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Brazil Election Shock Gives Hope to GOP? New Shocking Details from Cornell Rape Hoax · The Alex Marlow Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Alex Marlowe Show. The Alex Marlowe Show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you're here and I'm very glad it's a Monday,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not. Did you guys have a good weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I did not have a good weekend. I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you that. I'll tell you why I did not have
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  Speaker 1: a good weekend. First of all, I was actually getting
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  Speaker 1: a little depressed by the news, which is very tough
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  Speaker 1: for me because I live in the news business and
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  Speaker 1: I generally have a pretty thick skin. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be editor-in-chief of Breitbart. You can't be a snowflake. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's part of the maybe job number one or
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  Speaker 1: maybe line number one, the job description. No snowflakes, but
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  Speaker 1: I was getting pretty depressed about some of the stories
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  Speaker 1: that we're seeing, another story at the end of the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: another Texas mother, millennial, white, killing her children. We just,
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  Speaker 1: every day, it feels like another one, another millennial white
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  Speaker 1: killing their children, and then the people rush to their
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  Speaker 1: defense on TikTok, and then there's all these false accusations
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  Speaker 1: and hoaxes that go around, and they just get such
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  Speaker 1: velocity in the apps. I'm talking in particular TikTok, also
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  Speaker 1: Instagram's not much better. I was looking at a story
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  Speaker 1: that says we are all Jane Doe in the Cornell
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  Speaker 1: rape hoax, and I will give you that update. I
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  Speaker 1: have a big update on that coming up. I'll do
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  Speaker 1: that later in the show. 248,000 likes on this post,
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  Speaker 1: and I've seen a lot just like it. So not
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  Speaker 1: just people who are getting the false information and are
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  Speaker 1: consuming the false information, but a quarter of a million people, allegedly,
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  Speaker 1: who knows how many are bots, how many are foreigners,
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  Speaker 1: how many are people who are Just want to disrupt
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  Speaker 1: America's vibe. But people just clicking. Yeah, we're all Jane
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  Speaker 1: Doe now, even though when we get information, so much
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  Speaker 1: information that's come out that's indicated that she's completely altered
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  Speaker 1: her story and that she knew she was a bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad girl. And that's why she is accusing these people
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  Speaker 1: to try to save face because she was bad. She
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  Speaker 1: was naughty, very naughty, very bad. And that's the issue there.
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  Speaker 1: And then I got the most horrific news imaginable, which
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  Speaker 1: is something that happened to me. on yesterday, which is
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  Speaker 1: my beloved 14-year-old doggy, Chip, passed away. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to tell you the story of Chip because I find
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  Speaker 1: him to be inspiring, and I find it to be
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful thing, even though it's so simple. But he
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  Speaker 1: was a rescue dog, and I've always joked about how
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  Speaker 1: he was actually rescued from the loving family that would
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  Speaker 1: have adopted him the following weekend. But we rescued him
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  Speaker 1: in 2012, which was the year that my wife and
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  Speaker 1: I got married. It was also the year that she
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  Speaker 1: got into medical school, and we would move to Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: the year after. And it was very good for us.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great, exciting time in our life. And
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  Speaker 1: he was also kind of a test for Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Marlowe that she just brought him home. And we'd just
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  Speaker 1: been married and she brought him home and said, this
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  Speaker 1: is our dog now. And I looked at him and
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  Speaker 1: I went, okay, not so sure about that. But I
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  Speaker 1: know I'm getting quiz here that I need to accept
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  Speaker 1: this dog. And so we'd gotten a designer dog in
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  Speaker 1: the past, a purebred beagle, who is my beloved Jobin,
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  Speaker 1: just the greatest dog. And we're kind of used to
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  Speaker 1: getting dogs like that. We also got a purebred German Shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: But this dog was, I would describe him charitably as
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  Speaker 1: ugly hot. It's kind of like the Daniel Craig vibe
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  Speaker 1: from James Bond. Is it hot? He was cute, but
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  Speaker 1: cute in like an ugly cute sort of way. You
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  Speaker 1: have to kind of stare at him. And then it
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  Speaker 1: dawns on you, oh, yeah, he is cute. But that
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  Speaker 1: was the type of look that was just so endearing.
