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M and M EXTRA 7.08.26 | Platner’s Exit, Iran Options, and the Joys of Stay-cation · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a meeting of the minds crafted from decades
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  Speaker 1: Hot Topics in the News and wisdom from Light. It's
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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher. This is eminem Extra.
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  Speaker 2: Fair back, look at us, back in the saddle. Mark Davis,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Gallagher, I'm am he's I'm wearing my purple shirt
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  Speaker 2: today in honor of our purple background on the Eminem Extra.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, mister Davis, I'm good. I'm sorry. The
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  Speaker 3: voice seems familiar. I don't know if I can place
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  Speaker 3: the face. It's been a while. It is so wonderful
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  Speaker 3: to have you back. And look, we touched on this
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  Speaker 3: for like thirty might not have even said the S
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  Speaker 3: word this morning on the radio. I thought we would
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  Speaker 3: touch on it and give you a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 3: to introduce this before we hop into Platner and air
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  Speaker 3: Force one and whatever else. Let me share with the viewership, listenership,
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  Speaker 3: consumer ship. Mike shared something with me that I was
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  Speaker 3: life changing and eye opening. He did something I mentioned today.
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  Speaker 3: Mike's back from vacation and he'll be talking about what
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  Speaker 3: he did or more notably, what he did not do.
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  Speaker 3: It's something I've done a whole bunch of because I've
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  Speaker 3: just had a lot going on, because we all love
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  Speaker 3: to travel, we like to have time off, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: But is this really genuinely have you thought about? This
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  Speaker 3: really one of your first, if not the first, experience
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  Speaker 3: you've had with the staycation where you just don't go anywhere,
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  Speaker 3: you enjoy where you live and get stuff done.
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  Speaker 2: And what's wild is I got the idea from you.
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  Speaker 2: You have said over the years, how you you and
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  Speaker 2: Lisa have done this, and I have to admit I've
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  Speaker 2: never done it. I go into this frantic mode where
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  Speaker 2: I have a vacation, I take my vacation days and
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  Speaker 2: I got to go somewhere. I got to get on
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  Speaker 2: a plane, I got to load up the family roadster,
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  Speaker 2: I got to run somewhere. I got to do something,
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  Speaker 2: because it feels like, almost like I'm cheating to take
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  Speaker 2: days off and not do anything. Well, you've been talking
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  Speaker 2: for years about the staycations that you take. Is look,
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  Speaker 2: the only one gets as many vacation days as me
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  Speaker 2: as you. I don't know how many. I mean, should
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  Speaker 2: we pull the curtain back, how many do you get
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  Speaker 2: a year? I've got.
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  Speaker 3: I guess six weeks of thirty work days, thirty works
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  Speaker 3: which is not as many, and you have.
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  Speaker 2: More admitted I will admit I get forty five. So
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  Speaker 2: we've just probably both violated our contracts by revealing some
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  Speaker 2: high levels contractual How are we? How are we here today?
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  Speaker 2: We've fool them, We've fooled them this long. But now
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  Speaker 2: so if so, we get six or eight weeks of
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  Speaker 2: vacation whatever it is, nine weeks. You know, here's the trick.
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  Speaker 2: I think Salem has figured this out. Unlike unlike you,
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  Speaker 2: I never take all my days. I don't. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of days, and I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be away. So I look at all what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my gosh, the warr and Iran and Graham
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  Speaker 2: Platner and the Charlie Kate trial and missing Mitch McConnell.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, so we'll get to all of
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  Speaker 2: that here in just a moment. But so I don't
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  Speaker 2: usually take them, but I'm in a mode now where,
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  Speaker 2: by golly, I think I earned them. I've worked for
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  Speaker 2: this company for almost a quarter of a century. I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take my days. So what you're laughing
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  Speaker 2: is taking. Of course you take the days, well, don't
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  Speaker 2: you normally mean no? I mean, of course you should
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  Speaker 2: take every day you have. But the notion that once
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  Speaker 2: you have taken those days, you have some obligation to
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  Speaker 2: get on a plane and go somewhere, because to not
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  Speaker 2: do so is somehow cheating or as you probably or
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  Speaker 2: somehow fudging. And now with something, it's like, what, it's
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  Speaker 2: your day.
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  Speaker 3: Do whatever you want to do with it. Go to
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  Speaker 3: Singapore or stay at your house. It's your day. I've
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  Speaker 3: ever stayed. I've never stayed in my home.
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  Speaker 2: So how did it go?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: What did you do? And how did it come? Well,
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  Speaker 2: let me give you a hint. Heaven. I'm in heaven
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  Speaker 2: and my heartbeats. I mean, it was the most glorious
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  Speaker 2: three days I think I've ever had in my life.
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  Speaker 2: I went to the gym, I slept in I I
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was talking to a colleague, Joe Weaver,
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  Speaker 2: down the hall before we began the podcast, and I
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  Speaker 2: pointed out, I've been tied to the three hours I
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  Speaker 2: do every day, and it happens to be the same
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  Speaker 2: day part. Well, we'll get a little you know again
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  Speaker 2: behind the curtain here a little bit. Because our show
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  Speaker 2: has heard our talk shows. Your show is live every
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  Speaker 2: day from seven to ten on six sixty am. The answer,
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  Speaker 2: My show is heard nationally and my day part has
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  Speaker 2: always always always been nine to noon. And it's the best.
