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610 CKTB| The Bridge Ransom & Racist Memes: Trump’s Epstein Smokescreen · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: We have another regular guest every Tuesday. Man. He's been
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  Speaker 1: hitting it out of the ballpark. John Letke is here.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, John, Good morning, Jean. Well, my goodness. Since
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  Speaker 1: we last talked, a lot has happened. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that you're writing a newspaper column about Trump's post on
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  Speaker 1: True Social where he portrayed Michelle and Barack Obama as apes.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get to that, we wake up this
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  Speaker 1: morning and another post on True Social from last night.
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  Speaker 1: Canada bad, Canada bad, China will take away hockey. There
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  Speaker 1: will be no more Stanley Cupp and the Gordy Howe
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  Speaker 1: Bridge between Windsor and Detroit. I'm not going to open it,
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  Speaker 1: even though Canada paid for every single penny. The guy
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  Speaker 1: is out of control.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. My first thought is what did Jamiel
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  Speaker 2: Giovanni do when he went to Washington really, because everything
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  Speaker 2: changed after he went there. And now Windsor Rights are
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  Speaker 2: looking at this bridge that's take to a taken twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years to get to this point. We're looking at
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  Speaker 2: an opening date, hopefully sooner than later. Now it's been
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  Speaker 2: delayed and delayed because of COVID and supply chains and
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  Speaker 2: all of that stuff. And here we are in the
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  Speaker 2: year that it was scheduled to open, and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: deciding that he wants to do what he does best,
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  Speaker 2: pull a little bit of extortion and try to get
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  Speaker 2: something out of it. You know, Ignore the fact that
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  Speaker 2: the bridge used American steel to build, Ignore the fact
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  Speaker 2: that it had American labor building it, Ignore the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Michigan already owns half of the bridge. Trump wants more.
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  Speaker 2: But what we're seeing here is it's just it's a
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  Speaker 2: dangerous shift from the Obama primate video to now this.
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  Speaker 2: It's a dangerous shift where the White House is treating
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  Speaker 2: international diplomacy more like viral TikTok videos and the border
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  Speaker 2: is being seen as a ransom note. But it's not
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  Speaker 2: just about a racist AI video gene of the super
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  Speaker 2: of the Obama super imposed onto primates, although that's a
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  Speaker 2: big part of things. It's about a president that uses
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  Speaker 2: digital parity and rhetoric as a smoke screen while he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to seize our bridge right now in choke our economy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I can't I can't disagree with anything
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  Speaker 1: you're saying, But you have to wonder, if you know,
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  Speaker 1: if the guy is completely losing it. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is this ont dementia. Now, you wrote a great article
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  Speaker 1: about the the the Barack Obama and his wife being
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  Speaker 1: portrayed as apes, and you had some very sincere and
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  Speaker 1: valid observations. Tell me more about your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's sort of a digital ror shark test.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't just Trump being Trump, although it is. It's
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  Speaker 2: this digital rorshark test. It's a choose your own adventure
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  Speaker 2: of modern tribalism. For some people, it's a harmless joke
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  Speaker 2: for the base, but for others, we see it as
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  Speaker 2: a dehumanizing dog whistle. And we can't just be distracted
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  Speaker 2: by him when he goes and pretends to be a
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  Speaker 2: clueless intern who had no idea about the content that
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  Speaker 2: he was sharing. This is a classic Trump repost and
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  Speaker 2: retreat maneuver. It signals to his base that they know
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  Speaker 2: exactly who he is, while maintaining just enough distance to
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  Speaker 2: keep his moderates from jumping ship. And let's be honest,
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  Speaker 2: he knows what the money shot is gene, and he
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  Speaker 2: chooses to spray it onto all of our social media
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  Speaker 2: feeds to distract us from a domestic agenda. That's going
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  Speaker 2: off the rails.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it sure does distract from the Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: and what's been happening in the last week, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's one of the biggest parts of it.
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  Speaker 2: We know what, there's over ten thousand references to Trump,
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  Speaker 2: his businesses, or his wife throughout the Epstein files, and
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to talk about it. I found it
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  Speaker 2: hilarious that after what forty eight hours of the most
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  Speaker 2: recent files coming out, not all of them, of course,
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  Speaker 2: there's still three million more files, plus the reactions that
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  Speaker 2: are i'll have been seen with these, But after what
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  Speaker 2: forty eight hours, Trump said, well, you know, it's time
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  Speaker 2: for us to move on. And it's like, dude, you've
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  Speaker 2: been talking about this stuff for eight to twelve years.
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  Speaker 2: We are not ready to move on. We are just
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  Speaker 2: scratching the surface on this. But this is how Trump
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  Speaker 2: continues operates, and we're left with the situation now with
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  Speaker 2: a bridge ransom, where he's treating it as another distressed
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  Speaker 2: asset that Canada has being held for ransom and if
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  Speaker 2: he can rewrite the script on the border span here
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  Speaker 2: he's suggesting, of course, that the forty ninth Parallel isn't
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  Speaker 2: something that's solidified. It's not a border, it's a suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, speaking of the eight posting on truth
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  Speaker 1: social let me just lay the foundation for this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been talking for a living for my entire life,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been doing it for a long long time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a lot older than you, and I've interviewed thousands
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  Speaker 1: and thousands of people, so I know a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about when people are talking and how they're talking and
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in their brain. And when I see
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  Speaker 1: his press secretary Carolyn love It, and there's a, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a rumor going around that when she doesn't wear her
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  Speaker 1: cross to a news conference, that means she's going to lie.
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  Speaker 1: But I listened to her. She talks very fast, she's
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  Speaker 1: generally out of breath, and she's always angry. She gotta
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  Speaker 1: talk like that, you know, And to me, that sends
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  Speaker 1: a message because like I said, I've interviewed thousands of people.
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  Speaker 1: It means she's not sure what she's doing. She's probably lying,
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  Speaker 1: but she doesn't even believe that she is lying herself.
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  Speaker 1: And when she discounted the ape video that Trump posted,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was classic Carolyne Lovett I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: get mad that you would say anything about my president
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  Speaker 1: and talk about issues that really matter to American people,
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  Speaker 1: well to African Americans in the United States, that matters
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, so listen, Caroline Levitt is just the most
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  Speaker 2: refined version of Sean Spicer that we saw on day one,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest crowds ever in history. Yeah, the job description
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  Speaker 2: says you have to be shameless and you have to lie,
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  Speaker 2: and if you can overcome those two hurdles, you'll be
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  Speaker 2: incredibly successful at the job. For her, if she's taking
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  Speaker 2: off her cross because she doesn't feel comfortable, you know,
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  Speaker 2: lying while wearing so, I think that's a big signifier. First,
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  Speaker 2: she told us that President Trump was just the King
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  Speaker 2: of the Jungle and it was a parody of the
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  Speaker 2: Lion King, and that was just a classic, you know,
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  Speaker 2: don't go peeing on me and telling me that it's
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  Speaker 2: raining trope. I don't think that Timoman and Kumba last
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  Speaker 2: I checked, were century old racist tropes. The Lion King
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  Speaker 2: didn't take place in the savannah. It took place in
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  Speaker 2: the jungle, and it didn't even feature primates. This is
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  Speaker 2: just a blatant attempt to cheapen the currency of the
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  Speaker 2: executive branch by treating a racial slur like a Saturday
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  Speaker 2: Morning cartoon. But then came, of course, the inevitable pivot right,
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  Speaker 2: and they threw it all onto a staffer. It was
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  Speaker 2: a staffer who made a mistake. They posted it. You
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  Speaker 2: could hear the bus tires screeching over the scapegoat. It
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  Speaker 2: was messy. But then, of course, in the era of
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  Speaker 2: our binger in Chief, where state craft is driven by
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  Speaker 2: cinematic impulses and a refusal to ever acknowledge his wrongdoing,
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  Speaker 2: Trump then said, no, no, no, it wasn't the staffer.
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  Speaker 2: I actually did do it. And the White House must
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  Speaker 2: have just been like, what the heck? We just did
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  Speaker 2: clean up on Aisle Trump here and he said, I
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  Speaker 2: like the beginning. I just saw it and pass it on.
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  Speaker 2: But let's be honest. He didn't miss the ending. He
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  Speaker 2: saw it, he didn't care, he reveled in it. This
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  Speaker 2: is what he does.
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  Speaker 1: John, we got three more years of this, Yes we do.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know what's going to happen next. Nobody does.
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  Speaker 2: No, And that's what's most frustrating about this. We are
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  Speaker 2: living in his movie. We are all just extras and
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  Speaker 2: we're just waiting to see what comes next, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not great.
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  Speaker 1: Jeane. Yeah, well I've said this. This will be the
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  Speaker 1: third time this hour I've said this. It certainly does
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  Speaker 1: set the table for two o'clock this afternoon when the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian women take on Team USA in as Trump would
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  Speaker 1: call it, ice hockey at the Winter Games. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be watching. I hope you will be too.
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  Speaker 2: Well. It might be one of the last times that
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  Speaker 2: we're able to ever watch hockey jeans, so let's enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: John of Beauty, Thanks, I'll talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there he goes John led key Man. He
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  Speaker 1: he has a way of making his point. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we love his voice on the show as well.