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  Speaker 1: And you just fall in love with him. And he
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  Speaker 1: was a true survivor. And he came with us. On
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  Speaker 1: two cross-country moves, we had other pets involved. He was
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  Speaker 1: with us with our four babies, all of them being born,
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  Speaker 1: and he was so lovely to the babies. And it
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  Speaker 1: was one of these things where he was totally deteriorating
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  Speaker 1: to the point where I started to get the smaller
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  Speaker 1: bags of dog food, thinking, well, why am I getting
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  Speaker 1: the huge bag? Because he was maybe 14 pounds. He
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  Speaker 1: was a terrier-chihuahua mix, so a tiny little guy, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe 14 pounds, soaking wet. And so I was getting
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  Speaker 1: like the five pound dog food bags. And I was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: this dog is just going to live forever. And then
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  Speaker 1: recently I went up and I bumped it up and
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  Speaker 1: I got the 14 pound dog, the 28 pound bag
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  Speaker 1: of dog food. And he made it through almost the
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  Speaker 1: entire bag. I got to say, there's a few crumbs
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom, but he was just the easiest boy.
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  Speaker 1: And even when he passed away yesterday, he died while
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  Speaker 1: the whole family was around. And I got to hold
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  Speaker 1: him one last time and I got to bring the
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  Speaker 1: children around to say goodbye to him. And I actually–
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  Speaker 1: even better, I got to remove him from the house
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  Speaker 1: and I was driving him towards the vet. He actually
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  Speaker 1: passed away in my arms on the way to the vet.
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  Speaker 1: And it was one of these things where it's such
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful little story about God and how he shines
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  Speaker 1: light on us in these very small little ways. And
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  Speaker 1: he's just a beautiful little dog, and I'm devastated to
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  Speaker 1: see him go. But I just find it to be
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  Speaker 1: so amazing that this little creature who should not have–
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  Speaker 1: appeared to be an accident. I don't even know how
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  Speaker 1: he found his way into my life. But he did so,
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  Speaker 1: and then every step of the way, he was just
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  Speaker 1: a true comfort. And the fact that he even died–
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  Speaker 1: naturally surrounded by people who love him is very inspirational
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  Speaker 1: because that is not the norm, the animal kingdom. You
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  Speaker 1: guys might know this, that most animals don't get to
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  Speaker 1: go in that way. And the fact that he did it,
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  Speaker 1: it was, he was so courteous. He didn't even really
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  Speaker 1: interrupt the day. Like the day we kind of went
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  Speaker 1: about our business afterwards, everyone was crying their eyes out,
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  Speaker 1: but then everyone was able to, we went to grandmother's house.
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  Speaker 1: We had a dinner reservation. We made that like, it
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  Speaker 1: was a, we got stuff done. He was that courteous
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  Speaker 1: and that sweet and that perfect never caused a single problem.
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  Speaker 1: He even, uh, he, So I'm going to withhold the story.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll share a different time. I'm going long on this.
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  Speaker 1: But I just love this boy, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: honor him on the show, and the show is now
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  Speaker 1: in dedication to Chip, my beloved Mutt. People say when
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  Speaker 1: people reach out to me, they always like personal stories.
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  Speaker 1: This is a personal one, and I just think it's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful, tiny little story about a little dog who
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  Speaker 1: really just provided so much joy and comfort in a
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  Speaker 1: tumultuous time of my life. So RIP, Chipland Ronald Mutt.
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  Speaker 1: All right, big news from over the weekend that is positive, again,
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  Speaker 1: is the Brazil elections. Flavio Bolsonaro finishing first over Lula
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  Speaker 1: da Silva, who is a drunk and a radical and
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  Speaker 1: very old and loves Obama and hates Trump and hates America.
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  Speaker 1: And Bolsonaro is someone who is very pro-America and ran
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  Speaker 1: on a pro-America platform. And so he did not get
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  Speaker 1: enough votes to avoid a runoff against Lula. So there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be another month of this conversation. But the
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  Speaker 1: minor candidates are now out, and none of them got
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  Speaker 1: more than 3% of the vote, and most of the
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  Speaker 1: minor candidates were right-leaning. So he's favored to win in
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  Speaker 1: the runoff, so that's a positive. And he ran on a–
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  Speaker 1: he's running ahead of his father, Bolsonaro, who was a–
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  Speaker 1: the president, I think, for two terms at least, and
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  Speaker 1: almost got assassinated and survived and was able to govern.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is a very cool thing that's happening,
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  Speaker 1: even though in America we don't tend to do dynastic
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  Speaker 1: stuff until recently. We're starting to do that, but we
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  Speaker 1: tend to reject that stuff. But something that's happening in
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  Speaker 1: this family is there's either four or five Bolsonaros that
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  Speaker 1: are elected right now. So this will be the fifth
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  Speaker 1: or sixth Bolsonaro. And they're all very pro-Trump. They love America.
