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An Odyssey with Chip · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm doing here this show. It's the Penance.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Rura Pente for Republicans who lose elections. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, what a line, What a show, What an hour.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have Chip Maxwell, by the way, filling in
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  Speaker 1: for Jee Stotord. It's the KFAB comment line on news
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  Speaker 1: radio eleven to ten KFAB. Normally I would say producer
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  Speaker 1: Peyton highluck at the controls. Uh the one, the only
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  Speaker 1: Scott Vorhees is Uh. Oh, he's toughing it out this week.
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  Speaker 1: He's the he's the iron man this week. So Peyton
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  Speaker 1: had the nerve to go off and get married and
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  Speaker 1: take a honeymoon. Hey boy, boy, things have softened around
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  Speaker 1: he get I didn't know you let him out of
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  Speaker 1: the building.
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  Speaker 2: So happy for him and his bride Carly, and I
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  Speaker 2: hope they've had a wonderful week. And I hope he
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  Speaker 2: comes back on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the team will be back at place on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Peyton producing in the Geene Stothard at the mic, and
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime we'll see how much mischief we can make,
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  Speaker 1: how much damage we can do in this hour, and
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  Speaker 1: they can clean it up on Monday, you know the
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  Speaker 1: drill four h two five, five eleven ten comment at
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  Speaker 1: kfab dot com, or take advantage of that talkback mic
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Well, Scott, I caught a good
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  Speaker 1: bit of your conversation with Rosie this morning and the
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  Speaker 1: last hour. I'm here for you, Scott, if you haven't
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  Speaker 1: got all of the Luigi out of your system yet,
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  Speaker 1: but it is an amazing and amazingly aggravating case I do. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: here's where I want to land. As you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: on a crusade to turn the blue dot red. That's
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of the check with Chip podcast at kfab
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Then I got the plug in right away,
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  Speaker 1: and so when I hear you say that you MC
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  Speaker 1: the DCRP Annual Elephant Remembers event, and it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: everybody was back on the same page. That is encouraging.
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  Speaker 1: So eventually I want to land there. I have a
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  Speaker 1: few appetizers. A few are Derv's first I oh baseball
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  Speaker 1: bumpers today. This is probably gonna be the most eclectic
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  Speaker 1: batch of bumpers you've heard from me. But I'll explain
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  Speaker 1: as we go. I heard of Thornton mellon Reference earlier
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Back to School. I go wild when I
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  Speaker 1: hear that. It's like Cattie Shack. It's not a great movie,
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  Speaker 1: but there are so many great iconic scenes and characters,
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  Speaker 1: and that move. That's a cheap party maga movie. That
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  Speaker 1: is Trump going back to college. The Rodney Daygerfield character
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  Speaker 1: Thornton Mellen. He lights up the snooty business professor in
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  Speaker 1: his own classroom and then steals his girlfriend. Then there's
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  Speaker 1: Sam Kennison on the Vietnam War, on the Korean War,
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  Speaker 1: I like the way you think I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: watching you. There's lou Bert Young plays lou the thug
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  Speaker 1: chauffeur who takes no crap off the college kids. That
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  Speaker 1: brightened my spirits right away. And then I heard what
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  Speaker 1: I think is a revised They call it a remix
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  Speaker 1: I guess of the Finally Friday Show with some Gary
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  Speaker 1: Sadlemeyer audio and some other new bits in there. I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't heard that one. I got to kick out of that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm all fired up, and we can talk about
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  Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni as well. I do want to. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as Scott shakes free of the telephone. Here, I've got
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  Speaker 1: a movie. Question for him. But I also want to
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  Speaker 1: know from you, kfab Nation about what you think about
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  Speaker 1: District too, Scott. What I was saying is not only
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  Speaker 1: back to cool. You know that got me all fired
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  Speaker 1: up about movies, but a grand movie I do. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I keep saying that's not a great movie,
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  Speaker 1: and yet I love watching it. And I'm Kurt Vonnegut. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: write a cameo by Vonnigut. Yeah, talk about a Trumpian move.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just tire vonni get to write my paper on
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  Speaker 1: Catch twenty two. Yeah, and then the professor pans it,
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  Speaker 1: gives it f this. You have no idea what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in that novel? Oh gosh. But what I want
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  Speaker 1: to know is have you seen or do you plan
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  Speaker 1: to see The Odyssey? I did see it, and really
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  Speaker 1: really well done. I didn't hate it.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are looking going, well,
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  Speaker 2: they took this character and they made it this, and
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  Speaker 2: then they took that character and made it this. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to be true to the story, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have a bunch of people speaking ancient Greek
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  Speaker 2: with Greek actors. How many people are gonna go see that?
