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Honoring Milton Friedman, Detailing the Radical Records of El Sayed & Talarico, and Pardoning Alaska Diesel Repairmen · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with you as well. And if you're listening on radio
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  Speaker 1: stations around the country, we are so glad to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us. Senator, we've got a lot to chat
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  Speaker 1: about on the show today, including we called out al-Saeed
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  Speaker 1: and the reporting being done around his connections to the
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  Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood. And guess what? The media had to do
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  Speaker 1: their job.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've seen real movement on that front. But before
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  Speaker 2: we dive into the meat of the show, I want
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  Speaker 2: to take a moment to just pause and reflect and commemorate.
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  Speaker 2: 50 years ago this week, on October 14th, 1976, Milton
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  Speaker 2: Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Milton Friedman,
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  Speaker 2: I think, is the greatest economist of our lifetime. And
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  Speaker 2: I got to tell you personally, a particularly meaningful connection
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  Speaker 2: for me is the day that I won the primary
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  Speaker 2: when I was running for Senate in 2012. That day
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  Speaker 2: would have been Milton Friedman's 100th birthday. He had passed
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  Speaker 2: away already. I never got to meet Milton Friedman, but
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  Speaker 2: it would have been his 100th birthday. So when I
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  Speaker 2: stood up, having just won the primary, and on my
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  Speaker 2: way to getting elected to the Senate, I opened the
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  Speaker 2: speech by congratulating Uncle Miltie. And I will say he
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  Speaker 2: was the most powerful and persuasive advocate for free market
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  Speaker 2: economics of our lifetime. He could engage, if you've never watched, actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? I was going to say, if you've
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  Speaker 2: never watched the exchange of him on Phil Donahue, you should.
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  Speaker 2: You know the beauty of it is, Ben, you and
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  Speaker 2: I have a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a show, I don't know if you know this,
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  Speaker 1: where you can actually show these things to people.
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  Speaker 2: What a great use. We are right now going to
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  Speaker 2: play for you. Milton Friedman on Phil Donahue defending capitalism.
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  Speaker 2: Give a listen. Nobody did it better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right, Senator. And before we get to
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  Speaker 1: All right, so I want to play this clip you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, Senator, and just to put it in perspective
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  Speaker 1: for you that may not know who Phil Donahue was.
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  Speaker 1: He was like the Oprah Winfrey before Oprah Winfrey. He
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  Speaker 1: was the king of what they described as daytime talk TV.
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  Speaker 1: He was extremely liberal, by the way, and he had
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  Speaker 1: these kind of debates. Milton Friedman being on his show
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  Speaker 1: is a perfect example of that. This is from back
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  Speaker 1: in 1979. Take a listen. When you see the greed
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  Speaker 1: and the concentration of power within.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you ever... Did you ever.
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  Speaker 3: Have a moment of doubt about capitalism and whether greed's
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  Speaker 3: a good idea to run on?
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  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, tell me, is there some society
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  Speaker 4: you know that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia
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  Speaker 4: doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed?
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  Speaker 1: What is greed?
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  Speaker 4: Of course, none of us are greedy. It's only the
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  Speaker 4: other fellow who's greedy. The world runs on individuals pursuing
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  Speaker 4: their separate interests. The great achievements... of civilization have not
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  Speaker 4: come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under
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  Speaker 4: order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile
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  Speaker 4: industry that way. In the only cases in which the
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  Speaker 4: masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about, the only cases in recorded history where they
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  Speaker 4: have had capitalism and largely free trade, If you want
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  Speaker 4: to know where the masses are worse off, it's exactly
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  Speaker 4: in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So
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  Speaker 4: that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that
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  Speaker 4: there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving
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  Speaker 4: the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a
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  Speaker 4: candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a
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  Speaker 4: free enterprise?
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  Speaker 3: But it seems to reward not virtue as much as
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  Speaker 3: ability to manipulate the system.
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  Speaker 4: And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar
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  Speaker 4: rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think,
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  Speaker 4: excuse me, if you'll pardon me, do you think American
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  Speaker 4: presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the
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  Speaker 4: basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on
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  Speaker 4: the basis of their political clout? Is it really true
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  Speaker 4: that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? You know,
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  Speaker 4: I think you're taking a lot of things for granted.
