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What Do We Do About Affordability · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Happy Monday. How we do this, sir? I'm weird. I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a weird mood. I've never had this happen before.
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  Speaker 1: I literally ended my participation in not one, but two
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  Speaker 1: big talked about movies over the weekend. I decided to
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  Speaker 1: go get my butt over to Spider.
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  Speaker 2: Man, as did we.
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  Speaker 1: I made it about forty five minutes to an hour.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe how stupid it was. It was the dumbest,
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  Speaker 1: most trite, cliched, idiotic, and I thought, Man, am I
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  Speaker 1: getting old? What's the problem? I used to love Spider
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  Speaker 1: Man and the whole genre. It was forced humor that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't funny. I didn't know who these characters were. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you're supposed to know the Spider Man franchise
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  Speaker 1: to know.
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  Speaker 2: You had you skipped a couple, did you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tom Holland is Spider Man now. Before that was
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Garfield. He was okay, I'm a Toby Maguire Spider
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  Speaker 2: Man guy. I went with with with doc Oc and
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  Speaker 2: the Green Goblin. I mean, those were good popcorn munchers.
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  Speaker 2: This one was very pensive and brooding. I didn't I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I hated it as much as you did.
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 1: What I walked out. I left. I Now, this is
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  Speaker 1: weird because there are two things then that I've I
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  Speaker 1: invested in that I ended. So I left the movie
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  Speaker 1: theater by Friday night, got tired of that, thought this
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  Speaker 1: is stupid. I got better wide brothers sit home and
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  Speaker 1: we'll read a book. And then and then last night
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  Speaker 1: I dove into this big Netflix show that everybody's talking about,
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  Speaker 1: The Last House, and I thought, oh, this will be fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: It's the dumbest movie and the history of the movies.
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  Speaker 2: This one is right in my wheelhouse?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Because I saw the trailer. It's kind of a sci
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  Speaker 2: fi thing where the mystery is that nobody can get
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  Speaker 2: out of their house. Something has happened. They're all locked
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  Speaker 2: and there were some houses they're shooting messages to each
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  Speaker 2: other through the house. Is this happening all over town,
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  Speaker 2: all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: We were totally going to put that on our watch list.
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  Speaker 1: Well that when I made it about a minute, about
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  Speaker 1: an hour and ten minutes before I turn that thing off. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and then, without spoiler, without spoilers, what went wrong with that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's no spoiler need because I don't even know how
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  Speaker 1: it ended, nor did I care. I hope they all died.
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  Speaker 1: I hope they the whole neighborhood blew up. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: can we have some action here for an hour? It's
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  Speaker 1: the family locked in the house. Oh let's feed the dog.
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  Speaker 1: Oh let's look at the fish. Oh we've only got
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  Speaker 1: two copies of DVDs Annie and some other movie. Let's
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  Speaker 1: watch Annie again. I'm thinking, will something happen? Will the
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  Speaker 1: creatures come out and eat them already? Or will you
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  Speaker 1: do something to make this thing it never? And then
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  Speaker 1: I went on social media, which is always fun to do,
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  Speaker 1: to look it up and see what X was hammering it,
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  Speaker 1: saying the exact same thing I was saying. Stupid, pointless,
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  Speaker 1: bad acting, bad special effects. The octopus octopus creatures were
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  Speaker 1: roaming around in the streets. It was stupid, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently, according to X hey for the spoiler alert,
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  Speaker 1: the last half hour of the ending was awful, so
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  Speaker 1: it didn't even really probably end satisfactorily.
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  Speaker 2: I just save me a couple of it. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, all right, I'm gonna give you something back
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  Speaker 2: that is uplift. That is uplifting. I was actually and
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  Speaker 2: why don't we We can explore this a little more
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  Speaker 2: in podcast territory, because I had actually put a little
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  Speaker 2: pit of this and said, this could be kind of
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  Speaker 2: podcast stuff. Is there because Lisa Lisa? There's a movie
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  Speaker 2: that Lisa saw, because every American has and I just haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a major, huge, classic, iconic film that everybody
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  Speaker 2: has seen and you just haven't anything anything jump out?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Not off the top of my head. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: there are. I mean, I'll give you one, you're ready.
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  Speaker 1: Homie has never seen Bravehearts never, but so and we've
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  Speaker 1: been and it's funny. It's been a matter of finding
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  Speaker 1: the time. If we got three hours, man, we got
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  Speaker 1: episode of this episode so that the bear is back,
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  Speaker 1: which and which may or may not be an okay episode,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But over the weekend we actually I looked at her
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  Speaker 2: as we said, we gonna watch this absolutely and it's
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  Speaker 2: just fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great movie.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little is it? Is it a little cheesy? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Is me? What a quandary? Mel Gibson is. What a
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  Speaker 2: strange man in some ways, but what a genius. This
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  Speaker 2: is his sort of Kevin Costner Dancy dances with Wolves thing.
