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Reaction to Shooting in Minneapolis · Richard Randall Show

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Speaker 1: America is being torn apart, not by foreign enemies, not
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Speaker 1: by open invasion, but by something far more subtle and
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Speaker 1: far more dangerous, ignorance weaponized as virtue. Every week, crowds
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Speaker 1: gather in American cities, chanting slogans, waving signs, and denouncing
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Speaker 1: immigrant enforcement agencies as evil, fascist, or criminal. They believe
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Speaker 1: they are standing on the moral high ground. They believe
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Speaker 1: they are defending the oppressed. They believe they are resisting tyranny.
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Speaker 1: What most of them do not understand is that they
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Speaker 1: are not resisting anything at all. They are being used,
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Speaker 1: used by media narratives that thrive on outrage, used by
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Speaker 1: political operatives who monetize emotion, used by NGOs that profit
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Speaker 1: from chaos, and, most disturbingly of all, used by international
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Speaker 1: criminal organizations, including some of the most violent cartels on earth.
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Speaker 1: This is the modern reality of asymmetric warfare in the
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Speaker 1: twenty first century. The battlefield is not land, The weapon
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Speaker 1: is not guns, The target is not soldiers. The battlefield
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Speaker 1: is public perception. The weapon is narrative, and the target
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Speaker 1: is you.
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Speaker 2: Try to undo a lot of what is going on
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Speaker 2: right now. Let's go to the phones to Allison, hang
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Speaker 2: on one second, let's go with Colleen first. David, Colleen, you're
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Speaker 2: on the Richard Randall Show seven forty kV.
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Speaker 3: Are what do you have, Hi, Richard. I think my
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Speaker 3: main disagreement with your argument is the idea of, oh,
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Speaker 3: if they had just not impeded with law enforcement, like,
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Speaker 3: just comply with law enforcement and everything will be okay.
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Speaker 3: I think that it's also a moral opportunity to look
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Speaker 3: at what you think is right. If we go back
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Speaker 3: to like the seventeen seventies in Boston, it's really easy
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Speaker 3: to just kind of say, well, if they had just
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Speaker 3: complied with the Red Coats, nobody wouldn't gotten shot. Boston
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Speaker 3: massacre wouldn't have happened.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 2: That is because I thought about that actually a couple
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Speaker 2: of days ago, when I saw Ice and Border patrol
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Speaker 2: getting pelted with and a lot of people were making
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Speaker 2: a big deal out of that. I mean, to me,
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Speaker 2: it crossed over what's that oh very deadly weapon, Well,
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Speaker 2: that Boston massacre, that's that's what happened there, and that's
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Speaker 2: why I thought about that. But on the other hand,
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Speaker 2: a lot of these Ice and Border patrol were getting
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Speaker 2: hit with frozen water bottles over the course of the weekend.
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Speaker 2: There are so many aspects to this. But if you
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Speaker 2: had in a sense that you and I are not
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Speaker 2: exactly on the same page here, but if you had
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Speaker 2: to give people a takeaway on this part, and here's
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Speaker 2: what I think the problem is calling. I think you've
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Speaker 2: got a lot of people where this feels good, and
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Speaker 2: it doesn't feel good that people lost their lives, but
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, a lot of people for us
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Speaker 2: who didn't have a purpose, and young people and a
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Speaker 2: lot of old people. A majority of the people I
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Speaker 2: talked with yesterday at the rally were older. All of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, they're invigorated, They've got a purpose, they belong
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Speaker 2: to something, belong to this cause, and it all feels good,
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Speaker 2: Which doesn't mean that it's you know, fun or anything
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Speaker 2: like that, because the whole thing tragic. Both of them
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Speaker 2: are tragedy. I'll say that right here. But talk to
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Speaker 2: me about whether you believe there's any truth to that
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Speaker 2: that if you become part of a thing, you're accepted.
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Speaker 2: But part of that means you've got to go along
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Speaker 2: with the narrative that everybody else is going along with.
