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Normally Podcast: Democrats Meltdown on Camera, Fauci Cover-Up Claims & Nigel Farage’s UK Surge · Normally

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Yays, we are back on normal you show with normalish
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  Speaker 1: takes for when the news gets weird. I am Mary,
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  Speaker 1: Cathryn Nils.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Carol Marco. It's how are you, Mary, Catherine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. You'll be glad to know that I got
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: my children so dirty this morning that I bathe them.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, right, let's make it really worth it. Yes, once,
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  Speaker 1: So what do you do? We went to like a
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: regional park where they have access to a bay and
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  Speaker 1: then there's just like a huge beach area that's not
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  Speaker 1: the Potomac. Don't anybody worry.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bay, not swimming in the Potomac.
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  Speaker 1: No. And I just let them wait around in the
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  Speaker 1: mud and stuff and goof off and it's probably goosepoop involved.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know what about you, Carol.
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  Speaker 2: You know the kids are doing their year end things.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Are school years almost over. That's quite nice. And I
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  Speaker 2: have a driving child now, so she does a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the taking her brothers around.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Wow, it's great. That is a real upgrade.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I posted this on X but when we
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  Speaker 2: were in Brooklyn last weekend. You know, all of her
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  Speaker 2: friends in Brooklyn can't drive for another year, so it
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  Speaker 2: would be like, within the first thirty seconds of the conversation,
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  Speaker 2: they'd be like, how are you doing? She's like, I
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  Speaker 2: drive now. I have my driver's license, so that's all
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Great? Just cruising now it is? Yeah, well that's great.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about Dems crashing out? What is
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  Speaker 2: going on? I feel like they fall apart at the
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  Speaker 2: tiniest bit of pushback. And I know you and I
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  Speaker 2: have been talking about this for a long time that
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  Speaker 2: they just have no stamina for the kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: that Republicans have to face. But even by our extremely
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  Speaker 2: low standards for them, they've been not meeting those standards.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So Aavier Era is running for governor of California, and
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  Speaker 2: he was set up to have an interview with a
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  Speaker 2: local California station and he kind of lost the plot
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  Speaker 2: right off the bat. Let's roll that clip. This is
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  Speaker 2: the start of our interview with Javia Prista in Highland Park.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, this is a profile piece.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a gotcha piece.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I think we're these questions are fair. It's
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  Speaker 2: in order to learn about you as a candidate. So
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  Speaker 2: one is about the profile.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to begin the interview the way I described profile is
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  Speaker 1: you talk about all the things that I've done, things
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  Speaker 1: I want to do, and along with some tough questions,
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  Speaker 1: but not only a tough question.
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  Speaker 2: She hadn't asked anything yet, and he was already like,
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  Speaker 2: you're only going to talk about good.
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  Speaker 1: Things, right, right, well, And I do feel like even
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  Speaker 1: for a Democrat, if you even for a Democrat, even
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  Speaker 1: for if you take this posture with even a reporter
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  Speaker 1: who is friends likely to be basically supportive of you,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be more likely to ask hard things
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  Speaker 1: because they're like, it's not your function to tell me
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  Speaker 1: what we're talking about here. Also, it just is not
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  Speaker 1: that hard to be an adult who has been asked
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  Speaker 1: questions before, exactly as a person who is running for
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  Speaker 1: governor of California.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So one of the things is that federal
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors had uncovered a conspiracy in which some of his
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  Speaker 2: top aides and consultants siphoned money from his old attorney
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  Speaker 2: general campaign account. And so I think he was worried
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  Speaker 2: about her asking about that. But in which case, prepare
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  Speaker 2: an answer. You know, he's named as a victim in
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  Speaker 2: that indictment. It's not a bad thing for him necessarily
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: unless he reacts like a lunatic, in which case it
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  Speaker 2: becomes a bigger story. It's like, well, what did he
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  Speaker 2: not want to be asked about? And then the other
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  Speaker 2: thing that she ended up asking him about was a
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  Speaker 2: New York Times story about his time as HHS secretary
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  Speaker 2: where they lost some number of migrant miners in the
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  Speaker 2: detention centers. Again, you know what she's going to ask you,
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  Speaker 2: You know what the tough questions you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: prepare in advance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just have something. I do enjoy that. Katie Porter
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  Speaker 1: just straight up said in a debate on stage, he's
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  Speaker 1: saying that that's MAGA talking points, but actually it's true.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, yes, that's what we were saying several
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  Speaker 1: years ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's how all MAGA talking points turn out.
