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August 26, 2026 | Darline’s Win, Dolly’s Legacy, Meta Settlement · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher. This is M & M Extra.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is, everybody, and we welcome you on this
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  Speaker 2: 26th day of August.
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  Speaker 2: the last few weeks. Mike and I do our talk
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  Speaker 2: shows and we do our little podcast here. And he
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  Speaker 2: and I found agreement that Darlene seemed underwhelming in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: We found agreement that Ralph seemed like. the superior conservative
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  Speaker 2: choice and the reliable Trump ally. We found agreement on
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of things where we diverged was silly me.
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  Speaker 2: I thought South Carolina will opt for Ralph. They'll say, Darlene,
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  Speaker 2: we love you. We appreciate you. We appreciate your brother,
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  Speaker 2: but we're going to go with the guy with the
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  Speaker 2: real track record. And my buddy, Mike Nostradamus Gallagher said,
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  Speaker 2: sit tight. Lindsay's ghost and the power of the Trump endorsement.
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  Speaker 2: I still think she's going to win. I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we'll find out. And last night, We found out, and
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  Speaker 2: I bow in your general direction.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and not to give myself any more credit than
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  Speaker 3: you've already given me, but I said she'd win by
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  Speaker 3: a few points, probably a little more, a wider spread
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  Speaker 3: than even the neck and neck polls suggested. She won
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  Speaker 3: by five points. Look, I thank you for acknowledging that because, look,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. Not a mystery here. I wasn't impressed with
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  Speaker 3: her as a candidate. This is not a shock. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what to like or dislike about her because
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  Speaker 3: she was an absolute blank slate. Nobody has any idea
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  Speaker 3: what she's going to do. She's had a few weeks
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  Speaker 3: to grieve and to mourn and then to campaign and
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  Speaker 3: then went from being the placeholder. So obviously I'm disappointed,
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  Speaker 3: but we got to talk about unifying. We got to
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  Speaker 3: talk about defeating the communists and the socialists and the Marxists.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I know South Carolina and I had a
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  Speaker 3: feeling that the people who were impacted by Trump's visit
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  Speaker 3: last Friday night in Myrtle Beach would pay off. And
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  Speaker 3: it did. That's exactly how she won. She took Horry
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  Speaker 3: County by a much wider margin than expected. And all
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  Speaker 3: of the analysts are pointing to Trump's rally there and saying, look,
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  Speaker 3: that's exactly what they needed to do. I got to
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  Speaker 3: share a funny post on X from Glenn Greenwald. Very
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  Speaker 3: interesting guy. Smart guy.
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  Speaker 2: Independent journalist, kind of all over the place ideologically, but
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  Speaker 2: big on privacy matters and government accountability, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Ideologically, he's hard to keep up with. But he was
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  Speaker 3: a regular with Tucker back in the day when Tucker
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  Speaker 3: was normal. And I used to watch him on Fox News.
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  Speaker 3: And Glenn Greenwald wrote the following. And I love this.
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  Speaker 3: This is just going to it's either going to infuriate
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  Speaker 3: you or it's going to make you smile. Depending on
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  Speaker 3: what side of the aisle you're on with this Darlene
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  Speaker 3: Graham Nordone. I'm not going to call her Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 3: She's not an entertainer. She's not in show business. She's
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  Speaker 3: a politician. You don't change your name at the last
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  Speaker 3: minute because you want to be more familiar to voters
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  Speaker 3: by using... Your maiden name. Probably helped. You bet it helped.
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  Speaker 3: It all helped. Look, who am I? Look, I was
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  Speaker 3: ticked off on behalf of my audience. Let me go
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  Speaker 3: a little blue here on the podcast. I was pissed
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  Speaker 3: off when they wouldn't give me the time of day
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  Speaker 3: when we reached out to the campaign and said, can
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  Speaker 3: I please have 10 minutes with Miss Darlene? Wouldn't even
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  Speaker 3: respond to my texts. And they read the texts, and
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  Speaker 3: I know they ignored me. And so believe me, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not thrilled today, but I got to get over it.
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  Speaker 3: We got to suck it up, and we got to
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  Speaker 3: unite now behind her because, God forbid, Dr. Annie Andrews,
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  Speaker 3: that freak show, were to win. Here's Glenn Greenwald. You're
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  Speaker 3: going to love this.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Trump, just for fun, should continue to show how far
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  Speaker 3: he can direct his followers to do whatever he tells
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  Speaker 3: them to do, no matter what it is. He should
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  Speaker 3: pick a few deep red districts and tell Republican voters
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  Speaker 3: to do a write-in campaign for a dead person. Not
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  Speaker 3: even someone recently dead, but long dead. For example, in
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey's 7th District, I give my full and complete
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  Speaker 3: endorsement to Bing Crosby. Write in his name. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: now he's making a point, which is hysterical, but maybe
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  Speaker 3: isn't all that far from the truth because, Mark, can
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  Speaker 3: it be said that the only reason Darlene Graham Nordone
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  Speaker 3: won last night is because Trump told the voters to
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  Speaker 3: vote for her?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not the only reason, but without that endorsement,
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  Speaker 2: she would not have won.