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  Speaker 4: Just tell me, where in the world do you find
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  Speaker 4: these angels who are going to organize society for us? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I don't even trust you to do that.
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  Speaker 1: The way that he says at the end, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even trust you to do that. And Phil, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: he smiles and laughs. I got to say, I miss
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  Speaker 1: this type of conversation because you notice it wasn't this
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  Speaker 1: like back and forth intense debate. It was a question
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  Speaker 1: and then another question. It was a question and another question.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't you're the devil. And understand, Phil Donahue's audience.
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  Speaker 2: This is like the audience that would go see Stephen Colbert.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very left-wing audience. And you hear throughout
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  Speaker 2: that exchange, you see them, they're laughing. I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: Milton Friedman was so good at doing was defending free
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  Speaker 2: markets in an affable, in a charming, in a positive way.
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  Speaker 2: And just saying, well, gosh, okay, you don't like greed.
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  Speaker 2: Is there some system you know of where there's not greed?
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  Speaker 2: You don't think Putin is greedy? You don't think she
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  Speaker 2: is greedy? You don't think Maduro was greedy until we
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  Speaker 2: put him in a prison cell? You know, asking those
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  Speaker 2: questions and doing so, you know, Milton Friedman did so
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  Speaker 2: with a smile. He was so powerful. He was so persuasive.
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  Speaker 2: He did radio shows. He would have been, if he
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  Speaker 2: had lived at the time of podcasting, Milton Friedman would
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  Speaker 2: have been an incredible podcaster.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Because because he brought joy and charm and truth and
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  Speaker 2: blinding intellect and and he founded what's called the chicago
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  Speaker 2: school which was a whole group of free market economists
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  Speaker 2: at the university of chicago milton friedman is also the
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  Speaker 2: father of school choice and and that for me i
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  Speaker 2: i read capitalism and freedom as a teenager and it
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  Speaker 2: inspired me and and and School choice, when he laid
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  Speaker 2: it out, it was a theory. It was an idea
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  Speaker 2: of let's bring competition to regulated monopolies for schools because
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  Speaker 2: we see the regulated monopolies are producing some schools that
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  Speaker 2: are terrible, that are not teaching kids, that have violence,
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  Speaker 2: that are failing kids. How do you change that? You
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  Speaker 2: bring competition in. You give scholarships to kids. You let
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  Speaker 2: them choose. At the time, it was a theory. Fifty
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  Speaker 2: years later, It has been implemented in a majority of
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  Speaker 2: the states across the country. And last year, we passed
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  Speaker 2: my legislation. the federal school choice tax credit that's going
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  Speaker 2: to kick in next year, that is going to unleash
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  Speaker 2: tens of billions and even hundreds of billions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: of scholarships for kids. That's the manifestation of the power
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  Speaker 2: of Milton Friedman's ideas, the power of freedom. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why on the day I won the primary, I began
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  Speaker 2: by dedicating our victory to Uncle Miltie. And this week,
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  Speaker 2: the 50th anniversary of his Nobel Prize. Again, I dedicate
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  Speaker 2: this podcast to Uncle Miltie, an extraordinary voice for freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, let's talk about Al-Said. We called it out on
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  Speaker 1: this show how the media basically asked questions to give
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  Speaker 1: him cover without facts, without follow-up. We did their job
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  Speaker 1: for them, and it's now forced the media to do
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  Speaker 1: exactly that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's exactly right. We've talked on this podcast
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  Speaker 2: multiple times about how the two most dangerous candidates running
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  Speaker 2: in the entire country are Abdul Al-Said in Michigan and
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  Speaker 2: James Tallarico in Texas. And there are moments when this podcast,
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  Speaker 2: when Verdict, is really consequential. Our last podcast, we did
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  Speaker 2: a deep dive on Abdul Al-Said. And we started with
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  Speaker 2: playing NBC, Kristen Welker's interview of Al-Said on Meet the Press.
