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M and M EXTRA May 18, 2026 Texas Senate Intrigue, Trump’s Family Finance Quote, Rubio Rising · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a meeting of the minds crafted from decades
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  Speaker 1: of talk show experience, an extension of the magic they've
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  Speaker 1: created together on radio in the phenomenon called M and
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  Speaker 1: M Hot Topics in the News and Wisdom from Light.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher. This is eminem extra.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is going to be good. I've been waiting
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  Speaker 2: for this moment because Mark Davis has been making news
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  Speaker 2: and I want to ask him to pull the curtain back.
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  Speaker 2: Because all eyes are on Texas, all eyes are on Louisiana.
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  Speaker 2: We got a bunch of primaries tomorrow. Welcome in to
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  Speaker 2: a Monday EM and M. I'm the Mic part of
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  Speaker 2: the M. He's the Mark part of the M. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you had a nice weekend, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: I did. I was blissfully at home doing home based
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  Speaker 3: things while you were flitting around the various time.
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  Speaker 2: Zone New York City. I was on a theatre marathon.
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  Speaker 2: I decided, you know what I need. I need a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a weekend in New York to see
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  Speaker 2: some shows.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully four.
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  Speaker 2: You did four four, four in three days, which is
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. That's a that's close to a record for me.
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  Speaker 2: What was what game of tick them off. What do
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  Speaker 2: you got? Well, I'll get in trouble for one of
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  Speaker 2: them at least.
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  Speaker 3: Well nots, aren't you? You consume all kinds of things,
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  Speaker 3: It's all right.
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  Speaker 2: One of my first Broadway shows you're gonna mock me
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  Speaker 2: relentlessly wast was Cats. My sister dragged me to the
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  Speaker 2: Winter Garden Theater when I was very young, and I thought,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna hate this. A bunch of dancing, singing cats.
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  Speaker 2: This is stupid, and I fell in love with theater.
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  Speaker 2: I love the score, I love the imagination of the
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  Speaker 2: the jellicle ball and the cats and everything. Well, they've
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  Speaker 2: done a revival on Broadway of Cats. Well I don't
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  Speaker 2: know much about the show other than it's a revival.
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  Speaker 3: Well what does that mean? Just they brought the actual
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  Speaker 3: show back. I mean it was one on Broadway for
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  Speaker 3: eighty years.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred years. Well they brought it back, but in
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  Speaker 2: a very different way. It's celebrates a genre. I know
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to know this, which makes me even
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  Speaker 2: happier to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: I live to serve.
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  Speaker 2: I love this ballroom. Do you know anything about the
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  Speaker 2: ballroom genre? Of what ballroom?
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  Speaker 3: It's?
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  Speaker 2: It is a it's vague, vamping and vogue. It's like drag.
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  Speaker 2: It's like men in women's outfits doing well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like Rupe Paul's drag race. Right, all right, So it's that.
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  Speaker 2: I think that and all of these actors and actresses
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  Speaker 2: up there doing that style.
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  Speaker 3: Mere cats? Aren't they gender vague? Anyway? Who knows what
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  Speaker 3: a male or female? Men? I know I know one
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  Speaker 3: cat's male. I saw cats one time. You ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: On the on the West you've done London is.
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  Speaker 2: The West End cats and on the West End.
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  Speaker 3: Saw cats on the West End in London. I've never
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  Speaker 3: been so bored. Listen, I'm I'm all about. I'm with
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  Speaker 3: you on all your I mean, listen, we just did
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  Speaker 3: the whole lay Miz thing. You made me want to
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  Speaker 3: see it. I mean, if there compelling storylines, I mean
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  Speaker 3: I'm in for musicals. I love a certain degree. So
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  Speaker 3: here's the thing. It's nineteen ninety one or so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm sitting there looking at this, you know,
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  Speaker 3: me night and the kitties are sneepy. It's like, what
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  Speaker 3: even is this? And at one point though they and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this happens at every uh, at
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  Speaker 3: every showing, but the various Cats cast members and how
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  Speaker 3: many people are in that cast, I don't know. They
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  Speaker 3: fan out into the audience and we had a balcony
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  Speaker 3: seat sitting right at the rail and at one point
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  Speaker 3: one of these guys I had climbed up the thing
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  Speaker 3: and slung his leg almost over my shoulder. So my
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  Speaker 3: takeaway from Cats as I spent about sixty seconds with
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  Speaker 3: with the rum tum tuggers, crotch in my face.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I didn't like it, because you got
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  Speaker 2: that was it for me. That was it for me
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  Speaker 2: and Cats, But you were traumatized forever you were. I
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  Speaker 2: think I was, well, this was this was different, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure. I mean I like I like theater. And
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  Speaker 2: I saw I've got Wicked for the hundredth time or
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  Speaker 2: whatever because I've got a friend who's a friend of
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  Speaker 2: a friend. I got somebody who I know in Wicked,
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  Speaker 2: which was fun. Then I saw a couple of really
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  Speaker 2: neat shows. I went back to see The Lost Boys again.
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  Speaker 3: Which I've got to take Lisa too, because she just
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  Speaker 3: lives for that movie. The whole key for Sutherland Young
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  Speaker 3: Hot Vampires thing he will Catnipper checks.