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  Speaker 3: One other reason with it. What other reasons? The Graham
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  Speaker 3: legacy continuing.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, here's one thing that really, if there's
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  Speaker 2: anything that I flat out misread, because I did not
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  Speaker 2: undervalue the Trump endorsement. I thought the Trump endorsement would
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  Speaker 2: be worth about 10 points, but it'd be the difference
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  Speaker 2: between Ralph winning by 12 and Ralph winning by two.
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  Speaker 2: I think I overestimated the starting block from which he began.
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  Speaker 2: But the moment and I think this will resonate with you, too.
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  Speaker 2: And you made this point to me, and I foolishly
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  Speaker 2: did not listen to you ardently enough. Oh, Obi-Wan, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to learn to listen to me. The debate stage,
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: the moment on the debate stage where Greta Van Susteren says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: give me 60 seconds on China. She basically said, ah, China,
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  Speaker 2: where's that?
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  Speaker 3: And I know it wasn't that bad. She said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: it's worse than that. National Security isn't my thing. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody knows where China is, but National Security needs to be.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to be the county commissioner somewhere. You
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  Speaker 3: want to be a U.S. senator. I know. And I said,
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  Speaker 3: it's over. I said, that's it. That's where Ralph has won.
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  Speaker 3: Neat lady. Her brother has died. We're sorry about that,
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  Speaker 3: but that is it. This race is over.
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  Speaker 2: Person after person after person after person came back and said,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of dug that.
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  Speaker 3: It was honest. Here's the word of the year. It
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  Speaker 3: was honest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, authentically ignorant. I mean, that's a plus now. And
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  Speaker 2: apparently it is. There was one guy who either on
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  Speaker 2: text line or social media DM, I forget which, who said,
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather hear somebody honestly admit to needing to bone
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  Speaker 2: up on something rather than be force fed solutions that
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  Speaker 2: don't work from people who pretend to know everything.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Okay. We're not talking about a school bus driver.
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  Speaker 3: I know. This is a United States senator. Nothing wrong
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  Speaker 3: with driving a school bus or even a talk show host.
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  Speaker 3: I had somebody email me today, how dare you mock
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  Speaker 3: her using a different name to run for office. That
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  Speaker 3: wasn't Dolly Parton's real name. Now, first of all, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not even sure that's true. Is that a stage name
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  Speaker 3: or isn't that her real name? I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: her real name. She didn't use Dolly Dean when she
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  Speaker 3: married Carl Dean. Oh, Carl Dean. Maybe that's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: But she never did. But she never did. However, there's
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  Speaker 3: a difference between a somebody in show business and a senator.
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  Speaker 3: We're not talking about somebody who sings nine to five
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  Speaker 3: and a wonderful musical legend. We're talking about somebody who
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  Speaker 3: could decide, again, hope she gets up on national security
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  Speaker 3: by January 3rd. We're talking about a very important position.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't change your damn name because you're running
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  Speaker 3: for office. And we all went along with that. And
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  Speaker 3: I blame you, too. I'm fired up at you. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I understood. Oh, it's a brand. Oh, it's
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  Speaker 3: a brand. It is a brand. She is not. She's
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  Speaker 3: not singing at the do drop in on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: Graham name. I pull it. You know, political branding means.
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  Speaker 3: Look at this.
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  Speaker 2: What's the Alaska guy, Dan Sullivan. That's working out pretty
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  Speaker 2: well for him. Flat out co-opting the name of Dan Sullivan.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, what is that story? Because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: follow that. It's so I know Dan Sullivan ranked choice voting.
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  Speaker 2: The guy came in third and thus he's still a player.
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  Speaker 2: with the stupidity of ranked choice voting in Alaska.
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  Speaker 3: But wait a minute. No, but you've got to explain
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  Speaker 3: this to me better. There's two Dan Sullivans, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the real one, the sitting senator, and there's
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  Speaker 2: another guy with the same name who said, hey, let's
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  Speaker 2: give this a try.
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  Speaker 3: And the guy with the same name came in third.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's still alive with the craziness that is
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  Speaker 2: ranked choice voting, which is from the devil.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, golly. Well, anyway, look, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And I appreciate what somebody wrote. This Cody Simpson, I've
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  Speaker 3: met him. He's the agriculture secretary nominated by or endorsed
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  Speaker 3: by Trump. He said, look, we're we got to be friends.
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  Speaker 3: We love our state more than political bickering. This is
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  Speaker 3: what primaries and runoffs and special elections are for. Now
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  Speaker 3: that's over. I hope Ralph Norman campaigns on her behalf
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  Speaker 3: or at least certainly endorses her. He told me yesterday
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  Speaker 3: when we went to Rock Hill and gosh, what a
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  Speaker 3: glorious experience that was. I'm having a book sent to you.