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  Speaker 2: You're not up at you're not up at the crack
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  Speaker 2: of black.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not good when I fill in for
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  Speaker 3: Larry Elder and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 3: I can do a show at five o'clock, wake up,
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  Speaker 3: sit around all day waiting to do the show.
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  Speaker 2: I eat that afternoon drive. I would hate to do
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  Speaker 2: three afternoons. But my nine to noon day part mark.
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  Speaker 2: We're going back to nineteen eighty nine. So how was
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  Speaker 2: how many years that? Ninety nine, twenty nine, nineteen seven,
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  Speaker 2: So for thirty seven years my life has been tied
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  Speaker 2: to nine to noon eastern thirty seven years. Because even
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  Speaker 2: in your case, your day part has shifted around. I
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  Speaker 2: mean you when you were on BAP, you had a
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  Speaker 2: different nine nine, nine to noon ish. I did one
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  Speaker 2: to four in the afternoon on WHBQ and Memphis for
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years in the midteen eighties. So your dayparted.
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  Speaker 2: But I've always, for whatever reason, always been given that
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  Speaker 2: ninety noon slide. So anyway, the point of all this
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  Speaker 2: boring story, we're going to get that problem. Sorry, we're
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  Speaker 2: out at that. But for decades I've been tied to
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  Speaker 2: nine to noon. My whole life is governed by a clock.
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  Speaker 2: And even when you go, like you said the pathetical Singapore,
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  Speaker 2: you're on a schedule, you're on a tour, you're on
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  Speaker 2: a trip. You got to catch a plane. It be exhausting.
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  Speaker 2: It's three days this week after I went to Maine
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  Speaker 2: and just a really quick tip of the hat to Maine.
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  Speaker 2: What a Maine sauce?
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  Speaker 3: Yea Maine in the news, Maine in our hearts, Maine
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  Speaker 3: on our mind. He sent me a picture. Oh, Mike
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  Speaker 3: sends me a picture. Where am I? It's like, where
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  Speaker 3: in the world is Carmen San Diego? So I lived up.
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  Speaker 3: I take this, of course, as an important challenge. I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at this, I'm thinking about it. Rocky shoreline it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it looked like there's something kind of
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  Speaker 3: going on there, But it didn't look like the Pacific Ocean.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not Oregon or anything like that. So I
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  Speaker 3: just kind of vaguely said, is it somewhere in New
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  Speaker 3: England or something? And then you replied, Yep, I've been Maine,
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  Speaker 3: which I've only been to a couple of times, and
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  Speaker 3: it's it's it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I was in front of the Bush Kennebunkport compound, but.
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  Speaker 3: Not for George W's actual eightieth birthday, right, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he was there. He was there, I think the
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  Speaker 2: day after I was there, I didn't. There's a place
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  Speaker 2: where you can go. It's a little voyeuristic. You can drive.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's called Beach Drive in Kennebunkport, which incidentally
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  Speaker 2: is this charming New England town with shops and restaurants
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  Speaker 2: and art gallery. I loved it. I love that whole area.
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  Speaker 2: Went off to a Gunquit. I had to go to
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  Speaker 2: the Agunquit Playhouse, you know, theater Nerd Mike. I had
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  Speaker 2: to go see Beth Level stars, Dolly Levi and Hello Dolly.
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  Speaker 2: One of the best productions of Hello Dolly. I think
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: Really in a little New England town. Yeah, they're not
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  Speaker 3: kidding around in some of these little New England towns. Oh, No,
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  Speaker 3: invest or something doing summerstock you can see some quality
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  Speaker 3: stuff well.
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  Speaker 2: And Ogunquit has a rich history. It's been around for
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  Speaker 2: decades and decades and traditionally a lot of New York
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  Speaker 2: Broadway actors who are off in the summer will go
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  Speaker 2: up to a Gunquit to do a show. It's been
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  Speaker 2: around forever. I mean, there's huge stars have performed at
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  Speaker 2: the Ogunquit Playhouse and so this production was magnificent. So
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  Speaker 2: we went to Maine and enjoy all of that. Watch
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  Speaker 2: the Kenned Bunkport compound for the Bushes, it's a strip
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  Speaker 2: of land guarded I assume by still a Secret Service
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  Speaker 2: agent even though he's you know, they're no longer with us,
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  Speaker 2: But does the family still get Secret Service protection?
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  Speaker 4: Mark?