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  Speaker 2: And it was the worst example of journalistic malpractice I
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  Speaker 2: think we've seen in years, if not decades. Where on
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  Speaker 2: Meet the Press... Welker asked, said, there have been lots
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  Speaker 2: of charges that you and your family are affiliated with
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  Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood. Are you or your family affiliated with
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  Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood? And Al-Said flat out lies and says, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not. And Welker goes, oh, okay, great. And Tim Russert,
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  Speaker 2: who used to host Meet the Press, was almost certainly
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  Speaker 2: spinning in his grave because Russert was a journalist. And
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  Speaker 2: when someone lied to him on Meet the Press, he
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  Speaker 2: had the receipts and he would put up, for example,
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  Speaker 2: the tweet from Al-Said's sister repeatedly saying, multiple tweets saying,
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  Speaker 2: my family has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood, has long
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  Speaker 2: been affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. She did none of that.
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  Speaker 2: They would put up Abdul Al-Said, his own, multiple op-eds
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  Speaker 2: defending and advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood. She didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: She simply said, the analogy I use is it was
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  Speaker 2: like asking Al Capone, are you a criminal? No, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not a criminal. Okay, good. NBC News is set. And
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  Speaker 2: so this podcast, we just filleted that. We laid out
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday's pod. If you didn't listen to Wednesday's pod,
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  Speaker 2: you should go back and listen to it. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of the more important pods we did, laying out chapter
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  Speaker 2: and verse, the evidence. that Abdul Al-Sayed supports the Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 2: that his family has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood, that
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  Speaker 2: the biggest donor to his super PAC is his father-in-law,
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  Speaker 2: who founded an organization that is an unindicted co-conspirator in
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Land Foundation criminal case, a criminal case of
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  Speaker 2: funneling $ 12 million to Hamas. All of this is the evidence,
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  Speaker 2: all of this NBC failed to cover. Well, I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I think the heat, I think NBC actually felt embarrassed
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  Speaker 2: because they got called out for complete lack of journalistic integrity.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think they felt a need to try
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  Speaker 2: to correct it, to try to demonstrate that they're not
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  Speaker 2: purely hacks. And so a day or two later, an
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  Speaker 2: NBC reporter, Tom Yamas, had the chance to interview El-Said.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, you actually saw a journalist behave as
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  Speaker 2: a journalist.
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  Speaker 1: I would say we actually saw journalism like in national TV.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing to see this. It was refreshing.
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  Speaker 2: And it did not go well for Abdul El-Said. Here,
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  Speaker 2: give a listen.
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  Speaker 1: The Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have any ties?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: And your family doesn't? No.
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  Speaker 5: But newly revealed past tweets from Al-Sayed's half-sister appearing to
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  Speaker 5: call his answer into question.
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  Speaker 2: These tweets have emerged now.
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  Speaker 5: Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism
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  Speaker 5: in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she
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  Speaker 5: was in college.
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  Speaker 1: Hashtag respect.
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  Speaker 2: My family has long been an MB.
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  Speaker 3: Let me finish.
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  Speaker 5: Praying for all my family that supports the MB in Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Can you just explain it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Tom. It's funny to me. I was born in
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  Speaker 5: 1984 down the street in Rochester Hills. I was raised
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  Speaker 5: here in Michigan, went to the University of Michigan, rebuilt
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  Speaker 5: the health department in the city, led the health department
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  Speaker 5: in this county. Hey, you want to ask me about
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  Speaker 5: what was happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?
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  Speaker 5: I get it, but you were asked a question and
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  Speaker 5: you gave an answer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 2: I have no ties.
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  Speaker 1: We have no ties.
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  Speaker 2: So your mother had no ties?
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  Speaker 5: I have never had these conversations with my mother. I
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  Speaker 5: wasn't raised by my mother. So you were unaware? But
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  Speaker 5: I'm just telling you that like... You're using hearsay evidence
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  Speaker 5: from a tweet? It's just not serious.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not serious.
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  Speaker 5: But you've also gone after the president for truthfulness.
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  Speaker 1: You've also gone after the president for truthfulness.
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  Speaker 5: So when people ask you a question, they all do
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  Speaker 5: expect the truth. And do you think, are you insinuating
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  Speaker 5: that somehow I was lying?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm asking you.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm telling you I was not.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I was telling you I was not.
