,
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Speaker 1: not just the visuals. He can really concentrate on it,
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Speaker 1: because things are different when you hear it. Okay, that's
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Speaker 1: a campaign speech. I'm sorry. Now, I'm absolutely convinced. I
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Speaker 1: was thinking that before. Now I'm a one hundred percent
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Speaker 1: camp convinced that is a That's a campaign speech, not
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Speaker 1: an official announcement. Her hat isn't in the ring yet,
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Speaker 1: but boy, it sounds like it's coming. Now. This is
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Speaker 1: fascinating on a number of levels. We'll get to the
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Speaker 1: personal level here in just a second. You may know
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Speaker 1: the name Byron Donalds, also a maga guy who Trump loves.
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Speaker 1: He is a congressman out of southwest Florida, Sarasota area.
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Speaker 1: Now he's also the name that's being considered for this
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Speaker 1: race in Florida, for the good natorial race that's coming up.
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Speaker 1: Very big name, very popular. Seems like a great guy.
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Speaker 1: I don't know officially yet, but I'm about ninety percent
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Speaker 1: sure that that's the guy who Trump would endorse. Byron Donalds,
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Speaker 1: whether he likes it or not. Dessantas is somebody that
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Speaker 1: Trump is really gonna need going forward here. And this
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Speaker 1: was percolating a little bit up before they patch things
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Speaker 1: up in the presidential race. You know, Trump was taking
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Speaker 1: shots at him because he felt that it was a
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Speaker 1: disloyal thing that Ron was running. And then they patch
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Speaker 1: things up again. Okay, what what if you have not
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Speaker 1: only DeSantis running against Trump's hand pick guy for the
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Speaker 1: governor's race. What if he had Desantus's wife running against
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Speaker 1: Trump's hand pick guy and the governor's race in the
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Speaker 1: state of Florida. What happens then, I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: think Trump would uh shy away from let's say, taking
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Speaker 1: shots at Casey DeSantis just to be respectful. He's got
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Speaker 1: nothing to lose. I don't think it would mind that.
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Speaker 1: But he would one hundred percent endorse Byron Donald's. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm convinced. I was at ninety before, now one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent convinced he would endorse Byron Donalds to run against
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Speaker 1: her if that comes to pass. Here's the other fascinating
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Speaker 1: part of it. And I know you're thinking it. I
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Speaker 1: know you are, especially you married guys. I just I
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Speaker 1: can feel your thoughts coming into my head right now.
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Speaker 1: You can't say it out loud, especially if you're with
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Speaker 1: your significant other. Right now, I'll say it for you, boy.
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Speaker 1: My first thought was, Ron is just he's getting out
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Speaker 1: of the way on this one. What if? What if
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Speaker 1: this is the case where Casey Desanta's it's her idea
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Speaker 1: to run. Maybe it wasn't the Republican Party of Florida.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't Ron. Maybe it's Casey really making the
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Speaker 1: case making the case pun intended to run for this job.
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Speaker 1: What if you're Ron de Santas, Because every man has
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Speaker 1: to make this choice, if you've got a working spouse
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Speaker 1: or significant other, a partner, everybody has to everybody has
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Speaker 1: to face this at one point in time. Okay, maybe politically,
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Speaker 1: maybe from my career, that's not the best thing to happen.
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Speaker 1: But I have a life to live. I love this woman,
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Speaker 1: we have children together, we have a life together. I
9:54
Speaker 1: need to support her as best I can. I know
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Speaker 1: I'm joking about this, but we need to consider this fact.
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Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis is in a very very prickly situation here.
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Speaker 1: He has to handle this very delicately. Wow, I uh,
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Speaker 1: there's one m there's one thing to work together with
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Speaker 1: your with your wife, I do you know, and a lover.
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Speaker 1: But boyd to do it on a public stage like that.
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Speaker 1: This is going to be fascinating to watch going forward here.