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  Speaker 2: Me, she will flip Chick. The chick in your life
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  Speaker 2: will flip The Lost Boys on the Broadway. The New
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  Speaker 2: York Times. The New York Times raved about the scenic
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  Speaker 2: design of it.
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  Speaker 3: Everything else was pretty cool, flying around all over the
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  Speaker 3: place that I did did well specially oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, there's a lot of a lot of aerials,
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  Speaker 2: aerial stunts and vampires floating around and all that and out.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun. And then I saw yesterday
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  Speaker 2: a really cool two person show called I Think I
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  Speaker 2: Got to Get It right. Two strangers carrying a cake
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  Speaker 2: across New York City, and it's kind of a weird premise.
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  Speaker 2: It's a British import, a British guy an American gal,
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  Speaker 2: and the two of them wind up in it, and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just quirky and neat and kind of kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of the talking off Broadway cerebral, kind of David
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  Speaker 3: Mommett thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm totally totally on board.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah me too. So anyway, but I needed a theater
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  Speaker 2: fix and I'm headed back to Florida. Don't want to
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  Speaker 2: get in the way of the eminem Extra and welcome
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  Speaker 2: to YouTube. Watching us Live today on YouTube, of course,
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  Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts, feel free to and maybe
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  Speaker 2: I always like reading some of the comments when we're now.
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  Speaker 3: That we've driven away every subscriber with drag Cats.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about it. I told you I'll never hear
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  Speaker 2: the end of it. That's why I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 2: So so let me let me bring it up to you.
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  Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you about this fascinating drama.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get into the meat and potatoes of politics, because
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  Speaker 2: the Texas Primary is coming and it's gonna be really
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  Speaker 2: fascinating to watch the outcome because you basically have John
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  Speaker 2: Corny and Ken Paxton, nasty, ugly advertising going back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: and arguably a little drama that applied to the Mark
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  Speaker 2: Davis Show. And let me let me give the audience,
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  Speaker 2: the podcast audience, a little a little backstory here, because
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  Speaker 2: this is I find this really really interesting. Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 2: was scheduled on your radio show this morning in Dallas. Now,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, for the benefit of people who are
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  Speaker 2: new to the world of Mark Davis. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying this to blow smoke in your ear, Mark, I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying this. This is a point of fact. This guy's
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  Speaker 2: a legend this guy has been doing talk shows for decades,
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  Speaker 2: mostly in Texas. He is beloved in Texas. He is
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  Speaker 2: highly respected many people. I've had people tell me Mark
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  Speaker 2: Davis is a king maker. Mark, you got to you
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  Speaker 2: gotta do Mark show if you're running for office statewide
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  Speaker 2: in Texas. So with that backstory, Ken Paxton was was scheduled,
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  Speaker 2: and then Jeff Leech Leach was scheduled State Rep. Also running.
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  Speaker 2: He was scheduled an hour after Ken Paxton. Well, as
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  Speaker 2: the story goes, Ken Paxton was mad that Jeff Leach
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  Speaker 2: was going to come on after him, so he bailed
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  Speaker 2: on you. Jeff Leach then said, well if he bailed,
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  Speaker 2: then I bailed both of them. Stupidly did not do
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  Speaker 2: your show today, And folks, that's a big mistake. So
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  Speaker 2: give us the backstory. Now that we've got the podcast
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  Speaker 2: and we don't have the constraints of radio, we can
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  Speaker 2: kind of let our hair down a little bit. Take
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  Speaker 2: us behind the curtain a wizard of Oz. What's really
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  Speaker 2: happened today?
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  Speaker 3: So here's the deal. We had Paxton slated at eight
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  Speaker 3: oh five, Jeff Leach at nine oh five, just the
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  Speaker 3: way I like to do it. When we got big
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  Speaker 3: political squabbles. Give me one side right there, give me
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  Speaker 3: the other side right there after, and then I'll just
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  Speaker 3: welcome everybody. Let everybody say what they want to say,
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  Speaker 3: pose challenging questions to both sides, and let everybody make
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  Speaker 3: up their own minds. It was Sunday afternoon that the
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  Speaker 3: Paxton camp informed me that they had to move Monday
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  Speaker 3: because they weren't able to do they weren't able to
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  Speaker 3: do today.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, dude, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Not promoting this. Well they didn't well didn't say, and
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  Speaker 3: the person who I tend to talk to might not
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  Speaker 3: have been privy to exactly why, meaning that into that
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  Speaker 3: vacuum all kinds of things could rush. So Jeff Leach
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  Speaker 3: and Matt mccoveac, both of these guys friends of mine,
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  Speaker 3: love these guys, and yet and yet they flat out
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  Speaker 3: made up this entire scenario of Ken learned that Jeff
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  Speaker 3: was going to be on and ran cowering from the
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  Speaker 3: prospect of having Jeff explode his version of events. There's
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  Speaker 3: precisely zero evidence of that. But as you properly put
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  Speaker 3: it this morning on our radio Get Together, that if
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  Speaker 3: Ken wants everybody to stop saying that what Ken needs
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  Speaker 3: to do is be on the show like tomorrow. Tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: would be really good because then they can no longer
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  Speaker 3: say that he's ducking the issue. And please, it's me.
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  Speaker 3: It's a friendly environment, not a coddling or sycophantic environment.
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  Speaker 3: But I've you know, I've asked the tough questions to
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  Speaker 3: and I've asked tough questions to Ken, endearing myself to
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  Speaker 3: an audience, I hope. And so we'll see, we'll see what,
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: You do a great job of sort of threading that needle.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't say that as a pejorative. I have
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  Speaker 2: great respect for any broadcaster or any interviewer who can
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  Speaker 2: kind of because you leave the audience sort of guessing.
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  Speaker 2: For example, I had a guy in Texas today text
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  Speaker 2: me when you and I were talking on the eminem
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  Speaker 2: Experience at seven five thirty five, saying, Mark has this
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  Speaker 2: this mysterious affection for Jeff Leach. Nobody likes him. We
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  Speaker 2: don't like him. He's not Maga, he's not conservative, he's
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  Speaker 2: not a Republican. Why does Mark like this guy? Why
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  Speaker 2: does he prop him up? And look, that's you're really
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  Speaker 2: really strong at showcasing people to the audience and let
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  Speaker 2: the audience decide.
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  Speaker 3: And I differed with Jeff mightily on the Paxton impeachment
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  Speaker 3: and probably doing some other things too. Sometimes and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's allowed to be personal. He's a prince of a guy.
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  Speaker 3: He's been never been anything but gracious to me. We've
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  Speaker 3: been friends for a long time, while disagreeing about a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things. I'll give you somebody else who's been
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  Speaker 3: gracious to me and generous with his time for me,
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  Speaker 3: even though he knows I've got some problems with him.
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  Speaker 3: That's a guy named John Cornyn. Corny was on the
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  Speaker 3: show like every other week during a stretch of December, January, February.
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  Speaker 3: And he knows full wet. I asked him all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I said, you realize you got a big not credibility problem,
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  Speaker 3: But you're trying to tell everybody that you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be just as Trump loyal after you win and after
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  Speaker 3: Trump's gone as you are now. And he said absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: I will. I said, all right, there are going to
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  Speaker 3: be some people who believe you and some people who don't.
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  Speaker 3: Cornyn is either going to be a story like Lindsey
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  Speaker 3: Graham or Marco Rubio, who were Trump hesitant and got better,
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  Speaker 3: or it'll be a story like Bill Cassidy and Tom Tillis,
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  Speaker 3: who are weasels whose Trump hatred was on display at
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  Speaker 3: all times? And you know they good riddance. Well, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know which is I don't know which is the case.
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  Speaker 3: I can't read minds, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Right, it's hard to know what's in somebody's heart. Let's
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  Speaker 2: let's get let's uh, let's let's establish though that John
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  Speaker 2: Cornyn is clearly the establishment guy. And establishment folks like
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  Speaker 2: the establishment. They don't want to upset the apple cart
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  Speaker 2: too much. Hugh Hewett, who I often point to as
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  Speaker 2: an establishment colleague of mine, he got called out a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes ago on X by the formidable and and
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  Speaker 2: and machine, Scott Presler. Now you've seen Scott.
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  Speaker 3: Preston's the persistent, persistence.
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  Speaker 2: The persistence right, and he's the real the tall, skinny
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  Speaker 2: guy with the long hair, and he's out there registering
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  Speaker 2: people to vote. He's like a one man army. He
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  Speaker 2: goes in and gets people registered to vote. He fights
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  Speaker 2: hard for people, and he's had a pretty good track record. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he calls Hugh Hewett out today here because Hugh I
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  Speaker 2: read to you this morning. Hughes X post saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: Paxton can't be well, isn't going to be taller Rico,
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  Speaker 2: John Cornyn will John Corner is absolutely on board the
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  Speaker 2: Trump train. John Cornyn is absolutely fighting for Texans. So
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  Speaker 2: Hugh is obviously all in for John Cornyn. Here's what
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  Speaker 2: Scott Presler wrote, Hey, Texans, Hugh Hewittt just called Ken
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  Speaker 2: Paxton supporters the quote noisy online slice unquote. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: did he did? He literally called them You're basically the
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  Speaker 2: noisy online crowd or the noisy online slice. Scott Presler says, off, Hugh,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't think you're real voters and you won't show up.
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  Speaker 2: I guess he missed the recent election where incumbent Senator
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  Speaker 2: Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was clobbered. Cornyn supports amnesty. No
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  Speaker 2: thanks ouch. All right, well, mister Davis, And.
