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Cenk Uygur's PAC Faces Anti-Semitism Claims Over El-Sayed Ad · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch. Grab a stool next
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  Speaker 1: to Greg Karambas of Radio America and Jim Garrity of
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  Speaker 1: National Review.
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  Speaker 2: Three martinis coming up.
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  Speaker 3: So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of
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  Speaker 3: the Three Martini Lunch. Grab a stool. A lot to
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  Speaker 3: get to one week until Election Day. Jim, and this
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  Speaker 3: is the time where you really want to be honing
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  Speaker 3: in on your final message. And while this ad does
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  Speaker 3: not come from the Abdul El-Sayed campaign campaign, I have
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  Speaker 3: yet to hear any denunciation from the Abdul El-Sayed campaign.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I missed it overnight. But Cenk Uygur, I think
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  Speaker 3: that's how you say his name. He of the Young Turks.
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  Speaker 3: He is the uncle of Hasan Piker. Good buddy, at
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  Speaker 3: least until recently of Abdul El-Sayed. And he has a
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  Speaker 3: organization that is putting out an ad. It's called Rebellion Pack,
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  Speaker 3: is the sponsor. And this is their closing ad. This
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  Speaker 3: is running in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: We get all the sandwich stuff for the kids' lunch.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like turkey anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. What about the bananas?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got them too.
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  Speaker 3: But, honey. What?
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to put those eggs back. They don't
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  Speaker 1: like eggs anymore? No, they like eggs.
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  Speaker 2: But we have to set that $ 7 aside.
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  Speaker 1: For killing Palestinians.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, don't we give Israel $ 4 billion a year anyways?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and now we're giving them another $ 26 billion.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how much that is per American taxpayer?
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  Speaker 2: It's like $ 161 per person. Apparently it's costing us a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Don't they get universal health care, too?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 2: We're paying for that, too, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Might as well put the bananas back.
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  Speaker 3: Why the f * * * do we have to
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  Speaker 3: pay for all of this?
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  Speaker 1: Don't cuss at me. Why does Mike Rogers care so
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  Speaker 1: much about what Israelis want? and so little about what
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  Speaker 1: you want. Mike Rogers is for they, them.
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  Speaker 2: Abdul and Syed is for you.
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  Speaker 3: They, them, if you're listening, it's just Benjamin Netanyahu and
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  Speaker 3: other Jews. Jim, I guess not being updated on the
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  Speaker 3: price of eggs is the least infuriating part of this ad.
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  Speaker 3: They have $ 7 eggs. That was beginning of last year.
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  Speaker 3: They've gone down quite a bit since then. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: talk about taking the mask off right before election day.
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  Speaker 2: So to live down to my verbal stereotype, there is
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  Speaker 2: a lot to unpack here. For starters, Greg, that couple's
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  Speaker 2: not going to make it. And if you've ever been
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  Speaker 2: around another couple and they start fighting or you can
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  Speaker 2: tell that there's some sort of unresolved tension between them,
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  Speaker 2: it becomes very clear.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's just not a fun experience. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: this ad is.
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  Speaker 2: Um, you pointed out the fact that the egg prices
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  Speaker 2: are not really the issue. The weird thing is, is
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  Speaker 2: that like beef prices are up. Um, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of food items that are more expensive than two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And particularly than like since post COVID, why you would
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  Speaker 2: pick the one that was entirely a result of bird
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  Speaker 2: flu and far, you know, chicken farmers calling their herds.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why there were fewer eggs being laid. And
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  Speaker 2: it took a while for those little eggs to grow
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  Speaker 2: into big chickens and I won't get into which came first,
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  Speaker 2: but like this is like the most random example that
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  Speaker 2: he could have chosen about this. And I don't like
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  Speaker 2: it when Republicans do it. I think the fact that
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  Speaker 2: this is Cenk Enger's group who's just basically doing this,
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  Speaker 2: playing into the stereotype that the reason your taxes are
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  Speaker 2: high is because of foreign aid, which is absolute nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: We could argue about the merits of foreign aid, but
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  Speaker 2: something like one tenth of one percent of all federal
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  Speaker 2: spending is.
