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Governor Cox and Pride Month discussion from June 4th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So first thing this morning, I said to Bill, are
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  Speaker 1: we making Spencer Cox a boner candidate today? And he said, no,
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  Speaker 1: Let's spend a whole break discussing what happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It's Pride Month and all month long, people all over
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  Speaker 2: the country celebrating pride, Gay pride, LGBTQ plus. Utah Governor
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  Speaker 2: Spencer Cox yesterday or a couple of days ago, declared
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  Speaker 2: June twenty twenty six not Pride Month as he has
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  Speaker 2: in the past. He's calling it this is Fidelity Month,
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  Speaker 2: calling for a return to America's core values. As Republican
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  Speaker 2: led states across the country issue various proclamations in reaction
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  Speaker 2: to Pride Month celebrations, Utah joined Arkansas in endorsing Fidelity Month,
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  Speaker 2: of Course, a movement promoted by conservative scholar Robert George.
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  Speaker 2: The initiative urges Americans to rededicate themselves to the principles
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  Speaker 2: of God, marriage, family, country, and community. Cox's announcement comes
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  Speaker 2: amid differing June declarations and after his shift on whether
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  Speaker 2: to recognize Pride Month. This year, Tennessee, Alabama, and Indiana
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  Speaker 2: proclaimed June as Nuclear Family Month, underscoring the role of
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  Speaker 2: traditional families. Oklahoma declared June Life Month, committing to support
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  Speaker 2: unborn humans from conception. The Spencer Cox has declared this
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  Speaker 2: is Fidelity Month. As governor of Utah. He has changed
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  Speaker 2: his Pride Month messaging considerably since entering office in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one. Twenty twenty two to twenty three, Cox made
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  Speaker 2: Utah one of the only Republican leading states to officially
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  Speaker 2: recognize LGBTQ plus Pride Month. Ahead of a primary election
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  Speaker 2: in June, he stated his past declarations had turned into
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  Speaker 2: a lightning rod for more division and hurt. The governor
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  Speaker 2: instead declared June a month of bridge building. Last year,
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  Speaker 2: Cox didn't issue a declaration for June at all. Now
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  Speaker 2: it's Fidelity Month. I have a couple of emails from
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  Speaker 2: friends of the program here that will address this. This
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  Speaker 2: one says, good morning. Years ago. I was introduced to
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  Speaker 2: Spencer Cox through listening to your show Sorry as a dirty,
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  Speaker 2: filthy liberal, I fundamentally disagreed with him on a lot
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  Speaker 2: of issues. However, through your show and your discussions with him,
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  Speaker 2: I find myself actually thinking, well, this is a reasonable person,
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  Speaker 2: and I was actually kind of happy when he was
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  Speaker 2: first elected governor. I find myself thinking about where that
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  Speaker 2: person went whenever I hear him speak. Nowadays, the same
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  Speaker 2: person that vetoed the anti trans in sports bill, bucked
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  Speaker 2: his own party and shed tears in a press conference
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  Speaker 2: now has the gall to declare Fidelity Month a pathetic
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  Speaker 2: attempt to upstage the LGBTQ community in this city and
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  Speaker 2: state by promoting family values. You know, the same family
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  Speaker 2: values that are trampled on every day by members of
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  Speaker 2: his own party and the current occupant of the Oval office.
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  Speaker 2: The Data Center backroom deal with Kevin O'Leary doesn't help matters,
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  Speaker 2: and his absolute petulance at being questioned or even criticized
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  Speaker 2: proves that his disagree better stance applies to everybody but him.
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  Speaker 2: I want to believe that the Spencer Cox that appeared
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  Speaker 2: on your show years ago is the real person and
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  Speaker 2: not the impostor, But I don't know. I love Utah,
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  Speaker 2: I love Salt Lake City, I love the LGBTQ community
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  Speaker 2: in the city, and I'm horrified and upset at what
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  Speaker 2: is currently being done by Republican leaders attempting to erase
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  Speaker 2: this community.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing they won't do, however.
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  Speaker 2: Is succeed because deep down, well deep down Spencer should
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  Speaker 2: know that thanks for letting me listen see at the
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  Speaker 2: party on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: PS.
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  Speaker 2: If this is an event it gets read, please feel
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  Speaker 2: free to edit for revenue. And then one other email, Hi, Lords,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was time to join the celebration forty years.
