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Authorities Foil Alleged Islamist Terror Plot Targeting Mall of America · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Karambas of Radio America
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review.
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  Speaker 1: Three martinis coming up.
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  Speaker 3: So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of
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  Speaker 3: the Three Martini Lunch. And Jim, whether you're listening to
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  Speaker 3: the media, you're listening to the Democratic Party, you're listening
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  Speaker 3: to groups that we don't agree with very much. The
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  Speaker 3: West is the problem. The West is awful. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: the patriarchy and so many different aspects that they continue
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  Speaker 3: to denounce, conveniently forgetting or just not believing the fact
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  Speaker 3: that Western civilization is the greatest civilization by far in
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  Speaker 3: human history. And yesterday, Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State,
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  Speaker 3: made that very clear in a speech given at the
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  Speaker 3: Acropolis yesterday. I would recommend the entire speech, but here's
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  Speaker 3: a few different, you know, excerpts from his speech.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 4: In Athens, we found the first full realization of all
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  Speaker 4: the essential traits that would come to define the West.
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  Speaker 4: Fierce individuality and relentless ambition, daring exploration and invention, a
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  Speaker 4: yearning for discovery, for adventure, risk and glory. An insatiable
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  Speaker 4: curiosity about the world and the principles by which it operates.
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  Speaker 4: A hunger to know the mysteries of nature and grasp
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  Speaker 4: the secrets of the cosmos. An impatience with the notion
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  Speaker 4: of impossibility chafing at all boundaries, at all limits, straining
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  Speaker 4: to peer into the depths of the unknown. These were
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  Speaker 4: not just the formulas or precepts of a particular school
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  Speaker 4: of philosophy. They were the characteristic of a people. Expressed
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  Speaker 4: in their tradition, their stories, their imagination, and the qualities
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  Speaker 4: that they demanded of their citizens. And the things they
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  Speaker 4: lived and fought and died for. Over time, we in
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  Speaker 4: the West came to feel ashamed of the very things
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  Speaker 4: that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that our achievements
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  Speaker 4: set us apart from the rest of the world. Our
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  Speaker 4: prosperity somehow became a source of guilt. we no longer
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  Speaker 4: believed we deserved and had earned our greatness. The word
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  Speaker 4: nationalism became a dirty word. And so we tore down
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  Speaker 4: our monuments. We condemned our own history. And in too
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  Speaker 4: many places, we taught our children to be ashamed of
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  Speaker 4: the countries they would inherit. In the process, we opened
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  Speaker 4: our borders and outsourced our industry and allowed our militaries
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  Speaker 4: to wither and to decay.
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  Speaker 3: And with every.
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  Speaker 4: Passing year, We seem to outsource more of our sovereignty,
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  Speaker 4: transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach
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  Speaker 4: of our control.
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  Speaker 3: So, Jim, I think when you look at the countries
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  Speaker 3: of the world where freedom has flourished, the West is
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  Speaker 3: obviously where that's happened. And there are critical reasons for that,
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  Speaker 3: many of which were were born right there and others
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  Speaker 3: which developed over time. But I think it's good to
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  Speaker 3: be proud of being the inheritors of Western civilization and
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  Speaker 3: good on Rubio for saying it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Greg, I'll begin with the obvious. These were
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the most spectacular visuals we've seen for a speech. Really,
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  Speaker 1: by any figure, it reminded me of Reagan at Brandenburg Gate.
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  Speaker 1: The perfect backdrop, perfectly framed. You can't control the weather,
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  Speaker 1: but the sun is shining on Rubio's face. There's this
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  Speaker 1: golden reddish hue to everything behind him. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: a painting. It is just terrific. And, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: think of the 2024 campaign. What do they think of?
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  Speaker 1: Often I think they think of Trump and Butler, right?
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  Speaker 1: And him pumping the fist, right? There's something to be
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  Speaker 1: said about the power of an image. And I just
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  Speaker 1: think that Rubio and his advance team and everybody around him,
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  Speaker 1: they just get it on a level that other, anybody
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  Speaker 1: can give a speech. But like, if you have that
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  Speaker 1: kind of, wow, look at that. The video is going
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  Speaker 1: to play everywhere. It's going to go viral. The picture
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  Speaker 1: is going to be on the front page of print
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  Speaker 1: newspapers to the extent that print newspapers still exist. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like it just is like that is really top notch
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  Speaker 1: A1 staging for the message. And now for the message itself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Marco Rubio is going to run
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  Speaker 1: for president in 2028. I know a lot of Republicans
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  Speaker 1: certainly hope he does. When you do stuff like this,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to discourage people from thinking, oh, Marco
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  Speaker 1: Rubio is going to run for president. This is a
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  Speaker 1: very presidential style speech. J.D. Vance presumably has the inside track.