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  Speaker 3: This is when I have a gut feeling. I'll always
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  Speaker 3: tell you. I'll tell everybody, and the polls and the
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  Speaker 3: grassroots momentum and everything. The Paxton's seeming imperviousness to various scandals,
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  Speaker 3: the notion that corn maybe a dead man walking, and
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  Speaker 3: that there's corn and fatigue statewide. I've just seen this
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  Speaker 3: movie too many times. People have been looking at primary
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  Speaker 3: corn In every six years, you know, for almost twenty years,
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  Speaker 3: and all he does is just absolutely destroy primary opposition.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, he's never been up against somebody named Ken
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  Speaker 3: Baxton before, an actual rock star with actual cred in,
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  Speaker 3: an actual Trump friendly time. The Paxton approach in all
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  Speaker 3: of this is, look, John, If you're wondering whether John
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  Speaker 3: Cornyn is telling the truth about his future magal loyalty,
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  Speaker 3: guess what you don't have to wonder with me. I've
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  Speaker 3: been at Trump's side for ten years and he's right
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  Speaker 3: about that, and so we'll see if that rises to
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  Speaker 3: the level of creating what I always describe as the
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  Speaker 3: Mark Davis rule of primaries. Packson obviously has a pedigree
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  Speaker 3: that is enviable and a rockstar conservative status that is unshakable,
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  Speaker 3: but that will not matter unless he can create. Unless
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  Speaker 3: there is a desire to fire John Cornyn. If there's not,
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  Speaker 3: then Cornyn will win. If there is, then he's gone.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know which, and we'll find out a
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  Speaker 3: week from tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me let me give you the Mark Davis
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  Speaker 2: credibility test, because you said something about this race between
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  Speaker 2: Paxton and Cornyn that I didn't believe. And you said
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  Speaker 2: this early on, you said this. From almost day one,
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  Speaker 2: Trump has not endorsed one or the other. And I
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  Speaker 2: really thought that there was just no way. I still
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  Speaker 2: am not convinced he's not going to endorse this week.
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  Speaker 3: There's eight days left. There's eight days.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you don't think you will, You don't. You don't
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  Speaker 2: think there's any way.
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  Speaker 3: There's no there's no upside, there's no net upside of
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  Speaker 3: Trump for doing this at all. Why not, because no
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  Speaker 3: matter what he does in a close race, and let's
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  Speaker 3: just really admit this is going to be probably a
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  Speaker 3: very very close race, You're going to alienate a couple
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  Speaker 3: of million people who voted for you. Why do do that?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Because but Trump doesn't typically care about those optics,
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  Speaker 2: does he. I mean, I don't know that Trump is
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  Speaker 2: trying to appease the masses. I mean, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: go with what he thinks is is the best move
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  Speaker 2: for him.
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  Speaker 3: There are two things, yes, but there are two things
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  Speaker 3: that will attract like a magnet a Trump endorsement. One
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  Speaker 3: is somebody who's probably gonna win, and so Trump pops
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  Speaker 3: in and goes, you know, I'm endorsing you, and then
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  Speaker 3: he wins. He goes yeah me, which listen, I would
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  Speaker 3: do too. The second thing is he's got an enormous
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  Speaker 3: gripe again. It's the Thomas Massey Bill Cassidy. That's why
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  Speaker 3: he went into and endorsed the lady running against Cassidy
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  Speaker 3: in Louisiana. He has no gripe against either of these folks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, all of all. The Cornyn Trump hesitancy seems
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  Speaker 3: to be from kind of another time. Trump. Cornyn has
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  Speaker 3: been a pretty good soldier here in Trump two point zero.
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  Speaker 3: So an endorsement of Cornin would be a huge middle
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  Speaker 3: finger to Packston, who's been loyal for a decade. An
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  Speaker 3: endorsement of Paxton would be a huge back of a
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  Speaker 3: hand to a sitting United States senator.
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  Speaker 2: That might win. Exactly. Well, you're right all along, So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see how the week plays out. Incidentally, lots, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of fun watching the YouTube channel live and of
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: course YouTube podcast wherever you get your podcasts people, and
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: and uh, Texas teacher just said thank you for moving
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  Speaker 2: past the trans cats, so to start you, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think they're.
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  Speaker 3: They're not trans they were drag cats. There's a difference.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're yeah, they're dragged, they're not they're not trans
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  Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't know, although who.
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  Speaker 3: Still has his genitals in in the drag cats?
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  Speaker 2: Well, how would well? How would one know? How how
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  Speaker 2: would know?
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  Speaker 3: It was? Nuts were in my face? But in a
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  Speaker 3: theater seat in London, it's like they go Badogeoch is
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  Speaker 3: like what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: But but here's here's the the other comments. I'm reading
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: some of the comments online, uh on on our YouTube channel,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: and this one is a lot of people are pushing
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: back against Cornyn because they say he has not actively
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: pushed to get the Save Act voted on in the state.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: The Save Act is a big, big deal. What Where's
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: John Cornyn been on the Save.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Act the same place John Thune is, Oh, gee, we
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: wish we could, but we just don't have the votes
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: to do something with philibuster and where. And Cornyon's entire
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: thing has been Hey, dig me been here a long time.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I know where the way the field is striped. Paxton
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: doesn't even know where the restrooms are on Capitol Hill.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I've been there forever, my clout, my influence that's why
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: you need me. Where has that influence been in an
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: attempt to drag the Save America Act across the finish
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: line and give people what they want? If he, if
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I if he had been able to do that, I
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: might consider him unbeatable.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: But 'twas not to be pretty fair to say the
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Save Act is dead in the water. Do you think.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: For the moment it seems we'll see what you know?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Are we going to?
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: If there's a reason for our optimism? And I have
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: to tell you, I just I met a woman on
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: the show today, Congresswoman Stephanie bisse Yep of Oklahoma. She's
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: a fifth District congressman up there around Norman and Edmund
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: and Shawnee In's plays like that, and she just feels
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: great about the midterms. And I don't know if it's
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: just you know, cool aid up on Capitol Hill or
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: kind of a cheerleader thing you got to do. But
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I am holding at arm's length the notion that the
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: midterms are going to be a disaster for us. I please, well,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: not only were wrapped up, let's get gas back down
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: to three something a gallon. And those people are crazy.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Those people are crazy, and they're not going to get
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: any less crazy by November.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Well, everything comes down to getting out of Iran right now,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: and we've got to we got to bring this thing
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: to a conclusion. I think everybody agrees on that. But gosh,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: was there a spirited defense of President Trump from over
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: the weekend on one of the most unlikeliest of platforms
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: CNN and Michael Schmerconish and I want to play this
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: for you here in just a moment. And by the way,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: one more comment from the the YouTubers who are commenting
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: right now. As we continue to see that that number,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: it's kind of fun to watch it build and build
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and this makes Scott Hamer wrote, Hello, M and M family,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Now what a nice doesn't that make you feel nice?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I kind of love that because we are family, We're
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: just funning.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Is nothing like there is nothing like I mean radio,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: there's nothing like the personal connection of radio. Yeah, a
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: live stream on YouTube is like radio. You can see
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: so absolutely that means the world to us.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks and the interaction that people give us and the
• 19:09
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• 19:12
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• 19:15
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• 19:18
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• 19:22
  Speaker 2: it gets flagged. I want you to hear Michael Summer Kanish. Now,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: this is a guy I have a little bit of
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: a past with him. He used to be a Philadelphia guy, right,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: he was a Philadelphia talk show host. He's a Philadelphia guy,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: well known in Philly. Used to be kind of a
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: traditional conservative. I remember interviewing him once about why he
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: decided to support Barack Obama. I'm like, what you're doing
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and he wound up hanging up on me mid interview.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Then and then, as I recall, he used to write
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: a column I think for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and he
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: wrote about me rudely asking him about trying to justify
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: his support for Baraco Obama. As if it's a real
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: stretch to ask a so called conservative talk show host
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: why you're you're an Obama supporter one of the most dangerous, disastrous,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: you know, damaging presidents we've ever suffered through. Anyway, Now,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Schmer Khanish, fast forward. I think he's got a serious
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: XM radio show still, but he also does, like I think,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Saturday mornings on CNN right and and and it's like
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a weekend show. And he said something Saturday that caught
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: my eye.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Trump was before you do it before Tuesday. Isn't his
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: whole gig lately? That that I'm the centrist, moderate, raging, moderate,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: both sides ish kind of guy. Wait, which is fine,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: be whatever you want to be on the spectrum hard right,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: hard left, kind of in the middle of finding thing.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I mean that that's do I perceive frankly that his
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: act of the last few years has been kind of
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: a fence sitting kind of thing.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, this is going to like a this is going
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: to sound like a really smarmy, uh a jerky answer.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I don't follow him enough to know. I don't have
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: any idea.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I just remember then, let me confirm for you. I
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: think that's that's been.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: His because I will tell you because when he reacted
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: like a horse's ass, I've never really cared about it. Yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I just don't pay attention to the guy anymore. And
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: that's and that's, by the way, a phenomenon that always
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: how many people do you have that listen to you
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: daily and they'll write you or email or text or whatever,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and they hate you. And they can't get enough of you.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Why do people?
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: And I'm honored. I'm honored, you're honored by the people,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: honored every day by the people who disagree with me
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: about everything. I'm not honored if somebody is a jerk.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: But I will tell you if somebody is a jerk
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: on the text line every day, what's true they're listening
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: every day? I know, knock yourself out.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just mystified by it because I can't think of
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: any any public figure that I'm going to follow or
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: watch or listen to or read who I can't stand
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: and I disagree. I mean, would you find yourself why
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Tom Tradup from the Sale of Media Family, one of
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the executives. He watches MS NOW round the clock. And
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know why you won't find a more conservative
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: guy than Tom, but he gets a kick out of it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I think there's a masochistic side that people have where
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: they just want to see a show or listen to
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: a show that they don't agree with any time, all
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the time. And so I don't know if I agree
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: or disagree with Michael Smerkanish, but I do agree with
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: what he said about President Trump. If you'll recall, Trump
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: was getting hammered because he was trying to say in
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: an interview, my decision about Iran did not was not
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: impacted by domestic challenges.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you. Well. I don't think the famous
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: weaponized quote where Chuck Schumer had a big billboard behind him,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Trump said he doesn't care about your family finances, he
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: doesn't care about affordability. It was totally out of context.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Go well, here's a guy who says it better than
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you and me. I give you the aforementioned Michael schmer Kanish.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: The people stomping on Trump for that answer are missing
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: the point entirely. He wasn't talking to us, He was
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: speaking to Iran.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Think about it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: The President is just about to be wheels up for Beijing,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: where his single most important agenda item is persuading Shei
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: jinpain to help squeeze Iran on its nuclear program and
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: end the war. Here's the president last night with Brett Baer.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: When you tell somebody you'd have to pay a little more,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: not that much more, a little more for gas Selene
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: for a very short period of time, because we want
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: to stop the threat of being blown to pieces by
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: a lunatic, by a crazy person, and they are crazy
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: using nuclear weapons. Everybody says that's fine, and that question
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: was a fake question and they didn't put my full answer.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: They totally care.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: The strongest remaining weapon in Iran's arsenal, it's not their
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: navy or missile systems. It's American impatience. If President Trump
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: had stood at that microphone and said, boy, I sure
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: hope we can keep this up for a little bit
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: longer because the economy is really taking a toll. That
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: would have been a gift wrapped signal to Tehran that
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: we're looking for a way out.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: And this isn't new with Trump.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: When the war began, he posted apocalyptic warnings on social media.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Surely you remember open the effing straight, you crazy bastards.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: People said, oh, he's lost his mind.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: They talked about invoking the twenty fifth Amendment. I sat
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: here and I argued that what Americans weren't understanding is
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: they weren't the intended audience. Iran was same thing here.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I hate it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I hate it when I like a guy that I
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: don't want to like. Now you got to got to
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: call balls and strikes, and that was completely right. There's
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: something I may borrow with full attribution and attribute it
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to him, because one of the greatest things Iran has
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: going for it is American impatience, and every naysayer, every troublemaker,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: every Trump hater in either party stepping up and going, hey,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: we haven't won yet, what's the deal. Come on, come on,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: come on, come on, block stick, and let's go. That
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: is absolutely doing the bidding of the Iran war pr operation.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: And they should be ashamed.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: They really should be. And this is a constant tick
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: of the legacy media where Trump can say something sort
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of off the cuff or I always love it when
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: he jokes about something and they write about it like
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a joke, you know, like they act like
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: he's literal when he's clearly being sarcastic or funny, and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: it's just it gets tedious. It's just so tiresome to
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: see them do it over and over and over again
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: because they run out of things to counter him with.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: It's all they've got. They can't come up and say, hey,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: he's wrong on borders, he's wrong on gender, he's wrong
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: on bringing people's taxes down, he's wrong on creating a
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: pro business economy. They don't want to do battle on
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: those and that's why the Democrat Party is in such
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: a sorry state in terms of bench strength. You know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: as we look at some arkanash and a show that
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: he has. I don't know if we mentioned this guy.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know what your thought on him is or whatever,
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: but I'm not I'm really really not kidding, and I
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: don't know how it would go if he did. Are
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: you familiar with the work of Stephen A. Smith.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, you better believe it. And he's running for president.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: He's totally running for president.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And it's a little asterisk there. We don't know it
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: like we know our own names. But he certainly is
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: giving off every behavior of someone who is and if
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: he did, it would be brilliant. All we do is
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: sit there and people tell me, Mark, shut up about
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: stuff like this. Stop telling Democrats what kind of reasonable,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: more thoughtful people to run, whether it's a Bill Maher,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: a Harold Ford Junior, or Stephen A. Smith. Because he's
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: kind of an equal opportunity critic. I think he's absolutely
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: got a liberal heart beating in his chest. But he's
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: not a lunatic, and stylistically, if he is enormously compelling
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: i'd be I'd pay attention. If he's well, I'd be closer.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I often think who scares us in twenty twenty eight,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: because I mean, we already have our own issues here.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Because I'm telling you and I'm gonna I want to
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: end today in a little bit with Mark Rubio because
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: he gave a speech. It's like a little video produced.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: It's only two or three minutes long, about the rededicate
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: to fifty yesterday this past weekend. Absolutely, gosh, it was
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: a beautiful moment. But anyway, I think Mark Rubio is ascending.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I think JD Vance might get overshadowed by him. I
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: could be dead wrong on this. I love jd Vance obviously,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I love but I'm but I'm really liking Mark Rubio's
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: chances of emerging. Now. Look, there's about they're said to
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: be very good friends, and Mark Rubio supposedly has has
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: promised he's never going to do that that if jd
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: wants to run, Marco would never declare, which.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Makes me crazy, which makes me insane, because I want
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: that choice. I want that choice of loyal Toblican.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: It's loyalty. He's he's being loyal to his friend. Why
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: why does it make you crazy for Mark Rubio to
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: promise to the world, I'm not going to betray my
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: friend that way because like it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Because because the country means more to me than their
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: bromance does. And I don't mean to be flippant or anything.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: There's something kind of charming about that that really makes
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: me like Rubio even more selfishly. And I don't really
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: mean selfishly at all. I mean for the country. One
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: of these guys is the best candidate to be president,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: and I don't totally know which right now, and I'd
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: like to find a campaign that they would run and
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: be able to judge that. For myself, I don't want
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: to be because if it is Vance, if he's the
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: heir apparent and he's blessed with success, it's ten years
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: before we get to reveal run.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Let's look at the flip side of the coin. Let's
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: look across the aisle at the Democrat field. Right now,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: every poll have you seen Democrat polling for twenty twenty eight,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: it's Kamala all the way and nobody even comes close
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: to her.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Mark.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Could they be stupid enough to run with her again?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Because polls right now about that are largely meaningless because
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: she's the big name who just ran, and she the
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: first person who.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Comes to me. Big name, Well, Ronald McDonald's Ronald McDonald's
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: a big name.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, what do you mean, Kamala, She's front of mine,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: and so I think that's completely phony. But some of
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: these other folks like Andy Basheer, Governor of Kentucky, Wes Moore,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the oh so supposedly reasonable governor of Maryland. Did you
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: see him ask what he would do if his son
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: came out as trans. There's only one answer to that,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: and that is to drop to your knees and pray
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: if you're prone to do such thing, and get the
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: best kind of counseling you can to get your son
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: returned to gender normalcy. Or if you're an agnostic or
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I have no faith whatsoever, get him to a clinic
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: and make sure they are returned to gender health and
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: gender normalcy. Instead, it was like, well, I want him
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: to be comfortable in his own skin, and I would
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: walk that path with him. What so I considered that
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: to be the end of the Governor wes Moore candidacy. Well,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: and I'm Gavin Newsom. I think the bloom comes off
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: of that rose a little bit every day. So I
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know who's left John Fetterman. Maybe could John
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Fetterman run for president?
