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  Howie Carr, How are things? Pretty good.
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  It's Groundhog Day here, you know.
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  Oh. President Trump says he's going
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  to blow up Iran and that he doesn't blow up Iran.
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  Wouldn't you know it, that was going to be my first question to
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  you, Howie Carr. So I'm glad you brought it up.
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  So what's going on here? I don't know.
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  It's, it's, it's almost like he doesn't want to do it, you know,
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  But I don't think he's, I don't think every time he pulls back,
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  I guess I think they get more, more, you know, convinced that
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  nothing's going to happen. I agree.
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  And I'm, I'm wondering what his play is here, right, 'cause
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  generally speaking, I've believed that the Trump
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  administration and Trump himself, you know, are play a
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  pretty good game usually at this at this kind of diplomatic
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  stuff. So usually I don't think that
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  things are done without reasons. But this is like the fifth time
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  he's been like, well, I'm going to blow you up tomorrow and then
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  he doesn't do it. So what's the point of making
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  the threat if you're not going to do it?
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  I mean, you've done it once or twice, no?
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  And, you know, he says because of the Arabs, I mean, are the
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  Arabs now at the board of directors of the United States
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  of America? You know, and, and I would think
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  that since they're the ones that are getting bombed, wouldn't you
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  think they would? I I thought they were the ones
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  like the Saudis who were saying go in and take them out.
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  Yeah, Another thing, go take them out.
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  Well, the other thing too is if he's going.
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  To. Yeah, if he's going to.
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  I mean, he we didn't know. I didn't at least I didn't see
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  anything that said, hey, I'm going to blow you up tomorrow
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  before he announced that he wasn't blowing people up.
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  So if indeed they asked you to not blow him up and you were
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  planning to and you hadn't really told us much anything,
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  I'm not sure why you volunteer after the fact.
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  Well, I was going to do it, but then they asked me not to, so I
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  didn't. It's it was.
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  It's odd. There was going to be the big
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  meeting today, right? There was going to be the big
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  meeting. And you sometimes they, they,
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  they, they, they learned, they think they're going to learn
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  them into, into, you know, confidence that they're not
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  going to get hit. And then they hit them.
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  But you know, again, I mean, why would he, why would he announce
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  this? And why would he say that the,
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  the, and why did the, why did he help not want this?
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  I mean, now they're now they, their, their oil capacity is
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  running out. They're polluting everything.
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  They the, the spilled oil is starting to, is starting to wash
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  up on the beaches on the other side of the Gulf.
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  I mean in the Arab section, you know, you think they would want
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  it over with. One would think, yes, I mean,
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  obviously I think the president probably also wants it over with
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  too, because you know, you're, you're now, I mean, primaries in
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  a lot of states are already happening or about to happen.
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  So you're going to be moving on to the general election for the
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  midterms pretty soon. And like I'm you're getting into
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  the summer months and stuff with people driving more and the gas
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  prices are already kind of crap. So you don't want that to
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  persist if you want to have any hope of doing anything this
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  year. So he's got to do something at
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  this point to, to resolve it. I mean, unless he's just gonna,
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  hey, listen, this is my policy. And if I lose over it, you know,
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  I guess so be it. You know, if he's got that
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  attitude, OK. But I don't know.
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  I just I, I don't know what the strategy is, is my thing.
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  And I guess I'm not in the administration, so I shouldn't
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  know it. But I'm confused.
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  That's where I'm at. Yeah, I'd, I'd prefer not to
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  lose Congress. I'd prefer not to have them deal
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  with some more phony baloney impeachment charges, not be able
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  to get any conservative judges to it.
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  I mean, that would be terrible. And to have some of these
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  horrible Democrats in there as, as congressmen and senators
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  would be just, it would be very bad, Very bad for the last two
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  years and. To have all these redistricting
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  fights and like, give yourself an opportunity.
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  I mean, I know that there's like 5 states right now that are
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  considering basically adding another Republican seat.
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  So this is like something the Republicans clearly are winning
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  and have won at this point. And so to do all that and then
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  still lose would be pretty demoralizing.
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  And I think there's a way of not losing.
