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Delta's New Relax Row · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: I knew it traveling, you do travel, I knew it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought a jet flane.
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  Speaker 2: No, but here's here's why, here's why, here's why Daniel
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  Speaker 2: is traveling tonight on a plane. I wonder what his
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  Speaker 2: TSA line will be. Another reason what Elton John is?
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  Speaker 2: Elton John is seventy nine today, Aretha Franklin and Elton John.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, wow, that that is a one two punch
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  Speaker 2: of birthdays. They don't get much bigger. So there's Little
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  Speaker 2: Daniel from the Great Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the
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  Speaker 2: Piano Player album nineteen seventy two.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Speaking speaking of travel, you posted yesterday on
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  Speaker 1: x uh Trump could make Iran our fifty first state.
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  Speaker 3: Ye.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to talk about the United Airlines relax Row.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: This is crazy, So that's a pretty big.
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  Speaker 2: Story for people. Describe it for people.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, before we get before we describe what
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  Speaker 1: United Airlines new relax Row is going to be where
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  Speaker 1: you can buy three seats and it gets turned into
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  Speaker 1: a bed in economy. Sure, I'm mad that my secret
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  Speaker 1: got out because I've told you about my little travel
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  Speaker 1: trick over the years. If and I'm lucky and blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I get to fly first class if I if I,
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  Speaker 1: if first class isn't available, or if I'm on a
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  Speaker 1: smaller jet like an Embryer or one of those smaller
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  Speaker 1: planes that doesn't have first class, I buy an extra
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  Speaker 1: seat in coach. You can get a cheap coach ticket,
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  Speaker 1: and why wouldn't you If the ticket is one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ninety nine dollars and you buy an extra seat
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  Speaker 1: for another one hundred and ninety nine dollars, the first
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  Speaker 1: class seat might be a thousand. You're still and you
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  Speaker 1: can spread out, and it gets always dicey when it's
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  Speaker 1: a pass just.
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  Speaker 2: One additional seat. What do you mean spread out? Just
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  Speaker 2: kind of?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you put your magazines next to you. You can
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  Speaker 1: put a jacket, a suit coat next to you.
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  Speaker 2: You're not sitting there shoulder to shoulder with right you
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  Speaker 2: can liberating.
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  Speaker 1: You lift up the arm rest and you've got basically
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  Speaker 1: two seats to yourself, even if you're not particularly overweight.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I've lost a bunch of weight, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't need But and the only airline that refuses to
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  Speaker 1: let you do this, strangely enough, is Southwest. Southwest won't
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  Speaker 1: let you buy an extra seat for comfort. They make
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  Speaker 1: you buy an extra seat if you're overweight, but they won't.
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  Speaker 1: It's the weirdest thing.
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  Speaker 2: I had an argument, can you can you identify as
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  Speaker 2: weighing four hundred pounds so that they can.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, and who knows, but they how
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  Speaker 1: do they know?
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  Speaker 2: If you see? Because I know you told us this
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  Speaker 2: before that Southwest will not let you do this. Can
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  Speaker 2: you just buy it for you can buy it for
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  Speaker 2: a fictitious other person that'll think you're a terrace.
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  Speaker 1: No, you can't. You got to put in extra seat gallery.
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  Speaker 1: So what you do with Delta or American or Unite,
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  Speaker 1: you do Michael Gallagher in seat thirteen A, and then
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  Speaker 1: you do extra seat Gallagher for thirteen B. And you
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  Speaker 1: have two boarding passes, you show them both. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the gate agents get it, they understand it, and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: some of the airlines make you scan the second boarding
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  Speaker 1: pass extra seat Gallagher. Some of them don't. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want to scan it because it throws off the count anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So that's always been my little trick over the years
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  Speaker 1: and it makes at and by the way, Southwest get
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  Speaker 1: with the program. There's no reason to turn people down
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  Speaker 1: if they're buying an extra seat and you're paying for it,
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  Speaker 1: what do you care? And I remember that guy in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: There was a Minneapolis gate agent or a ticket agent
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  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis's Southwest. Wait, we don't let you do that.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that. You're not overweight, I said, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little chunky, I'm a little tubby. No, but
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  Speaker 1: you're not overweight to buy to require said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and like you said, maybe I should over identify as being.