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: I think that would that would be intriguing. I think
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: that'd be great. He's hated in Pennsylvania. He's despised for
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: being reasonable. The taste in the Democrat Party is for
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: these bug eyed, squad style extremists. I don't think there's
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: a mark. I don' think there's a market for Fetterman.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: There should be, there's not.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: There ought to be, but there perhaps is is not well.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: By the way, speaking, you mentioned the trans issue with
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: with with the with the what's his name, Wes Moore?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Wes Moore? Uh, somebody just set the record straight. Who's
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: a big theater fan? A comment here on the YouTube page, Mike,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I love your theater stories. I'm one of the few
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: theater folks with you probably in the audience. There are
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: indeed a couple of trans performers in the Jellicle Ball
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Cat's revival. So I forgive me for smearing the trans
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: community and not knowing there was a like I said, well,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: how do you know who knows anymore? I mean, so anyway,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: apparently there were some some trans performers. It's but what's
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: crazy is it's the it's the exact hat score with
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: the ballroom.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: But okay, trans performers meaning wearing the cat outfits. There
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: a cat.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: They didn't have any cat out well, they sort of
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: had cat outfits on, but not quite the same. It's short,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: excives me a headache. All right, let me let me
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: wrap this way. I want to play this for you.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Have you did you see the mark or Rubio video Mark?
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Just bits and pieces, so I'm very eager to see this.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: It was a big weekend of stuff and as you
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: do this, as I'd like to think that we reserve
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: time over the weekend to think about God every Sunday
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: at church, but as you these events that were going
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: on also happened. I was paying some glancing attention to this.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I'm really glad to see this with Rubio, but also
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: my very very good friend, Reverend James Robison passed away
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: over the weekend for the Life Today Ministry. He and
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I had so many conversations over the decades. Mike I
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: got back to my native Texas in nineteen ninety four.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: He called me like a ninety five and I was
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: on with him at Life today. He was on with
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: me all the time. He spoke truth with love. Well done,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: good and faithful servant, just a magnificent voice for the Lord,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Rest in peace. James Robinson on a weekend that, for
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: multiple reasons had us thinking about things.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Like, well, it's important because you know that I think
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: more and more Americans have their eyes opened to the
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: good versus evil battle that's currently happening in this country.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Today we saw Luigi Mangione was in court here in
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: New York City and there was there was some evidence
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: that was thrown out by the judge. You know, they
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: found a he was he had a backpack with him
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: when they finally caught up with this. This is the guy, incidentally,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: who's accused of murdering Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: who was just strolling up Sixth Avenue on his way
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  Speaker 2: to a conference. Blood, cold blood, cowardly act shot him
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  Speaker 2: in the back, and the kid became a hero to
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people on the left. In fact, I
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  Speaker 2: even got an email today I or know it was
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  Speaker 2: a post on X and I blocked him. I thought,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: go away, get thee behind thee satan or whatever, because
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  Speaker 2: this guy said, oh, I think Luigi was right. The
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  Speaker 2: United Healthcare is CEO is a mass murderer and he
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  Speaker 2: had to be stopped and taken out. And I'm convinced
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  Speaker 2: Mark that the killing of Brian Thompson and the popularization
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  Speaker 2: the hero worship of Luigi Mangione is kind of what
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  Speaker 2: opened the floodgates. People are having a hard time discerning
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  Speaker 2: between what is actual evil anymore, evil is portrayed is good.
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  Speaker 2: Good is portrayed is evil. I think it led to
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  Speaker 2: people celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination. I believe it led to
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  Speaker 2: people hoping that somebody assassinates President Trump. Look, the left
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  Speaker 2: is the party, the Democrats of the party of political violence,
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  Speaker 2: and they're all about it. So as a response to that,
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  Speaker 2: we see people a lot of people say, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm leaning into my faith. I'm going back to church,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: and a lot of gen zers, a lot of young kids,
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  Speaker 2: especially young adult males, are going back to church.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: And so heartening because I didn't know if that horse
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  Speaker 3: could go back in the barns, back in the tube,
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  Speaker 3: an unchurched, unmoored, directtiontionless young male population, especially with you know,
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  Speaker 3: with the devil in your pocket in the form of
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  Speaker 3: a phone. I don't know what gets them back, but
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  Speaker 3: maybe eventually the pendulum swings that I could not be mourning.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna love this. Here's Marco Rubio. As part
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  Speaker 2: of this rededication, this this this spiritual maybe maybe a
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  Speaker 2: spiritual revival, he released a video commemorating what thousands of
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  Speaker 2: people did yesterday on the Mall in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: And on the National Mall, and what this country represents
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  Speaker 2: because too many times we get away from it. Here
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  Speaker 2: is maybe the most consequential Secretary of State in America's history,
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  Speaker 2: the one and only Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 6: On this day, two and a half centuries ago, our
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  Speaker 6: forefathers gathered for the second time in as many years
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  Speaker 6: for a national day of fasting and prayer. The resolution
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: of the Continental Congress call them the thirteen Colonies to
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  Speaker 6: humble themselves in preparation for the coming war with true
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: penitence of heart and the most reverent devotion public, to
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  Speaker 6: acknowledge the overruling providence of God. In three and a
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  Speaker 6: half months time, the colonists would be an open revolt
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  Speaker 6: against the most.