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  Speaker 2: Only the ancient Greeks, and there aren't a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them around, so we're automatically adapting things, So why not
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  Speaker 2: have this character here, that character there. I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was really well done. I'm a fan of Christopher Nolan's work.
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  Speaker 2: He's the director behind the movie. He makes big movies
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  Speaker 2: that aren't like Car Chase movies, but they make you
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  Speaker 2: think and they entertain you.
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  Speaker 3: So I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Matt Damon fan. I don't know that I
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  Speaker 2: need to see it again. It's not like you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm flipping channels and Back to School or Step Brothers
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  Speaker 2: is on. I'll watch that every time. I'd much rather
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  Speaker 2: watch a movie like that. I love the Spider Man
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  Speaker 2: movie a billion times more than The Odyssey. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad I saw it. Okay, Well, you know Peyton had
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  Speaker 2: a similar take. I have not seen it. I'd rolled
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  Speaker 2: this out last time. I was at this mic and
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  Speaker 2: it was just coming out, and so not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people had seen it. But if you've got a
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  Speaker 2: take on it, four oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten,
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  Speaker 2: I'm at kfab dot com talkback app on the talkback.
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  Speaker 1: Mic on the iHeartRadio app and let us know the
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  Speaker 1: I can handle some woke casting. I can handle, as
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  Speaker 1: you say, some adaptations to fit the modern each Here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing that's going to be a problem for me, though,
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  Speaker 1: is if they if Nolan did to Odysseus what the
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars franchise did to Luke Skywalker, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have a problem. I mean, by the end of that run,
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  Speaker 1: Skywalker was this dark, brooding, morose, wet blanket. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, where's the swash buckling adventure champion of
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  Speaker 1: good over evil? Luke Skywalker. Odysseus is the original Luke Skywalker.
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  Speaker 1: He's the original Jason Booran. I want Matt Damon to channel.
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  Speaker 1: Is Jason Bouran James Bond. I think I even threw
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  Speaker 1: bugs Bunny in there the last time I talked about this.
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  Speaker 1: Just the protagonist, the American protagonist with some swagger and
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  Speaker 1: some complicated character, not perfect, but ultimately good and use
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  Speaker 1: his brain as much as Braun, you know, to prevail.
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  Speaker 1: And if he made Damon, if he made the Odysseus
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  Speaker 1: character a woke, wet blanket, I'll have a tough time
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you need to find something else, Okay this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I won't use the term woke, wet blanket. I will
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  Speaker 2: say that these struggles that Odysseus has Matt Damon made
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  Speaker 2: me look at the Trojan Horse point in history differently.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently he was apologizing for it. It sounds like that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's and it's not exactly like a big plot twisted
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  Speaker 2: dan in the movie or anything. But I did, you know,
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  Speaker 2: think like, oh I I never really thought of it
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  Speaker 2: that way. But you're right in both movies, and in
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  Speaker 2: the Star Wars movies, now I think people might say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: Luke sky Walker came back and transported himself to that
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  Speaker 2: scene and saved the day and all the rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Walker we saw. We didn't see much of
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  Speaker 2: that in the New Star Wars movies. I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: big fan of the New Star Wars movies, but I see,
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  Speaker 2: I see where you're going with it. And if that's
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  Speaker 2: not what you want in a film, then maybe you
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  Speaker 2: should go see good Berger Burger two or something else
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  Speaker 2: that's out there.
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  Speaker 1: Right uh the uh, all right, well I don't And
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  Speaker 1: I've heard people say it's a good movie. It's a
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a conservative commentator out there, Victor Davis
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  Speaker 1: Hansen who's well known on the right. And he's a classicist.
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  Speaker 1: He studied ancient Greek, ancient Rome and so forth. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: he said, it's a good movie. It's not Odysseus, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a good.
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  Speaker 3: Movie, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and uh and and that was one of his beasts,
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  Speaker 1: that the Odysseus, Odysseus. Uh, Odysseus was like he was
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  Speaker 1: a commando, a special forces guy. I mean that trojan
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  Speaker 1: horse thing. No, they didn't in in in the in
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  Speaker 1: the Odyssey and in that whole cultural miliu. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: apologized for.
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  Speaker 3: It was brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: I wondered that if that's different than how Homer originally
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  Speaker 2: wrote it. All right, then I got a movie for
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  Speaker 2: you this WEEKND. Okay, you're ready, bring it on. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you're going to say, I've already seen it a
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  Speaker 2: million times. Clash of the Titans. No if what?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: All right? No if ie that one?