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  Speaker 1: And this is, my mom didn't raise me. That's the
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  Speaker 1: new alibi is my mom didn't raise me. That's a
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  Speaker 1: far stretch from what he said the other day, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Are you insinuating that I was lying? No, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: insinuating it. I'm stating flat out. You were lying. You
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  Speaker 2: still are. And look, I'm glad Tom Yamas did the tweets.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first step, and that was good. You could
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  Speaker 2: follow up then, because there's more evidence than that. Okay. Well,
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  Speaker 2: why did you write op-ed after op-ed after op-ed defending
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  Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood, advocating for the Muslim Brotherhood, agreeing with
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  Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood? Why did you sign a letter urging
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  Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood to purge the press and the police?
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  Speaker 2: That's actually Abdul's record, his own record. That's not his sister.
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  Speaker 2: That's not his mom. That's him. NBC still hasn't asked
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  Speaker 2: him that. They haven't asked him the question, now, why
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  Speaker 2: is it that your father-in-law is the single largest donor...
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  Speaker 2: It's given over $ 400, 000 to the Super PAC supporting your
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  Speaker 2: campaign right now. This is not in the 1970s. This
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  Speaker 2: is today. Your campaign for Senate, your father-in-law. Founded was
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  Speaker 2: one of the original founders of ISNA, the Islamic Society
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  Speaker 2: of North America. ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator in the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Land Foundation criminal prosecution for being essentially an arm
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  Speaker 2: of the Muslim Brotherhood, for being an unindicted co-conspirator and
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  Speaker 2: funneling $ 12 million to Hamas to fund terrorism. NBC hasn't
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  Speaker 2: asked him that question either. And here's another question they
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  Speaker 2: could ask him. They can ask him, why did the
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  Speaker 2: Muslim Brotherhood vocally and energetically celebrate your winning the primary?
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  Speaker 2: And in particular, let me read. So here's a story
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  Speaker 2: from the Midwesterner. Muslim Brotherhood official website celebrates Abdul El-Sayed's U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate primary victory. Follows documented ties between El-Sayed and groups
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  Speaker 2: identified by the federal government as fronts for or extensions
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  Speaker 2: of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., The Muslim Brotherhood's
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  Speaker 2: official news site on Wednesday celebrated the former Wayne County
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  Speaker 2: health official's victory over Congresswoman Haley Stevens, described as, quote,
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  Speaker 2: one of the most prominent figures supporting the occupation within
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. Ikhwan's online ex-account calls the site, quote,
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  Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood official website. Quote, during his election campaign,
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  Speaker 2: Al-Said focused on calling for the cessation of unconditional U.S.
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  Speaker 2: military aid to the Zionist occupation, criticizing the continued U.S.
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  Speaker 2: support of the war on Gaza, stop, and demanding that
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer money be redirected to domestic issues. The article was titled, quote,
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  Speaker 2: Abdul Rahman Al-Said conquers the Zionists and runs for the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: That is the Muslim Brotherhood celebrating his victory. And there's
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  Speaker 2: a reason they're celebrating his victory, because Abdul Al-Said, his sister,
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  Speaker 2: his mother... His father-in-law, his entire family have a decades-long
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  Speaker 2: history of supporting the terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood. And
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  Speaker 2: if he's in the Senate, he will have access to
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  Speaker 2: classified information that will endanger the lives of U.S. servicemen
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  Speaker 2: and women and U.S. intelligent assets serving undercover.
