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Wicked Radio 7-17: Epstein Jokes At ESPYs, NPR Begs For Help, & Heavy Metal For Charity! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's finally happened. I was waiting for this to
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  Speaker 1: happen on a national stage where the whole Epstein mess
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  Speaker 1: takes a different turn and becomes a national punchline. And
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  Speaker 1: it happened last night at the SPS. The Great Shane
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  Speaker 1: gillis one of my favorite new comedians. He's awesome if
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  Speaker 1: you don't know him. He hosted the sp Awards last night.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he made some Epstein jokes. It's finally happened.
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  Speaker 1: I was waiting for this. And this may not seem
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  Speaker 1: like an important thing, we'll get to it in a second.
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  Speaker 1: It's wicked important that we start to make a joke
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  Speaker 1: of this because number one, it's when we start to heal.
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  Speaker 1: And the second takeaway is this means it's not ever, ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever going away until we get some answers. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. Trust me on this one. Also, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of media, we've got NPR making a last ditch effort
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  Speaker 1: to save themselves, which is pathetic. They've gotten to some
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  Speaker 1: celebrities and well, it's not doing themselves any favors. And
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  Speaker 1: as it turns out in good News, heavy metal is
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  Speaker 1: the most charitable music form of all time, going back
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  Speaker 1: to that Black Sabbath, back to the beginning charity concert
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  Speaker 1: show benefit show from a couple of weeks ago. Way,
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  Speaker 1: don't you hear how much money that has raised for
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  Speaker 1: various charities. Unbelievable in fact, tops of all time. So wow,
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  Speaker 1: but let's get to it. Welcome, but Thursday is it? Thursday? Friday? Junior?
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  Speaker 1: and that's where you'll find this too. So with all
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  Speaker 1: that zid, let's get to it now. The Epstein thing,
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  Speaker 1: This is why I say it's become a punchline, sneakily,
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  Speaker 1: very very important Shane Gillis last night the SP's on ABC.
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  Speaker 2: Actually there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here,
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  Speaker 2: but as it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right,
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  Speaker 2: probably never existed. Actually, let's move on. As a country
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  Speaker 2: and ignore that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so it's finally happened. I thought of what happened before.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got a big name comedian and he is
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  Speaker 1: on a big national stage, and it was joking about
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein thing, which means many different things. It means
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  Speaker 1: he's got the comedians have the finger on the pulse
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  Speaker 1: of what's going on because they're looking for content at
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  Speaker 1: carn event's content, especially on an award show. So we
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  Speaker 1: kind of got that out. Now. The first benefit to
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  Speaker 1: comedy is what healing right, where you can start to
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  Speaker 1: laugh about different things. Way more important than that, though,
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  Speaker 1: is now is like this national consciousness of talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein thing, which isn't going away. You may be
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  Speaker 1: sick of hearing about it, for sure, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind as sick of talking about it, but it's
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  Speaker 1: no less important. This means the Epstein thing more. I
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  Speaker 1: guess a better description of it is how it was
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  Speaker 1: handled and how badly it was handled by a certain administration.
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  Speaker 1: Is now part of like Elvis law Tupac lore. You know,
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  Speaker 1: one of those one of those buried things who killed JFK.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the It's it's now reached that level
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  Speaker 1: of the national consciousness, which means the cont which means
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  Speaker 1: the conversation is actually happening. And if you're somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: in favor of transparency, and we all should be, we
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  Speaker 1: should all demand answers. And even if it's your favorite president,
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  Speaker 1: we should all demand answers. This is a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: We've now reached that level where it's impossible to hide
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  Speaker 1: and impossible to ignore. It looked that way before because
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  Speaker 1: it was top headline for what, god, two weeks, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Now it's beyond that. Now it's at the
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  Speaker 1: point where you have to address this somehow, someway, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing for everybody. Now, this is why
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  Speaker 1: I'm enjoying this so much. Full disclosure for you guys,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be completely honest with you. I'm enjoying the reaction
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  Speaker 1: in this new digital media we have because as we
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  Speaker 1: know it, let's face it, let's just be completely honest.