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  Speaker 3: About Admiral Kimmel, the guy who was scapegoated for Pearl Harbor.
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  Speaker 3: His grandson runs WRHI in Rock Hill.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: What a story. And I want to have him on
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  Speaker 3: our podcast. I want you to meet Manning and I
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  Speaker 3: want you to learn. So that book is on its
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  Speaker 3: way to you. You should have it by the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: And you cannot put this book down. It's about how
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  Speaker 3: this guy was ruined and blamed unfairly for Pearl Harbor.
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  Speaker 3: Admiral Kimmel. So we'll tell you all about that as well.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, when I was in Rock Hill and we
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  Speaker 3: interviewed Ralph in person, we had a great visit together.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, look, if I'm if I don't win,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm not able to pull this off, of course,
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  Speaker 3: I'll support her. I can't support Annie Andrews.
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  Speaker 2: No, you know, and failing and failing to support her.
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  Speaker 2: is a de facto support of Annie Andrews. Nobody gets this,
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  Speaker 2: that once the Republican primaries are over, if you don't
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  Speaker 2: lend your hands to the effort, if you don't suit
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  Speaker 2: up for battle, you are a Democrat operative. If you
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  Speaker 2: fail to fight, if you don't show up for the fight,
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  Speaker 2: you might as well go be a Democrat. And so
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  Speaker 2: in South Carolina, to see the proud people of the
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  Speaker 2: Palmetto State say, OK, that was a tough fight. Now
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  Speaker 2: we got to go get behind Darlene. I wish we
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  Speaker 2: had that. I wish we had it in Texas. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we largely do. But there are still some of the
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  Speaker 2: corn enforcers, still some of the butthurt legions of establishment
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  Speaker 2: toadies who cannot handle that he lost. And they just
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  Speaker 2: won't show up for Paxton. And I'm doing battle with
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  Speaker 2: these folks every day on the phones, on social media.
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  Speaker 2: I said, hello, Senator Tallarico. Well, that's just the price
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have to pay for failing to tap
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  Speaker 2: dance Paxton. to their Casper Milk Toast tune. These people
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  Speaker 2: are so full of themselves, so narcissistic. That's not going
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  Speaker 2: to happen in South Carolina. No, I don't think it is. No,
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  Speaker 2: it shouldn't happen anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you go look up Dr. Annie Andrews,
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  Speaker 3: do a little research. As a pediatrician, she wears the
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  Speaker 3: white lab coat. She sleeps in that white lab coat.
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: She loves that Dr. Smock. And she wears that damn
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  Speaker 3: thing everywhere she goes. And you wait and see. Go
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: look up what she wants kids to experience. By the way,
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: I mentioned this book about Admiral Kimmel. There's another book
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: that I'm so thrilled about. And we're going to have
• 11:56
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• 11:59
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• 12:03
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• 12:15
  Speaker 3: young researcher jokingly tells advanced AI, stop global warming. What
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  Speaker 2: Now, let me tell you, you know how movies will
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  Speaker 3: don't plan it out. Yeah. In case you haven't noticed. Rehearsal, okay?
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  Speaker 3: So I want to, when stuff happens, I went off
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  Speaker 3: today on the show. I saw this, I didn't even know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even think this was on my radar, that
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  Speaker 3: 29 different state attorneys general sued Meta, which is, of course,
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  Speaker 3: the big company that has Facebook and Instagram. Yep. And
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  Speaker 3: rather than to, and these 29 state attorneys general claimed
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  Speaker 3: that Meta, Instagram, and, you know, Facebook. Facebook, mm-hmm. purposefully
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  Speaker 3: designed their platforms to make children addicted to the platform. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Now let that settle in for just a moment. Let
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  Speaker 3: absorb that, that these engineers sat around and said, Ooh,
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  Speaker 3: how do we make children addicted to Instagram? Oh, this
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  Speaker 3: is what we're going to do. So this is going
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  Speaker 3: to go to trial. As Jonathan Turley said this morning
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  Speaker 3: on Fox news, uh, Meta had a very good case
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  Speaker 3: against this. There's just no way you can you can
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  Speaker 3: make a successful argument that somehow Meta is responsible for
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  Speaker 3: the so-called addiction of children to Instagram and Facebook. Now,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: instead of take I know. Hold your thought. You're right.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: But.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I know I was hoping you'd disagree because I can't
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: wait to get into this with you. But go ahead.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Because let me just tell you what this is, is
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: a big old fat lack of accountability for parents being parents.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I am so sick of the expectation that as long
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: as you get the checkbook out, you know, you're off
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: the hook as a mom or dad. Mark Zuckerberg's meta
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: meta has agreed to pony up sixteen point seven billion
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: dollars for as a settlement with these 29 states who
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: said that the company purposely built Instagram and Facebook to
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: make kids be addicted to those platforms. This is one
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: of the stupidest stories I've come across. And let me
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: finish my rant for a moment, and then the floor
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: is yours, my friend. Thank you. This is so idiotic.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I want to sue McDonald's because I'm addicted to Big Mac.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: But more importantly, parents need to parent. And you know what?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: If your kid is addicted to social media, maybe you
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: got to do a better job and step up as
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: a parent. And my first question to you before I
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: hand the floor to you, my dear friend.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Where's the money going to go, Mark? Where does that
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: $ 16. 7 billion go? Does that go to families whose kids
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: tragically were lost to suicide or kids that have been bullied?