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  Speaker 3: How deep does that go? I mean, because we're a
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  Speaker 3: fresh out of bushes in a lot of ways. You know,
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  Speaker 3: one gone, Barbara gone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but George W. Bush was there apparently for his birthday,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe that's why. But but there's a there's a
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  Speaker 2: guard house and a gate. You can't get through that,
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  Speaker 2: of course, and there's a guy there that looked like
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  Speaker 2: Secret Service to me. But it's a strip of land mark.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not kidding you. It must be worth a trillion
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  Speaker 2: dollars that land because they've got and they've built a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of houses on that compound because, as I understand it,
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  Speaker 2: George H. W. Bush and Barbara, who I think originally
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  Speaker 2: bought the land. They've they've bought they've built properties for
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  Speaker 2: the kids, so they all have houses. I think George
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  Speaker 2: and Laura have a house there. I think, uh, Jenna
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  Speaker 2: and the daughters and all that. Anyway, it's this huge
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  Speaker 2: strip of land and it's got I kept thinking the
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  Speaker 2: real estate value of the Bush compound in Kennebunkport has
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  Speaker 2: to be astronomical. It's beautiful. It's right now. It's like
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  Speaker 2: a peninsula, and you can so anyhow you could. I said,
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  Speaker 2: you could go down this beach Avenue or beach Drive
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  Speaker 2: whatever is, and they let you there's an area where
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  Speaker 2: you can park the car and gawk at the compound,
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  Speaker 2: look across the water and they tell you that. They'll
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  Speaker 2: say you can stop there and you can see the
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  Speaker 2: compound from this strip of this little parking area from away,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty close a couple hundred yards. Maybe. Well, will
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  Speaker 2: I send you the picture the picture the land behind
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  Speaker 2: me in the picture, that's the compound. It Yeah, look
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  Speaker 2: at the picture and you'll see how close. It's not far.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's I mean it's more than a
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  Speaker 2: stone's throw, but I mean it's not it's not a
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  Speaker 2: mile away or anything.
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  Speaker 3: It's maybe it's just a scary modern day a and
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  Speaker 3: some recent news stories the last couple of years. But
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  Speaker 3: that is not the most comfortable thing prospect for me
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  Speaker 3: to well.
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  Speaker 2: I think about the boot. I always thought about this too.
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  Speaker 2: How weird it must be to know that your home,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's a compound that's worth brazilions, is is
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  Speaker 2: like a tourist gawker spot, you know, where people could
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  Speaker 2: stare at you, oh, standing there and take and people
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  Speaker 2: were there. They were like thirty people when I was
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  Speaker 2: there taking pictures, and oh, I wonder if the family's
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  Speaker 2: there and they got these, then they got the big
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  Speaker 2: They got an American flag and a Texas flag flying
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  Speaker 2: over the bush Cindebunkport compound, which is kind of cool too.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, lord, we we I am scroll.
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  Speaker 3: You know how much we text each other, like schill
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  Speaker 3: girl a lot, and I am I have scrolled. I've
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  Speaker 3: gone like thirty times and I'm not back to those pictures.
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  Speaker 3: You sent yet there you are. That's why I.
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  Speaker 2: See the land right behind me. Yeah that's me, but
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  Speaker 2: that's that, But that's the that's the book bush compound
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  Speaker 2: behind everybody zoom in here. It was kind of meat
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  Speaker 2: so anyway, but then, but then three days of staycation
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  Speaker 2: and let me just let's close this before we get
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  Speaker 2: into the things that really matter, and that is a
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  Speaker 2: staycation is highly highly underrated. Oh my is meaningless. You
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  Speaker 2: do you read a book, you go get read, take
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  Speaker 2: a walk, take a walk, go to the car wash,
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  Speaker 2: go get the cartooned up, whatever you gotta do. I
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  Speaker 2: got a massage, I went to the gym. I'm working
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  Speaker 2: with a trainer now. Every week I'm kind of proud.
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  Speaker 2: Good get out for real, for real. Every week I
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  Speaker 2: meet you and he's not kicking my butt. He's pretty.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's hard on me, but he's not
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  Speaker 2: killing me. You know, I think you feels sorry for me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: please don't hurt me. Just let me. I'll do what
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  Speaker 2: you tell me, but don't yell at me. Well, he's
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  Speaker 2: and and which, which incidentally reminds me of what this
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  Speaker 2: woman on my elevator said to me this morning. When
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  Speaker 2: you look in the mirror. Do you see a guy
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  Speaker 2: on the verge of retirement or do you see a
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine year old, fresh faced Mark Davis when you
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  Speaker 2: see yourself? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was what
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  Speaker 2: a woman said. Okay, it is what a woman said.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to get to that when you see you.
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  Speaker 2: Before you get to that, you're asking me. When I
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  Speaker 2: look in the mirror, do I see what like a
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  Speaker 2: senior about to retire? Right? No?
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  Speaker 3: No, Well I see a senior technically because I'm sixty eight,
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  Speaker 3: so technically I am right.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't feel sixty six. And I don't think
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  Speaker 2: either one of us. I don't think either one of
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  Speaker 2: us look that age. I don't think we met sixty eight.
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  Speaker 3: I think we carry our year as well. Absolutely. I
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  Speaker 3: mean we don't look forty. But every once in a
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  Speaker 3: while I'll tell somebody I'm sixty eight and they only
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  Speaker 3: they're either being really nice and they go, whoh wow,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not like you know. But in as far
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  Speaker 3: as boy, this is another whole topic. Do you think
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  Speaker 3: of our parents or another generation or something like that,
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  Speaker 3: the sixty somethings. Yeah, but we're about to be septagenarians
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  Speaker 3: in our seventies and I'm going to be driving around
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  Speaker 3: listening to a CDC. And I'm going to be you know,
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  Speaker 3: my wife and I are still going to go to
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  Speaker 3: the occasional concert. I'm still going to walk around the
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  Speaker 3: house going whoo. You know, if the situation warrants, which
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  Speaker 3: I don't think my dad ever did.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: I just I just behaviorally, generationally, it's just a different
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  Speaker 3: time to be our age. And you know what they say,
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  Speaker 3: eighty is the new sixty. It's not about the number.
