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Senator John Thune Snubs Columbus Day · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Well, look at you, Mr. Big Time TV star, breaking
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  Speaker 1: through prime time. Laura Ingram, Fox News Channel. I'm so
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  Speaker 1: proud of you. You nailed it. I went home last
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  Speaker 1: night after my walk, and I watched you, and you
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  Speaker 1: were fantastic, as expected. You're very kind. Heaven forbid you
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  Speaker 1: plug the podcast. I wouldn't want you to do that.
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  Speaker 1: How do I shoehorn that in there? Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 1: You tell them if they want your wisdom, if they're
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  Speaker 1: going to take your Monday night away from your family,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to get a little plug in. Even a chyron,
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  Speaker 1: they'll put it up on the ground. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: how many millions of people watched you last night? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: don't mean to disrespect your BFF, Chris Cuomo, but... There
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  Speaker 1: was a huge– millions of people hung on to your
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  Speaker 1: every word. Do you know if you would have said–
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  Speaker 1: even on the Chiron, Mark Davis, co-host of MNM Extra.
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  Speaker 2: Boom.
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  Speaker 1: Just like that, we would have had probably 5,000 more subscriptions.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Well, now I feel terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's all about you. It's all about you. Forget me.
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  Speaker 1: And look, the only reason you're getting all these big
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  Speaker 1: primetime TV gigs is because of the podcast. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and the podcast is my idea. It has changed everything.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's changed. It's a game changer. So you're welcome. You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to. I'm eternally grateful. You did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Were you in the van in the driveway?
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  Speaker 3: I'm in a van out front of my house.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: That is so wild. I think that, because I didn't,
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  Speaker 1: when I was a Fox News contributor, they didn't really
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  Speaker 1: do that. You had to go somewhere, didn't you? You
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  Speaker 1: had to go somewhere. Oh, there were no vans in
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  Speaker 1: the driveway. But now, Hewitt never leaves his house. And
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  Speaker 1: I think, and look, Hewitt is on Fox News these
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  Speaker 1: days hourly. I mean, they're getting their money's worth out
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  Speaker 1: of him. Yep. And he said he never leaves. They
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  Speaker 1: bring the van over every time. It's the neatest concept.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think a lot of people ever know it.
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  Speaker 2: But since he does the actual show from his house,
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  Speaker 2: either his house in California or his house in Maine,
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  Speaker 2: can he just walk into a room in his house
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  Speaker 2: and fire up those cameras and do it from there?
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  Speaker 1: I think he told me they always do what they
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  Speaker 1: do largely with you, and that's bring the TV van.
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  Speaker 1: But it's such a neat concept that you're sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the driveway. You know where they perfected it was during COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Because all the TV hosts were doing that because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't want them into the studio and all that. So
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  Speaker 1: they invested in this technology. So they got these rolling studios.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes it look like you're in an actual
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  Speaker 1: TV studio.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the weirdest thing because a van rolls up
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  Speaker 2: in front of the house. And I walk out. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, it's funny. Nobody is in the driver's seat
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  Speaker 2: of the van. They're in the back. And the windows
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  Speaker 2: are all blacked out. It's completely hermetically sealed because it
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  Speaker 2: has to be. You can't let a beam of light
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  Speaker 2: in there. It's a TV studio. So the door opens up.
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  Speaker 2: And there's this woman named Natalia who runs an outfit
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  Speaker 2: called Drive By Live or something like that. And another
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  Speaker 2: gentleman named Tyson Rolfs, it was him last night. And
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  Speaker 2: he's got the big, he's got the King Daddy van.
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  Speaker 2: So you step into the back of a van and
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  Speaker 2: there's a chair and a camera and a bank of
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  Speaker 2: lights and a thing that looks like, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: space shuttle control board. And it's dark except for the
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  Speaker 2: TV lights that are on me. I've got a camera
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  Speaker 2: to look into, a monitor to look into. It is
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  Speaker 2: a weird kind of disembodied thing because I'm not looking
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  Speaker 2: at anybody in three-dimensional space.
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  Speaker 3: But that's how they do it and that's how the
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  Speaker 3: sausage is made.