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  Speaker 2: What do you want from a Greek telling of a
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  Speaker 2: mythology story? Is what you're saying, Then you need to
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  Speaker 2: switch out Odysseus and the Odyssey for Perseus and the
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  Speaker 2: original Clash of the Titans, not the one they remade
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  Speaker 2: a few years ago, all right, nineteen eighty one two,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that was, Harry Hamlin as perseus, you need to
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  Speaker 2: watch Clash of the Titans.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'll work that in with watching reruns
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  Speaker 1: of The Rifleman. If that gives you any idea of
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  Speaker 1: what I like in entertainment. I also, I heard you
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  Speaker 1: and Rosie, I think, bring up the movie on the
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  Speaker 1: Brink that's coming out now about Reagan and Gorbachev and
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  Speaker 1: k I saw a trailer for that, and I see again,
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  Speaker 1: I don't trust Jeff Daniels because of some of the
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  Speaker 1: previous characters he's played in some of his private comments
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  Speaker 1: about you know, down on Trump and down on Magan,
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  Speaker 1: down up, which I don't mind necessarily if you, but
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  Speaker 1: he's so self righteous and so wrong. I think on
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  Speaker 1: some facts that I don't I saw a trailer in
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  Speaker 1: which he kind of looks like the Pillsbury dough boy
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  Speaker 1: or something. He's this kind of fat, puffy looking Reagan. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, that's not Reagan. Whether you liked Reagan
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  Speaker 1: or not, you know, he was an actor. He knew
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  Speaker 1: how to carry himself, he knew how to look, so
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  Speaker 1: he didn't look like Reagan. And I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: I may give that one a chance. To my wife,
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  Speaker 1: just when it comes to movies, she's pretty much given up.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a movie you can go to where there
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  Speaker 1: isn't something wrong with it? Well, generally no, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm willing to give Odysseus a chance, even if boy,
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  Speaker 1: I hope. Well, okay, we'll leave that one there. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what I really want to land on today, Scott, especially
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  Speaker 1: since you just m c the Douglas County Republican Party event.
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  Speaker 1: It was last night, yep, that the elephant remembers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And so we had these Michigan and Wisconsin primary and
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  Speaker 1: again I'm looking at this through the lens through the
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  Speaker 1: prism of we've got to turn this blue dot red
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  Speaker 1: in Nebraska. Second, and I've seen some news stories, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been in conversations, including with Republicans, people who know
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  Speaker 1: their way around elections and so forth. Oh, Brett Linstrom
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  Speaker 1: bailed out because he knew it was a lost cause.
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  Speaker 1: And poor brinker Harding, he's a dead man walking. Denise
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  Speaker 1: Powell's got this thing. It's a it's a lock, it's done.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a I'm not buying any of that and
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  Speaker 1: then I saw these results in Michigan lsa Ed. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Marxist Muslim candidate for Senate was supposed to have
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  Speaker 1: a double digit lead. He won by like half a
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  Speaker 1: point or something in his Primaryocratic primary, and he's already
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  Speaker 1: down in the polls to the Republican for the general election.
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  Speaker 1: And then Wisconsin, Francesca Hong running for governor, Democratic Socialist
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  Speaker 1: and Cancel Thanksgiving and all of that. She supposedly had
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  Speaker 1: a double digit lead in the polls and she lost
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  Speaker 1: in a close election. So I'm not having it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: maybe one of the few Republicans looking forward to the
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections, including here where we are. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I want to know, in your opinion, has this rift
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  Speaker 1: healed in the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever energy I've had for politics over the years, I've
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  Speaker 1: spent it running for office or doing advocacy work like
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  Speaker 1: for pro business or pro life groups, or making mischief
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  Speaker 1: on talk radio. I've never been involved in county or
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  Speaker 1: state party machinery, partly because the few times I've leaned
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  Speaker 1: into it, it just sucks the life out of me.
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  Speaker 1: There are few going back generations, and all this hatfield
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  Speaker 1: McCoy stuff, and I don't even know the background of it,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I've just steered clear of most of that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know the people in the dynamics, but
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  Speaker 1: I come into this conversation encouraged by what you seem
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  Speaker 1: to experience last night.