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  Speaker 2: Have you tried this? Have you tried this since the
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  Speaker 2: big Southwest change to assigned seats, which everyone I think
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  Speaker 2: still has.
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  Speaker 1: I have not. I have not, so I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they've, if they've relaxed that policy or not. But
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  Speaker 1: now here's United three adjacent United Economy seats. You get
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  Speaker 1: a mattress, pad, blanket, and a pair of pillows. If
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  Speaker 1: you're traveling with kids, they give you a little plushy too,
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  Speaker 1: a little little toy too. United relax row will be available.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's I have questions. First of all, I would
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  Speaker 1: think three economy sheets aren't wide enough for you to
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  Speaker 1: spread because they want to you want to turn the
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  Speaker 1: three sheets into a bed, and.
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  Speaker 2: They're idea of people, And isn't there something that is
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  Speaker 2: like a it's not a foot rest per se, but
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  Speaker 2: something that folds up. I mean they're going to craft
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  Speaker 2: these relax row seats, right, something folds up to create
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  Speaker 2: a full bed surface between the chair back and the
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  Speaker 2: chairs in front of you, seats in front of you,
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  Speaker 2: so that you really can sprawl up to a point.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and finish your very visual point. About five eleven,
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  Speaker 2: you're what are you?
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  Speaker 1: Six?
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  Speaker 2: Three? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean your your legs are going to get crushed
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  Speaker 1: by the by the beverage cart. Something at my ankle,
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  Speaker 1: snapped by the drink cart. You're going to be hanging
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  Speaker 1: out into the aisle. There's no way that works into
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  Speaker 1: a bed. I mean that Now, now they are doing
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  Speaker 1: something pretty cool. I mean United is all about premium
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  Speaker 1: and comfort. They launched all this new service, this polarious,
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  Speaker 1: uh level of service they have. They're they're the live
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  Speaker 1: flat beds in first class, the pods. You got a
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  Speaker 1: little door, You close.
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  Speaker 2: The door and you're in your own whole world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's got a sliding door. You have your
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  Speaker 1: own compartment. Oh yeah, it's the coolest thing ever. On
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  Speaker 1: the Orient Express on a train. Well, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: just at seat level. In other words, it's open over
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  Speaker 1: it's not like it's conclosed, although that, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is available on Singapore airlines you can get your own
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  Speaker 1: little private compartment like a train. But on on United,
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  Speaker 1: Delta has a two, Delta has Delta one, and I've
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  Speaker 1: taken that over to like Japan and London and stuff
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  Speaker 1: that you you and you have a little door, which
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  Speaker 1: is nice because if you're laying back, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: the you know, you have to look right at it,
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  Speaker 1: at the schlub sitting next to you. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see that person. I want to I want a barrier.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be closed. So anyway, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how this even works. Delta relaxed robe or you're
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  Speaker 1: not relax.
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  Speaker 2: And how much is it? I was saying that that
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  Speaker 2: usually isn't first class about three times a coach seat
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  Speaker 2: generally sometimes for it can be more. And so I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I was looking at it, and I think
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  Speaker 2: they're offering it mostly on some of the long hauls.
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  Speaker 2: You can get it on economy class in Europe if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to Europe or something like that, right, And
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  Speaker 2: I listen. I've discovered it's because it's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 2: I am sick.
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  Speaker 1: Three.
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  Speaker 2: I can't be in steerage if I'm going to Rome, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I just can't. However, I'm not. I haven't grown up
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  Speaker 2: to be you yet at least and I did do
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  Speaker 2: We did. We did British Airways business class, like the
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  Speaker 2: first time he went to Italy two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just we faced each other. It was
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  Speaker 2: it was very romantic. I mean, I'm facing this way,
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  Speaker 2: she's facing that way. We've been bring the barrier down.
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  Speaker 2: I got. It was glorious. And in this two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and seven it was about five about five k apiece.
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  Speaker 2: Then since then I discovered there's a thing an American
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  Speaker 2: has it premium economy, which is you're not the business
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  Speaker 2: class thing it's about. It was about twenty five twenty
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  Speaker 2: six hundred and and you're just just it's just bigger seats,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more leg room. You still get the
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  Speaker 2: same movies, good food, not like the lazy boy recliner
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  Speaker 2: feet because.