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  Speaker 2: He stars in it and directed it. It's an unbulike
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling everybody in the world is going no, we know,
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  Speaker 2: we you know well saw it seven times, but finally
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  Speaker 2: finally logged Braveheart, and so if you have not, it
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely worth it. It's just one of those popcorn
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  Speaker 2: munching epics that I.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's go, let's go to current events and my shock.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I was skimming through the Sunday morning news shows
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  Speaker 1: and I came across CBS and Face the Nation and
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  Speaker 1: Margaret Brennan invited the acting CDC director, the director of
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  Speaker 1: the NIH doctor j Batchara, to come onto the show.
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  Speaker 2: Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever seen a segment like
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  Speaker 1: this in television. He is this calm, cool, collected guy
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  Speaker 1: trying to explain to her. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: saw this, but Mark, it is so bad I posted
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  Speaker 1: and it got it kind of went viral. My tweet
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  Speaker 1: last night on X I said this should be shown
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  Speaker 1: to journalism classes forever, to show what happens when you've
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  Speaker 1: got some unhinged anchor with an agenda who is flaying
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  Speaker 1: I mean, her nostrils were flailing. I mean I thought
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  Speaker 1: she was going to reach over and hit him. She's
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  Speaker 1: so filled with rage and anger, and you don't really
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  Speaker 1: understand what she's angry about. I mean, I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was if it was feigned outrage,
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  Speaker 1: if it was performative, if she's really mad. She actually
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  Speaker 1: tried to make the case that because a year ago
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  Speaker 1: some lunatic shot and killed a security office officer at
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  Speaker 1: the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, that sometow somehow he and
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Bobby Kennedy and the administration are to blame
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  Speaker 1: because apparently the shooter was upset about all the misinformation
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  Speaker 1: that we've received about COVID, and she wanted to re
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  Speaker 1: litigate that with this guy. Now, first of all, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to see Jay, doctor j Batticera. He is this calm, cool, collected, scientificable.
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  Speaker 1: He was unflat.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he wasn't upset at all, and he's like you
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  Speaker 3: could almost say, he's looked like looking at her, like,
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  Speaker 3: what in the heck are you raging about? Margaret, get
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  Speaker 3: a grip, Marge, getta get a handle here. Pumped the brakes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was awful. It was as bad.
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  Speaker 1: I want to play the whole segment on my show today,
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  Speaker 1: because look, this is what these guys do now, they
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  Speaker 1: don't ever and there ought to be a robust debate
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  Speaker 1: about why public trust is so low in our health officials.
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  Speaker 1: And he's trying to tell her, well, it had a
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  Speaker 1: lot to do with COVID, and she was having none
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  Speaker 1: of it. Mark. I mean she was pushing back and
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  Speaker 1: yelling at him and shutting him down and interrupting him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this has faced the nation for crying out
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  Speaker 1: loud on CBS. Legend Man, how far they fallen? Mark?
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  Speaker 2: Now, how far is Chyle? Actual Democrats like John Fetterman
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  Speaker 2: and like Bill Maher did to catch Fridays and Friday
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  Speaker 2: nights real time kind of you know. He said, Listen,
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  Speaker 2: let's stop trying to put Anthony Fauci in jail, he says,
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  Speaker 2: but let's not separate ourselves from the fact that one
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  Speaker 2: of the part of the reasons his reputation is in
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  Speaker 2: trouble is he absolutely fell victim to his own press.
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  Speaker 2: He absolutely fell in love with too much of the
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  Speaker 2: fawning and absolutely said some things that wound up being disproven.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to help me. Sometimes we come to
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  Speaker 2: each other and say we need attitudinal help. I need
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  Speaker 2: a little bit as this week begins. I'm not depressed
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  Speaker 2: or downtrodden or pessimistic. I'm really really not. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of what people are saying about Paxton versus
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  Speaker 2: tallar Eco is just wrong. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: that something later on today. Ken's doing fine. Ken's going
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  Speaker 2: to do fine. But in the country, from the war
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  Speaker 2: to the economy, we're doing our side is doing a
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  Speaker 2: really great job pointing out how crazy these other guys
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  Speaker 2: are because they are, I mean, they're doing us a
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  Speaker 2: lot of favors. That's not going to be enough. It's
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  Speaker 2: not going I know, Trump won in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: partially because we just did not want Kamala. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: There are ways to win because you're just better than
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  Speaker 2: the crazy other side. But from the economy to yes
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  Speaker 2: affordability to this vexing, perplexing war situation, things need to change,
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  Speaker 2: and they need to start changing fast.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Ben dominic I thought put it perfectly over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to make a better We got to do
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  Speaker 1: a better job of embracing the affordability issue that people
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  Speaker 1: are feeling. It could be perception, it could be not reality. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: inflation is lower than it was under Biden. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: stock market is soaring. But nonetheless, tell that to the
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  Speaker 1: to the single mom who's trying to go to the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store on a Friday night. Tell that to somebody
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  Speaker 1: who is trying to get a new mortgage. And they're
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  Speaker 1: looking again now inching back up to seven seven percent,
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half percent, And and he's right, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that they're crazy. Is going to be enough?
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  Speaker 1: It ought to be, I mean, because it is. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I love the messaging Mike Rogers has out of out
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  Speaker 1: of Michigan. His messaging is, look, there's a home for
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  Speaker 1: you with us if you each worried about.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to Democrats who are freaked out by
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  Speaker 2: Abdullah say to say listen.
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  Speaker 1: And he should. That's a great approach, and he's a
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  Speaker 1: smart candidate and he's a good candidate. But look, and
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  Speaker 1: we can't afford to get distracted either. I mean, my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: there's such an ability to go down these rabbit holes.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you not to not to not
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  Speaker 1: to you know, punt here on your on your appropriate question.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm reading about this whole McKinney, Texas Council approving
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  Speaker 1: unanimously the mosque site plan. A bunch of residents lined
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  Speaker 1: up and said, we can't do this. Here comes your
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  Speaker 1: real law. And you know, I want to get a
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  Speaker 1: guy in my life like you who's a pretty big
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  Speaker 1: voice of reason. I'm not going to pretend that Muslims
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  Speaker 1: don't exist, nor do they not have a right to worship.
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  Speaker 1: So evidently the McKinney Council said seven to nothing that
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  Speaker 1: this big, huge complex and there gets big apparently a
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  Speaker 1: mosque and a gym and a this and a that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a problem? Are you having any problems
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  Speaker 1: with it? I mean, what do you say.
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  Speaker 2: To like like all of these the problem is potential,
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  Speaker 2: it's real up to a point already. But you project
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  Speaker 2: forward and you see what Islam does in Europe and
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota and say, WHOA, that can't be us. So at
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  Speaker 2: that meeting where like by eighty twenty, if not ninety ten,
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  Speaker 2: the crowd rose up vocally and said not just no,
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  Speaker 2: but blank no to this mosque expansion in McKinney. They
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  Speaker 2: just made clear what their wishes were, and then the
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  Speaker 2: council unanimously approved it. They were looking at it through
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  Speaker 2: different lenses. The people gathered there were looking at the
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  Speaker 2: dark potential future of an unbridled Islamist wave changing the
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  Speaker 2: culture and the politics and the governance of Texas, while
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  Speaker 2: the members of the council viewed as as purely procedural.
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  Speaker 2: Did the folks planning this mosque dot the eyes, cross
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  Speaker 2: the t's, did they do things by the book? They
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  Speaker 2: pretty well did. So they couldn't find a reason to
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  Speaker 2: say no to it. And maybe they feared being branded
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  Speaker 2: as Islamophobic. Maybe they feared being sued. They probably would
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  Speaker 2: have been, but it was kind of a bureaucratic, clinical
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  Speaker 2: way of looking at it rather than the real world.
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  Speaker 2: Look outside the windows, look, look what's going on kind
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  Speaker 2: of way that the crowd looked at it.
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  Speaker 1: It's I think cooler heads need to prevail. And I do,
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  Speaker 1: again believe that we have to acknowledge that Muslims have
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  Speaker 1: a right to worship in America. And look, there's but
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  Speaker 1: there is this creeping belief, there is this deeping, deepening,
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  Speaker 1: widespread belief. I would argue that there's sort of a takeover,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And and I don't I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I can connect those dots I try. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: hear all sides of this. And now you've got people
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  Speaker 1: like you know this alsa'id who you know, ascending you know,
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  Speaker 1: potentially to the US Senate. Although I can't believe the
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  Speaker 1: people that are going to vote for this guy and.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to win. I like Mike Rodgers' chance, like his.
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  Speaker 1: I do too well, but you also and I talked
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  Speaker 1: to a colleague of ours. I was talking to our
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  Speaker 1: buddy Hugh Hewett over the weekend, and Hughes said, I
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  Speaker 1: hope Mark Mark Davis's confidence in Paxton is is well
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  Speaker 1: placed and legit.
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  Speaker 2: And I see is if my state has its act together.
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  Speaker 2: I believe in my state. I believe in Republican voters,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe my state is not going to elevate
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  Speaker 2: somebody with views as radical and unhinged as well heretical
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  Speaker 2: as little Jimmy.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it's going to come down to, As always,
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  Speaker 1: it's what it comes down to, every single time you're
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  Speaker 1: going to show up or aren't you show up to vote.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be all right. If you stay home, we're dead
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  Speaker 1: in the water and this country is going to be gone.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of dead in the water, final thought. I mean, boy,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't seem to want to save the Republic, but
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to go on vacation in the Senate. They're out,
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  Speaker 1: They're gone, no Save America Act. And that's turn and
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  Speaker 1: that's disus feel great. So we have much the chronicle.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it in we do on the podcast. How
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  Speaker 1: about hey happened? How about a podcast? I why don't
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  Speaker 1: we keep kicking around on a podcast or.
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  Speaker 2: One of those? I think we can. There's much more
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  Speaker 2: to say, There's always there's a little something extra. One
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  Speaker 2: could say, see you then