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  Speaker 3: Trump is eighty. He'll outlive all of us.
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  Speaker 2: I know, you know. So I see these but I
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  Speaker 2: see them over answer. I see these stories all the time, though,
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  Speaker 2: like some crime victim or somebody in the news in
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  Speaker 2: their sixty six and they look like they're ninety. I'm
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  Speaker 2: willing lord, I do I look like that? So this woman,
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  Speaker 2: So I get on the elevator this morning with some
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  Speaker 2: woman and she wants to make small talk. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: hate small talk to your favorite, your favorite I hate it.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't talk to me. I don't want to do
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  Speaker 2: small talk. I got enough on my plate on trying
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  Speaker 2: to scroll through my phone. I'm just going to show topics.
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  Speaker 2: So she's has it gone? How's your day gone? She's chatty, kid,
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  Speaker 2: She know who you are, has no idea who I am.
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  Speaker 2: Guarantee you were what I do? I do what I do.
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  Speaker 2: At least that keeps things simple. Well guess what she says?
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  Speaker 2: So are you? Are you retired? Or are you on
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  Speaker 2: the verge of retirement? Right? And I'm what do you
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  Speaker 2: mean right? Why would you ask the question? I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 2: Are you crazy? I wanted to say, what about you?
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  Speaker 2: You old had? What about you? You bassle?
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 2: What is it insult? What do you?
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  Speaker 6: What was her?
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  Speaker 2: This was?
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  Speaker 3: This struck you as her making a comment that you
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  Speaker 3: looked nearly like an aging, decrepit cadaver.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's exactly what it was. She looks at me
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  Speaker 2: and says, are you retired or about to be?
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  Speaker 3: And see, I'm in Florida, for God's sake, you should
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  Speaker 3: ask that to somebody who's forty. I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're in a condo in Florida and you
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  Speaker 3: took umbrage as somebody asking if you were.
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  Speaker 2: I should have said, you old, weathered, old bat? What
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  Speaker 2: I what about you?
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  Speaker 6: You have?
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  Speaker 2: Get off the side. I'm constant now it was all polite. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm still working. I could not believe it. I ruined
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  Speaker 2: my whole morning. Are you retired? You know what? Are
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  Speaker 2: you all old crane? Are now whitch?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Maine? Yikes? What are they going to do
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  Speaker 2: now to get themselves? A democrat?
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  Speaker 3: Nominde to faces and are we better off worse off
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  Speaker 3: without without Platner? What'd you think of his oddly ungracious,
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  Speaker 3: endless exit video?
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  Speaker 2: Just go do you today? First of all? First of all,
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: it isn't an astounding to witness in real time what
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are willing to sacrifice in order to try to win.
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  Speaker 2: They sacrifice their integrity. Look at the list. How about
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: ro Kanna comes to mind. I watched him a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago. I remember you and I talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: I had that rare moment morning Sunday morning of turning
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  Speaker 2: on I think it was CBS with Margaret Brown, and
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  Speaker 2: I could not believe the way he was justifying his
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  Speaker 2: support for Graham Platner. This is after it came out
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  Speaker 2: that a now this is important Republican woman alleged that
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  Speaker 2: he assaulted her Lindsay Fifield. Now, when Lindsay Fifield makes
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  Speaker 2: the allegations. Ah, she's probably an operative. It's politically motivated.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Nothing to see here. And Rocanna said on TV, I
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: couldn't believe it. Now, assault for me is a red line. Well,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: what do you think leaving bruises on you is? That's
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: an assault? So you got Rocanna, you got Pocahontas well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how do these people show their faces in
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: public after all that they've said on behalf of their
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: their guru, Graham Platner. I don't get this at all.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Can we take a trip down not so long memory
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: lane and watch Elizabeth Warren? This is I mean, she's
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: she's not not mildly enthusiastic about him, she's all in.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I can't find the cut number. Oh there is number.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: It's thirteen. Yes, oh lordy, there's tapes. Yeah, we got tapes,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: we got evidence. Let's listen, because again, I don't know
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: how Elizabeth Warren can now. What's she gonna say? Is
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: she gonna apologize? Here's what she used to say about
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Graham Plattner not that long ago.
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  Speaker 7: Graham Platner is the real deal. He's a fighter and
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: he's ready to take that fight to Washington. Graham Platner
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: has the grit to go against the grain and to
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: fight for what is right. That's the energy, that's the
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: fighting spirit that the Democratic Party needs now more than ever.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Now again, this was ask her what's perfect about that?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: What's perfect about that?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: As she's fulminating about Graham platter On the other side
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: of the video was a gray still shot that looked
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: like he's just caught the beams of a police I'm.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Sorry, it was probably a lineup, hands up, hands up,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: You got anything sharp in your pockets there that'll stick me?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: You put your hands behind your back. No, but seriously,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: what does she say? Now? Well? I was so wrong then,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: but now I'm right in demanding him step down. You know,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Brandon Gill, your congressman in Texas. So he is so good.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: He is so good, Doug Garnet, if this is our
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Republican party, I'm all in. If this is the face
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: and the voice of our party. Here's what he said
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: on Sean Hannity's show about what the Democrats they this is.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Graham Plattner wasn't a mistake, He wasn't an accident mark.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: They vetted him. You saw the two dufuses that vetted him.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: But they vetted him, they knew about him, they knew
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: what he was about, and they went with him. Anyway.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Check out what Congressman Gill said on Fox News.
