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11-5: Midterm Post Mortem Pt. 2: The Real Message & What's The Best Way To Deal With The Next 2 Years? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: They're still talking about the midterms, or at least I am.
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  Speaker 1: God knows it's pretty rare for me to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the same topic two days in a row. I try
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  Speaker 1: to vary it up, and Lord knows I try not
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  Speaker 1: to get delved into politics too much. But when you
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  Speaker 1: have something like the midterms, we just have the blue tsunami,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, like I called it yesterday, that fundamentally
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  Speaker 1: changes the electorate in the country so drastically, so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a big topic, but here's the thing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still talking about it because, first of all, We learned
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  Speaker 1: a lot from yesterday, what this really is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it takes 24 hours for all the information to come in,
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  Speaker 1: what really happened, as opposed to what we were told
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  Speaker 1: at first. And also this, how to deal with it
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  Speaker 1: and what's going on here. And I'm talking about it
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  Speaker 1: again because, to be completely blunt with you, looking at
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's and this morning's Wicked Radio audio numbers, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you were listening to this, so it's still a
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  Speaker 1: big story and a lot of interest. Here's my take.
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  Speaker 2: Is there.
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  Speaker 1: a silver lining in all this for normal Americans. Turns
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  Speaker 1: out it's a massive silver lining. It may be platinum.
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  Speaker 1: Second thing is, what's the mindset part of this, which
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  Speaker 1: is the stuff that I'm interested in? What's the best
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  Speaker 1: way to deal with the next two years? I think
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to come up with here, I think,
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  Speaker 1: is for the first time in a long time, at
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  Speaker 1: least two years, I think it goes back further than that,
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  Speaker 1: but for the first time in a long time, you, me,
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  Speaker 1: and normal people are going to be able to take
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  Speaker 1: a breather. And sit back. It's like in a, I
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  Speaker 1: hate to put it in fight terms, but if you
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  Speaker 1: were like in a boxing match, you can finally sit
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  Speaker 1: down to the bench in the corner and get some
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  Speaker 1: water and take a breather. Because no matter who you are,
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  Speaker 1: no matter where you are in the country, whether you
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  Speaker 1: realize it or not, I would bet you have been
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  Speaker 1: on defensive. You have had your guard up for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Well, this is a chance for you to
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  Speaker 1: finally take a breather and sit back and watch everything else.
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  Speaker 1: This is your break in between rounds and all of ours.
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  Speaker 1: Because now, sometimes what you got to, I hate to
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  Speaker 1: put it in fight terms again for some reason, but
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  Speaker 1: now you got to know who you got to fight.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe the worst thing for the radicals and the
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  Speaker 1: extremists that have gained some power in Congress, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: worst thing for them to happen is they got exposed.
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  Speaker 1: And now they don't know what to do. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a dog that chases a rabbit, finally gets the rabbit
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  Speaker 1: and has no clue what to do. Now you can
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  Speaker 1: sit back. We can sit back and say, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: guess the communism is not working out. It's a lot
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  Speaker 1: to this. But what's the best way to deal with
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  Speaker 1: this entire thing? Some amazing clips came out last night
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  Speaker 1: of people who actually know the insides and outsides of
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  Speaker 1: this thing. But for normal people like you and me,
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  Speaker 1: that's the big question. How do we deal with it?
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  Speaker 1: We get to it. Thanks for being here. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to mention that a lot of you
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  Speaker 1: found the audio podcast of Wicked Radio yesterday and this
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  Speaker 1: morning talking about this, which is why I'm doing it
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  Speaker 1: two days in a row. Thank you for that. It's
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  Speaker 1: always on your favorite audio podcast platforms. Live stream is
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  Speaker 1: 8 a.m. Eastern time on X and YouTube and Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, the replay was always on there
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  Speaker 1: as well. Let's get right to it. The midterm blue
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  Speaker 1: tsunami postmortem. What really happened? This became clear as day
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  Speaker 1: to me yesterday throughout the news. Clear as day. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and part of this is, I guess, the statistics and
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  Speaker 1: they start to look at the numbers and who showed
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  Speaker 1: up and who didn't. And there are people who. make
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  Speaker 1: their entire careers out of looking at this data and
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  Speaker 1: all this other stuff. That ain't me. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: usually just sit back and try to, and you, try
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  Speaker 1: to get a feel for what's going on here. But
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  Speaker 1: it became clear that, first of all, the traditional, and
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  Speaker 1: there are some politicians, I know Ted Cruz said this,
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  Speaker 1: I think DeSantis said this as well, the traditional hardcore,
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  Speaker 1: they were calling them the evangelical Christians, did not, just
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  Speaker 1: didn't show up, right? We know that there were some
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  Speaker 1: Republicans across party lines to make a message, send a message.