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Speaker 1: But again, the takeaway is it's starting. It didn't take
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Speaker 1: too long either. At the local state level is starting
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Speaker 1: to see if you call it the trickle down effect,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, the MAGA endorsed or MEGA created politicians having
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Speaker 1: an effect at the local level and it's fascinating to watch. Unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: This is fascinating too. So the big news yesterday and
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Speaker 1: coming out of the weekend was Dan Bongino officially picked
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Speaker 1: to be the deputy director of the FBI. Incredible. Dan's background,
10:52
Speaker 1: by the way, is incredible, not just I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of us got to know him. You know, as
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Speaker 1: a podcaster in the Dan Bongino Show. Very successful, He's
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Speaker 1: great at it. So he's got the communication skills. You
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Speaker 1: know him as a secret service agents in the really
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Speaker 1: coming out of the Clinton administration. Boys, he have some
11:09
Speaker 1: stories about Hillary. Fascinating. You've got that as well. He
11:13
Speaker 1: has two higher education degrees, two advanced degrees. He's got
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Speaker 1: this amazing ability. He's an incredible guy, very accomplished. I
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Speaker 1: don't think you're going to find anybody more patriotic than
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Speaker 1: Dan Bongino. And now you've got this fascinating thing. We've
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Speaker 1: got people in the administration. He's not the only one,
11:28
Speaker 1: because he's not going to stop doing the Dan Bongino Show,
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Speaker 1: which is great news for all of us. If you're
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Speaker 1: a fan of Dan like I am, now you've got
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Speaker 1: a guy in the administration who can talk about what's
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Speaker 1: going on, and he's already done it about what the
11:43
Speaker 1: plan is going forward in the FBI, working directly with
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Speaker 1: and under Cash Pattel, And it's a fascinating thing. You
11:49
Speaker 1: want to talk about transparency that we all wanted this
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Speaker 1: in this administration. What if you have people who are
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Speaker 1: directly involved in it talking every day in a podcast
11:57
Speaker 1: and a show and a live stream that's just not
11:59
Speaker 1: handpicked and edit interviews. This is like their raw emotion
12:02
Speaker 1: coming out talking about what they're working on. And it's
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Speaker 1: already started. So this is a clip from a couple
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Speaker 1: of days ago where Dan dropped a huge hint and
12:13
Speaker 1: awesome hint about what's coming with the FBI. This is
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Speaker 1: the day that he was officially announced to be to
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Speaker 1: be picked as the deputy director, and he's telling you
12:25
Speaker 1: right out what they're gonna do. It's great news for
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Speaker 1: the FBI. It's really great news for the field agents
12:31
Speaker 1: that have been under this ridiculous leadership for years, right,
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Speaker 1: the real working folks, the great agents of the FBI.
12:39
Speaker 1: And it's bad news for Adam Schiff. He went off
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Speaker 1: on this guy on Adam Shiff being the architect of
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Speaker 1: both Russia collusion hoaxes, and this is the big hint
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Speaker 1: that Dan dropped about what they're going to do about it.
12:52
Speaker 1: It's kind of a big freaking deal. I'm not letting
12:56
Speaker 1: it go. And you listen to me, this is going
12:58
Speaker 1: to be very important in the coming I'm not letting
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Speaker 1: this go. You have to love that. I absolutely and
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Speaker 1: so well, first of all, politically going after Adam Shiff,
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Speaker 1: who's an absolute crook, and Cash Bettellas said it too
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Speaker 1: in many interviews leading up to him becoming the director
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Speaker 1: of the new director of the FBI, there's no bigger
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Speaker 1: there's never been a bigger crook in Congress than Adam Schiff.
13:19
Speaker 1: I mean, he said it. So the guy that's now
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Speaker 1: the director of the FBI and the Deputy Directora the FBI,
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Speaker 1: both of them saying that Adam Schiff is a criminal.
13:30
Speaker 1: How's Adam Schiff handling this today? We'll find out. But
13:33
Speaker 1: that's amazing my take. My favorite part of this. We've
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Speaker 1: got very influential people who are actually doing the work
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Speaker 1: to improve our life on a day to day basis
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Speaker 1: and make this country safer, talking about it on live
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Speaker 1: streams of podcasts as it happens in real time. This
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Speaker 1: is fan I love it. I absolutely love it all
13:52
Speaker 1: right now, this is this is a little bit. I
13:54
Speaker 1: know I'm not the guy you come to for celebrity stuff.