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  Speaker 2: All I can tell you is what I've seen from
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  Speaker 2: the stage. I've mc the local Republican party events numerous
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  Speaker 2: times over now almost twenty years, and for a long
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  Speaker 2: time it was your establishment Republicans. And I don't need
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  Speaker 2: to start putting names with all this. We'll just put type.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these are the people who some people have
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  Speaker 2: called them rhinos rhinos, some people have just called them
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  Speaker 2: establishment Republican types. They're the people who are, you know,
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  Speaker 2: wealthy business owner. And then here comes that Ron Paul
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  Speaker 2: t party crowd about fifteen years ago, and they weren't
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  Speaker 2: as welcome in that establishment Republican tent. And then they said,
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  Speaker 2: well we want some leadership positions. They said, we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to let you do that, and then the Tea
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  Speaker 2: party kind of turned into Maga. And right around that
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  Speaker 2: same front, Matt and his body slams a guy out
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  Speaker 2: at the state convention. The Republican Convention in Carney. These
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  Speaker 2: people who were that like twenty percent of the Republican
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  Speaker 2: Party suddenly took over about one hundred percent of all
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  Speaker 2: the leadership positions. And then suddenly the Establishment of republic
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  Speaker 2: Republicans weren't coming to these events, they weren't being supported
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  Speaker 2: by the new leadership of the Republican Party. It was
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  Speaker 2: a pretty ugly behind the scenes fight with these two factions.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently the eighty percent felt like they didn't need the
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  Speaker 2: twenty and they were wrong, and the twenty felt they
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  Speaker 2: didn't need the eighty and they were definitely wrong. Last night,
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  Speaker 2: I looked across that room and for the first time
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  Speaker 2: I saw several pockets of that eighty and the new twenty,
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  Speaker 2: and they were coming together and they were having fun,
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  Speaker 2: and they were standing up and clapping as one hundred percent. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how long that goes on. It's not
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  Speaker 2: my job. That's just what I've seen from the stage
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  Speaker 2: at these events.
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  Speaker 1: Well, all right, that's encouraging. Then I'm going to see
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  Speaker 1: the glass half full. Then if that's the case, And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I look at a candidate like oh, Scott
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  Speaker 1: Peterson for Secretary of State Scott has has had a
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  Speaker 1: foot in both worlds. You know, he's worked the regular
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  Speaker 1: Republican party, but he's definitely a MAGA guy. Well, he
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  Speaker 1: ran kind of as an outsider and upset the incumbent
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  Speaker 1: Bob Evden, so he has those credentials as well. But
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  Speaker 1: I think Scott was part of the festivities last night,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was one of the speakers. He's the Republican
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  Speaker 2: candidate for Secretary of State. They had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people either seeking election or re election there last night.
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  Speaker 3: Scott was one of them.
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  Speaker 1: So I maybe he can be kind of a bridge
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  Speaker 1: candidate and help get people back on the same page,
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  Speaker 1: because that will be necessary. The other thing I heard
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  Speaker 1: you and Rosie talking about, I think Rosie especially was
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  Speaker 1: who is going to define Denise Powell. She seems kind
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  Speaker 1: of quiet and is maybe trying to figure out, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what am I going to do here? Because my gut
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  Speaker 1: tells me she leans more to the left. She I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if she calls herself a democratic socialist, but
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  Speaker 1: she definitely would lean more to the hardcore left position.
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  Speaker 1: And but you know, maybe that may not play so
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  Speaker 1: well in Nebraska district too. And who's going to define
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  Speaker 1: Denise Powell. I hope the Brinker Harding campaign in the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party are going to roll out issues and make
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  Speaker 1: her take positions, you know, whether it's men and women's
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  Speaker 1: sports and taxes and other basic governance issues, but make
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  Speaker 1: her take some let me put it this way, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: During the primary season, every time I would go into
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  Speaker 1: YouTube to watch something, boom, there's a Denise Powell ad.
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  Speaker 1: She was out there and they were very well done.
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  Speaker 1: I generally disagreed with all the substance of the ads,
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  Speaker 1: but they were very well done, and they were pervasive,
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  Speaker 1: they were out there. But the one she led with
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  Speaker 1: the issue of abortion, and I'm very curious to see
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  Speaker 1: if she's going to lead with that in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some of these candidates like Lsied and Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: people thought, oh, he's going to gravitate towards he's going
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  Speaker 1: to pull an Abigail Spanburger. And that's the Virginia governor
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  Speaker 1: now governor who went running ran as a moderate Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: Once she got into office, lurched way to the left,
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  Speaker 1: with some successes and some failures, some pushback, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the usual formula in politics. You run to the outs,
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  Speaker 1: to the right, if you're a Republican in the primary,
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  Speaker 1: to the left, if you're a Democrat in the primary,
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  Speaker 1: and then moderate and try to move to the middle
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  Speaker 1: for the general election. Is she going to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Because now some Democrats when they do that, does she
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  Speaker 1: lose some blue dots? Some of those blue dots and
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  Speaker 1: Dundee and Memorial? We wait, wait, wait, where are you going?
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  Speaker 1: Don't don't drift to the middle, No, Hassan Piker aoc.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the action is, That's where the center of
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  Speaker 1: gravity is. That's where the mojo is. Don't betray us
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  Speaker 1: like so many other Democrats. Don't don't drift to the middle.