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  Speaker 1: All those years when I was in Dallas, I would
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  Speaker 1: run downtown and I would be in that studio, not
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  Speaker 1: I think the same floor where Will Kane is now,
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  Speaker 1: but I would be in that building right around the
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  Speaker 1: corner from the Texas School Book Depository. I always drove
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  Speaker 1: by over there and always and Jonathan Graham, this wonderful
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  Speaker 1: guy that was the. The Fox News guy on site there.
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  Speaker 1: So great memories. But anyhow, congratulations. Terrific job. Did you
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time yesterday on the Indigenous People
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  Speaker 1: Days crap?
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  Speaker 2: A little because we were loaded up on James Tallarico
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  Speaker 2: and Kelly Clarkson. So when you got those things taken
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  Speaker 2: up a lot of oxygen, tell me where you took
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  Speaker 2: it and I'll add layers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I missed it a little bit. But then when
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  Speaker 1: I got home last night, I was starting to scroll
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  Speaker 1: through and see it. Majority leader John Thune.
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  Speaker 3: I know South Dakota, what you going to do?
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  Speaker 1: He posts, today is Native Americans Day in South Dakota,
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to celebrate the heritage and contributions of the Lakota, Dakota,
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  Speaker 1: and Nakota people. And, of course, the ratio– but the– no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, the concept of it is lovely, but the
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  Speaker 2: shoehorning it onto Columbus Day is a big middle finger
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  Speaker 2: to Columbus as in him opening up this hemisphere to
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  Speaker 2: Western exploration.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Not bad. Peggy Flanagan, who might lose to
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Tafoya in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tease me. Don't tease me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she might. She gets up, and this Senate nominee
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  Speaker 1: for Peggy Flanagan, she's a– She described Christopher Columbus as
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  Speaker 1: the man that got lost and hurt people. She does
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  Speaker 1: this speech where she said, my child now, my daughter
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  Speaker 1: knows Christopher Columbus as the man that got lost and
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  Speaker 1: hurt people. He abused the Native Americans. He was a monster.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Mark, I'm not kidding you. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to be over to the top here. These people are lunatics.
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  Speaker 1: These are nuts. They're just nuts. It's insanity. And they
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  Speaker 1: are up for very important positions in our country. Look,
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  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed, his family detailing all the ties he's had
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  Speaker 1: to the family, to the Muslim Brotherhood. Yeah. He's not–
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's sort of denying it but not really
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  Speaker 1: denying it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you watch him on with Kristen Welker on Meet
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  Speaker 2: the Press? I got to– boy, here's a sentence I
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  Speaker 2: don't issue often. I got to hand it to Kristen Welker.
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  Speaker 2: She asked him thing after thing after thing after thing
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  Speaker 2: from his curious background, from his curious past comments, including
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  Speaker 2: torching Obama in 2012, calling him a failed president on
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  Speaker 2: a couple of issues. So she actually did kind of
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  Speaker 2: challenge him. When a lib program– Actually gives a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of heat to one of their own. Is that
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  Speaker 2: them committing actual acts of journalism, which I guess it is.
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  Speaker 2: Is it designed to give them a chance to weave
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  Speaker 2: a narrative to get themselves out of a tight spot?
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is this is what we got. We're three
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  Speaker 1: weeks from today. Today is the three week mark. So
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  Speaker 1: grateful for back to the Senate race in Texas for
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  Speaker 1: a moment. your clarity over Tallarico. And of course, Laura
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  Speaker 1: was saying, and she reposted your appearance by saying, The
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  Speaker 1: 13-day question remains, where was Jimmy? Where was Jimmy? And
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  Speaker 1: the weirdness of this bizarre phone call with the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: mental facility, and I know that you sloughed that off,
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  Speaker 1: but did you see that last night this Nick Sorter,
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  Speaker 1: he's doubling down. He's saying, look, I'm being threatened for
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  Speaker 1: what I exposed all because I revealed a tape With
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  Speaker 1: an Ohio mental hospital that said that Tallarico was discharged
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  Speaker 1: from that location. He's not denying it. So I just
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  Speaker 1: wish this thing, it's just hanging out there. What's the
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  Speaker 1: answer to it? Is it a fake tape? Was it
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  Speaker 1: an actress? Was it AI? Or did they have a
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  Speaker 1: woman at a mental facility in Mason, Ohio, claiming that
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico on the phone was discharged from there? Yes or no?