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Or do we make a bunch of parents who got
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: involved in this stupid, bogus lawsuit millionaires? The floor is yours.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: How exactly does this work, Mr.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Davis?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: It probably goes right into the coffers of the states
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: that sued. You're 100% correct. If you've got a kid
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: addicted to Facebook or Instagram, it ain't Facebook's fault. It
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: ain't Instagram's fault. It's your fault, period. Now, that having
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: been said, do Facebook and Instagram purposefully craft algorithms to
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: hook children?
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Of course they do. Sure they do. And adults as well.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Thank you. So it's grown-ups.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: It's our job as grown-ups to develop a skill set
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to resist those addictions and And it's our job as
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: parents to protect our children from those addictions. So here's
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: the logical path that people have followed. And I'll tell
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: you why Meta settled for this. That if indeed they
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: are doing things to hook kids, the solutions– I just
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: had it frozen on the screen there. They've agreed to
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: implement daily time caps. age restrictions, content controls. I have
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: no idea how any of those are going to work.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: How is that going to work? What are you going
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: to do? How in the world? Exactly. You're going to
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: zap a child if he gets on there and he's
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: 15 and all of a sudden you're get like a
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: dog collar? Exactly. Give me a break. Exactly. This is
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: so ridiculous.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: It may be completely unworkable. But here's why they settled.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: The reason they settled, $ 17 billion.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: $ 17 billion.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: That is a drop in the bucket compared to what
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: they could have lost if it had gone to trial.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: In 20-some states with sympathetic jurors, most of whom have
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: 10-year-olds in the glaze of TikTok or Instagram or whatever,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: they would have been absolutely destroyed by jury verdicts, jury awards,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: far worse.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Well, to support your great point, here's Professor Jonathan Turley,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: the constitutional law professor on Fox News earlier today, explaining
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: how $ 16. 7 billion to Meta, that's chump change. Here he is. Well,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: this is the seismic.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: It's going to be something of a dinner gong for
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: both states and plaintiff attorneys. And I think that Meta
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: knows that. But in many ways for the company, this
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: is still chump change. I think in fairness to the
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: 29 states that brought this lawsuit, there is a commitment
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: here to change the app, to change this software, to
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: create greater protections. The issue here for Meta was that
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: legally they had Some very good arguments to make here.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: The line between what's an addictive and what's a popular
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: product is often hard to define. They could have litigated this,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: but it would have cost them a lot of money.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not too sure how much of these fixes are
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: going to fix the problem. The problem is that this
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: is a technology. That it really sucks people into social media.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: And it's going to still be there. Much like alcohol
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: and tobacco are still there.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Amen. What a great point. I love him. And I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: got a text or post, I guess, on X. And
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: I hope you follow me there at Gallagher Show over
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: on X because I like X. I don't like Facebook
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: or Instagram, but I like X a lot. Follow me
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: at Gallagher Show. Follow Mark at Mark Davis. And make
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: sure you engage with us there because we both enjoyed
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: very much. Superman45 wrote, Mike, I don't blame Zuckerberg and
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Facebook for kids who are addicted to social media, whether
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: it's Facebook, TikTok, whatever it is. I see kids who
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: are barely able to hold a baby bottle in stores
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: and shopping carts and And their parents give them a
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: tablet or a phone to stick their faces into because
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: they don't want to pay attention to their kids. I'm
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: sick of it. Parents need to get off their butts,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: take care of their children, take them outside to play,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: ride a bike, go to the park, go to the library.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: And parents, do not hand your child or children a
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: device to occupy them when you're probably on the phone, too.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Do you know I was at dinner a week and
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: a half, two weeks ago in Orlando? Restaurant that I
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: like a lot. There's a great place over at Disney
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Springs I like called Summer House. It's a cool restaurant,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: neat environment. I don't know why I like it so much,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: but I just like it. I was sitting next to
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: a table of five people. Mark, it was a mom
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and dad and three, I would say, teenage kids. All
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: of them? Maybe 11, 12 was the youngest. Every one
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: of them had a device in front of them. Two
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: of them had what looked almost like mini iPads. The
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: other three were on their iPhones. All five of them
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: at dinnertime were stuck. Oh, it was pathetic. And Mark,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: it wasn't for like three minutes. It was most of
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: the dinner. And I thought, what kind of parent thinks
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: this is a good idea? And so that's why maybe
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I'm so fired up about this meta-settlement because it just
