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Artists Protest The Trump-Kennedy Center · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Is this this guy that nobody knows that the Kennedy
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  Speaker 1: Center exactly? What's his name? Bella is?
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  Speaker 2: It is Bella Fleck and the Fleck Tones. They're awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a fan of his theirs for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, nobody knows who that is? Right, they know that, right?
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  Speaker 1: It is?
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  Speaker 2: It is acquired taste or a narrow, esoteric kind of thing,
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  Speaker 2: the sort of stuff that I traffic in all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Quirky, that's you. This is who you are.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of a bluegrassy mandoliny banjo. And the guy's
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  Speaker 2: been an aficionado of that for a long long time
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  Speaker 2: and a maestro of that for a long time. And
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  Speaker 2: I've been a fan of his work.
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  Speaker 1: So he drops out he doesn't want to perform at
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  Speaker 1: the Trump Kennedy Center.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I decided I decided to send him a note
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 1: Well see, And isn't it weird how the ex algorithms work?
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  Speaker 1: Because you were the very first comment and it's because
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  Speaker 1: every day so you can see. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: you're all dressed up every day lately. What is it
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  Speaker 1: the new studio I.
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  Speaker 2: Have, I've got there. I'm doing video stuff, doing various
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  Speaker 2: other things, and so you know.
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  Speaker 1: There's something going on. He doesn't want Hey, ladies and gentleman,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't want us to know, but I can. He's
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  Speaker 1: dressed up for something. I don't know, maybe a job interview.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking for another job, I said yesterday. People that
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  Speaker 1: says that, hey, dress for the job you want.
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  Speaker 2: I said that, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Are running us right now?
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  Speaker 1: We better be. I hope christ you we sure are
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  Speaker 1: at Gallagher Show. It's live.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go retweet that riot there right now, this
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  Speaker 2: very weird story of on.
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  Speaker 1: And they've promised, and they've promised me they're going to
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  Speaker 1: fix that ugly beige carpet background you got right now.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get a nice background.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what's going to be behind my head?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, a mass a monitor that you could hang
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  Speaker 2: from the Empire State Building and see, well, welcome to
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  Speaker 2: my world. I hope the wall will hold it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the one behind me right now is
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  Speaker 1: eighty five inches ill. That mine's bigger than yours.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the size of a monitor. It's what you
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  Speaker 2: do with it exactly. Here's what I did. So this
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  Speaker 2: bella fleck, who I've been a bit of. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if I kind of cared, he said, oh, I'm yanking
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  Speaker 2: my performance from the Kennedy Center because of Trump, because
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  Speaker 2: it's politicized. Now, this is what set me off a
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  Speaker 2: little bit in Trump sticking his name on the Kennedy Center,
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  Speaker 2: which is just vintage Trump trolling, right, it's just vintage.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care some people asking me, should he have
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  Speaker 2: done it? Shit, I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: You know. By the way, by the way, real quick,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're like one day away from him putting
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  Speaker 1: a big knee on Trump White House sign on the
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  Speaker 1: side of the White House. Right, they were just any
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  Speaker 1: dating any day now he's going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Like everything else he's done, it'll get red. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know vans will do it. But the next
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  Speaker 2: Democrat we have will undo all this Marco. So I
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  Speaker 2: sent him a thing bat When Marco has said he's
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  Speaker 2: not running. If Vance does good, what what is he
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  Speaker 2: gonna go do? What's going to coach the buys? So
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  Speaker 2: here's Bella whining and moaning that the Trump adding his
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  Speaker 2: name was driven by politics. There's a difference. Trump's thing
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  Speaker 2: was driven by ego, and I think we can stipulate
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  Speaker 2: the man's got some ego. He's very fond of himself,
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  Speaker 2: his brand and what he's doing for American by the way,
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  Speaker 2: with ample reason. So the real politics here, the political bigotry,
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  Speaker 2: the political hatred of the political venom, is from all
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  Speaker 2: these idiot artists who are pulling their performances from the
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  Speaker 2: Trump Kennedy Center because they are costing employees, they're fans
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  Speaker 2: who don't get to see them. And so I very
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  Speaker 2: tastefully and restrainedly said, uh, big fan here, I just
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  Speaker 2: want to say, uh, you're the one who's actually politicizing
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  Speaker 2: it by taking your why don't you meet your obligation
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  Speaker 2: to do the performance and bag on him from the
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  Speaker 2: stage like everybody else is probably gonna do. That's free speech,
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  Speaker 2: That's fine, wouldn't that be better, and I left that.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think twice about it until you told me
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  Speaker 2: that I was being absolutely lit on fire by the
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  Speaker 2: entire bag. God these idiots. Oh, some of it is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it is really vulgar and terrible. And
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  Speaker 2: I mean, listen a brigiant maccroney and getting cyber bullied.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting cyber bullied, and like.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I watch I watched the last night and
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it and I'm like, and you're my friend.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't like seeing it because it was hundreds
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  Speaker 1: and hundreds of who is this Mark Davis? Somebody put
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  Speaker 1: a dunch hat on marked Hey groc where you put
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  Speaker 1: a hat on this market day?