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Speaker 3: I do agree with that to some extent. I also
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Speaker 3: think that applies to I mean, I think that applies
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Speaker 3: to both sides. I think that applies to Maga. I
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Speaker 3: think that applies to Republicans. I think at some excent,
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Speaker 3: if you are accepting any group's ideology over your own,
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Speaker 3: that that does become dangerous. I think the difference is
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Speaker 3: that what I'm seeing here for most protesters is people
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Speaker 3: that are seeing injustice, people that are seeing something that
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Speaker 3: they know is not right and are writing back against
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Speaker 3: it and are doing it in larger groups, which isn't
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Speaker 3: isn't necessarily a bad thing in my opinion. I think
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Speaker 3: it was Thomas Jefferson who said that when law becomes injustice,
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Speaker 3: resistance becomes duty.
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Speaker 2: Wow, for a young person, you are very very well
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Speaker 2: educated and very well informed. I am pretty sure that
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Speaker 2: we don't agree on a lot of things, but I
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Speaker 2: do appreciate you calling in, and I want to get
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Speaker 2: one final thing from you before I let you go.
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Speaker 2: I have realized, especially over this weekend, that there are
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Speaker 2: so many different aspects and people like you and I
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Speaker 2: could probably talk for hours and not get to each
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Speaker 2: and everything. But I'll ask you the same question I
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Speaker 2: was asking a lot of the people who are at
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Speaker 2: the protest downtown here in the Springs, and that is
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Speaker 2: I'm going to be talking to a different set of
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Speaker 2: people tomorrow morning, and my listeners and my followers much
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Speaker 2: more conservative. Not everybody you're listening, so, not everybody, but
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Speaker 2: the majority of them are, and they will not go
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Speaker 2: down to a protest. They're not going to read your signs,
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Speaker 2: and they're not going to stand there and listen to
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Speaker 2: your speeches. What would be the most important thing for
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Speaker 2: people listening to me to know about you? Younger people
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Speaker 2: and people who are upset about not just Renee Good,
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Speaker 2: but now you've got Alex pretty as well.
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Speaker 3: I think it's just, you know, like we're all human.
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Speaker 3: We all want to take care of each other and
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Speaker 3: care about each other. And I hope that's the case
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Speaker 3: for everyone. It doesn't seem to be what I'm seeing
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Speaker 3: on all sides, but I think we need to all
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Speaker 3: remember our collective humanity.
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Speaker 2: Let me leave you with something though, because I said
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Speaker 2: this to I was leaving it, so I'm pretty sure.
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Speaker 2: As one of my listeners came up to me and
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Speaker 2: we started talking about the video, and I said, you know,
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Speaker 2: I've been looking at the video. I've had a couple
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Speaker 2: of former DA's looking at the video. There's now four
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Speaker 2: or five at that point that I'd been looking at,
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Speaker 2: and I'm trying to figure it all out. And there's
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Speaker 2: some things I don't understand. I don't understand why you
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Speaker 2: would grab a weapon and then kind of run down
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Speaker 2: the street there. I mean, there are a lot of
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Speaker 2: things that are not, in my opinion, understood exactly right now.
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Speaker 3: To be frank, they also lied when they said that
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Speaker 3: Alex Pretty was brandishing a weapon towards officers, and we've
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Speaker 3: all seen the video and we all have seen it
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Speaker 3: blatantly that was not true that he was raising a
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Speaker 3: gun towards the officers. So I mean, I think there's
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Speaker 3: lying on both sides, and trust politicians on either side,
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Speaker 3: But I do trust my own eyes and ears, and
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Speaker 3: I trust the video that I saw. They saw showed
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Speaker 3: an unarmed man trying to help a woman often then
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Speaker 3: being brutally attacked by six Loan Cotment officers and then
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Speaker 3: shot ten times when he was defensive on the ground
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Speaker 3: because the gun had already been taken from him, a
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Speaker 3: gun which I might also add, conservatives has lost which
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Speaker 3: so we have the right to.