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  Speaker 1: Usually how that works. So I'm glad to have the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats saying that now. But yes, just prepare something. But look,
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  Speaker 1: this guy has been California Attorney general, worked as an
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  Speaker 1: attorney for years, has been elected to office, and was
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  Speaker 1: the head of HHS, and is now running for governor
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  Speaker 1: and cannot muster better than this.
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  Speaker 2: I like from a local reporter and not saying that
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  Speaker 2: local reporters are you know, less than in any way,
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  Speaker 2: but they tend not to be like the national reporters
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  Speaker 2: looking for the big clip. It's funny because she got
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  Speaker 2: the big clip without ever asking for it, without actuallying
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 1: This is similar to what happened with that very viral
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  Speaker 1: clip of Katie Porter where she went off on the reporter.
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  Speaker 1: That was also just a sit down like let's chat,
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  Speaker 1: but the reporter had ideas of I don't know, asking
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  Speaker 1: her a few like medium challenging things that she did
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  Speaker 1: not like that at all. So Yeah, the reporters in California,
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  Speaker 1: the TV reporters in California making a name for themselves
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  Speaker 1: by by not doing at all, balanced with almost nothing.
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  Speaker 2: By asking extremely standard campaign questions.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate their efforts though nonetheless it is it's entertaining
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  Speaker 1: to watch and truly, how are you going to be
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  Speaker 1: governor of California? At least Newsom can talk right. I
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  Speaker 1: can critique his talking because he's often lying right, but
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: he does just like have words come out of his mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Also in the DEM crash out pile, Senator from Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: Chris Van Holland had this exchange with FBI director Cash Patel.
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  Speaker 3: The only person that was slinging Margarita is in the
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  Speaker 3: Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gangbanging rapist.
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  Speaker 3: Was you, you know, the only person that ran up
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  Speaker 3: a director bar tab in Washington, DC at the lobby
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  Speaker 3: dark room drinking on tacked pair dime during the day.
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  Speaker 2: Now, he had asked Cash Patel about the allegations that
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  Speaker 2: he was drinking at work, and Cash gave that excellent
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  Speaker 2: answer and basically shut it down completely. And Ben Holland
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  Speaker 2: has been all over the place ever since.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's his reaction is crazy. First, the question is fine,
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  Speaker 1: Like there's an Atlantic piece that says that Cash has
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  Speaker 1: this issue. Ask about that an answer from the guy.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to expect that these cabinet secretaries come
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  Speaker 1: armed with oppo. They simply do. And I don't mind
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  Speaker 1: it because if you're a congress person you should be
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  Speaker 1: used to that. Again, this is these are tough questions
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  Speaker 1: for you. Ask the question, but expect to get something back.
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  Speaker 1: And in Patel's case, he comes with several points about
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  Speaker 1: how Van Holland was sitting at the table having Margarita's
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  Speaker 1: with this guy. Very famous picture brings up a weakness
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  Speaker 1: for him because it's not a good look y. He
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  Speaker 1: references an FEC filing that was many thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 1: spent on alcohol. Then Van Holland decides that the way
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  Speaker 1: to respond to this is by tweeting all morning or like.
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  Speaker 1: The last three tweets he has are in response to
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  Speaker 1: Cash Pattel. So the rapid response forty seven sent out
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  Speaker 1: the picture and Chris Van Holland is like, glasses were
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  Speaker 1: placed in front of us, but we did not drink that.
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  Speaker 1: I know that maybe be a confusing concept for director Patel.
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  Speaker 1: The next tweet is yesterday FBI director Cash told me
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  Speaker 1: he'd take the Alcohol Use Disorder's identification test if I did. Well,
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: here's mine. Given all the lies he told yesterday, I
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  Speaker 1: imagine he'll fudge the numbers here. But let's see yours,
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  Speaker 1: director Patel. So he went into this thing asking when
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  Speaker 1: did you stop beating your wife? Yeah, and then he
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  Speaker 1: ends up doing surveys online about how maybe he beats
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  Speaker 1: his wife.
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  Speaker 2: It's wild. It's wild again. It's that expectations game. Cash
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  Speaker 2: Patel expected to be attacked, and that is why he
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  Speaker 2: was so well prepared. But these Democrats completely don't expect that.
