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Let's Celebrate Something (Inter)Stellar! · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Reverend Al Green, Mike, Reverend Al Green eighty years old,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times in Memphis to the base the
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  Speaker 1: base beat of every Al Green record. Very good, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. How's your weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Oh, nothing going on, is there? I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: a slow news day. Not a whole lot to kind
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  Speaker 2: of uh even where do you want to where do
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  Speaker 2: you want to start? Let's start on a on a nice, warm,
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  Speaker 2: fuzzy tribute to a man who acted so kindly to
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  Speaker 2: my family and me. I saw in the news that
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  Speaker 2: the former Houston Astros manager Phil Garner died at the
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  Speaker 2: age of seventy six after about a year and a
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  Speaker 2: half battle with pancreatic cancer. I've got a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a personal connection to him. Back when my Denise was
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  Speaker 2: was ill and fighting cancer. Somehow Phil reached out to
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  Speaker 2: me and knew that Denise was going to go to M. D.
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  Speaker 2: Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. And of course Phil had
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  Speaker 2: a still has I don't know if this family is there,
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  Speaker 2: his wife is there, but a beautiful home in the Woodlands.
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  Speaker 2: And Phil said, you know, you guys are going to
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  Speaker 2: be overwhelmed. It's going to be a lot. How about
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  Speaker 2: you know, my family and I are going to be
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  Speaker 2: out of town when you guys are going to be
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  Speaker 2: there for your consultation. How about I send you the
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  Speaker 2: keys to the house and you and Denise can stay
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  Speaker 2: at my home while Denise is facing M. D Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: And it was such an act of just random kindness, unexpected.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've never I don't know the man, I've
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  Speaker 2: never met him in person, just talked to him over
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  Speaker 2: the phone a bunch of times. That's the kind of
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  Speaker 2: guy he was. And it made it easier for us
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  Speaker 2: because we were overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: You know. M.
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  Speaker 2: D Anderson is a glorious place, but it's imposing and
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  Speaker 2: it's very intimidating. Denise didn't frankly like it because it
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  Speaker 2: was too much. It was just too much to take in.
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  Speaker 2: You know. We also did, you know, we tried a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, cancer treatment centers of America out of
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  Speaker 2: We went to the Philly area, in Chicago, some wonderful
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  Speaker 2: cancer facilities. But at the end, she just wanted her
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  Speaker 2: Dallas based doctor and cancer team that was right there
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  Speaker 2: in North Texas, and that's what we went with. But
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  Speaker 2: for Phil Garner, this baseball legend, I mean, he was
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  Speaker 2: a player and a manager, to reach out to us,
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  Speaker 2: and I looked it up last night. I still have
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  Speaker 2: his name and address and phone number in myself on
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  Speaker 2: my cell phone. So what a kind man and one
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  Speaker 2: of those little acts of and it was just I'll
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  Speaker 2: never forget it. My family and I will always have
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  Speaker 2: a special place in our hearts for Phil Garner.
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  Speaker 1: You know the impact of things like this. I'm very
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  Speaker 1: unrelated things grouped together in the following way. Not everything sucks,
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  Speaker 1: I guess would be the headline. Not everything is terrible,
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  Speaker 1: because you and I spent some time yesterday and everybody,
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't done it yet, go take a look
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  Speaker 1: at the interview with Ben Sass facing death with a
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  Speaker 1: grace and a courage, and then you know and I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what. Yes, where to begin with the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: How about chronologically Friday night? Where were you? Because you
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  Speaker 1: shot me sent me a screenshot? Are you posted a
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  Speaker 1: green shot of a TV screen? Where you were? Where
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  Speaker 1: were you for the splashdown?
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  Speaker 2: I was actually out to dinner with some friends and
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  Speaker 2: they had happened to have a big TV screen in
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  Speaker 2: the dining area, so we were all glued to the splashdown.
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  Speaker 2: I was terrified because I was convinced the parachutes didn't properly.
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  Speaker 1: Deploy third, because you think of three big billowy, orange
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  Speaker 1: and white parachutes, that third one didn't open real promptly.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I thought, oh no, oh no, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to spiral to their deaths. I had visions of Challenger
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  Speaker 2: in my head. But no, it was picture perfect. It
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  Speaker 2: was amazing, and I loved what somebody wrote. I've got
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  Speaker 2: the essay somewhere. I'm going to use it on the
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  Speaker 2: show today about how Artemis and space exploration offers inspiring
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  Speaker 2: unity for a deeply divided nation. It was actually Josh
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  Speaker 2: Hammer who wrote a piece over at Hot Air National confidence.
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  Speaker 2: He writes, unfortunately is in short supply these days. In
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  Speaker 2: the season of springtime renewal that we're in, we would
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  Speaker 2: all do well to look up literally, Artemis two taken
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  Speaker 2: the nation by storm. We are largely a pessimistic lot.
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  Speaker 2: Polling confirms our politics are fractured. I mean, you and
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  Speaker 2: I are going to have to dive into the story
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  Speaker 2: of the morning speaking of faith and spirituality and President
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  Speaker 2: Trump's latest meme on truth social We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment. But what he writes is, look
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  Speaker 2: this is a wonderful way. This isn't just a story
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  Speaker 2: about national power. It's about individual character. Victor Glover and
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  Speaker 2: you know all these great stories. In short, he says,
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  Speaker 2: Artemis two is a feel good story. And frankly, we
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  Speaker 2: can use some more of these, and one.
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  Speaker 1: That absolutely everybody, it doesn't matter what color, what race,
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  Speaker 1: what sex, what politics, what nationality you are. It's something
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  Speaker 1: you can just go, wow, look what humanity did. As Americans,
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  Speaker 1: we can absolutely say wow, look what our country did,
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  Speaker 1: and look at the wonder of exploring the universe that
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  Speaker 1: God made. And these four people, I mean, I mean
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  Speaker 1: astronauts tend to be pretty cool people, I'm guessing, But
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  Speaker 1: for Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover and Christina Cook and
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Hansen, the way that they absorbed it and have
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  Speaker 1: related it, and that that gathering over the weekend in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: they were getting teary eyed and hugging on each other
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  Speaker 1: and just bathed, and the gratitude of their co workers.
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  Speaker 1: They were exactly the right kind of people to do this.
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  Speaker 1: I want to take her tape parade. I want the
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  Speaker 1: whole shebang. I just I just can't say it, and
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  Speaker 1: just to tibo around this. Somebody said, what made this
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  Speaker 1: even better? No influencers, no politics, you know, and nobody
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  Speaker 1: under forty five, so it.
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  Speaker 2: Was just it was. It's all true.
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  Speaker 1: All loved it, loved it, loved it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's talk about something we don't really
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  Speaker 2: love not so much, Late night meme. Apparently it came
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  Speaker 2: from Nick Adams. You know Nick, he was in The
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  Speaker 2: Australian Guy, The Australian Guy, and evidently this came from
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  Speaker 2: him originally a while ago, back in February. I guess
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  Speaker 2: this artwork that depicts uh wrong in a christ like
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  Speaker 2: visage is got his hand on a sick man's head.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the takeaway is, oh great, he's depicting
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  Speaker 2: himself as Jesus Christ healing the sick. He's got angels
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  Speaker 2: overhead and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: The American flag, eagles flying.
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  Speaker 2: And it's coming after his showdown with Pope his after
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  Speaker 2: his showdown with Pope Leo sixty minutes of course, did
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  Speaker 2: a Trump hit piece last night. They pulled out some
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  Speaker 2: The Catholic Church is mortified at the mass deportations, and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know it's not There was one of the archbishops saying
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  Speaker 1: that according to Catholic doctrine. This is not a just war.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me if so.
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  Speaker 2: As if Trump isn't facing enough, then they choose to
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  Speaker 2: have a late night post on truth Social with this
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  Speaker 2: particular meme that depicts him as Christ. I love what
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  Speaker 2: Cam Higbee wrote on X. You know Cam Higbee, he's
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  Speaker 2: an influencer. I think he's a former military guy. But
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  Speaker 2: here's what Cam said. I support Trump. I spend eight
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  Speaker 2: hours a day defending him. I will not defend blasphemy.
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  Speaker 2: Just correct it and move on. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: defend it. You don't have to stop supporting him because
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  Speaker 2: you call it out. God is bigger than politics. And
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  Speaker 2: I like that position, Mark. I mean, Trump has an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity here to do something really special. When do you
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  Speaker 2: think he's ever taken down a meme or a post?
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  Speaker 2: And if and if he took this down. Look, and
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  Speaker 2: I've done a little informal thing of the people in
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  Speaker 2: my circle, Maggat of the core Trump supporters, nobody likes this, Mark, nobody,
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  Speaker 2: nobody's And when you try to defend it, frankly, you
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  Speaker 2: look a little silly.
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  Speaker 1: No, there is no there, there is okay to defend it.
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  Speaker 1: What's what's the word for when you're not defending it
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  Speaker 1: but also just not getting real worked up about it.
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  Speaker 2: All.
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  Speaker 1: I know that invites people's it is, but it's and
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  Speaker 1: it's also because in here we go, let's let's let's
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  Speaker 1: pick somebody. What if Obama had done in this, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, we'd have a week of shows.
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  Speaker 2: Well we had this. Remember when they had people depicted
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  Speaker 2: at this at the Last Supper? Was it during the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't it like, wasn't there a the Last Olympics? The
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  Speaker 2: Last Olympics? And they had I think it was drag
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  Speaker 2: Queen's who depicted as Jesus and the Apostles at the
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  Speaker 2: Last Supper And we lost our minds. People got upset
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  Speaker 2: about it and thought it was blasphemous mocking the Last Supper. Look,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but this is also go ahead, go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: because this is.
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  Speaker 2: Also this is also Trump's style. Look, let's just let's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, face facts. He doesn't care. He's not
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  Speaker 2: going to care that anybody cares. He doesn't mind. And
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  Speaker 2: people are going to feel like if you're critical of it,
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  Speaker 2: you're not sufficiently loyal to President Trump. And MAGA and
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  Speaker 2: I think cam Higbee is right. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: defend it. You don't. You're not going to stop supporting
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  Speaker 2: him or his agenda or the policies. But you can
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  Speaker 2: also say my faith, say I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: Any politics, and guess what, and guess what.
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  Speaker 2: Take it down?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, take it down, and now.
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  Speaker 2: There'd be another news cycle. Oh Trump chickens.
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  Speaker 1: Force to take it down, force to take and and
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  Speaker 1: he won't probably do that because that isn't who he is.
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  Speaker 1: But most things you were talking about if you met him,
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  Speaker 1: and you I know, I know, but wouldn't but wouldn't it.
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  Speaker 2: But one thing about him is he always does confound
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  Speaker 2: his critics by doing the unpredictable, and maybe taking it
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  Speaker 2: down would be an unpredictable reaction that would actually be Look, Mark,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna come down to a really important mid term
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  Speaker 2: election and I hate to keep coming back to this.
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  Speaker 2: We can't afford to tick off people right now.
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  Speaker 1: No unforced errors, please, un please, there's no need for it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got too much going on. We got gas prices soaring,
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  Speaker 1: the cost of groceries, everything is and this thing that Iran,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to get solved in a day We've
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  Speaker 1: got a mess. It's a challenge. We got fractured people
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  Speaker 1: on our side. We got the podcaster wars and they're
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  Speaker 1: upset about Iran, and I still think it has to
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  Speaker 1: do with Israel. But we got a lot here to
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  Speaker 1: deal with. We got you know, you see this influencer
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  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, by the way, that got thrown to the
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  Speaker 1: ground by some guy who is always a great dad
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't like ice.
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  Speaker 2: This is a fast as an investigation. The FBI is
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  Speaker 2: launched a criminal investigation after Savannah Hernandez, she's a conservative journalist,
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  Speaker 2: was slammed to the ground by some guy who's been
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  Speaker 2: interviewed by all the smart kids in liberal media. Because
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  Speaker 2: all she's doing is outside an ICE facility and defending
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  Speaker 2: you know, law enforcement. This guy comes along, knocks her
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  Speaker 2: to the ground, throat shoves her violently and turned out,
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  Speaker 2: this guy, his whole family was out there protesting ice.
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  Speaker 2: He'd been interviewed by all these people on ms NOW
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  Speaker 2: in the past and everything, and oh yeah, what a
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  Speaker 2: brave man and two hundred fifty pound man throwing this
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  Speaker 2: conservative journalist to the ground. And by the way, let's
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  Speaker 2: not bury the other lead that we're forgotten I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we don't enough time in this segment.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Swerkswalwell, Yeah, what do you want to do with him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me just riddle me this batman. If the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats say he's not fit to run for governor, how
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  Speaker 2: is he fit to continue to hold his sheet in Congress?
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  Speaker 1: Correct? And if he gets expelled from Congress, how do
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  Speaker 1: you keep them from going after Tony Gonzalez. Now they're
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  Speaker 1: not all the same. It's not all apples and apples.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez didn't rape anybody. Apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Rix Walwell is innocent until proven guilty. Kills me.
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  Speaker 1: If you asked me like a week ago, it's like, hey, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: let's make our top ten people who make your teeth
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  Speaker 1: itch people you just find loathsome. Eric Swalwell is going
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  Speaker 1: to make that mount Rushmore. He is going to make
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  Speaker 1: that top four or five, top five. But I still
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  Speaker 1: would afford him the very same benefit of doubt I
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  Speaker 1: would give somebody on our side or anybody else, and
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  Speaker 1: that is to say, wow, this looks bad. They deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: Tension deserves an investigation. If he's convicted, sure, let let
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  Speaker 1: let's have an expulsion.
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  Speaker 2: But their standard, but mark, but their standard is believe
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  Speaker 2: all women their standard.
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  Speaker 1: Which is which is a problem, because.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big problem some people live on and look,
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  Speaker 2: can we acknowledge and stipulate? This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: most epic coordinated takedowns in the history of I mean
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  Speaker 2: for crying out a low all of a sudden, all
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  Speaker 2: at once, four or five women, the nanny from Brazil,
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  Speaker 2: I mean all, this is all, all of it, as
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  Speaker 2: if they didn't know all along that this was the
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  Speaker 2: kind of guy he was. It's all and you know what,
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  Speaker 2: you know why, and let's make sure let's make sure
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  Speaker 2: people know why. In California, they have a goofy system
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  Speaker 2: where the top two candidates in this gubernatorial race proceed
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  Speaker 2: to the general Right now, the two top candidates are Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: Steve So Chad Bianco. So you could have two Republicans
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  Speaker 2: and so they're saying, wait a minute, and the story
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  Speaker 2: goes they said the the Democrat powers that the poohbas
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  Speaker 2: went to Swallow and said, you got to get out
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  Speaker 2: of this race. You know, we're gonna have to coalesce,
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  Speaker 2: and we don't want you to. He said no, And
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  Speaker 2: they said, okay, well we're gonna here.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what supposedly to benefit Katie porter uh.
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  Speaker 2: And that nut case. You think she's better? Is she
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  Speaker 2: an improvement over Eric Swalwell? I mean go look up
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  Speaker 2: dumping the pot of mashed potatoes on her boyfriend or
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  Speaker 2: whatever she did whatever that was all out shot and
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, she's a nut. She's a stone cold lunatic.
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  Speaker 2: So that's who they're going to coalesce behind. And there
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  Speaker 2: was somebody else though, too, right, isn't it Stier Tom Steyer.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the one they think is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the next governor of California on the but but with
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  Speaker 2: Swallwell out, they think it'll put one Democrat against one
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  Speaker 2: Republican in the general and then the Democrat so that
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  Speaker 2: it is California. But what a what a coordinated politics?
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  Speaker 2: Is A?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, holy it ain't. And it's only Monday. I lovely Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to go, Mike's ready to Monday. As soon as
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  Speaker 3: we're done ten o'clock right here on six sixty am.
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  Speaker 3: The en