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  Speaker 1: The polling still has him well ahead. But as Rubio
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  Speaker 1: gives this speech, I really think that the politics we've
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  Speaker 1: had– you could go for the Trump era. You could
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  Speaker 1: go previous back to the Obama era. I kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel like negative messaging– We've ridden that horse as far
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  Speaker 1: as it can take us. And it's not just enough
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  Speaker 1: to say they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cat.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just scare people with negative ads and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I think if you really want
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  Speaker 1: to galvanize the country, if you really want to– like
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama in 2008 was not a campaign built for
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  Speaker 1: you and me, Greg. But we could recognize– We are
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  Speaker 1: the ones we've been waiting for. Like Obama figured out
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  Speaker 1: how to inspire people. He gave them a vision of
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  Speaker 1: a better future. And whatever you and I and a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of our listeners think of it, people bought into it, right?
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  Speaker 1: I think if you want to run for president in 2028,
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  Speaker 1: you need a positive vision. And some of that positive
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  Speaker 1: vision is we are the blessed inheritors of a great
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  Speaker 1: tradition and great ideas and a great system. And it
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  Speaker 1: is our duty to be stewards, to carry the torch.
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  Speaker 1: and then pass them on to the next generation. That
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  Speaker 1: was the theme of Rubio's speech here. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a really good one. I think it's not grievance-based.
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  Speaker 1: It's not angry. It is kind of the essence of
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  Speaker 1: conservatism is gratitude, right? How lucky we are to have
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  Speaker 1: inherited all this from our forefathers and our ancestors. How
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  Speaker 1: important it is to preserve. The first two syllables in
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  Speaker 1: the word conservative are conserve, right? We have something special.
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  Speaker 1: We have an obligation and a duty to pass this
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  Speaker 1: on to the next generation. I think that's a great message.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that'll, I think there's a hunger for
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  Speaker 1: some inspiration out there. There's a hunger for some optimism.
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  Speaker 1: There's a hunger for a sense that isn't just everything
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  Speaker 1: stinks and everything's getting worse and you got to vote
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  Speaker 1: for me or else the other guys are going to
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  Speaker 1: make it even worse. I think there's a need. Chris
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  Speaker 1: Matthews used to describe it as Americans vote for the
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  Speaker 1: candidate who has the sun on his face. Literally yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio had the sun on his face.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. So much to be gleaned from the Greeks,
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  Speaker 3: as he mentioned. And so, you know, what flourished throughout
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  Speaker 3: Western Europe, what has flourished here in the Americas were
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  Speaker 3: the inheritors of that. And it didn't happen by accident.
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  Speaker 3: These were not only great ideas, but bold people who
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  Speaker 3: made them come to life. And again, if you look
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  Speaker 3: where freedom has flourished around the world, it's not an
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  Speaker 3: accident that it's the West that has been the most prosperous.
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  Speaker 3: but also, you know, in many cases, the ones leading
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  Speaker 3: the moral argument in so many different ways over the years.
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  Speaker 3: So good for Rubio for recognizing that. Good for him
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  Speaker 3: for articulating it well, which should come as no surprise.
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  Speaker 3: And whatever happens for him in 2028, I think this
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  Speaker 3: is something for all Americans to remember. And again, like
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  Speaker 3: you said, how blessed we are to be the inheritors
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  Speaker 3: of Western civilization. So great speech by Rubio. Let's move
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  Speaker 3: on to the latest in the world of terrorism. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we've just had so many of these incidents lately, from
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  Speaker 3: RAF Fairford to the Fly Dubai flight to the threat
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  Speaker 3: to the Texas state capitol. This one takes us back
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  Speaker 3: to Minnesota, where so many odd stories over the last
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  Speaker 3: several months and a couple of years have come out.
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  Speaker 3: Arrests have been made against a terrorist plot to attack
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  Speaker 3: people and kill dozens at the Mall of America.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pleased to announce that as a result of their
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  Speaker 2: tremendous vigilance and professionalism, the FBI yesterday arrested and today
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  Speaker 2: we have charged an individual who was planning a mass
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  Speaker 2: casualty attack in support of ISIS at the Mall of
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  Speaker 2: America later this month. A complaint was filed this morning
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  Speaker 2: here in Federal District Court. The complaint charges Sheikh Doun
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  Speaker 2: Abdullahi Mohammed with acquiring an AK-47 assault rifle and 200
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  Speaker 2: rounds of ammunition in order to commit a federal crime
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  Speaker 2: of terrorism. including attempting to provide material support to a
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  Speaker 2: designated foreign terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 3: That is the U.S. attorney from Minnesota, Dan Rosen, who
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  Speaker 3: also pointed out that the goal was to shoot up
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  Speaker 3: the mall on October 24th, because there was a Hmong festival, uh,
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  Speaker 3: scheduled there that day, uh, 18 years old, Jim, uh,
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  Speaker 3: this guy obviously radicalized and, uh, thankfully taken into custody
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  Speaker 3: before horrible, horrible things can happen. But, uh, this is, uh, obviously, uh,
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  Speaker 3: very disturbing and thankfully it was, uh, thwarted and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: there's no more plots like this, but I'm sure the
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  Speaker 3: FBI stay in vigilant out there.
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  Speaker 1: They get younger every year, Greg. Yeah. I like to
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  Speaker 1: think we stay the same age, but it turns out
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  Speaker 1: we don't. Um, So one of the ironies of this
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  Speaker 1: is that my understanding of not just of the people
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  Speaker 1: who are shopping at the Mall of America, which is
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  Speaker 1: huge and obviously has, you know, biggest mall in the
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  Speaker 1: entire country. But, you know, we've talked about the influx
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  Speaker 1: of Somali immigrants to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. On any
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  Speaker 1: given day, if you had committed an attack and done
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  Speaker 1: a shooting spree or done something terrible in that mall,
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  Speaker 1: there's a better than average chance you would end up
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  Speaker 1: killing some Muslim Americans in that case. This, to me,
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  Speaker 1: is an indication that there really shouldn't be any wiggle
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  Speaker 1: room or gray area when it comes to fighting Islamist terrorism.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a Muslim American and you're in the wrong
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  Speaker 1: place at the wrong time, these guys don't care. In
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  Speaker 1: their mind, they're doing you a favor because you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be martyred and you're going to go up and
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  Speaker 1: get all the virgins and all that kind of stuff, too.
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  Speaker 1: They don't care. They won't target a mosque, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't care if they end up killing a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: Muslims in the process while trying to kill lots of
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  Speaker 1: other infidels. So frustrating. And I think I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: connected this to the attempted crashing of the plane and
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  Speaker 1: these other, you know, things we've seen, the plot over
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  Speaker 1: Royal Air Force Fairford. Like, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: because it's October 7th and now it's terrorism season. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it's, you know, because it's now like
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  Speaker 1: the 25 year anniversary of 9-11. For some reason, the
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  Speaker 1: Islamists seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: they're incompetent. Thankfully, they are getting wrapped up pretty quickly. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: they've not been in a situation where they've been able
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  Speaker 1: to do the terrible damage they want to do. But
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  Speaker 1: there was a while there. When there was like mid
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  Speaker 1: to late April, you looked, you know, there was Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City bombing. There was the Boston Marathon bombing. It was
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  Speaker 1: the anniversary. Timothy McVeigh did what he did because of
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  Speaker 1: the anniversary of Waco. There was this weird sense that
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  Speaker 1: April was like the time of year when terrorists seemed to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, more inclined to honor anniversaries or key dates
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. I don't know and I hope
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  Speaker 1: that October 7th and the week of October 7th does
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  Speaker 1: not turn into that. But boy, these cases sure seem
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  Speaker 1: to be piling up fast, Greg, don't they?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. And of course, we've had all sorts of fraud investigations,
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  Speaker 3: many of them related to the Somalis in Minnesota over
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  Speaker 3: the past several months and really going back a number
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  Speaker 3: of years now. And then, of course, over the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: we had these Somali gangs shooting it out at a
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  Speaker 3: homecoming game, a high school football game. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all of this is kind of converging at the same
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  Speaker 3: time here. And so You know, fortunately, you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: nobody going to be killed at the mall here as
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  Speaker 3: a result of this plot. I'm not exactly sure what
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  Speaker 3: the casualty situation is with all those shootings at the
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  Speaker 3: football game. But this is all happening at a time
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  Speaker 3: when voters are about to make a pretty big decision
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  Speaker 3: in Minnesota. And so, you know, if you're Michelle Tafoya,
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  Speaker 3: if you're Lisa Damuth, who's running for governor there, if
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  Speaker 3: you're others, you know, this is an untenable situation. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure exactly how much they can specifically do.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly from the Senate, it's a little tougher than it.
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  Speaker 3: if you're governor, governor would have a lot more power
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  Speaker 3: in this situation. But if you think the status quo
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  Speaker 3: is okay in Minnesota, there's not much I can do
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  Speaker 3: to help you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Greg, we have got to stop these foreign gangs
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  Speaker 1: from coming over here into this country because they're taking
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  Speaker 1: away jobs from American gangs. They do twice as many
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  Speaker 1: shootings for half the price. It's deeply... This is why
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  Speaker 1: we need American gangs to get unionized. Some would say
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  Speaker 1: they already are. But anyway, we should probably move on.
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  Speaker 3: a few weeks ahead of Election Day. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 3: let's talk about your business. Hopefully your business is not
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  Speaker 3: a fraudulent entity in Minnesota. I'm sure it's not. But
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  Speaker 2: haven't ever performed gender surgery for minors.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Dr.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews, and I approve this message because Darlene Graham
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: lying about me won't do a thing to help you.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know if she's done surgeries, but she's OK.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Load them up with hormones. And then Marcy Captor has
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: been in Congress forever. First elected from the Toledo area
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: in the early 80s. co-sponsor of the Equality Act, which
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: is the Dems' big LGBT initiative, now says she's also
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: not in favor of guys and girls sports. And now
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: she's getting hammered on both sides. Republicans calling her hypocrites.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Democrats calling her a sellout. Obviously, she has a pretty
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: tough race. So, Jim, I think the Democrats see enough
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: reality to know this is not a winning issue for them.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: The question is whether this 11th hour shift will convince
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: any voters.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, in a purely political manner, This indicates that
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Democrats have learned from the experience of Kamala Harris, where,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you know, Trump would run an ad, you know, she's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: for they, them, you know, he's for you, that kind
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: of stuff. And people would turn to the Harris campaign
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and say, like, what is your response? And the response
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: would be an issued statement through a spokesman. Well, that's
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: not my position anymore. Well, how's the electorate supposed to know?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: If at some point you're like, oh, I stopped believing that.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: But you just keep going about your vice presidential duties,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: you know, securing the border. I'm sorry, securing the root
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: causes of illegal immigration and talking about coconut trees and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But if you quietly, secretly
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: changed your mind, how is anybody supposed to know? And
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: then if you issue this terse statement through a spokesman.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: There's no questions like, so why did you change your
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: point of view on this? When did you change your
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: point of view on this? What was the evidence that
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: prompted you? Or is it just, well, you're running for
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: national office now and you're not in a primary anymore. Therefore,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: this could be a liability to you. I suppose it
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: is good news if you're a Democrat in South Carolina
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to realize that you're running in South Carolina and that
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: this is not the sort of position that's going to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: help you in a state like this. But here's the thing.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: If you are a South Carolina voter, If they are
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: suddenly emphasizing, oh, this is not my position anymore. Do
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you think it really is? Do you think 30 days
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: before the election, they've suddenly like, did they have a concussion?
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Did they suddenly have some sort of blow to the head?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Did they have a stroke like John Fetterman? Is there
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: some explanation as to why they suddenly feel very strongly? Oh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I don't have that position anymore. My goodness. Oh, good heavens. Look,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, I should point out, I've gotten at
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: least two fundraising messages from the Graham campaign, both emphasizing
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: how close the race is. It's South Carolina. I think
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: she's going to win. But Senate Leadership Fund is now
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: spending $ 5 million in ads for her. That, I think,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: indicates that, by the way, Senate Leadership Fund is spending
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: a ton of money on a whole bunch of states.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: That's the focus of today's morning jolt. But I think
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: it's an indicator that Darlene Graham is not her brother.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: This is not a safe slam dunk of a seat.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: The governor's race looks very safe down there. So I
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: think there's a reason Republicans are a little bit nervous
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: about the Palmetto State. And I think, you know, if
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the Democrat could say, oh, I'm a sensible moderate, that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: will make Darlene Graham's job much harder.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: You know what Kamala should have said with all those
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: flip-flops when she became the de facto nominee? Woke One
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: was crazy.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: But wait till you see the sequel.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: That was a rough draft, baby.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: So in 2020, she was one of the ones, like Bernie,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: running on single payer, Medicare for all, as they like
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: to call it. 2024 comes around. That's not so popular anymore. Oh, no,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: not my position anymore. Now it's in vogue again for
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the Democrats to be in favor of Medicare for all.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: So if she does run, is she going to lurch
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: back to where she was.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: In the first place? She'll do the flip, flop, flip.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Not as common, but you do see it. And they
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: could say, well, look, my position started here and my
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: position finished here. So I'm consistent in that sense. Yes.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I've evolved like a horseshoe, apparently, on this particular issue.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: And whatever else is convenient for me when I'm running
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: for office. So All right. When we come back, we
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: talked a lot about Mamdani yesterday and his reaction to 10-7.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: There are others out there whose reactions to that horrific
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: anniversary need to be highlighted and shamed as well. But
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• 22:45
  Speaker 3: All right, Jim, like I said yesterday, we talked about
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Mamdani and given a couple of sentences for the awful
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Hamas attacks. I don't think he used the word terrorism.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I think he said Hamas killed 1,100 Israelis. And then
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: he went on this rant about, of course, what he
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: sees as Israel's genocide in Gaza. But he's not the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: only one who's beyond the pale. Even just individual businesses are,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: for some reason, wading into the extreme here. down in
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Cedar Park, Texas, just outside of Austin, where you were
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: not that long ago, was giving free lattes yesterday to
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: anyone who comes in wearing a keffiyeh and can tell them,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: quote unquote, what day it is. So, Jim, when I...
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: hear the question, what day is it? I think of
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: that ad with the camel that it's being hump day
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: wandering through the office. But when it comes to this
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: type of thing, you are celebrating the slaughter of 1,200 people.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess that's one way to try and
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: promote your business. But if you run out of customers
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: real quickly, I'm not going to shed a tear for you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Greg, I'll get into that particular promotion in a moment.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: But as a true connoisseur and, you know, Ninth degree
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: black belt in karate samurai of dad jokes. Coffee is
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: just unforgivable. I'm sorry.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Nope. Sorry. That's that's too much. That's too ridiculous. That's
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: too eye rolling. That's too groan inducing. Rename your coffee shop.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: That's the logo is also every bit as, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: corny as you would imagine. Then, I mean, look, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: am a big believer in the First Amendment. Obviously, this
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: coffee shop has the right to run this promotion. I
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: think it's egregiously tasteless and effectively a celebration of the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: events of October 7th. I hope everyone in Cedar Park, Texas,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: in the greater Austin area says, you know what, you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: have a lot of options. Having just been there, Greg,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: there is not a shortage of coffee shops in the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Austin area. And, like, small independent ones and chain ones
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and 7-Eleven and, you know, you got a lot of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: options for your coffee. You don't have to go to Coffea,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: nor do you. But also, I'm just kind of curious about, like, actually,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: you know what I'd like to do? I'd like to
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: have a sign-up sheet by the counter. Just sign name, address,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: phone number. And maybe any other activist groups that you're
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: a member of just kind of to galvanize people. And
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: then I'd like to turn it over to the FBI
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: just to say, hey, just if any of these people
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: seem a little weird, just just keep an eye on them.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Might be some interesting. Look, I suppose it doesn't make
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you a terrorist to wear a keffiyeh. to Kofia on
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: October 7th and tell them what day it is. You
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: could say, look, in the end, I just wanted a
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: free latte. I don't actually think that what Hamas did
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: was all that awesome. But it certainly does give off
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: that vibe, doesn't it? You're not there like, oh, this
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: is a really terrible day. It is a three-year anniversary
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: of the day that killed more Jews than any other
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: day since the Holocaust. By the way, if you went
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in there and you said that, would you still get
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: your free coffee? Or does it have to be kind
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of a vaguely... From the river to the sea sort
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: of thing. You know what I'd really love? At the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Garrity Coffee Shop, which I will open up someday, you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: could say, it would seem like, you know, from the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: river to the sea, answer the questions, get your latte free.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: One question would be, which river, which sea? Secondly, here's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a map with no labels. Point to them. Can you?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: And you get within like 50 miles. And it would
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: not be like, oh, I'm going to do the entire
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: globe map. I'm going to do the Middle East. You
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: pick which river, you pick which sea. And let's see
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: how many people can get it. I bet you I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have to give a single latte away, Greg. Even
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: in a smart place like Austin, my guess is people
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: are a little vague on which river, which sea.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Remember one survey, somebody said Caribbean. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: That's a big state going all the way to the Caribbean. But,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: you know, coffee's become a political flashpoint. Remember the coffee
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: shop in Milwaukee that had to issue this groveling apology
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: because they served coffee to Dr. Oz when he was
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: in town for an event? Just who's buying coffee there
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: and getting all political with the different issues? You know,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: you should be alienating a massive part of your potential
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: customer base, but some people care more about other.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Things, I guess.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I just want my cup of coffee, Greg.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have to go through all that when
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: you work from home like Jim. All right. Jim Garrity,
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