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  Speaker 1: They love Donald Trump. They love MAGA. And he's actually
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  Speaker 1: improving upon his father's vote total, which is very interesting
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  Speaker 1: because the left is on a huge losing streak in
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  Speaker 1: Latin America. A lot of people are pointing this out
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  Speaker 1: as connected to the USAID where the Obama and Biden
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  Speaker 1: governments funneling money into Latin America leftist groups. I do
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  Speaker 1: think that that could be a factor. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Is it correlation or causation? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But it is noteworthy that we cut off all this
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  Speaker 1: aid that was going overseas or going, I guess you
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  Speaker 1: could theoretically not go overseas, but going to South and
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  Speaker 1: Latin America in order to try to prop up various
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  Speaker 1: NGOs and it ended up just getting funneled into left-wing
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  Speaker 1: political culture there. So it's a big thing. So Bolsonaro,
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  Speaker 1: he's a family man. He is someone who had been
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  Speaker 1: accused of corruption and sexual deviancy, but he's actually a prude.
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  Speaker 1: So people acting like he was some sort of a
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  Speaker 1: party animal probably helped them. So really bad campaigning from Lula.
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  Speaker 1: And Lula, who is a lunatic, tried to run as
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  Speaker 1: an evangelical. I think that fell on deaf ears. And
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  Speaker 1: he is– they try to argue that Lula, who's a
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  Speaker 1: convicted felon, was– that is another strong point here. But
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  Speaker 1: just remember that Obama loved Lula and the Bolsonaros loved Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and that is a cool thing. And this goes now–
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  Speaker 1: here is the run in terms of Latin America since 2024.
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  Speaker 1: Colombia has now had a left-of-center President Luz. Peru, Chile, Bolivia,
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  Speaker 1: Costa Rica– Ecuador and Honduras. And it is not a
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  Speaker 1: coincidence that Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, their State Department,
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  Speaker 1: has focused on trying to make our hemisphere, focus on
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  Speaker 1: our hemisphere, not fall into the China sphere, which is
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  Speaker 1: the intention of BRICS and all these other entities to
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  Speaker 1: try to get China to have more influence in South America.
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  Speaker 1: We have fought back and we are convincing people. And
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  Speaker 1: I think this is very heartening. And perhaps could it
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  Speaker 1: be a sign of things to come the same way
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  Speaker 1: Brexit was a sign of things to come in 2016?
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  Speaker 1: Could this be a sign of things to come for us?
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  Speaker 1: In this midterm election, I don't know, but it is
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  Speaker 1: certainly good news to balance out some of all that
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  Speaker 1: horrible news. So one thing, though, with so much uncertainty
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  Speaker 1: When I got the news or when the news got out,
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  Speaker 1: that my little puppy Chip had passed away, then the
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  Speaker 1: first call I got, this is going to blow your guys' mind,
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  Speaker 1: it was Christy Noem. And she said, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: let me come over? Take care of that for you.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, Christy, that's very dark. Don't say that.
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  Speaker 1: That's not true. She did not call. She did not
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  Speaker 1: call and do that. But she did apparently on her
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  Speaker 1: last day as Homeland Security Secretary, bought five airplanes, where
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  Speaker 1: DHS did, from a firm with a man who had
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  Speaker 1: donated to her PAC in 2024 at a big markup. So,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Is Washington just not attracting good people anymore?
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  Speaker 1: Is that over? And remember her husband with the very
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  Speaker 1: oblong fake breasts that he would wear? Very odd fetish.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird people in this country. I got to say,
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  Speaker 1: I love Americans. I always have, but it's a sort
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  Speaker 1: of doubt in certain ways. I saw a viral post
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  Speaker 1: online of a woman holding up a sign at a
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  Speaker 1: protest over the weekend and I'm going to read this
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  Speaker 1: to you. Second pregnancy, first baby, abortion was my choice.
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  Speaker 1: One day it might be her choice too. So she's
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  Speaker 1: holding up her picture of her daughter or she's holding
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  Speaker 1: up her daughter. So basically the suggestion is I killed
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  Speaker 1: one of her siblings. And then when she grows up,
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  Speaker 1: I want her to have the right to kill my grandchildren.
