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Spooky Movies and Bougie Burritos · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Do you have a movie that your parents took you
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  Speaker 1: to when you were I don't know, ten eleven, twelve thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: probably pre adolescent, just beginning. That was like a grown
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  Speaker 1: up movie, not a kid's movie, and it just washed
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  Speaker 1: over you and you got your first inkling of, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my heavens, this is what filmmaking can be. For me,
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  Speaker 1: that was absolutely Butch Cassidy, a sweeping western epic with
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  Speaker 1: just real movie stars, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, is there
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  Speaker 1: is there? Does anything jump out at you, because for
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  Speaker 1: you may maybe a couple of years earlier there seventy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really go It's weird. My mom didn't take
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  Speaker 3: me to movies. I just kind of went to the movies,
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  Speaker 3: I think with other kids.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: I think we went to g rated movies. I don't
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  Speaker 3: remember really going to movies with my mom. Believe you know,
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  Speaker 3: my dad died when I was little. I was only right,
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  Speaker 3: so so it was basically me and her, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't remember a lot of them.
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  Speaker 2: I do remember.
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  Speaker 3: The funny movie story was her coming back from the
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  Speaker 3: Exorcist and she was terrified and she said, you may
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  Speaker 3: never see that movie.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you were fourteen, you were thirteen or fourteen. My
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  Speaker 1: parents took me. I was seventeen, and I'd even counseling
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  Speaker 1: for a year.
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  Speaker 3: I went out and saw it. I figured out a
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  Speaker 3: way to see it. I don't know how I saw it.
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  Speaker 3: I remember who well, I don't remember how, but I
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  Speaker 3: saw it. I remember going to the theater and seeing it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't guess they let us in.
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  Speaker 1: How did it strike you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Terrified the heck out of me. Had nightmares for months. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, I was raised in a Catholic household.
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  Speaker 3: My mom was a you know, an Irish Catholic. I
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  Speaker 3: mean this was a These were Irish Lithuanian people, and
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  Speaker 3: they believed listen, that that is real possession, demon possession,
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  Speaker 3: that is as real as the sun is in the
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  Speaker 3: in the sky, and that we were terrified that it
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  Speaker 3: was the scariest movie I ever saw.
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  Speaker 1: They were dragging people out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh listen.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it in a theater five blocks away from
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  Speaker 1: the steps at Prospect at M Street were Chris gets
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  Speaker 1: thrown down.
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  Speaker 2: I'm growing up in DC. I've had those steps, those steps.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was so real, amazing piece of filmmaking.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and it's and it's amazing because it really it
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  Speaker 3: was so ahead of the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's time.
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  Speaker 3: It was almost it almost filmed almost like a documentary style.
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  Speaker 3: Remember when she was in the hospital and they were
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  Speaker 3: doing all the cat scans on her such a slow burn.
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  Speaker 1: It takes forever to get to the real vivid stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, there's just something wrong with Reagan. There's something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with this little girl. Is like and Linda, Linda,
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  Speaker 1: you ever heard Linda Blair talk about this year? Is
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  Speaker 1: it was not fun, not fun being on that. So
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  Speaker 1: she just had to be forty degrees on the sets.
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  Speaker 1: You could see her breath and she's just wearing a
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  Speaker 1: night they're going through all the stuff. She views it
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  Speaker 1: largely positively because she knows what an amazing piece of art,
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  Speaker 1: amazing piece of work it was. But this this was
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  Speaker 1: the early seventies, not exactly when they were real sensitive
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  Speaker 1: about child actors and so well, my mom, my.
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  Speaker 3: Mom always had this belief that you just don't mess
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  Speaker 3: around with the devil, like like a movie about Shay
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  Speaker 3: so terrifying, and it's like it's like playing with a
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  Speaker 3: wigi board.
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  Speaker 2: You know, did you ever have that when you were a.
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  Speaker 3: Kid, like you weren't supposed to play with a wigi
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  Speaker 3: board because you know, you're you're tempting a real evil presence.