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  Speaker 2: They think they're going to get a walk everywhere they go,
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  Speaker 2: and so they come off it's so unprepared.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He also tweeted about the bar tab and he's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: technically that wasn't public money. It's like, my god, have
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  Speaker 1: you ever heard when you're explaining you're losing, because that's
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  Speaker 1: what happened. What is happening right now? Yeah. I also
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  Speaker 1: do want to say on the ptel front, there was
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  Speaker 1: the story after the story that alleged his drinking, talked
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  Speaker 1: about how he gives bourbon bottles a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: as I just want to say that that's not very weird,
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  Speaker 1: right in well enforcement communities. In law enforcement communities, they're
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  Speaker 1: often it's a lot of men like bourbon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, lot of women.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of women do too. But if you're giving
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  Speaker 1: gifts to men in law enforcement, it's a pretty good bet, right, right.
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  Speaker 1: So they have them in grace and various teams. They
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  Speaker 1: look cool and this is not a very odd thing
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  Speaker 1: to give. It doesn't. It's not a signal of a
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  Speaker 1: red flag of some big problem.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Absolutely, I have bottles that I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 2: drink wine, but I have bottles of wine that have
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  Speaker 2: a politician's like logo on it. At no point did
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  Speaker 2: anybody think, oh, that politician has a drinking problem, because
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  Speaker 2: that has nothing to do with anything. And again, I
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  Speaker 2: would love a cash Battel branded bottle of I'm a
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  Speaker 2: rye drinker if you have rye, but I'll take bourbon.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: That's fine, you know, send it over.
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  Speaker 1: It's very off brand from me, but I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: brown liquor girl.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: Wow, that does that does seem off brand for you?
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  Speaker 2: And it seems like you would totally be like I thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as we're talking about this and like, but
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  Speaker 2: we both drink brown liquor.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I should do the Bourbon Trail to
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  Speaker 1: like to like, I'll take my palette more sophisticated. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, Chris van Holland can use that
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  Speaker 1: opo against me at somebody.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: But right, alcoholic normally girls.
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  Speaker 1: We should take that trip and improve my uh my tastes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. Actually, I'm fully serious, a normally
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  Speaker 2: sponsor it.
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  Speaker 1: We are on our way We're going to.
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Take a short break and be right back with more
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: on Normally. We are back on Normally where a haunted
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: virus outbreak aboard a crew ship has made people go
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: a little nuts and start thinking about again lockdowns or
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: masking or whatever. And I immediately saw the reaction from
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: people who you know, we all suffered through it during COVID,
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: just being like, don't even try it, but I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you. You know, it's funny. The COVID fiasco has made people
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: so suspicious of any story, but the story about this
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: hantavirus kind of sounds legit, even though it did give
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: me a little bit of the you know, eating bats
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: at the wet market vibes. But apparently a Dutch couple
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: were on a long bird watching trip through South America
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  Speaker 2: and they bored the MB Hondias, which is the ship
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  Speaker 2: that had the outbreak. They reportedly visited a landfill that
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: is famous among birders for attracting rare scavenger birds, especially
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: the white throated kara kara. And from what the Post reports,
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  Speaker 2: this landfill is so disgusting and like completely not allowed
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  Speaker 2: to have tourism, and yet this couple.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I would bathe my children right there.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, shower almost directly afterwards, at least maybe even hand sanitizer. Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: The theory is that the rodents living around the dump
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: carried this particular andy strain of the hunted virus. Investigators
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: think the couple may have inhaled the virus particles from
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: the contaminated rodent droppings or urine while bird watching there.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: It's all super gross. Shortly after boarding the cruise, the
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: husband became ill and later died, but apparently he had
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: spread that infection to several other passengers and crew members
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: aboard this cruise ship. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is plausible because birders are very serious
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: They are serious.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: If you're if you're going to another country, yeah, to
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: look for birds. We're already a couple of steps beyond
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: where I'm ever going to be, and the landfill is
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: just one more step. It's like bird watchers, particularly if
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: they if there really is a rare bird that shows
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: up there, I could see. It's like Pokemon got to
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: catch them all, you know, they got to get out
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: there and they got to say I saw the kra kara.