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  Speaker 1: Delta, Delta has a premium I think it's called Premium Select,
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  Speaker 1: and they're bigger, a little bit bigger seats and you
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  Speaker 1: have at least you have a foot rest. See that's
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  Speaker 1: what I like. I like being able on a long
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  Speaker 1: haul flight. I like at least put my feet up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you're doing your revoice deep vein throm
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Anyway, United, good for them.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what we'll see all on folds. And but
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  Speaker 1: I was, I was excited. All right, Let's talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about the the the the euphoria the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are experiencing. Because mar A Lago flipped red.
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  Speaker 2: To blue is a state state legislative seat. Trump's state
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  Speaker 2: legislator in mar A Lago is now a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: So there's good news and bad news to all of this.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, here's the bad news, and we got
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  Speaker 1: to face it. Let's acknowledge every one of these special
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  Speaker 1: elections has gone blue and every in just about every state.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a it's an indicator of Republicans who are
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  Speaker 1: staying home now. But can we just all calm down
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  Speaker 1: and pump the brakes about Palm Beach and mar A Lago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Trump's own backyard, Oh Trump, Look at Palm Beach
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  Speaker 1: has been represented by a Democrat in Congress for thirteen
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  Speaker 1: years Biden won Palm Beach County by sixteen points. Harris
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  Speaker 1: won at by five. So all this hysteria over this
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  Speaker 1: this mar A Lago district, calm down. It's a special
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  Speaker 1: election and maybe God willing will get it right in
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  Speaker 1: the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: But one of my favorite parts of that election, one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite stories, Trump voted by mail.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, and they're bagging on him for that,
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  Speaker 1: But you stop and think about this. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: policies right now. All the ice effect at the airports
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  Speaker 1: is only smaller lines. I mean, it's working and more efficient. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are in meltdown mode over ice agents at the airports.
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  Speaker 1: They're handing out bottles of water everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Place in line, where you go potty, they're they're they're
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  Speaker 2: getting thank you for your service. There's goodwill all over.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: All over and and and and let's face it, Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: it's a bad look for them to complain about life
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  Speaker 1: being made easier for Americans with the presence of ice.
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  Speaker 1: And incidentally, it's a brilliant maneuver bike. Did you see
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  Speaker 1: somewhere that this idea came from a caller to a
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  Speaker 1: talk show a radio show. Whoa have you heard about this? No?
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  Speaker 1: So apparently what's her names? And I don't know them
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  Speaker 1: very well? Clay and claim claim boy, there was a
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  Speaker 1: caller to their show. There was a lady Linda, I think,
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  Speaker 1: who called in and said, you know what to do?
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  Speaker 1: They got to send ice into the airports. Day later,
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  Speaker 1: Trump says, let's send ice into the airports. And so
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  Speaker 1: this lady Linda from uh, you know, Peoria or wherever
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  Speaker 1: she's from, she's getting credit. Trump apparently sent her a hat,
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  Speaker 1: said thank you, Linda, interviewed.
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  Speaker 2: Her shine hat. A shine hat for a complete reversal
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  Speaker 2: in ICE's image, and and and a boost of the
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  Speaker 2: other if we win the mid terms. Because Linda helped
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  Speaker 2: Ice look better in the public eye.
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  Speaker 1: She needs more than a hat. That's a that's a
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  Speaker 1: valuable item. But but let's just take a big picture
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  Speaker 1: look at this. What policies do democrats offer right now
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  Speaker 1: that are better than our policies? Name one, name one?
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  Speaker 1: Is it all driven and and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: dispute or pretend that these special elections aren't a thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there is something. They're not insignificant. So people
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  Speaker 3: are staying home a lot of people think it's Israel.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are all still been around the
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  Speaker 3: spokes about Israel and is Israel. There's a poll that
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  Speaker 3: came out that most Republicans think Israel has an undue
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  Speaker 3: influence in our foreign policy. But but the Democrats have
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  Speaker 3: horrible policies.
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  Speaker 1: Everything I want you to but be object is there
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  Speaker 1: one thing? Is there one thing the border to come.