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  Speaker 1: I really want to see the pressure put on. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I'll save this. We're coming up
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  Speaker 1: on our first break, aren't we. I'm going to save
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  Speaker 1: this for the other side. Now, it's not the Big
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  Speaker 1: Joe Polka show. Happy Louis is a gentleman of Polish
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  Speaker 1: heritage who was very excited about a baseball player named
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  Speaker 1: Carl Yastremski who in nineteen sixty seven won the Triple Crown,
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  Speaker 1: led the league in batting average, home runs and RBIs
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  Speaker 1: so as a Yankee fan. This is a little difficult,
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  Speaker 1: but here's a nod to you Red Sox fans out there.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit from Happy.
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  Speaker 1: Louis, great sens ball, who is.
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  Speaker 3: The best player around. He is a man, calls oh yes,
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  Speaker 1: it out, iron manning it this week. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: there was so much for hate out there. But too bad.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: We've got Scott for the rest of the show. And
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: then as the first Baseball Bumper was playing going into
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  Speaker 1: the break, Happy Louis celebrating Carl Yustremsky into the studio,
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  Speaker 1: resplendent in his Minnesota Twins cap. Is the one the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: only Gary Saddlemyer Gary Welcome, Welcome Home.
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  Speaker 3: My tex version of that one nice. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I actually I think some teams did come up with
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: their own versions of that talking baseball song. Well, we're
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: talking politics here, Gary and the Scott was trying to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: find During the break, he tells me there's an ad
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that Denise Powell has. Now we're talking about the second
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: district race. You know, I'm I visited with you and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Rosie a few months ago about wanting to turn the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: blue dot read. Well, I'm trying to do it now
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: at KFAP dot com with a podcast.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I'm here.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I'm here to anoint you the undisputed king of the understatement.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Lian's left. Yeah, leans, all right, I think she defines well.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the point. See, that's that's what I'm worried about.
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  Speaker 1: And especially Scott tells me she's got an ad out
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: there now for everybody I work with Republicans. I doesn't
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: even use the word democrat. You know that she's going
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to try to pull on Abigail Spanberger. I want to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: run something by you, guys and then turn you loose
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and you can get your take on this. I'm going
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to take you back to two thousand and six when
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Pete Ricketts first ran for office. He was running against
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the incumbent Ben Nelson for the Senate, and he had
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: an AD that I thought was great. Obviously it didn't work.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Pete got crushed in that race by Nelson. Well there
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: are other factors too, but he had an AD in
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: which so you're watching the TV and Pete walks right
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: up to the screen and it's like he's not on
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the inside of your television's screen clink clink, clink, you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and he's not making a knocking motion. He's hey, can
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I get your attention just for a minute. I know
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  Speaker 1: that Ben Nelson calls himself a moderate Democrat, but you
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: realize that when he goes back to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to line up with and back then instead
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: of Chuck Schumer or AOC, it was Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's going to be a national Democrat. It
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: didn't seem to get any traction, like I said, because
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Pete lost. But what happened a couple of years later
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  Speaker 1: Nelson goes back, he provides the decisive vote to allow
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  Speaker 1: Obamacare to advance, and then he doesn't run for reelection
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: after that.
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  Speaker 3: He forgive.
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  Speaker 4: People like Ben Nelson, I forgive a lot, but I
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: was a bridge too far.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I like it. I like him personally, I think he's.
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  Speaker 1: A good guy, but he did exactly what Pete predicted
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: would happen. And yet I know, you know Stenberg tried that,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I think again against Nelson. That argument never seems to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: get much traction, but it is so true. There are
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: two main teams, main parties back in DC, and whatever
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the person says in the local campaign, generally they're going
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to toe the line with the national agenda when they
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: get to d C. This is what I want to
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  Speaker 1: see Brinker Harding and the Republicans do in this election.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Don't let Denise Powell moderate and point out, look where
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the center of gravity is moving. Well, that was my
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: whole contention for the blue dot red. I don't know
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: if Republicans are all that much better at their game,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: but the Democrats have lurched so far to the left.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I think there's an opportunity, but I don't can that work.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: It didn't work in two thousand and six, can it
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: work today? To say, look, whatever you think of us,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: these are the two national teams and one of them
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: is going to be strengthened, and one of them is
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: going to be weakened by this election.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I think at Kenship, because you're now starting to see
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: more and more national level commentators and prominent Democrats say, Okay,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: this is crazy. What's happening to our This is not
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: part You can talk big ten all you want. They
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: should make their own ten. This is this is nuts
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: what these people are doing, these DSL people.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Who's the guy from West Virginia Mansion? I've seen Mansion
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: in interviews of course, James Carville and others who said, well,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, if we're going socialists and count.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Me out right right, Chris Matthews.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: One just popped up lately too, Yeah yeah, Joe Scarborough,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, even morning Joe is starting to a little
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: feisty and uh well, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean if you have, if you have a shred of
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: integrity and common sense, you got to look at them
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and say, what are you talking about? What do you
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: mean We're gonna not that, We're gonna not gonna have
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: the US Senate anymore, We're not gonna have prisons or
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: jails or police forces and a wide open border.
