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Dem Threatens to Shoot Republicans, Inflation Bummer, Another Clancy-Style Murder_1 · The Alex Marlow Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Alex Marlowe Show.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Marlowe Show. I'm glad you're here. As usual,
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  Speaker 2: a busy one today. I've got an unbelievable Cornell update
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  Speaker 2: heading your way. They've reacted to the train hoe accusations
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain that.
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  Speaker 2: We have another incident of a woman murdering her family
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  Speaker 2: because you knew that was going to be a phenomenon,
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  Speaker 2: and it is. Trump is rallying again, and he did
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  Speaker 2: a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Medicare Advantage, or anyone in your life is on it,
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  Speaker 2: it is at stake in this election right now. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have an interview where we break down
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  Speaker 2: what that could mean for you and why it is
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  Speaker 2: all the more reason to get involved. Some election updates,
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  Speaker 2: of course, heading your way. But I'll start with some
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  Speaker 2: not good news. The CPI number, which is the Consumer
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  Speaker 2: Price Index, it is one of the top inflation gauges around.
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  Speaker 2: We saw a huge jump in inflation, and this is
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  Speaker 2: timed horrifically for Republicans to try to control The Congress,
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  Speaker 2: which has caused a lot of rumblings in Washington that
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  Speaker 2: Republicans are already writing off the House at this point,
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  Speaker 2: which is kind of tough because if you think about
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  Speaker 2: all the redistricting efforts that were done by a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Republicans in a lot of red states to try
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that we even pad our numbers a
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  Speaker 2: little bit heading into the election, it does bode very
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  Speaker 2: poorly when you see these numbers. We're now 3.7% inflation
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  Speaker 2: year over year, and there is no way to candy
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  Speaker 2: coat it, ladies and gentlemen. That is a bad number,
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  Speaker 2: and the Fed's target is 2%. And there was hope
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  Speaker 2: that it would be well beneath that just as recently
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  Speaker 2: as last December. When I sat with the Treasury Secretary
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  Speaker 2: in the cash room of the Treasury Department, and he
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  Speaker 2: walked me through exactly how that was going to come
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  Speaker 2: to be. And we are now at 0.6% inflation in
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  Speaker 2: a single month. So just within the last month, things
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  Speaker 2: are now, unless you got a 0.6% raise in the
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  Speaker 2: last month, you got poorer.
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  Speaker 1: And that is sad. That is sad to note this.
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  Speaker 1: It is a reality.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of it is tied to energy and
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  Speaker 2: gas prices, which are still, despite the Commerce going through
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  Speaker 2: straight-forward moves. Gas is up 9.1% this month alone.
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  Speaker 1: 9.1%.
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you, that's how it feels living
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  Speaker 2: out here in the biggest gas state. And I have
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  Speaker 2: the biggest cars on the road. The most expensive gas state.
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  Speaker 2: The state that is most dependent on Iran for oil
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  Speaker 2: of all the states.
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  Speaker 1: California. It's pretty brutal. It is pretty brutal out there.
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  Speaker 2: I will add a little touch of good news here
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  Speaker 2: with grocery prices are actually down 0.1%. Prescription drug prices
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  Speaker 2: dropped 1.2% and are actually down 4.5% from a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: This is historic. This is unprecedented.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a massive accomplishment for Donald Trump, who
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  Speaker 2: had negotiated most favored nations drug pricing with all of
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  Speaker 2: the drug conglomerates, which is amazing. And he was able
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  Speaker 2: to leverage the fact that America is the most powerful
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  Speaker 2: market in the world and the most innovative that to
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  Speaker 2: try to make sure that we're getting the best prices
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  Speaker 2: in the Western world.
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  Speaker 1: And we are. Now, 4.5% down from a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: That is awesome. Appliances are unchanged.
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  Speaker 2: So this tends to be the trend with technology is
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  Speaker 2: that when there's a physical component to the technology, it
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  Speaker 2: does seem to.
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  Speaker 1: Prices drop over time. So appliances do not go up
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  Speaker 1: and furniture is down.
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  Speaker 2: So some stuff is positive, and it's probably not so
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  Speaker 2: bad that we're going to see the Fed hike yet,
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  Speaker 2: but they will probably hike in December.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they're on track for. So None of this
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  Speaker 1: is good. It's all bad news.
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  Speaker 2: And why the biggest reason is the war in Iran,
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  Speaker 2: which you guys who have stuck with me and been
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  Speaker 2: with me on the show, I've been lightly approving of
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  Speaker 2: the war and I understand it. And it is just
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  Speaker 2: still too abstract for normal Americans to see that the
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  Speaker 2: threat of Iran getting a nuclear weapon and deploying a
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapon, unless you are a religious consumer of conservative
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  Speaker 2: talk radio, I would be stunned if a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people were buying that argument. And it might be true.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe in the president, and I support the
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  Speaker 2: president in his desire to try to actually neutralize the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian threat, which is a legitimate threat, continues to be
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  Speaker 2: a threat. And not just to the world and America,
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  Speaker 2: but its own people. I got a story on that
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  Speaker 2: later on in the show. But inflation was coming down,
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  Speaker 2: and gas prices are now the biggest driver of the inflation.
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  Speaker 2: And for us to suggest that this is temporary, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of dishonest because it's been temporary since February.
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  Speaker 1: So we're a long way into this.