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  Speaker 1: And I just, I don't get how people are wired
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  Speaker 1: this way. We have a culture of death is encroaching
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  Speaker 1: into our society and And we need to straighten ourselves
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  Speaker 1: out here because if we don't start fighting for life
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  Speaker 1: and truth, then we're going to have a– it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a tough road in the coming future in
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  Speaker 1: this country. But one of the things that's happening a
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  Speaker 1: lot is the lying, the dishonesty coming from one political
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  Speaker 1: side of the aisle as they feel like they're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a chance to win an election so long
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  Speaker 1: as Americans stay as uninformed as possible. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that we saw over the weekend was the
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  Speaker 1: Cornell rape hoax starting to fall apart, but people are
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  Speaker 1: still lying about it. This is AOC from a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago. Play cut 11, please, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Men drugged and gang raped a 20-year-old woman. They lured
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  Speaker 2: her in to a fraternity house. They drugged her with ketamine.
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  Speaker 2: They then posted to a group chat that she was
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  Speaker 2: incapacitated and seven men took turns gang raping her for
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  Speaker 2: seven hours.
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  Speaker 1: It's not true. She admitted that she had volunteered for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of this. This is just something that is,
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  Speaker 1: this is from a statement that she had made I
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  Speaker 1: had become extremely uncomfortable with how the night was turning out.
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  Speaker 1: So my thought was, if I do ketamine again, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I will pass out. My thought was, if I passed
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  Speaker 1: out and these men had sex with me, then they
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  Speaker 1: could be charged with rape. So she was starting to
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  Speaker 1: regret it. And then she amped up her own dosage
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  Speaker 1: voluntarily to try to start formulating a victim narrative. And
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  Speaker 1: then afterwards, we have all the tests suggesting that she
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  Speaker 1: wanted to have the experience again with a couple of
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  Speaker 1: the men. She wanted to repeat it, and that fraternity
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  Speaker 1: asked her not to attend their Halloween party, but she
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  Speaker 1: wanted to attend. Is that the story AOC just told,
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  Speaker 1: or is she weaving some sort of a fake web?
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we get this stuff online where a
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  Speaker 1: quarter of a million people are responding to something that's bogus.
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  Speaker 1: If you start going through actually what happened, and you
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  Speaker 1: go into some granularity, that a lot of the men
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  Speaker 1: who were involved didn't actually have any contact with her
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  Speaker 1: at all. They're still gross. I mean, everyone's gross who's involved.
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  Speaker 1: And the one person who apparently sent the disgusting text
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  Speaker 1: that I won't read on the air that suggested that
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  Speaker 1: it was game on with this girl and anyone who
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  Speaker 1: wanted to show up would be able to get involved,
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  Speaker 1: which is repulsive and disgusting, all that stuff. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you know what I'm talking about. If not,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to look it up on your own. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: it was a brother who did that. So I'm wondering
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  Speaker 1: if this person who appears to be a black person
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  Speaker 1: who sent the horrific text, I wonder if he's going
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  Speaker 1: to get any support from the infrastructure that does protect
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  Speaker 1: black people from criminal accusations. I wonder if they're going
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  Speaker 1: to step in because they're trying to smear him even
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  Speaker 1: though he may have been invited. So all this is
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  Speaker 1: just so gross. I had a post that kind of
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  Speaker 1: went viral. over the weekend where I was talking about
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  Speaker 1: how can men grant consent if they're intoxicated? And this
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  Speaker 1: is the question that we have just backed ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: this corner where we have to keep discussing things that
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't necessarily have to keep discussing. Shouldn't it just
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  Speaker 1: be all these people are gross? Cornell actually expelled most
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  Speaker 1: of these people anyway. And it seems like we now
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  Speaker 1: have a culture at these universities where everyone is just so,
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  Speaker 1: so wasting everyone's time and money. This is what their
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  Speaker 1: universities have become. Our universities have become a place where
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  Speaker 1: people go to waste time and money. They don't go
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  Speaker 1: to learn any values. They go there to behave very
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  Speaker 1: badly and to entertain themselves on their parents' dime before
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  Speaker 1: they enter the real world. And are we doing that
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  Speaker 1: much better? Are we doing that much better in the
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  Speaker 1: real world where we feel like we can waste four
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  Speaker 1: years of our prime doing this type of behavior and
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  Speaker 1: then point the finger at everyone involved? Think about the
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  Speaker 1: nature of how left-wing Cornell University is. And this is
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  Speaker 1: what goes on on their campus. There are no good
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  Speaker 1: people involved here. We'll be right back with more. Don't
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: miss one of the most powerful documentaries of the year.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Can You Hear Me Now? featuring Charlie Kirk. Stream it
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  Speaker 1: now exclusively on salemnow.com. Speaking of Charlie, I had a
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: nice conversation with Andrew Colvett, who's the producer of The
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk Show and now the host of the show,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: who's a close friend of mine. And I asked him
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: how his weekend was, and he said he's been off
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the grid for four days, ATVing with his children. And
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: I said, oh, cool, same as me. I've been on