13:56
Speaker 1: I totally get that, because I just celebrity stuff just
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Speaker 1: isn't my thing until something flips around. Been no fan
14:03
Speaker 1: of Alec Baldwin. I think he got off Scott free
14:06
Speaker 1: of the whole rust incident where that poor girl, the
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Speaker 1: cinematographer was killed and it was just awful. And he's
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Speaker 1: had meltdowns before, we all know it. Going back, Oh
14:15
Speaker 1: my god, was it fifteen? Was it twenty years ago?
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Speaker 1: Remember he was on the Remember they caught him on
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Speaker 1: a phone call conversation on the voicemail, you little pig.
14:23
Speaker 1: You know he's the he's got the temper. We all
14:25
Speaker 1: know that. And Alec Baldwin is Alec Baldwin, talented guy.
14:28
Speaker 1: We all know that. Still did one of the best
14:29
Speaker 1: Trump impersonations of all time. On SNL. They they would
14:32
Speaker 1: bring him back and on thirty Rock. I'm no fan
14:35
Speaker 1: of his in general, and I'm still not, but I
14:40
Speaker 1: can't help defend him in this case and tell me
14:42
Speaker 1: you wouldn't do the same thing. Because when I first
14:44
Speaker 1: read the headline and This was everywhere, and the video
14:46
Speaker 1: is every He's got millions and millions of using hits.
14:48
Speaker 1: I get that because some stupid influencer I don't even
14:51
Speaker 1: know his name, whatever it is, with a by the way,
14:53
Speaker 1: a pretty bad Trump impersonation, confronts him in New York,
14:57
Speaker 1: luggage in hand. I think they were either getting into
15:01
Speaker 1: the car or or getting out of the car whatever.
15:03
Speaker 1: It's their residence. He's confronted by this dope in this moron.
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Speaker 1: And when I first read the headline, it's Alec Baldwin
15:09
Speaker 1: snaps again finally has enough threatens violence. Well, in these
15:14
Speaker 1: kinds of cases to judge somebody like that, especially when
15:16
Speaker 1: they're a celebrity, you gotta put yourself in there in
15:19
Speaker 1: their shoes for just a little bit, wouldn't you do
15:22
Speaker 1: the same thing? And when I heard his reaction you
15:25
Speaker 1: see it in person. Even though his words were kind
15:28
Speaker 1: of threatening, I think Alec Baldwin was kind of calm
15:31
Speaker 1: given all the circumstances that we have to deal with here.
15:34
Speaker 1: And here's how it went. Sure, now you realize, no, no,
15:37
Speaker 1: look at me, how want you? Yeah? Sure? Sure? You
15:40
Speaker 1: know you got a camera on me here the ring, No,
15:41
Speaker 1: it's the right believe that. You realize my kids live
15:44
Speaker 1: in this building, right, but I want you to know
15:46
Speaker 1: we love the children. We're doing great deals for the children,
15:48
Speaker 1: so we wal care. Okay, if this Camon was here,
15:50
Speaker 1: I snapped you and break your Okay, all right, Alec Balden,
15:54
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin, Ladies and gentlemen, class act. Believe me. Here's
15:58
Speaker 1: why I think it works. Because he said, and he
16:00
Speaker 1: was right, his children are there within view. They might
16:02
Speaker 1: have even been on the step of the Brownstone. I
16:04
Speaker 1: don't know. This was in New York. If your family's involved,
16:09
Speaker 1: I can't help but think Alec Baldwin is one hundred
16:11
Speaker 1: percent justified and saying if they weren't here, because you're here,
16:15
Speaker 1: and if they couldn't see me and they were in
16:17
Speaker 1: plain sight, I'd snap your freaking neck. Well, honestly, I'm
16:21
Speaker 1: okay with that. And knowing what we know about public
16:25
Speaker 1: opinion and everybody everybody loves a comeback story. Do you
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Speaker 1: think this is enough to turn public opinion back towards
16:33
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin's side. I really think it does. This isn't
16:37
Speaker 1: having the effect that I think a lot of people,
16:38
Speaker 1: a lot of the tabloid I outlets thought it would.
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Speaker 1: Oh he snapped again. He's done it again. Well, you're confronted,
16:47
Speaker 1: which happens all the time, is celebrity. I get it, it
16:49
Speaker 1: comes with the job. I'm sure I imagine it does.