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• 18:06
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• 18:17
  Speaker 1: let's go back to, we started by talking about there's
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: two of the most dangerous candidates in America, El Saeed
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and then James Tallarico. James Tallarico is a guy that
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: is so extreme. It is one of those where you
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: go back to his record, and the record is just incredible.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: One of the things in his record is his obsession
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: with transing children, and he was asked about it at
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the CNN town hall, and it shows you who he
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: really is.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Well, Tallarico is extreme. As I said, he and Al
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Saeed are the two most extreme candidates running today. Tallarico
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: is also tied in the Texas Senate race. It is
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a dead heat. He and Ken Paxson are tied. The
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: news just broke that James Tallarico raised $ 64 million in
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the third quarter, which is the largest third quarter of
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: any Senate candidate in history. So no Senate candidate in
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the history of America has raised more money in the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: third quarter before Election Day. That brings his total to
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: more than $ 134 million that he has raised. So all
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: across the country, leftists are flooding money into Tallarico's campaign
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: because they understand he's one of them. He is a Marxist.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: He is an Islamist. He is a radical. And understand,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: he is a young guy. He literally came of age
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: as a woke social justice warrior. So all of the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: idiocies of woke, this guy believes. So he says things
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: like God is non-binary. He says things like there's six
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: different genders. He says things like our immigration policy should
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: be a welcome mat. on our southern border to welcome
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: illegal immigrants into America. And he believes this stuff, but
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: you're right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Believes it through and through.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: He is particularly obsessed with transgender issues and wanting to
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: do transgender surgeries kids. He has been one of the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: most vocal and aggressive defenders of sterilizing and mutilating kids
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: in support of the transgender ideology. Listen to him talking
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: about this issue.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: This discussion is a difficult one. It's one that requires
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: nuance and thoughtfulness. In the state legislature, the Republican majority
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: tried to pass an extreme ban that would go after
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: all kinds of different forms of health care, not just
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: gender reassignment surgeries.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Not just gender reassignment surgeries, which he wants you to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: believe is mainstream, but he says it is extreme to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: actually want to stop mutilation of children and sterilization of children.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: You and I've said this a lot. We keep saying it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: When they tell you what they believe and who they are,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you need to believe them.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this topic is not a difficult one. It's not
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: a complicated one. It's not a nuanced one. It is
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: a simple question for a little boy, for an eight-year-old boy.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Should you be able to cut his testicles off? I
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: find the answer to that very easy, very simple. No,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: you do not have the right to cut the testicles
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: off of an eight-year-old boy. You do not have the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: right to take an eight-year-old girl and to sterilize her,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: to engage in surgery or use chemicals that make her
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: for the rest of her life unable to bear children.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: An eight-year-old child lacks the emotional maturity to make those
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: kind of decisions for herself or himself. And any adult
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: doing that is child abuse. But in Tallarico's world, do
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: you know what the child abuse is? It is not
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: sterilizing your kids. And he has advocated, if you refuse to...
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Put your child under the knife if your child believes
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: that he or she is transgender, that you are abusing
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: your kids. That is radical. And that's who this guy is.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I want you to listen to his views now on
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: amnesty and that he wants. I'm going to spoil the headline.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: He wants to grant mass amnesty to tens of millions
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: of illegal immigrants. Give a listen.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: And then lastly, I think we have to build a
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: pathway to citizenship. our neighbors who have been here for
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: years and decades. They should pay a fine.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: They should pay back taxes.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: They should learn English. And if they can do all
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: those things, I think they deserve a shot at joining
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: our communities as full citizens.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: There it is. Let's just give them amnesty. I love how,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: by the way, he's like, oh.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: 20 to 30 million illegals, 20 to 30 million illegals.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: He wants to make them all citizens. Understand there's one
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: reason for it. He believes the illegals will all vote Democrat.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: You think things are bad now. You think the Democrats
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: are voting for Marxist and Islamist now. With 20 to
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: 30 illegals, Texas turns blue. The country is lost. And
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: he's being very explicit. That's what he's going to fight
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: to do. Now I want you to listen to what
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: he wants to do to oil and gas. You know, Texas,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: oil and gas is a monster industry. Millions of jobs
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: in Texas depend on oil and gas. Well, you know what?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: James Tallarico wants to destroy those jobs for millions of Texans.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Listen.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: I think the thing that frustrates me is the false equivalency.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: We say, well, no energy source is perfect. except renewables