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  Speaker 2: Not to complicate the question, but in order to make
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  Speaker 2: the question resonate more. It can't just be your opinions
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  Speaker 2: or mine versus no. Actually objectively, because objectively, a country
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  Speaker 2: needs borders. I don't believe in borders because I'm conservative.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it because I'm an American. I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: in gender sanity because I'm conservative. I believe it because
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  Speaker 2: I'm a human being. Those are the eighty twenties. Do
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats have an eighty twenty? Do they have a
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  Speaker 2: fifty five to forty five where they, just for their view,
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  Speaker 2: are inherently on more solid ground than anything.
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  Speaker 1: Name one, Name one policy that the Democrats lean into
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  Speaker 1: where they're not on the on the twenty percent side
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  Speaker 1: of an eighty twenty issue.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I say something where they think they
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  Speaker 2: are winning. It is so vague and ill defined, and
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  Speaker 2: what exactly is their view? And that of course would
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  Speaker 2: be here here it comes the a word affordability. Are they?
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  Speaker 2: Are they? But what does that even mean? What is
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  Speaker 2: what mom Donnie policy? Because I think he won on
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  Speaker 2: affordability and a lot of other Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 2: try to what point are they kind of making? What
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  Speaker 2: Democrat policy makes something more affordable? Or if you may,
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  Speaker 2: and free stat and free stuff paid for it by
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  Speaker 2: the other view? Free Dallas count tax. The ridge just
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  Speaker 2: played Dallas County Judge of Clay Jenkins talking about free
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  Speaker 2: free pre K four K, three year three year old.
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  Speaker 2: My heart breaks, and I'll bet it's dog gone popular
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  Speaker 2: in some places and the other part.
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  Speaker 1: Trump nailed it yesterday. Trump himself said this, the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have horrible policies, but they stick together like glue. Republicans
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  Speaker 1: have great policies, but we never stick together where it's
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  Speaker 1: infuriating to watch. I'm telling you right now, the midterms
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  Speaker 1: are going to come down to one thing, and only
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  Speaker 1: one thing. And I'm just going to call it right now.
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  Speaker 1: Put it on your calendar. March twenty fifth, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: We don't get the Save Act passed, We're gonna lose.
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  Speaker 1: We don't get the Save Act passed, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to lose the mid terms. America is gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Because okay, well it because of rampant fraud or dispirited
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  Speaker 2: Republicans going man, we can't even.
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  Speaker 1: Get both both both you wait and see. They're terrified
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  Speaker 1: of the Save Act because, as you pointed out over
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  Speaker 1: and over again, it's a reasonable expectation that you are
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  Speaker 1: who you say you are when you vote. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want that. They've said it, did you. And incidentally, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about the Chris Murphy clip yesterday, Right we care
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  Speaker 1: the most about undocumented americancy or undocumented immigrancies. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: care that. Those are the people we care the most about.
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  Speaker 1: So look, we better start sticking together, my friend. If
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  Speaker 1: we don't, we're gonna lose the midterms. We're gonna lose
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  Speaker 1: the country. We're gonna be We're gonna we're gonna see
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  Speaker 1: daily impeachments. And I just don't want to be bleak
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  Speaker 1: like that. I don't want to be I'm optimistic. There's
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  Speaker 1: some great signs. You see what's happening out of California.
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  Speaker 1: The two leading candidates in California are Republicans, and the
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  Speaker 1: way they do their goof voting.
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  Speaker 2: Out there, they put everybody in a basket and just go,
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  Speaker 2: and your top two guys are in a runoff. And
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  Speaker 2: there's so many Democrats running that the two Republicans currently
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  Speaker 2: leading the polls were the.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are canceling everybody each other out, and now you've
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  Speaker 1: got two Republicans. You got see the Fox News guy,
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  Speaker 1: the British guy, what's his name, Hilton, and then Chad
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  Speaker 1: uh I think Cronster showed two. They very well may
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  Speaker 1: have a Republican governor. So that's a good thing. You
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  Speaker 1: see all the MAGA polling, all the all the maga
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  Speaker 1: stuff that shows that ninety nine percent approval. So look,
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  Speaker 1: I'd still like our chances, but don't please, don't be complacent.
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  Speaker 1: Vote like your country depends on it.
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  Speaker 2: Because it does does it does well? Stated as always,
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  Speaker 2: we would expect nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry you United Airline tickets eositionem love.
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  Speaker 2: You pull your knees uptight. You don't what to be
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  Speaker 2: extended out into the aisle on that United Relax ro
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, I'm relaxed.