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AOC's Woke 1.0, El-Sayed Hates Thanksgiving, Hunter 's Laptop Lies | Last Call · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
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Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review.
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Speaker 1: Free martinis coming up.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the last call of the week for the
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Speaker 3: Three Martini Lunch. This is our weekly recap of the
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Speaker 3: biggest stories of the week. In this edition, AOC tries
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Speaker 3: to laugh off the left's insane policies on race, COVID,
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Speaker 3: and so much more as woke one point zero Michigan,
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Speaker 3: US Senate nominee of Dull Lsayed is the latest Democrat
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Speaker 3: to admit he hates Thanksgiving. Hunter Biden claims he never
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Speaker 3: dropped off a laptop, and Tucker Carlson, of course, blames
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Speaker 3: it all on Israel. And in our Chaser of the Week,
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Speaker 3: the WNBA is still stumped on who should be eligible
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Speaker 3: to play in the w NBA. But we begin with
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Speaker 3: AOC trying to giggle her way through the left's radical
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Speaker 3: culture warshift, which they actually still believe from start to finish, Jim,
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Speaker 3: we start with the left trying to very conveniently memory
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Speaker 3: hole what happened in twenty twenty, both in terms of
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Speaker 3: racial issues, in terms of COVID restrictions in terms of
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Speaker 3: so many different things that happened in that truly insane
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Speaker 3: timeframe of our politics. And let's not pretend the Democrats
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Speaker 3: have actually moved too far away from the positions that
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Speaker 3: they espouse. Then you'll notice in the clip here from
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Speaker 3: AOC she doesn't talk about the policies as much. She
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Speaker 3: talks about the rhetoric. But Alexander Acassio Cortez, who is
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Speaker 3: still one of the darlings of the far left, possible
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Speaker 3: presidential candidate, and twenty twenty eight, she was on This
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Speaker 3: Week with Jonathan Carl, which tells you right there that
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Speaker 3: she's trying to position herself or at least keep the
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Speaker 3: option open for twenty twenty eight. But the issue came
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Speaker 3: up as they were talking about Francesca Honk's candidacy in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that a little bit later in our
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Speaker 3: third martini. You know, Democrats going over the top and
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Speaker 3: hating Thanksgiving and some of the other things that Francesca
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Speaker 3: Hang has said. And Jonathan Carl says, you know, well,
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Speaker 3: some people said some pretty crazy things about defunding police
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Speaker 3: back in twenty twenty and so forth. And here's AOC's
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Speaker 3: extended response.
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Speaker 4: The local city councilman that has this uh uh saying
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Speaker 4: woke one was crazy. And I think that what's important
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Speaker 4: is that we have to assess what too far with
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Speaker 4: some of those positions.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you you briefly supported the idea of defunding
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Speaker 3: the police.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think I think that during this time,
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Speaker 4: and during especially during COVID, there was a huge opening
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Speaker 4: of the Overton window. We were shut down. There was
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Speaker 4: some of the highest unemployment rates that we have seen
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Speaker 4: because of those shutdowns, and I think that the doors
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Speaker 4: were really open and trying to entertain any and every
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Speaker 4: policy that was going to get us to a better place.
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Speaker 4: And I actually think that the discussions that had that
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Speaker 4: were had in that time were quite fruitful. I think
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Speaker 4: that when we talk about crime today, it's fundamentally different
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Speaker 4: than the way that we talked about crime and bringing
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Speaker 4: crime down right, And I think that we all share
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Speaker 4: in the goals of having as low a crime rate
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Speaker 4: as possible. I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course,
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Speaker 4: rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would
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Speaker 4: use today. And I'm grateful that these candidates have the
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Speaker 4: opportunity to present who they are to their electorate and
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Speaker 4: what they're campaigning on in this moment.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rhetoric was the problem, Jim, not the positions,
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Speaker 3: and so just giggling away all the restrictions and all
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Speaker 3: the epithets that were thrown around. Then Greg price Over
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Speaker 3: on X says it, well, wasn't it just crazy that
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Speaker 3: time we declared your country to be irredeemably racist cosmob
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Speaker 3: violence in a massive crime wave across the country by
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Speaker 3: waging a war against law enforcement ruined people's lives. That
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Speaker 3: they made a joke in a private group chat and
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Speaker 3: reoriented every American institution, so they discriminate against white men.
