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The Architectural Marvel...or Something... of the Obama Presidential Library · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 2: And then we'll leave you alone for a little while,
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  Speaker 2: at least for a week. How about how about the
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  Speaker 2: christiening of the Obama Presidential Library. I know, now, Mark,
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  Speaker 2: be honest and be objective. Is the thing. Do we
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  Speaker 2: think it's a monstrosity because we just loathe the Obama era?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it a monstrosity it's a distrosity because it's
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  Speaker 2: a monstrosity. And I offer it. Let me give you
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  Speaker 2: some two things that I love. Science and Ross Perot. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: the Paro Museum of Science on what all rogers is
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  Speaker 2: an architectural nightmare. It's it looks like a building they
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  Speaker 2: left in the dryer for too long. It's it's wrinkly,
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  Speaker 2: it's weird. It's so it says, I love the building.
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  Speaker 2: I love.
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  Speaker 1: Please everybody go, it's fantastic. But architecturally no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: feel the same way. Listen, if a president I actually
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  Speaker 1: voted for put up a library that was this ghastly,
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  Speaker 1: I would say.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gross, I mean. And then the ceremony yesterday itself,
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  Speaker 2: of course it was star studded. It was a of leftism.
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  Speaker 2: Poor Hillary. Did you see Hillary Clinton's outfit? Now, I'm no,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Brad Pitt here, I'm not in any position
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  Speaker 2: to judge other people's outfits. But she had on this
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  Speaker 2: like like this hamburglar hat. She had this big black,
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  Speaker 2: wide rimmed hat, and she had big oversized glasses and
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  Speaker 2: mark it was like seventy five degrees outside and she
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  Speaker 2: was wearing like this big overcoat. Somebody posted this. There's
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  Speaker 2: the funniest thing I just reposted on x so check
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  Speaker 2: this out. It's a picture of her sitting there looking
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable because she had to be hot. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: thing she and it says the Bethany O'Leary wrote, Hillary
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  Speaker 2: Clinton looks like like a retired KGB agent who settled
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  Speaker 2: down in Boca Ratone but still keeps a vial of
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  Speaker 2: poison in her fountain pen just in case. Tremendous. How
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  Speaker 2: good is that? That's perfect? And then poor Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 2: They did it again. Did you see them? They know
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  Speaker 2: they left him on stage.
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  Speaker 1: Jill, Jill has to know she can't walk off and
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  Speaker 1: leave him anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Well they all did, Jill, Doctor that's doctor Jill, do
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  Speaker 2: you and doctor Jill and Barack both walked off stage,
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  Speaker 2: and honest to gosh, Biden is standing there looking completely lost.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard. That video is hard to watch. Mark the
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  Speaker 2: guy doesn't know where he is. No, it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: watch because it's funny. We've had a number of things
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  Speaker 2: to say about the Biden presidency, all of them dreadful
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  Speaker 2: because he deserves it. But as a human being, we
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  Speaker 2: have a caring heart, and I don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: that happen to anybody, only as their brains decline. Oh
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  Speaker 2: but the thing that makes it doubly triply hard to watch,
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  Speaker 2: there's the caring about him as a person. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want that to happen anybody. But but then there is
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  Speaker 2: what I care about more, and that's the country. And
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  Speaker 2: every time something like this happens, it reminds me that
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  Speaker 2: there were scurrilous, treacherous people who tried to gaslight us
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  Speaker 2: for a long long time and tell us he's fine,
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  Speaker 2: nothing to see here.
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  Speaker 1: One of them was named Hillary Clinton. Hillary is one
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  Speaker 1: of them. This week he should never have heard about
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  Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough. I think we're seeing the best Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, just Mike, and they knew, damn, damn
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  Speaker 1: these people for what they they tried to do to us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank god they failed. And wow, I just it just
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  Speaker 1: takes me back that there were people you talk about
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  Speaker 1: a threat to democracy. They dare to lecture usbind but
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  Speaker 1: the democracy, the existential threat to democracy. How about what
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  Speaker 1: you people nearly tried, tried to do and nearly did
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  Speaker 1: in foisting that on us. So I'll take no legures
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  Speaker 1: from them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and then Valerie Jarrett gets up there. I love
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  Speaker 2: this when they when lefties do this stupid speech. We
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  Speaker 2: honor the Anishonawabi, the Council of the Three Fires, Theodola,
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  Speaker 2: the Pottawomi nations.
