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Mike Owns Up to His Mistakes · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: I loved hearing you talk about the art of an
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  Speaker 1: apology and what apologies mean anymore and whether they're real
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  Speaker 1: or not. I have an apology in a moment that
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to share with my audience, with you, this audience.
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  Speaker 1: I owe you an apology. I owe this audience an apology.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what that– yep. No, I do. Oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: I've been thinking a lot about it, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to come clean on something because I was wrong yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going to grovel over some honestly held view
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  Speaker 2: that you held.
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  Speaker 1: You never have to do that. No, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to grovel, but what I'm going to do is set
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  Speaker 1: the record straight because I was wrong yesterday. And when
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong, I mean, you know, Mr. Big Shot Talk
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  Speaker 1: Show host, I know you don't apologize. I like apologizing.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm wrong, so I'm going to... But let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you how wrong I was yesterday. Can I share...
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  Speaker 1: As you love to say, 60 seconds on my day yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. So I find out there's some medical news,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not going to bog down on Mike's medical travails.
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  Speaker 1: I joke about being a hypochondriac. They found a blockage
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  Speaker 1: in the old widow maker of me. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you went through this a while ago.
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  Speaker 2: The left anterior descending artery, correct?
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  Speaker 1: The LAD. The LAD, 52% in my case, it turns out.
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  Speaker 1: I did one of those CT scans with contrast and all.
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  Speaker 1: And the doctor said, look, it's not great. It's not mild.
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  Speaker 1: It's moderate. But it's not tragic. I think the barometer,
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  Speaker 1: they say, is 70% or more before they start getting it.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they were plumbing through me for my heart catheterization.
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  Speaker 2: If it was 70, they were going to go a
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  Speaker 2: stint right there, and mine was like 30. So I
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  Speaker 2: got 30, you got 50, and look at me. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I love sausage. What? So anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Well, my life is changing as of yesterday. I already
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  Speaker 1: did the hour at the gym. I'm going to do
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  Speaker 1: the gym every day. I mean, I'm down 30 pounds
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  Speaker 1: since June thanks to PhD.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to be in suck. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see my reply to you? You said, here's
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  Speaker 2: my life now, and it shows you on some exercise cycle.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I like mine better, and it was shrimp
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  Speaker 2: tacos and a margarita.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. And yours is better because that's my life for
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  Speaker 1: the last 66 years, and that's why now I've got
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  Speaker 1: plaque in my arteries. So, you know, oh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: might become a bicyclist. I might become one of those
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  Speaker 1: obnoxious bicyclists. Oh, no. I'm going to go get the
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  Speaker 1: Speedo hat and everything. No, no, no. I won't be
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  Speaker 1: that bad. But, you know, look, this is what happens
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  Speaker 1: when you get a lifetime of cheeseburgers and pasta. You know,
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  Speaker 1: penne alla vodka. That's too much of that. But that's okay. So, anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: that was going on yesterday. I got another follow-up with
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  Speaker 1: the doctor today. But let me tell you what happened
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  Speaker 1: when I went home. And you're going to love this.
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  Speaker 1: I almost called you last night. I thought, no, I'll
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  Speaker 1: save it for 735. Even there. I decide my condo
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  Speaker 1: closed this week. And that's great news. I'm in a
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  Speaker 1: new home, which I love. I love this new place.
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  Speaker 1: I love where I am. Not far from where I was.
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  Speaker 1: Still got a big, nice high rise, beautiful water views.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy, right? And I thought, let me go home
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  Speaker 1: after this kind of unsettling news about the stupid blockage.
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  Speaker 1: And let me get out the closing documents from my condo.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't read them yet. And let me just review them.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to go out onto the balcony. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sit there. It was a beautiful day
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  Speaker 1: yesterday evening and yesterday afternoon in Tampa Bay. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to just kind of peruse through the document. It's 27 pages. Double-sided,
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  Speaker 1: so 14. That matters here to this story. I put
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  Speaker 1: the document down on the table next to my little
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  Speaker 1: easy chair, and I put the Diet Coke with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I put the Diet Coke on top of the
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  Speaker 1: document because I thought, I'm going to put my slippers on.
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  Speaker 2: Is it breezy outside?
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  Speaker 1: Mark, the gust of wind that came along as I
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  Speaker 1: turned away to go in and get my slippers was
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  Speaker 1: like right out of The Wizard of Oz. I expected
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  Speaker 1: to see Dorothy and the witch flying by. It took
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  Speaker 1: the document, flew them all up into the air. I'm screaming,
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  Speaker 1: and about five or six of the pages go flying
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  Speaker 1: over the balcony. Now, I'm up in the air. Now,
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  Speaker 1: do you know what's on closing documents for a house?
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  Speaker 2: Virtually everything personal about you, your finances, everything.
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  Speaker 1: I think the only thing it doesn't have is the
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  Speaker 1: type of bone marrow I have in my system.
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  Speaker 2: It's on page 24. I looked.