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  Speaker 1: Mainstream media, the CBS's ABC, NBC, MSNBC, they're all for
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  Speaker 1: for what we knew them as they're dead. They just
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  Speaker 1: are everything now is in this digital new age media world, right,
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  Speaker 1: all the podcasters, all the live streamers, everybody, which is
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  Speaker 1: great another great thing, but the natural progression of any media,
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  Speaker 1: and this is how it happened with mainstream media. Eventually
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  Speaker 1: it becomes tainted. Happened kind of faster with new media.
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  Speaker 1: But still we all know you've got your favorite podcaster
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  Speaker 1: who you know out there live streamer that quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: has become a shill for the Republicans. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them out there that are just shills for
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  Speaker 1: Democrats either way, instead of being a shill for the
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  Speaker 1: normal people, which is all I've ever tried to do,
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  Speaker 1: all I'm trying to do with starting this thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: the only people I'm gonna shill for are my fellow Americans,
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  Speaker 1: patriots in my country. That's it. Why do I enjoy
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  Speaker 1: this because it has been fascinating to watch, especially this
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  Speaker 1: past like week and a half. I'd say, where You've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of podcasters who are in the pocket
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  Speaker 1: of true this administration too, let's be honest, let's be
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  Speaker 1: big boys and girls about this, and they have not
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  Speaker 1: understood how to handle this whole thing. They are so
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  Speaker 1: spun up and afraid to criticize this particular administration, the
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  Speaker 1: friends they have within the Trump administration because they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to lose favor with them, and it's been fascinating
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  Speaker 1: to watch it, really is. So I'm enjoying this because
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  Speaker 1: in this new media, we shouldn't be a shill for anybody,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's your favorite president, even if you voted
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  Speaker 1: for him, and if you support ninety nine percent of
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  Speaker 1: the policies, you still have to be able to criticize
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  Speaker 1: and ask questions. Right, support the policy, not the person,
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  Speaker 1: because we're all human, even them they are. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: enjoying this because it's like a national healing and it's
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  Speaker 1: a national honest conversation that I love and we all
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  Speaker 1: admit just being completely honest here. The way the whole
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  Speaker 1: Epstein thing has been handled by the Trump administration and
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  Speaker 1: him personally has been awful, handled terribly. You may be
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  Speaker 1: of the same mindset I am, in the same opinion.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't think this much there. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was all destroyed maybe years ago, I really do, But
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  Speaker 1: it's still two things can be true. I think Trump's
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  Speaker 1: right about that there's not much there, but this can
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  Speaker 1: also be true how they handled it, and to tell
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  Speaker 1: people that you should just put it away and forget
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  Speaker 1: about it. Uh huh, not the answer. This also not
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  Speaker 1: the answer. Of course, we all know what happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: This was the uh. This is the main takeaway from
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  Speaker 1: the White House. He's not doubling down. He's tripling down
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  Speaker 1: on trying to make people stop talking about this, which
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  Speaker 1: isn't gonna happen. And what the next step to say? Stupid,
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  Speaker 1: foolish people are still talking about this.
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  Speaker 3: We'd rather talk about the success we have with the economy,
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  Speaker 3: the best we've ever had, and all of the things
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  Speaker 3: we've done, including in the Middle East. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: see it. Instead they want to talk about the Epstein hoaks,
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  Speaker 3: And the sad part is it's people that are really
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  Speaker 3: doing the Democrats work. They're stupid people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta clear something up. I think now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a mind reader. I don't know exactly what he's thinking,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he's talking about these certain media personalities
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  Speaker 1: that are doing that thing. I don't think he's talking
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  Speaker 1: about his you know, regular working man and woman base.