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  Speaker 1: We are on their land. Yeah, you give it back.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you give it back? Give it back? Give
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  Speaker 1: it back to them then, instead of instead of of
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  Speaker 1: haranguing us about you on stolen land, if you stole
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  Speaker 1: the land, give it back.
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  Speaker 2: I went to a play once. There's a great there's
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  Speaker 2: a great theater outside of New York. It's called paper
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  Speaker 2: Mill Playhouse over and I think it's in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: And the producer gets up. Sometimes they do a curtain
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  Speaker 2: speech before a show or a musical, and she did this.
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  Speaker 2: We acknowledge that we were on the stolen land of
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  Speaker 2: the jab Jaboubi and there's a PoTA Wushi tribe. And
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  Speaker 2: I wanted, I did, I want to stand up the
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  Speaker 2: scream we'll give it back? Yes? How much?
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  Speaker 1: How much you think this theater is worth. They'd love
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  Speaker 1: to put on some shows here. They could open up
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  Speaker 1: a casino, you know, they could have a field day.
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  Speaker 2: On this stolen the land that you've taken from them,
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  Speaker 2: You thief, you hamburglar, Hillary the hamburglar. Give the land back,
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  Speaker 2: bunch of dopes. Hey, let me ask you some You
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  Speaker 2: know what today is, right? This is a holiday Juneteenth,
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  Speaker 2: of course Juneteenth. Now I see all. We're over and
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  Speaker 2: over again, how it's a made up holiday. And if
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  Speaker 2: you look at the history. No, and I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to take anything away. Look, we ought to celebrate the
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  Speaker 2: day maybe that slaves learned observing it.
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  Speaker 1: We did not need another federal holiday. I've said that.
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  Speaker 1: I said that before and I'll say it please. We're
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  Speaker 1: done with federal holidays. But this is a remarkable occasion.
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  Speaker 1: Number One to celebrate freedom for the slaves, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but I just can't believe if somebody takes a picture
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  Speaker 1: on the far side of the moon, it's on my
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  Speaker 1: phone the next millisecond. It took two and a fraction
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  Speaker 1: years for the slaves in Texas to learn that they
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  Speaker 1: were freed. Imagine the day that news gets dropped in
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  Speaker 1: your life, right, So you appreciate this significance hundred and
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  Speaker 1: I think I do too. Although let's look at the
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  Speaker 1: history of it. President Biden is the one who signed
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  Speaker 1: June teenth into law in twenty twenty one. Wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: long ago.
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  Speaker 2: Axios has a big piece this morning about the way
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  Speaker 2: that June teenth is surviving the corporate DEI backlash, even
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  Speaker 2: as American institutions pull back from the promises that helped
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  Speaker 2: elevate it. In other words, the holiday has staying power,
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  Speaker 2: according to Axios, despite the fact that there's a pushback
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  Speaker 2: against DEI initiatives, and what if.
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  Speaker 1: They have to do with each other. What in the
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  Speaker 1: world do those two things have to do with each other.
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  Speaker 1: DEI is social poison. It involves eroding merit and looking
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  Speaker 1: at other complete irrelevancies like skin color. In terms of
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  Speaker 1: just determining somebody's qualifications. A proper human attitude is to
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  Speaker 1: lift up the legacy of Juneteenth and go, wow, that's
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  Speaker 1: an amazing moment in history. Let's totally put that in
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  Speaker 1: our heads and in our hearts. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: DEI still wrong. What if the world is so complicated
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll bet you and I and are somewhat warm embraceive
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  Speaker 2: of Juneteenth, or in the minority of this audience, I'll
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  Speaker 2: bet you my text line is about to blow up,
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  Speaker 2: for example. And here's what they have to do with
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  Speaker 2: each other. As Axios points out, June teen celebrations last
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  Speaker 2: year were scaled back, canceled, or moved in places like
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  Speaker 2: Colorado Springs, Scottsdale, Arizona, West Virginia, San Diego. Denver's Juneteenth
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  Speaker 2: Music Festival was scaled back last year after corporate sponsors
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  Speaker 2: pulled support. So there is this sort of this pushback
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  Speaker 2: against you know, race based things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's really unfortunate because there's there's just I
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  Speaker 1: will say, I have a feeling that you A, You're
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  Speaker 1: probably right, there are people because let's find something else
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  Speaker 1: to get angry about that. Maybe it's it shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: been a federal holiday. We just look for anything to
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  Speaker 1: anything that's racial, to just make fifty times bigger than
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  Speaker 1: it otherwise. Is you know, this isn't Kwanza, which is
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  Speaker 1: phony Black Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: This is real. It's it's it really years years. I
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  Speaker 2: would push back gently on this a little. I'm and
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  Speaker 2: I loved well. I like what you say about looking
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  Speaker 2: for things to be mad about. I'm just not that
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  Speaker 2: sorry about it. And it's and it's exhausting. However, is
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  Speaker 2: it not a uniquely Texas matter? Is it not? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I can see it being a Texas holiday. What's it
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  Speaker 2: got to do with the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 1: I think the hours were down Galveston were the last
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  Speaker 1: black people in America. I mean, I'm giving black people
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  Speaker 1: in Idaho if there were any, there's scarcely any. Now
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  Speaker 1: we're we're we were They were the last freed slaves
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  Speaker 1: to learn that they were freed, right, but in the
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  Speaker 1: points in the country in the case, it's a Texas story.
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  Speaker 2: So make Texas holiday. But why do people in you know,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio need to celebrate something that happened.
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  Speaker 1: In Texas, Because, as I said ten seconds ago, they
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  Speaker 1: were was the moment at which every freed slave in America.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't true that every freed slave knew it until
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  Speaker 1: the Texas slaves informed. You think, I think you're a
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  Speaker 1: little off on that's fact, that's factually true.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm just saying I still think it's a Texas story.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it's a Texas story first and foremost. But
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  Speaker 1: if some of us you say, wow, let's observe shows
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  Speaker 1: when finally, finally we get to one hundred percent on right,
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  Speaker 1: when all the slaves knew they were free, that would
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  Speaker 1: be the moment at which it.
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  Speaker 2: Is celebrated in Texas, I would think. But I want
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  Speaker 2: to sens Black Americans how they feel about it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: curious because I have a hunch that even there will
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  Speaker 2: be a number of Black Americans who probably aren't so
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  Speaker 2: jazzed about about Juneteenth. But we shall find out. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I think, look, it's look, it's worth it's worth acknowledging.
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  Speaker 2: But let's face it, aren't you cynical about Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: being the one to put it into law twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't like this thing was around forever, No, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but as I've said, perhaps for the third time,
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  Speaker 1: the legacy of it, the history of it. I embrace it.
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  Speaker 1: Did we need another federal holiday?
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  Speaker 2: We did not? Yeah? I agree?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, well with that early early Happy Father's Day,
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  Speaker 2: And what do you do? Where are you Monday? You
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  Speaker 2: got any travels going on? What you I'm at? I'm traveling.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on a plane again today. I'm see my kid.
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  Speaker 2: My son just had some surgery yesterday and so I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to sit with him for the weekend. He's he's
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  Speaker 2: a hero. He's been fighting through he deals with diabetes
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  Speaker 2: and he had a kind of a little skin graft
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  Speaker 2: thing going on on his foot. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go see him and my granddaughter and my other son
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. So I can't wait. And I'll be back
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