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May Day Meltdowns and Fight Oligarchy Fairy Tales · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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Speaker 1: It's 6 Eastern, 3 o'clock Pacific.
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Speaker 2: He's literally the former director of the FBI. He knows
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Speaker 2: exactly what 8647 means.
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Speaker 1: From coast to coast and around the world, from America
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Speaker 1: Out Loud Talk Radio.
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Speaker 2: But I'm sick and tired of the fact that our
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Speaker 2: president has been targeted over and over again with rhetoric
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Speaker 2: that clearly calls for the assassination of this man.
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Speaker 1: It's time for Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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Speaker 3: The weekend started with a big May Day on Friday,
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Speaker 3: and I hope you had a great May Day and
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Speaker 3: a great weekend as well. It is a Monday night.
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Speaker 3: I'm Booker. This is The Truth Be Told. We have
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Speaker 3: a lot to talk about this hour, and as always,
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Speaker 3: on Mondays, we do it with Matt Palumbo. I call
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Speaker 3: it Mondays with Matt. I think it's been a while
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Speaker 3: since I've called it that, but Matt, welcome back into
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Speaker 3: the program. How was your weekend?
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Speaker 2: Good to be back, and average.
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Speaker 3: Did you enjoy May Day? How did you celebrate your
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Speaker 3: May Day?
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Speaker 2: No, it's some commie nonsense.
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Speaker 3: It is commie nonsense. We'll get into it here in
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Speaker 3: a minute. What about the Kentucky Derby? I know you're
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Speaker 3: not a big sports guy, but the Kentucky Derby may
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Speaker 3: be a little bit different. You get to dress up
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Speaker 3: and you watch horses run. Did you pay any attention
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Speaker 3: to the Kentucky.
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Speaker 2: I was learning for the first time, but I missed
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Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. You don't even do horse racing.
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Speaker 2: It's not even that I'm not even into sports. It's
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Speaker 2: I have no idea what's even happening in the sports world.
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Speaker 3: Well, the Kentucky Derby, the 152nd running of it, was
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Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon, and the winner was a 23-1 long shot.
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Speaker 3: golden tempo. The interesting thing was it made history. It
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Speaker 3: was the first female trainer to ever win the Kentucky Derby.
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Speaker 3: Her name was Cherie DeVoe, and that's the reason why
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Speaker 3: I bring it up and talk about it here. But
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Speaker 3: congratulations to her. There has been one other lady, a
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Speaker 3: female that has been a trainer that has won a
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Speaker 3: triple cup race, but never before the Kentucky Derby. So
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Speaker 3: she won that on Saturday. Congratulations to her. But let's
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Speaker 3: get back to this May Day. We had this Friday,
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Speaker 3: and I guess kids all across the country were skipping
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Speaker 3: school at the encouragement of the teachers there. Is that
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Speaker 3: what you saw?
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Speaker 2: Um, yeah, I've seen some stuff to that effect. I
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Speaker 2: saw a video on YouTube about how some teachers in
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Speaker 2: Chicago were holding a protest and were busing their own
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Speaker 2: students to them. So I guess make them appear more,
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Speaker 2: appear larger. So yeah, yeah, I think I saw what
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Speaker 2: you're referring to.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there were a bunch in Chicago. I have some
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Speaker 3: sound here from Chicago. Let's go to Fox News with
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Speaker 3: this report.
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Speaker 4: At the very front of the big march, like he's
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Speaker 4: Grand Marshal of the parade, is Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
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Speaker 4: there leading the numbers out here. We've got thousands of
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Speaker 4: people here. We can't get close to him right now.
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Speaker 4: You got all the bike cops up here doing their job,
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Speaker 4: making sure everyone in the march is safe. But you've
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Speaker 4: got thousands of people out here right now. It's quite
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Speaker 4: a crowd. And one of the things that you might
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Speaker 4: notice is you got a lot of young faces in
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Speaker 4: the crowd. That's because there are a lot of students
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Speaker 4: here who were encouraged by their teachers to walk out,
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Speaker 4: if you will. That's another word for skipping school. Even
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Speaker 4: though with all the young people that you see in
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Speaker 4: this crowd, the elementary schools have just started letting out
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Speaker 4: five minutes ago. Now, buses have been provided.