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  Speaker 1: We know, too, that people stayed home who traditionally would
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  Speaker 1: have voted. So, of course, that's going to change. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what was that? The first set of news, and this
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  Speaker 1: is why I always say the first narrative and piece
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  Speaker 1: of propaganda that's out there in the news is very
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  Speaker 1: rarely the right one because people are trying to send
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  Speaker 1: a message. Very careful of the people who came out first.
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  Speaker 1: Look to see who did it and said, This was
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  Speaker 1: a punishment of Trump. This was a repudiation of the Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was. I think if you sit
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  Speaker 1: back now, a couple of days later, and you look
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  Speaker 1: at this, this was a pushback, a punishment, a repudiation
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  Speaker 1: of these. And again, I say this in nonpartisan kind
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  Speaker 1: of way of these absolute useless, do nothing in it
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. Congressional politicians. That's what this was, my friends.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what this was. people, again, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: be nonpartisan here, people don't trust Congress. That's what it was.
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  Speaker 1: These were congressional seats on the map. And people looked
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  Speaker 1: at this and they said, oh, I just, I can't
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  Speaker 1: stand them. And that's Democrats and Republicans and everything. Can't
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  Speaker 1: stand them, don't trust them. That's what this was, first
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  Speaker 1: of all. You know who pointed this out the best way? DeSantis,
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  Speaker 1: the guy who ran Florida and actually held off this
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  Speaker 1: so-called blue tsunami. Now, I know You may not know
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  Speaker 1: too much about Ron DeSantis. I do because I live
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  Speaker 1: in Florida. You may not like him. Step back for
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  Speaker 1: a second and just be objective about this. The guy
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  Speaker 1: knows he made the best point of all about what
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  Speaker 1: this election actually really was. Just listen to him for
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  Speaker 1: a second. Okay, is he a politician? Yes, he is. Personally,
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  Speaker 1: do I think he's doing all this media because he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the guy running for president? Personally, I do.
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  Speaker 1: But try to, like, stay away from that for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Just listen to what he's saying because this is one
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  Speaker 1: of the clearest things Most common sense points of all.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, here's the problem that when people would
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  Speaker 2: say that, and if you're going to do huge conservative
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  Speaker 2: things that are going to reorient the country for a generation, fine.
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  Speaker 2: But I saw no indication that the current group of
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  Speaker 2: Republican senators were interested in doing that type of bold
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  Speaker 2: conservative change. I mean, why haven't we done immigration? Shut
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  Speaker 2: off H-1B visas. Why haven't we codified Trump's immigration executive orders?
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  Speaker 2: There's so— why haven't we— Strip jurisdiction from the federal courts over.
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  Speaker 1: And he goes on. Doesn't that make a lot of sense? Again,
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  Speaker 1: step back from what you think about or know about
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  Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis and just think about perspective from a guy
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  Speaker 1: that looks at this stuff too, right? That's run elections
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  Speaker 1: himself and who probably has presidential aspirations now. Doesn't that
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  Speaker 1: make a hell of a lot more sense on what
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  Speaker 1: happened in this? If you're just talking about the people
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  Speaker 1: who came out in droves to come out and support
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  Speaker 1: America first... They didn't see this Congress and all these
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  Speaker 1: congressional seats doing anything for them, so they were pissed off.
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  Speaker 1: And they either switched parties. That happens sometimes. Mostly what
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  Speaker 1: happened was they stayed home. Yes, they did. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: seeing that and even looking at the data, and you
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  Speaker 1: can see that that actually happened because they don't trust
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  Speaker 1: these politicians. That's what happened. Is that a massive silver lining?