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  Speaker 1: Is foreign aid. And, you know, of that, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Israel is an exceptionally small perception. Like the math ain't mathing,
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  Speaker 2: as they say. And it is a straight up desire
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  Speaker 2: to blame high prices on Israel. And as he says,
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  Speaker 2: they them.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just like, as you said, this is the most. raw, direct,
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  Speaker 2: the Jews are at the root of your problems. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of feel like in 1930s Germany, there would
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  Speaker 2: have been some would say, that's a bit much. That's
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  Speaker 2: a little harsh. It's not exactly what we expect different
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  Speaker 2: from Cenk. And you're correct that Hassan Piker chip off
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  Speaker 2: the old block when it comes to the family over there. All,
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  Speaker 2: you know, year long, Bilal Sayyed has been saying, I
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  Speaker 2: am not an anti-Semite.
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  Speaker 1: I am not anti-Jews. I'm anti-Zionist. Wink, wink. But I
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  Speaker 1: am absolutely not, you know, opposed to Jews in general.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if he were, he would look at this ad
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  Speaker 2: and he would feel like it is hard. He'd be
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  Speaker 2: horrified that this is being done in his name. If
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  Speaker 2: somebody started anti-Semitic ads promoting this podcast, you and I
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  Speaker 2: would not merely like denounce them. we would probably hunt
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  Speaker 2: them down and beat the crap out of them. We
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  Speaker 2: do not, you know, like you don't accidentally promote anti-Semitism
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  Speaker 2: isn't like, oh, you know, you're walking down the street,
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  Speaker 2: you got peanut butter in my chocolate, you got chocolate
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  Speaker 2: in my peanut butter. It just doesn't accidentally end up
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  Speaker 2: in your campaign messaging unless you want it to be there.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't a dog whistle because we can all hear it.
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  Speaker 2: The metaphor doesn't work for that one. So kind of disgusting.
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  Speaker 2: On the one hand, this is a demonstration of the
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  Speaker 2: dangers of outside groups. Because as you mentioned, this is
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  Speaker 2: not the Abdul Al-Sayed campaign doing this. I think they
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  Speaker 2: have enough good sense to recognize that a message like
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  Speaker 2: this is so in your face and so blatant in
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  Speaker 2: its anti-Semitism that it would alienate voters more than it
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  Speaker 2: would encourage people to vote for Abdul Al-Sayed. And I
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  Speaker 2: am reminded of the Glenn Youngkin gubernatorial campaign here in Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: where right towards the end, the Lincoln group on their
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  Speaker 2: quest to build generational wealth and their unbelievable strategic wisdom,
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  Speaker 2: had the volunteers with the tiki torches. And it was
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  Speaker 2: like neo-Nazis for Youngkin or something like that, or white nationalists.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of those things where they very blatantly
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  Speaker 2: posed as extremists in order to make the argument that
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  Speaker 2: Glenn Youngkin was an extremist. And if you've ever met
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  Speaker 2: Glenn Youngkin, he's the most unextreme guy on the planet,
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  Speaker 2: you know. He makes Mitt Romney look hard edged. And
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  Speaker 2: it just is just like so this may actually harm
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  Speaker 2: Abdullah al-Sayed. So in a very bizarre way, maybe this
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  Speaker 2: is our good martini. But the fact that you've got
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  Speaker 2: like really blatant anti-Semitism is the closing message for at
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  Speaker 2: least some Michigan Democrats, probably out of state Democrats. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think Jane Enger lives out in Michigan. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like national Democrats are like blame the Jews. That's our
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  Speaker 2: closing message for one week before Election Day 2026.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you mentioned that Abdul El-Saleh should be denouncing this,
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  Speaker 3: whether he believes it or not. It's probably smart politics.
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  Speaker 3: If he doesn't, does that reflect badly on him?
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  Speaker 2: We are recording this on the morning hours of Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: the 27th. The ad has been generated like 24 hours.
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  Speaker 2: When you want to get stuff out on social media,
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  Speaker 2: you get it out there really fast.
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  Speaker 1: In an era where.
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  Speaker 2: You can pick up your phone and say, this is
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  Speaker 2: a bad ad and it does not stand for me
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  Speaker 2: and please take it down. And, Cenk, what the hell
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  Speaker 2: are you thinking? Like, he could have done that. He
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  Speaker 2: has not, which I think is a– I think says
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  Speaker 2: a bit. Now, maybe at some point we'll get a–
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  Speaker 2: there'll probably be some, oh, I'm sorry if any Jews
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  Speaker 2: were offended. Are you hypersensitive types, you know, from Cenk?