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  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Oh haven't you heard though?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Ce AOC said, oh, well that was woke one. Yeah,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: oh that that's in the rear view mirror. Really, so
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: to find it for me? Now? What? No? It is?
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: I never you know, you, all of us, even Scott
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: is old enough to remember when you said communism, socialism,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: borderline dirty words.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Oh that's it, let's get it over. Yeah.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I grew, of course, I'm one hundred and fifty, but
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: I mean that was that was kruse Cheff pounding a
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: shoe on the desk, and we'll bury you and you'll
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: fall into our hands. We won't have to fire a shot.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I remember all of that, and he described how it
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: would happen kruse Chef in nineteen fifty nine. And now
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: you can see it if we go this way. Yeah,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: so why don't Well, I guess I know the answer
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: to the rhetorical question. Really, but how about these folks,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: the Democratic Socialists of America, start your own party. They're
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: using the Democratic Party for ballot access. There's all this
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: now they're not Democrats. Yeah, so that's my sermon. The
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: ushers will come forward. How you doing, Scott, I'm miss
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: hearing you say that. I had to issue a Gary Sandleman,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: I heard that. I can't take it anymore. It's just
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: one more thing before I run. You guys were talking
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: about Odysseus. Yeah, yeah, Sword and Sandal Flicks. You gotta
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: see three hundred Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh my god, I'll
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: see the heroes were allowed to be heroes in that one. Yeah,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: oh maybe yeah. And Gerard Butler that's awesome. It's a
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: kind of a graphic novel, treatment of a graphic novel,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: and I love it, love every minute of it.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: All right, so Odysseus, I don't know. You guys sound like, eh,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: maybe not. I haven't seen it.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Scott said, well, you'd like the movie, right, Scott, I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: mean you don't regret. You don't want your ten bucks back?
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: No, it was.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: It was about three hours long and entertained me for
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: three hours. I don't need to see it again. I
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: would rather watch Clash of the Titans eight times in
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: a row.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Were back to school, Poor Troy, Troy, Yeah, Troy, I
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: want to say, on the brink, Yeah yeah, but I'm
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: with you too.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: On Jeff Daniels, Yeah yeah, he does a nice job.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Have you ever gots, Have you guys ever seen a movie?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: It's wasn't really well promoted, I don't think. But it's
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: called the Crossing, It's it's the Battle of Trenton. Now
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: it's Jeff Daniels as Washington and he's but he's good.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't know that he was a wild left. It
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: was good acting. You would have had no idea what
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: his politics is. It's it's Washington and when they snuck
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: across the Delaware River and beat the Hessians a day
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: after Christmas seventeen seventy six. It's well done and it's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: fairly accurate. You know, it follows the historical narrative.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: The greatest fine in that was, I thought portrayal of
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: George Washington in terms of of looking like him in
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: the image. Who was in the in the John Adams,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: who is it? Morrison David I don't remember his name. Yeah,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: he looked exactly like a dollar bill.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Tall, stately, Yeah, little puffy in the John and uh,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: it just had the manner.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: And David Morse, David Moore and Morris, Samuel R.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Well. David McCulloch was a National Treasure of the historian
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: and he wrote, of course John Adams definitive biography, and
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: they made the mini series out of it.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Awesome. Yeah, it was good to see it. Thanks for John,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: thanks for dropping in. Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the one, the only, the great Gary Saddle there.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Uh that uh John Adams that Gary referenced. I actually
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: used that. I teach in American history and government class
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: at Small Catholic High School, Chesterton Academy. Why my wife's
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: now the headmaster there, so I'm back in the rotation
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: this year. But I use excerpts from that John Adams
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: uh movie. It's it's that well done and that accurate,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that true to the history, and it's kind of gritty too.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: It's not a little rough around the edges, but that's
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: how it was. KFAB Nation, I know you were out
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: there four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. Comment
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: at kfab dot com or take advantage of that talkback
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: mic on the iHeartRadio app. Let's see this this hour
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: flies by Scott. You've got to give me a signal
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: when you think we're coming up on the next.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Break anytime you're ready.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, well, I want to touch on one
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: more thing and then we'll go to the next break.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Because you and Gary and I were visiting about this
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: before we came back live one more Luigi MANGIONI point,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I heard your conversation this morning the national correspond Rory
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: what's his name, National correspondent. Yeah, I heard your conversation
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: with him. It did not raise my comfort level about