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  Speaker 2: And I think there's truth to that. I do. I
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  Speaker 2: really think there's truth to that.
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  Speaker 1: There's yeah, I guess it depends on I mean, mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad were kind of Methodist kind of, and it
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  Speaker 1: is sort of more of a protest mainstream Protestant Middle
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic upbringing sort of. And so I always thought that
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  Speaker 1: the whole wiga ouigi wija boards were just stupid, so
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing to it, or you were not communicating with
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  Speaker 1: the dead. In fact, it was I think it was unscriptural.
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  Speaker 2: I still do.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that year, the year that this stuff is
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  Speaker 1: just all strikes me as a as a stupid game
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  Speaker 1: rather than obviously the occult, and in invoking the occult,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's not a good thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: But let me tell you a true story. There was
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  Speaker 3: a girl in our high school who was killed in
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  Speaker 3: a car. Actually, we all knew her, we loved her.
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  Speaker 3: And one night, as kids would do, we were probably fourteen, fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: sixteen years old. Ever, we were all at my house
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  Speaker 3: and we got out of Wiji board and we wanted
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  Speaker 3: to try to talk to Beth. They just died like
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  Speaker 3: six months earlier. Now you think about how ungodly that
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  Speaker 3: is and how awful. But I'll tell you a true story,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm telling you it happened in my house. There's
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  Speaker 3: about eight of us and we're all got the Ouiji board.
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  Speaker 3: We had candles going, Beth, show us a sign. We
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  Speaker 3: were all till we all had like well we touched
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  Speaker 3: like pinky fingers and thumbs, show us a sign, Show
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  Speaker 3: us a sign. And the phone rang and we all
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  Speaker 3: jumped out, jump Beth online one. Okay, so I go,
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  Speaker 3: I go answer the I go answer the phone. All
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  Speaker 3: it was was distortion on the other line. All it
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  Speaker 3: was was this distortion and maybe that's.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Then I went into hysterics because then I thought she called.
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  Speaker 3: She was calling from wherever, and they all screamed, the
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  Speaker 3: kids screamed, and when run out of the house. Oh
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  Speaker 3: there was Well I'm lucky there wasn't a police investigation.
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  Speaker 3: The other parents, the other parents were calling. No, no,
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  Speaker 3: it was, but it happened. Mark, I'm telling you it
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  Speaker 3: happened the phone. I thought you were going to tell
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  Speaker 3: me that the Ouiji board spelled up. No, But the
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  Speaker 3: phone rang and there was nobody on the line. It
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  Speaker 3: was just because that never happened. Oh, it was a coincidence.
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  Speaker 3: Show us a sign, Beth, show us a sign that
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  Speaker 3: you're here, ring ring, and there's a distortition on the
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  Speaker 3: phone line. I'm telling you, and the kids were traumatized.
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  Speaker 3: I was traumatized. Then I got grounded. My mom was
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  Speaker 3: mad at me, because what are you doing bringing the
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  Speaker 3: devil into my house with all these kids. The parents
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  Speaker 3: were calling my mom raising Caine with my mom, what's
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  Speaker 3: wrong with your demon son? He's doing this to my
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  Speaker 3: Oh it was awful. It was awful. But I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now, it was a true story.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna go to my grade. Believing that Beth
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  Speaker 3: called Beth.
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  Speaker 2: Truth.
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  Speaker 1: Show me a sign.
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  Speaker 2: Show makes makes me laugh.
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  Speaker 1: Yet, Steve Martin, the man with two brains, Uh he is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who's Kathleen Turner is is the woman
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  Speaker 1: he's developing an affection for. And his wife has died,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a big picture of her on the mantle
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  Speaker 1: in this big mansion where Doc doctor Hofferr and uh
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  Speaker 1: and and as he's falling in love with this woman,
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  Speaker 1: he looks up into the picture of his wife and says, honey,
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  Speaker 1: I just I feel I feel conflicted. If they're just
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  Speaker 1: just and I have strong feelings for this woman. If
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  Speaker 1: you'll just show me a sign that it's wrong, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I will stop. But the picture starts to spin violently,
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  Speaker 1: and you hear a woman's voice.