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the computer reading about a bunch of rapes and death,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: and then also my dog died. So pretty similar weekend
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: that we had. He had no cell phone access. I
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, my goodness. I am jealous of that.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: ABC had a tweet recently. that came out about the
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Cornell rape hoax, a state mandated survey of undergraduate students
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: at Cornell revealed that more than one third of undergraduate
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: women said they'd experienced sexual assault during their time at
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the Ivy league university. So one third of women at
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Cornell said that they've experienced sexual assault at the Ivy
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: league university. Let me tell you the conclusions of this.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: If this is true, then why on earth would I
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: send my daughters to Cornell university? I have two. So
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I have a vested interest here and they're going to
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: be smart and they're going to be educated. So why
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: would I send them there? If you paid me a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: hundred grand a year, there can be a hundred grand
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: a year a piece. So they have a one in
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: three chance getting sexually assaulted. Or perhaps there is a
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: rape hoax pandemic that's going on epidemic. And maybe all
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: of these women are falsely accusing men. So why would
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I pay for tab? My two sons go to Cornell.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: They're going to be educated. They're going to want to
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: go to college. I hope they don't, but they're going
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: to want to. My youngest son is already talking about
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: college for some reason. I think maybe it's the sports thing,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: but he's interested in going to college. I'm sorry, son.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to go. If there's
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a one in three chance, you're going to get accused
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: of sexual assault. So it is a complete cesspool or universities.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And why don't people see a headline like this and go, whoa,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: hold the phone here. We got to do something. Because
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: if it is true, it is horrible. And if it
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: is false, it is horrible. They're both horrible for different reasons.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Do we have that cut, guys, of the, not cut,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: but do we have that image of the New York Magazine,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the cut article? Can we put that on the screen
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: if we have it? There's an article over the weekend
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: from New York Magazine. What are fathers telling their sons
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: about Cornell? And if you guys see the image here,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: and you guys are missing out, we try to have
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: visual components to the show. And it's the, I will
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: describe it. but is a father holding two sons. Here
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: is the trick here. The sons look like they're about
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: three and four. What are fathers telling their sons about
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Cornell and New York magazine chooses to make the images
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: on the screen, a three-year-old and a four-year-old as if
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: you would be explaining, not even sex, but rape to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a three and four-year-old. So, I have a six and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: eight-year-old son. And let me tell you the extent of
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the conversation we're going to be having about Cornell. That's it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: That's the extent of it. Absolute zero. Nor would I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: talk to them about that until they were of age
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: where they were actually aware of this news story. It
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: is so horrific what our media continues to do. They
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: keep continue to create heroes that are not heroes and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: victims out of people who are not victims. It is
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: tried and true. It is how they get their job done.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And now it is not just the establishment media. It
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: is these apps, the social media apps, particularly TikTok that
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: elevates this type of false divisive content and makes it
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the top thing that people see trending. It creates a,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it guides the culture. It is not just reacting to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the culture. It is leading the culture. We need to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: be very aware of it. One of those popular stories
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: over the weekend at Breitbart was this image of Jack Smith,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the Jack Smith, deranged Jack Smith, as Trump calls him,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: at a concert. I think it was a Bruce Springsteen concert.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: It says, because it says Springsteen, he's got a shirt
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that says Springsteen on it. And I'm leaning into the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: screen so I can read this. It says, land of hope,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: something dreams. And it says Springsteen on it. He's holding
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a beer. And it says, no kings. It says, no kings.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: So he's got a no king shirt on. This is
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a guy who tried to interfere in our elections by
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: coordinating with the Joe Biden White House to engage in
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: a blatantly political prosecution of Donald Trump, which was completely
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: unconstitutional and illegal. As I wrote about in Breaking the Law,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and this is very important, I actually heard this echoed
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: on a very popular podcast. They didn't cite me, so
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I won't cite them back, but I heard this on
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a podcast that I do listen to and I really like,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: but pointing out a point that I made in Breaking
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the Law, which is very important. that on November 18th,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: it was right around the time, this is when Jack
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Smith was appointed special counsel by Merrick Garland's DOJ on
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: November 18th. At the same time, Nathan Wade, who's Fonny Wills' boyfriend,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: who's working on the Georgia case against Trump, was at
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the White House for eight hours. And this is right
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: around the same time, a guy named Matthew Colangelo, who
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: is the number three at the DOJ and Biden's DOJ,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: went down to Alvin Bragg's court in New York took