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Speaker 3: And that's not even getting into COVID. So they obviously
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Speaker 3: realized that's not a winning formula for them. Trump proved
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Speaker 3: that in twenty twenty four. So they're trying to scoot
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Speaker 3: away from it and pretend it never happened. But I
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Speaker 3: think it's our job to make sure they don't get
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Speaker 3: away with it.
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Speaker 1: The phrase woke one is really one of the more
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Speaker 1: chilling things that has come down the pike in a
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Speaker 1: in a long time. Greg, My favorite joke I've seen
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Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours is that hearing someone
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Speaker 1: like AOC or any progressive Democrat refer to woke one
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Speaker 1: is kind of like hearing a German refer to World
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Speaker 1: War One in nineteen twenty five. This kind of implies
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Speaker 1: there's going to be a sequel, and the sequel is
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Speaker 1: probably going to be worse than the first one. So again,
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Speaker 1: this is a reason of why, you know, do if
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Speaker 1: the Democrats return to power, whether it's through House and
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Speaker 1: Senate in the midterms, presidency in twenty twenty eight, whether
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Speaker 1: it's AOC or someone else, they will not be going
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Speaker 1: back to the pre woke you know or even the
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Speaker 1: pre Trump status quo. They will be going to a
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Speaker 1: woke two point zero. And one of the you know
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Speaker 1: DSA candidates has said the Green New Deal is no
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Speaker 1: longer our goal as our floor of what we're inking for.
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Speaker 1: Just get perspective on that. First of all, I want
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Speaker 1: to say, both to AOC and to Jonathan Carl why
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Speaker 1: are you laughing?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Why why are you so giggly about this when like
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Speaker 1: you guys like, wow, that was crazy, you know, and
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Speaker 1: I don't I didn't know. You're gonna read the Greg
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Speaker 1: Price column, which was reiterate some of my observation like
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Speaker 1: we were in an era of public hysteria. We were
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Speaker 1: in a time we're expressing a thoroughly mundane opinion, a
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Speaker 1: thoroughly mainstream position that could get you fired, that could
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Speaker 1: get you demonized on social media, right, Like people's careers
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Speaker 1: and lives were ruined, and like wow, oh oh was
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Speaker 1: some crazy stuff then, hair like you and I, like
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Speaker 1: they're talking about it the way you and I would
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Speaker 1: talk about the three strike scam player games of the
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Speaker 1: NFL back in nineteen eighty seven. That was crazy, wasn't it?
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Speaker 1: You know, like, no, no woke one point, oh however
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Speaker 1: you want a character was not really you know, like
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Speaker 1: crazy good times. It was crazy terrible times.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: Finally, AOC says that we all agree on the goal
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Speaker 1: of bringing our crime rates to as low as possible,
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Speaker 1: do we? No, Like, I'm really how you demonize the police.
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Speaker 1: You nominate and elect prosecutors who don't believe in putting
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Speaker 1: people in jail. You eliminate cash bail, You eliminate you know,
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Speaker 1: basically the ability as you you know, as Andy McCarthy
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Speaker 1: observed that like getting a long prison sentence is a
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Speaker 1: lifetime achievement award because like it's a revolving door system.
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Speaker 1: I don't think any of those things suggests that you're
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Speaker 1: really that serious about trying to bring crime rates down
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Speaker 1: as low as possible, because they if you did when
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Speaker 1: someone committed a crime and I was convicted of it
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Speaker 1: before a jury of their peers, after a fair trial,
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Speaker 1: free representation from a taxpayer expense, if after all that,
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Speaker 1: you don't want to put them in jail for very long,
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Speaker 1: I'm not so convinced that you're really committed to reducing
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Speaker 1: crime rates. I think you're perfectly fine with crime rates
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Speaker 1: either the way they are or even getting higher, as
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Speaker 1: long as it's not happening near you and your personal
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Speaker 1: security detail that I strongly suspect is armed if Second
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Speaker 1: Amendment rights that you'd want to deny to everybody else.