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  Speaker 1: And it's like nobody's got an answer to that, apparently.
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  Speaker 3: Which is frustrating. There seems to be.
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  Speaker 2: Answerable question so since in the absence of an answer
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  Speaker 2: we also have the absence of something else and that's
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  Speaker 2: any remote molecule of corroboration truth yeah until that i
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  Speaker 2: gotta put a pin in it and go okay there
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  Speaker 2: that is and and we'll revisit it if there is
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  Speaker 2: any additional reason to believe that thing happened and nick
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  Speaker 2: sorter is an interesting cat i i've he's one of
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  Speaker 2: those nick sorter benny johnson i mean i don't know
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  Speaker 2: not to group everybody you know uh in a linear
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  Speaker 2: fashion but But he's one of those feeds, has like
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  Speaker 2: a million and a half people, and every once in
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  Speaker 2: a while it's really good stuff, angles that, by his
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  Speaker 2: own admission, the mainstream media won't cover, which is lovely.
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  Speaker 3: That's attractive.
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  Speaker 2: And I found him to be pretty reliable, not really
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  Speaker 2: a trafficker in weird baseless conspiracy stuff. So I said
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  Speaker 2: day before yesterday when this thing was all on fire–
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  Speaker 2: I said, you know, this is curious because coming from Nick,
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  Speaker 2: who tends to have a pretty basically good track record,
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  Speaker 2: and I just got lit up.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't have a reliable track record.
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  Speaker 2: People hate him, which I think he might wear as
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  Speaker 2: a badge of honor because a lot of the people
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  Speaker 2: who are coming after him were kind of– softies, moderates, squishes.
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  Speaker 3: We are known by our critics.
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  Speaker 1: These influencers live for that. That's what's so weird about
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  Speaker 1: that space. Look, and I'm not saying this to.
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  Speaker 3: No such thing as bad press.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you attack me, at least you're mentioning me.
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  Speaker 1: You're reposting me. You're attacking me. They live for the clicks.
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  Speaker 1: They live for all that. And that's a little... It
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  Speaker 1: can be dangerous because when that's your end game, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the truth doesn't matter, and that's problematic, and that could
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  Speaker 1: be a real big problem. Here's some truth. Axios just
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  Speaker 1: released a big poll. Forty-some percent of Americans are all
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  Speaker 1: in favor of Medicare for all. Medicare, government-run health. And look,
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  Speaker 1: three weeks away, and people are talking about affordability, one
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  Speaker 1: of the affordability issues. I found out I've got this
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  Speaker 1: drug for this heart thing. I got the cardiovascular stuff
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  Speaker 1: I got going on. It's called Repatha. Repatha is a very,
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  Speaker 1: very successful drug. It gives me a lot of hope
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  Speaker 1: because not only will it lower my LDL, which they
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  Speaker 1: want me to do, it might even cause a little
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  Speaker 1: plaque regression in the arteries. In fact, that's pretty cool, right?
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  Speaker 1: Is it pricey? $ 500 a month. And it's two shots
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  Speaker 1: a month. You just give yourself a little one of
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  Speaker 1: those pens that you put into your belly. And it's
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  Speaker 1: real simple to do. $ 500 a month. Then I got
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  Speaker 1: lucky with my insurance because they changed it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit because I moved. And apparently as of October 1st,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to get a supplement on my Medicare
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  Speaker 1: and my Blue Cross and all that crap. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: only like $ 150 a month. But I kept thinking about
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  Speaker 1: people on a fixed income. How about a senior? How
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  Speaker 1: about somebody? living paycheck to paycheck? They don't maybe have
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  Speaker 1: great health insurance and they've got cardiovascular disease like I
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  Speaker 1: do now. They've got a blockage and they want to live.
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  Speaker 1: And you think they can come up with $ 500 a month?
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  Speaker 1: For a twice-a-month medication? So they hear that, and they
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  Speaker 1: deal with that, and then they say, oh, would you
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  Speaker 1: like free health care from the government? Which is, of course,
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  Speaker 1: there is no such thing. It's not free, but they
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  Speaker 1: hear it, and they love it. And apparently, a big
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  Speaker 1: percentage of independents, and even 21% of Republicans, favor Medicare
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  Speaker 1: for all. Meaning government-run health care.
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  Speaker 2: And also, there's a way of phrasing this that some
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  Speaker 2: people have stumbled onto for the last few days that
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  Speaker 2: I really like. It's called, do you want to lose
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  Speaker 2: your private health insurance? I mean, Medicare for all, anything
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  Speaker 2: for all. But if you phrase it as do you
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  Speaker 2: want to do you want it to be illegal for
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  Speaker 2: you to have private health insurance, then maybe it might
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  Speaker 2: pull a little different.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it would. Maybe the polling is what matters. But
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  Speaker 1: I think we are stuck with the sense of entitlement.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm getting this everywhere I go, everywhere I turn.
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  Speaker 1: Went to a show the other night. Family behind me
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  Speaker 1: just talking all through a Broadway show. They don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Two little brats. The kids are talking. The mom and
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  Speaker 1: dad are talking. They've got their paper bags.
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  Speaker 3: You say anything.
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  Speaker 1: I look back at them a few times.
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  Speaker 3: Glower at them a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Glower, but it didn't do any good. Last night, I
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  Speaker 1: went for a walk. And there was a– I walk
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  Speaker 1: often on the St. Pete Pier, which is this beautiful
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  Speaker 1: pier right on the Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 3: The Gulf of America coast. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a security guard, a lady. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say she's 40. And she was confronting a group
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  Speaker 1: of teenagers, about 10 kids, boys and girls. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to guess they were all 13, 14 years old. You know,
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  Speaker 1: cute kids, you know, that girls were all dressed up
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  Speaker 1: to the nines. They were like, and the boys were
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  Speaker 1: all on, and they were on electric bikes and you
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  Speaker 1: can't ride electric bikes out on the pier. So this
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  Speaker 1: poor lady is standing there with a cell phone, about
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  Speaker 1: a 40 year old woman. And she's trying to respectfully
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  Speaker 1: get them. F U U B F off C. Who
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  Speaker 1: do you think? Look. And the girls were saying, look
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  Speaker 1: at her with her whorish lipstick. And the poor woman
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  Speaker 1: is standing there. I got so mad. And I thought, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I could take some 13-year-olds. I could probably handle them.
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  Speaker 1: You just squeeze off a couple of rounds. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: started to go up to them and was just going
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  Speaker 1: to start chewing them out. Right when I walked up,
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  Speaker 1: they drove away. But I thought, these kids, these little
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  Speaker 1: white Floridian kids on their little electric bikes.
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  Speaker 3: They learn that at home.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what their parents would think of them?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe they wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: OK, their parents might not be thrilled, but that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: happen by accident.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think the parents would go, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: way to go, youngsters.
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  Speaker 2: But but by their neglect, by their failure to infuse
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  Speaker 2: these kids with a sense of respect for authority, respect
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  Speaker 2: for their elders, that page apparently did not exist in
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  Speaker 2: their manual. the kids are a result to at least
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  Speaker 2: some degree. I know there's nature and nurture of the
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  Speaker 2: parenting or lack of that they receive at home.
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  Speaker 1: Bingo. The fact that these kids felt so entitled that
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  Speaker 1: they could get away with that. I thought the nice words,
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  Speaker 1: nice news is good news is as I did a
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  Speaker 1: lap around and I came back by that point, she
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  Speaker 1: had a police officer with her and they were looking,
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  Speaker 1: she took, she taped it. And so maybe they'll have
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  Speaker 1: the eyes on those little brats.
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  Speaker 3: Can't handle punks.
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  Speaker 1: Get that wiffle ball off my yard.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I love you.
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  Speaker 1: I will plug Eminem Extra every chance I get. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I've learned my lesson.
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  Speaker 3: I will actually say.
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  Speaker 2: As a condition for me going anywhere, I need to wear,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, a large Eminem Extra t-shirt and cap that
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  Speaker 2: I will have custom made.
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  Speaker 1: Like a logo. Let's get you like a logo, like
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  Speaker 1: a button. Let's get buttons made. We can start wearing buttons.
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  Speaker 1: Eminem Extra like lapel pins.
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  Speaker 3: We need merch.
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  Speaker 1: That can blink. Maybe they blink, too, on camera. That
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  Speaker 1: would look good. I'm ready. I'll see you.