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  Speaker 1: It's a huge silver lining because it told all of
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  Speaker 1: these useless politicians that, That Americans will speak up. That's
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  Speaker 1: what happens. Another different kind of thing now, what this
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  Speaker 1: actually means. This doesn't mean that this was some sort
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  Speaker 1: of rejection of people wanting to take their power back
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  Speaker 1: or America first. At all. Not at all. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I go the opposite direction. This was them saying we
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  Speaker 1: want our power back and you people in Congress, even
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  Speaker 1: you new seats, aren't listening to us. That's what this was.
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  Speaker 1: So how do we deal with it? How do we
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  Speaker 1: deal with it now in a world going forward in
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  Speaker 1: two years? Here's the first thing to look for. he's
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of conservative shows and I think he
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  Speaker 1: was on Hannity last night, but I don't think Jonathan Turley,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of my, I always say the legal people,
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  Speaker 1: I always look at Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz to
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  Speaker 1: try to get balance of both sides. He made the
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  Speaker 1: point that we said in the introduction there. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: got to know exactly what you're talking about as far
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  Speaker 1: as what you're criticizing. Maybe the worst thing that's ever
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  Speaker 1: happened to the radicals and extremists that won all these
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  Speaker 1: seats is now they're on TV every day and they've
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  Speaker 1: got to defend all this stuff They probably never even
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  Speaker 1: expected to win all these seats, to be completely honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. So now what do you do? He says
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  Speaker 1: it great last night. He says, now people are going
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  Speaker 1: to see exactly what these policies are all about. It's
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  Speaker 1: like I said in the introduction. Now you can sit
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  Speaker 1: back and instead of defending yourself against America first all
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  Speaker 1: the time, you can say, cross your arms and say, huh,
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  Speaker 1: how about that? I guess the communism isn't working out.
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  Speaker 1: I guess all the radicalism isn't working out. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Now it's our chance to sit back and criticize. And
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  Speaker 1: he said it.
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  Speaker 3: The Democrats don't have much to offer here. The DSA
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  Speaker 3: is driving this train so far. And what Schumer and
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey's are going to find out is that that wing
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  Speaker 3: is going to have oversized power in the coming Congress.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think this is going to be a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a train wreck. But this is we're looking
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  Speaker 3: at gridlock here. They don't have the votes to move
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  Speaker 3: these reforms. And that's the reason they're going to turn
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  Speaker 3: to investigations.
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  Speaker 1: And that would be the big mistake because they can't
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  Speaker 1: help themselves. I think the radical, the extreme politicians who
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  Speaker 1: just love lawfare, as they call it, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: investigating their political enemies and putting them in jail. We
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  Speaker 1: saw plenty of that, you know, from 2020 on. They
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  Speaker 1: can't help themselves on this. They're going to go into
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  Speaker 1: the lawfare aspect of this whole thing. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: chance for you and me and normal people to sit
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  Speaker 1: back and go, huh, wow, I guess you guys told
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  Speaker 1: me that wasn't going to happen. And I know damn
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  Speaker 1: well you know there are people in your personal life
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  Speaker 1: who have taken shots at you for 10 plus years
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  Speaker 1: now about, oh, mega, America first. And you may not
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  Speaker 1: be even involved in politics. You just want the best
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  Speaker 1: for Americans. Well, now's your chance to sit back and go, hmm, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So all these people, all these radicals that won on
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  Speaker 1: these political seats in Congress, boy, that's a disaster, huh?
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  Speaker 1: It's your chance to take a breather. But what's the
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  Speaker 1: best way to deal with all this? This is a massive,
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  Speaker 1: massive silver lining besides being able to sit back and
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  Speaker 1: knowing exactly and putting on the spotlight on the people
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  Speaker 1: that have taken shots at regular Americans. for so many
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  Speaker 1: years well now you got to do something with it
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  Speaker 1: good and now you can sit back and you can
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  Speaker 1: laugh at all this stuff it was a great thing
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  Speaker 1: i've always admired greg gutfeld on fox i'm not a
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  Speaker 1: big fan like you probably aren't of the fox network
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  Speaker 1: these days i think i said yesterday that their election
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  Speaker 1: coverage that was just terrible it was awful but anyway
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  Speaker 1: He's great. I think he's great. I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: great satirist. I think he's one of our great voices
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  Speaker 1: in this country to talk about normal people. He's great
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: on late night, and I think he's, you know, even
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  Speaker 1: though he talks about politics and news and current events,
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: that's a hell of a lot better than Kimmel and
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  Speaker 1: Fallon do. This is what he said at the end
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  Speaker 1: of his monologue just last night, post-mortem, to look at
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  Speaker 1: all this midterm stuff, because there were so many people
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  Speaker 1: upset and depressed yesterday. There's a lot to like about this,
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  Speaker 1: and he said it.
