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The M&M Experience - Lamenting the End of French Culture · Salem Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: This is personal to me. Our French club, that was
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  Speaker 1: like 15 hopped up kids from Crossland High and Camp Springs, Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: We went in 1975. And then our French teacher got
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  Speaker 1: sick and was going to make the same trip with
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  Speaker 1: his students. But I was already like a junior at college.
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  Speaker 1: The phone rings in the dorm. And he says, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: it's John and Kerry. Can you? Can you take the
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  Speaker 1: kids to France? I said, I beg your pardon? I
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  Speaker 1: got to– I'm 20, I guess. I got to be
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  Speaker 1: a chaperone. There were others, thank God. And I took
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of kids from the school where he taught.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been– trips at least that I've made, been
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  Speaker 1: there five or six times. And it's easy to bag
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  Speaker 1: on France and politically deserve it. But the history, the beauty–
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  Speaker 1: The culture, it's just, it's a gem in the crown
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  Speaker 1: of the world. And to see it on fire breaks
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  Speaker 1: my heart. And my byline today is that those images
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  Speaker 1: are an ad for every Republican running in every corner
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  Speaker 1: of America.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just mystified at how everybody is lying about what's
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  Speaker 2: actually taking place in the streets of France. Here's the
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  Speaker 2: cover of the New York Post. And I'm holding it
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  Speaker 2: up for you here if you're watching on X. And
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  Speaker 2: we love to stream. M & M experience every day
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  Speaker 2: on X at Gallagher or at my Gallagher.
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  Speaker 1: Whoops. You flash that and I'll go retweet it and
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  Speaker 1: people can do it.
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  Speaker 2: So you can go, you can watch right now on X.
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  Speaker 2: Follow me at Mike Gallagher. Of course, always follow Mark
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  Speaker 2: at Mark Davis. And every day we stream live. Well,
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  Speaker 2: actually we don't stream the video. Do we come to
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  Speaker 2: think of it? Do we stream the video? I can't
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  Speaker 2: look at it right now. Oh, okay. So we do
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  Speaker 2: stream the video on, on X. Yeah. Oh, I thought–
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking it was just audio. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at you and me right now. We look good.
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  Speaker 2: So here's the headline, New York Post. France burns more
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  Speaker 2: than 1,800 arrested in radical left riots. Now, keep that
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  Speaker 2: in mind. Radical left riots.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Synagogue ransacked. Synagogue.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: They're targeting the Jews. We see, of course, red and
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  Speaker 2: green Palestinian flags everywhere. Luxury goods stores are looted. But
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  Speaker 2: then in the description, it says the following. French protests
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  Speaker 2: over education and the cost of living.
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  Speaker 1: Stop. Mark, the New York Post? The Post said this
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  Speaker 1: in there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the front page of the New York Post. Protests
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  Speaker 2: over education and the cost of living. This isn't about
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  Speaker 2: education or the cost of living. What the heck are
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  Speaker 2: they talking about? Why is everybody lying about why these
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  Speaker 2: rioters are burning down synagogues?
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  Speaker 1: Because they have to. Because the truth would show you
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  Speaker 1: that France is an example of of a country that
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  Speaker 1: has not paid enough attention to its borders, not paid
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  Speaker 1: enough attention to protecting its culture. They have allowed hordes
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  Speaker 1: and floods of hostile migrants in with the obvious aim
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  Speaker 1: of destroying French civilization, as they will do here, as
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  Speaker 1: they are attempting to do here. It's just the beginning
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  Speaker 1: ripples of it. You know, our cities are not all
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  Speaker 1: aflame with Marxists and Islamists yet anymore. But they will
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  Speaker 1: be if we are not attentive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're so right. The reason I guess they're not
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  Speaker 2: touching it is that it's all about the borders. Everything
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  Speaker 2: is about everything Trump has been saying. And now he's
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  Speaker 2: barnstorming the country.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Like the warrior he is with his supposedly, you know, 3%
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  Speaker 2: approval rating.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody likes him. He's up to three? I missed that.
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  Speaker 2: He had a surge yesterday. It was 2.5%. Now he's
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  Speaker 2: at 3% approval. Somehow all those people lining up for
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  Speaker 2: hours and hours to get in to see him at
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  Speaker 2: these stadiums, I guess they didn't get the memo. He's
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  Speaker 2: very unpopular, right? I'm seeing all the smart kids doing
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  Speaker 2: stories about how Republican candidates are distancing themselves from him.
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  Speaker 2: He's so unpopular. He's so unpopular. And yet when he's
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  Speaker 2: on the campaign trail for these candidates— He keeps saying,
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  Speaker 2: you're watching France? You want that here? You want to
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  Speaker 2: see what's going to happen here if we let them win?