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  Speaker 8: Democrats are going to go looking for another candidate that
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: they think can make that or articulate that message, particularly
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: to young white men. What happened here, Remember is that
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Democrats were looking for somebody. Graham Platner didn't just come
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: out of nowhere from Maine. Party leaders looked for a
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: candidate that they believed would resonate with young white men,
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: and they found the biggest scumbag they possibly could. Because
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: that is Graham Platner is the caricature of white men
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: that Democrats have in their heads, and that's who they
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: think can carry that message.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Isn't he right? He's the character, He's the caricature the
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Democrats have in their heads to appeal to voters. Mark,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, and I tried this theory on for size
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: with you this morning during our seven thirty five ninety two,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: and I talked to a lot of callers and listeners
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: about it during my show. I've got a theory. I
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: think Democrats are so enraged at Trump and Maga and
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you know you listen to them, if you pay attention
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: to what they say about the whole movement. They don't
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: just hate Trump, they hate us. They despise us for
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: supporting him. They think we're awful fascists. We're existential threats
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: to democracy. Bingo. They so they loathe what MAGA has
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: morphed into in America. I think their theory is, well,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: you know what, hold my beer. You guys like Trump,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: We're gonna like the rapist Nazi. You like Trumpet, We're
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: gonna go with the socialist whose wife goes off to
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: an Islamic retreat in Majorca over the fourth of July,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: which is actually what happened with zo Ron Mamdanni's wife,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the first Lady of New York for decided to forego
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the two hundred and fiftieth Celebration of America, and she
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: flew off to Mayorca for an Islamic retreat to learn
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: about pottery or pottery or something from the Quran. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: hope it was only pottery. Well hope somebody might want
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: to hold it up, put your ear up to it,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: make sure it's not I mean sorry, I mean this
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: is who, this is who they like. They like these
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: people and I think they like him because the worst
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: they are, the more satisfied they feel, because they're they're
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: countering what they feel is the horrible Trump voters with
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: their horrible candidates. They're saying, you know what, let's face
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: let's fight fire with fire with fire, and let's get
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a worse. Do you think there's a premis? What do
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: you think about?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: So, yes, the short ende, I think there's anything to it,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I do, But it did give me a question I
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: wanted to pose to you and reply, and that is
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: that if that is in their heads, okay, but also
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: in their heads, what don't you think? There necessarily has
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: to be some semblance of expectation that these candidates will succeed,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: not like, let's go find the craziest caricature of toxic
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: masculinity with a bunch of rape charges and a fake
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: oyster farm. Hey he's perfect, But they also have to
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: sort of believe that these people will succeed in the
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: modern Democrat primary market.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Well, and the general election market. Well, they are succeeding winning.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Look at we've got Mayor Zoe Ron Mom, Donnie, he won,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: We've got look Graham. Platner had one hundred and seventy
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: six thousand voters in Maine vote for him. They are winning.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I'm talking specifically about the voters, Mark, not the candidates.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the actual voters who are because you're
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: because that's my question, why would you vote for such
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a cretin. Why in the world would you go into
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: the ballot box and say, yeah, that's my guy. Well,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: because they want to go scorched to earth, and they
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: want their candidate to be worse than what they perceive
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to be Our candidates. They hate Maga, they hate Trump,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: they hate the JD Vance Marco Rubio style candidates. So
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: they're saying, Okay, you Maga freaks, you're gonna go for
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: bad people. We're gonna elect worse people. Will show you.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I think I'm onto something here. Mark.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I think it's true.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: And so the question I will ask the next question
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: on this continuing flo Oh right, how do you think
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: you love work for them? I do love floatshirts, He
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: listens to the Joe.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I hope they crash and burn. I really do, I
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: because right now it can't be much worse than it
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: is right now. Look at the egg they have all
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: over their faces. Look, they're a party in chaos. There's
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: no way around this. And my hope and my prayer
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: is that normal Americans are waking up saying nah, sorry,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: can't pull the lever for a Democrat. I got to
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: pull the lever for a Republican. That's what it comes
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: down to. That's what I has to hope.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: And so it's funny, as all things do, as all
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: things do, tie ultimately back down to the midterms. The
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: reason Listen, I know there's probably Platiner fatigue, and this
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: is probably the last day where there's a whole lot
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: of minutia about him because he is going to be
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: out of the race, But in every Senate seat means everything.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: We got to keep this it and hopefully expand this majority.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I know Susan Collins drives conservatives crazy a few times,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: but a Democrat would drive us crazy all the time.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Anybody with an R by their name is better than
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: anybody with a D by their name. Learn it, live it,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: please understand that. So we got to make sure she
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: wins in Maine, and we've got to make sure Paxston
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: beats Talerico in Texas and everything else happens the way
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: we need because the midterms are just absolutely, so very
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: very vital. So we need some things to be happening,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: and having Democrats to be this crazy is a good thing.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: There's a checkmark on our side. I think the Trump
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: agenda still remains thoroughly popular in conservative circles. There's a
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: check for our side. But Doug on it, Mike, the war,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: it's an open shooting war again. It's I don't won't
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: say it's making me crazy.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: It's not. I get it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Things are complicated, but it's vexing. It's frustrating.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: There's no manual of magical things to do. I trust