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  Speaker 2: Go no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: And the picture stops spinning, and there's a beat, and
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  Speaker 1: Steve mart looks up and says, anything, honey, just show
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  Speaker 1: me a sign.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, there's something, show me anything. Have you followed
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  Speaker 3: the battle over the price of the burrito controversy with.
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  Speaker 1: It twenty dollars burrito things? Yes? Why don't you unfold
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  Speaker 1: that for people? And what's what's your takeaway from it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it all kind of began, apparently with Andrew Covet
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  Speaker 3: over at Turning Point USA. He weighed in on the
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  Speaker 3: supposed affordability crisis. That is all we're talking about, right,
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  Speaker 3: It's all about affordability. And Andrew Covitt noted that one
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  Speaker 3: student recently claimed that the burrito at I guess Taco
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  Speaker 3: Bell cost twenty bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it was somewhere else?
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  Speaker 2: Was it?
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  Speaker 1: Was it CHIPOTLEO? Or maybe there was some.
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  Speaker 2: Place somewhere there was a burrito.
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  Speaker 1: We had expensive burrito.
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  Speaker 3: So and COVID said, yeah, a lot of this is
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  Speaker 3: a hangover from COVID and Biden era inflation, but the
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  Speaker 3: lived experience is the same. It just feels like basic
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  Speaker 3: things cost too much. Well, Twitter exploded, Ben Shapiro said,
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  Speaker 3: burrito doesn't cost twenty dollars. If you're paying twenty dollars
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  Speaker 3: for a burrito and you're not independently wealthy, you're doing
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  Speaker 3: life wrong. Then Sean Davis over at The Federalist characterized
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  Speaker 3: the current neocon war inflation messaging as ruling fast food
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  Speaker 3: burritos out for the lower and middle classes. And then
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  Speaker 3: Matt Walsh got involved and blah blah blah. So the
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  Speaker 3: question is this is the belief that life is just
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  Speaker 3: too unaffordable right now, real or imagined. Is it true
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  Speaker 3: or is it false? Is it due to the Iran
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  Speaker 3: War and Trump's policies or not. We see numbers that
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  Speaker 3: show inflation under Biden was still higher than it is
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  Speaker 3: right now. We weren't screaming about affordability in the Biden era, correct,
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  Speaker 3: So why is that? I think it's a talking point,
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  Speaker 3: but I believe Trump miss has aired and I would
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  Speaker 3: respectfully suggest that President Trump has missed the boat by
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  Speaker 3: not acknowledging the pain that people are feeling, even if
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  Speaker 3: it's perception mark and not reality.
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  Speaker 1: Well it is, except that it is reality. It was
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  Speaker 1: reality during Biden too. You know why Trump distances from
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  Speaker 1: his affordability empathy, It's because all of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 1: media have discovered affordability. All of a sudden, we found
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven families eating dog food, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a bit bite. And Trump's point is, well, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. Things were horrible during Biden. Nobody paid, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have fawning coverage of this kind of stuff. Then
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  Speaker 1: he's totally right about that. So because of the double standard,
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  Speaker 1: in a very trumpy kind of way, it's not that
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  Speaker 1: affordability is not something that people are wrestling with. They are.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that he resents in bristles and it being
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  Speaker 1: hung around his neck.
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  Speaker 3: You correctly, and he's fair and he's right to bristle
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  Speaker 3: at that. But then he's got a message that here's
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  Speaker 3: what Matt Walsh posted I thought was kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I believe he's right, and I think our audience would
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  Speaker 3: agree grocery prices are insane and they're still rising. Addressing
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  Speaker 3: this problem should be the number one priority of every
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  Speaker 3: elected leader in America. And the stupid foreign wars and
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  Speaker 3: focus on this issue is one of the main reasons
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  Speaker 3: socialists are gaining power because he's right, He is right,
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  Speaker 3: totally right, but there's no qualification.