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Speaker 1: Who the heck knows, it's not my world. You're confronted
16:54
Speaker 1: all the time. But then you confronted by this d
16:56
Speaker 1: bag dressed up as Trump. You want a really bad
17:00
Speaker 1: impersonation of him as well, and he get in his
17:02
Speaker 1: face and while he's trying to have family time. Yeah. Yeah,
17:07
Speaker 1: the first time ever in my personal history. I'm on
17:09
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin's side because he's justified in this. And you
17:11
Speaker 1: know what, he's even justified in saying, you know what,
17:15
Speaker 1: I'd snap you freaking Nick. Good. Good for him because
17:17
Speaker 1: he didn't yell at him, and it wasn't a meltdown either,
17:19
Speaker 1: by the way, and Alec Baldwin didn't snap. He very
17:21
Speaker 1: calmly said that and then walked away. I find nothing
17:25
Speaker 1: wrong with that. Nothing court a public opinion. Nuah, I'm
17:29
Speaker 1: on Alex side in that one, for sure. I have
17:31
Speaker 1: another celebrity story for you. It's kind of a sad
17:35
Speaker 1: one because we're losing some of these legends. ROBERTA. Flack,
17:38
Speaker 1: great lady. I mean, you know her from Killing Me
17:41
Speaker 1: Softly was her biggest head. I think she want to
17:43
Speaker 1: gram me for that. I think she was also the
17:45
Speaker 1: one that put her on the map though. Was her
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Speaker 1: song The first time I saw your Face you probably
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Speaker 1: heard it. Sadly, we lost her yesterday. She was a
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Speaker 1: legendary performer. She was eighty eight. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: the cause of death was, but you know, a good,
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Speaker 1: long life, great career. Influenced a lot of other people too,
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Speaker 1: and she did a lot of duets with people for
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Speaker 1: as many years as I was in music radio and
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Speaker 1: played Killing Me Softly. It's the Fugi's version that was
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Speaker 1: like mixed into it millions of times. I swear to God,
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Speaker 1: but I never heard this story about ROBERTA. Flack. We
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Speaker 1: can thank Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry for a lot of things,
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Speaker 1: A lot of things, a lot of great movies. Ah
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Speaker 1: maybe most of all. He put ROBERTA. Flack on the
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Speaker 1: map with his movie play Misty for Me. I had
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Speaker 1: never heard this story before. This is from a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago, and somebody brilliant dug this up just
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Speaker 1: yesterday about Clint and Roberta telling the story on why
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Speaker 1: this song became such a hit. It was when he
18:44
Speaker 1: put it in the movie, because it was already out there.
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Speaker 1: This was the one that really put her on the map.
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Speaker 1: The song was out there, that had been out there,
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Speaker 1: and every now and then you'd hear it on the radio,
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Speaker 1: but it did not have the wide acceptance until people
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Speaker 1: could associate something visual with it. I wanted to do
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Speaker 1: a nice idellic where he was sort of reconciling with
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Speaker 1: the girlfriend. I heard the rovert of Flax song on
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Speaker 1: the radio and I said, oh, yeah, this tells the story.
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Speaker 1: Here's the great thing, though, and this is why we
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Speaker 1: should thank Clint Eastwood for launching, for really getting her
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Speaker 1: into the public eye. He called her at her mom's house,
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Speaker 1: I guess in Virginia, made that whole pitch, explained it,
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Speaker 1: and she said, no, I don't know, I don't think
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Speaker 1: that would be good for my career. Clant, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: thanks for calling me and everything. But he finally talked
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Speaker 1: her into it, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Speaker 1: So legendary lady, and Clint is a legend for doing that.
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Speaker 1: Another thing we need to thank him for and I
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Speaker 1: So first takeaway Number one, celebrity or not, somebody gets
20:04
Speaker 1: in your face and you handle it like Alec Baldwin did.
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Speaker 1: I have no criticism of that whatsoever. In fact, is
20:10
Speaker 1: a pretty good takeaway. You can calmly tell somebody you're
20:12
Speaker 1: gonna step their neck as long as you do it calmly.
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Speaker 1: It's all about the tone, right absolutely, And I guess
20:17
Speaker 1: that bleeds into this too. Like we always say, don't
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Speaker 1: ever take any crap from anybody. Have a wicked, awesome Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what's going on for tomorrow. We'll cover it.
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