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  Speaker 1: Mark, not only does it have the social security number,
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  Speaker 1: it's repeatedly got my social security number. It's got my
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  Speaker 1: driver's license number. It's got my signature. It's got my
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts. It's got the loan numbers. It's got everything.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, and I'm screaming like a little girl. Rightfully so.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm watching the pages flutter like 25 stories down
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. So I go running downstairs in a
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  Speaker 1: total panic. You should see me. I'm clawing papers out
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  Speaker 1: of the bushes, out of the palm tree. Oh, it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: The Benny Hill music running back. Oh, it was insane.
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  Speaker 1: And so I get everything back except three pages I
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  Speaker 1: can't get back. One of them is on the roof
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  Speaker 1: of the building next to me. I had to go
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  Speaker 1: to the manager.
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  Speaker 2: That seems safe now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I went to get the engineer. They had to
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  Speaker 1: go out on the roof. I had to tip the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Not only was it breezy, there was an updraft. Oh, yeah. Well, no.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no, no, no. I'm up 20-some stories. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the roof was only six stories tall. I can see
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  Speaker 1: the pages on the roof from my balcony. So I
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  Speaker 1: had to go to that balcony. Well, anyway, long story short,
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  Speaker 1: I go to chat GPT, AI, here we go. What
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  Speaker 1: do you do when you know your whole identity has
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  Speaker 1: been compromised? Because all of Tampa Bay now has pages
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  Speaker 1: fluttering through the entire region with all my personal information.
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  Speaker 1: It goes through the whole thing of what I have
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  Speaker 1: to do. You've got to notify all three of the
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  Speaker 1: credit bureaus and freeze your credit. You've got to notify
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  Speaker 1: the banks. You've got to file an identity fraud thing
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  Speaker 1: with the FTC. And move to Bolivia is probably a
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  Speaker 1: good idea. Well, no, but this story has a happy ending.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready for the happy ending before my apology?
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  Speaker 1: Because this is hysterical. Joey Hudson is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most important people in my life besides you. I've known
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  Speaker 1: Joey for 30 plus years. My kids always say everybody
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  Speaker 1: ought to have a Joey in their life. I called Joey,
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  Speaker 1: my dear friend of many years, my business manager, the
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  Speaker 1: executive director of my foundation, Gallagher's Heroes, the fallen officer fund.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hysterical. I mean, I can barely talk to him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm breathing into a brown paper sack. He said, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: how many pages are missing? I said, three. I got
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  Speaker 1: all of them back but three. He said, reprint the
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  Speaker 1: document and find out what three documents are missing and
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  Speaker 1: see if the information is on there. I did that. Mark,
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  Speaker 1: the three pages that are missing didn't have one shred
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  Speaker 1: of personal information on it. Praise God. Happy ending. I
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  Speaker 1: had the biggest load lifted off my shoulders. All the
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  Speaker 1: stupid calls to the TransUnion and Equifax. It wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: necessary because I'm good. I'm fine.
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  Speaker 2: Your vital pages are back in your hands and are
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  Speaker 2: not out there on the streets of St.
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  Speaker 1: Petersburg. I'm flying around Tampa Bay like a– oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm screaming. And what a dumb thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: A half bottle of Diet Coke. Like that was going
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  Speaker 1: to be my paperweight. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Three or four days. But for that, three or four
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  Speaker 2: days from now, there would be a call. Bill from Clearwater. Yeah, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: I'm interested in your thoughts about the Iran war. But first,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about your net worth because I happen to
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  Speaker 2: have some key data.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Raheesh from India would be taking out a loan
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  Speaker 1: and he'd be buying a whole string of condominiums along
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  Speaker 1: the Gold Coast. All right. So let me talk about
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  Speaker 1: the apologies. I was very Pollyanna yesterday. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to grovel, but I'm going to own this. I took
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  Speaker 1: to the airwaves yesterday and I said to you, this
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  Speaker 1: Beau French now infamous post where he posted a picture
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  Speaker 1: of a bunch of Texas college kids, all looked like
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of Indian kids. And you said, Mike, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't about race. It's about the mass migration into America,
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  Speaker 1: and it's impacting our college campuses. It's impacting our cities.
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  Speaker 1: And I was Mother Teresa yesterday. Wait a minute, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: We should be all about legal immigration. And I was
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  Speaker 1: listening to you carefully, and I mean this from the heart,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think it has anything to do with
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  Speaker 1: the stupid heart blockage. I don't think I'm getting.
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  Speaker 2: What's left of your heart is now speaking to you, man.
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  Speaker 1: Let me talk about my brain here and my heart.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. And all the pushback I got for saying that, well,
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  Speaker 1: Beau French shouldn't have done what he did, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what this is about. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: about the University of Texas. It wasn't about the college kids.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't about the Indians in the burnt orange and
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  Speaker 1: the cowboy hats. It's a snapshot of what's happening in
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  Speaker 1: America right now. And people use that phrase, the great replacement.
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  Speaker 1: the great replacement of cultural America. And it is true.
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  Speaker 1: And you are right. And I was wrong yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: really was. And I'm only going to say that because
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  Speaker 1: you convinced me. A lot of this audience convinced me.
