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The Mid-Term Countdown is On! · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: We have to be smart about it all. Tara Servatius,
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  Speaker 1: who's the morning host in South Carolina on the big
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  Speaker 1: station that we're on there, 98.9 WORD, Tara asked Ralph
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  Speaker 1: Norman last night if he would campaign for Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate race in South Carolina. He said no.
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  Speaker 1: He said no. Nope, not going to do it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to help her in any way, shape, or form.
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  Speaker 1: Ralph Norman's family has already said it. For people who
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  Speaker 1: don't know, The back story is that Darlene Graham was
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  Speaker 1: sort of appointed to be the placeholder for Lindsey Graham,
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  Speaker 1: her brother, when he died. And then evidently the tides
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  Speaker 1: changed and either she decided or the party decided or
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  Speaker 1: somebody decided that she should be the permanent senator to
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  Speaker 1: replace her brother. And that left a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: miffed because Ralph Norman, who's been a longtime congressman from
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  Speaker 1: Rock Hill, South Carolina, he was sort of the expected
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  Speaker 1: candidate to go up against this radical lunatic, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews.
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  Speaker 1: So long story short, there's a lot of bitterness and
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  Speaker 1: resentment in the primary. Darlene won.
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  Speaker 3: Well, guess what? The voters picked her. I wanted Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 3: I like Ralph Norman. And I got nothing against Darlene.
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  Speaker 3: Lovely lady, an accomplished person, a smart person. But it
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  Speaker 3: didn't strike me as a resume that said, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: need to be a senator for six years. It was
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  Speaker 3: just too much uncertainty there. So I wanted Ralph. You
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  Speaker 3: wanted Ralph. Not enough people in South Carolina wanted Ralph.
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  Speaker 1: But when the voters decide, the voters decide. And she's
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  Speaker 1: the nominee, so get behind her. And look, this hurts
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  Speaker 1: me to say this, but this is not a smart
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  Speaker 1: move for people to— and there's a write-in Ralph Norman campaign
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  Speaker 1: going on in South Carolina. They're going to blow it.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to lose that state if they're not careful
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  Speaker 1: to a Democrat. South Carolina's got a lot of parallels
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  Speaker 1: to Texas. I mean, there's no way a Democrat should
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  Speaker 1: win in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Nope. But she's ahead in every poll.
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  Speaker 3: Did Tara ask? Tara's a good host. She does the
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  Speaker 3: morning show there in Greenville. As soon as Ralph Norman said, nope,
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  Speaker 3: I will not be campaigning for Darlene Graham, did she say, why?
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  Speaker 1: I kind of doubt it because Tara's not exactly a
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  Speaker 1: big Darlene fan, if you know what I mean. I
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  Speaker 1: think Tara's– I think there's a lot of red meat
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  Speaker 1: conservatives that don't like the way it played out. And
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  Speaker 1: so they– I guess they think South Carolina and the
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  Speaker 1: country now need to be punished.
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  Speaker 3: Just get over it. Get over it from incumbents to
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  Speaker 3: broadcasters to pundits to whoever. Annie Andrews is a child
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  Speaker 3: sex change cheerleading ghoul in a doctor's coat. And if
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  Speaker 3: these people, if they came to you, came to Tara,
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  Speaker 3: came to me, is what I've said a million times,
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  Speaker 3: I'll say it a million more. If you've decided you're
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  Speaker 3: just going to go be a Democrat, okay, I will
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  Speaker 3: mourn the loss of you to the movement. But at
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  Speaker 3: least you'll be being honest with yourself and with me.
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  Speaker 3: But this, well, I'm a conservative. I'm a Republican. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm staying out of this election. It is so that voters,
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  Speaker 3: as you so aptly said, voters who dared to pick
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  Speaker 3: somebody else must be punished. What a disgusting display of narcissism.
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  Speaker 1: It just frustrates me. I like Ralph a lot. And
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  Speaker 1: I like Ralph. You know, President Trump's going to host
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  Speaker 1: a rally in Rock Hill. Now, there's a lot of speculation.
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  Speaker 1: That's where Ralph Norman's from. I think he's sticking it
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  Speaker 1: to Ralph. You know what? Good.
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  Speaker 3: Deservedly so. Deservedly so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how that works. I wonder if Ralph,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Ralph won't appear with President Trump, which will
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  Speaker 1: be awkward because that's his home. It's an awkward, awkward thing.
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  Speaker 1: And Ralph has supported Trump. Ralph is a Trump supporter.
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  Speaker 3: What is with people in their brain pan? I just
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  Speaker 3: played this guy in a grocery store in Houston where
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  Speaker 3: he said, well, you know, I'm a Trump supporter, but
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to vote for Tallarico just for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, checks and balances, checks and balances.
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  Speaker 2: Are you high?
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  Speaker 3: So Ralph Norman, who is a Trump supporter, is now
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  Speaker 3: with his failure. It's a sin of omission. Sins of
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  Speaker 3: commission are things you do. Sins of omission are things
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  Speaker 3: you don't do that you should. And his sin of
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  Speaker 3: omission is to fail to get out there and walk
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  Speaker 3: through fire for Darlene and crawl on broken glass for Darlene,
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  Speaker 3: as John Flippin' Cornyn should be doing for Paxton every
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  Speaker 3: damn day. And if people can't do that, they have
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  Speaker 3: become willful Democrat operatives. And there's just no explanation.
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  Speaker 1: What I hate about it is that Ralph Norman is
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  Speaker 1: no John Cornyn. You know, John Cornyn, I put John
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  Speaker 1: Cornyn in the same category as Tom Tillis. They are
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  Speaker 1: establishment swamp creatures who've been exposed. for exactly who they
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  Speaker 1: are in defeat. The defeat that they suffered in the
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  Speaker 1: primary has just let them be who they are. And
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  Speaker 1: Tom Tillis wants to burn it all down on the
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  Speaker 1: way out. John Cornyn's not doing his part to help
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  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 2: He's bitter.
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  Speaker 1: But I wish they would have taken a page from
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  Speaker 1: the Ted Cruz's of the world, the Marco Rubio's of
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  Speaker 1: the world, the Lindsey Graham's of the world.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: They said all kinds of horrible things about Trump at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. And then they put their country ahead of
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  Speaker 1: their own petulance. And that's what people like John Cornyn
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  Speaker 1: and I guess Congressman Norman are unable to do.
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  Speaker 3: But you make a great distinction because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the people who are engaging in this behavior are the
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  Speaker 3: establishment dinosaurs. who has seen voters turn away from their
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  Speaker 3: whole style of governance and take it kind of personally,
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  Speaker 3: which I understand. But get over yourself. You've got a
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  Speaker 3: country to stay. Ralph is a dyed-in-the-wool MAGA conservative. And
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  Speaker 3: so for him, this is just a tantrum. It's a
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  Speaker 3: personal vendetta. And, man, that's sad.
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  Speaker 2: Should I get him on the show? Do you think
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  Speaker 2: I should interview him?
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  Speaker 1: Ralph?
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  Speaker 2: Heck yes. Why not? I like him.
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  Speaker 3: And it'll be an interview wrapped in respect. And wrapped
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  Speaker 3: in civility and decency. Why, Ralph? Why would you, through
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  Speaker 3: your actions and inactions, do anything to help any Andrews,
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  Speaker 3: a Democrat, win a Senate seat in your state? Make
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  Speaker 3: that make sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: And I would love to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm afraid the answer might just be he may
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  Speaker 1: not articulate it this way, but it goes back to
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  Speaker 1: those famous that famous Ed Koch expression, which I always
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  Speaker 1: think about fondly. He was the you know, he was
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  Speaker 1: the very, you know, extravagant, eccentric Democrat mayor of New York.
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  Speaker 1: And he lost an election once. He said, the people
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  Speaker 1: have spoken and the people must be punished.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what these guys, that's what John Cornyn is doing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of being punished, do we have our deplorables moment
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  Speaker 1: with Obama stepping in it over the Cheesecake Factory remark?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Scott Besson went to Cheesecake Factory yesterday, held a press
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  Speaker 1: event right outside of it, and Greg Gutfeld went on
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  Speaker 1: a rare— don' t dismiss this, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like the Cheesecake Factory? Cheesecake Factory is a
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  Speaker 3: lovely place.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, Barack Obama doesn't think so. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Martha's Vineyard doesn't think so. Mark, they're so out of
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  Speaker 1: touch that they do mock and turn their nose down
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  Speaker 1: at hardworking, gun-grabbing, Bible-toting Americans. No, it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's another basket of deplorables moment. Might not be quite
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  Speaker 1: as epic as the Hillary moment, but it doesn't help them.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't help them. What do you mean? Don't poo-poo this.
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  Speaker 3: That stretch of Obama was he was talking about, once again,
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  Speaker 3: ballrooms and how much gold there is. And no one
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  Speaker 3: cares about this. And he talks about that because he
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  Speaker 3: has nothing else to talk about. And the key line
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  Speaker 3: that he chose to weaponize was, have you seen the
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  Speaker 3: current White House? It's like Saddam Hussein to the interior
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  Speaker 3: decorating at a cheesecake factory. A reference to ornate Saddam
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  Speaker 3: palaces everywhere. And Cheesecake Factory, which is a wonderful franchise
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  Speaker 3: that tends to have a lot of columns and mahogany
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  Speaker 3: and ornate stuff as well. So that's the joke he
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  Speaker 3: was attempting to make. People are choosing to get all
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  Speaker 3: up in arms like this is a huge snub to
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  Speaker 3: Cheesecake Factory.
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  Speaker 1: I don't agree with you that people don't care. Let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you why people care. Trump was asked about
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  Speaker 1: it yesterday outside the White House.
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  Speaker 3: He said, look.
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  Speaker 1: The columns were cracking. The foundation was breaking.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear me?
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  Speaker 3: I said, did you hear me? No, people don't care
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  Speaker 3: when Democrats obsess about the ballroom or the helicopter pad.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think we care that we have a
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  Speaker 1: president who has such pride in America and knows that
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  Speaker 1: the White House is such a symbol of America.
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  Speaker 3: It should be pristine. It should be well cared for.
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  Speaker 1: And the soundbite that he gave the reporters yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: so pitch perfect. He said, look, I see the White
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  Speaker 1: House as a symbol of America's greatness. He said Obama
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  Speaker 1: would walk through the doors and he would see the
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  Speaker 1: crumbling marble and he'd see the filth and the dirt.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember when you and I were invited to
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  Speaker 1: the White House years ago? And we sat there in
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office with George W. Bush. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you remember this as vividly as I do.
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  Speaker 1: My recollection is that the White House... was, the Oval
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  Speaker 1: Office was filthy. The carpet was dirty. The walls didn't
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  Speaker 1: look great. When we were walking through the halls of
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  Speaker 1: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I thought, gosh, I thought this place
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  Speaker 1: would be a lot more pristine than it is. It's
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  Speaker 1: the White House for crying out loud. Well, Trump is obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, attuned to this. And he has turned the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, he said, it's in better, it's in the
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  Speaker 1: best shape. it's been since it was built in 1792.
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  Speaker 3: Which I completely believe.
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  Speaker 2: He's right. And it should be.
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  Speaker 3: Even Bill Maher said we need a ballroom. You don't
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  Speaker 3: want to throw up a tent like it's the backyard
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  Speaker 3: at a college football week.
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  Speaker 1: Clay Travis did a great monologue. He said, Obama mocking
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  Speaker 1: Cheesecake Factory. It tells you everything about how out of
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  Speaker 1: touch political elites are. Eating at the Cheesecake Factory was
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  Speaker 1: always a special occasion for my family and for thousands
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  Speaker 1: of families all over America. You know, Obama is telling
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  Speaker 1: on himself here.
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  Speaker 2: And he is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you think Obama and Michelle have ever gone
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  Speaker 1: to a Cheesecake Factory in the last 20 years?
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  Speaker 2: Give me a break.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, it's a little bit like hearing Sean
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  Speaker 1: Hannity talk about how much he loves shopping at Walmart.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Or Dana Perino talking about taking the subway. I can't
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  Speaker 1: get over this. I'm obsessing about this. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: she actually takes the subway?
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  Speaker 3: See, my head explodes because no, and yet I will
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  Speaker 3: believe anything Dana says. If Dana says the sky is
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  Speaker 3: green and grass is blue, I'd run outside to check.
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  Speaker 3: She's such a lovely, trustworthy, wonderful person.
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  Speaker 1: I know. And I love her. And then final note
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  Speaker 1: about Cheesecake Factory. Scott Jennings nailed it. Because I can't
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  Speaker 1: get over that. Well, I can't get over you giving
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  Speaker 1: them cover.
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  Speaker 2: Shame on you.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying. We're looking for everything.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're not. I get the point. No, the game
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  Speaker 2: came to us on this one.
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  Speaker 1: And as Scott Jennings pointed out last night, Obama makes
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  Speaker 1: speeches for $ 500, 000 a pop, hasn't eaten a dinner that
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  Speaker 1: costs less than $ 250 in years, has never been inside
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  Speaker 1: a cheesecake factory. He's undefeated at condescending to regular folks.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the part that takes it all home, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll agree with this. Obama will always be known.
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  Speaker 1: For the presidency that ushered in the Trump era to
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  Speaker 1: begin with.
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  Speaker 3: Completely correct. Completely correct. And you thought you had the
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  Speaker 3: last word on Cheesecake Factory. I'll take a last, last
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  Speaker 3: word on Cheesecake Factory. If you're looking for a good
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  Speaker 3: upper body workout for arms and chest muscles, lift that menu.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: It's overwhelming. It's the Manhattan phone book. It's the Gutenberg Bible.
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  Speaker 1: It is the thickest menu. It's got 97 pages. You
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  Speaker 1: could go there every day for the next four years
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  Speaker 1: and not order the same thing twice.
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  Speaker 3: God bless Cheesecake Factory.
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  Speaker 2: But I love it.
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  Speaker 1: My kids, Denise, we used to love the Cheesecake Factory
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  Speaker 1: over there in South OU. It has to go all
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  Speaker 1: the time. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, happy Tuesday, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Elitist.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Elitist.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it. Mark and Lisa, Cheesecake Factory.
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  Speaker 3: I love Cheesecake Factory.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, sure you do. Dude, I have a.
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  Speaker 3: Whataburger three times a week. Don't pin no elitist label
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  Speaker 3: on me.
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  Speaker 2: What about Walmart? What about Walmart?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we just, didn't we?
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Life is starting to blur. Between show and podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: M & M Extra, 11 o'clock Texas time, noon Eastern,
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  Speaker 3: live stream on YouTube, and then Apple and Spotify. I
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  Speaker 3: think we did it in both. You're very odd. Can't
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  Speaker 3: find somebody that speaks English at Walmart. We made clear
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  Speaker 3: with all of this that this is wrapped in love.
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  Speaker 3: Love for Walmart as a company and as a money-saving
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  Speaker 3: staple for many.
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  Speaker 2: Including us.
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  Speaker 1: Next M & M podcast, we're going to be remoting
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  Speaker 1: from Martha's Vineyard at Mark's Estate.
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  Speaker 2: I love you.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: I love you back. That's Mike.
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  Speaker 3: And before the podcast happens, he's on the radio.