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Speaker 2: Carry no, in fact, we do. I think part of
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Speaker 2: the takeaway though here is that we look at this
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Speaker 2: situation and I try to be honest about I had
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Speaker 2: somebody who texted me a thing. There's Christine Nome and
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Speaker 2: she has a podium in front of it. There's a
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Speaker 2: slogan that says one of ours and all of yours,
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Speaker 2: and there people trying to say whether there's a Nazi
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Speaker 2: connection there or not, and going back to what happened
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Speaker 2: with Renee Goods. So I will tell you something that
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Speaker 2: I've said privately, but I don't know if I've said
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Speaker 2: this on the air. But they pay me to be honest, Alison,
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Speaker 2: Colleen and others to be honest. And I think when
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Speaker 2: Christinome said we have a domestic terrorist in Renee good
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Speaker 2: I think she was wrong. I think she overstated the case.
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Speaker 2: You had a woman who shouldn't have been out there
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Speaker 2: impeding law enforcement and border patrol and ice are law
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Speaker 2: enforcement should not have been out there impeding all of that.
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Speaker 2: But do I believe that she's a domestic terrorist. Do
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Speaker 2: I believe that she intentionally drove that car down there
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Speaker 2: with the intent of driving over an ICE or border
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Speaker 2: patrol person. I don't believe that to be the case,
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Speaker 2: and I think if christineom Er others overstate the case,
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Speaker 2: whether it's domestic terrorism in that case, or he had
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Speaker 2: a gun and came running at us with a gun.
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Speaker 2: They may have believed that, Colleen, but it turns out
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Speaker 2: that what they thought was a gun may have been
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Speaker 2: a phone final floft from you before I let you go.
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Speaker 3: I think I'm just a bit more cynical than you, Richard,
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Speaker 3: because I think they are pushing that because it fits
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Speaker 3: their agenda, and it fits their narrative. Again, I just
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Speaker 3: go back to when tyranny becomes lawer resistance becomes duty.
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Speaker 2: All got one for you? No, no, hang on once I
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Speaker 2: and I got text for you. It says, Richard, tell
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Speaker 2: this a young woman that when somebody keeps poking you
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Speaker 2: in the chest, at some point you're going to slug
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Speaker 2: them in the face. And don't forget about the officers
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Speaker 2: whose finger was flipping bit off this. You know about that?
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Speaker 2: A lot of people do or don't let me. Thank you, Colleen.
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Speaker 2: I need to move on. Alison. You're on seven forty KVR.
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Speaker 2: Gave Colleen a little bit more time. I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 2: Because different opinions and younger people I think I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: give them a little bit more time because well, I
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Speaker 2: just think it's the right thing to do. Allison, you're
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Speaker 2: a young female as well. What's your take on what's
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Speaker 2: been going on with the protest, especially over the weekend.
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Speaker 4: I'm a young female. Can you hear me? Okay?
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Speaker 2: I Ken, Yes, welcome onboard.
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Speaker 4: Okay. So the audio that you played in your last segment,
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Speaker 4: that lady was right there, but she didn't get to it.
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Speaker 4: I think we need to start talking about Stockholm syndrome.
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Speaker 4: It's pretty clear if you if you remember Maxine Waters
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Speaker 4: get in the face of Trump supporters humor, We're going
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Speaker 4: to release a whirlwind, and then Hillary Trump supporters should
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Speaker 4: be sent to camps, and then the military video. Everyone
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Speaker 4: knows that a hallmark of a narcissist is to plant
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Speaker 4: an idea and then make you think it was your own.
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Speaker 4: You know, we get into twenty nineteen. A year ago
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Speaker 4: people were burning tesla's. I mean, this has just been
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Speaker 4: a slow burn to controlling the mind of people who
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Speaker 4: are now protesting, to against enforcing the law. And I
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Speaker 4: think in twenty sixteen, you know, no one's above the law,
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Speaker 4: but apparently some people are the inconsistency, and the people
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Speaker 4: who are protesting think they're doing the right things.
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Speaker 2: They no, no somewhere for a second, Alison, I hay
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Speaker 2: Jen Rupert. I can tell you this. Every time I
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Speaker 2: go to one of these protests, it depends that yesterday
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Speaker 2: not as many people because they're really really cold, But
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Speaker 2: I would say between twenty five fifty as many as
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Speaker 2: seventy people. And I talked with all these people. If
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Speaker 2: I had somebody with a polygraph machine right next to
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Speaker 2: me and I said, okay, can I have him do
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Speaker 2: a quick test on you? And do you believe everything
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Speaker 2: that you're telling me?