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a huge demotion to prosecute Donald Trump. All these happened
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: at the exact same moment. It was right after the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: midterm elections and right in the run-up to right when
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: 2024 campaigning was about to start. This is when, so
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: it's 2022, November, a couple of weeks after the election,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's a candidate now, and they're all diving in
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: to try to prosecute him to make sure that he
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: cannot be president. This is the story of Jack Smith.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And yet, unfortunately, we got this stuff over the last
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: week We're like, did he go to a Hawkeyes game
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: or a Hawks game? And it was all bad info
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and all distraction. The fact that this guy engaged in
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a blatantly political prosecution of the past president and, and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: current presidential candidate. And it was all illegal to travesty.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: He's not been held to account. And then you can
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: walk around drinking beers, wear no King shirts. Justice is
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: supposed to be blind. It's supposed to be apolitical. And
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: we get a guy whose wife made a documentary about
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama, also covered in breaking the law. Guys, I
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: don't write these things for my health. I don't write them.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: In fact, it is not healthy. My health generally gets
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: worse when I write these books. So I recommend you
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: catch them. All right. Switching gears, we're trying to frame
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: up the election here. I want to check in on
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: how some of the candidates are doing because a lot
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of the polls continue to be pretty bleak. Some of
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: them more positive. I'm seeing some positive stuff out of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: places like New Hampshire, Minnesota, Michelle Tafoya's race. There's some
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: good stuff, but then I'm trying to get a sense
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of what are the vibes versus what are the polls
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: because a lot of Democrats are very excited about polls
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: in Texas. But I'll tell you, a lot of some
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Republicans are excited about polls in California. Now, do I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: think Steve Hilton is going to win? I don't. I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: hope he does. I'm going to enthusiastically vote for him
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and make sure that I get everyone I know to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: go vote for him. But the thing is, is that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: if he's close, it certainly suggests there's going to be
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: some sort of a blue wave. So and you look
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: at stuff like Texas and you think, could Texas win?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: conceivably vote for a guy named james talrico who is
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: super slimy and uh had a vegan campaign in a
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: guy who doesn't like barbecue or oil even though it's
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: an oil state it just it doesn't seem to make
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: sense but then you see stuff like hispanics overwhelmingly shifting
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: away from trump who they voted for in 2024 and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: away from the gop and you got to think about
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: cost of living and we got to be delicate on
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: this because it's a real thing as cost of living
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: has gotten more expensive at a slower rate than it
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: did under Biden, but it's gotten more expensive. But there's
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: so many good things happening in our economy, and we've
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: got to tell this story. The labor market is near
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: full employment. Growth has held up in a major way.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: We actually saw Q3 GDP get revised up. Equities are high.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: S & P 500 is super high. Oil prices have
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: been actually pretty resilient given the Iran war. People thought
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: we could see oil at $ 200 a barrel. Instead, it
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is now under $ 90, I think. And it could even
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: go lower because we're seeing so much commerce through the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz, thanks to Operation Economic Fury, which has
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: been successful. So manufacturing, we're in a manufacturing boom right
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: now in this country. It's booming right now. And I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: think there's some of this, I will say the caveat,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: some of this is because the AI economy, which a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: lot of people are suspicious could be a bubble. And
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't like AI. They don't like
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the idea of so much of our wealth is tied
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: into these tech giants. But overall, there's a lot to
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: support that America is actually doing well and spending is
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: very high. And we're going up against a bunch of
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: sick freaks, which is another point that we have to
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: keep reminding people. Abdul El-Said's sister-in-law appeared on a terrorist
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: watch list court filings indicate, according to the Federalist. This
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: came out just this morning. So do we really think
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Americans are going to go and vote for these people?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: To connect a couple stories, I want to play, this is,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: let me make sure I got the right clip. This
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: is a woman named Michelle Cottle And she works at
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the New York Times where she covers national politics and Washington.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: And she was on MSNOW, formerly known as MSNBC, talking
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: about Cornell. This story has, you got to hear this
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to believe it. Cut 18, please, guys.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: It's a fundamental disrespect for women. You can't send those messages,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: no matter how drunk you are as a frat boy,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: without having some kind of misunderstanding about what women are
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: there for and whether this is a real person you're
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: dealing with. And that, I think, starts, you know, we
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: can go to the president for this one. I mean,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: we are in a moment in this culture where the
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women is
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: kind of making you a cool kid.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: All right, making you a cool kid. All right, can