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  Speaker 1: Insane. It makes absolutely insane. So Trump, look as Trump
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  Speaker 1: goes to the Iran war, goes, never mind, We're going
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  Speaker 1: to pull everything out, the lives that lost or lost
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  Speaker 1: in vain. When we're pulling out, and then suddenly eggs
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  Speaker 1: are a dollar a dozen, it's fiction. That's not going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. I got a crazy idea. How about if
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  Speaker 1: we beat Iran into submission and do things economically that
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  Speaker 1: will help affordability. The only thing government, the only thing government?
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  Speaker 1: What magical thing is government supposed to do? And I
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  Speaker 1: like Matt Walsh a lot, but he's been bugging me
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  Speaker 1: a little bit lately. This should be the focus of
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  Speaker 1: every Republican to magically do what what is the magic
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  Speaker 1: toolbox that Republicans or anybody can open where government can
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  Speaker 1: make things more affordable?
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  Speaker 3: And the war and how does the war, how does
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  Speaker 3: that do well, well, first start, what do you mean,
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  Speaker 3: how does that do it?
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  Speaker 2: We've already we've already made the connection.
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  Speaker 3: There is there is a connection between nass gas prices,
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  Speaker 3: supply side economics. Mark, there's all kinds of the straight
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  Speaker 3: of Hord moves is clawed there. Their stuff isn't getting through,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody is acknowledging that the reason things everything's expensive
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  Speaker 3: beyond groceries is beyond gas. Rather, it's because of the
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  Speaker 3: war and the war.
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  Speaker 1: This is the cry emitted by some. Is this okay?
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  Speaker 1: When you say I'm the war, you don't mean pull out.
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  Speaker 1: You mean please, Lord, find some way to succeed loo Hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at a point where I don't care how they
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  Speaker 1: do it. I think we've obliterated their ability to produce
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. Take the win and get out.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't mean and if it sounds like pull out, fine,
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  Speaker 3: if he was obliterating them, obliterate them, you okay, obliterate
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  Speaker 3: them so much? So? Oh so what does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: You want to you want to? Do you want you
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  Speaker 3: want to Hiroshima? You want a Nagasaki? Do you want
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  Speaker 3: to eliminate all the men, women and children of Iran
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  Speaker 3: who have nothing to do with this. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: the problem. It's a mess, and it's but it's got
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  Speaker 3: to stop or we're going to lose this country because
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  Speaker 3: we're going to lose the mid terms. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: lose the house in the Senate. Look, people roll their eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Abdul l said could be president one day. We could
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  Speaker 3: have that guy in the White House. And if we
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  Speaker 3: don't wake up right now, and unfortunately, there's a turn
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  Speaker 3: of events happening and I'm feeling it from everybody, I'm
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  Speaker 3: understanding it.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe.
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  Speaker 3: That going into Iran was a noble mission and I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad we did it. But now we've got to get out.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to figure out how to end it. How
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  Speaker 3: long you want it to go?
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  Speaker 2: Mark? How long do you want this thing to be prolonged?
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  Speaker 1: Mid mid September is about where I need the curtain
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  Speaker 1: to draw to. And I may not be kidding, because
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  Speaker 1: if we go for that, I'll take it in a
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  Speaker 1: quagmire at Halloween. It's going to be a problem on
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  Speaker 1: November third year. You believe you and I have just
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  Speaker 1: done magically. Is in these last three or four minutes,
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  Speaker 1: is encapsulated exactly what people are saying exactly the tensions
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  Speaker 1: they feel. This is exactly where we are, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's very hard and it's very vexing, and well we're.
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  Speaker 3: Going to get through this. Dog never give up on America.
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