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  Speaker 2: That one of the worst thing somebody has to put
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  Speaker 2: on me. So if it could not possibly care less.
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  Speaker 1: But not well speak speaking of not possibly caring less,
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  Speaker 1: I just have to say that I respectfully disagree with you.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, nobody knows who Bella Fleck is, but nobody cares.
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  Speaker 1: If nobody cares, if Bella Fleck is not going to
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  Speaker 1: perform at the Trump Candy, I would think his ticket
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  Speaker 1: buyers did. Nobody cares, even his well, his supporters probably
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  Speaker 1: don't like Trump either, so they're like, they're okay, good,
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  Speaker 1: don't go.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny you bring that up because ten ten ish
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  Speaker 2: years ago whatever. It's why I just hardly ever or
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  Speaker 2: don't play any Springsteen anymore. And I love his body
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  Speaker 2: of work. I mean, that's the soundtrack of my college days.
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  Speaker 2: When he canceled shows, when he Springsteen, when he maybe
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  Speaker 2: when he canceled shows, yeah, in North Carolina, because North
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  Speaker 2: Carolina had a bathroom law where they actually cared in
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina, whether a dude follows your daughter into the
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  Speaker 2: men's room into the lady's room and he said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: freeze out, I'm out, And that was so obnoxious, so ridiculous,
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, what is the the mixed feeling of
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  Speaker 2: the ticket holder, the person who hold has a ticket
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  Speaker 2: to that Springsteen show in Charlotte, North Carolina. Are they
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  Speaker 2: a thrilled because the boss has taken a stand or kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of peeved because I wanted to go see.
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  Speaker 2: Springsteen or a combination of both.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just, honest to gosh, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why anybody would. It's an interesting question, I guess. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not like you won't get your hands on a
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  Speaker 1: Springsteen song. If he isn't performing in Charlotte, North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: who cares?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean, get your hands on it. This
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  Speaker 2: is a time to see him. Who cares? People who
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  Speaker 2: go well, so let them worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you care about the people who go This
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  Speaker 1: is so weird to me? This is a disconnect. Honest
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  Speaker 1: to gosh, I'm not trying to be a smart alec here. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's your level of caring and urging Bella Fleck to
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  Speaker 1: reconsider his decision to not perform at the Trump Kennedys
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  Speaker 1: is one of the goofiest things I've ever heard you do.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you care? Are you trying to are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to protect the Bella Fleck fans of which you
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  Speaker 1: are one?
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  Speaker 2: No? Why do you care? Matter of principle, Because it's
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  Speaker 2: not principle. It's not me losing sleep that he's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be on the stage. I guess it's just
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  Speaker 2: my way of saying how incredibly stupid it is for
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  Speaker 2: people to engage.
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  Speaker 1: It's comical.
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  Speaker 2: It's comical, but I get it.