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of anything that I would want to
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  Speaker 2: go to a landfill for like they're like, hey, there's
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: like a brand new burken bag at the landfill. Like
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: you know what. Pass.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: I heard a story one time about somebody who like
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: lost their physical bitcoin. There was worth like huge amounts
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: of money and it was in a landfill and they
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: went looking for it.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: No still, no, keep still for you. I just I'll
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: never be able to watch that off me.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do you think? Yes, if we can all
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: stay calm as hauntavirus is less communicable than COVID, not
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: everything with virus attached to it needs to be panic.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: My let's see, let's assess our risk, which is the
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: thing that so many did not do in public health
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that would be nice. Also on the communicable disease front,
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  Speaker 2: a COVID whistleblower testified today. His name is James Erdman,
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  Speaker 2: and he testified that Fauci's role in the COVID cover
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: up was intentional. I think that's kind of a big deal.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: I think that's going to be like in any mainstream
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  Speaker 2: media tomorrow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I think media long ago just said we're just
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: gonna slide right on past this, and we're not really
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: gonna revisit, And we're not going to talk about when
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: people we loved were incredibly bad actors and outright lied
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: to the American people for control over their lives over
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: and over again. So no, I don't think we're going
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: to hear a lot about this. I'm not surprised that
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: someone reports that Fauci deliberately led people to believe this.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: That was what I suspected all along. Yeah, I think
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: he's shown a propensity to lie in public many times over,
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  Speaker 1: and this is just another example. But you know, it'd
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: be nice. It'd be nice if those people who supported
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Faucian called all of us monsters for pointing out when
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: he was lying, could say, oops, yeah, are bad.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: They can't. They can't because I even at the very beginning,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: where Fauci throws out a pitch at an empty stadium,
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: he wears his mask to the pitcher's mound and throws
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: the pitch where nobody is anywhere near him, and then
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: he goes back into the stands and sit with I
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: think it was his wife, and then another friend takes
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: off the mask, eats popcorn, is like none of it
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: made any sense, and yeah, still mad, bro.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, none of them lived like they actually were talking
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: about the virus right like. None of it matched up
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: except for in rare cases, and certainly not with Fauci.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: By the way, the CIA spokesperson says, the committee acted
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: in bad faith by subpoenaing an agency officer for testimony
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: today without notifying CIA, despite having already obtained closed door
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: of testimony from the individual previously. Well, if they obtained
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: the testimony, then why isn't it fair game for us
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: as well? The witness testifying today is not appearing as
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul So, yeah, so
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: he can talk.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, fine to me. Yeah. Andrew Colvit summarized
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Erdman's testimony by saying Fauci stacked the Intelligence Communities analysis
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: with conflicted scientists funded by NIAID who pushed the natural
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: origin lie while obfuscating facts around a lab leak from Wuhan, China.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: CIA managers retaliated against analysts who refused to go along
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: with the middle of the night rewrite that buried the
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: lab leak conclusion. Seems bad, I don't know again, you
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: know when hantavirus hits and everybody's first reaction is I'm
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: not doing anything to stop this. I don't care what
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: they tell me about it. That's not great. You know.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: If we do have a contagion that's actually bad and
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: deadly and very easily passed, we're going to be in
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: trouble because these people lied about COVID.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, frittering away public trust was not a great idea,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and we kept saying that, and.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: If only somebody had said it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Please listen to us, help us, help you. Nonetheless, few
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: they were not interested in that.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: No, they were not They were not at all interested
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: in that. All right, we're going to take a short
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: break and come right back with some British politics. British
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: be right back.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, we are back on normally with a little news
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: from overseas. In the UK, where Cure Starmer of the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Labor Party is the Prime minister, they held what's sort
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: of equivalent to the midterms, like everyone that's not a
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: member of Parliament is voted on, and the Labor Party
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: lost thirteen hundred seats. I think it's a lot over
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a thousand. It was a lot, and they didn't all
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: by the way go to the Tory Party. Many of
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: them went to the Reform Party which is headed by
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Nigel Farage. So the left took a beating here. This
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: is the party that is the party of the Prime Minister.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: He's of course like on thin ice now having all
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: these meetings trying to figure out is there going to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: be a leadership position change because he is clearly so
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  Speaker 1: unliked and I think, frankly very obviously inept. So he's
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  Speaker 1: sort of hanging on by his fingernails at ten Downing
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  Speaker 1: and people in his own party trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: how to get them out of this situation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tom Bevin posted what happened in the UK elections
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  Speaker 2: on the night that it was going down, and I
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  Speaker 2: mean basically Labor and also Conservatives they lost quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: but Green gained and Liberal Democrats gained, and of course
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  Speaker 2: Reform gained the most. So he had Reform up by
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  Speaker 2: three twenty, libdem up by twenty three, and Green's up
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  Speaker 2: by twenty two, Conservatives down by eighty and Labored down
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  Speaker 2: by two hundred and six. I just kind of hard
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  Speaker 2: to understand what's going to happen in Britain when I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to just the centrist parties will no
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  Speaker 2: longer exist if things continue down this road. There's some
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  Speaker 2: conservatives I really like, but there's conservatives that are not
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  Speaker 2: conservative at all in Britain and I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: I think they want that version of American conservativism. And
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I got into it with a Wall Street Journal whatever
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  Speaker 2: writer who said Trump has nothing to do with this.
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  Speaker 2: He was on with Stuart Barney, and Stuart asked him,
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  Speaker 2: do you think this Trump played any role? I think
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  Speaker 2: Trump does play a role. I think Trump showed something big,
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  Speaker 2: which is that you can close the border to a
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  Speaker 2: legal immigration period, end of sentence, and that's something. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that what reform is doing in Britain is
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  Speaker 2: saying we could try that here.
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  Speaker 1: We could do that. Yeah. Well, and it's also interesting
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  Speaker 1: that the Labor Party, which should be sort of the
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  Speaker 1: more centrist of the lefty parties, has gone from Tony
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  Speaker 1: Blair to Cure Starmer. Right, that's the trajectory, right, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not serving people well. I also think it's interesting
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  Speaker 1: that these are that you hear this big cry out
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  Speaker 1: in local elections, because it feels to me like that
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  Speaker 1: might be a sign that local competence and on the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: street crime and disorder issues are playing pretty large in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of politics, and if you stick to those messages,
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  Speaker 1: you might do pretty well wherever you are in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the look this podcast is called normally
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: because we like normal behavior, and I think there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: crazy about saying I want to reduce crime on our streets.
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  Speaker 2: I want to reduce illegal immigration because if for no
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  Speaker 2: other reason it's illegal, it's not permitted. I want to
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  Speaker 2: follow the laws. I think a lot of people and
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I talk about Asia a lot because I just I've
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  Speaker 2: been there twice in the last couple of years, and
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed what I saw there in places like Singapore,
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  Speaker 2: and people are like, well, but yeah, but Singapore canes.
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  Speaker 2: People like, you don't have to cane people. What if
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  Speaker 2: you just enforced your laws at the standard that people expect.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want caning, that's good. Why don't you just
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  Speaker 2: put them in regular old jail.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the laws when it comes to immigration
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  Speaker 1: in our country were passed by a democratically elected Congress,
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  Speaker 1: and people act like it's fascism right to enforce the
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  Speaker 1: laws created by our elected officials. I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with that, and I would like to
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  Speaker 1: see it done. But I think this kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: is resonating all over and that the Left took us
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  Speaker 1: down these paths for so long and punished people so
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  Speaker 1: much for speaking up about them, that people are now like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: we're making a turn. We're making a turn.
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  Speaker 2: Here, sharp, sharp turn. So let's see what happens. I
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  Speaker 2: root for the UK. I would love to see it
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: be a functioning society, and so much about what's happening
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  Speaker 2: there right now is not functional at all, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that no growth. For example, they're just you know,
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  Speaker 2: somebody there was this thing. I think we talked about
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  Speaker 2: it on here, but if they were a US state,
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  Speaker 2: they would be our fifty first poorest state.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, speaking of normalcy. I wanted to make this
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  Speaker 1: point about DC too, and I might have done it
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  Speaker 1: before in the podcast, but it matters to me. The
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  Speaker 1: left will sort of tisk tisk about the reflecting pool
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: or the fountains and the parks being on the fountain
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  Speaker 1: in DuPont Circle is on. The fountain in Meridian Park
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: is on. The fountains in the Lafayette Park are on
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  Speaker 1: the National Park Service I think is the entity that
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  Speaker 1: is doing that work.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen them on before.
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  Speaker 1: I have lived in this town since twenty two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and four. Now there may have been times that they
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  Speaker 1: were on at some point, but as a rule, they
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  Speaker 1: have been off the entire time I've lived here. Just
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: like the escalators on the Metro don't worry, and so
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: people sort of tiss tiss, like I can't believe they're
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: spending money on this or that. It's like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: having them functioning seems like the bare minimum, and I
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  Speaker 1: kind of enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you kind of get used to the idea
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  Speaker 2: that things don't function, I think things spiral out of
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: control very quickly. Things should function. That's a good message.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Well, and I realized when I saw the water flowing
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: over the Meridian Park fountains. I was like, it could
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: have been so much better the whole time. And it
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: is a small thing, but it's a thing that signals
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: deep down, someone's running this place in a way that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: makes the people here feel cared for.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: The broken windows theory in New York did so much
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: because they didn't allow subways to go out covered in graffiti,
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  Speaker 2: and so that made people expect that things would be
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: clean and taken care of. And these are good things.
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  Speaker 2: We want, these things. We love to see it. We
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