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More on Elon and Trump · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas in the Power Hour six ten WTV and
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night edition. I'll be in tomorrow morning doing comas
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  Speaker 1: this morning News and for Mike l eight on six
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  Speaker 1: to ten WUTV in beginning at six am. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be here tomorrow afternoon, but I probably will be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm being honest with you, and the Queen's
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  Speaker 1: probably going, what what I thought? Yeah? But see when
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this happens, you know, this is long term
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  Speaker 1: breaking news. Essentially. Zach was asking me during the top
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  Speaker 1: of the hour break here as we transition between shows,
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  Speaker 1: if you ever got that feeling where something happens and
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking, man, I just wish I had a microphone.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much every day, pretty much every day, something happens.
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  Speaker 1: And this this goes back to many years ago when
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  Speaker 1: George Bush was in office and we went into Iraq.
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  Speaker 1: What was was it Desert Shield or Desert Storm. I
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  Speaker 1: think Desert Shield was the first one with the shock
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  Speaker 1: and all, and George hw yes and w okay, So
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  Speaker 1: Desert Shield was the first, and then Desert Storm was
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  Speaker 1: the second.
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  Speaker 2: Desert Store Desert Storm was yeah, that was the golf
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  Speaker 2: w that's the first one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that night I worked for
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  Speaker 1: a music station at that point, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: was about ten o'clock or so at night, and CNN
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  Speaker 1: comes on the air because they used to actually have news,
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  Speaker 1: and uh they said, the United States, Uh, we have
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  Speaker 1: ships that are in the Gulf right now launching missiles
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  Speaker 1: toward Bagdad. And I was like, oh my gosh. And
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  Speaker 1: I was I was, you know, in the business for
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  Speaker 1: what two years, three years or so at that point,
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  Speaker 1: and uh. But I got out of bed and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I gotta go. This is this is what
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  Speaker 1: we do. And I got to the station, to this
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  Speaker 1: music station, not a news station, not a talk station,
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  Speaker 1: a music station, and half the staff was already there,
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  Speaker 1: and our news director, Tom L. Cicero was there, and
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  Speaker 1: I start pulling copy off of the wire from CNN
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  Speaker 1: and the Associated Press. Tom goes on the air. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of the salespeople were out there making coffee, ordering pizzas.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody called us and said, hey, come in because something's happened.
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  Speaker 1: We just jumped because that was the nature and quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: the nobility of the broadcasting business before it became a
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  Speaker 1: place that's populated by people with lots of plastic surgery
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  Speaker 1: and the hopes of grandeur where it was it was
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  Speaker 1: just it was about making sure that everybody was informed.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time when in an inclement weather, if
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  Speaker 1: there was a you know, tornadoes, hurricanes, whatever, that that
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  Speaker 1: third class broadcasting license that I used to carry in
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  Speaker 1: my wallet meant that if I needed to be brought in,
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  Speaker 1: they'd send the troopers, they would send the Nash Guard,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it took to get me to the radio station,
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  Speaker 1: because you were that important. One of the reasons we
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  Speaker 1: had this debate a couple of years ago about AM radio.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to remove AM radio from new cars, and
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  Speaker 1: of course my company, iHeartMedia had a blitz out there
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  Speaker 1: trying to get people to contact their congress people and
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  Speaker 1: so forth. Do you know why? Do you know why
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  Speaker 1: it makes sense to keep AM radios in cars? Do
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  Speaker 1: you understand the importance of it. It's got nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with talk radio. Do you understand why it is important?
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  Speaker 2: Zach?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any idea why AM is so important
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  Speaker 1: in the vehicle, especially at rural places. If there's an emergency,
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  Speaker 1: it's always used up until now, for AM radio is
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  Speaker 1: a fat radio wave. If you will. Amplitude modulation is
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  Speaker 1: what AM stands for. The wave is big, which is
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  Speaker 1: why if you go under a bridge, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times you'll lose the AM signal until you come out
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  Speaker 1: of the other because it is so fat that it
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  Speaker 1: can't fit through the hole on the bridge with you.