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Speaker 3: So there's a little bit of sound. They get to
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Speaker 3: the buses there that you were talking about, Matt. But
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Speaker 3: that is over with. Just like you said, another communist
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Speaker 3: commie thing. And we're going to get to more of
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Speaker 3: that in this hour, too, with Bernie Sanders on the
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Speaker 3: fight oligarchy conferences that were going on in places like
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Speaker 3: Detroit and Minneapolis. I should say this, too, Matt. I
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Speaker 3: don't know if you saw this. There was a special
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Speaker 3: election in Texas, and it was really good for the Republicans.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was, what, like a 17-point overperformance?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, correct. It was a race that Trump won, I think,
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Speaker 3: by 34, and this race over the weekend was 75
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Speaker 3: to 24. So that's a 17-point better than what Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump did. That's good news. And we also had another
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Speaker 3: one that was the same way. And I can also
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Speaker 3: report the latest polling in Michigan for Senator, which is
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Speaker 3: going to be an open seat. Gary Peters is retiring there.
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Speaker 3: Mike Rogers is leading. right now, 44 to 40%. So,
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Speaker 3: good news there. I know I've been probably sounding a
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Speaker 3: little bit negative the way all these races have been going,
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Speaker 3: and I have been. I'm not trying to blackpill anyone,
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Speaker 3: but I am trying to put the fear into people
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Speaker 3: that if we don't get out and vote, that it
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Speaker 3: really doesn't matter what else happens. And in both of
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Speaker 3: these cases, well, in the case of that special election
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Speaker 3: in Texas, people got out and voted, and it made
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Speaker 3: a huge difference.
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Speaker 2: They picked the worst possible... I mean, I know that the...
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Speaker 2: I don't believe they've had the primaries yet for the
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Speaker 2: Democratic candidate, but the guy leading is an Arab-American who,
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Speaker 2: when we killed the Ayatollah of Iran, didn't put out
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Speaker 2: a message supporting it because he was worried it would
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Speaker 2: alienate some of his voters. So he's like a supporter
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Speaker 2: of the Hezbollah caucus or the Iran caucus or whatever.
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Speaker 2: But no, it is a total lunatic that is their frontrunner,
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Speaker 2: which is good news for us.
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Speaker 3: It certainly is. Finally, there's some good news there. Also,
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Speaker 3: let's stay here with elections. The Supreme Court decided that
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Speaker 3: gerrymandering was perfectly fine the way that they were wanting
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Speaker 3: to do it. So quickly, Florida, which already had a
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Speaker 3: special session scheduled, they had that last week. Ron DeSantis
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Speaker 3: signs it into law. And as a result of that,
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Speaker 3: the Republicans are probably going to pick up four Republican seats.
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Speaker 3: People like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, say so long to her.
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Speaker 3: She's gone now.
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Speaker 2: One thing I noticed that I thought was interesting was– and,
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Speaker 2: you know, when you're gerrymandering, there are– even though you're
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Speaker 2: increasing the number of Republican seats, the Democrat seats that
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Speaker 2: do remain, like the districts become more Democrat-leaning. And I
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Speaker 2: noticed that Jared Moskowitz's district went from– basically lean R,
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Speaker 2: it was a Democrat plus two, to being pretty solid,
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Speaker 2: it was a Democrat plus 10 as a result. And
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Speaker 2: he had been appointed, despite being a Democrat, had actually
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Speaker 2: been appointed to a number of important posts by Ron
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Speaker 2: DeSantis before he ran for Congress. So I'm wondering if
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Speaker 2: that was done on purpose just because he's friends with
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Speaker 2: DeSantis and maybe DeSantis saw him as, I think the
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Speaker 2: conservative or centrist Democrat is a myth. But, you know,
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Speaker 2: as being not maybe as crazy as all the other ones.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he is terrible. And I have
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Speaker 3: sent him a message before to try to help me
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Speaker 3: with something. He didn't respond. But I did that because
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Speaker 3: I don't think he's so far left that he wouldn't
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Speaker 3: consider helping a conservative. but at the same time, there's
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Speaker 3: only so many places you can draw lines. There has
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Speaker 3: to be, someone has to, you know, yeah, there's going
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Speaker 3: to be a benefit somewhere along the way for a Democrat.