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: maybe are more variable, but then fossil fuels are destroying
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: the planet. And so it's like, are those two things
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: on equal footing?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I guess my only.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Point is I want Texas to be number one in
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: renewables going forward in the 21st century. Right now it
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: feels a little bit like we're the number one supplier
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: of cassette tapes in 1988. It's time to transition, because
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: that's not going to last very long. I guess I
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: just don't know where the hostility comes from in trying
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: to figure out a safer, cleaner, greener path forward.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: This is as radical as it gets.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: And by the way, for those of y'all who are
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: not watching online, this is one that's worth watching on YouTube.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Because he's in a legislative hearing. He's in a legislative hearing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: He's wearing his mask. It's very cute. You can see
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the other people in the hearing are not wearing their masks.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: So this is late. This is after COVID. But, you know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: it's a virtue signal. And by the way, to this day,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you still see people walking through airports wearing masks. And
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I'm grateful for that because it's like self-identifying. It's like
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: holding up a sign going, I'm mentally ill. I'm a
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: crazy person and I'm like, I'm glad. Thank you for
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: putting that display on. I know you're a crazy person.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a wide berth and you
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: can be worried about all the things that frighten you. Well,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: little James Tallarico, he's wearing his mask saying that oil
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: and gas is destroying the world and we have to
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: transition away from it with no care that millions of
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: jobs in the state of Texas would be obliterated. He's
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: happy to take away your job. Not only that, maybe
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: you say, okay, not everyone works in oil and gas
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: in Texas. You know, some people work in ag. Some
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: people work in, say, cattle. We're, you know, massive cattle producer. Well,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: you know what? If you're a cattle producer, if you're
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a rancher, he wants to destroy your livelihood too. Listen
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: to him talking about how much he hates meat.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: But we have, I think, heard more and more issues
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: of animal welfare. I think not just because it's the
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: right thing to do and the moral thing to do,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: But also it's, as all of you know, necessary to
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: fight climate change. It is now existential that we try
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: respect animals in all aspects of society. And so I
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: am proud to say that our campaign has officially become
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: a non-meat campaign. So we have, we are only buying
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: vegan products from our local vegan businesses. Some of you
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: may know Big Nona's. They were little Nona's and then
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: they opened up a brick and mortar, some of their
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: big donuts, but we just got our pizza from there today.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: And so. The point is, I think all of us,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: not just policymakers, but everyone has to take personal responsibility
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: in this effort.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Nothing says woke like a vegan campaign where you got
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: your vegan pizza in a state that has like massive
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: pride in our ranchers in Texas. But you know what?
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: You go all vegan, buddy. Knock yourself out.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Well, and again, the video. Tallarico is, of course, wearing
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: a mask while he said yes. And and by the way,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: you go to his campaign rallies now and he's got
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: people showing up wearing masks in 2026. Oh, yes. These
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: people are nuts. These these people are little woke Marxist
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: and Islamist. And listen to what he just said there.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: He says it is existential to reduce meat consumption. If
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: you are a farmer, if you are a rancher, he
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: wants to destroy your way of life. And by the way,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: one of the challenges in the midterms is a lot
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: of farmers and ranchers are not happy right now, are
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: pissed off right now. And listen, there are the cost
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: of diesel is too high. The cost of fertilizer is
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: too high. There are reasons that farmers and ranchers are unhappy.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, if James Tallarico of Texas gets
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: a senator. who wants to destroy oil and gas and
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: destroy cattle ranching. That is millions and millions of jobs.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: And by the way, this show is listened to all
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: over the country. It turns out some of the rest
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: of us like meat. We like hamburgers. We like steaks.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of cattle ranching across the country, although
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I will tell you it's interesting. There are parts of
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the country. So, for example, Mississippi, do you know what
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: they call the process of raising cattle?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: You know what? I'm actually embarrassed because of my ties
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to Ole Miss that I don't know this answer. I'm
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: hoping as soon as you said I'm like, oh, yeah,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that's it. So tell me.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: So Cindy Hyde-Smith, senator from from Mississippi, who used to
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: be the ag commissioner in Mississippi, she she in our
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Senate lunch, she described she says she spends a lot
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: of time defending cattle farming. Yes, okay. And the rest
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: of us look at her and we're like, cattle farming?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: What the hell is cattle farming? Do you guys like
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: plant them in the ground and put fertilizer on them?