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Speaker 5: Here?
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Speaker 2: Every one of them believes what they're saying. They believe
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Speaker 2: what they're thinking, and there's no question in my mind
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Speaker 2: that that makes them feel that they're one hundred percent
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Speaker 2: justified in what they're doing. But that doesn't make it true.
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Speaker 2: And I think you know the conclusion I've come to, Allison,
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Speaker 2: and it's a sad one, and that is I don't
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Speaker 2: know that the truth matters. Because if the truth mattered,
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Speaker 2: I'd be able to go down to a protest like
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Speaker 2: this and bring down a little one sheet of Blake
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Speaker 2: and Riley and say why, I mean I'm not saying
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Speaker 2: that this guy his life was worthless. I'm not saying
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Speaker 2: that at all. But why is Renee good and Alex
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Speaker 2: pretty is so important? When there is this person, this person,
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Speaker 2: this person, and you don't even care about them much
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Speaker 2: less even know they're names. You do, let's got the poems.
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Speaker 2: So Ralph, you're on seven forty k ar Good morning, Ralph.
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Speaker 2: What do he have?
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Speaker 5: Hey, Richard? One of the things I'd like to quote you, guys,
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Speaker 5: is from the people of Sicily were in rebellion against Rome,
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Speaker 5: and they quoted ancient They quoted laws to Scipio, the
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Speaker 5: ruler at the time, and Scipio said to the people
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Speaker 5: of Sicily, do not quote laws to men with swords.
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Speaker 5: And at this point President Trump is ready to invoke
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Speaker 5: the Insurrection Act, and at that point it'll be in
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Speaker 5: the same state, do not quote laws to men with guns.
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Speaker 2: Hey, So help me with this real quick, Ralph. Well,
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Speaker 2: because I do know that you know they have National
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Speaker 2: Guard there. I know some people who are up there
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Speaker 2: and doing some things and their complaint was, yeah, he
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Speaker 2: calls it the national Guard. And what are they doing.
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Speaker 2: They're giving coffee, They're acting as waitresses, giving coffee. To
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Speaker 2: people who are working for Border Patrol or ICE. Seriously,
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Speaker 2: let's go back to the phones here and Brandon, Brandon,
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Speaker 2: you're on seven forty k argue morning, Brandon. What do
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Speaker 2: you have?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I had a couple of things. You know, the
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Speaker 6: whole how the media spins what's going on and how
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Speaker 6: it's done and all of that. The issue is that
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Speaker 6: it's not so much that the information is not there,
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Speaker 6: it's that people don't want it. They see the picture
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Speaker 6: that they want to see, and that's the only picture
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Speaker 6: that they're going to see. You know that we have
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Speaker 6: we have this situation where they go, oh wow, these
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Speaker 6: people are murderers. But the same people that are judging
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Speaker 6: every ICE agent for the actions of a few are
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Speaker 6: the exact same people that are screaming from the heavens
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Speaker 6: about well, you can't judge every African American by the
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Speaker 6: actions of a few, and you can't judge every Arab
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Speaker 6: American by the actions of a few. So it's a
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Speaker 6: very duplicitous situation where it's a do as I say,
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Speaker 6: not as I do type situation.
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Speaker 2: It is, I mean, I'm gonna let you keep going,
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Speaker 2: but I do have to say it is that they
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Speaker 2: want this set of rules for themselves, and this set
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Speaker 2: of rules for you and I and the president and
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Speaker 2: Christine Aman and all of the rest, and they somehow
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Speaker 2: think that that's that's adequate, that's fair, and the mainstream
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Speaker 2: media carries that narrative. What else a I'm brandon.