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  Speaker 2: And so now when temporary is now eight months, is
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  Speaker 2: that temporary?
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  Speaker 1: Does that still count as temporary?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that if Trump was accurate, that Iran
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  Speaker 2: was on the verge of getting a nuke and they
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  Speaker 2: would have used it, which is quite possible that they
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  Speaker 2: would have used it. It also would have meant a
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  Speaker 2: nuclear arms race in the region, which none of us
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  Speaker 2: wanted to see that. Then was it still worth it? Sure,
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  Speaker 2: probably in the end, but it's just going to be very,
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  Speaker 2: very tough when one of the things that ushered in
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  Speaker 2: the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress And the
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  Speaker 2: presidency in 2024 was the Biden inflation. And then now
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  Speaker 2: we got inflation that is not Biden numbers, but are
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  Speaker 2: increasingly putting pressure on American families. It is very, very
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  Speaker 2: bad news just a couple of weeks from the election.
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  Speaker 2: A quick update on the Iran war. We're watching very
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  Speaker 2: closely at Breitbart and I think a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: media on what's going on with the Houthis. The Houthis
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  Speaker 2: are continuing to pummel the Saudis, which are trying to
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  Speaker 2: strike back at the Houthis and their refueling stations in Yemen.
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  Speaker 2: But They're just getting bombed regularly, and all this is
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  Speaker 2: really bad for business, and I think this does relate
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  Speaker 2: to these numbers. The Houthis are directly targeting Mohammed bin
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  Speaker 2: Salman's ambitions of becoming part of what we call at
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  Speaker 2: Breitbart the respectable country club, the countries that are known
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  Speaker 2: as respectable. Saudi Arabia has gone to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: effort since Trump's first administration to try to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and the Trump government has been inclined to work with
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  Speaker 2: them on stuff. And their response militarily, though, has been
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  Speaker 2: very weak, as I've talked about on the show, though
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  Speaker 2: not recently, pretty weak. And they're not getting a ton
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  Speaker 2: of also help in the region. I'm looking at countries
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  Speaker 2: like Pakistan and Turkey, completely MIA, from helping on any
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  Speaker 2: of this. And all these other Gulf states are really
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  Speaker 2: not pitching in at all, which has been one of
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  Speaker 2: the themes, is that the world just seems like, for
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  Speaker 2: whatever reason, is just content to have America basically be
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  Speaker 2: the world's policeman, which is very odd because Americans increasingly
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  Speaker 2: getting skeptical of– Being the world's policeman, now it seems
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  Speaker 2: like the rest of the world is content to allow
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  Speaker 2: us to do that, which is very strange and not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily great. But one thing that's interesting here is nobody
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  Speaker 2: seems to be blaming Iran for all this, even though
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  Speaker 2: Iran obviously has supplied the Houthis with weapons. It seems
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  Speaker 2: like this is missing a lot of context in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the media outlets I read, international and big
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  Speaker 2: box establishment, American brands. All of these are not really
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging that Iran is behind this. This is all Iran doing.
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  Speaker 2: And Iran continues to be very bad actors on the
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  Speaker 2: world stage. The Wall Street Journal had a big story
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  Speaker 2: out today where they had some anonymous source saying that
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  Speaker 2: the Chinese are arming the Houthis. But you guys got
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  Speaker 2: to note this Wall Street Journal, a lot of their
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  Speaker 2: international coverage, I completely ignore because they do the thing
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  Speaker 2: where it's anonymous sources. It's all anonymous sources. There's nothing
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  Speaker 2: that is on the record that indicates there's no data.
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  Speaker 2: There's no documents that makes you feel like that this
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  Speaker 2: is true. And I just don't necessarily see the logic
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  Speaker 2: that China is going to help the Houthis bomb a
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  Speaker 2: Belt and Road Initiative partner, which is Saudi Arabia. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't see why China would do that. And so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But that's what Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's true. I bring it to your attention in
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  Speaker 2: case I'm wrong. But I didn't look at that article
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  Speaker 2: and think that this is really making a compelling case
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  Speaker 2: here that that's really happening.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a fraught, it is a perilous region.
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  Speaker 2: It continues to pose problems electorally for president so he's
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  Speaker 2: going to have to do his level best to try
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  Speaker 2: to change the conversation to other stuff and he's been
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  Speaker 2: successful in doing that in a lot of ways and
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  Speaker 2: i got a lot of cuts uh to share with
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  Speaker 2: you that i'll start playing after the break i'll play
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  Speaker 2: one now because this is a perfect example of what
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  Speaker 2: he's been doing i'm talking about low iq somalis can
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  Speaker 2: we play cut sixes from his rally that which was
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  Speaker 2: in alaska which i'll talk to you about why he
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  Speaker 2: was there in a moment but play cut six please
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  Speaker 2: guys look.
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  Speaker 3: At what's going on with somalia In Minnesota, Somalia. Somalia
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  Speaker 3: came in and fleeced us. Low IQ. They came in
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  Speaker 3: and they fleeced Minnesota. What they did to that state,
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  Speaker 3: they've destroyed it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just talking about low IQ Somalians, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: so triggering to the multiculturalist crowd. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing with the Ilhan Omar, the raid of her.
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  Speaker 2: It gets us talking about stuff that's more productive for
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  Speaker 2: Republicans and conservatives right now.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I hope something comes of it.
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  Speaker 2: I did spend a little more time digging into what
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  Speaker 2: this could all be about, but it really is that
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  Speaker 2: missing $ 30 million. And also, apparently she lied about her birthday.
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  Speaker 2: She had documents changed so that her birthday, she changed
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  Speaker 2: her birth year. I don't know what that was about,
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  Speaker 2: but that's part of the investigation. But she had a
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  Speaker 2: business generating $ 30 million. The government looked into it, and
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  Speaker 2: then overnight it was gone. It's obviously very suspicious that
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  Speaker 2: that would be the case. Almost a 100% chance that
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  Speaker 2: there was something fraudulent going on there. And not to
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  Speaker 2: mention the weird marriage to the brother, which may have
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  Speaker 2: been illegal and it may have jeopardized her immigration status.
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  Speaker 2: So could she get denaturalized? And if she gets denaturalized,
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  Speaker 2: could she still remain a U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that. All this is
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  Speaker 2: awesome to talk about and way better to talk about
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  Speaker 2: than the inflation numbers. And Trump has done a– whether
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  Speaker 2: or not his hand was involved in this directly or not,
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  Speaker 2: the left is trying to Discussed nonstop Shane Gillis' jokes
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  Speaker 2: about women dressing like the gym. And I found this
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  Speaker 2: darkly humorous that I saw a headline in the Daily
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  Speaker 2: Mail that an Iranian woman who's 23 got sentenced to
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  Speaker 2: death for blasphemy over a social media post that insulted
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  Speaker 2: the prophet. So I'm curious to see how many homosexual
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood actors are going to make a TikTok video explaining
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  Speaker 2: why this is such a bad thing. Or they're just
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  Speaker 2: going to focus all their efforts on a straight white
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  Speaker 2: American comedian making an obvious point that women are dressing very,
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  Speaker 2: very provocatively at the gym these days.
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  Speaker 1: It's a business.
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  Speaker 2: It's literally a business. There is a mom in my
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood who is a professional. I'm just going to say it.
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  Speaker 2: She's a professional gym.
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  Speaker 1: She is.
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  Speaker 2: She goes to the gym and she takes photos of
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  Speaker 2: her behind at the gym. And she's got 1.8 million
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  Speaker 2: followers on Instagram. And who even knows? On TikTok, because
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: I don't really use TikTok very much. I'm on it, though.
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  Speaker 2: I try to post some stuff there if you guys
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  Speaker 2: are on that platform or your kids are. I asked
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  Speaker 2: John Cassio, who does my clips, I asked him to
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  Speaker 2: put the stuff up there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone's watching them.
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  Speaker 2: I got a feeling when I go on rants about
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  Speaker 2: how it's destroying the world that they'll figure out a
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  Speaker 2: way to make sure the algorithm doesn't promote my stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think I've got a great shot there.
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  Speaker 2: But we've got literally the Iranian government, who we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to fight wars with Iran. That would be terrible
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  Speaker 2: because gas prices will go up. even though we hate
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  Speaker 2: fossil fuels, but they want to kill women because they're
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  Speaker 2: posting on social media.
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  Speaker 1: And then in America, we are very.
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  Speaker 2: Upset that anyone would make a joke about women who
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  Speaker 2: take provocative pictures of themselves at the gym and then
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  Speaker 2: post them online for clout.
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  Speaker 1: We're so lost. It really is dark. This is what I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Saying about how the, if you're on the internet too much,
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  Speaker 2: things get very bad. Things get very bad. You will
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: start losing a lot of faith in humanity. I will
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  Speaker 2: say one thing that is also breaking news I want
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  Speaker 2: to address, and there's no easy segue to this. So
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  Speaker 2: Pope Leo found to have lung cancer, and I got
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  Speaker 2: mixed opinions on Leo. He says some stuff I love
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  Speaker 2: and some stuff I don't love, which has been typical
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  Speaker 2: of popes for the last decade and a half.
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  Speaker 1: But I asked Mrs. Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Marlowe as well as other cancer doctors in my life,
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  Speaker 2: and it sounds like this particular type of cancer, the adenocarcinoma,
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  Speaker 2: if you catch it early and you can excise it,
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  Speaker 2: the prognosis is very good. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: articles buzzing around. Well, maybe he doesn't have longevity on
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  Speaker 2: his side. There's nothing so far that would indicate that
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  Speaker 2: the Pope at 71 right now is going to have
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  Speaker 2: any sort of reduction in life expectancy at this point.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe there's stuff that we don't know, and we
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  Speaker 2: don't know if he's going to undergo additional treatment. He
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  Speaker 2: probably will have to have a little bit. But overall,
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  Speaker 2: if you're able to catch this one quick and you're
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  Speaker 2: able to excise it, that you can do very well.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to have a part of one of his
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  Speaker 2: lungs is going to be missing some parts of it,
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  Speaker 2: but you can still do very well. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's going to help his tennis game. He's a
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: big tennis guy, but overall, this is a, if you're
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  Speaker 2: reading any doom and gloom on this one, then it
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  Speaker 2: might be premature. I might be premature on this. And
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  Speaker 2: I offer that as what I consider to be good news. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I was mentioning Minnesota earlier before because Trump was making
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  Speaker 2: fun of the low IQ Somalians. And this is something
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  Speaker 2: that I do hope resonates with Minnesota voters, type of
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  Speaker 2: people who might need to come off the sidelines and
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  Speaker 2: vote for the very cool Michelle Tafoya, our former colleague
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  Speaker 2: here at Salem, who is a, I think, great person
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  Speaker 2: and would be a great representative for the state. Not
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  Speaker 2: a wild right winger is someone who really just is
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  Speaker 2: the anti-woke person, which is a great positioning. And she's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: going up against a woman named Paula Poundstone, who is
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: the candidate for the Democrats.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Can you play cut 10, please? This is Miss Poundstone.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: My daughter is already growing up with fewer rights than
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I had. Fewer rights than my mom had. Fewer rights
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: than my grandmother had. And I am not okay with that.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: It is unacceptable. Three generations of women who fought to
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: move us forward. And the fourth is growing up in
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: a country that is being dragged backwards. I refuse to
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: let us lose another generation of progress.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I've been corrected.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Ombudsman Daniel got in my ear and said that apparently
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: her name is Peggy Flanagan and not Paula Poundstone. Paula
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Poundstone is a comedian who apparently had a moment in
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: the sun 20 years ago and looked exactly the same.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Spitting image. Spitting image. So easily I got that confused.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: But can you believe that's an ad? That's an actual ad.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: We got the super lame piano music in the background,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: super melodramatic. She's reading a script. Does she name a
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: single right that women have lost? Is there one right
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: that's gone? Does she have an example of what's the right?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which is the
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: woman's right to slaughter her children in the womb without
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: any sort of encumbrance upon her. And so there's been
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: more abortion since then because of telemedicine and because of
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: abortion pills. There's actually been more abortion since then. So
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: it's one of these things where I can't think of
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: a single right that she's missing. Will this work in
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: a time when the election is about affordability, national security, immigration?
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I certainly hope not. We'll be right back with more.
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• 18:17
  Speaker 1: All the Poundstone fans coming out of the woodwork.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Saying, do not besmirch Paula Poundstone by comparing her to
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Peggy Flanagan.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And I feel pretty owned there. That's true.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I really don't mean to disrespect Poundstone relative to Peggy Flanagan.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Such an absurd comment that women are going backwards.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It's such a bummer, too.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: This is another thing that I feel like we've got
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to capitalize on, is the left are just total bummers.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Shane Gillis makes a joke. Everyone's offended.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Peggy Flanagan says things are getting so much worse for
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: women all the time. It's just not true. I'm not
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: going to tell my girls that. I'm going to tell
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: my girls that. This is the best time ever to
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: be an American, to be alive. We are so lucky
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to be here at this exact moment, and you can
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: make the.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Most of it. It's not even that hard.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Just have a little bit of discipline and have a
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: little bit of spunk and personality, and the world's your oyster.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Cornell is now banning all fraternity house parties for the
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: rest of the year in response to train hose rape
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: allegations from two years ago. So half the people aren't
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: even there anymore who were on the campus, period. Most
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: of the main alleged rapists have already been expelled or
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: have left the school. And that fraternity was shut down completely.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: So what is the point of banning frat parties? It
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: is completely nonsensical. It does not relate. It will not
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: stop a single conversation. rape at Cornell University to do this.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what it will do, which is great,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: is it makes the left again seem like bummers. It
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: makes the campuses seem stupid. What's the point of going
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to college if you can't go to these parties? And
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not a frat guy. I didn't join a frat.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I was invited to join one, and I didn't. join
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: because it's not my thing. It's like big groups of
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: people who are, you know, teaming with hormones. It just,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: it does not, that wasn't my scene. Wasn't my scene,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: not into it. And I don't care on a personal
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: level for frats and frat life. I have no dog
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: in this fight. The dog in the fight that I
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: have is to try to use this as an opportunity
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: to dismantle the corrupt university system, which is a closed
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: system where it's very hard to get new accreditations. And
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: there are a handful of these universities that have outsized
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: power in our culture because a lot of people from
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: good American families try to send their kids there. They
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: pay too much money. The government subsidizes a bunch of it,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: and they become breeding grounds for leftists, for people who
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: hate our country. And it's all money, donor money that
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: goes into Democrats who put forward people like Peggy Flanagan.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: So that's what this is all about. But just think
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: about how just totally useless that move is, totally useless
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: move as usual. That's how the university reacts. Years later,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: you're going to ban frat parties for the year. I
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: was noting what's going to happen if the Democrats somehow
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: manage to win in November, and they're in the driver's
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: seat now.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Are you all sitting down for this one? The Democrats are.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Reportedly preparing a major wave of congressional investigations into the
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Trump administration and tech corporations. So they're going to keep
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: riding the anti-AI sentiment. Try to get to the White
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: House that way by 2028. They feel like they got
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: an angle. They think they got an angle. Oh, man.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: A train hose lawyer is now saying that she is
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: experiencing classic symptoms of delayed recognition, calling it a textbook
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: response to sexual assault. I'll tell you, here's another thing.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Here's another thing that's possible here. I'm a pretty big
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: advocate for trying to settle down and get married and
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: not playing the field when you're young. As I noted,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I met my wife when She was a junior in
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: high school. I was a senior in high school. And
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: we've been together ever since. We had our 14th wedding
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: anniversary yesterday. It's been very blissful. And marriages, you put
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: in work. It's not like it's the easiest thing for
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: every family. And you see why the divorce rates are
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: very high. But for me, it's been a true blessing
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: and a treat to get to have a nice marriage.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: And a lot of it was because I was dating
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: for marriage starting in high school. And I know that
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: that sounds very quaint to people. but I would like
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: to check in on how it's going. Well, I need
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to have my phase at college and then let's see
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: what happens.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: That's not going well. It's not working. So maybe when
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you start seeing people who initiate what they refer to,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: forgive the language, but this is her language. And then
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: years later decide that that was a rape.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's a message to young men to maybe tone
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: it down a little bit as well with the promiscuity.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: And even though women, because of this latest feminist movement,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: because of the Call Her Daddy podcast, women are sending
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: this signal that they're very available for all sorts of
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: meaningless casual sex, which is not a thing. I don't
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: think for the vast majority of women, I think maybe
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: a few of them, but the vast majority, I don't
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: really think that's a real thing. I think that's a
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: concoction of our modern media. And so if women are
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: doing that, and that sends a signal to men, it's
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: game on. Well, maybe this is a message to men,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: maybe it shouldn't be game on. Maybe you should get
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: focused on locking in when you're younger. and trying to
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: start building those foundational building blocks for a meaningful life,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: which includes God, it includes service, it includes career, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: ideally it includes having a stable, monogamous marriage. So that's
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: the sort of thing that I think if we started
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: shooting for that at a younger age, we'd probably be
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a little happier, because we're trying it the other way
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: and we're getting very, very unhappy. So, all right, let's
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: go back to some of these Trump clips I've been
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: sitting on, because he was in Alaska, which is a
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: noteworthy race, because... And the Democrats are putting up a
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: woman named Mary Peltola, who is it seems like a
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: very not nice person. She had huge turnover in her
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: congressional office because she was not fun.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: To work with.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And the Democrats have pulled a dirty trick where there's
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: two people named Dan Sullivan on the ballot. There is
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan. Seems like a good guy.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to get him on the show between
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: now and the election. I interviewed him when I was
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: filling in for Hugh Hewitt recently. And that was that
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: was great. Great conversation. But they got another guy named
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan to run to confuse the voters. And it
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: really could come down to that. It could be that
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: close of a race. And let's see Trump hitting her yesterday.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Cut five, please.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: So Dan Sullivan's radical left Democrat opponent.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Mary Peltola. I hear she's a whack job, by the way.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: And I read this story that she's crazy or wacky
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: or nasty or something, but she's great. I hear crazy.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Is it crazy that I read Mary Peltola?
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Worked hand in hand with crooked Joe Biden to.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Viciously crush Alaska energy, including ANWR. And the production was
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: brought all the way down to just a fraction, a
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: fraction of the levels that we got used to, driving
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: your energy bills up, your food costs up, your transportation
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: through the roof. Everything went up. You know, they blame me.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: They caused the highest prices in history. And then they
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: start screaming affordability.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. It's good stuff. I hope more people
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: hear it.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I got one more from Trump that I want to
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: play because this is an important closing message.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Cut seven, please.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: They want to give 25 million illegal aliens. Many of
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: them should never be here. They want to give them amnesty.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: We're not going to let that happen.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Or you can defeat the Democrat communists and vote for
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: much lower taxes, less crime, booming Alaska energy, and no
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: amnesty for illegal aliens.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: No legal aliens, no amnesty, just is a beautiful thing
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: because despite the fact that I constantly have to bring
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: you a mixed bag of news and headlines every day,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: just the thought that the President of the United States
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: would be able to say this, given that after 2012,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: after Mitt Romney lost, the entire Republican Party put out
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: a memo suggesting that the key to winning races is amnesty.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: We need to amnesty illegal aliens. And now that it
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: is just to raucous cheers, President of the United States
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: saying we're never going to do that. It's a good thing,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and we've got to keep that in mind, especially because
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: do we really want to endure the whole election, the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: whole two years until the general election, one investigation, one
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: impeachment after the next? Sherrod Brown, who is running for
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Senate again in Ohio, said that if he wins, he
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: will block every single Trump judicial nominee, regardless of their qualifications.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: This is a new phenomenon in American life. I go
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: through this in Breaking the Law. I encourage everyone to
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: read all my books because they're I put a lot
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: of work in them. They're thoughtfully done. I promise you that,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: and you will learn a lot. But I go through–
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: this is a new phenomenon where the judiciary is purely partisan.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: And so we can't get anyone through if a guy
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: like Brown, who's supposed to be somewhat of a moderate,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: is saying we're not– it doesn't matter qualifications. I'm not
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: approving anyone. So that's what's at stake, and so get
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: your friends off the sidelines. Get your family members off
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the sidelines because it really is the whack jobs. You
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: want amnesty, and you want to just purely be obstructionist.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: So many investigations are going to go down that are
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: going to just completely distract the entirety of the public.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing some stuff, though, that is on the political
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: front lightly encouraging. The governor race– I'm sorry, the Senate
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: race in Texas tightening. I do think Paxton is going
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: to win. I think there's a big poll bias for
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Tallarico in this. But that race, Tallarico is trending the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: wrong way, Paxton trending the right way. So I maintain
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: optimism in that race. Also, we've seen some polls out
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: of New York showing that well within single digits for
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: the governor's race. Kathy Hochul, uniquely, I would say, unlikable
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: amongst Democrats. Just really, I don't know what her constituency is.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: It seems like far-left Democrats find her to be insufficiently woke,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: and everyone else finds her pretty retarded. And so I'm
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: not shocked she's not doing very well, but if it's
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: really a four- or five-point race, which is a possibility–
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: It certainly suggests we're not going to see a blue wave,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: but we've got to try to do what we can
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: to make sure that the Democrats do not get a majority.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Do I have my– I guess I don't have my–
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: I had a Trump clip of him.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: He's making some funny jokes.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: But one thing that I will note is that we
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: got another mom stabbing her husband and son. They were
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: at a popular resort. that was, what was this resort?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I had this in front of me. Wolf, Great Wolf Lodge.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Killed husband and son. And I will tell you, the
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: name of this woman made me think of something that
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: some of you will know this bit from the Adam
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Carolla show. But the name of the woman is Metallica
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Rose Harrison. Metallica Rose Harrison. And the Adam Carolla bit
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking of is definitely not a Jew. Definitely not
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: a Jew, Metallica Rose Harrison. It's a That is one
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: thing I know for sure about this person. I'm in
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: a position where I'm forced to make jokes about this
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: stuff because it is just so unreal that we're witnessing this.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: And of course, it was inevitable after the Lindsay Clancy
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: reaction that a lot of moms that are either over
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: or under medicated and are just in this environment where
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: now it may be.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: So to kill your family. And they just keep getting crazier.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: This is a woman named Jamie West, a Democrat running
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: for Fiat County Council in Indiana. This clip has to
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: be seen to be believed. So you're going to miss
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: some of the visuals because the visuals are unreal. But
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: please play cut nine, please.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: They call you names.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: It's my sheriff's nephew trying to blow my head off.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: But, you know, what are you going to do?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Well, that brings us to your opportunity to say just
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: a few last words to the voters.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: We have guns, too. All right.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: So she goes on even to say that she wants
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: to she wants to fire all the Republicans. She doesn't
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: even talk to them. She doesn't like them. It's the
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: we've guns too. Is they, she's threatening to kill Republicans.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: And when you're seeing again, the, the white women, the
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: middle-aged white women on a run, similar to Sabali's it's a,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: just some really bad runs and that Caltech basketball team.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Those are the three worst runs going on right now,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: but basically threatening that I'm going to kill Republicans. If
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: you elect me, I got to stop smiling. Why am
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I smiling at this stuff? This is just truly, truly,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: truly awful.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: All this is awful.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: We're running against some very awful people. Okay, one thing, though,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: that I do to treat myself after a long day
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: of the news and all sorts of horrible news stories
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I need to present to all of you and report
• 31:14
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• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Is I grill. I grilled last night, and I did
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the burgers, and I got the burgers going, and I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: get my onions and my jalapenos, and I use my MyGrilly.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: The MyGrilly, it's a little contraption. It goes on your
• 31:25
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• 31:28
  Speaker 1: You can do corn. You can do potatoes. Really good
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• 31:32
  Speaker 2: You could use it for meat as well, and it
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• 31:38
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• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I think it makes the food taste really nice, and
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  Speaker 2: who likes grilling in your life will benefit from this
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• 31:55
  Speaker 2: So it was invented by the MyGrilly guy, who is
• 31:58
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• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I'm very pleased to welcome Taylor Keeney to the show.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: She's the spokesperson for Medicare Advantage Majority. And Taylor, I
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: want to talk about Medicare. I want to talk about
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: how this affects my audience, which it does. We talk
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: about healthcare issues and financial issues on the show a lot.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: This ties into both. But as you go through your background,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and you also work for Bob McDonald, which is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of the people who has been villainized by
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Jack Smith. And you were there for some of that,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: which is just kind of wild. He seemed like a
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: great guy, and he just got completely destroyed by Jack Smith,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: who's a recurring character on my show.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: And so we got to have that in common. Was
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: he as great of a guy in person as he
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: seemed like from afar? Bob McDonald was awesome.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: One of my first jobs out of college worked for
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: him for almost all four years while he was in
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: office as governor of Virginia. I was his press secretary
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: and couldn't have asked for a better boss. Honestly, he
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: was so nice, but also so, so driven to it
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: was a tough time to come in during the recession
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: and so driven to turn Virginia around, bring jobs to
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: the Commonwealth.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: And so really, really loved working for him. And he
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: was a really amazing governor.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: So you had a background in Republican politics, and then
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: you shifted to nonprofit sector. And you're a mom, and
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: you've got younger children, but you also have aging parents.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: And this is something that a lot of people in
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the audience are going through. And so you moved into
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: the Medicare Advantage field. And tell me about what you
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: guys are doing exactly and how that could affect the
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: people who are listening to the show right now.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely. Medicare Advantage Majority is a coalition of Medicare beneficiaries,
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: their caregivers, healthcare providers, and community leaders. And we are
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: all about protecting and strengthening Medicare Advantage. It's a program
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: that 35 million seniors in our country use. So the
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: majority of people on Medicare are on Medicare Advantage. So
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: it's incredibly important to us that we are strengthening the program,
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: but also ensuring that a program is there for these
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: 35 million seniors and people with disabilities who depend on
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: it for quality and affordable care. You referenced that I'm
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: a mom, but also have aging parents. And I remember
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: my parents having that Medicare discussion and what they were
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: going to do. And then when my dad retired and
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: enrolling in Medicare for the first time. And so it's
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: such a huge issue and one that's incredibly important going
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: into the midterms.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: And I want to key in on the fact that
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: we have a aging populace in general. And this is
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: something that people are living for a long time, and
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: they're not necessarily entirely healthy for that time, but people
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: are around. And I feel like this is a huge
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: factor into so many things in our politics and in
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the way we're just going to run our society. And
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: it's time to start getting informed on some of this stuff.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: And I just feel like general awareness about some of
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: these issues is lower than it really should be. But
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: how does Medicare Advantage fit from your perspective into the
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: broader conversations about health policy and senior care right now?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: The senior demographic is the largest growing demographic in our country,
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: and more than half of Medicare-eligible Americans have chosen Medicare
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: Advantage and rely on Medicare Advantage. So when we're talking
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: about policy and programs in D.C. or across the country,
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: it's incredibly important that the conversations start with Medicare and
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: particularly Medicare Advantage. The cool thing about Medicare Advantage is
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: that they look at the conversation differently, making sure that
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: We're focused on preventive care and care coordination and supplemental
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: benefits to help keep seniors healthy and out of the hospital,
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: which helps reduce costs downstream and reduce costlier things like
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: hospital stays and reactive care. And so when we're talking
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: about how do we cut costs or how do we
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: make health care more affordable, it's incredibly important that Medicare
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: Advantage is a first part of those conversations.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: So this is super important because I'd like to talk
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: about how we would prefer to do healthcare rather than
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: sick care. And so this is keeping people out of
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: the hospital as a goal that saves a lot of costs.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: It's also better for people in general.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's got to be the goal is not
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: just refine the breakthrough medicines for people who are really sick.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: It's also making sure that people are taking care of
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: themselves ahead of time.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: Absolutely. And I think that goes to, we had a
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: whole rate notice conversation earlier in the year and making
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: sure that the program is being funded and keeping up
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: with inflation. And part of that goes to if seniors
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: lose their benefits or if it's harder for them to
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: access a doctor through the program that they are enrolled in,
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: they're less likely to go to the doctor. And so
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: we want to make sure that seniors aren't having access issues,
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: but that they're also not choosing between paying for food
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: and going to the doctor or paying for healthcare bills
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: as we see rising health expenses. And so that is
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: where Medicare Advantage focuses on preventive care, but also where
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: the conversation needs to focus on making sure that we
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: are providing a program that seniors are overwhelmingly in support
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: of and that the majority of seniors on Medicare are
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: choosing and making sure that it's working for this massive
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: demographic in our country.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Everyone in the audience needs to get informed on this.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: The website is medicareadvantagemajority.org. Everyone should check it out. And
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I want to take on the fact that this is
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: a cost of living issue, but also a political issue.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: The cost of living side, everyone agrees, I think that's
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: pretty much overwhelming. This is a cost of living issue.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: How does Medicare Advantage factor into how expensive things are
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: day to day?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: Well, seniors are bits of voting block and just a
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: demographic in our country that mostly lives on a fixed income.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: And so As we see life get more expensive, seniors
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: are dramatically impacted by that. And so it is why
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: predictability in terms of healthcare is incredibly important for seniors
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: and that if they're seeing a greater increase in the
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: cost of their healthcare and the cost of the healthcare
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: that they are seeking, it makes life more expensive and
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: their incomes are not being adjusted for inflation like younger
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: workers see when they are still working. So, stability and
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: healthcare costs is so incredibly important for seniors in our country,
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: and even small increases in premiums or reductions in benefits
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: have a real impact on access to care for seniors.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: So, there's a lot of people in Congress who listen
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: to the show and their staff, and I'm very proud
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: of that. One thing I've noticed is that this is
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: actually getting more popular. A Medicare Advantage over the last
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: year or so has actually risen in popularity. It's always
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: popular to begin with, and it's even gotten more popular.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: And it seems like there would be big consequences for
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: anyone who wants to cut it at this point. Politically
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: break down where things stand on this topic.
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: So we have brand new polling that just came out.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: It was done by respected Republican pollster, Kristen Solstice Anderson.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: And the polling found that 92% of seniors that are
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: likely to vote agree that Medicare Advantage funding is an
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: important political issue. And so ultimately, it shows that members
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: of Congress that vote in support of this issue and
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: don't vote against it are on the right side of
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: the issue. And so ultimately closely related to that, 91%
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: of likely senior voters agree that Medicare Advantage funding is
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: a cost of living issue. And so it's important that
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: members of Congress are taking this seriously, that overwhelmingly there
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: is a signal from seniors that voting in support and
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: supporting Medicare Advantage is something that's important to them.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to hear what seniors have to say
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: about Medicare Advantage funding.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: What are they worried about right now?
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Because is there legitimate pressure to try to reduce funding
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: for this right now?
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: So right this exact second, not necessarily, but earlier this year,
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: we were in a rate, the rate notice window, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: the initial proposal did not increase the funding for Medicare
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: Advantage at the rate of inflation. And so the final
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: outcome was what we wanted from a minimum standpoint. But ultimately,
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: three in four seniors, so 75% of seniors say that
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: they would be less likely to vote for a member
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: of Congress who supports cuts to the program. So I
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: think that that's telling that it's really important that we're
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: keeping the funding at a at a level that is
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: affordable and a level that is providing seniors the benefits
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: that they've come to rely on.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: What is the political who is applying a pressure to
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: cut it at this point? Because it just seems like
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: kind of a political seems like very, very bad political
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: stance to take right now because of the popularity of it.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: We would agree with that.
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: I think that when you're looking at spending, it's always
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: a tough decision that any lawmaker is having to make
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: and that any administration is having to make. And so
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: President Trump is in support of funding Medicare and funding
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: Medicare Advantage and just making sure that we have a
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: strong program. The initial rate notice from CMS was lower
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: than we wanted it to be. But ultimately, what came
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: out was at a level that we were happy with.
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: But ultimately... There is legislation that pops up every year
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: that Congress considers. And so it's just it's a prevalent
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: issue that just kind of is trickling in the background,
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: but one that does coming every rate notice period come up.
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: And it's important that it continues every year to keep
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: pace with the cost of living increases that we're seeing.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: So let's take the perspective of someone who's not benefiting
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: from it directly and people pay into these things and
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: then they don't see the benefit.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: For a long term.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Try to contextualize for people who maybe aren't in a
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: situation where people are on Medicare in their life. Why
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: is this so important to keep this stuff funded?
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: 35 million seniors rely on Medicare Advantage. And so when
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: you're looking at that over half the population that's on
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: Medicare is using Medicare Advantage. It's an important program that
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: seniors have come to rely on, but it also impacts
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: more than just seniors. It impacts caregivers too. I'm a
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: caregiver for parents that are on Medicare. And so it
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: goes beyond just truly the people that are using the benefit,
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: but also their families. And then also healthcare providers and
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: doctors and other people involved in the space that are
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: impacted anytime even just the smallest um change in premiums
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: or cuts comes about.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Okay so i want to get the audience engaged here
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: this is very activated audiences so i'm mobilizing.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Them where where are we where.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Am i directing my herd if they want to just
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: get themselves informed but also take action Yeah, absolutely.
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: Head to the Medicare Advantage Majority website. On there, you
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: can sign up to get involved with Medicare Advantage Majority
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: and just get information about the coalition. But also, most importantly,
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: is to call your member of Congress and urge them
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: to protect the program and that Medicare Advantage is a
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: program that is working and a program that seniors like. 92%
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: of voters agree that Medicare Advantage funding is an important issue.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: And so, And with three and four saying that they
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: would be less likely to vote for a member of
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: Congress who cuts the program, I think that we want
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: Congress people to be on the right side of this
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: issue and be supporting Medicare Advantage. So calling them and
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: urging them to protect the program is absolutely something that
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: we want. But also most important is to get out
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: and vote in November and make sure you're voting for
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: somebody that supports Medicare Advantage.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: It feels like something that if This could stabilize communities, theoretically,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: if this program is strong, because if we have people
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: who are not in a good system, where they're not
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: keeping themselves healthy, this does trickle down the rest of
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: the country as well, doesn't it?
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: I think we all want stability in our health care.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: I think we all want to not be going into
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: open enrollment, which is also going on as people had
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: to vote this November. But we also we all want
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: to not be changing health plans and having to look
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: for different doctors and have the ability to access preventive
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: measures and preventive care. And so this I think this
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: is something that we can all relate to, even if
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: we're not enrolled in the program specifically.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: It's also noteworthy how this is kind of become a
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: defining issue for seniors. And it feels like particularly in
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: off-year elections, people will be hearing this right before the election,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: it is very animating to a lot of people who
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: are a really engaged political community. And it's fun to
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: just try to go court the youth vote, but the
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: youth vote, they're not voting at the same rate as
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: our seniors are voting.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: Seniors are the largest voting block in the country. I
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: think 40 million seniors typically turn out and vote. And
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: so that's an important voting block. But also, it's something
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: that should matter to more than just seniors. But absolutely,
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: you want to make sure that the people that are
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: using the program and are also the people that are
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: turning out to vote in the largest percentage are the
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: people that care disproportionately also about this issue. And so
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: Because they're the ones using the program. But also, it's just,
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: it's one that it's incredibly important to make sure the
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: funding is there and the stability is there and that
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: we are providing a solid healthcare option for seniors who
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: need to be going to see their doctor and need
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: to know that they're not going to get this surprise
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: increase in their health coverage.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: So I want my audience to go to MedicareAdvantageMajority.org. There's
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: a lot of information there, but what can they arm
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: themselves with? When you go over there, there's a big
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: take action button. What's there when you hit it?
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: By taking action, you will be joining a large group
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: of advocates who are on the side of strengthening Medicare
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: Advantage and ultimately willing to get involved and jump in
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: and contact their member of Congress if or when it's needed.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: And this will.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: hopefully lead to better quality care, better coverage for people
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: that's affordable. And it will help people who are in
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: that fixed income. And it's important to note that is
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: that if you're on a fixed income, inflation is putting
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: pressure on a lot of people. And this is a
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: very easy way, I think, to get involved. So MedicareAdvantageMajority.org,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: that's the website. Everyone should go there now. Take action, please.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: It could benefit you. It could benefit a family member.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: And Taylor, anything else we should add for the audience?
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: I think you've covered it, but thank you for having
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: us on. We really appreciate it.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Taylor Keeney, spokeswoman, spokesperson. What do you prefer?
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Do you have a preference? It works. Pick whatever you want.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: I figured it wouldn't matter. Medicare Advantage Majority, that's the group.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: And the website, again, MedicareAdvantageMajority.org. Take action today.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show. Appreciate you.
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.