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  Speaker 4: Movements die from neglect, not from one election. The other
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  Speaker 4: side never stops organizing, especially when it's all they've got.
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  Speaker 4: And above all, you've got to keep the humor, which
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  Speaker 4: is both a pressure valve and a recruitment tool. Can't
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  Speaker 4: laugh at absurdity. You're screwed because there's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a lot of it. Because if history is any teacher,
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  Speaker 4: the Dems will use this chance to overshoot the basket
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  Speaker 4: like it's midseason in the WNBA. As they veer further
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  Speaker 4: off the road, the delta between them and the rest
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  Speaker 4: of us will only grow.
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  Speaker 1: So step back. Take a breath until the wave recedes.
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  Speaker 1: And don't give up. We're going to be okay. Two
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  Speaker 1: years is a.
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  Speaker 4: Blink, and you'll be eager to vote again in 2028.
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  Speaker 4: And by then, Nicki Minaj will be rested and ready.
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  Speaker 1: Forgot about her. But isn't he right? And it's funny
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  Speaker 1: that that phrase came up again, take a breath. You
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  Speaker 1: can take a breath because, like I said, no matter
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  Speaker 1: where you are or who you are, even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't realize it, I would bet you you've taken a
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  Speaker 1: lot of shots and your guard has been up and
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: your cortisol is through the roof and dealing with people
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  Speaker 1: at work and in your family and at Thanksgiving and
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  Speaker 1: holidays and all the things you see on the propaganda
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  Speaker 1: and the news. Well, this is your chance to sit
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  Speaker 1: back and my chance to sit back. And like Greg
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  Speaker 1: Gutfeld said, now we can make the jokes. Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: We can make fun of all of these radicals that
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  Speaker 1: want all this power. And here's the big silver lining, too,
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  Speaker 1: if you're into this kind of stuff. Again, the big
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  Speaker 1: takeaway is this wasn't any kind of embrace or green
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  Speaker 1: light or rubber stamp on all these radical policies. This
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  Speaker 1: was a repudiation and a pushback on these useless politicians
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  Speaker 1: that didn't get done what they really want to get done.
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  Speaker 1: That's the message is, this is more than anything America
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  Speaker 1: telling you, you want things that help everyday regular Americans
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  Speaker 1: and America first. That's what this was, and they were
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  Speaker 1: willing to go to the other side and let the
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  Speaker 1: other side win for two years in order to prove
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  Speaker 1: their point, which is scary and dangerous, but that's how
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  Speaker 1: pissed off Americans are. Again, keep the humor. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a great two years for humor. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be fantastic, just like Gutfeld said, because there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be so much absurdity to make fun of.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait, but it's about mindset and how you
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  Speaker 1: handle this kind of stuff. Absolutely. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: worth talking about for two days in a row, for
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  Speaker 1: two episodes in a row, because we're all just kind
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: of trying to digest from this whole thing. You can't
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: get upset. That's the other takeaway. You can't get obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with politics, though, and this stuff. You can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: You got to laugh at it. And you can't be
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  Speaker 1: obsessed with it, but you also can't hide your head
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  Speaker 1: in the sand. Be aware of what's going on. Understand
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  Speaker 1: where they're going with this whole thing and read trends.
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  Speaker 1: But again, take a breath. Take a breather. This is
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  Speaker 1: your time in between rounds. to make all the other
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  Speaker 1: people in the spotlight, then you could point it out.
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  Speaker 1: There's a big silver lining. I think it's a platinum lining.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out. Appreciate you. Thanks for the audio downloads, too.
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• 13:41
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