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: shifts accountability once again. You and I are big advocates.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I don't think it will change. Ultimately, I don't think
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: it will change anything. I really, really, truly don't. No,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: it won't move the needle.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So having taken the concept of addiction and the concept
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: of a restaurant– Let's talk a little bit about being
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: addicted to food. I don't think you had a food addiction,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: but like me, you just like food a little too much.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: And PhD weight loss helped you break that cycle and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: you had some ups and some downs and the downs
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: and the weight have just been really remarkable through Dr.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Ashley and PhD weight loss. Tell people how they can
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: enjoy that greatness as well.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: But you got the wheels turning in me because I'm thinking,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: have I been addicted to food? Yeah. I mean, there
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: are many times when I thought, I'm not even hungry,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to go out and get a Big
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Mac because a Big Mac makes me feel better. Many times,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I like eating, and I like eating crap. That's my problem.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: And so PhD taught me there's a better way. PhD
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: weight loss is just that. And look, it's not a secret.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not a mystery. You just need the help.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: You need the boost. You need the counselor that you're
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: going to get every week. You need the instructions. I'm
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: somebody who's very task-oriented. So when my coaches, whether it
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: was Rachel there for a while, now it's Ebony, I
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: love these people. And they guide you through what to
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: stay away from, what to eat. You're never hungry. You
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: can use their food. You can use your own food
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: or a combination of both. And when you mention Mike
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: and Mark at the number, when you call the number
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I'm about to give you, Hey, they'll add two free
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: weeks to your program, and they'll knock off the cost
• 25:13
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• 25:16
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• 25:22
  Speaker 3: It really does work. I lost over 50. I kept
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: it off, and then when I put some more back on,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I took it back off, and I know right what
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: to do now. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900. 644-1900, or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com. MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Just go from healthy eating to the healthy popular culture.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: We've talked about books, and we haven't even talked about Dolly.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: That's the popular culture at its best. Here's more popular
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: culture at its best. Eccle, Eccle.com, streaming from Eccle, E-K-K-L,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: in the vast wasteland that popular culture can be. shows, movies,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: where all of a sudden you sit down. Hey, let's
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: gather the family up, cover the kids eyes because something
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: bad just happened at Echol. You don't have to worry
• 26:06
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  Speaker 2: it's all there for streaming at Echol, E-K-K-L, Echol.com, a
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• 26:20
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• 26:24
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• 26:28
  Speaker 3: In a safe space like Echol. Gosh, it's such a
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• 26:35
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• 26:47
  Speaker 3: let's start with, I want to talk Dolly here, because, man,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: I was just gutted when I heard the news yesterday.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Just so sad. And I want to start with some
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: music from her because this is a podcast. We don't
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: have the time constraints that we have on Eminem Experience
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: on your show. I'm going to give you a multiple
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: choice test. And I want to play a little bit
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: of one of these songs and you choose, Mark, because
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I love them all. Here are your options. You ready?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Because this is what Yasmin has queued up in our library. Ready. Jolene,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: you got that option, which of course I love. Bury
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Me Under the Weeping Willow in 1976. Here You Come Again,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: which of course is one of her bouncy, wonderful songs.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Hello God, which frankly, the way you and I pray
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: every day on our show, that's what she said yesterday.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Hello God. Nine to Five, hard to escape that familiar song.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Or After the Gold Rush. which is a really kind
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: of a brilliant interpretation. Neil Young did it.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: A group called Prelude did it with an acapella version.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I made my selection as soon as, are you really
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: going to give me this power?
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: You have the power, Ms. Obi-Wan.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it is, and I will tell
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: you why. Because as incredible as she was alone in
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: a studio, her and whatever band was behind her, In
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: partnership with people like Kenny Rogers, in partnership with people
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: like Porter Wagoner, this, if it's the thing that I
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: think it is, it's on a TV show in 1976,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, this is going to be Dolly, watch
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: me be wrong, I hope I'm not, Dolly, Emmylou Harris,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: and Linda Ronstadt. Let me have, bury me under the
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: weeping willow.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, you, and that was one of, and I actually
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: saw that last night when we were getting the show ready,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: and I started to weep myself. I started to cry.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: I thought, gosh, well done, good and faithful servant. And
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: of course, the maestro of music himself, Mark Davis, knew
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: exactly what this was from her show on ABC, Dolly Parton,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Linda Ronstadt, and Emily Lou Harris. Hit it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Bury me beneath the window Under the weeping willow tree.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Tomorrow was a wedding day, but where, oh where can
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: he be?