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  Speaker 2: It's rare for anything to last this long in today's
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  Speaker 2: day and age, but Bravo Radio from Hell. In a
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  Speaker 2: strange way, I feel like you are all part of
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  Speaker 2: my family. I remember first meeting you and Carrie Bell
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  Speaker 2: when I was introduced to you at squatters and maybe
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five. I think we also my wife at
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  Speaker 2: the time, and I made it to the studio for
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  Speaker 2: a family feud. And then I remember reading stories to
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  Speaker 2: Aiden Ginu's kid at lunch at Saint Joseph's villa when
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  Speaker 2: I was going through my divorce. I didn't have any
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  Speaker 2: idea I was reading to a celebrities kid, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad I did. And I think I actually met Sue
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  Speaker 2: there one time. I am compelled to write now because
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of in transition. I've decided to sell my
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  Speaker 2: house in Salt Lake. By the way, this person is
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  Speaker 2: living back east somewhere now right now, I don't remember where.
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  Speaker 2: I've decided to sell my house in Salt Lake. You
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  Speaker 2: know anybody who's looking for a great location in Sugarhille.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be an end of an era for me. And
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  Speaker 2: I am comforted by the fact that my son is
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  Speaker 2: buying a house near Nibley Park, so I'll have a
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  Speaker 2: place to crash when I come back for the big
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  Speaker 2: ass show.
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  Speaker 3: You still do that, right.
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  Speaker 2: I loved growing old with you guys, And I leave
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  Speaker 2: you with some pictures from the two thousand and six
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  Speaker 2: Pride parade, the first one I was in, and it's
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  Speaker 2: the one where I'm sure that you guys and I
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  Speaker 2: turned my son Nico gay.
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  Speaker 4: That's the whole point. That's what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for letting me listen, Chuck. And then that brings
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  Speaker 2: up the fact that Pride. I assume the parade is
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  Speaker 2: going on Sunday. Yes, it will be the first time
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  Speaker 2: in fifteen years. Maybe yeah, that we have not been
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  Speaker 2: in that parade. That's not and I'm not sure why.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know why. I am sure why we
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  Speaker 2: aren't in that parade.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's it's not necessarily an internal decision.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's what.
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  Speaker 2: Has always happened in the past, is the organizers of
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  Speaker 2: Pride have come, you know, said Okay, we're gonna expect
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  Speaker 2: you to be in the parade this year again, and
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  Speaker 2: we want to talk about it on the radio. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Pride the big festival at after the
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  Speaker 2: parade at the Washington Square the city at the library,
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  Speaker 2: and and they come and they say, yeah, and of
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  Speaker 2: course we'll be in the parade and we'll pay our
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  Speaker 2: entry fee and we just and then somebody says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we need a vehicle, and one of the salespeople say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: i'll rat and I'll get you jeep and we'll make
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  Speaker 2: some signs and we were just in it. It's just
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  Speaker 2: and then but nobody said anything this year. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean I wasn't thinking about it, because you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: thinking about our forty.
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  Speaker 4: Comes to us and it arranges. Yeah, this wasn't a
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  Speaker 4: purposeful Uh. It was an oversight, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: And it's I don't in any way want it to
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  Speaker 2: be construed that that we are purpose that we are
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  Speaker 2: in any way lacking in our support for the LGBTQ
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  Speaker 2: plus community. We fought and fought and fought to be
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  Speaker 2: in that parade to be allowed in that parade because
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  Speaker 2: our management at the time said no, and they said
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  Speaker 2: no for several years in a row.
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  Speaker 3: No, you can't be in it.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, Finally, okay, you guys can be in it,
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  Speaker 2: but our country station can't be in it. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: And so there it was, and we were there every
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  Speaker 2: year enjoying you all on the parade route. The show
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  Speaker 2: of love and support that you all gave us was
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  Speaker 2: something I'll really missed this year. Yeah, and I and
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  Speaker 2: I Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It was not an internal conscious decision to.
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  Speaker 2: Not be there and all of this Spencer Cox and
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  Speaker 2: all of these other states a change, but veering away
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  Speaker 2: from pride this is a huge mistake.
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  Speaker 4: Can I can I pivot back to that?
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  Speaker 1: So the declaration on that fidelity means a dedication to faith, family,
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  Speaker 1: and country. So I'll say two things about that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: lgbt Q people, they have faith, have faith, family, country.
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  Speaker 1: This is not an opposing viewpoint.
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  Speaker 4: This is not this or that it's a secret opposing
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  Speaker 4: view in their.
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  Speaker 3: In their minds.
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  Speaker 1: It is I would also say, Governor Cox, you represent
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  Speaker 1: all of the citizens here of the state.
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  Speaker 4: Not all of them have faith or family or like
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  Speaker 4: the country.
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  Speaker 5: You're you're talking about the old Republican Party.
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  Speaker 3: They don't do that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And I would point back to the first email that
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  Speaker 1: Bill read, And I feel exactly the same way. When
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  Speaker 1: we had Governor Cox on our show for years we
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  Speaker 1: had him on, I genuinely.
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  Speaker 4: Believed that he.