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  Speaker 1: But I get it. If you're a performer and you
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  Speaker 1: don't like the politics, Look it is literally now the
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  Speaker 1: Trump Kennedy Center. So if you're a performer and you
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  Speaker 1: don't like the venue branded with the guy that you
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  Speaker 1: think is Orange Hitler, well then don't perform. Nobody's gonna
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  Speaker 1: lose any sleep. Rick Cornell is doing a great job
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  Speaker 1: running that facility.
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  Speaker 2: Go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Go to another facility in water. Who do you think
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  Speaker 1: that's the only facility for Bella Fleck to play his banjo?
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  Speaker 1: Go to another theater, and don't worry. Bell Hey, Mark, Mark, listen.
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  Speaker 1: I say this with love and respect. Bella Fleck fans
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be just fine. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: I might have picked up a listener or I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: because because here's the pendulum swinging the other way. As
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  Speaker 2: I was being eaten alive by thousands of earth shoe
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  Speaker 2: wearing granola munching Bella fleg fans, I also picked up
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of people rushing to my defense.
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  Speaker 1: Good good, I love it. Well, they're gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 1: But let me tell you who's not okay. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: you saw the democrats candlelight vigil for January sixth, Yet
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: I did?
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  Speaker 1: Mark Now now number one, let me just first start
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  Speaker 1: by saying, Tracy, my producer every day we go through
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  Speaker 1: a show prep session, you know, and I start with
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  Speaker 1: clips that I want to play and I topics I
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  Speaker 1: want to cover, and Tracy brings in stories about January sixth.
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  Speaker 1: I said, nope, nope, We're not gonna let the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have their high holy day.
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  Speaker 2: It was trum Peter's Christmas yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, here's a couple of other examples I
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  Speaker 1: loved on social media. Know what it's like. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a white Kwanza. I mean, it's like a fake It's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a fake holiday of Democrats who got nothing
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  Speaker 1: else in twenty twenty six. They think, let's try to
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  Speaker 1: hit people over the head with January. So there they
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  Speaker 1: are with a stupid candlelight vigil. And did you see
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  Speaker 1: that goofy Al Green from Texas waving the cane around
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  Speaker 1: in the air. Al Green with the cane, He is
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  Speaker 1: a he is a character right out of a a
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  Speaker 1: of a TV show. And they're God bless waving the
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  Speaker 1: cane and a candlelight vigil. What who's the vigil for
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Babbitt?
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  Speaker 2: I rather doubt it.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt it very highly.
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  Speaker 2: She's the only death.
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  Speaker 1: It's the mythical five people who were killed by the rioters.
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  Speaker 1: They keep telling this lie thinking we're we don't know
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  Speaker 1: any better. Oh, five police officers were killed? What? No,
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't a single police officer killed by anybody. On
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  Speaker 1: January sixth, Brian sick Nick died. According to the Washington
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  Speaker 1: DC Medical Examiner of Natural causes, the poor guy had
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: a stroke. It happens. Yeah, What about the other What
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  Speaker 1: did they say about the other cops? What is it
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  Speaker 1: about that they committed suicide? What you mean a thousand
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  Speaker 1: knuckleheads behaving badly on the Capitol is going to cause you,
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  Speaker 1: a veteran law enforcement off officer, to kill yourself. I
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  Speaker 1: hate to speculate about one's mental condition, but there were
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: other things going on if they committed suicide after January sixth,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: besides January sixth.
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  Speaker 2: And did you see how this got covered? For a
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  Speaker 2: moment on CBS News with Tony Dukopol last night, it
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  Speaker 2: was just a little thirty second thing. He said, Hey people,
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  Speaker 2: there was a little celebratory fank you appearance by folks
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  Speaker 2: who had been pardoned by Trump. And there's Hakeem Jeffries
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  Speaker 2: saying that there are people who are trying to minimize
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  Speaker 2: January sixth. In other words, it was a balance thirty
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  Speaker 2: seconds and people freaked out like an asteroid was hurtling
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  Speaker 2: toward the earth if you CBS, oh never was.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: Did you see the tribute they gave to Marco Rubio at.
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  Speaker 2: The end, just having a little fun with him holding
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: every job, And they showed Marco as governor of Minnesota,
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: Mark but saluted him.
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  Speaker 1: But tell me, Jacoppel said, we salute you, Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 1: You're the ultimate Florida man. You've got it. Look that
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  Speaker 1: the Verry Wise branded CBS is something to behold.
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  Speaker 2: It is and the right people, and the right people
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  Speaker 2: are triggered, the right people are.
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  Speaker 1: They exactly right. Listen, all I know is my day
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  Speaker 1: is made. Driving into work. It's foggy here in Tampa Bay.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: It's nice and mild, going to be in the upper
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  Speaker 1: seventies today.
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  Speaker 2: Same here.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a Waimo vehicle. They're testing Waimo cars. They
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  Speaker 1: came to Tampa and what they're doing right now with Waimos,
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  Speaker 1: they got people. There was a lady. There was an
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  Speaker 1: old lady behind the steering wheel because what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: is and she was sitting there on her phone because
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't have to drive.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you have to pay attention, doesn't the carpet attention
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  Speaker 2: whether your eyes are face for it or something.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no, that's Tesla. That's a that's a
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  Speaker 1: self driving Mark. There's nobody in the Waimo. But what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing is they're testing the Waymos now in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: What they do is they have people behind the wheel
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  Speaker 1: for a while to make sure it all works right,
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  Speaker 1: and then when they can then when they check off
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  Speaker 1: no driver, car pulls up in front of your house.
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  Speaker 1: You hop in the back seat, it says hello, Mark
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  Speaker 1: takes you to the airport. You don't have to talk
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  Speaker 1: to anybody. You don't have to tip anybody. It's the
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  Speaker 1: greatest thing.
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  Speaker 2: Since they're coming to and they're coming to me. They're
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  Speaker 2: coming here to North Texas, aren't they. That's the story
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  Speaker 2: I hear. And you know what, you know, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do it. I'll do it, I'll do I gotta do it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's the When I was in Phoenix a while ago,
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  Speaker 1: I took Waymos up and down the road just to
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  Speaker 1: go drive around. I went to Waterburger with one I
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  Speaker 1: went to I mean, I just loved it. I was
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  Speaker 1: so happy in the.
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  Speaker 2: Way places you didn't have to go. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I went.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I went to the pharmacy, I went to
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  Speaker 1: seevs and I didn't need to, but I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: I want to get in a waymo. It's the and
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  Speaker 1: it's cheap. It's like ten to fifteen bucks. Coolest thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: So they're white Jaguar fear My terror is kind of
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  Speaker 2: half a comedy bit, but only half because I am
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  Speaker 2: also a technology dork, a transportation dork, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: part of this that I love. I'm intrigued by it,
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  Speaker 2: and I am absolutely scared to death.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and every time I mentioned Weimo Elon fans point
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  Speaker 1: out that Elon Musk is going to do the same
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. They call them robo taxis. They're testing
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  Speaker 1: those things out in Austin right now. And what I
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  Speaker 1: hear is that the Elon version is one hundred times
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  Speaker 1: better than the weaymos by virtue.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? What does it do other than hopefully
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  Speaker 2: not kill you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's got a different kind of set of
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  Speaker 1: technology on the car. See the Weimo cars, they got
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  Speaker 1: this giant dome. You'll see them in North Texas. You'll
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  Speaker 1: start to see them because they're going to test them,
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: and they're they're the dome. The lights are kind of
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  Speaker 1: spinning around. But it's all this radar and all these sensors.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: But allegedly the Elon robotaxis are going to even be
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  Speaker 1: better before before we die, my friend she will there
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  Speaker 1: will never be another driver driven car I will in America.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's my thing.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I will take a driverless taxi ride before I die.
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  Speaker 2: My theory is that it will be moments before I die.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of the whole points half tees your demise.
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