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: He's gone to seek.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Him, but the bridegroom cares.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: No more for me.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: So bury me beneath the window, under the weeping willow tree.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: Where he may know where I am sleeping.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: And perhaps he'll weep for me.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: Won't you bury me beneath the willow. Under the weeping
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: willow tree.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I wonder if she's going to be buried under a
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: weeping willow tree. I mean, Mark, gosh. And the story
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: of that, I love the story of her house. Years,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: even before she became famous, she kind of knew she
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: was going to hit it big. And she told her
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: beloved Carl Dean. Honey, I'm going to make it, and
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: when I make it big, we don't want the tour
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: buses driving up to our front porch. I want land
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: in Franklin, Tennessee, and they bought 77 acres. And Carl Dean,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: a good old boy, and I mean that with affection,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: a good old boy with his buddy, fellow good old boys,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: they got out the tools and they built her a
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: house that she lived in to her dying day. And
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: that house, she wanted it to sit far enough off
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: the road that people, fans could see the house if
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: they wanted to, but they couldn't see us, she said.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: And that's what they got. It was a big course,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: a big gate. You can't get past the gate, but
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: you could see the house. Have you seen the pictures
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: of her home from the gate? I have. I have.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: And you know what, Mark? And the tour bus, boy,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: it's hard. The tour buses are coming. They came. And
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: it worked out just the way she wanted it. They
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: could come see her house in the tour buses, but
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: not the family. And I just, gosh, Mark, what a story.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: And every time I saw her interviewed, She was so
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: profound and faithful and good and decent. I can't get
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: over the only epitaph that comes to mind, the only
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: eulogy that comes to my mind. All I could think
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: of was she loved everybody and everybody loved her. You
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: can't say that about anybody.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I took a bunch of calls today from people,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: you know, and from, you know, from when Willie came in.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Listen, Willie outlived Dolly. Look at that.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: From Willie to Elton John to maybe Betty White in
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the world of comedy is a parallel that comes that
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: comes close. Maybe somebody who had no natural enemies. How
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: do you even do that? And maybe one of her
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: genius philosophies was to pretty well stay out of politics.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Here's what she was able to pull off. You sort
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: of felt people of values, people of faith kind of
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: felt like she was a fellow traveler, that she had
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: a certain set of values. I don't know if she
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: was real hardcore conservative on most things, on some things,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I think decidedly not. But she gave off that kind
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of vibe that said, you know what? She's one of us.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: But she wasn't showing up at Republican conventions. I think
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: she turned down a couple of medals of honor from
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: presidents of both parties to avoid being in league with them.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: She remained completely apolitical. And maybe that was just one
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: of many, many elements of genius for her. Do you
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: know what she said?
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Do you know what she said about politics?
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Because this is so– I yearn for today's– stars to
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: say this. Look, you and I make a living in
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: opinion broadcasting. This is what we do. So we can't,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: we can't be expected to be this way. We don't
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: get up and sing songs for a living. We don't
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: get up and paint, you know, we don't wear a
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: costume and, and, and, and act in a play or,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: or star in a TV show or a movie. We're not,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: we're not actors. We're not, and I'm not trying to
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: put that profession down, but we're paid to do this.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: They're paid To entertain people with their music or their
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: art or their acting, that craft, right? She said, and
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing here, but it's very close to an actual quote.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I got fans of all political stripes. Why would I
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: make half of the country mad at me because of
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: the way I might feel politically? I want everybody to
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: love what I do. And I love everybody. Mark, what
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: a what a genius. Brilliant. And it's like the Michael.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: It's like the Michael Jordan quote, because Michael Jordan was
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: never there. People would would beef about Michael Jordan for
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: not using his incredible fame for any kind of social
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: change or political change. He said, hey, Republicans buy sneakers, too.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you. And Republicans, you know, believe it or not,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: go to movies and Democrats like country music. And she
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: didn't want to alienate anybody. She gave advice. Here's a
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: clip I want to play also from The Dolly Show.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I believe I'm from ABC, but she gave a teenager
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: a teenager advice. And she told the advice that she
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: wanted to give to somebody who was asking her for
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: a little bit of word, a couple of words of wisdom.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I love this.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: If you could tell teenagers of America today one thing,
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: whether it be advice or something of support, what would
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: it be?
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: I would say, act like it's raining every day and
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: wear your rubbers.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but even my face is red.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: I don't believe I said that. I mean, and actually,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: there's some wisdom there. Got that right. I mean, there
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: may be a double on, but also on a very
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: serious note, though, she talked about her faith, and I
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  Speaker 3: love this about her. She talked with a show called
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  Speaker 3: Today's Nashville, not too terribly long ago, I don't think,
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  Speaker 3: but she talked about her love of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 8: I learned to love Jesus, and Jesus learned that Jesus
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  Speaker 8: loved me when I was a little bitty kid. And
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: all those things that Mama used to say, you know,
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  Speaker 8: that through God all things are possible. I kept all
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  Speaker 8: those things kind of tucked away into my subconscious mind.
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  Speaker 8: mind and in my heart and those are the things
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  Speaker 8: that have helped me through the years I never do
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  Speaker 8: anything that I don't pray about it and I always
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  Speaker 8: ask God to lead me and to show me and
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  Speaker 8: direct me into what I'm doing and to bring all the.