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  Speaker 2: And he is absolutely right. You know, I was thinking about,
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  Speaker 2: I want to run Brit Hume's analysis by you, and
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  Speaker 2: it applies to Texas, and Mr. TV star. Hollywood Davis
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  Speaker 2: over here would be bouncing around from Will Kane to
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  Speaker 2: Chris Cuomo. I mean, you're all things Texas politics. So
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  Speaker 2: nobody is better equipped to react to Brit Hume's rather
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  Speaker 2: nasty analysis claiming that, well, Tallarico seems like a pretty
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  Speaker 2: nice guy. You know, Trump's attacks really aren't landing anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Trump insists on calling him Talafrico. And he just strikes
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  Speaker 2: me as, you know, he's a seminary guy and he's
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  Speaker 2: a nice person. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Did Britt go there? Britt went there. Let's talk about nice. No,
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  Speaker 1: you finish your thing and then I'll break. I'll break
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  Speaker 1: it to words mean things. Go ahead and finish.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you my analysis of why Britt Hume
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  Speaker 2: just just gave Talafrico's campaign such a big gift. Why
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are now salivating over Brit Hume. I saw the
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  Speaker 2: headlines last night. Oh, long term Fox News, longtime Fox
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  Speaker 2: News analyst throws, you know, a lifeline to the Tallarico campaign.
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  Speaker 1: True.
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  Speaker 2: These are Republican establishment types who loathe Trump's style and
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  Speaker 2: they just wish he'd be more diplomatic.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Britt Hume wants Donald Trump to be more like George W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they want. And Trump's never going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And frankly, we would be surprised if Trump didn't call
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  Speaker 2: him Talafrico.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, but Britt Hume is surprised. The smart kids
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  Speaker 2: never get over it. They can never get over it.
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  Speaker 2: So if Britt Hume, OK, so words mean things. What
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  Speaker 2: does Britt say? That he seems like a nice young man. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: The definition of nice is affable, relatable, you know, smiling.
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  Speaker 1: He's clean cut. Good for absolutely. But if I hear
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  Speaker 1: one more person invoke that he's running on articles of
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  Speaker 1: faith or evangelism or seminarianism.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But what from church from what church? Because it sure
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  Speaker 1: ain't Christianity. God's OK with abortion. Jesus is ambivalent. If
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  Speaker 1: you chop your kid's genitals off.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But Brit
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  Speaker 2: might be right in terms of that lands with people,
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  Speaker 2: that he's a nice young man. Because that's all we
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  Speaker 2: care about are optics. All we care about is the package.
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  Speaker 2: All we care about is what does it look like.
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  Speaker 2: We're TV folks. We love to see what the image is.
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  Speaker 2: We don't care about substance or policy or ideology. We
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  Speaker 2: care about how somebody comes across.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed was nice to me at LaGuardia. Nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: He and Jesse Waters got a bromance on TV there
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  Speaker 1: for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, but then look, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: look at what they stand for. Can James Tallarico get elected?
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  Speaker 2: I watched Molly Hemingway last night on TV say, look,
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  Speaker 2: Tallarico's policies wouldn't fly anywhere, much less Texas. She basically said— You.
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  Speaker 1: Think he couldn't get elected in New York or California?
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe in a blue state. But what I think
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  Speaker 2: her point was, if he was on the ticket in
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  Speaker 2: any one of a number of American states— He wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: get any traction at all. And she's saying Texas is
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  Speaker 2: the last place he should be able to win.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, and I agree with her. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I believe that. We're two weeks away. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: find out. You know what it is?
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  Speaker 1: Look, we know. We have brains. We have eyes. We
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  Speaker 1: have ears. We have history. We know that an anti-gun, anti-meat,
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  Speaker 1: anti-oil cheerleader for child sex change is We cannot win
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  Speaker 1: in Texas. That's earth logic, as I'm fond of saying.
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  Speaker 1: But yet, in this odd and riled up time... We wonder,
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  Speaker 1: there's a little, and listen, I'm not immune to this,
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  Speaker 1: because truly anything is possible. Is an amazing, strange shift
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  Speaker 1: of the political winds possible? It's not impossible. It's thoroughly implausible.
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  Speaker 1: We're just going to have to wait and see how
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  Speaker 1: it goes and pray to God that Texas remains Texas
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  Speaker 1: and the voters continue to do what they seem to
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  Speaker 1: be in the mood to do. I mean, two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz easily dispatched Colin Allred. You know, two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: Trump thumped Kamala Harris by 14. So there's no evidence
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  Speaker 1: that Texas has changed. until that evidence hits us in
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  Speaker 1: the head in two weeks, if it does, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that it will.