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  Speaker 1: And people were not– a couple people were jerks. Oh, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: you're a rhino globalist. And I'm not. But you know what?
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  Speaker 1: You persuaded me. I thought a lot about it. And
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  Speaker 1: you are completely correct. I'm with you. It's probably time
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  Speaker 1: to seriously consider a pause. on all immigration into these
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  Speaker 1: United States. Nothing wrong with considering that. And there is
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with pointing out that our cities are being
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  Speaker 1: fundamentally changed by this mass migration. Our economy is being
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  Speaker 1: impacted by mass migration. Our healthcare industry is being... All
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  Speaker 1: of it is being... Our education system is being impacted
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  Speaker 1: by it. And I'm just truly, humbly sorry that I
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  Speaker 1: was being too Pollyannish yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for your clarity, Mark, and I'm grateful for
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  Speaker 1: the clarity of this audience who helped get me back
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  Speaker 1: on path. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we all just love you, and I rarely speak
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  Speaker 2: for an audience monolithically, but special dispensation, my brother, we understand.
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  Speaker 2: We don't ever– well, I'll just speak for myself. I
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  Speaker 2: don't ever want to– squash or quell your heart and
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  Speaker 2: your grace that you show to people and your wistful
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  Speaker 2: thoughts about your grandparents and immigrating the right way. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a paragraph you said, you said a number of times,
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  Speaker 2: and it's true that we have been the party that
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  Speaker 2: has been all about legal immigration. We lift up and
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  Speaker 2: we hold up legal immigration. That's good. Illegal immigration, bad.
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  Speaker 2: Legal immigration, good. But yes, it is possible to have
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  Speaker 2: quite literally too much of a good thing. Legal immigrants
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  Speaker 2: are great, but we only got so much room.
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  Speaker 1: There's no room at the end. There's no room at
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  Speaker 1: the end, Mark, and I hate to say it, but
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  Speaker 1: you know something? You use a phrase that was in
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  Speaker 1: my heart last night. Again, don't let your– what do
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  Speaker 1: you say about your heart?
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  Speaker 2: Don't let your heart eat your brain, that when certain
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  Speaker 2: feelings you have begin to deleteriously affect your analytical skills.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and my heart, it took a chunk out of
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  Speaker 1: my brain, but thankfully I got it back. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: got it back, and I'm back on track, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel good about that. By the way, can we send
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  Speaker 1: out prayers for God's healing and comfort to the families
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  Speaker 1: of that horrific helicopter crash in Los Angeles last night?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this was a news crew, Channel 4 in NBC.
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  Speaker 2: Chopper 4. Chopper 4, they call it. Very famous. There's
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  Speaker 2: a reporter and a pilot, and then it hit the
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  Speaker 2: ground and then killed somebody on the ground. Three people
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  Speaker 2: died in the wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 1: No, killed them. Killed the pilot.
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  Speaker 2: Right, killed them and one person on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what's horrifying? Is that the video was
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  Speaker 1: rolling and was live when the helicopter went down, and
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  Speaker 1: you could hear the reporter say, can you pull up?
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  Speaker 1: Can you pull up? And this thing goes down and crashes.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me think of that morning crash years and
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Have you ever seen the horrible video of
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  Speaker 1: the traffic reporter in the helicopter that went down during
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  Speaker 1: the Howard Stern show?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Mark. They were doing a live report on the
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  Speaker 1: Howard Stern show back when he was local. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it was at WNBC. So once again, an NBC
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  Speaker 1: helicopter last night in Los Angeles many decades ago in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. And that thing went down into the
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  Speaker 1: Hudson River. And the poor reporter, Mark, she was doing
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  Speaker 1: the report on Howard's show live when this thing went down.
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  Speaker 1: And she starts screaming, hit the water, hit the water.
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  Speaker 1: And they were killed, too.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't so very long ago that we had
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  Speaker 2: one of the tourism helicopters. And this is something I
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  Speaker 2: actually want to do. And you love the helicopters. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I do it all the time. To the Newark airport
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  Speaker 2: in 15 minutes instead of an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Blade. You can take a Blade helicopter from Midtown Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: to JFK. The ride from Midtown to JFK is a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's an hour and a half. It's awful. You
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  Speaker 1: take that helicopter for about, by the way, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: kidding you. It ain't that much more than that. uber
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  Speaker 1: is it it's not much oh it's less than an
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  Speaker 1: uber it's 120 bucks the uber is 160 or 180
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  Speaker 1: except you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: The bulletproof black suv.
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  Speaker 1: I do the escort i have the i have the
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  Speaker 1: motorcycle escort 2016 camry that i take i have a
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  Speaker 1: motorcade i have the entire thing but but it's like
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  Speaker 1: 100 bucks And you're out there in nine minutes. But
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  Speaker 1: I kept thinking, now, my kids were saying, Dad, you
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  Speaker 1: sure you want to get on those helicopters?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 1: The trouble with a helicopter is there's no glide.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a plane, you got maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a chance.
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  Speaker 2: There's no Sully Sullenberger is going to see my helicopter
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  Speaker 2: dropping like a rock.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh, so sorry to hear about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep.