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McEnany 'This is RIDICULOUS' · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Well, cancel culture is targeting Ed Sheeran over the backlash
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  Speaker 1: surrounding Macklemore's exit from his tour. The rapper was kicked
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  Speaker 1: off the gig after he chanted Free Palestine and sang
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  Speaker 1: an anti-Israel song when he opened for Ed Sheeran earlier
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  Speaker 1: this month. The left is now rallying behind Macklemore, and
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  Speaker 1: Sheeran is bearing the backlash. Some radio stations are refusing
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  Speaker 1: to play Sheeran's music, with one Irish station saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: In light of the strength of feeling expressed by our
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  Speaker 1: listeners and the decisions taken by Irish artists involved in
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  Speaker 1: the tour, we believe removing Ed Sheeran's music from our
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  Speaker 1: playlist is the appropriate decision for classic hits radio at
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  Speaker 1: this time. Anti-Israel groups are saying they will protest Shirin's
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  Speaker 1: concerts now, starting with his next one tomorrow in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: One flyer they posted online reads this way. Gaza is
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  Speaker 1: our compass. Billionaires, Zionists and warmongers out of Philly. Sharon
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  Speaker 1: is defending what he calls an apolitical position in all
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  Speaker 1: of this, saying, quote, I am not complicit.
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  Speaker 2: I have my.
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  Speaker 1: Personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose
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  Speaker 1: not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have
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  Speaker 1: them and it doesn't mean I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: End of quote.
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  Speaker 1: But we haven't seen the same outrage around the rapper Macklemore.
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  Speaker 1: who has been accused of anti-Semitism in the past, including
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  Speaker 1: when he performed wearing a fake black wig, beard and
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  Speaker 1: prosthetic hook nose back in 2014. Of course, the backlash
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  Speaker 1: on that was that he was trying to look Jewish
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  Speaker 1: on stage and spewing things. Anti-Defamation League ADL CEO Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Greenblatt is concerned about the solidarity around Macklemore. Posted this, quote,
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  Speaker 1: For years, Macklemore has pushed anti-Semitic tropes and demonized.
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  Speaker 2: Israel and Israelis.
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  Speaker 1: Now he certainly has the First Amendment right to speak
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  Speaker 1: out and express his views. But demonizing Jews and Israelis
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be rewarded.
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  Speaker 3: End of quote there.
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  Speaker 4: Alicia. This is one of those stories. We cover a
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  Speaker 4: lot of stories. Every now and then there's some, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know about you guys, where I'll be talking to
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  Speaker 4: myself about it when I'm not even at work because
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  Speaker 4: I'm so frustrated how it continues to grow. This is
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  Speaker 4: that story to me because it just keeps getting bigger
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  Speaker 4: and it seems like for no reason. But also, we
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  Speaker 4: just got done talking about the Lindsay Clancy holdout juror,
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  Speaker 4: a man who was trying to do his job. We're
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  Speaker 4: talking about Ed Sheeran. A man who's trying to do
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  Speaker 4: his job. And what is happening in society to me
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  Speaker 4: is so concerning because the mob comes after people who
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  Speaker 4: are just trying to do the job inside the courtroom,
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  Speaker 4: inside the concert venue. And this has to do with
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  Speaker 4: things that are going on outside the venue. And it
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  Speaker 4: grows and they try to cancel people because of it.
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  Speaker 4: And it's just so frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: I think about this and the business aspect of it.
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  Speaker 1: And so I come to you with this point. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: on his team, if not Ed Sheeran, should have known
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  Speaker 1: what Macklemore had been saying. He hasn't come out with
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  Speaker 1: any new music that I know of, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: a generation of people who now don't know his music.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the bonus of handling it this way,
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  Speaker 1: kicking him off the tour, letting it get to this point?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Ed Sheeran didn't kick him off the tour. People
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  Speaker 2: that own the venue said you're not welcome.
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  Speaker 1: He put him on the tour, though.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: And there should have been a lot more due diligence
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  Speaker 2: when you're going to bring people. My mother used to
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  Speaker 2: say you're guilty if you associate with the wrong people.
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  Speaker 2: You are who you associate with. I think that was
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  Speaker 2: the mistake. The problem that I have, more than anything,
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  Speaker 2: is that we've gone from we can have discourse and
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  Speaker 2: have respect to now I need to know what you think.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't tell me what you think and
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  Speaker 2: you don't publicly say it, You're a bad person. Do
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  Speaker 2: I have to talk about Jesus? Do I have to
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  Speaker 2: talk about my wife? Do I have to talk about
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  Speaker 2: anything else? And if I don't, am I now an outcast?
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to business, what CEOs have learned, and
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  Speaker 2: I learned a hard lesson myself, when I voiced my
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  Speaker 2: opinion to my consumers outside of my business, it cost
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  Speaker 2: me a lot of money. I learned to zip it.
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  Speaker 1: Is that why they're now, because you hear Robert Kraft
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  Speaker 1: and even Ed Sheeran, they want to take portions of
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  Speaker 1: the proceeds from the tour, write millions of dollars in checks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that fixes it, because now you've
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  Speaker 1: got a problem selling your records or no?
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  Speaker 2: It feels like you're trying to mitigate something as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to just sticking to your position and moving on.
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  Speaker 4: Kayleigh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it used to be in this country, if you
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  Speaker 3: were in Hollywood, you got canceled if you put forward
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  Speaker 3: a right-wing viewpoint. Now you get canceled if you're just apolitical.
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  Speaker 3: Now you get canceled if you don't have leftist viewpoints.
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  Speaker 3: And we don't really know what Ed Sheeran thinks. We
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  Speaker 3: do know he said, I have my personal views on
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  Speaker 3: this devastating conflict. Just because I do not share them
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  Speaker 3: publicly doesn't mean I don't have them. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: want to share them publicly. And now you have people
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  Speaker 3: wanting to cancel this man. It is ridiculous. And I
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  Speaker 3: am also besides myself when I think about Macklemore and
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  Speaker 3: the examples you put up. He clearly spends a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time thinking about Jewish people, a lot of time,
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  Speaker 3: I'm left to surmise, based on what you put up.
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  Speaker 3: Has he ever taken the time to think about the
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  Speaker 3: hostages on October 7th? Just a few examples, Avinatan Orr,
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  Speaker 3: who tried to escape captivity. He was handcuffed to the
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  Speaker 3: bars of a cage that was the size of a mattress.
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  Speaker 3: Has Macklemore ever thought about Yosem Ohana? Seven men were
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  Speaker 3: put in a pit. only allowed to lean against the
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  Speaker 3: wall while standing, lacking oxygen. Have they thought about Kafir Bibas,
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  Speaker 3: the little babies, the infant who was strangled? Have Macklemore
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  Speaker 3: ever given any thought to that? He thinks a lot
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  Speaker 3: about this conflict, but I would really love to know
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  Speaker 3: if he's seen the footage from October 7th. I'm left
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  Speaker 3: to believe he has not, or the worst option is
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  Speaker 3: he just doesn't seem to care.
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  Speaker 1: And when he says free Palestine, can he find Gaza
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  Speaker 1: on a map?
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  Speaker 3: Another great question.
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  Speaker 1: Not meaning it to be funny.
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  Speaker 2: But the costume that he had on was pretty.
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  Speaker 5: Disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was pretty.
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  Speaker 2: It was really bad.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't hidden.
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  Speaker 1: And where was the uproar over that, by the way?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see it before.
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  Speaker 1: Like, this gets it, but where is the uproar over
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  Speaker 1: anti-Semitic acts and speech?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that costume was from 2014, so the fact that
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  Speaker 5: they knew that that had happened back in 2014, and
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  Speaker 5: what I found interesting was if you actually listened to
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  Speaker 5: all of Macklemore's comments that day... He talked about how
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  Speaker 5: he feels about Palestine and genocide and all these things.
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  Speaker 5: And then he said, and love to my Israeli and
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  Speaker 5: Jewish brothers and sisters. And so he tried to move
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  Speaker 5: away from that other image from 2014 because he knew
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  Speaker 5: back then that was a problem. And it's very hard
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  Speaker 5: to say I'm sending you love after knowing that he
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  Speaker 5: put that image out there.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: That's damage control. I think that's not the way he
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  Speaker 5: truly believes. And so I think that's something that we
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  Speaker 5: have to look at. And I think all of these
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  Speaker 5: artists should learn something from Dolly Parton, right? Dolly Parton said,
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  Speaker 5: I don't put my views out there. I have them,
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  Speaker 5: but I don't put them out there. And beloved by all.
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  Speaker 5: And so I think that there needs to be a
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  Speaker 5: shift back to people just going for enjoyment, going to
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  Speaker 5: be entertained. whether it's athletics, whether it's concerts, whether it's
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  Speaker 5: anything that has to do with things that are not political.
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  Speaker 5: But our world has become politicized in every single way.
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  Speaker 5: And now the fact that, like you said, Kayleigh, we
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  Speaker 5: would cancel people for certain reasons, and now you're being
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  Speaker 5: canceled for not taking a position, it's absolutely crazy. And
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  Speaker 5: a person who shouldn't have to take a position, and
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  Speaker 5: the radios not playing his music... I mean, that is just.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tough bottom line right there.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't want to hear it even if I
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  Speaker 2: agree with what they say. I don't want to hear
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  Speaker 2: it on either case. I don't need to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: I just want you to sing or do whatever.
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  Speaker 5: I agree with you 100%. Don't take a concert and
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  Speaker 5: turn it into a political rally. You are going to
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  Speaker 5: listen to music. You do not need to know what
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  Speaker 5: people's positions are on anything, frankly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one of the things that we have in women's sports,
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  Speaker 1: because you mentioned athletics, you're seeing some of that, the
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  Speaker 1: politics and the stands there, because the actual sport itself,
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  Speaker 1: the WNBA, is at the heat of the political argument
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  Speaker 1: right now. I mean, it gets complicated. This, though, 2014,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of receipts to go back. Again, I ask,
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  Speaker 1: how did Macklemore get on Ed Sheeran's tour?
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  Speaker 2: Who made that decision?
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  Speaker 5: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: An article in a left-wing magazine claims women can be
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  Speaker 1: kind of pregnant or a little bit pregnant. So if
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  Speaker 1: liberals cannot define what a woman is, are they surprised
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  Speaker 1: that they can't define what pregnant is?