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  Speaker 1: I really truly don't. I don't think he's calling it
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  Speaker 1: the Trump based stupid Honestly, I would tell you I'd
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  Speaker 1: be sitting here today telling you if he did that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case. But he's referring to
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  Speaker 1: once again what I was just talking about. He's certain
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  Speaker 1: and I hate this term. I hate it. Political influencers. No,
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  Speaker 1: that should never be a thing. Who UH have pushed
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  Speaker 1: for answers. He's not happy about that. But the ones
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  Speaker 1: who are brave and are still pushing for answers, they
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't stop, should they? Two things can be true? I
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  Speaker 1: think is exactly right. You know, he's I think, honestly
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  Speaker 1: being human. I think he's upset at people not appreciating
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  Speaker 1: all the wins that they've been able to accomplish. And
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  Speaker 1: there are a ton of wins, many good things for
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  Speaker 1: all Americans, no matter what you're talking about, Democrats or Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: red or blue, all these stupid frickin' labels, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: there are lots of wins. And he's proud of that.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got a massive ego. We know that he wants,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's honestly upset that people aren't talking
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  Speaker 1: about that, and they're focused on this that can be true?
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  Speaker 1: And so can this be true? They've handled it terribly.
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  Speaker 1: You know what. The first mistake was all of these
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  Speaker 1: all of these staffers administration. People you know that are
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  Speaker 1: in there, and yeah, I'm talking about Pam Bondi and Bongino.
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  Speaker 1: Cash Bettel has been like that too, and a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of other ones. First of all, they got in
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  Speaker 1: there and they would not shut up. The classic line
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  Speaker 1: is Pambondi going, I'm looking at the files right now
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  Speaker 1: on my desk. It's horrible. I've got thousands of things, thousands. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when you build up that, what you have to show it.
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  Speaker 1: People don't want talk. They want results. Okay, So you
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  Speaker 1: built up everybody's expectations and then you came up with
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  Speaker 1: nothing worse than that. Not only did you come up
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  Speaker 1: with nothing, you took it away. And then the big
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  Speaker 1: guy comes at. Your boss comes out and he says, now,
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  Speaker 1: don't talk about it. I know, we said we got
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff coming out, but don't talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: So and then you've got you got Bongino, who also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and maybe this is just in the nature
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  Speaker 1: because he just came out of the podcasting and talk
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  Speaker 1: radio world who said we're gonna get transparency on this,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do it, We're gonna do it. Then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden he does an interview with cash Betel
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  Speaker 1: and they say, well, we can't know. There's nothing there.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing there. It looks suspicious as hell. And this
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  Speaker 1: all goes back to you guys, all of you talking
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  Speaker 1: too damn much. You over promised, you not only under delivered,
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  Speaker 1: you absolutely pulled the rug out. And then he said
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  Speaker 1: ignore it. Well, going back to the Shane Gillis thing
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  Speaker 1: on The SP's last night, it's never going away. Now
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  Speaker 1: you knew it was headed this way, and now it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those cultural things when this is why I say,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just a punchline. It's a wicked important development
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  Speaker 1: for the whole Epstein conversation to become part of the culture.
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  Speaker 1: It's never it's never ever gone away ever, So you
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  Speaker 1: better start to handle it. And is what they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do now, is that if there's anybody that can start
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  Speaker 1: to turn this around and turn this massive loss into
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  Speaker 1: a win, it's Trump. Because now here's the other takeaway.
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  Speaker 1: You know he hears it now, you know he hears
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  Speaker 1: this national conversation. Helly, he was probably watching the SP's
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  Speaker 1: last night. You know he loved sports come out, and
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  Speaker 1: he's already started to like, hint at this come out
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  Speaker 1: and say we're gonna show you everything we have, and
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  Speaker 1: then that's it. It's not too bad, right because here's
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  Speaker 1: what Americans are. Here's what patriots want. They want what
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  Speaker 1: you know, and they want transparency. They understand we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to get all the information, but they want to see.