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  Speaker 4: Good and the right people into my life and to
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  Speaker 4: take all the bad and good things out and just
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  Speaker 4: to kind of guide me to do things that would
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  Speaker 4: glorify him and to uplift mankind that's.
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  Speaker 8: My mission.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh I mean, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: And then one more clip, if I may. Because I've
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  Speaker 3: donated to the Imagination Library, her foundation, for about 10 years.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: I love the fact that I think I saw the
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: number last night. It was stunning. I think 300 million
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  Speaker 3: books have been provided to kids in the inner cities,
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  Speaker 3: in impoverished areas. Kids, black kids, brown kids, white kids.
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  Speaker 3: she loved that project in honor of her illiterate dad,
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  Speaker 3: who she loved. He couldn't read or write. And she
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: knew that my dad, as smart as he was, if
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  Speaker 3: he had gotten an education, the world could have been
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: his oyster. But, you know, he was a hardworking guy.
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  Speaker 3: And there's somebody on X that I want to share
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  Speaker 3: with you, at American Papa Bear, reacting to the passing
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  Speaker 3: of Dolly and her daddy's inspiring her to create this
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: wonderful philanthropic organization, the Imagination Library. Dolly Parton passed at
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  Speaker 3: 80 today.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, everybody. This is Dolly. Before he passed away, my
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  Speaker 8: daddy told me that the Imagination Library probably was the
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  Speaker 8: most important thing I'd ever done. Now, I can't tell
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  Speaker 8: you how much that meant to me because I created
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: the Imagination Library as a tribute to my daddy. He
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  Speaker 8: was the smartest man I've ever known, but I knew
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  Speaker 8: in my heart his inability to read probably kept him
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  Speaker 8: from seeing all his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to
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  Speaker 8: love to read became my mission. In the beginning, my
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: hope was simply to inspire the children in my home county,
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  Speaker 8: but here we are today with a worldwide program that
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  Speaker 8: gives a book a month to over a million children.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, I have not done this alone. The real
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: heroes of our story was the thousands of local organizations
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  Speaker 8: who have embraced my dream and made it their own.
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  Speaker 8: They raise millions of dollars each year and wake up
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  Speaker 8: every day with a passion to make sure that their
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: kids have every opportunity to succeed. It's been quite a journey,
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  Speaker 8: but we have so much more left to do.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, this one hits a little bit different today.
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  Speaker 3: She just passed away.
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  Speaker 9: She said her daddy told her the imagination library was
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  Speaker 9: the most important thing she ever did. Not the songs,
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: not the fame, the books. Built it for a man
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  Speaker 9: who was sharp as a tack, but never learned to read.
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  Speaker 9: That one hits every dad in the chest. Started in
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  Speaker 9: her own little county. Now it's millions of kids getting
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  Speaker 9: a book every month. No government, just heart. While the
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: world's busy arguing about everything else, Dolly was quietly putting
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: books in kids' hands. A home full of books. That's
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  Speaker 9: the dream right there.
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  Speaker 1: Simple, strong, American.
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  Speaker 9: Rest easy, Dolly. You did right by your daddy and by.
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  Speaker 3: A whole lot of kids. Wow. You're killing me. I'm
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: on the floor here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the floor.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: I think between dating.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Back last week to education friday where we describe ways
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: in which we can give and receive emotionally in ways
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: that we really don't sort of on the radio the
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: sort of the buttoned up freewheeling to be sure but
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: the buttoned up wins the next commercial break world of
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: radio This environment is just a little more personal, a
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: little more organic. I don't think I actually cried on
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the actual show today, but I have today. And it's
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: your fault.
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  Speaker 3: Well, those are great.
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  Speaker 2: And they're so... They're so magnificent. God bless this woman
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  Speaker 2: and just rest well, good and faithful servant.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: She loved everybody and everybody loved her. And look, I
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: want to remind everybody, we have sponsors who support what
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: we do here. I mean, this is not obviously, you know,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: for free. It takes a lot of money. effort to
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: put this thing together. We love doing this. You and
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I have come to really, really cherish our time together
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: on M & M Extra. And we have really a
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: couple of different kinds of sponsors. We have sponsors who
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: have great products, great companies, great, great, great, great businesses.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: And we, in many cases, have taken the product or
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: we use the product. We also have the kind of
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: sponsor that in the spirit of Dolly Parton will give
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: and pay it forward. And Preborn is one such organization.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: So if you've got the spirit of Dolly's philanthropy in
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: your heart right now, you might consider saving lives by
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: helping to provide free ultrasounds to young women and girls
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: who can get to see their baby in their womb
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: and hear the baby's heartbeat. And $ 140 to Preborn will
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: help give five moms a free ultrasound and save babies.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: $ 280 will help save 10 babies. $ 28 a month as
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: a recurring donor and a supporter of Preborn. And Preborn
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: is such an important organization. That'll help save a baby
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: a month for less than a dollar a day. Now,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Mark Davis goes big. You aim high. We're still looking
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: for the first M & M podcast recipient who wants
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: to provide an ultrasound machine. I'm going to put it
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: in your capable hands to see if we can't touch
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: somebody's heart today, Mark.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe today is the day inspired by what Dolly did.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: And not everybody has 15,000 lying around. But if you do,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: and it's something that you feel yourself in a Christlike
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: way or driven by whatever philanthropic motivation may fill you
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: to provide an actual ultrasound machine, all those other levels
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: of giving that Mike just mentioned, we're going to pay
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: for ultrasound procedures and save. I can't imagine how many
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: babies lives. And we thank you for those so very much.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: But the $ 15, 000 gift at preborn.com slash mmxtra, preborn.com slash mmxtra,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: or phoned in to 833-850-BABY, 833-850-BABY, $ 15, 000. I know that's
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: some money. But how many lives will you save with
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: the ultrasound machine that you will buy that will be
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: placed by the preborn folks and for years to come
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: save countless lives?