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  Speaker 1: Was open to all all points of view and was
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  Speaker 1: willing to talk about things. And I went back and
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  Speaker 1: looked in twenty twenty four, that was not that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: He was on CNN with Caitlyn Collins, and we love
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  Speaker 1: Caitlyn Collins, Yes, and he told her, I didn't vote
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  Speaker 1: for Donald Trump last time, and I'm not voting for
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  Speaker 1: him this time because of January sixth, then all these
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  Speaker 1: other things. The next Monday after he was on that show,
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  Speaker 1: he did a pivot, and that pivot has gotten harder
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  Speaker 1: and harder and harder. And I I don't recognize who
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  Speaker 1: he is anymore.
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  Speaker 5: I'm I'm sorry that we had him on all those
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  Speaker 5: all those shows.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not. It was good. It was a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: Now we humanized him. He was he was human, He's
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  Speaker 3: still a human.
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  Speaker 1: This is all per forums agree, this is all performative
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  Speaker 1: for him. I don't I know he's not running for governor. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's running for mother office. That's
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  Speaker 1: the only thing I can think of is why he's
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  Speaker 1: doing this is because he has aspirations to do other things.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm so disappointed because I feel like somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the core of him, this is not who he is.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe it's changed, maybe he is now, but I
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  Speaker 1: am so disappointed in him.
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  Speaker 5: If you yeah, how about multiple Partners Month?
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  Speaker 3: How about that?
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  Speaker 5: How about Sister Wives Month?
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  Speaker 2: The the this, this, this group that, this fidelity month.
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  Speaker 2: If you read into these people, they're they're hateful and bitter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's his fidelity month. That sounds That sounds wonderful,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it. They are hateful, bitter people. And it's a mistake.
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  Speaker 2: It is a mistake to pivot away from this. It's
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  Speaker 2: a mistake to say to pretend that the LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 2: community is it doesn't exist, or like that Andy Ogle's
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  Speaker 2: representative homosexuality has no place in America.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Andy, here's what State Senator Jim Plump says. So
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  Speaker 1: pride is a recognition of a community that's fought for
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  Speaker 1: generations to be seen valued and treated with dignity. It's
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  Speaker 1: a celebration of people who have too often been told
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  Speaker 1: they don't belong exactly. The message sent by this action
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  Speaker 1: is clear. At a time when LGBTQ plus people are
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  Speaker 1: facing increasing hostility across the country, Utah's highest elected official
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  Speaker 1: chose to not stand with them, and I reject that message.
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting a lot of texts saying I voted for
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  Speaker 5: Cox for all the reasons that Gina mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: I feel ripped off.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've said for a while, and Carrie
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  Speaker 1: is against this, but I would like to have him
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  Speaker 1: on and I would like to have this conversation with him.
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  Speaker 1: I want him on the show and say, this is
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  Speaker 1: how things were last.
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  Speaker 4: Time we had you on.
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  Speaker 1: These are discussions we had and you had this position
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  Speaker 1: and you've completely changed.
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  Speaker 4: I would like you to explain yourself. He won't do it, but.
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  Speaker 3: He's it's I.
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  Speaker 5: Mean, it's it's it's it's it's motions like this that
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  Speaker 5: make you realize why they need Pride Month, you know, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because isn't every month, Fidelity isn't everyone. Yeah, Nuclear Family
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  Speaker 1: Month isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Every It's again, I just want to reiterate I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a mistake. It's a mistake. You know, there are
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  Speaker 2: all these statistics coming out saying that Republicans are starting
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  Speaker 2: to be less inclined to support pride and to support
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  Speaker 2: gay people their heart. They're turning away from it. There
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  Speaker 2: had been a there had been a softening, there had
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  Speaker 2: been Ah, you know, I have a gay neighbor. They're fine,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's my son, and that's but something's something's
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  Speaker 2: trying to shift it away. And and by doing it,
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  Speaker 2: you're making a big mistake. You are making a big
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  Speaker 2: mistake by doing that. If you, if you, if you
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  Speaker 2: let that happen, because because the because the gay population
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  Speaker 2: is here and will always be here, and they are
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  Speaker 2: your friends and neighbors and family members.
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  Speaker 5: And let's not forget our high suicide rate.
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  Speaker 4: Well you know, yes, things like this make that exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so disappointed.
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  Speaker 5: No, he's uh, I don't know if I ever can
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  Speaker 5: forgive it honestly, anyway, that's and we're sorry, we're not
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  Speaker 5: going to be in pride.
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  Speaker 3: It somehow got away, and not by true.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was a combination of they've got new
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  Speaker 5: management over a pride and.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe then the new people didn't know how it usually works.
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  Speaker 5: And then we were planning our fortieth and you know,
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  Speaker 5: I hear that the price to be in the parade
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  Speaker 5: went up as well. But you know, it just it's
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  Speaker 5: it's not conscious.
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  Speaker 3: Just know that it's not conscious.