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Trump's instincts on virtually all of this. But he and
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: you and I and America and everybody and especially Republicans
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: need some kind of exit ramp to this whole war situation,
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: and we need it pretty so.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: You ready for boots on the ground. You've got to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: be ready for that. Will America be ready for boots
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: on the ground.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I'm you've asked the perfect question. America is not. I
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: think a majority of Americans are not. They are far
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: from my favorite thing. But if the trade off is
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: either boots on the ground to finish the job. That's
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: the big rallying cry at the moment. Well, what we
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: need to do is finish the job. Whatever that means.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: The neocons and the Lindy Grahams will be just tingly
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: with excitement about that. If that's what's necessary to bring
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: this to a successful conclusion, I am grudgingly, prayerfully, thoughtfully
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: prepared to entertain it, especially when you consider that the
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: only alternative might be continued stalemate and quagmire or shrugging,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: backing off this footing and saying, hey, we try.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Well, let me give you the former National Security Advisor
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Keith Kellogg. He was on Newsmax last night and he
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: pointed out that boots on the ground doesn't mean a
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: full scale invasion of Iran for a year with one
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand tree. Boots on the ground doesn't mean we're
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: back to World War you know, a World War three.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: That's not what this means. But let's listen again. Courtesy
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: of Newsmax. What Keith Kellogg, the former National Security Advisor
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: to the Vice President said about boots on the ground
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: with regards to Iran.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: And that's right, And they won't listen to what we
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: want him to do. This is what we're going to do.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: He's got options he can take, for example a year
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: about them potentially taking carg Island. And here's the thing
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I want to make sure the American people know, when
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: you talk about boots on the ground, you're not talking
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: about invading Iran. You're talking about taking very strategic targets.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: And they can talk all they want about defending the
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Cargo Island. We can take it is sixteen miles off shore.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: We know it's risky, well, there's going to be some
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: elements to it, but we can do it. We could
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: take the islands in the Strait as well. We can
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: do that with our marine amphibious groups as well, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: we should do something like that. The third thing we
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: should do is we can support a provisional government going
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: into Iran and basically, if the people want to change,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: they'll have a provisional government they can go to. But
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: here's the one thing the president has to do. When
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: he does that, I'd recommend strongly go to the American people.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: They will support you. Talk to the American people, tell
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: them why you're doing that. Don't look at listen to
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the noise around you. The other politicians out there. A
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: lot of them are flat out cowards and they're afraid
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: of doing anything. You said, we live with this for
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: forty seven years.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I'm not so sure that he's right that if he
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: took it to the American people, we'd be all on
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: board with that.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: But I think the Magabase would grudgingly. It's like, okay,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: if this is what it takes to finish the job.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: If that the then okay. But there would be but
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: there'd be some people who voted for him and said, whoa, whoa, woe,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: sir whoe.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: That is one of the reason we voted for you.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Is no more forever wars. That's the Magabase. I think
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: you're wrong, Mark, There's no way the Magabase would say, yeah,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: let's let's put boots on the ground in Iran.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: That's going to be a game enthusiastically, But I think
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: they would trust him enough. It's kind of a way.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: You don't You don't think you and do you and
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I reflect the MAGA base.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I think we do.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: But I think what we're learning is the Magabase, whatever
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: that even means, is not monolithic. It's not find me
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: ten people who are in the Maga base. You know,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: everybody's gonna love Trump. Everybody's gonna, you know, love the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: various things that he's done. But then when you get
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: to the notion of even a brief targeted surgical notion,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: then some of them would like it and some of
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: them would not.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Right, well, I will say, and I think you and
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I are great representatives of the MAGA base. I think
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: it's fair, first of all, we lose sight of the
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: success that we've had. We have obliterated their ability to
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: have do tain a nuclear weapon. That was the whole
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: point of starting Iran in the first place, and it
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: should be enough to have to put up with all
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: that we're putting up with. Having said that and supporting
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: President Trump and on our military's efforts, I don't think
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: this thing is playing out the way he thought it would.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I just he figured would be done by them. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: think I figured we'd be done by them. And you
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: know why he underestimated the zealotry of these Mullas and
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: these Iranian leaders. They they're nuts, They're they're they're stone
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: cold crazies. They're just they're just bat crap crazy. And look,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: that's that's what he's up against. And he's not I
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: don't think he's ever encountered some people like this. You know,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: all of his business dealings in the years of dealing
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: with you know, the mob probably and the construction industry
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: and all that as a builder. These this is, these
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: are this is a horse of a different color. These
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: are people that are They don't care about dying, they
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: don't care about their people being killed. They're not They're
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: not reasonable or rational. Mark.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: And yet because you're percent correct, and is Trump surprised
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: that they haven't been malleable enough to kind of be
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: brought to heal in some kind of better behavioral way. Yes,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I think, however, you didn't have to be a clairvoyant
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: to know that this is exactly what Iran is. We've
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: known for fifty years, that they're insane, that they are radical,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: that they are incorrigible.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've never been bombed into submission.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Or that's exactly where I was going. I think the
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Trumpe I think he knew very very well the kind
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: of society he were and what he was dealing with.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: What he might have underestimated is, or what I guess
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: he might have hoped, wished expected is for all of
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: those Iranian obstacles to be for them to be shelvable,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: for them to be movable. If we bombed them enough,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: well yeah, guess what. No, guess what hasn't been so far.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: So he's going to have to finish the job. And
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: that may may involve boots on the ground, which is
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I dreaded. Uh. And you know this is just we
• 31:02
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• 31:05
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  Speaker 2: something in ignoring her.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: I know we can't in a way, because you're right,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: we do, and we need to have a certain awareness
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: of every fringe of it.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: But you're right. But know what's liberating to just go
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: It's like a staycation, just avoid it, you know, stay
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: away from it. And it's very it's very free. It's
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: a very free and experience. But here's a conspiracy theory
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: that I think has legs that it's been rumored that
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell is in dire straits in the hospital. Man's
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: been hospitalized now for what a month? If you're in
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: the hospitals almost almost mind. You're in the hospital that long,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: there's something seriously wrong with you. No way around that.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Nobody has seen you.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: There's been no just nothing, and nobody's even described what
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: your condition might be in any.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Now suddenly he picks up the phone, supposedly this week
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: and starts starts. He's decides to be a shatty Cathy.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: You can't shut him up now. Now he's he's like
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: a NonStop phone machine. He's calling all these people, John
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Thune and our colleague Scott Jennings. No, now here's what Now,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to pull the curtain back after I play
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the clip. But here's Scott Jennings on CNN this week
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: sharing the details of the phone call he says he
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: received from Senator Mitch McConnell.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he called me this morning before I did my
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: radio show. We talked for about seventeen minutes. He talked
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: a lot about the situation with Iran, talk a little
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: bit about Ukraine and what's going on in Europe.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: I told him I have been to the Teddy Roosevelt Library.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: We talked a little bit about the history of the
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: vice presidency and how Roosevelt had transformed in the modern presidency,
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: little history of the Senate. I mean, it was, you know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: it was a wide ranging conversation. I talked to him often.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: I hadn't talked to him since he'd been in I'd
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: gotten a few text messages from but.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: I hadn't spoken to him, So it was good to
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: hear his voice. Voice sounded strong and sounded like he
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: was keeping up with the news to me. Did you
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: ask him how he was feeling, Yeah, he said, he
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: said he was feeling okay.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: You know, obviously well enough to call me on the phone,
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: and obviously well enough to talk to Brasso and fun. Now, look,
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not qualified to discuss any medical issues or give
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: you any information about that. That's really for him or
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: his his staff to do. But you know, I talked
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: to him from time to time, and I see him
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: from time to time, and you know, we had a
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: conversation today about the things that we normally talk about,
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: which are news today political stuff.
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: Did you come away feeling like he's still capable of
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: serving the people of Kentucky as senator.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: I came away feeling that he was staying on top
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: of the news again. I look his his condition and
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: why he's in the hospital or when he might come out,
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: or look that's do you know why.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: And are just saying you're got a liberty to share.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I do not know why.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: I only know frankly what has been reported or what
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: his office has said.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: So this was it was a personal private call.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: But but I didn't I didn't probe him too deeply
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: for his medical records.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, Mark, let's turn it over to you.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Go look at that. Look at the time. Thanks everybody.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: This kills me. He's now he's a colleague. But and
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: I love Scott and I and I will when it
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: was only fuon or aids of fun and braso another
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: GOP establishment toadies, I was tempted. I think I did say.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I don't believe it for a minute, not a word
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: of it from from these twenty. In fact, I just
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: have to share a moment of satire since everybody else
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: has me on Twitter. Six o'clock this morning, I spoke
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: to Mitch McConnell for about twenty minutes this morning, he
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: said he should have supported Trump more knows the days
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: of the tired GOP establishment are dead, and told Cornyn
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: to enthusiastically backpacks and to beat Tallerico.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: But so you should have added and I told any
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: and you told him to pass the Save America Act.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Is exactly right. That's why that's a big issue. That's
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: what it's it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: But give me Rand Paul or Ted Cruz on the phone,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: and maybe I feel a little better. Scott's conversation, his testimony,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: I give that more cred than I do some other people.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: But you know what I mean.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Listen, if he's capable of twenty minutes on the phone
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: with several people, he's capable of sixty seconds on the
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: phone for some proof of life. He's capable to join Hannity.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: I don't need cameras in there. He may be hooked
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: up to forty seven tubes, but just something that some
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: proof of life, proof of coherency. The people of Kentucky
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: deserve it, the people of America deserve it.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: There's no way Scott Jennings is fabricating this because to
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: do so and then to eventually be exposed if that's
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: the case, it destroys his whole career. No, he's I'm prepared.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: He's not gonna lie about this, Mark. No, no, no,
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: I just I wonder what No, No, no, of course not.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say so.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Well, no, but many are many are you look on