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  Speaker 2: And Abdul, I'll say it. But if he doesn't say anything,
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  Speaker 2: I think that actually will say– that will say volumes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing because, you know, we talked about the
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  Speaker 3: Ramaswamy ad and Republicans across the country were asked about
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  Speaker 3: their response to that. Now, that was specifically an ad
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  Speaker 3: from a campaign. I haven't seen any Democrat, including Syed,
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  Speaker 3: who's that race is the focal point of the ad
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  Speaker 3: being asked about this. So the media only has kind
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  Speaker 4: Hello, everyone. I wasn't going to publicly announce who I've
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  Speaker 4: I have certainly had our disagreements and we have not
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: always seen eye to eye on the challenges facing our city.
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  Speaker 3: And he goes on to say he doesn't think Nithya
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  Speaker 3: Raman is qualified for the job, which she's not. But
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  Speaker 3: of course, neither is Karen Bass, as we've learned over
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  Speaker 3: the last four years. Jim, first of all, Joe Biden's
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  Speaker 3: probably looking at that ad and going, that many jump
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  Speaker 3: cuts in a minute. What is wrong with that guy? Secondly,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if Karen Bass fast-tracked a permit for
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  Speaker 3: this guy or something somewhere along the way, but jumping
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  Speaker 3: into this race and endorsing a week ahead of time
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  Speaker 3: seems kind of weird and kind of weak.
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  Speaker 2: Greg, just insert the gif of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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• 11:26
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  Speaker 1: You were the chosen one! You were the one who
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: was supposed to save us! Not destroy everything!
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  Speaker 2: Rick Caruso's not destroying everything, but I was a little
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  Speaker 2: surprised when he chose not to support the recall effort
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  Speaker 2: failed her city as spectacularly and as blatantly and inexcusably
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  Speaker 2: as as any mayor had ever failed a city. Like
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  Speaker 2: she was literally on the other side of the world
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  Speaker 2: and did not rush back. But he chose not to.
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  Speaker 2: He said like, no, we got to focus on rebuilding
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  Speaker 2: the city. It'd be a distraction right now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Then he chooses not to run for mayor, nor governor,
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  Speaker 2: nor Senate, you know, or any other position. And he
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  Speaker 2: had run against her four years earlier, fallen short, but
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  Speaker 2: done better than a, again, he kept, he was running
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  Speaker 2: as an independent.
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  Speaker 1: He was not a Republican. Wink, wink.
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  Speaker 2: But he was on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. I
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  Speaker 2: think we kind of know how Rick Caruso sees the world.
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  Speaker 2: And you look at the problems facing Los Angeles. This
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  Speaker 2: guy was as good a shot as they had. And
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  Speaker 2: he chose not to run. Spencer Pratt ran. I think
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  Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt ran a very energetic campaign. I also think, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt ran a campaign that really appealed to conservatives
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  Speaker 2: like you and me who don't live in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 2: city limits. And that unfortunately was what that, that was
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  Speaker 2: the demographic that gets to vote in Los Angeles city
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  Speaker 2: elections is you have to vote.
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  Speaker 1: You have to live there.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I don't remember Caruso going out of his way
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  Speaker 2: to help Pratt very much. I don't remember him like,
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  Speaker 2: and so the, the, the first round that, that was
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  Speaker 2: really your shot to save the city. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to say to Los Angeles, abandon all hope you enter here,
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  Speaker 2: but like.
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  Speaker 1: I, you know, it, it, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ramen's, probably worse but this is aliens versus predator you
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  Speaker 2: know whichever whoever wins you lose like this is not
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  Speaker 2: there's not a good guy there's not a you know
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  Speaker 2: and so i if he says like and by the
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  Speaker 2: like the other is if he wants to say my
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  Speaker 2: fellow los angelinos we're in a really rough spot i
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  Speaker 2: think bass does slightly less damage than somebody who's kind
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: of going to be our west coast mom dami i
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: guess i could see that i i don't see why
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: you have to praise bass i don't i i'd love
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: to hear why he thinks she's gotten she's learned from
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  Speaker 2: her mistakes and she's gotten so much better because I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't see it. And I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Like, this is the same woman, just older, who was
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  Speaker 2: not exactly a spring chicken in the first time she
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  Speaker 2: got elected. So kind of frustrating. And I you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate. I think that like Caruso was a glimmer
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  Speaker 2: of hope in the circumstances of Los Angeles and Caruso
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  Speaker 2: coming out and saying, hey, let's go for more years
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  Speaker 2: of this. Probably about as dispiriting a turn of events
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  Speaker 2: as you could imagine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if there's any race in the world where you'd say,
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  Speaker 3: this one, that would be the race. That would be
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  Speaker 3: the race if you even slightly to the right.
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  Speaker 2: I know just how much of a failure the incumbent is.
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  Speaker 2: so I can't say I'd really endorse that. Like, at
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: least understand it. To basically say, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: get out there and vote for Karen Bass.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Just let it go.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: the other ones they've tried to shove down our throats, literally,
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  Speaker 3: or at least into our mouths, is the paper straw.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Paper straw in beverages, just logically speaking, doesn't work. And
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: now not only do they not work compared to plastic straws,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: they're not even better for the planet. New York Post,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: hat tip here, but the research comes from South Korea's
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Ministry of Climate, Energy, and Environment, which analyzed four types
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: of straws, paper, plastic, biodegradable plastic, and sugarcane-based straws. across
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: 16 environmental categories. Traditional plastic straws showed the lowest environmental
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: footprint in 10 of the 16 categories, including human toxicity,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: particulate matter, and overall climate change impact. Meanwhile, paper straws
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: were found to generate more than six times more carcinogens
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: than standard plastic, along with double the impact on environmental acidification.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: As for the bio-PE straws, the kind made from renewable
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: sources like sugarcane, they produced 16 times the carcinogenic impact
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: of standard plastic straws, along with six times the acidification damage.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: And that's the metric that scientists use to measure changes
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: in ocean temperature. and soil pH levels. But aren't paper
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: straws better because they can be recycled? No, not necessarily.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: The study found that because paper straws are so small,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: they routinely slip through sorting equipment at recycling facilities, meaning
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: almost none actually get recycled.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: So Jim, as.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan used to say, it's not that our friends
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: on the left are so ignorant. It's just that there's
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: so much they know that isn't so.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: So let's point out that if paper straws worked as
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: well as plastic straws, no one would complain. People don't
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: spend a lot of time thinking about what their straw
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: is made of if it gets the job done. Now,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: if you use a product that disintegrates in liquid and
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the purpose of it is to transport liquid from the
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: glass to your mouth, well, then people are going to
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: start having problems with them. It's been a few years
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: now since they appeared on the market. I guess they're
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: slightly better than they used to be, but I don't
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: feel like that. As soon as you see a paper straw,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: you're like, ugh. OK, I got to make do with this.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: It'll probably hold together for like the first half of
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the beverage. And then towards the end, it'll start to,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: you know, it'll lose its structural cohesion there. But now, Greg,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: this is actually a good martini because now we can
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: go to everybody using a paper straw and say, why
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: are you harming the environment? Don't you care about the planet?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: If you care about climate change, you'll use plastic straws
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: because the South Korean Ministry of the Environment says that
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: they're better. I cannot wait to roll this out at
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: every restaurant and other gathering and stuff like that.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: No, by the way, don't give your servers grief about that.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: But it is kind of fun to point this out
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: and say, hey, remember this thing you thought you were
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: going to do that was going to save the planet?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: It's not doing any good.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Actually, it's making things worse. Also, I know there are
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: various studies that said this. There are some places that
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: take recycling very seriously. And there are some places where
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: it all ends up in the same place. Anyway, like
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: you have two different bins. They end up going to
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the same truck. It's all smoke and mirrors. It's not
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: all smoke and mirrors, but a significant amount of it is,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: which means we don't need to roll out the green
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: police from that Audi commercial every time somebody fails to compost.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, recycling's been kind of a scam for a very
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: long time. Jim, it reminds me a little bit of
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the evolution of bags at the grocery store, because at
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: least when I was a kid, probably same for you,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: it was always paper. And then they said, oh, you're
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: killing the trees. You're killing the trees. We've got to
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: go to plastic. And then after a long time, they're like, oh,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: the plastic ones aren't biodegradable. They're getting out somehow into nature,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: and they're strangling birds and wildlife and all this stuff.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: So then they went back to paper. and no, you're
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: still killing the forest. And then finally, they're like, no, no,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: you got to buy your own bag in some of
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: these stores. And if you don't remember it, you got
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: to buy a new one to take your groceries home.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: So the left never knows what it wants.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: By the way, so apparently they studied and have found that...