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: That's 833-850-BABY.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Or preborn.com slash MMXtra, the $ 15, 000 ultrasound, or the $ 140
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: a month, the $ 280 a month, the $ 28, or the
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: $ 140 total, $ 280 total, or the $ 28 a month. We're
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: so grateful to everybody for what they're able to do
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: for our friends at Preborn, and we thank you from
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: the bottom of our hearts.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: And I just had an inspiration as to how we're
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: going to get an ultrasound machine sponsored, and I'll bring
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: it up after the show. I'll call you from the car.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: But I just had a burst of inspiration and I
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: think I'm going to be able to pull it off.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: So hold on. I like your ideas. Your ideas tend
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: to be good. And this is a pretty good one.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: And this is a pretty good one. I just got
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: a burst of inspiration. All right. And I would suggest
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: if you do want to, if you want to go
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: with a higher amount on a donation, make that call.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: 833-850-BABY.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: 833-850-2229, preborn. And I'll call you shortly with, I think,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: my brilliant brainstorm. Hey, one more note before we call
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: it a day. And I've enjoyed today a lot for some.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, is there a day we're doing this
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: that we don't have a— I don't know. You never
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: finish this thing and go, that sucked. Not one time?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: I'm just loving this. I hope our audience does as well.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: We hope you like, subscribe, follow. Make sure you tell
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: your friends wherever you get your podcasts. Apple, Spotify, YouTube,
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: wherever you are. Gosh, we're so glad to do this
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: every day because we have a ball. Some more sad
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: news to report. Another passing at age 80, ironically enough.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: The great Tim Curry died. Rocky Horror Picture Show. Dr.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Frankenfurter doing Sweet Transvestite. Why is it that that and
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Julie Andrews doing Sound of Music are probably the two indelible.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Musical theater things in my life? Have you ever been
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: to a Rocky Horror Picture Show midnight show? Dude, I
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: was in college in the 70s.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: I was there most nights throwing toast and toilet paper
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Where's your neck? Where's your neck? I mean, you'd scream
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: out all the lines. Here's Janet. Slot! Slot! It's a
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: little racy, that's for sure. You know what I loved
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: him in? Home Alone. Remember when Home Alone? He was
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: the guy that was the front desk clerk, the manager
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: at the Plaza Hotel. Oh, I loved him in that.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Just what a masterful guy. And I met him once,
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: believe it or not. He was on Broadway. He was
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: in Spamalot. And so I had a little Broadway connection there,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: but quite the performer. Quite the performer, and so sad
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: news of that as well. It's kind of funny. People
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: are 80. He was 80. Dolly was 80. Trump is
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: also 80.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Thankfully, he'll live another 40 years on Diet Coke and
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Big Macs. Go ahead, and then I have just one
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: little tiny Dolly quote that might be a little pink
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: bow to tie around everything.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: You'll know this because you're better at this stuff than
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: I am. Is it Shelly— Faberet. She died this week?
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Faberet, is that how you say her name? But she was,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: was it some sitcoms? And she was beloved as well. So, look,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: do you believe they always say these things happen in threes?
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Total lie. You don't buy it. Somebody made that up.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Somebody said, you want to go with three? You want
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: to go four? You want to go five? You could
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: draw a circle around two, three, seven. The three thing
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: is ridiculous. It's completely malleable. As soon as three people die,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: they go up, put a circle around that. Sometimes it's
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: all complete nonsense.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: You're probably right. You're probably right.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: So here's the thing, because we've talked about the enormity
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: of Dolly's kindness, the biggest heart, the biggest impact. If
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: there's one little quote that I'll just leave as an
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: exit ramp and we'll think about her always and rest well,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: good and faithful servant. Dolly Parton once said that the
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: observations made about her as a dumb blonde never bothered
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: her because she said, I know I ain't dumb. And
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: you know something else? I ain't blonde either.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: God bless this woman. God bless Dolly Parton.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you for all your contributions about this.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Thanks, everybody, for hanging out with us on Eminent. We
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: enjoyed it so much. Have a great day.