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Speaker 3: You hope just to pile them all up in one
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Speaker 3: congested little area and, draw lines all over the place.
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Speaker 3: And like I said, it's going to be plus four
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Speaker 3: in Florida. And the governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, announced
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Speaker 3: over the weekend that Tennessee is going to have a
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Speaker 3: special session now to do the same thing. Maybe they
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Speaker 3: pick up a couple more.
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Speaker 2: So to read the scorecard, too, for everyone so far,
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Speaker 2: if the Virginia map stands, Republicans are still up in
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Speaker 2: net three seats. It would before, but for some reason,
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Speaker 2: Utah decided, let's create a Democrat seat just to be fair.
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Speaker 2: I'm not really sure the logic was there. Then we
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Speaker 2: would obviously have more, too, if the Illinois Republicans didn't
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Speaker 2: completely flake. Not only did the redistricting fail in Illinois,
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Speaker 2: it even failed within the Republican conference. So they betrayed
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Speaker 2: us there. But if Virginia fails, I think it's, what,
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Speaker 2: plus seven or eight seats Republicans benefit from the redistricting?
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Speaker 3: They would. So we are coming out ahead of this.
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Speaker 3: And the potential there is for 19 Republican seats if
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Speaker 3: everybody did it. Yeah, but they're not. Indiana has already
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Speaker 3: said they won't. So there are some seats that are
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Speaker 3: going to be left on the table for the Republicans,
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Speaker 3: and that's fine. So Tennessee is going to redistrict. We
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Speaker 3: had Jim Comey. We had Jim Comey last week. He
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Speaker 3: was indicted. We didn't really talk about that. But let's
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Speaker 3: talk about that just a little bit because I believe
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Speaker 3: this is going somewhere else. Catherine Herridge, formerly of CBS
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Speaker 3: and Fox News. I think she does a great job.
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Speaker 3: She is suggesting that this is part of the grand
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Speaker 3: jury that's in Florida. She says the final chapters are
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Speaker 3: being written now for that grand jury on John Brennan,
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Speaker 3: and she says that Comey kind of goes along with it.
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Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah, I will admit the– and I've seen– I
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Speaker 2: think Todd Blanche hinted it's more than just the 86-47
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Speaker 2: post because– Every restaurant, if you work in a restaurant,
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Speaker 2: that's just slang for removing something from a menu, 86 it.
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Speaker 2: I think you could very easily make a legal defense of, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I want Trump out of office, and I'm not saying
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Speaker 2: to kill the guy. I do hope they have a
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Speaker 2: lot more than just that. Although, if a grand jury
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Speaker 2: indicted him, I assume there has to be more than
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Speaker 2: just that.
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Speaker 3: You would think so, but I don't think that 86-47
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Speaker 3: necessarily is enough to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't think it's going to go anywhere.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I would not interpret that personally as a
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Speaker 2: death threat. I would just interpret it as I don't
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Speaker 2: want Trump to be in office anymore.
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Speaker 3: There has to be more.
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Speaker 2: It's a stupid thing, irresponsible thing for a former FBI
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Speaker 2: director to post regardless.
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Speaker 3: No, it's stupid.
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Speaker 2: But I just don't think the case is that strong, unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: based on that.
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Speaker 3: Well, the Fed, they met last week, and again, they
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Speaker 3: did not reduce the interest rates. Jerome Powell, he had
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Speaker 3: his last meeting as... the chief of the, Federal Reserve,
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Speaker 3: so he is leaving, and Kevin Wersch is coming in,
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Speaker 3: and what do you think there? What are your expectations
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Speaker 3: with the change of Powell to Wersch?
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Speaker 2: Well, I saw his testimony before the Senate, I believe
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Speaker 2: it was, and You know, he does seem to be
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Speaker 2: a Trump loyalist. He was asked the question of, you know,
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Speaker 2: who do you think won the 2020 election? And, you know,
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Speaker 2: kind of danced around the question as to not offend Trump.
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Speaker 2: Like you can tell, I think, you know, I think
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Speaker 2: he's probably in the boat that he thinks Biden won,
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Speaker 2: but also didn't want to counter Trump's narrative. Which, you know,
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Speaker 2: my point being, it shows a level of loyalty to
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Speaker 2: Trump and the kind of narratives he wants to push. Now,
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Speaker 2: the chairman of the Fed is supposed to be a
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Speaker 2: totally independent president. position for obvious reasons. So I would
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Speaker 2: like an independent Fed. And I think Powell has been
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Speaker 2: doing things on purpose to, contrary to what he would
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Speaker 2: be doing under a Democrat, I do think interest rates
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Speaker 2: should be lower. So even if this new guy is,
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Speaker 2: I think someone being independent entirely would be an improvement
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Speaker 2: over Powell, if he is, you know, a very, very
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Speaker 2: pro-Trump guy. I mean, it's not you're not supposed to
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Speaker 2: be partisan as a chairman of the Fed. But, you know, obviously,
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Speaker 2: as Trump fans, I don't have the biggest problem with
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Speaker 2: that either.
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Speaker 3: Matt, something else that people don't think about is there
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Speaker 3: are 12 governors on the Fed and all of them
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Speaker 3: have an equal vote. So last time, just as an example,
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Speaker 3: there were three that actually voted to increase the interest rates.
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Speaker 3: There was one that voted to decrease it, and they
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Speaker 3: stayed the same because all 12 vote. So the chairman,
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Speaker 3: even with Wersch coming in, I don't think it makes
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Speaker 3: a whole lot of difference. But there is the problem
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Speaker 3: with affordability right now. You hear it being talked about
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Speaker 3: a lot. It's going to be a big issue coming
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Speaker 3: up in the midterm in November, no doubt about that.
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Speaker 3: Gas prices are very high. You have interest rates that
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Speaker 3: have gone back up, mortgage rates on houses. They had
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Speaker 3: gotten down to 6%, and they are now back up
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Speaker 3: to 6.5%, making the housing a tough situation right now.
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Speaker 3: It is a buyer's market right now in the country.
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Speaker 2: My wife and I are looking to move soon out
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Speaker 2: of a condo into a house, and we had a daughter.
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Speaker 2: And it really is crazy that the interest rate almost
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Speaker 2: matters more than the price of a house. And in fact,
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Speaker 2: given our situation, I think it actually does a much
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Speaker 2: bigger variable than even the price in terms of the
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Speaker 2: monthly payment. So I long for the 3.5% days.
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Speaker 3: Well, you got spoiled in that.
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 3: You did.
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Speaker 2: Well, I worked for PNC once. When I got, like,
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Speaker 2: after I bought my first property, and they had a
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Speaker 2: thing where if you were an employee over there, you
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Speaker 2: could refinance with them. And no matter what your rate was,
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Speaker 2: they'd take half a point off. So, like, I really
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Speaker 2: lucked out on my first purchase. But, you know, when
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Speaker 2: I move, it's going to.
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Speaker 3: Suck a little bit. It wasn't that long ago, Matt,
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Speaker 3: that people were celebrating getting down to 6%. You know,
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Speaker 3: that was a very low interest rate. It wasn't that
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Speaker 3: long ago, and that's why I think we really got
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Speaker 3: spoiled at 3, 2.75%. Like I said, it's back up
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Speaker 3: to 6.5%.
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Speaker 2: Oh, and with my parents, that was probably, what, like
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Speaker 2: 20% back in the day?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was 17, 18%.
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Speaker 2: In historical terms, we're still pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic.
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Speaker 2: I'm nostalgic for five years ago.
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Speaker 3: Well, what happened is the price of houses went up dramatically,
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Speaker 3: and the interest rate was down at 3.25%. The houses
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Speaker 3: are still trying to sell for that same amount of money,
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Speaker 3: but the interest rate is up at 6, 6.5%. So
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Speaker 3: what you're talking about with you trying to buy a
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Speaker 3: house is exactly right. If the prices would come down,
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Speaker 3: if it were more affordable, then the interest rate really
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Speaker 3: doesn't matter as much if the price of the house.
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Speaker 3: It's all relative, I guess, is what I'm saying. And
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Speaker 3: by the way, we're three to four million homes short
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Speaker 3: of having enough homes in this country needing the number
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Speaker 3: that we have. Donald Trump, he gave a speech in
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Speaker 3: the villages. