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The Rise of Islam in Texas · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Was seven year old Mike Gallagher aware of Ode to
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  Speaker 1: Billy Joe from the Great Bobby Gentry kind.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it growing up. I love the song, I
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  Speaker 2: love the story, I love those I love those story songs,
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  Speaker 2: the Tell.
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  Speaker 3: And Vicky Lawrence Night the Light Swiming a Georgia exactly
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  Speaker 3: so always the Gentry go ahead. I'm sorry, aod. Bobby
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  Speaker 3: Gentry is eighty four, she's she's eighty four, So she is.
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  Speaker 1: And that was nineteen sixty seven, and three years later
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  Speaker 1: I talked about her as the seventies. Her next huge
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  Speaker 1: record later covered by Reba McIntire. Everybody thinks it's a
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  Speaker 1: Reba record, it's not. It's a Bobby Gentry record. A
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  Speaker 1: fancy here's your one chance, fans, and don't let me down.
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  Speaker 1: A wonderful story. Horror woman grooms her daughter for prostitution
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  Speaker 1: and we're supposed to feel great about it.
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  Speaker 2: Vicky Lawrence had the strangest career trajectory I've ever seen
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  Speaker 2: in my life. She was hired to be on the
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  Speaker 2: Carol Burnett Show allegedly because she looked like Carol Burnett
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  Speaker 2: and could keep up with her. Of course, she turned
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  Speaker 2: into a comic genius. With Mama and Mama's family, but
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  Speaker 2: then m up with this big top forty hit. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: what a strange, odd career that must be.
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  Speaker 3: So have you ever spoken with her? Have you ever
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  Speaker 3: spoken with her?
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  Speaker 2: I have not?
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  Speaker 1: Have you shit a couple of times She'll roll through
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  Speaker 1: and do like one of those. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: these people who are these iconic cultural figures, they will
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  Speaker 1: like an evening with and it'll be like the old
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  Speaker 1: stories and stuff, and people just love going in and
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  Speaker 1: listen to her talk about that because I got to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I think it's as much admiration as it gets.
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  Speaker 1: Vintage Carol Burnett show peak, Carol, tim Conway, Harvey Korman,
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  Speaker 1: Lyle Wagner, VICKI Lawrence is as good as a variety
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  Speaker 1: show television ever got.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, there was a great genre. Sonny and Share.
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  Speaker 2: They did that whole variety show.
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  Speaker 1: Do Sonny and Share Comedy the Sonny and I think
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  Speaker 1: it was called the Sonny and Share Comedy Hour, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: And of course they had obviously a lot of hit records.
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  Speaker 1: But that dog On show was well written. It was funny,
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  Speaker 1: it was really really speaking.
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  Speaker 2: Of things well written. I'm in New York for a day.
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  Speaker 2: I had some friends invite me to the Ley Miserob
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  Speaker 2: World Concert Tour at Radio City Music Hall last night.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa Mark Market is right?
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  Speaker 2: I know?
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, I'm sorry. And that's that.
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  Speaker 1: That's not dismissiveness, that's yeah, that's just me saying I
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  Speaker 1: probably should have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I really kind of have.
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  Speaker 2: Not one of one of the great classic musicals. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: it was an import I think from France and then
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  Speaker 2: went through the UK. But gosh, what a great show.
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  Speaker 2: And they did this if you like theater, I did
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  Speaker 2: a I did a two show day yesterday. I was exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as an actor, as a wanna bee, I
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  Speaker 2: should have been up there on stage. Of course, in
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  Speaker 2: theater they call it a two doche when you've got
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  Speaker 2: a matinee and an evening performance. So my two doche
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  Speaker 2: consisted of a cuticle musical called Maybe Happy Ending, which
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  Speaker 2: won the Tony for Best Musical. And I can see why.
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  Speaker 2: It's a delightful little show Asian import. I think it
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  Speaker 2: came from South Korea about and of course it's fascinating
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  Speaker 2: about a helper bot. This guy is a robot and
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of I guess in the future, and he
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  Speaker 2: was abandoned by his owner because his owner got sick.
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  Speaker 2: But he, you know, this helper bot, this Asian guy
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  Speaker 2: would just, i mean just looked kind of almost almost
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  Speaker 2: almost authentically human. But what happens when the when the
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  Speaker 2: helper bot has feelings for the owner. He loved him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the owner taught him things and and and
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  Speaker 2: then the guy abandoned him, and he was waiting for
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  Speaker 2: him to come back and get him, and then he
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  Speaker 2: decided to go find him, and it's and he falls
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  Speaker 2: in love with another helper bot. She was again this
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  Speaker 2: really neat cute little story. If you're in New York,
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  Speaker 2: if you dare risk New York and look, I bag
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  Speaker 2: on the city all the time now that I left,
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  Speaker 2: and I'd probably be bagging on the city now under
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  Speaker 2: zoor On Mom, Donnie, even if I still lived here.
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  Speaker 2: But dog, it's still New York. It's still Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: Your love and I share that love. I love going there.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's the most incredible city in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's biggest city. And I love It's been a
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  Speaker 1: while since we've been and I don't want to believe
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  Speaker 1: that Zoron has destroyed it sufficiently that it's no longer
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  Speaker 1: safe and no longer worth going.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm walking.
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  Speaker 1: Around late at night in Midtown at the moment, you know, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not I mean, you can. I mean, look, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a chance, I think, because there's a lot the
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  Speaker 2: I noticed the hotel I stay at in midtime, which
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  Speaker 2: is Midtown, which is right near a homeless encampment of
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  Speaker 2: are not a homeland illegal encampment, rather of migrants who
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  Speaker 2: are in this big hotel, the Row Hotel that's been
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  Speaker 2: taken over by the city to house the illegals. For
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  Speaker 2: a while there before Mom Donnie took over, that was
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  Speaker 2: getting cleared out, and they were there were very few
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  Speaker 2: people on case. Right there on Eighth Avenue is where
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  Speaker 2: they all hang out. At eleven twelve, one o'clock in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, little kids, little toddlers on little scooters. They're
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  Speaker 2: driving up and down Eighth Avenue at midnight, and these
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  Speaker 2: kids ought to be in bed. But it's it's families
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  Speaker 2: of Hispanics who are out there just roaming the streets
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  Speaker 2: because they're being housed in a luxury hotel. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: a taxpayer expense because mom Donnie doesn't want to enforce
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  Speaker 2: any of the he's giving them all kinds of sanctuary status.
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  Speaker 2: That's back, that's dangerous. The smell of pot is everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably not your cop of tea. But now you
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  Speaker 2: know they've delegalized marijuana here, so everybody's just smoking it
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  Speaker 2: on the street corner. And you get your occasional you know,
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  Speaker 2: poor victim lit on fire or stabbed on the subway
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  Speaker 2: or something. So it's not I mean this.
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  Speaker 3: Guy Friday and Slip.
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  Speaker 1: You had a Friday and Slip to a moment ago
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  Speaker 1: that spoke to a larger truth because you mentioned about
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  Speaker 1: the illegals you mentioned, you said homeless. There is also
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  Speaker 1: the twelve or thirteen blocks of homeless encampment correct, from
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  Speaker 1: like Hudson Yards up to the USS Intrepid Museum on
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  Speaker 1: the west side on the Hudson River. And that thing
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  Speaker 1: grows by the day, and he will do nothing to
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  Speaker 1: stop that eye.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see the Sid Rosenberg rant from Fox and
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  Speaker 2: Friends over the weekend that went viral, Well, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to play every bit of it. It's glorious. He goes up, Well, look,
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  Speaker 2: he just flat out calls Mam Donnie a terrorist. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is a New York City based talk show host.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen him, Sid Rosenberg. He is such a he's
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  Speaker 2: a really good guy. He's a bombastic guy. He and
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  Speaker 2: I were on the on a media panel together a
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  Speaker 2: while ago here in the city. He's got he's he's
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  Speaker 2: such a quintessential looking New Yorker. He's bald headed, the
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  Speaker 2: shiny bald head, deep tan, white sport coat. You know,
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  Speaker 2: always wears these flashy, colorful clothes. And he's just a
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  Speaker 2: typical kind of a guy, like a right from Central Casting.
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  Speaker 1: He's a I'm looking at him right now. He totally
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  Speaker 1: looks like he should be in almost any drama or
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  Speaker 1: comedy about New York City.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely ought to be here. He should be an extra
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  Speaker 2: in the Sopranos. I mean, he's just right there, right
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  Speaker 2: out of anyway, he went on a rant and he
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  Speaker 2: just said, look, Mam Donnie's a terrorist. He sympathizes with terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the Fox and Friends people are ready to
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  Speaker 2: slump over. You can see their eyes get all buggy.
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  Speaker 2: Griff Jenkins said, well, now I think we to apologize
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  Speaker 2: for calling the mayor of terrorists and people are like no,
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  Speaker 2: let him have it, you know, I mean, it's it's bad,
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  Speaker 2: and mom Donnie's getting worse and worse by the day.
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  Speaker 2: The New York Times today has a big article how
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  Speaker 2: Mam Donni has political capital and he intends to use it.
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  Speaker 3: So is his anointing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not the flip side of a Trump
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  Speaker 1: endorsement yet, but his Democrat you know, the sword to
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder of knighthood can be pretty beneficial. Last thirty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: having mentioned because I looked up maybe Happy Ending, the
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  Speaker 1: little play you mentioned. Oh yeah, you're you're a big
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  Speaker 1: travel guy.
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  Speaker 3: I tried.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be trying to get out of the
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  Speaker 1: state and out of the country at some point.
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  Speaker 3: I and you've done a lot of Japan lately, I have.
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  Speaker 1: I am fascinated by South Korea, and especially because maybe
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  Speaker 1: Happy Ending South Korea. Squid Game, South Korea BTS part
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  Speaker 1: of that. You know, we haven't talked about and we
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  Speaker 1: don't need to. For ten minutes. What a delightful halftime
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  Speaker 1: show they had for the World Cup final. BTS part
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  Speaker 1: of it, Madonna and Justin Bieber and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: But South Korea, Korea a huge, massive, major cultural force,
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  Speaker 1: of the moment in music and film, in musicals, and.
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  Speaker 2: Would I would love to go to South Korea. It's
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  Speaker 2: one of the places on my bucket list because I would.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I wonder if it's kind of like Japan
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  Speaker 2: in the same vibe whereat And I heard people talking
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  Speaker 2: about those on the elevator the other day, how they
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  Speaker 2: had gone to Japan and they were and I just
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  Speaker 2: stayed out of the conversation, but they started talking to
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  Speaker 2: each other about how clean, how how efficient, how everything works,
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  Speaker 2: how everything is brand new, how people are so friendly.
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  Speaker 2: You know why they don't have trash cans in Tokyo
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  Speaker 2: in the city because people would never dream of dropping
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  Speaker 2: any litter on the sidewalk. They hold it with themselves,
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  Speaker 2: They put it in their pockets until they get to
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  Speaker 2: the next place, and then they throw it out. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty amazing. And then I compare it well here to
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  Speaker 2: New York. I mean, the buck is a trash everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Homeless people. I don't see a lot of homeless people
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  Speaker 2: in Tokyo, so I'm not sure what they do with
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  Speaker 2: those folks. But you know, and you mentioned DSA. I
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  Speaker 2: hope people saw the DSA one of the big shots.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, mark their agenda. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: you talk to a normal Democrat and say, how do
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  Speaker 2: you feel to know that this has taken over your party.
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  Speaker 2: Let's abolish the Pentagon, let's abolish the presidency, let's abolish
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. Let's not have any borders, let's not have
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  Speaker 2: any police. I mean, you understand, these people are ba
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  Speaker 2: crap crazy, and we're acting like it's legitimate. And ps
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  Speaker 2: they're winning. They're winning elections.
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  Speaker 1: The normy Democrats, the mainstream old school Democrats, are now terrified,
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  Speaker 1: especially the ones who are running for office, because in
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  Speaker 1: a way they dare not say, hey, I think those
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  Speaker 1: people might be a little bit crazy, because then they
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  Speaker 1: are at risk of violating the flavor of the month,
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  Speaker 1: maybe endangering their own police.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they'll infuriate the so called base right now. I
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  Speaker 2: still hold out hope that there's more of us than
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  Speaker 2: there are of them, But if not, we're you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm And I was very intrigued by your back
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  Speaker 2: and forth with Rob Schneider because both of you, I
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  Speaker 2: think are right. Because he is right about what's happening
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  Speaker 2: in Texas. She is absolutely correct. You're right to say
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  Speaker 2: there's Republicans trying to stop it. But Mark, have they
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  Speaker 2: have they stopped it? Have they watched it?
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  Speaker 1: I give you and that I will give the Rob.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if he has gotten back in touch
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 3: He has not.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, big man. What are the things, the really
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  Speaker 1: specific things that Texas should have done that we have
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  Speaker 1: not done?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 2: What is Florida doing that Texas hasn't done. There's all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of zoning laws, There's all kinds of prohibitions that
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  Speaker 2: can come out. You've got a city, I mean, what happened?
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  Speaker 3: That city is dead in the water.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness, dead in the water. And there's a good sign.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, look, I don't think we ought to
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  Speaker 2: just start caving at the argument that Republicans aren't doing enough.
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  Speaker 2: We've got four We've got report four Republicans right now
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  Speaker 2: who are rightfully pointing out this is kind of stupid
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to go again on summer recess instead.
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  Speaker 1: Of you're totally right, but before leaving the Texas Islam thing.