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Speaker 1: So no, I don't believe you at all of it.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, like but the fray, like, I have a
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Speaker 1: feeling that frame is going to stick. We're going to
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Speaker 1: see in a couple of ex you know, months and
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Speaker 1: years one point woke one point zero and Woke two
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Speaker 1: point zero, and the idea that a second wave of
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Speaker 1: wokeism is coming, and there's no reason to think it's
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Speaker 1: going to be a kindler or gentler, to use George H. W.
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Speaker 1: Bush's phrase, a milder, more user friendly. There's not going
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Speaker 1: to be diet woke. There's not going to be anything
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Speaker 1: that's going to be you know, whole grain woke. That's
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Speaker 1: going to be better than the previous version. It's going
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Speaker 1: to be the same stuff, probably even worse than before.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're seeing where the energy is in the Democratic
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Speaker 3: Party of these days. It's towards the socialist left, and
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Speaker 3: they're more aggressive about it than ever. And again AOC
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Speaker 3: is talking about the rhetoric as opposed to the policies.
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Speaker 3: Guy goes by Jesse Armont Axis over at the Manhattan Institute. So,
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Speaker 3: so what views did AOC or her political allies hold
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Speaker 3: during woke One point zero that they've actually moved away
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Speaker 3: from sex change operations for kids, biological men and women's sports,
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Speaker 3: race based discrimination and hiring and admissions, decriminalizing theft, declining
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Speaker 3: to prosecute rep defenders. So which part was actually crazy
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Speaker 3: and which part was just you know, unpopular. So it's
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Speaker 3: just amazing to watch this. And it's interesting you mentioned
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Speaker 3: Jonathan carl too, because of course the media is completely
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Speaker 3: carrying the water for these insane positions on all these
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Speaker 3: different issues, and he's like, oh, yeah, that was nuts.
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Speaker 3: Anyway over here.
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Speaker 1: He does at least say, well, you know, did you
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Speaker 1: guys go too far? And of course aoc TAP dances
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Speaker 1: around that, and it'd be nice to say, is there
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Speaker 1: a single policy from back then that you feel was
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Speaker 1: the wrong decision? And you know there's no indication aoc
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Speaker 1: SA anything from back then is beyond the rhetoric was
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Speaker 1: something to take back.
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Speaker 3: you know there's a lot of reasons why Francesca Hong
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Speaker 3: narrowly lost to David Crowley in the Wisconsin primary. Some
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Speaker 3: just thought on the left that she couldn't beat Tom
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Speaker 3: Tiffany in November, but if there's if you point to
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Speaker 3: one thing that was the tipping point, I think it
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Speaker 3: was her hatred of Thanksgiving. That's that's a hard one
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Speaker 3: to get a majority to back you after that. But
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Speaker 3: you know, as we've said before, the left has been
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Speaker 3: squeamish about Thanksgiving for a long time because they think,
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Speaker 3: you know that the Indigenous people, you know, were trampled
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Speaker 3: on in the ensuing years and so forth. But Francesca
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Speaker 3: Hong not the only one to hate Thanksgiving. Abdul l
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Speaker 3: say ed. This is from November twenty nineteen. Just a
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Speaker 3: reminder this Thanksgiving, this country was built on the systematic
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Speaker 3: annihilation of Indigenous peoples, whose ancestors suffer some of the
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Speaker 3: highest rates of homelessness, joblessness, and mortality. Today. We owe
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Speaker 3: so much more than time for reparations. Okay, first of all, Abduel,
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Speaker 3: the people alive now are not the ancestors. They're the descendants.
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Speaker 3: Let's get that right. And secondly, Jim, I think we're
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Speaker 3: just seeing once again that there's these people that just
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Speaker 3: absolutely deplore the American founding and they're going to try
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Speaker 3: to move away and say, oh well, I don't believe
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Speaker 3: that now. I was just venting at the time, but
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Speaker 3: normal Americans don't think like this.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's time. I would strongly recommend Mike Rogers
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Speaker 1: reuse the Tom Tiffany line. Sounds like a Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 1: fan because well, here's the other great irony is that
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Speaker 1: in Michigan, Thanksgiving has a very special you know, just statewide.
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Speaker 1: I would imagine tradition of watching the Detroit Lions. And
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Speaker 1: they've actually been better on Thanksgiving these last few years,
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Speaker 1: but for a long time, they were not good on Thanksgiving. Oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, you know do I'll say. I also
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Speaker 1: thinks that football is this like force of colonialism we've
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Speaker 1: talked about, Like, so he really hates like these two,
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Speaker 1: like I hate Thanksgiving and I hate foot ball. You
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Speaker 1: just lost the vote every Detroit Lion in the entire
12:03
Speaker 1: you know, every Detroit Lion if had in the entire state.
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Speaker 1: There's this phenomenon. I think Mary catherin Hamm and a
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Speaker 1: couple of people have talked about it. We're like democrats
12:12
Speaker 1: and liberals have the advantage that if you are Republican
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Speaker 1: or right of center person, say, would you believe that
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Speaker 1: democrats did X? Or said x X? Is so crazy
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Speaker 1: that people will not believe it, and they'll assume you
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Speaker 1: must be making it up. Right, So if you said, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, the guy who's running for Senate in Michigan
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Speaker 1: thinks that Thanksgiving is this awful tradition and that, you know,
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Speaker 1: instead we should all sit around and feel guilty and
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Speaker 1: we should be paying reparations and stuff like, you know, people, oh,
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Speaker 1: come on, he doesn't believe that, you know, and they'll say, no,
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Speaker 1: it was ancient history. It was six or seven years ago.
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Speaker 1: Like That's the other thing is like, look, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, Francesca Hang apparently had like really serious mental
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Speaker 1: health issues as a teenager. We didn't talk about that
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Speaker 1: in this podcast. I don't think she's thirty seven years old.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that something that somebody's going through who
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Speaker 1: in their teen years is necessarily relevant when they are
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Speaker 1: a grown adult. And there's so many other topics you
13:07
Speaker 1: can criticize this candidate for. But like you keep noticing
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Speaker 1: these candidates like, oh, that was my position that six
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Speaker 1: or seven years ago is not that long ago, and
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Speaker 1: the idea of like I hated Thanksgiving then, but I'm
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Speaker 1: a sane rational. No, no, you're not a sane rational.
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Speaker 1: It's never sane and rational say oh I hate Thanksgiving,
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Speaker 1: so what are you going after next Christmas? Oh? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: hate Halloween too? Or because it's Detroit Devil's Night. I
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Speaker 1: think it's entirely reasonable to hate Devil's Night in Detroit
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Speaker 1: because everything keeps burning down. But nonetheless, like that's the
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Speaker 1: one holiday I will completely give you a pass. I'm
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Speaker 1: not enjoying out of New Jersey. By the way, we
13:40
Speaker 1: call it mischief Knight. But yeah, so that's abdul il
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Speaker 1: say it like Mike Rogers. Come on, man, this is
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Speaker 1: about as easy it's gonna get. You have a target
13:49
Speaker 1: rich environment here, bring it home.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned football. See Ann dug this up. Kudos
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Speaker 3: to them for that quote. Folks who founded this country
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Speaker 3: on the backs of Native folks that they destroyed, then
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Speaker 3: captured people and slave them and had them work their
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Speaker 3: fields dot dot dot. You kind of see echoed in
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Speaker 3: the ethos of football. Really, I mean, maybe Colin Kaepernick
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Speaker 3: agrees with that. I think he considered the NFL combine
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Speaker 3: like a slave market or something, but players could pay
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Speaker 3: a whole lot of money.
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Speaker 1: Is the idea that it's like slavery because one team
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Speaker 1: beats another because If that's the case, the jets are
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Speaker 1: really not that guilty at.
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Speaker 3: All right, Jim, two of your favorite people, Hunter Biden,
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Speaker 3: and Tucker Carlson. We're on the Tucker Carlson Podcast and
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Speaker 3: the issue of the laptop came up. You're gonna hear
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Speaker 3: more than you ever wanted to from either of these
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Speaker 3: people in the next few minutes here. But first of all,
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Speaker 3: one of the things we had thought was pretty well
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Speaker 3: established by now Jim, is that, yes, it was Hunter
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Speaker 3: Biden's laptop, and no, there's no conspiracy here. It wasn't
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Speaker 3: the Russian disinformation or anything like that. But now Hunter
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Speaker 3: Biden's contending that, no, none, none of this is real.
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Speaker 2: Then the official story comes out about how the laptop
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Speaker 2: was left. You left a couple of laptops and a
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Speaker 2: laptop repair store in Greenville, Delaware, which I'm a town
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Speaker 2: I'm very familiar with. So and the guy was blind,
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Speaker 2: and I interviewed the guy who seemed to totally believe
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Speaker 2: the story, John mciaac. I mean, he seemed to be
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Speaker 2: telling the truth, but the story did not make sense. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: I'm getting we get approached by Israeli's connected to Benjaminina,
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Speaker 2: who like, I know that, who are shopping this stuff
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Speaker 2: to me at Fox News? And I'm like, I don't
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Speaker 2: think that that part of the story. The laptop is real.
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Speaker 2: I thought that from day one, but the way that
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Speaker 2: it entered the bloodstream exactly American media was not real.
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Speaker 2: So I just want to ask you, point blank, did
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Speaker 2: you drop off lap now? And this is the thing
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Speaker 2: that I've said over and over again, I have literally
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Speaker 2: zero recollection or memory of ever dropping off a laptop
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Speaker 2: at John Paul mcgaac's no.
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Speaker 1: The answer is no.
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Speaker 3: I may believe that Hunter Biden has no recollection of that.
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Speaker 3: He was into some interesting recreational issues at that time.
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Speaker 3: But there's more. You heard Tucker reference the Israelis here.
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Speaker 3: He's talking about different parts of that.
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Speaker 2: Can I just say one thing though, that this is
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Speaker 2: what I experienced during that time, The allegation that there
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Speaker 2: was abusive miners deefen on the laptop that came from
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Speaker 2: the Israelis. I'm just telling you that they came to
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Speaker 2: me with that, so I know that and One of
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Speaker 2: the things that enraged me about the statement from those
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Speaker 2: sleazy Intel guys is that they blame the Russians for now.
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Speaker 2: Maybe the Russians had a hand in it, but it
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Speaker 2: was the Israelis who are pushing that fact.
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Speaker 1: Fact.
17:49
Speaker 2: But they were pushing that so hard, and all the
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Speaker 2: Intail guys are.
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Speaker 4: Like, go, it's Russia.
17:52
Speaker 1: It's like, you lie, you lie. Because they called me.
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Speaker 2: I sent one of my producers out to go meet
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Speaker 2: with one of net guy connected to that and Yahoo.
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Speaker 2: They were behind that, and I felt that everybody in
18:05
Speaker 2: DC knew that, but there was so much pressure never
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Speaker 2: to criticize Israel in any way that they were just like,
18:10
Speaker 2: it's the Russians. It's the Russians. They're the ones penetrating
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Speaker 2: our political system. It's like, you lie. Everyone knows what's
18:18
Speaker 2: actually happening. This was my perspective and it drove me insane.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, I didn't say that on Fox News.
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Speaker 2: I'll admit it.
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Speaker 1: I didn't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't, You're right. I just want to say
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Speaker 2: I was part of the problem also, but I knew it.
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Speaker 3: Jim. It was Joe Biden's people. The Intel community is
18:34
Speaker 3: trying to protect Joe Biden that we're talking about Russian disinformation.
18:37
Speaker 3: It wasn't the right and I don't know. There's so
18:39
Speaker 3: many different ways you could go here. What stands out
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Speaker 3: to you?
18:42
Speaker 1: So when your assertion is it's not true and your
18:47
Speaker 1: next words are, I have no memory of this. That
18:51
Speaker 1: is not as exculpatory as you think it is, and
18:53
Speaker 1: in fact you are not. You're roughly as reliable as
18:57
Speaker 1: Leonard Shelby from Memento, the guy for memory reset every
19:01
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Why are we trusted you? I do love
19:05
Speaker 1: when Tucker Carlson decides to go down a rat hole
19:08
Speaker 1: where you can almost hear Candice Owens saying, oh come on,
19:13
Speaker 1: or Alex Jones saying I don't buy it. I will
19:17
Speaker 1: say a fact check true. When Tucker Carlson says it
19:20
Speaker 1: drove me insane. Yeah, okay, I believe that part. That
19:22
Speaker 1: part makes sense. You know again, I can't take credit
19:25
Speaker 1: for this. I believe was Rod Dryer who said, I
19:27
Speaker 1: finally figured out how to give you a guest on
19:29
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's program, and he put up a picture Bigfoot
19:32
Speaker 1: is Israeli, And now you know so Hunter Biden very
19:38
Speaker 1: much would like to stay relevant in today's politics. I
19:41
Speaker 1: don't think I need to hear from Hunter Biden very
19:44
Speaker 1: much at all. One of the rare exceptions would be
19:45
Speaker 1: his update on his father's health, which he said is
19:47
Speaker 1: doing very badly. He said that the stage four prostate
19:51
Speaker 1: cancer has metastastized to his bones and his dad is
19:55
Speaker 1: in debilitating condition. I wrote about that in Today's In
19:58
Speaker 1: this week's Washington Post column, think we should all be
20:00
Speaker 1: praying for Joe Biden. That cancer is a terrible thing.
20:03
Speaker 1: The point of my column was also that it had
20:05
Speaker 1: Biden managed to get reelected, which was extremely unlikely, but
20:09
Speaker 1: if he had managed to do that, he almost certainly
20:11
Speaker 1: would have had to resign the presidency by now, and
20:14
Speaker 1: a lot of people, like I know, they would have
20:15
Speaker 1: covered it up. It's very very hard to cover cancer treatments,
20:20
Speaker 1: and you know, this kind of the conditions of Biden
20:22
Speaker 1: is in right now. So anyway, but Hunter Bid very
20:26
Speaker 1: much wants to stay relevant. Every couple of weeks he'll
20:28
Speaker 1: say something like he's thinking of running for president or
20:30
Speaker 1: some other thing, which is clearly designs like look at me,
20:33
Speaker 1: pay attention to me, have me as your guest considered
20:36
Speaker 1: be relevant to the discussion because I think a large
20:40
Speaker 1: portion of the of Americans and the American political spectrum
20:43
Speaker 1: are perfectly happy to let Hunter Biden go. Do something
20:47
Speaker 1: else with your life, Get out of our lives, get
20:50
Speaker 1: out of the spotlight. It's been really bad for you.
20:52
Speaker 1: We're not interested in relitigating the Biden legacy, you know, go,
20:56
Speaker 1: and Hunter Biden desperately wants to stay in this. It's like,
21:00
Speaker 1: who wants to listen to Hunter Biden for like now, Well,
21:02
Speaker 1: it turns out Tucker Carlson wants to listen to Hunter
21:04
Speaker 1: Biden for hours at a time and is willing to
21:07
Speaker 1: believe Ah, the laptop was all a deep bb Net
21:10
Speaker 1: and Yahoo dropped it off at the store and all
21:13
Speaker 1: these other kind of crazy conspiracy theories and stuff. And
21:16
Speaker 1: here's what you'd be like, Well, okay, so you know,
21:18
Speaker 1: Jim greg, where are you talking about Hunter about Tucker Carlson? Well,
21:22
Speaker 1: I mean, according you know, apparently Marjorie Taylor Green and
21:27
Speaker 1: all these Thomas Massey, all these usual suspects are talking
21:31
Speaker 1: about forming a third party. Now, I don't know whether
21:34
Speaker 1: you want to make it the you know, the octopus symbol,
21:36
Speaker 1: the crazy conspiracy theorist party, or something like that. But
21:39
Speaker 1: they very much believe that they are a political force,
21:42
Speaker 1: that they are significant, that they speak for presumably a
21:46
Speaker 1: chunk of the Republican base, but maybe a chunk of
21:48
Speaker 1: the Democratic base as well, and that they are going places.
21:51
Speaker 1: I wonder what percentage of their audience is watching them
21:55
Speaker 1: because they genuinely follow them, believe them, and what percentage
21:57
Speaker 1: of their audience is just watching them for entertainment. But
22:01
Speaker 1: you know, again the Stucker Carlson going off on his
22:03
Speaker 1: you know, crazy pills and telling you that everything you
22:07
Speaker 1: know is wrong and I know the secret because my
22:09
Speaker 1: producer has met with the Israeli blah blah blah blah blah.
22:13
Speaker 3: That's quite the side. Yeah. I also noticed that, you know,
22:16
Speaker 3: Hunter Biden, nothing is ever his fault. Yes, I hope
22:19
Speaker 3: he's clean and sober and has been for several years now.
22:22
Speaker 3: I hope that continues for him. But he had decades
22:25
Speaker 3: of excuses and counter blaming and blame shifting, and I
22:29
Speaker 3: don't think that necessarily goes away right away. I mean,
22:32
Speaker 3: it's pretty well established. I think his signature is on
22:34
Speaker 3: something right when he dropped that off at this repair
22:37
Speaker 3: shop in Delaware's.
22:38
Speaker 1: That and you know, like, it's terrible that the Republicans
22:41
Speaker 1: kept putting the crack pipe into his hand, and it's
22:43
Speaker 1: terrible the what the Republicans made him leave that gun
22:45
Speaker 1: that was you know that he lied on the application
22:48
Speaker 1: for and it's terrible. Like read the biographies of his
22:52
Speaker 1: ex wife and other Biden family members. Hunter Biden is
22:55
Speaker 1: a deeply, deeply troubled individual who has made the wrong
22:58
Speaker 1: decision at almost every single opportunity. I don't know why
23:01
Speaker 1: he's done this, but I think this is a guy
23:03
Speaker 1: who really really needs much more help. And I don't
23:06
Speaker 1: think being a celebrity does anything does any good for
23:09
Speaker 1: anybody's mental health or their decision making as the more
23:12
Speaker 1: fame and fortune they obtained. Remember, he attempted to claim
23:15
Speaker 1: to prostitutes as a business expense on his taxes.
23:19
Speaker 3: Just going to ask did the massage shoot these scenes
23:21
Speaker 3: with him and the prostitutes and weighing the crack on
23:23
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Speaker 1: Jim.
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Speaker 3: There challenges in this life. We face them every day.
24:44
Speaker 3: Some are minor, some are intermediate, Some are significant, but
24:48
Speaker 3: the ESPN reported two days ago this is so good.
24:52
Speaker 3: A WNBA task force of team presidents and general managers
24:55
Speaker 3: met Wednesday and discuss transgender athletes, but did not arise
25:00
Speaker 3: I've had any eligibility rules, according to a statement sent
25:03
Speaker 3: to ESPN by All League spokesman, which led to a
25:05
Speaker 3: guy named Jack saying on X let this sink in.
25:08
Speaker 3: Fifteen women gathered together in a room for hours, and
25:11
Speaker 3: they couldn't decide on what a woman is. Jim. They're
25:15
Speaker 3: all frustrated that this controversy is supposedly distracting from the
25:18
Speaker 3: performance on the floor. It's their own fault.
25:20
Speaker 1: Greg, what are the odds that that meeting began with
25:23
Speaker 1: them saying, all right, before we settle into this decision,
25:25
Speaker 1: let's decide what we want for lunch. I'm just gonna say,
25:30
Speaker 1: you know, part because of you know, I believe it
25:32
Speaker 1: or not, I try to eat healthy ag one. You know,
25:35
Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, would like me to try
25:37
Speaker 1: to keep making good, healthy choices. And I can look
25:39
Speaker 1: at a menu and like usually there's like three things
25:42
Speaker 1: that feel like are good enough for me, and I'll
25:44
Speaker 1: pick that. I can make a decision. Many like sixty seconds.
25:48
Speaker 1: This is garrity many women, I know, like at least
25:52
Speaker 1: twice we're going to do a few more minutes. We
25:54
Speaker 1: have to tell the wait start staff, right, you know,
25:56
Speaker 1: I have real if my food had come, I could
25:58
Speaker 1: have completed my need by the time. You know it's
26:01
Speaker 1: now we're being sexist jerks. But let's just kinda observe,
26:05
Speaker 1: like why why are we making these sexist these these
26:07
Speaker 1: sexist jokes because we have an idea of what a
26:09
Speaker 1: woman is and what a man is, and that's kind
26:11
Speaker 1: of you know, like the stereotypes come from having categories.
26:15
Speaker 1: If you don't know what these things are, you can't
26:17
Speaker 1: make these kinds of jokes. So, dear w NBA, I
26:21
Speaker 1: think people have pointed out what is the first letter
26:23
Speaker 1: in your what does the first letter stand for? And
26:26
Speaker 1: you need a definition for that. And I saw somebody say, well,
26:29
Speaker 1: you know, we believe in participation, but we don't like
26:31
Speaker 1: these bad faith attacks. Okay, how do you define what
26:35
Speaker 1: a bad faith attack is versus a good faith attack? Right?
26:38
Speaker 1: I go, does enniscanter freedom or whatever he's calling himself
26:41
Speaker 1: the is he really you know, does he really think
26:43
Speaker 1: of himself as a woman? I think if you hook
26:45
Speaker 1: him up to as a polygraph, he probably would not
26:47
Speaker 1: say you probably would flunk. But who are you to say?
26:51
Speaker 1: And it was interesting to see, well, if he starts
26:54
Speaker 1: taking hormones and stuff, well like, well wait a second way,
26:56
Speaker 1: say wait, so you're saying you have to take hormones
26:58
Speaker 1: to be a woman. We're getting like, it's interesting to
27:00
Speaker 1: see how quickly we can get those on the left
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Speaker 1: to say, all right, we need some clarity in our
27:05
Speaker 1: definitions and there are certain boxes you need to check
27:10
Speaker 1: in order to meet the definition of this category, which
27:13
Speaker 1: is what we've been arguing for from the very beginning.
27:15
Speaker 1: Now they're on board with them, but it's like, oh,
27:16
Speaker 1: we've got to keep these former NBA guys who are
27:18
Speaker 1: just looking for attention out of the WNBA. Look, you
27:21
Speaker 1: know this was an inevitable development. If you do not
27:26
Speaker 1: have a definition for what a woman is, then you
27:29
Speaker 1: cannot have categories of women. You can't have a women's bathroom,
27:31
Speaker 1: you can't have a women's locker room, you can't have
27:33
Speaker 1: a women's basketball association. Like you need to have the
27:37
Speaker 1: term to fined in the first place. And they've tried
27:39
Speaker 1: to avoid this as long as possible. Guess what WNBA
27:43
Speaker 1: The day of reckoning is here.
27:44
Speaker 3: The left still can't answer the question four years ago
27:47
Speaker 3: is Katanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing. She couldn't answer it.
27:49
Speaker 3: She's not a biologist and the question was out there
27:51
Speaker 3: way before that. So the left, you'll just be clowning
27:54
Speaker 3: yourself here. But it's not just.
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Speaker 1: A biologists, so have to make this decision. It's professional
28:00
Speaker 1: sports leagues, it's high school sports leagues, it's any institution
28:04
Speaker 1: that's got a men's room in a women's room.
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