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  Speaker 7: Powerful empire in the history of the world.
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  Speaker 6: Many on both sides of the Atlantic thought their cause
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  Speaker 6: was a suicide mission.
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  Speaker 7: The founders were not naive men.
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  Speaker 2: They knew their lives were on the line.
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  Speaker 6: That was the premise of Benjamin Franklin's dark joke after
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: signing the Declaration of Independence, where he said, we must
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  Speaker 6: indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all
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  Speaker 6: hang separately.
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  Speaker 7: They had no guarantees of victory.
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  Speaker 6: They knew that what they were trying to do had
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  Speaker 6: never been done before in human history. But with the
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: dark storm clouds of war looming on the horizon, they
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: did what Christians have always done across place and time
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  Speaker 6: for two thousand years. They turned their eyes to heaven
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  Speaker 6: and place their fate in the hands of God. It
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  Speaker 6: is no coincidence that America, from the very beginning, has
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: occupied a unique and exceptional place in world history. Before
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  Speaker 6: the Christian West, most societies and civilizations, for that matter,
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: thought in stagnant cycles, the flooding of denial, the return
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: of the rains, the cycle of the harvest. History for
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: them was a wheal to nowhere. It turned and turned
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: only to end up back where it began. But our
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: faith calls it outwards into the limitless darkness of the unknown.
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  Speaker 6: It tells us to go forth and preach the Gospel
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  Speaker 6: to the world as a witness, and to all nations
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  Speaker 6: unto the ends of the earth. From that command came America.
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  Speaker 6: Our nation, more than any other in history, was shaped
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  Speaker 6: by this Christian idea. We saw it at work already
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: in sixteen thirty, more than a century before the Revolution,
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: when John Winthrop stood on the deck of the Arabella
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and preached a
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: sermon to his fellow Puritan colonist. We shall be as
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  Speaker 6: a city upon a hill, he told them, of all
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  Speaker 6: people are upon us. That same faith pushed America further
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  Speaker 6: to new frontiers. It was the engine of westward expansion.
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  Speaker 6: Who will respond to the call from beyond the rocky Mountains.
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: When Reverend wrote in a public message to the American
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  Speaker 6: churches in eighteen thirty three calling for a wave of
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  Speaker 6: missionaries to leave the comforts of civilization and spread the
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  Speaker 6: Gospel in the wilderness, countless Americans.
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  Speaker 7: Answered that call.
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  Speaker 6: It was the same faith that was at work when
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Samuel Morse sent the first long distance telegraph message in
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: eighteen forty four.
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  Speaker 7: His message was averse from the Book of Numbers. What
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: hath God brought?
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: And on Christmas Eve of nineteen sixty eight, what three
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: American astronauts orbited the Moon. They were the first men
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: in history to witness and earthrise from lunar orbit, to
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: look back at the blue marble of our home from
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: a quarter million miles away.
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  Speaker 2: The world was watching.
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  Speaker 7: It was the largest television audience in the history of
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: the world to that point.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: And what did they say? They opened the Book of Genesis.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: This is who we are, it is who we have
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: always been. America is still a young nation measured against
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: the record of history. And from the beginning we have
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: carried the belief that our country represents something new in
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: the world.
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: But the soul of our nation has always been rooted
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: in an ancient faith.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Wow, I played that for you.
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  Speaker 3: You are absolutely killing me. And I mean that in
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: nothing but a good way. That was so great. No demo,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: First of all, no democrat will ever say things like that.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, And.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: So please tell me again why he doesn't need to
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: be running for president. And I'm listen. You've essentially said
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: he you know you expected him to be the nominee.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: You know how hard it is to supplant an heir
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: apparent a city and vice president.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe it is.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe here's something to Tiabo roncau is here in Texas.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: In some other states, the primary season is as bitter
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: and nasty and cruel as any political season. Maybe JD.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Vans and Mark Rubio can blaze a trail and set
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: an example where two guys who are friends simply say,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: this is my friend, This is my friend. He's running.
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  Speaker 3: I'm running. I have a vision, he has a vision.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: We turn to the people of America and say, pick
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: one of us, or somebody else for that matter, but
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: we're not going to tear each other apart. We're not
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: gonna throw last minute attacks, We're not gonna lob opportunistic bombs.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: We're gonna do this the way civilized people do. Wouldn't
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: that be something for our party and for this.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: That would be a beautiful thing. And on that happy
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: optimistic note, that's a wrap for a Monday. We'll see
• 39:40
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