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: The reusable ones have bacteria that tend to accumulate at
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: the bottom. So your odds of getting sick are higher.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: So as long as you're willing to take that hit
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: for the planet, great. Greg, while you're having this conversation,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I like to think of myself as a– I try
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to be a smart guy. People, listeners may have a
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: different opinion of that. But the neurons in the back
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: of my mind flash to Jay Leno doing a monologue
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: joke about David Souter, arguably one of the most disappointing
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court justices of all time. But one of the
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: reasons was that he had no paper trail. He had
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: not ruled on controversial cases. So it was just kind
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: of this assumption that he'd be the kind of justice
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that George H.W. Bush wanted to have. And Leno said, boy,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: this guy's got no opinions and won't even take a
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: stand on anything. They saw him coming out of the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: grocery store carrying his groceries in his hand so he
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have to decide between paper and plastic. Back in
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the early 90s, kids, paper or plastic was this major decision. And,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you know, at that point, now it's kind of one
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: or the other. In my locality, they charge you for
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the plastic bag. I've always tempted to say zero and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: deny it. I don't remember being asked about this. I
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: don't remember anybody saying, hey, would you like to do
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: this for the planet?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: No.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Also, weird thing. If you go, not that I eat
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: donuts because I try to get healthy, Greg. But if
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I did, you take the donuts or other pastries, you
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: put them in a plastic bag. They don't charge you
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: for that one.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: CVS, you go to the pharmacy, you kick up your prescriptions.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: They put it in a plastic bag. They don't charge
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you for that one. So it's such a, ah, these
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: plastic bags are okay. These plastic bags are bad or something.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I guess it doesn't harm the environment if it comes
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: from one part of the store versus the other.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: None of this makes any sense. Exactly.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: The bakery, the deli, all that stuff's fine. It's just
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: at the checkout that we have to crack the whip.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: The left likes to tell you what to do. Doesn't
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: mean they make a lot of sense ever. All right. Well,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: let's talk about something that does make a lot of sense.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: And that is having peace of mind Whenever a major
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: problem erupts in your home or just outside your home,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: it could be the water line outside your home, could
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: be the sewer line, could be a pipe inside your house,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: like at the Columbus home, you want to make sure
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: it's not going to cost you an arm and a leg. Thankfully,
• 22:08
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• 22:13
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• 22:15
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• 22:31
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• 22:32
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• 22:34
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• 22:42
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• 22:51
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• 22:54
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• 22:56
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• 23:20
  Speaker 3: renewal price void in Florida. Jim, we've been following so
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: many Senate races around the country. One that we haven't
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: spent a lot of time on is Florida. That is
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: where Angie Nixon scored a major upset in the Democratic
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: primary a couple months back, defeating Ukraine impeachment figure Alexander Vindman.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: She's now going up against Ashley Moody. Some of the
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: polls show it close. Most people think Ashley Moody is
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: probably going to win fairly comfortably. But CBS News was
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: talking to Angie Nixon, and she was talking about how
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: people from really unstable countries need to be granted a
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: pathway to citizenship in this country. And one of the
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: countries she listed was Cuba. And here was the follow-up question.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: You know, that is what people have told me.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I have never been to Cuba, and so I will
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: have to take their word for it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Jim, I've never been to North Korea. I'm pretty sure
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: it's communist. Same thing with the Chinese and the Vietnamese
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and Cuba. But Angie Nixon, I wouldn't know. Haven't set
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: foot there, but I'll just take your word for it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't been to China. I haven't been to Russia.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I haven't been to Syria. Oh, yeah, I've been to Syria.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And they're the good Islamists now, or at least reasonable-ish.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah. TBD. TBD. Keep an eye on them. But
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to observe.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Long-time listeners may be noticing this emerging gag where, you know,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: when Abdul Al-Sayed complains about cars, I'll say, Greg, you're
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: from Michigan.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Are cars a big deal in Michigan?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: There was also Crowley, the gubernatorial candidate out of Wisconsin,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: complained about beer gardens, saying they were a symbol of
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: white supremacy. And I was like, Greg, are beer gardens,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: is beer a big deal in Wisconsin? And of course,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: if you ever look at the numbers, like, oh, which
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: state drinks the most? It's Wisconsin by a Y. It's
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: not even close. It kind of puts the rest of
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: us to shame, right? So So I'm going to, is
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Cuba a big deal in Florida? I know it's a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: big state. I know that maybe, but it's South Florida,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: kind of a big deal, kind of important in the
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Miami area. But hey, it's not like a Democrat needs
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: to do well in Miami.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Right, Greg?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: No, not at all.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: And the fact that she literally joined the DSA shortly
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: before the primary, I'm sure will work wonders for her with.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: The Cuban population.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: In South Florida. So anyway, fun to see that. Jim,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: have a great day. See you tomorrow.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: See you tomorrow. And remember, listeners, look for a future.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Greg is blank a big deal in state jokes in
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the weeks to come.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Jim Garrity, National Review. I'm Greg Karumbas of Radio America.
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