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: we look up guys in the booth? Could you confirm
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: for me when the Cornell rape hoax allegedly took place? Okay,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: it was 2024. Who was the president in 2024? Ladies
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, it was big Joey the Biden. So maybe
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: it's Joe Biden's fault. Maybe we should blame Biden. If
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: we're going to blame the president, we may as well
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: blame Joe Biden because he was the guy who was
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in charge at that time. And this goes on and,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you know, it takes the internet to fact check it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: But how many people hear this and think maybe that's true? Yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: maybe it's really Trump's fault. Trump's really the guy who's the, the, uh,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Cornell rape hoax is all because of Trump. It's just remarkable.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: This is a New York times person who gets promoted
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: on MS. Now, can we get the word out about
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: these people? Can we get the word out about these people? Um,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I've got a cut of let's play. Let's play. This
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: is Texas State Senator Angela Paxton. This is really important
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: because this is Ken Paxton's estranged wife. And I want
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to play this cut. This is so important. Cut 16, please.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I'm Texas Senator Angela Paxton. People have asked my thoughts
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: about this election, and it turns out I have some.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Let's talk about the elephant in the room. In a
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: general election, it's not as much about the individual players
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: on the team. It's about getting the whole team across
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: the finish line. Either we hold every Republican seat or
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: we hand the future of Texas to the other team.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: That's why I'm voting for the Republican ticket on November 3rd.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Let's hold the line together.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Texas PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: This is a huge dunk on Karl Rove in particular
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: because Karl Rove was out there basically campaigning against Republicans
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: because he probably didn't get all the contracts he wanted.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: And people give Karl Rove a platform, the ultimate bushy
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: establishmentarian who has tried to sabotage the Republicans during this
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: election cycle. And he's going out there and acting like–
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: because Ken Paxton is not a perfect candidate, and he's not.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: He is not a perfect candidate. But he's acting as
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: though Texas might be a lost cause or maybe he's
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: even going to withhold votes from Republicans. He said he
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: was going to withhold votes from at least one Republican.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I think it was the guy who tweeted the picture
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: of the Indians at the– the Indian kids at the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Texas football game. Which was not a tactful move. I
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: don't endorse that. But we're going to let James Tallarico
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and the Democrats and people who are obsessed with trans
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  Speaker 1: and who in a candid moment can name their favorite
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  Speaker 1: trans drag queen who's trying to trans the kids. We
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: want those people in charge. Even Ken Paxton's estranged wife
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel that way. And you got the Karl Rove's
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• 30:57
  Speaker 1: can we frame up this closing argument? People are voting.
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  Speaker 1: It's 29 days, I think, until the election, and people
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  Speaker 1: are voting right now. Election day is today. Do we
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  Speaker 1: want to empower people who have as their priority things
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: like a trans bill of rights? This is the sort
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: of thing that is being discussed today. on the Democrat side.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: This is DSA-er Claire Valdez talking to Hakeem Jeffries. Cut seven, please, guys.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: You know, in my conversation recently, I wanted to emphasize
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: how important certain issues were in my district and that
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: were defining parts of my race. And that includes the war.
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  Speaker 5: It includes the genocide, Medicare for All, Trans Bill of Rights. Like,
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  Speaker 5: there are a lot of things that, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: ran on that I want to deliver for my district.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it's our responsibility to do exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: What was the reaction?
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  Speaker 5: It was a very cordial conversation, and we'll have more conversations.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: So there you go. So the Jews are doing a genocide,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to have a trans bill of rights.
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  Speaker 1: That's what these people are all about. Peggy Flanagan, who
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  Speaker 1: is in this race in Minnesota against my old colleague
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Michelle Tafoya, had a ad on what her priorities are.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Cut 13, please, gentlemen.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Have you seen this? Since last July, 1.2 million children
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: have lost SNAP benefits. When I was growing up, my
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: single mom worked hard, but she couldn't always make ends
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  Speaker 6: meet without a little help. SNAP, which we called food stamps,
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  Speaker 6: kept food on the table and in my belly. But
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  Speaker 6: now the Trump administration.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Is gutting programs. Here's the point of this ad. You've
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: got to pause the screen. You guys are missing it.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: It's the visuals. It's not the points about SNAP, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't want all poor people to go hungry, even
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: though SNAP is totally abused, and we can break down
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: how we need to fix it. But she is dressed
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: like comedian Paula Poundstone. Some of you guys know the reference.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I know in this radio audience, she's got the Paula
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Poundstone thing. And this reminded me of one of the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: most embarrassing moments of my life. And I'll share it
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: on the show. This was back in the days when
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  Speaker 1: we were in the basement of Andrew Breitbart's house. And
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  Speaker 1: we were starting the company and things were kicking off.