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Like in Texas, we do cattle ranching. We don't farm
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: our cattle. We ranch our cattle and we farm... soybeans
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: and cotton and things you actually plant, but it's very weird.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: She's going back to the pig farms. That's where she
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: gets it from, the pig farming.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying the Southeast, they do cattle farming. The
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: rest of the country, they do cattle ranching. Either way,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I'm for the farmers. I'm for the ranchers. And this zealot.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: wants to destroy your job. If you have a job
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: in oil and gas, he wants to destroy your job.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: If you have a job in ag, he wants to
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: destroy your job. If you have a job in manufacturing,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: he wants to destroy your job. And your kids, he
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: wants to make it against the law for you not
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: to mutilate your kids. He's a radical candidate. He's got
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: to be defeated.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: So we've been talking a lot about the midterms, and look,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: between work and errands and family, we're all busy. And
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: with the elections around the corner, it can be hard
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to find time to vote. Now, waiting until Election Day
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: is a risk. A flat tire or a sick kid
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: could mean you miss out on making your voice heard.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: That's why I need you to vote early. And you
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: can go to GOPvotes.org to find your polling place and
• 29:03
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• 29:06
  Speaker 1: critical Senate battleground states of Maine or Ohio, early voting
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: is already underway starting this week. The radical left has
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• 29:21
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• 29:32
  Speaker 1: All right, Senator, I got to tell you, there was
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: one exciting thing that happened, and I think we should
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: highlight it. You're going to Alaska to campaign.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: By the way, Ben, I want to jump in. I'm
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: curious if every time you say, Hey, Siri, play a
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: verdict with Ted Cruz. If people listening to this end
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: up having their phone suddenly start doing it, if they're
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: playing it out loud, just how often you trigger Siri
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: and Alexa to actually do that during the podcast.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: So true story. There was someone that was listening to it,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: apparently like on speakerphone, one of the shows they sent it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: They said, dude, every time you say it, my Alexa
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: starts playing the episode that I'm already playing on my phone,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: which is pretty funny. So I do think there's a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: little bit of humor in that for sure there. Yeah,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it would probably just happen to several people, and now
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: they can genuinely laugh about it. I was hoping it
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: would happen in your house. I was hoping one day
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: it would hear me saying it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: There's no way on earth I would let an Alexa
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: in my house. Why would I want to tape record
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: every conversation I have with my family at every time?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: No thank you.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: By the way, have you seen when it says getting
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: close to Christmas and you walk by your wife's iPhone
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and you're like, Porsche 911, Porsche 911, like hoping the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: ads pop up. Like, have you seen those memes? It
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: makes me laugh. It's like, cause it's always.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Listening to you. Mostly because it would not work with Heidi.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I could say that all day long and I will
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: not be getting a Porsche 911.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: You walk by and just go Rolex, Rolex. And you
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: see if it starts getting ads. See, there's things there that.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: You can use. From Heidi, I might get a tie.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: You could get a tie.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: So, you know, it's all relative. So look, This election,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: and I think this podcast has done a good job
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: of breaking it down, this is a divide between we
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: and they. Yes. If you are a communist transgender witch,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: you ought to vote Democrat. Those are your people. That's
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: who they're fighting for.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Don't forget, hold on. You've got to add vegan in there, sir.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: You've got to add in.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: The communist vegan witch. No, you don't. 100% of communist
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: transgender witches are already vegan. That is describing simple reality.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: By the way, I don't think we have a large
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: listenership of communist transgender witches on Verdict. Maybe we do.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's a hidden... Hidden pool I don't know about.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: All the Democratic operatives out there working for Tallarico and others,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: they're listening. This is where you get to troll them
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: a little bit. They're drinking their soy lattes right now
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: talking about how you're the problem with America.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: If you're a Bolshevik professor in the Ivy League, you
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: ought to vote Democrat too. But if you're a truck driver,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: you need to show up and vote Republican. If you
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: are a steel worker, you need to show up and
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: vote Republican. If you are a farmer or a rancher,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: you need to show up and vote Republican. If you're
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: a waiter or a waitress, you just got no tax