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  Speaker 2: I had a real spiritual conversation with a colleague, actually
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  Speaker 2: my boss, I don't mind sharing this. Phil Boyce and
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  Speaker 2: I were talking this morning, as we often do, about
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  Speaker 2: the business, the company, how things are going. Is there
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  Speaker 2: a malaise with voters, with the audience? Are people just
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  Speaker 2: kind of collectively holding their breath? And Phil pointed out,
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  Speaker 2: And he's so right about this. He said, I had
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  Speaker 2: to learn this, sometimes the hard way, that we've got
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  Speaker 2: to have faith. We've got to have faith in God.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to do our part. But sometimes challenging things happen,
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  Speaker 2: and God tests us with anxiety, with maybe bad things
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  Speaker 2: that have happened. I mean, we were talking a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about the Dennis Prager time slot at Salem. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Dennis Prager has this catastrophic fall. Incidentally, Dennis is speaking now.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see him in Miami a few days ago
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  Speaker 1: as they wheeled him out and he held a crowd
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  Speaker 1: in the palm of his hand?
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  Speaker 2: Finish.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a second.
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  Speaker 2: But finish.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was a great speech. I cried, too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sad. I was trying to get there and
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  Speaker 2: I had something come up and I couldn't go. But
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  Speaker 2: he said, look, you can't be a victim even when
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  Speaker 2: you really are. You cannot. exhibit victimhood even when you're
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  Speaker 2: a victim. And he goes, look, I fell and hit
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  Speaker 2: my head against the bathtub, he said, and I broke
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  Speaker 2: my neck and I'm a quadriplegic.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I envy paraplegics. Because at least they have
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  Speaker 1: the use of their arms and I don't. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what? I'm breathing without a ventilator. I'm here talking
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  Speaker 1: to you. I still have God. I still have my family.
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  Speaker 1: I still have my brain. I still have my voice.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't tell the story right now.
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  Speaker 2: I know. No, I know.
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  Speaker 1: But your point is, make the point about that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a great point because bad things can happen
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  Speaker 2: in our lives. And God, it's all God's will. And
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  Speaker 2: we have to remember that. God already knows how the
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  Speaker 2: midterms are going to turn out. He knows what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen after the midterms turn out, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to find out. But big things continue to happen politically.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to take you to Ohio, Mark. Vivek Ramaswamy
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  Speaker 2: is battling with Amy Acton. Have you heard about the
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  Speaker 2: last ad that just dropped featuring Amy Acton's own mother?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, where she says don't vote for my daughter?
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  Speaker 2: Mark, I've got to play it. It's only 50 seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Go.
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  Speaker 2: Hit it.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Donna Arthur, and I'm Amy Acton's mother.
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  Speaker 3: I work at Children and Family Service Association, building one
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  Speaker 3: of the first two sexual abuse programs in America. I
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  Speaker 3: love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about
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  Speaker 3: her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to say this,
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  Speaker 3: but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar.
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  Speaker 3: She lies about her past. She says she grew up
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  Speaker 3: living in a tent. None of that is true. She's
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  Speaker 3: lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, and she
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  Speaker 3: can't help you if she needs help herself. People can change,
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  Speaker 3: but first they have to tell the truth. And my
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  Speaker 3: daughter still isn't doing that. Don't vote for people who lie.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let her become your governor. If you think she'll
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  Speaker 3: make your life better, you're fooling yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It will only get worse.
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  Speaker 1: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I've been covering politics for nearly 50 years.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen an ad like that in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to be a fly on the wall at
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving in that house.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but look at what is that? Not the October surprise.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But it's funny because the other thing that does occur
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  Speaker 1: to me, though, we've all had embittered family situations. And
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if there's just some. bad blood of another
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  Speaker 1: type working there with mom. Yeah, but that's a campaign ad.
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  Speaker 1: To turn that into a campaign ad?
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  Speaker 2: Don't vote. My daughter needs help. She's a chronic liar.
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  Speaker 2: So please don't vote for people who lie to you.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to win some votes for Vivek Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling good about Vivek.
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  Speaker 2: I like his chances in Ohio after that ad. Holy moly.
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  Speaker 2: And we wonder why people don't get into politics.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine what's keeping anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine what would keep anybody from today's podcast
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  Speaker 1: because just sitting here, I got a list of like
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  Speaker 1: four or five things I got to run by you.
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  Speaker 1: And I haven't even touched it yet. I know I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about some of them. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know what?
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  Speaker 2: You want to know why people are mad at us
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  Speaker 2: about yesterday's Eminem extra?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: We did. We didn't get the Mark Davis take on the. crucifix,
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  Speaker 2: like exorcist style, falling off the wall and crushing the priest.
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  Speaker 1: I heard your segments on that, wondering, was that God?
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  Speaker 1: Was it the devil? Was that a message for all
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  Speaker 1: of us? As this priest in Ecuador is talking about
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  Speaker 1: how life is fleeting, you never can tell when something's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And then boom, boom. Will you weigh in today for me, please? Sure,
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  Speaker 2: happy to.
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  Speaker 1: I'll find something. Not knowing what to say has never
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  Speaker 1: stopped us. I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's the small bit of it.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: Minor bump in the road. I love you. Happy Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Mike's going to find something to say on the radio
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  Speaker 1: as soon as we're done at 10. And then M &
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