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  Speaker 1: We only had a few employees. I was the first
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: employee of Breitbart News. And so we were in Andrew's basement.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember one time we were in our basement office.
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  Speaker 1: that I was looking up Paula Poundstone for a reference.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to make a joke and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: a Paula Poundstone punchline. And so I was looking up
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  Speaker 1: like Googling, whatever it was, Paula Poundstone. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: some of the other guys on the team, including this
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  Speaker 1: top media executive who is down in Andrew Breitbart's home
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  Speaker 1: office in the basement. They all came around to my
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  Speaker 1: computer to check something out. And I pulled up my
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  Speaker 1: screen and it was all Paula Poundstone content. And I
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  Speaker 1: have never been so humiliated in my life. It was
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  Speaker 1: one of these things where I didn't even try to
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  Speaker 1: bother explaining myself because I thought there's no way they're
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  Speaker 1: going to buy that I was trying to use this
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  Speaker 1: to make a joke. They're going to think I'm a
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  Speaker 1: big Poundstone fan. And I've still, to this day, it
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  Speaker 1: haunts me. I cringe just thinking about that moment. But
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  Speaker 1: now I share it with you on the air as
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  Speaker 1: talk radio content. But that's the main point, is that
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  Speaker 1: is Paul Poundstone really going to beat the lovely Michelle Tafoya,
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  Speaker 1: who is not a radical in Minnesota, where there's all
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  Speaker 1: this corruption? I sure hope not. Those of you who
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  Speaker 1: don't know the reference, you are truly missing out because
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  Speaker 1: you need to see Paula Poundstone's sartorial choices if you
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  Speaker 1: want to understand what's going on in this planet. Okay,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: looking at California also as a major test kitchen for
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  Speaker 1: the left's worst ideas. I was driving around yesterday and
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: just every single store seems to be boarded up now.
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  Speaker 1: Even Joe Biden's famous Jenny's ice cream in Beverly Hills
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  Speaker 1: has gone out of business. A Starbucks that I've been
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  Speaker 1: going to for over 25 years. In the Beverly Glen Center,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: some of you will know the reference, in LA, shut down.
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  Speaker 1: Just unbelievable. I mentioned last week how my favorite barbecue
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: place in Ventura Boulevard shut down. It's just so many
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  Speaker 1: storefronts just completely knocked out. And they don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't get what the problem is. Here's cut 20.
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  Speaker 1: This is Nitya Raman, who could be the mayor here
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  Speaker 1: coming up.
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  Speaker 7: We tried to increase our tourist tax, which would be
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  Speaker 7: a tax that's charged to people who are staying in hotels.
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  Speaker 7: Even that failed. And to me, that is a sign
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  Speaker 7: of real public distrust in the capacity of the city
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  Speaker 7: to do right by their tax dollars. In downtown LA,
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  Speaker 7: what we're seeing is 35, 40% vacancy rates from a
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  Speaker 7: neighborhood where we actually generated a lot of our tax
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  Speaker 7: revenues in the past. What would it look like to
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  Speaker 7: actually make sure that we were inviting businesses back into
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  Speaker 7: Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're not doing a very good job. In fact,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: they're pandering towards these street vendors who are probably illegal.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: And so then they're saying they feel your pain and
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  Speaker 1: doing nothing to fix it. LA imposed a mansion tax.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And New York Post or the California Post has a
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: big story in this today and their paper over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: They had a mansion tax where they were trying to
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: impose a higher tax rate on homes that are worth
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  Speaker 1: a certain amount of money that are worth $ 5 million
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. But the problem is, it's not
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  Speaker 1: just single-family homes. These are homes that are actually sometimes
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: multifamily homes. These are things that could be office buildings.
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  Speaker 1: They're just expensive real estate. And so what ended up
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: happening is all these businesses left. They all went away
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: because they can't pay the exorbitant taxes, and it's backfired.
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  Speaker 1: It's hurting the exact people that are trying to help
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  Speaker 1: the poor. That's today's show. Go in peace, love, and
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  Speaker 1: serve the Lord. See you tomorrow.