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UK Authorities Foil Possible Terror Attack at Military Base · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch. Grab a stool next
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  Speaker 1: to Greg Karambas of Radio America and Jim Garrity of
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  Speaker 1: National Review. Three Martini's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: So glad to have you with us for the Monday
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  Speaker 2: edition of the Three Martini Lunch. Jim Garrity is back.
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  Speaker 2: Our first martini today is good news. Bad news that
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  Speaker 2: it was even as close as it was, but good
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  Speaker 2: news that a terrorism attack, or at least an apparent
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  Speaker 2: terrorism attack, was foiled near RAF, Royal Air Force Base
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  Speaker 2: Fairford in the United Kingdom. Now that is significant because
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  Speaker 2: the US also has personnel, also has planes, also has
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  Speaker 2: a lot at that particular facility. In fact, it made
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  Speaker 2: some headlines earlier this year when the British government would
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  Speaker 2: not let us use that facility to attack Iran during
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  Speaker 2: some of the hotter parts of the war. But yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: a resident near the base reported three suspicious vans in
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  Speaker 2: the village in the early hours of Sunday morning. Gloucestershire
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  Speaker 2: police said Sunday that the men that were arrested were
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  Speaker 2: detained on suspicion of offenses under the Explosives Act and
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  Speaker 2: that Army bomb disposal experts were examining several vehicles. A
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  Speaker 2: major incident was declared and aerial footage from Sky News
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  Speaker 2: appeared to show a bomb disposal robot roaming between three
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  Speaker 2: white trucks. The rear doors of two of the vans
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  Speaker 2: were open and large black items could be seen scattered around.
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  Speaker 2: And according to the BBC, the five men arrested near
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  Speaker 2: RAF Fairford over suspicion of offensives under the UK's Explosives
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  Speaker 2: Act have been additionally charged with plotting to commit a
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  Speaker 2: terrorist act. And so. Jim, you know, we just talked
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  Speaker 2: around the anniversary of 9-11 that we don't see this
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  Speaker 2: that often anymore. So good that there was a vigilant neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: Good that the authorities were able to get over there.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously great that nothing happened. A little chilling that
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  Speaker 2: they were even in the neighborhood and planning to do this.
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  Speaker 2: But in the end, it got stopped. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Greg, I'm going to note that the British government
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  Speaker 3: has asked everyone not to speculate. You know what's really
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  Speaker 3: good if you don't want people to speculate?
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  Speaker 1: Giving them information, right?
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  Speaker 3: So when you say five men were caught outside a
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  Speaker 3: US military base that was used for strikes against Iran
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  Speaker 3: after the Iran Revolutionary Guard warned the British government earlier
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  Speaker 3: this summer not to let UK bases be used in
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  Speaker 3: any connection with the war, quote, any base used to
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  Speaker 3: launch attacks on Iranian territory is a legitimate target for
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  Speaker 3: our forces, the IRGC said. When you refuse to release
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  Speaker 3: any information about them, other than that they are men
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  Speaker 3: from London, which really doesn't narrow it, you might as
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  Speaker 3: well have just said they're carbon-based life forms. When you
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  Speaker 3: refuse to put out any information, no names, no ages,
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  Speaker 3: and we cannot speculate at all about what the... First
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  Speaker 3: of all, they were caught with explosives. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: think they were going to put on a firework show.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they were going for a walk, right?
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  Speaker 3: To quote Robert Pattinson... as Chris Hansen in this new
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  Speaker 3: movie out there, you see how this looks, right? This really,
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  Speaker 3: the Islamists of some variety or Iranian agents, those are
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  Speaker 3: really the two, I suppose, theoretically, with a bit a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Russian sabotage at NATO bases.
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  Speaker 1: Around the rest of Europe. So, but that thought had
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  Speaker 1: crossed my mind.
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  Speaker 3: But I just have a sneaking suspicion of this were
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  Speaker 3: Russian's There would be no hesitation of coming out and saying, yes,
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  Speaker 3: these look like Russians. And the Polish government and various
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  Speaker 3: other governments all across Central and Eastern Europe have come
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  Speaker 3: out and said, you know, when they catch guys and
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  Speaker 3: think there are ties to Russia, they've come out and
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  Speaker 3: said pretty quickly. No, it's now, what, 24, 48 hours, Greg?
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  Speaker 3: We still have no further details on the identities of
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  Speaker 3: who did this? Or the potential motives. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: there's at least one person who said they saw them
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  Speaker 3: and said they saw like eight or nine guys, not five,
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  Speaker 3: raising the unnerving possibility they haven't caught everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's one witness.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we don't know how credible this witness is,
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  Speaker 3: but like, is that a reason we're not getting further information?
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  Speaker 3: There are other folks out there who they're still trying
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  Speaker 3: to tack down. Again, nature abhors a vacuum. And I
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  Speaker 3: understand there's ongoing, possibly ongoing investigations trying to secure prosecution here.
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  Speaker 3: But if there's a threat to the public, they really
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  Speaker 3: ought to know. And you want to give the public
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  Speaker 3: as much information as possible. Really, like on the one hand, yes,
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  Speaker 3: fantastic that they caught these guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. I would like more information rather than less.
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  Speaker 3: And the president's off-the-cuff statement says he's getting on or
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  Speaker 3: off Air Force One. Again, if you guys do a
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  Speaker 3: full briefing on this, other than one policeman saying we
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  Speaker 3: have no information at this time.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks. I'm so glad you came out to stand in
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  Speaker 1: front of the cameras to tell us that. Big help there, pal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if this is a universal rule, but
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty close to a rule of thumb. The longer
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  Speaker 2: it takes you to get specifics about the perpetrators, the
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  Speaker 2: less likely it is to be someone on the right.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: If they were anti-immigrant, I don't want to be attacking
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  Speaker 3: a UK, US military base, but fine. If they were Xenophil,
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  Speaker 3: the United Xenophobe Front of Great Britain or something like that,
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  Speaker 3: do you think we'd know by now?
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  Speaker 1: I think we would.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if they do prosecute these people, and it is
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  Speaker 2: who we think it is, Will they get a longer
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  Speaker 2: sentence than the people who posted memes?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was just about to say, did they post
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  Speaker 3: something objectionable on social media?
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  Speaker 1: That's the real crime.
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  Speaker 2: That's when they'll really throw the book at them.
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  Speaker 3: Look, there are a lot of incendiary words that are
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  Speaker 3: used over there in the United Kingdom, and they're almost
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  Speaker 3: as serious as.
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  Speaker 1: The incendiary bombs that they want to use. Yeah. Words
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  Speaker 1: can hurt, but explosives can hurt even more.
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  Speaker 2: UK voters are not sending us their best. Not that
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  Speaker 2: the Tories deserve to... necessarily stay in power, but man,
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  Speaker 2: the left is exactly who we thought they were over there,
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  Speaker 2: and they're certainly who we thought they were over here
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  Speaker 2: England right here to our own backyard in D.C. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when it comes to quality of life in D.C.,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes just small progress can seem like a big thing.
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  Speaker 2: And when you realize where we were not that long
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  Speaker 2: ago in D.C., maybe this one's even bigger than that.
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  Speaker 2: So Town Hall with this story. Huge quality of life
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  Speaker 2: win for D.C. residents. CVS stores in Washington, D.C. are
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  Speaker 2: no longer locking up items in the anti-theft cases. So
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  Speaker 2: they say that since President Trump's crackdown on crime, which
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  Speaker 2: started in August of last year, homicides down 30 percent,
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  Speaker 2: assault with a dangerous weapon down 42 percent, robbery down
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  Speaker 2: 7 percent, motor vehicle thefts down 45 percent, while theft
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  Speaker 2: from auto is down 20 percent and other theft is
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  Speaker 2: down 20 percent. 10%. And one of the reasons that
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  Speaker 2: we know that this is the case is a guy
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about a lot and usually not in the
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  Speaker 2: most glowing terms on the Three Martini Lunch, Matt Iglesias,
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  Speaker 2: who tweeted out, And other people are pointing out that
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  Speaker 2: last year when Trump rolled out the National Guard, Iglesias
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  Speaker 2: wrote a column entitled, DC needs real policing, not propaganda.
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  Speaker 2: I'm worried Trump is only going to make crime worse. Well,
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  Speaker 2: crime did not get worse, Jim. And I think we
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  Speaker 2: have reasonable expectations that we shouldn't have to have everything
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  Speaker 2: locked down in anti-shoplifting cases. But that's where DC was.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently, they're starting to pull out of that.
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  Speaker 1: Free the toothpaste. Free the toothpaste.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: One of the guys in this world who always gives
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  Speaker 3: me a laugh is Remy, who does these videos for
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  Speaker 3: a reason. And at one of them, he did some
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  Speaker 3: joke like, this guy shoplifts toothpaste, but you won't believe
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  Speaker 3: which one gets locked up at night. And it was
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  Speaker 3: just a perfectly good lie of like, why? And some
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  Speaker 3: of this is CVS or all kinds of grocery stores,
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  Speaker 3: convenience stores. They've decided that either the risk of a
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  Speaker 3: confrontation with someone who's doing shoplifting is so severe that
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  Speaker 3: they don't want anyone other than security guards at certain
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  Speaker 3: stores confronting them. They don't want the cashiers, they don't
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  Speaker 3: want any other store employees if they see somebody stuffing
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  Speaker 3: stuff into their pockets. Some of this is fear over
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  Speaker 3: their employees getting injured, which is understandable. Some of this
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  Speaker 3: is fear about their employees getting injured and then the
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  Speaker 3: store getting sued by the employee. Sometimes it's fear of
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  Speaker 3: the store employee injuring the shoplifter and the shoplifter.
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  Speaker 1: Suing the store.
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  Speaker 3: Both of which strike me like that latter scenario, it
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  Speaker 3: does not seem karmically balanced, shall we say.
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  Speaker 1: So now it's good to see this. I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about this.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about how the right track, wrong direction
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  Speaker 3: in American polling has said America's been in the wrong
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  Speaker 3: direction by an overwhelming margin for like a.
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  Speaker 1: Decade and a half now, I want to say.
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  Speaker 3: Is it maybe early Obama People have generally felt like
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  Speaker 3: the country almost got close to 50-50 around Trump's start,
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  Speaker 3: and then it plummeted.
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  Speaker 1: Back down again.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we're necessarily in a worse shape than
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  Speaker 3: we were in the past. I think nostalgia and rose-colored
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  Speaker 3: glasses is a factor with it. But there are little things.
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  Speaker 3: like finding mouthwash behind a locked cabinet.
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  Speaker 1: In a CVS.
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  Speaker 3: And you're sitting there thinking, we've always had shoplifters. When
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  Speaker 3: you and I were kids, before that, there's always been
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  Speaker 3: a chance somebody was going to grab something, try to
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  Speaker 3: stick it in their pocket and not pay for it.
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  Speaker 3: At some point, it became on a scale large enough
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  Speaker 3: that these stores felt like they had no choice but
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  Speaker 3: to then start putting this stuff behind it. So if
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  Speaker 3: you want to buy these, again, fairly mundane things, you
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  Speaker 3: want to put the really expensive stuff behind a locked cabinet. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I guess I can understand that stuff. You have to
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  Speaker 3: press a button. And as good as it is in DC,
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  Speaker 3: occasionally I'm up in New York City and I just
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  Speaker 3: use it. Practically the whole store is behind bars. You
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  Speaker 3: basically are like, you know, It's like going to a
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  Speaker 3: jewelry store.
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  Speaker 1: They'll take it out. This is the mouthwash, sir. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Does it look light? Does it look nice? Is this
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  Speaker 3: the kind you like? Okay, you picked a very fine
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  Speaker 3: vintage of Listerine there. And that's, you know, like, so
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  Speaker 3: I think that this is one of those things that
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  Speaker 3: plays a factor into people's minds about crime and a
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  Speaker 3: sense of lawlessness in their community. So really glad to
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  Speaker 3: hear this. I wonder how, I should point out that
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  Speaker 3: as much as it's good to see, you know, National
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  Speaker 3: Guard folks are a deterrent. I don't dispute that. The
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  Speaker 3: prosecution rate in the District of Columbia has gone up considerably.
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  Speaker 3: The arrest rate has gone up considerably. I don't mind
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  Speaker 3: the National Guard being on the streets. I also don't
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  Speaker 3: think it's a particularly good long-term solution. I think in
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  Speaker 3: the end, you need good cops and good prosecutors. We've
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  Speaker 3: seen that in a lot of cities. That's why the
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  Speaker 3: crime is going down, not just in cities that have
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  Speaker 3: had the National Guard, but cities all across the country.
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  Speaker 3: So glad to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Good news.
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  Speaker 3: I'll breathe a little easier next time I'm in CVS.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not just because my breath will be terrific
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  Speaker 3: because I can buy the mouthwash easier.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't even have candy behind the glass. They were
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  Speaker 2: saying like M & Ms and Kit Kats and Reese's.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Greg, that's just, my wife called them.
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  Speaker 1: Don't make it too easy. Don't make it too accessible.
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  Speaker 1: Jim will want to eat it.
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  Speaker 2: You also put your finger on it.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney's Office in D.C. said there was a 67% increase
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  Speaker 2: in prosecutions in the D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Superior Court.
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  Speaker 2: That is not a coincidence. You get that relatively small
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  Speaker 2: percentage of people off the streets or at least pretty
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  Speaker 2: darn scared that they're going away for a while. And
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  Speaker 2: you'd be amazed what happens to the overall crime numbers.
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  Speaker 2: All right. When we come back, political ads are everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: But new ads from President Trump and considering who's paying
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  Speaker 2: for them are certainly raising some eyebrows. All right, Jim,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you and I live in the greater D.C.
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  Speaker 2: area and there aren't a ton of competitive ads. Senate
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  Speaker 2: races or even really House races right around here. But
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  Speaker 2: of course, there are political ads going everywhere. But President
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  Speaker 2: Trump has put out a number of ads. I think
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  Speaker 2: this is at least the second one, maybe more, talking
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  Speaker 2: about what either he's planned to do or things that
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: he has done. Here's one of the recent ones that
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  Speaker 2: just ran this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: This is the final battle. With you at my side,
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  Speaker 3: we will demolish the deep state.
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  Speaker 1: We will expel the warmongers.
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  Speaker 2: From our government.
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  Speaker 1: We will drive out the globalists.
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  Speaker 3: We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists.
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  Speaker 2: We will throw off the sick political class that hates
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  Speaker 2: our country. We will rout the fake news media.
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  Speaker 3: And we will liberate America from these villains once and
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  Speaker 3: for all.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's not telling you to vote for anyone
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  Speaker 2: in particular, but obviously it's encouraging people to continue to
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  Speaker 2: support President Trump, who I would assume wants Republicans to
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  Speaker 2: stay in the majority. And so you're thinking, oh, well,
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: that's from either old Trump campaign money or maybe the RNC. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Paid for by the U.S. government, which means... you paid
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  Speaker 2: for it, and I paid for it, and Jim, you
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  Speaker 2: paid for it. And so, you know, you certainly see
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: government ads every once in a while, you know, Ray,
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  Speaker 2: remember to enroll in Medicare before such and such a
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  Speaker 2: date or whatever it is. But when it starts to
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  Speaker 2: get to here, there should be a pretty stark line
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  Speaker 2: between campaigning and and policy implementation and that.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Again, it's not specifically asking for anything, but it's right there. Greg,
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely hate this on two different levels, several levels, really.
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  Speaker 3: One being that it's a waste of taxpayer money. Two,
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: it is blatant electioneering. And I'll talk a bit about
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  Speaker 3: how you can work around that in the past. Three,
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  Speaker 3: it's lazy in the sense that it literally is part
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: of Trump campaign speeches in the past. They ran this
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  Speaker 3: during the campaign, a very similar, they used the same audio.
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  Speaker 3: in a campaign ad, and now they're saying it's not
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  Speaker 3: a campaign ad. No, I'm sorry, that's nonsense. Greg, when
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  Speaker 3: he says, we will expel the warmongers from our government,
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  Speaker 3: who started the war in Iran? Is this an announcement
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  Speaker 3: of resignation? Is this some big new, no, no, okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of ridiculous. He also says we're gonna stop
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  Speaker 3: communism by taking government stake in 30 private companies. That's
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: a good way to stop the expansion of the state
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  Speaker 3: and all that stuff. It's absolutely ridiculous, but here's the,
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  Speaker 3: what bugs me more than anything else is that it's lazy.
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  Speaker 1: Because both during.
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  Speaker 3: The Obama— Obama used to pop up on our screens all
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  Speaker 3: the time. This is reminding you to register to vote,
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  Speaker 3: you know, or don't forget to— you can do a million
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  Speaker 3: and one PSAs and, you know, you can make them
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  Speaker 3: look kind of campaignish or just a— I'm Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm reminding you to brush your teeth, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or eat your vegetables, or here's Michelle Obama telling you
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  Speaker 3: to drink water as if you all living things wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: die if they didn't continue to do that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you could put any kind of message and you could
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  Speaker 3: make it seem, boy, isn't the president a swell guy?
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  Speaker 3: But if you don't come out and say, go vote
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  Speaker 3: for this person, well, then, you know, generally it was
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  Speaker 3: considered okay. The same way in which, you know, Obama
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  Speaker 3: going on ESPN and doing his NCAA bracket picks is
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I guess it's cable, but even then, there's never any
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: objection of equal time. The president can pop up anywhere,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: do anything, as if that wasn't enough. We already know
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: that the midterm is looking pretty bad for Republicans. The
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: president has to go out, has to do this.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Saw it while.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Watching the Jets-Lions game, which did not end the way
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I wanted it to yesterday. But it was playing on,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I think, all the NFL games and stuff like that. Now,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: the really strange observation is that one of my kids
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: was there. Actually, both my kids were there. One of
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: them was home from college. And they initially thought, because
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: it's black and white and it sounds like, they thought
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: it was an attack ad against Trump. So I wonder
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: if this is going to back the idea of a
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: positive one. Usually, like, when you see grainy, black and white,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: slow motion footage, usually I think it's an attack ad.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Over at Reason, they did a really funny one. This
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: is the second time in a podcast I've touted Reason.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Guys better, you know, check better clear, guys. They did
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: a very funny one also featuring Remy about like, it's
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: called Every Campaign Ad Ever.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: And it says, our guy is.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Seen in full color, outdoors in sunlight with the sun
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: shining on his face. Their guy is seen in black
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: and white in slow motion in what might be security footage.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: God knows what he's up to.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: And that was kind of the way, like the visual
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: style of ads. And in a very strange way, this
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: message that is, this commercial that is made to make
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: you feel good about Trump kind of looks and sounds
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: a bit like an attack ad. That's how it's really
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: bizarre about it. So either way, taxpayer dollars should not
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: be used for this. And this is a terrible idea.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: No taxpayer dollars for this. And the rule of thumb
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: on this for me is, if Obama had done this,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: if Joe Biden had done this, if Bill Clinton had
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: done this, how would you respond? Would you want your
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars going for that? Absolutely not. There's tons of money.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: The RNC is flush with cash. The Republicans and many
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: different layers are flush with cash. Pay for that yourself.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: If you think that You know, promoting Trump in certain
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: states or certain districts is going to help you in
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the midterms. Go for that, but leave my tax dollars
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: out of it all the time. Not good. All right,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: when we come back, speaking of attack ads, oh man,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: they're getting vicious. They are getting real vicious, and it's
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: only Monday ahead of Sunday's Bears-Jets clash. Jim, uh, The Jets,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, came up a little bit short yesterday
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: against the Lions. They're 1-2. The Bears are 1-1. They'll
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: play tonight with their third-string quarterback at Philadelphia. What could
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: possibly go wrong? Caleb Williams will not be in the lineup.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Look out for batteries.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Don't dress up like Santa Claus.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams will also probably not be in the lineup
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: against the Jets on Sunday.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Bummer.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can tell you're really upset about that. I'm
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: sure you're really hoping he'll be back the week after that.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Take another week, Caleb. Don't rush that stuff. You don't
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: want to aggravate it again.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: But our longtime listeners will know that every four years
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: these teams play and every four years these outside interest groups,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: these dastardly people... try to divide Jim and me by
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: sponsoring attack ads on our own podcast against the bears
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: or against the jets. It's just really, it's really unseemly.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: And now in this era of AI, they've got narrators
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: that sound exactly like us, Jim. It's kind of chilling.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: You'd think we recorded it ourselves. Spooky.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: So, well, but they've bought the time. I mean, they've
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: bought the time all week long. So in the chaser here,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: we are going to play these ads. And so Here
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: is the first one running against the Bears.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: The Chicago Bears. They say they have a proud history.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Gale Sayers, Walter Payton, Mike Ditka, and George Wendt. But
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: for a long time, the Bears could look down on
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the New York Jets and Giants because they played in
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: New Jersey, site of the 2026 World Cup. But are
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: they really the Chicago Bears? Or are they really the Hammond,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Indiana Bears? And can you really trust a football team
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: that deliberately moves closer.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: To Gary, Indiana? Paid for by Americans United for a
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Bears defeat on October 4th. Ouch, Jim.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, getting close to Gary. That's That's not good. Although
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think the Bears have ever played at Packers
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Stadium or Lions Stadium as the Jets.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, you mean the Meadowlands? The Meadowlands.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: With that in mind, the Jets and Giants playing in
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: MetLife makes about as much sense as the Yankees playing
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: in MetLife. And when you think JetBlue was there as
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: a sponsor, it would have worked out just fine.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Would have had both of them right there. Oh, yeah.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: That would have been perfect. That would have been perfect.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: But yes, we could both soon be fans of teams.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: that play in states other than the city that we're
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: supposedly affiliated with. Well, the anti-jet campaign is out there
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: just as furious as the anti-bears campaign. Here's their first
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: out of the week. You could cheer for the New
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: York Jets over the Bears on Sunday if you want
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: to embrace the city that's trying to shove a socialist
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: agenda down America's throat. de Blasio, AOC, now Mamdani. They've
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: been at it for years. The guy that pulled the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: fire alarm in Congress, he's another one. And the guy
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: who started this latest Marxist menace was born in New
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: York City, too. Bernie Sanders. People who live under socialism
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: can count on one thing. Being told that soon their
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: lives will get better. But they never do. Sound familiar,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Jets fans? Ground the Jets Pack is responsible for the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: content of this advertising.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Vicious, Jim.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Just vicious.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a good thing you don't have to worry
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: about left-wing mayors in Chicago. Thank goodness.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: But maybe we'll see if there's other ads this week
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: that focus on the proud political traditions of Chicago. Not
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: that New York has any great shakes in that either.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: So you got to be careful with those attack ads.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: They might not tell the full story. They tell half
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: the story.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: So you got to be careful. But yeah, so we'll
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: see what else these dastardly outside interest groups have for
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: us the rest of the week. Jim, I will see
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: you tomorrow.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: See you tomorrow, Greg.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Jim Garrity, National Review. I'm Greg Karumbas of Radio America.
• 21:57
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