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: your initial concern that there's an effort to use some
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: kind of a stalking charge to cancel out to neutralize
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a murder charge. And I thought, O'Neill said, well, yes,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: but then they can get him on some weapons charges
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: or something else. I thought, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: This guy walked up to as you say, Brian from Ohio, Idaha, Iowa, Iowa.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Brian from Iowa, a husband and father of two young children.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: You shot him because of some wacky ideological extremist principle.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Stalking. I don't know. I left.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I was, like I said, still concerned after hearing that conversation.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Where are you?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Well, the charge of federal stalking that results in death
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: could could carry with it life in prison. Now okay,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: so that charge could their death or life in prison
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: not death. Well, it's the death penalty by different means time. Oh,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: life in prison. You know you die in prison. But
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I don't think that they're going that route because they
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: want him to plead guilty, which he has just done.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: As you heard in the Fox News update, Luigi Mangioni
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: has pled guilty and confess that he shot Brian Thompson
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: and killed him. So this is no longer in dispute,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: This is no longer alleged a couple of things that happened.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Now he could change his mind for some reason. In
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: a federal trial like this, he could in five minutes
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: say hey, you know, or maybe maybe I'm not thinking clearly,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: maybe I didn't. I don't know what his endgame is
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: or what his attorneys are doing, but it seems like
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: they're trying to go on a lesser charge that's not murder,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: maybe not have it be life in prison. And because
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: it's a federal stalking charge that results in death, that's
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the same as a murder charge, and therefore the State
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: of New York can't try him for murder. He already
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: pled guilty and there's been sentenced for that, and they're
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: trying to say he has no criminal record, he's an
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: educated guy, he can help out being there for other prisoners,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: he can do jobs in prison. Maybe we don't throw
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: life in prison at him. Maybe it's fifteen years for
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: killing a guy, and maybe we go that route. That
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: seems to be what they're doing. He's already saying, look,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I'm throwing myself in the mercy of the court. I'm
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: pleading guilty to this charge. I'm confessing to it. Very
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: sorry about this. Don't give me life in prison, and
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: they might be inclined to do it.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Part of the reason I want this guy to just
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: be crushed by the system is also because of the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: whole fan club that you alluded to that has developed
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: around this guy that I want them discouraged. I don't
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: want the end result of this to be that he's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: some kind of hero and some kind of model to
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: be emulated. I remember hearing interviews with some young women
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: who were protesting on his behalf in the wake of
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the murder when he was first in custody, and somebody
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: asking him but he was married, he had two young children,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and they said, wow, his children are better off without him.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I thought, what, you know, what kind of a soulless
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: ghoul could say? I thought, you know, they must not
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: have husbands. I'm not saying no because they're losers, no,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: but I mean they must not to lose a husband
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and they must not have children. I can't believe a
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: mother who has children could say something like that, whatever
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you disagree with personally or politically, on someone to kill
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the children's father. I want this guy crushed so this
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: does not become some kind of example to be emulated.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: All right, comment at kfab dot com and the talkback
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Mike on the iHeartRadio app. We had a few emailers
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Hu Scott. Somebody mentioned that Mary Jane Trumper, who's now
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the state Republican Party, was on the gene Stouthred Show.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: So that's good. That's another sign of bridges building and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: uh the uh in the time we have less Scott
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: in this never ending crusade to turn the blue dot red.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you one more thing. If you're
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: brinker Harding, if you're the Republican Party, do you want
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump engaged here in the second district on this
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: go round? Or are you worried? Is Trump an asset
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: or a liability?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I hate to answer a question with a question, okay,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: but I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Yeah,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: why do you think it's a liability as a Republican
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: to have the Republican president of the United States support
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: you in a congressional district.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I and I know that officially Trump has endorsed brinker Harding,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: But now I find myself in conversations with Republicans, especially
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: as the around war continues, that I don't know. In
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: this blue dot district, you know, you gotta go purple,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: you gotta appeal to the Democrats and independence, you go,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: oh Trump, What if he comes in here and says
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: that they crazy and makes people mad?