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: social media? Well they're not. They don't necessarily hate Scott.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: They do know that Scott and McConnell are very close.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Absolutely got used to work, ran that those are the
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: roots of Scott's ascendancy. Go ran his campaign partnership with
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: with them, with Scott ran one of his political campaigns.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: So so what But again, what would the motivation beat
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: tolie to protect the establishment, to protect.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Us, to not through Because here's what Kentucky law requires.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: If if Mitch McConnell were to retire, resign today or
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: sat or die.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Usually what most states do is the governor then appoints
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: a replacement for the interim period until you have a
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: special election or the actual election. Right it would be
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: in the problem in Kentucky is Democrat Governor Andy Basheer.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: So the Republican legislature in Kentucky saw this coming first
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: they changed the law and said, okay, governor's going to
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: get a pick, but it's got to be from the party.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: They'll give three names from the Republican Party, so the
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: selection would be from the same party. Then they fixed
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: it even more and said, you know what, we're going
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: to keep the governor out of this completely special election. Boom,
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: that's what we're going to do. So I think that's
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: my favorite solution, but it's wholly impractical. If it's if
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: it's not until somewhere like the middle of August, you
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: don't have sixty days to turn it around before November.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: So I don't know if they fear a special election
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: that flip and Thomas Massey may run for something like that. Yeah,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: so you bet it is one hundred percent establishment Ivory
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Tower Protection racket one hundred percent.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Well, and then the final crazy chapter in this Crazyville
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: book about the saga of Mitch McConnell is his wife.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Now I know, I got a pretty good insight into
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: the marriage of Mark and Lisa. If you're in a
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: if you're in a hospital, I'm not real sure Lisa
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: is going to go flitting off to China. Mark. The
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: idea that Elaine Chow decided to go to China not
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: come back for her, and because remember what was initially reported,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: and this kind of got got covered up a little
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: bit or kind of skirted over. He suffered a cardiac
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: event that allegedly required CPR life saving technology techniques, life
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: saving efforts. He was in bad shape. I guess he
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: was at death's door. Why is it unresponsive? Was in
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: some of the reporting? Well, yeah, but that could be
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: a press conference. I mean he's he's been in he's
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: been on responsive before.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Remember the time he was just gave, gave, set up
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: the lob there for the overheads mat.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Wow, for everybody. He freeze up. He just starts staring
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: into the abyss and all the people around him are
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: nervously looking at him, like, what the hell is happening
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: to him? Hello? Are you there? Okay, he's just staring
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: so but yes, unresponsive, No way, It's normal that a
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: wife goes off to China.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Here's the off right, It's days after this event and
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: in the middle of.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: A medical crisis for your husband of one hundred years.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: She was a Secretary of Labor in the George W. Administration,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: the Secretary of Transportation for a little bit of the
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: first term of Trump. So she's she has had important jobs,
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: she has made philanthropic and not diplomatic, really trips to China.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: There's nothing inherently weird about that, but the timing of now,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: so just let me give that back to you, because
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: it is so.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Weird, beyond weird. It's it doesn't make sense. I'm telling you,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: it doesn't make any sense.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: And so into that void, the conspiracy thing is like, well,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Mitch is either dead or about to die, and Elaine
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Chow's over in China engineering some handpick. I mean, just everybody,
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: please calm down.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: But well, but it's but there's something to this, there's something.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Here's the statement that Mitch mccaynald's wife issued today, The
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: her office quote. The Secretary was on a long planned
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: trip in China to support her family's philanthropic endeavors. During
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: the trip, she met with a number of people, including
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: the US ambassador. The senator's health did not warrant an
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: immediate return to the US. So basically, Elaine Shao told
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: her husband, you're on your own, buddy, You're on your own.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Good luck, godspeed, I got I got people, I gotta
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: cavort through China. I gotta go to Beijing, So.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: You there's no way around this anymore. If he was
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: healthy enough to where she, with a clear conscience, could
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: go to the other side of the world, then he
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: is healthy enough to get on the phone and have
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: some kind of public, verifiable proof of of of actual life.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Thank you say, there's no there's no way around this anymore,
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: not for one more day, not for one more day.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: And the reason it matters, the reason it's important is
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: because of the Save America Act. McConnell has stubbornly refused
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: to get on board. Thune has stubbornly refused to take
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: the paths that are needed to get the thing passed.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: And it's so important to get it passed. And if
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: we don't make any effort, Republican voters are going to
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: be so discouraged, so demoralized, they're not going to show up.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: And I'm afraid the worst feeling for me is that
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell and John Thune they know it, they know it,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: they don't want this thing to pass, and I almost
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: feel like they want to lose in November. So maybe
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: they could be the opposition party and not have to
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: do any real work.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: It has often said that Republicans are better when we're
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: out of power and we kind of have our act
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: together more and we're sharpening, you know, etc. An observation
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: that can be made. But how about a crazy world
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: where we do have the majority and actually use it
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: and actually do things that the voters want without a
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: lot of laggards and nair demails and true.
• 44:08
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• 44:10
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• 44:12
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