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  Speaker 1: It can't thread the needle. But when you come out
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, there it is. FM is a
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  Speaker 1: narrow band, and that band can go under the bridge
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  Speaker 1: with you. The difference is it can only go so far.
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  Speaker 1: FM signals travel much less distance than AM signals. You
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  Speaker 1: get yourself a clear night, turn on the radio. Get
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  Speaker 1: you so little AM transistor radio and just move the knob.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to old analog knobs. You move them just
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  Speaker 1: just a hair, and you can sit here in central
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  Speaker 1: Ohio and pick up you know, Detroit, Saint Louis, Canada.
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  Speaker 1: You know I used to sit I used to Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio West Side. I would listen to KMOX out of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis at night. Scott Arkin was the guy who
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  Speaker 1: was on and when I wasn't listening to that, I
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  Speaker 1: could listen to WBZ out of Boston. Bob Raleigh was
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  Speaker 1: the late night guy. Up there that I used to
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  Speaker 1: listen to. I've been a radio freak my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: AM travels, So in the event of a natural disaster,
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  Speaker 1: natural emergence, national emergency, something like that, people get in
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  Speaker 1: their cars, they go running, they head for the hills.
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  Speaker 1: They try that AM signal is going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to reach them a lot farther away than an FM signal,
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  Speaker 1: which is why AM is important. And I guess I've
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  Speaker 1: always had an AM type mentality because I've been listening
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  Speaker 1: to this radio station since i was a kid, convinced
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  Speaker 1: that one day I would grow up and I would
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  Speaker 1: be on this station. Dreaming, frankly, one day I would
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  Speaker 1: grow up and I would be the new Bob Connors.
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  Speaker 1: That was a dream as a youngster. I wanted that.
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  Speaker 1: And here I sit in this studio after all these years,
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  Speaker 1: and I was in the studios when they were over
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  Speaker 1: on Dublin Road, and I was in the studios when
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  Speaker 1: they were at forty two East Gay Street. Because I've
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  Speaker 1: always loved it. And one of the reasons I love
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  Speaker 1: it is because that call to duty for people when
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  Speaker 1: you need us, We're supposed to be there. So all
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  Speaker 1: that said, I will likely be in with Blazer tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: much to his surprise and possibly chagrin. But I just
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  Speaker 1: I can't let this be done until it's done, until
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is is finished, and we have culminated, and
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  Speaker 1: we have answered the question what the hell? Before the
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  Speaker 1: six o'clock hour came in, I was all over social media.
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  Speaker 1: I was on my truth social my Facebook, my Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: and my Twitter because I refused to call it X
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  Speaker 1: and I was looking up all of the Democrats because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't it make sense to you? Not only does
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  Speaker 1: it make sense they would have used this information to
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  Speaker 1: keep Donald Trump from being elected, but now that Musk
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  Speaker 1: has allegedly put this out there and the blood is
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  Speaker 1: in the water, don't you expect them to take to
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  Speaker 1: their social media platforms and call for the public flogging
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  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump in the town square? Isn't that reasonable?
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  Speaker 1: Don't that assumption is reasonable? And yet nothing, nothing from
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  Speaker 1: the top contributors to the left wing rhetoric, Nothing from
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders or AOC or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 1: I found nothing that doesn't make sense either. None of
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  Speaker 1: this is logical, and even in an illogical way, most
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  Speaker 1: things are logical. There is no beneficial finish to what
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  Speaker 1: I am seeing in front of me right now. No
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  Speaker 1: win for America for her people. This is oddly, very strangely,
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  Speaker 1: confusingly and irritatingly wrong this entire scenario. Or again, maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's just me. The numbers eight two one nine at
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  Speaker 1: eighty six A two one WTV and Jeff is unholding
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  Speaker 1: on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, Yeah, I think it's interesting that we invented electric
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  Speaker 2: cars that will not allow AM radio signals to get
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  Speaker 2: through the perimeter of the car. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: anybody that has one of those should have a shortwave
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  Speaker 2: radio that's battery powered to go with them all the
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  Speaker 2: time and make sure those batteries are charged. I think
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  Speaker 2: this is a very interesting problem that the government should
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  Speaker 2: stay out of and let the auto industry deal with
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  Speaker 2: as far as AM radio, because am radio, my god.
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  Speaker 2: Without AM radio, I'll tell you what, the Communists and
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats would run the whole planet. What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're differentiating between communist and Democrats at this point,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not even sure that's necessary. Yeah. The whole
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  Speaker 1: idea of generating that what is it, what do they
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  Speaker 1: call it? That electronic field that blocks AM radio in
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  Speaker 1: the cars.
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  Speaker 2: There's a name for it, a Tesla field.
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  Speaker 1: Do they call it a Tesla field?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, uh, well, you got me on that one. It's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a box in an electric box that you
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  Speaker 2: can block out electric signals out of. And I can't
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  Speaker 2: it's not maybe it's not a Tesla field, but I
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  Speaker 2: know what it is. I just can't. I can't think
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I understand there is a way around
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  Speaker 1: that that they chose not to incorporate into the design
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  Speaker 1: of these evs that have been introduced, which that in
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  Speaker 1: itself is kind of interesting. If there's a way around it,
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  Speaker 1: And if AM radio at the time you designed and
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  Speaker 1: build these vehicles was still a consideration, why not build
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  Speaker 1: that protection in there. It doesn't make that Wait.
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  Speaker 2: A minute, this is this is political. This is political.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think for a second this isn't political as well. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so you can't have an AM radio in your car.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you going to get conservative talk radio anywhere
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  Speaker 2: else other than if you can stream on the internet.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is political as well as a technological problem.
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  Speaker 2: And they don't want you to have AM radio because
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  Speaker 2: guys like you and me aren't going to call out
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  Speaker 2: the jackasses that are running our government. And there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You may be on this something there too, Jeff. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the call, buddy, Thank you. I have never in
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  Speaker 1: my life owned a short wave radio, but it might
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  Speaker 1: be something I think about. I you know, I used
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  Speaker 1: to listen to years ago. I'd listened to to Art
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  Speaker 1: Bell when he was still doing Coast to Coast. I
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  Speaker 1: don't listen to it too much anymore, and like, like
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, I'll be coming in to do the morning show,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll listen to it when I get out. George
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  Speaker 1: Norri is doing it now. Some people go, he's not
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  Speaker 1: Art though, Yeah, and I still like both of them.
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  Speaker 1: George Nory's he's different. I don't dislike him, but I
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  Speaker 1: actually I had him in studio once and interviewed him,
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  Speaker 1: and he he is so guarded of that audience that
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  Speaker 1: you can't you can't even touch upon, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: making a crack, a joke, skepticism or anything else. He
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  Speaker 1: seems almost offended by it. I can see that. I
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  Speaker 1: can see that. Yeah, I can see that because I
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  Speaker 1: asked him. That was one of the questions I asked
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  Speaker 1: him you. You hear all kinds of things, spirit world,
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  Speaker 1: outer space, endless holes in the Earth, and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard something from someone that that, even
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  Speaker 1: after hosting this show night after night, you just found
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  Speaker 1: completely unbelievable And he refused to answer that question. That's
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  Speaker 1: interesting because I do. Man sometimes with the calls he takes,
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  Speaker 1: they go on and on and on and on about nothing. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the people, the people who call up and take, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, three minutes to lead up to the fact
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  Speaker 1: of here's why I'm calling, those are the ones that
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  Speaker 1: always get me and call uh open phones. Also, yeah, yeah,