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  Speaker 1: They want to show see you, show your work. That's
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  Speaker 1: all anybody's asking for. That's why at the beginning, if
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  Speaker 1: they just came out with some presentation, stop talking about
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  Speaker 1: it and just show you know. It's like Missouri is
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  Speaker 1: to show me state. We're a show me country. We
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  Speaker 1: don't give a damn about what you're promising. Show us
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  Speaker 1: the results, don't tell us to not talk about it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So there's still time. There's still time to turn this
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  Speaker 1: into a win, and both things can be right. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's right. He's right in that we should be
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  Speaker 1: talking about all the wins and accomplishments. It's ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: to one, all of the he's right about that part
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  Speaker 1: of it, ninety nine to one. But he's also clueless
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  Speaker 1: that this is important to the American people because it
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: goes back to something that he didn't run on. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a campaign promise. But was all in the tone
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  Speaker 1: of that campaign. It was going to be the little guy,
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: the populist candidate. He's not a little guy. I mean
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  Speaker 1: representing a little guy getting to the truth and these
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: disgusting swamp creature Washington elites that don't represent anybody. Those
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  Speaker 1: days are numbered right. Well, it's pretty fair assessment to say, wow,
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  Speaker 1: the swamp creatures are winning in this one. If we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to just whitewash this and forget about it. So
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  Speaker 1: it's completely understandable that people are upset, completely understandable. He
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  Speaker 1: still has a chance. And if any executive, if any
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  Speaker 1: commander in chief can turn this and will win, it
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  Speaker 1: would be him because he knows how to persuade and
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  Speaker 1: he's a great communicator. He is, So come out, do
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  Speaker 1: something something. Go back to your show business days, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when he was producing The Apprentice. Go back and do
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  Speaker 1: some kind of a presentation that satisfies the American people.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not going away now, not when it becomes
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  Speaker 1: a comedian's punchline, because it's here for ever. So still
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  Speaker 1: a chance. But again to take away, and we talked
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  Speaker 1: about this last week. Don't ever be afraid to criticize,
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  Speaker 1: even your favorite presidents, because that's how you keep them honest.
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  Speaker 1: Oh he's hearing it now, Oh absolutely, he is. Absolutely
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  Speaker 1: he is support the policy, not just the human being.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can root for him all you want,
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  Speaker 1: but to keep these people honest, keep asking questions, and
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  Speaker 1: also be very careful of even in this new media
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  Speaker 1: where we have all this new information now with podcasters
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  Speaker 1: and live stream and it's wonderful. I love it, I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely love it. That's why you even started this after
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  Speaker 1: the talk radio days, just to get a foothold in
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  Speaker 1: this amazing new media where we all have this that
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  Speaker 1: can be tainted too, of course it can. Where you
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: got people shill people who are shills for influence in
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: some cases money for one particular political party. You don't
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  Speaker 1: never want to be that, don't ever follow the shills. So,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: like I said, I'm kind of enjoying this that the
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  Speaker 1: honesty is coming out right now. Speaking of honesty, well,
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  Speaker 1: we know what the doge cuts that NPR and PBS.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: I know, I spend a lot of time on this
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: because I despise them. We shouldn't have state run media
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  Speaker 1: that is a propaganda machine, But boy are they putting
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: out the full court press and try to save their
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  Speaker 1: own asses, now, aren't they? Wow? Holy cow? Well, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, let's go to the so what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: Then you bring out the celebrities and they get to
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  Speaker 1: the celebrities who and this is how they pitch it
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  Speaker 1: to them. I know how this works. They'll say, they'll
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: go to a big celebrity and they'll say, hey, those
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  Speaker 1: those nasty Republicans and those Doze cuts they're trying to
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: kill off Elmo and Sesame Street. Will you do a
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: will you do a video and promote this website to
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  Speaker 1: try to save us? It's exactly what they do. And
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: celebrities being what they are, they're not exactly the most
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  Speaker 1: tuned in people of all time. They do it. So
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: they got to Riba yesterday, one of my all time favorites,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Riba McIntyre. So Riba does a video begging for help,
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  Speaker 1: and that the end of it. I won't promote it here,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: but I don't know's some kind of a website to
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: save NPR and PBS. She was talking about PBS. Interesting
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: takeaway on that, how they're talking about PBS not the
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: NPR stuff, even though it's all tied in together. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Riba just yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: And just a few short days, the Senate is going
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  Speaker 3: to vote on a bill that would remove federal funding
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  Speaker 3: from PBS. PBS has done so much for us, from
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  Speaker 3: children education to teaching us about science, the Earth, and
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  Speaker 3: the stars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, No it could. Here's what else that
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  Speaker 1: company has done. I'll call it a company because it's
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: all looped into one NPR and PBS. Notice ow they're
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  Speaker 1: saying save PBS now because nprs were all the propaganda
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  Speaker 1: comes out and then just a little bit of leaks
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  Speaker 1: down and it trickles down to PBS. NPR is the
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  Speaker 1: real villain here. Well, here's what else they did. Let's
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: go back a little bit, same organization, same agency, with
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  Speaker 1: your and my taxpayer money. Has become an absolute propaganda machine.
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  Speaker 1: And I would hate it. Whether it was propaganda for
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: the right, propaganda for the left, whatever it is, I
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: don't want it. It shouldn't be state run media of
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  Speaker 1: any kind. You can keep that, but that's fine, but
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: just stop with your Let's go back a couple of
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  Speaker 1: months to Brandon gil the California representative who this was
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the end for NPR, by the way,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: had their CEO Catherine Maher on the hot seat, asking
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  Speaker 1: her all kinds of questions. This was the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the end because it completely exposed what they really need.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to be mad about protests. In reference to
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: the BLM protests not prioritizing the private property of a
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  Speaker 4: system of oppression, you didn't condemn the looting. You said
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  Speaker 4: that it was counter productive. NPR also promoted a book
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  Speaker 4: called in Defensive Looting. Do you think that that's an
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  Speaker 4: appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir, and I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: that was as.
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  Speaker 4: I read it, that you read that book.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't believe that I did read that. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: you did. That was the beginning of the end right there.
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  Speaker 1: That was the beginning of the end, where most people now,
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  Speaker 1: this is how they got away with it for years
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  Speaker 1: and years and years and years, right taxpayer funded for decades.
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  Speaker 1: Most people had no idea they were pushing this kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing, especially when it came to a head, like
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: he said, like they exposed right there during the BLM
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  Speaker 1: riots of twenty twenty two billion dollars in property damage
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: and people did get killed, and they said it was
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  Speaker 1: mostly peaceful people like NPR said it was mostly peaceful. Well,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: here's the full court press now that they're going to
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: lose their funding. And again, this is interesting how they're all,
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  Speaker 1: this is how they're branding it. They're not talking about
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  Speaker 1: NPR because they're out there exposed and they know how propaganda'sed.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: That's been so they're saying, so this is how they're
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  Speaker 1: selling it to you. It's no, no, no, no, save
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  Speaker 1: PBS and the children's programming. Yeah, okay. So it was
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  Speaker 1: Paula Kerger, the president and CEO of PBS for Now
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  Speaker 1: on CNN yesterday. I asked them for examples. People often
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  Speaker 1: struggle to come up with examples of what really they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. Well, in response to that, Senator John Kennedy
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  Speaker 1: from Louisiana, who's always interesting, he's the guy who's got
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the homeboy act. He's kind of like, well, I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe that this was happening. He did a great thread
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: on X yesterday in response to Paula Kirger saying exactly that,
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  Speaker 1: and he had examples of what they've actually done. And
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: he had a bunch of examples, most of them related
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to Louisiana, his home state. And he said Louisiana PBS
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: video claimed that preschoolers may have racial bias, and he
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: has the proof. Even worse, he says PBS pushed so
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: called gender affirming care for youth and released woke, anti
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: racist talking points. That's just his second example. Another one
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  Speaker 1: John Kennedy came out with was PBS also thought it
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: was a good idea to cover quote a blueprint for
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the case against Trump. Okay, and uh many other examples
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: he listed there. So that's what they're doing. Now, this
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: is something you got to look for. And here's the
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: real takeaway, right, Look look for this. Look look for
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: what they're not saying, which is sometimes probably more indicative
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: than what they are saying in these kinds of public hearings.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Have you noticed that NPR has never come out and
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: said before the recisions package, before the DOGE cuts, they
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: never come out and said, okay, okay, look, look, look
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: look we understand we're wrong, we were wrong about that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: First of all, they never said that. They never came
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: out and they said, we're completely willing to have an
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  Speaker 1: oversight board or person or executor or something to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we're unbiased. We'll complete We're sorry, we'll completely
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  Speaker 1: do that. Have you noticed they never said that? Ask
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: yourself why. It's because they never had any intention of
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: being unbiased, and they never had any intention of ever
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: not being a propaganda machine. And like I said, I'm
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: telling you right now as I sit here today on
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  Speaker 1: this barstool, they if they were a propaganda machine for
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the right, if you want to call it that or
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: some other organization, I would hate it just as much
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: because when you take taxpayer money should never be that biased.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So you want to save yourselves, I think it's too late.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I think there's a way to save that, the PBS
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: programming and the children's programming and all that stuff. Sure,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it absolutely is, but not in the form that it
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: is now. Absolutely not. So that they dug their own grave,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and they had no intention ever of fixing it because
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: they had years to fix it, and they never came
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: out and they said that they would. So it's the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: way it goes. All right, let's talk about some good news.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Get the hell out of politics for a quick second.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Remember the back to the beginning, they caught the Ozzy
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Osbourne farewell show. I was talking about this, what was it?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Was?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: This like two weeks ago? I guess I don't know.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: It was a while ago, but it was really started
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  Speaker 1: off as the Black Sabbath legendary heavy metal band their
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: farewell show where all four of them, the originals together
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: were saying goodbye. But then all of a sudden, all
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: these other bands wanted to get involved. Of course, I
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: want to be part of that. So they had this
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: heavy metal festival that turned out to be great. I mean,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of fears that a lot of
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: these older rockers weren't gonna sound or look too good,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and I get it. Ozzie was in a wheelchair, but
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: he still sounded great. It was a It was a great,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: great thing overall if you're a music fan of that
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: kind of music. Well, as it turns out, it was
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a lot more than that. Because the numbers are in
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and this is the feel good story of the day.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I think the final show of the goodbye, the back
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to the beginning show, as they were talking about, it
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: has become, get this, the highest grossing charity concert benefit
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: charity concert of all time. It brought in Now that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: they counted up all the dollars one hundred and ninety
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: million dollars for charity, those bands didn't get paid, the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: promoters didn't get paid, the venue didn't get paid. In Birmingham,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it's going to these charities. Which charities, Well, i'll tell
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: you Birmingham Children's Hospital. In the UK, Acorn Children's Hospice.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what that is. I guess a
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: hospice organization's in the name and cure Parkinson's specifically, because
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Ozzy has Parkinson's one hundred and ninety million dollars, it
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: has blown away any other charity thing. The next closest
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: was a tribute to Heroes America. Remember that one in
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: two thousand and one. That was a hundred two twenty
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: nine million, one and ninety All of this talk about
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: like all of these remember the day. And I grew
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: up with this in the eighties. Oh that heavy midtal music.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: That's devil worship music. That's is some of the most
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: charitable giving people in the entertainment industry. And that's proof
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: positive right there. So there's your feel good story of
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the day. But the big takeaway the Epstein thing, and
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: this is good, not bad. It's become a punchline. That
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: means it's not going away, which means they'll keep answering questions.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Now the balls in Trump's court? Are you gonna handle
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: this right way? Let's see, because never be afraid to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: criticize even your favorite president. That's how you keep them honest.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: There's your big takeaway.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: With all that said, oh my god, we got a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Friday to talk about tomorrow. Who the hell knows what's
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: going to be in there. Some weekend preps, some other
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: stuff will go through the headlines. But more importantly, you
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: can take all this bad news they throw us every
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: single day, refreem it, and turn it into a win
• 22:53
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• 23:02
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• 23:04
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• 23:06
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