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  Speaker 1: And what Rob Schneider has done is put up these
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  Speaker 1: these stupid posts with with Abbott and Patrick and Paxton
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  Speaker 1: either wearing blinders, with the Saudi flag on it or
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  Speaker 1: wearing full he jabs, And I'm sorry, that's just stupid
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  Speaker 1: and not helpful, especially especially right now when we're ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine days from the midterms. So it's possible to be
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  Speaker 1: right on an issue but be so torque tough and
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  Speaker 1: cranked up to eleven that you're just not helpful. So
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  Speaker 1: if when Rob wants to join us, I will thank
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  Speaker 1: him for Deuce Bigelow and we'll talk a little bit about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's using some extreme examples, perhaps to make a point,
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  Speaker 2: But is he wrong when he says your state mark
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  Speaker 2: has Sharia courts, your state has Sharia judges patrol, and
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  Speaker 2: not one of them has been shut down.
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  Speaker 1: Short answer is yes, yes, Okay, he is mischaracter No, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's wrong. He is a mischaracterized he's mischaracterizing every single
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  Speaker 1: one of those issues.
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  Speaker 2: What it is be does your state have sir Sharia court?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing that has any lasting or any remote effect on
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  Speaker 1: actual law. Yet here's you know what the sharia patrol
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  Speaker 1: thing is. You might have heard this story out of Houston.
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  Speaker 1: An Imam went around and was looking for Muslim shopkeepers
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  Speaker 1: who are like selling lottery tickets. Okay, and when ah
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  Speaker 1: that is you know that is forbidden under Islamic law, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, he's right about. And the shopkeeper can
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  Speaker 1: either go, oh, sorry, my bad and stop doing it
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  Speaker 1: or tell the guy to go. You know pound sand
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  Speaker 1: is that a Sharia patrol? The notion of none of
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  Speaker 1: this has any teeth, None of this has had any
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  Speaker 1: impact on Texas law. Yet it is proper to be vigilant.
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  Speaker 1: But this notion that it's already happening and it's rampant
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  Speaker 1: is here's the word. I did it already. It's performative, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: And it is not. It is not helpful. I need sixty.
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  Speaker 2: I need sixty save that you're being defensive of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: You're being defensive of the Republicans you interview on a.
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  Speaker 3: Regular and I am suggest that they're doing nothing, and
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  Speaker 3: it's a shootdown.
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  Speaker 2: Rob Schneider for pointing out that Texans themselves tell me
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  Speaker 2: they are scared. People working in the government of hiet
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  Speaker 2: officials who feel powerless asked me to keep speaking out.
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  Speaker 2: They want they used to act and fear retribution if
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  Speaker 2: they speak act speak out. I think you're making a
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  Speaker 2: mistake going up against guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give him credit for things he deserves credit for
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  Speaker 1: I need sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm out on Darlene.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't. I just can't. I love her, God
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  Speaker 1: bless her. But with Russell Fry, Ralph Norman is Mark
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  Speaker 1: Sandford in officially, I think he is, that's that's a
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  Speaker 1: multi topic thing. But God blessed Darlene. I grieve for her.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. It's it's it's a crapshoot.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do. I just can't. Mike, Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Am I being unfair to It's up to the voters,
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  Speaker 3: you're not.
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  Speaker 2: And the voters are pushing back against her her candidacy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the other day she was surrounded by reporters
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  Speaker 2: and she wouldn't answer questions.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, she's playing the grief card. I please,
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  Speaker 3: I'm grieving, you know, and I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: And I hate that she's thrust into this, and it's
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  Speaker 2: gotta be Heartbreaking's.
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  Speaker 3: Beat she's thrust into this.
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  Speaker 1: She's the one who decided after ten flip in minutes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just going to be a placeholder.
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  Speaker 3: I want the full six years.
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  Speaker 1: Well you know what, darling, if you want the full
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  Speaker 1: six years, you need to start answering some quicks.
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  Speaker 2: Got to answer questions. We're gonna have Joey Hudson at
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  Speaker 2: the National Cathedral this week in Washington, DC covering the funeralal.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a real interesting few weeks what happens.
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  Speaker 2: And look, it's gonna be over soon. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: decide in a couple of weeks in August, so we'll know.
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  Speaker 2: But but you're wrong about Rob Schneider, but you're right
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  Speaker 2: about Darling Graham for.
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  Speaker 3: Once, and all the things I'm right and wrong on.
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  Speaker 1: Later on the day on the podcast, and I'm extra
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  Speaker 1: So we look forward to everybody there, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.
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  Speaker 3: Have a wonderful happy Monday. My friend,