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: And what do you I don't.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I think Trump has enough accomplishments that if I were
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: brinker Harding, if I were the candidate, I would I
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: would link arms with Trump. I'd go for it. I
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: would play the Trump card. I think if Trump were
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: on the ballot this time around, I think he'd win
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: in the second district.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Nothing scientific. I'm just going on my gut on this.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: So I answer your question, Okay, just I wanted to
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: kind of see where you're coming from.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Why you asked the question.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want both of these congressional candidates. Brinker Harding
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: is the Republican, Denise Palace the Democrat. To be honest, upfront,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: completely straightforward, Here's who I am. Here's who I want
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: to surround myself with. Here's my thinking. This is exactly
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: what you get if you vote for me, because we
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: don't get that from enough of these candidates. Now I
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: also get where Don Bacon has said, Look, I don't
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: know if you can go full Trump.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: In this district.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: After all, he lost in this year, he lost in
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: that year, and he lost back. Okay, but he also
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: came here in twenty twenty four and flew down to
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: the tarmac at Epley and not twenty twenty four, twenty
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: twenty and flew down here and said vote for me,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: and you got to vote for Don Bacon. We love
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Don Bacon and Nebraska second District, and he came here
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: and he supported Don Bacon. Trump lost in this district,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Don Bacon won. I don't know that Trump's being here
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: had Obviously it didn't have enough of a negative impact
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: on Bacon to have him lose. He won that year
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: he beat Kara Eastman. I think that was one of
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: those years. So I don't know that Trump being here
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: is going to be enough of a detriment or positive.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: But if I'm brinker Harding, yeah, I'd want the President
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: of the United States to come here and talk about
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: why he thinks I should be an asset to this country.
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  Speaker 2: It's the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Well yes, but again, and by the way, this isn't
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  Speaker 1: just a Trump issue, whether it's Biden, but whoever the
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  Speaker 1: president is during the midterms that this debate comes up,
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  Speaker 1: well does it help or her to have the president
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  Speaker 1: come into your district, Because sometimes the bloom is off
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  Speaker 1: the rose, the honeymoon period's over by the time the
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  Speaker 1: midterms come around, and whatever people think is wrong with
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  Speaker 1: the country, they're blaming the president for it and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: So it isn't just a Trump issue.
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  Speaker 1: But of course Trump is in a category all his
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  Speaker 1: own and has dynamics all his own. I hope Trump
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  Speaker 1: is engaged and involved. I think it can be a
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  Speaker 1: net positive. I think can be an asset. But I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know. I'm hanging my hat a lot
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  Speaker 1: on what I hear you saying about last night, because
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I've been in too many conversations with pessimists. What's the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: term panicins I guess now that we call Republicans who
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: are panicking about the situation, and I don't I still
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: think it would be nice to get this Iran thing
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  Speaker 1: wrapped up and in the rear view mirror. That to me,
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  Speaker 1: then it becomes a slam dunk. Get Trump in here
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  Speaker 1: on your behalf. Go ahead, make it a referendum on Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that how he went into this? He said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be on the ballot, not running, but
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I'm on the ballot, and he's been campaigning, and I
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: thought there was going to be a Republican conference this
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  Speaker 1: summer like there is in election years. I guess that's
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  Speaker 1: not happening, But I thought at one point Trump was
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: talking about we need to have the same kind of
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  Speaker 1: summertime conference that we have in election years and get
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: people fired up. But even absent that, I'd play the
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  Speaker 1: Trump card if I were brinker harding. Anybody want to
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  Speaker 1: squeeze one in before we're done? Four oh two, five, five, eight,
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  Speaker 1: eleven ten comment at kfab dot com and the talkback
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  Speaker 1: mic on the heart radio app.
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  Speaker 2: I'll read this email here. You said that you were
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: looking forward to the midterms this year because of other
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: strife on the blue side. Yeah, Adam emails and says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm also looking forward to the midterms primarily because polls
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  Speaker 2: show democrats hate democrats.
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  Speaker 3: Bring it.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with Chip. Have a good weekend, Signed Adam
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  Speaker 2: the Carpenter. Oh and old Red Sox.
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  Speaker 3: And yazz Fan. Oh really I.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Didn't know that, But Adam the Carpenter is a real
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: person who is in fact a carpenter. Adam and I
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  Speaker 1: connected years ago. Adam reminds me of my late father.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Democrat, or at least was. He's a carpenter.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Democrat, but he just well, it's like Ronald
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Reagan famously said, I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party left me. That's how my dad felt, the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: lifelong Irish Catholic Democrat. That's how Adam felt. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: betting that's how a lot of Second District Democrats are
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: feeling right now, especially people may be named Kavanaugh, Begley, Boyle,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Barrett there with Carville and some of the others. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll leave it there for today. Boy, this is a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: sprint this hour. It goes by fast, but what a
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: great time. Thank you Scott Borhies for making it aflow.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for Gary Sadlemayer for dropping in on us.
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