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: on tips, you need to show up and vote Republican.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: If you are a cop or a firefighter, you need
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: to show up and vote Republican. If you're an oil
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: field worker, you don't just need to show up and
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: vote Republican. You need to bring everyone you know to
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: show up and vote Republican. If you're a mom or dad,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: who doesn't want your kids mutilated and indoctrinated, you need
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: to show up and vote Republican. And if you care
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: about your family not being criminally assaulted by violent murderers
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: and rapists and child molesters released from jail, you need
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: to show up and vote Republican.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Or don't forget the amnesty for 20, 30 million illegal
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: immigrants they want to give to cancel out your vote.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And this past week, we had a
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: powerful illustration of the divide, the divide with blue collar workers.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: President Trump was up in Alaska this week, did a
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: huge rally there. I'm actually in Alaska Friday and Saturday
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: this week campaigning with Dan Sullivan. Dan Sullivan is running
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: for Senate. He is a dear friend of mine. Alaska
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: needs to re-elect Dan Sullivan. To show you just how
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: dishonest the Democrats are, they went and recruited another guy
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: named Dan Sullivan to put on the ballot so that
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: the voters— and by the way, the fake Dan Sullivan— His
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: press release announcing his campaign was written by the consultant
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: for the Democrat candidate. It is purely, let's deceive the voters.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Let's get one or two or three percent of the
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: voters that vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan. Think, oh,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: that's the guy I like. I'll vote for him. And
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: they want to squeak in and steal a Senate seat
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: by deceiving and lying to their voters. That's what's going on.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I'm going to spend two days campaigning with Dan in Alaska.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: President Trump was there this week, had a fantastic rally,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: and he did something really important. I'm going to read
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: to you from Fox News. Trump signs pardons for Alaska
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: diesel mechanics on stage during rally touting major energy deals.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: The president declared every federal permit granted. for the 800-mile
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: pipeline while pardoning Clean Air Act defendants. President Donald Trump
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: announced pardons for two Alaska diesel mechanics during a midterm
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: rally Tuesday night in Wasilla, bringing the men on stage
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: to sign clemency documents as he highlighted major energy investments
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: and infrastructure projects in the last frontier. Trump identified Zachary
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Subak and Patrick Fleming, two co-owners of an Anchorage diesel
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: repair shop, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Clean Air Act in 2022. I'm giving each one of
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the three an unconditional pardon, Trump told supporters, also referencing
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  Speaker 2: earlier pardons for McKenzie Mack Spurlock, a Wasilla diesel shop owner.
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  Speaker 2: So understand, these three diesel shop owners came in to
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  Speaker 2: repair diesel trucks. And the Biden administration prosecuted them for
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  Speaker 2: helping the truck drivers keep their trucks on the road
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  Speaker 2: and forced them, brought a criminal case against them. President
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  Speaker 2: Trump pardoned them. I want you to listen to President
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  Speaker 2: Trump in Alaska this week.
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  Speaker 1: And your governor did also, by the way.
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  Speaker 4: But at their urging, I gave him a full, unconditional pardon.
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  Speaker 2: Is that you?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Come on up here.
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  Speaker 2: Come on up.
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  Speaker 4: He's a young, nice-looking guy.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. And two other Wasilla truckers.
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  Speaker 4: We're also wrongly charged, and I am pleased to announce
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  Speaker 4: that I am pardoning them, too, effective immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Their name is Zachary Schubach and Patrick Fleming. Come on
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  Speaker 1: up here, fellas. Come on up here. Bring me the pardons.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Think of it.
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  Speaker 5: They want to put him in jail for 10 years
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  Speaker 5: because they fixed an engine.
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  Speaker 1: How sick. Now, if you murder somebody, no problem.
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  Speaker 4: Unless a Republican does the murdering, then it's, you know,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: the electric chair, right?
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  Speaker 1: Senator, you look at this and it's just one of
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  Speaker 1: those moments where a president can make a huge difference
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  Speaker 1: in someone's life. And he did it for these three individuals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, if you care about jobs, you've got to
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: show up and vote and you need to vote Republican.
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  Speaker 2: You need to vote Republican in this election. If you
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  Speaker 2: care about blue collar jobs, truckers, construction workers, if you
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  Speaker 2: care about. not having radicals and communists and Islamists taking
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: over the country. I can't believe I'm saying those words,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the reality. You've got to come out and vote,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: and you've got to keep Republicans in the House and Senate.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: We'll see you back here on this radio station next week.
• 37:34
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• 37:37
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