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  I mean, like if, if, if things return to something resembling
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  normal and I was paying 3 bucks instead of five for my truck to
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  get filled up, I think people will be OK with that, especially
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  if they thought they got anything out of the out of the
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  conflict. So he's got to find some way of
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  resolving this in my book. Right, right.
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  I mean, you know, The thing is, everybody say, oh, give him
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  time, give him time. The Iranian regime is about to
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  fall apart. I mean, you know, it's it's easy
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  to look back in history and say, you know, oh, he he knew that
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  they were going to fall apart in in another month, that there was
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  going to be an uprising. And you know, the guard, they
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  are really good Guard quote, they're turning it.
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  But we don't know any of that. You know, it's this is, this
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  isn't in, in real terms, we're not this war is going to turn.
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  I mean, we won the board militarily, but now it's just
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  winning it. You know, the, the settlement,
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  the peace. You know, if you, if you don't
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  destroy them at this point, they, they, they can claim
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  victory and they then they will claim victory.
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  And you know, this whole thing, you know, we're going to,
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  they're going to give us a promise.
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  It's not going to be for 20 years.
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  I mean, who's who's buying that? Yeah.
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  I mean, especially when you've seen the history of those
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  promises over the years from North Korea and Iran.
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  They never make good on them. So I mean, if you did that, it
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  would just be to claim the moral victory.
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  It's not because it's actually going to do anything.
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  Right. And you're just, and you're
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  consigning the the Iranian people to to a life of services
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  like they have in North Korea. I mean, it's, it's, it's even
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  bad for human rights if you care.
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  Not that the Democrats care about human rights, obviously.
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  But I mean, if you're, you know, if you say you're doing it, you
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  know, to help out everybody in the world, including the
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  Iranians to these walk away. I mean, I don't know, it's, it's
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  unfortunate. It's it's a little depressing
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  and it's not. And, you know, The thing is,
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  it's not even really on the front pages either.
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  I mean, everybody's just kind of like, oh, he backed down again.
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  You know, it's becoming, you know, just part of the
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  background noise isn't. It, yeah, it is.
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  I mean, I barely, I barely covered it.
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  I mean, I mentioned it in a segment or two or whatever, but
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  I haven't really actually, I haven't talked about Iran all
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  that much in quite some time because we're just in this weird
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  holding pattern. We're just sort of sitting here
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  waiting and nothing is changing. I mean, if you're going to do
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  the, if you're going to do this ceasefire and sit there and give
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  peace a chance and do diplomacy or whatever, I mean, that's
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  fine, that's cool. But like, can we actually get
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  some motion, motion or like activity?
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  And if they're not going to be serious about coming to the
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  table and giving a deal that you want, then I mean, resume the
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  conflict or quit. Like figure something out where
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  something finalizes where we're at.
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  Stick sitting here stuck in the mud is not, I think, good for
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  anybody, including the president.
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  Right. It's certainly not good for the
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  troops to be over there. I mean, all these, these people
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  are just stuck there, you know, and on those ships, you know,
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  that's ridiculous. It is kind of like the, the
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  beginning of World War 2, You know, they, they, the Germans
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  and the Russians took Poland and nothing happened for six months.
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  They called it what, the fake war, the sitting war.
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  And then all of a sudden they went around the Maginho line.
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  I don't see that happening this time around.
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  There is no Maginho line. There is no Maginho line, Howie
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  Carr joining us as he does every Tuesday and we always appreciate
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  him being here. Speaking of primaries, Howie
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  Carr, as I was going through my news for the day, I got a
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  several Thomas Massie stories kicking around.
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  That guy's going to lose, right? He's he's it.
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  Looks like he is, yeah. Yeah, looks like he's, he's
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  basically baked his own pie here.
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  I saw Vance talking about him the other day, and I thought he
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  put it like, correctly. You know, I don't mind that he's
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  a mavericky kind of guy and that he goes outside the party
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  because the party's wrong sometimes.
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  And I've even agreed with him on some of the times he's done
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  that. But man, in the last, you know,
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  couple years it has just been on basically everything that
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  matters to us. Been over there and just out to
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  lunch. So I'm done.
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  I'm done with. This Epstein fantasy too.