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Speaker 6: Well to that point, also, it's it's they talk about
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Speaker 6: that they want dissent, they want a conversation, they want
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Speaker 6: to find both points of view. But the reality is,
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Speaker 6: when it comes down to actually having those conversations, if
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Speaker 6: you're not agreeing, you're some sort of blank ist or
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Speaker 6: some sort of blank of phobe. There's there's always some
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Speaker 6: sort of a label that gets placed on you because
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Speaker 6: of any certain view that you might have that is
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Speaker 6: not directly aligned with these people. And there's it's really
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Speaker 6: a no win situation you're in by engaging your admitting defeat,
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Speaker 6: because no matter what logic you add, no matter what
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Speaker 6: facts you place forward, there is always a oh, well
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Speaker 6: but I heard, and there's never any placement of proof
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Speaker 6: they there. There is no burden of proof, there's no okay, well,
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Speaker 6: here's why I see the way I see it's well, nope,
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Speaker 6: this is the fact that I quote unquote feel and
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Speaker 6: if you don't agree, then you're part of the problem.
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Speaker 2: Great points, Brandon, and let you I think you are
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Speaker 2: a good example. So did did democrats or Nancy Pelosi,
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden, any of these democrats? Are people in the
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Speaker 2: media make any distinction on January sixth between somebody who
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Speaker 2: appears to be an agitator there who bears to be
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Speaker 2: even the night before, I'm talking about this app sky
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Speaker 2: trying to stir people up and people standing there going fed, fed, fed,
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Speaker 2: then the next day whispering to this person that person
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Speaker 2: text message later on, they make any distinction between somebody
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Speaker 2: like that or some of the people. And I said,
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Speaker 2: these people are ANTIPA, or they look like they are ANTIPA.
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Speaker 2: And you have the crowd telling Antipa Antifa, Antipa as
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Speaker 2: they're trying to break through the windows, and they don't
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Speaker 2: look like Trump supporters, they're dressed like Antifa. And so
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Speaker 2: when I you call out some of these things, I
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Speaker 2: had people a friend of mine, it's just like what
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Speaker 2: you're defending everybody on Jay six No I'm not. I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you've got somebody on this videotape of this person
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Speaker 2: assaulting somebody in law enforcement and that's a crime. Then
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Speaker 2: I'm not defending that, and I never have, but you
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Speaker 2: folks won't make any distinction between. Again, here you go
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Speaker 2: Jay six praying Grandma and somebody who you know was
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Speaker 2: violent that day. And I still see over the weekend,
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Speaker 2: I still see some of these characters who have made
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Speaker 2: their living ever since Jay six by being out there
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Speaker 2: at press conferences and all of the rest. I was
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Speaker 2: Capitol Police and this happened, and this happened, and this happened.
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Speaker 2: It's almost like an industry. Oh wait, I do have
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Speaker 2: to mention the industry real quick. We need to take
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Speaker 2: a break. So you may have seen this guy from Minneapolis.
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Speaker 2: He's a creepy looking guy and he got big tattoo
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Speaker 2: on his chest and he always starts his videos by saying, Oh,
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Speaker 2: I am Antifa, and then he goes on to this.
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Speaker 2: Well over the weekend, I am Antipa. Let's go down
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Speaker 2: meet me. We're gonna rally at this location. I'm only
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Speaker 2: four blocks from where the shooting took play and all
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Speaker 2: of that. So as I'm following the news yesterday and
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Speaker 2: last night, I'm seeing some first of all video of
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Speaker 2: him in address and talking about how uh he doesn't
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Speaker 2: care what people think. You know, every now and then
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Speaker 2: he likes to dress up like a woman and go
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Speaker 2: out on the town and have a good time. And
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Speaker 2: he's upset that s this women are going to be
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Speaker 2: offended by him and all the rest. So I'm like,
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Speaker 2: what the hell kind of person is this? But last
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Speaker 2: night one of the last things I saw from told
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Speaker 2: me exactly what kind of person this is. I've got
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Speaker 2: a venmo account and you can donate to me at well.
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Speaker 2: See that's what we call a grifter. Seven there a
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Speaker 2: seven four zero short break. John, you're first, and this
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Speaker 2: mayor for Minneapolis. You would think that that is exactly
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Speaker 2: what they are doing. Short break, your thoughts would come
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Speaker 2: back seven one nine seven one five zero seven poor
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