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  I mean, that's, that's the, that's the new rock Russian
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  collusion hoax, You know, I mean, why, why would he go?
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  Why would he go along with that? And he's getting the strange new
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  respect from ROH, Khanna and all the rest of these far left nuts.
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  And then the New York Times is all in his favor.
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  You know, I mean, anytime, anytime you get these, these
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  people on your side as a, as a Republican and they're giving
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  you advice. You've got to keep the party a
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  big tent and all this stuff, you know, you know, you got to vote
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  against it. You got to vote for Galva and I
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  think. Why do you think the strange new
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  respect thing happens? Howie, I got to tell you like I
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  have no interest in the love and adulation of these of these
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  people. I don't think I'm going to ever
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  be the subject of strange new respect because I just, I can't
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  imagine myself wanting it. You know they did.
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  They want to go to a cocktail party.
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  So guess what? You know, I can afford my own
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  dinner. I can afford my own drink.
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  You know, I don't, I don't need to go.
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  I don't need to go to the Georgetown cocktail circuit.
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  I've met, I've met Sally Quinn. She's she's OK, but not that
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  great. And she's very old now.
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  You know why did? Why did they care?
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  I don't know, but they do. They do for some reason.
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  It's, it's, it's wild to me that it always happens, especially,
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  you know, the people that are on TV commenting on everything all
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  the time. They love the strange new
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  respect. I mean, the long list of people
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  who I used to like and respect who have just completely sold
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  out to to the wrong people is very disappointing.
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  But I don't know, I just feel, I feel like deep down aren't these
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  people, maybe they were losers in high school or something and
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  they just want to be at the cool kids table.
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  Did Bill Cassidy really think that Donald Trump was trying to
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  foment an insurrection and to, you know, storm the capital?
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  Did he really, Did he really believe that?
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  I guess you could ask the same question if Susan Collins.
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  But, you know, for the sake of a Senate Majority will overlook
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  that at this point, right? Yeah.
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  Yeah. No, I know.
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  I obviously I don't have the slightest bit of explanation for
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  what you thought at that point if you're Bill Cassidy, but he's
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  now obviously learning that he wasn't going to get anywhere
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  with that. So he.
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  Finished third. Third.
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  He he couldn't even get 1/4 of the votes in his own party's
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  primary after two years in the 2 terms in the Senate.
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  It's amazing. Yeah.
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  And he had, and he had, he had 10s of millions of dollars.
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  No, that's, that's the bet. He laid in and he's he's now
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  done. He's all over that last campaign
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  question for you, Howie Carr. I think how Grace asked me this
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  maybe last week or whatever. I'm going to ask you this.
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  Is there any chance Spencer Pratt?
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  Is there any chance that happens?
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  I they're going, they're going after him now, right?
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  Like they're like, oh, he doesn't even live here and he's
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  not going to live here if he loses.
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  And they're, you know, they're doing all that stuff now.
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  So they're they're I to me it looks like they think he's a
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  threat, but I'm not sure if I think he's really going to win.
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  I don't know. I mean, I think he gets into
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  the, into the runoff, obviously, but you know, he knocks out
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  that, that crazy, crazy woman who wants to be the city
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  councillor. But I, I, I don't know.
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  I just don't see it. I mean, you know, the the
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  city's, the city's so far gone. Right.
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  Yeah, it's Los Angeles. Yeah.
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  So that's my biggest argument is like, it's Los Angeles.
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  There's only so much you can do in a place like that.
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  It used to be possible that Rudy Giuliani can win in New York and
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  the. Sammy Orton, Yeah.
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  In LA, yeah. I'm not sure anymore it's
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  possible. Reardon.
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  Even Reardon. Yeah, he was, he was decent, you
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  know, I mean, but yeah, I don't I everybody's gone.
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  Yeah, same with Portland, isn't it?
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  Oh, God, yeah, yeah. There's no, there's no hope.
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  I don't know if I have any living relatives left in the
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  city of Portland. I come from a giant family, but
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  they're all gone. Yeah, they're not dead.
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  They're just gone. Yeah.
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  Now of course they're. Yeah, how we appreciate,
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  appreciate you being with us as always, sadly out of time.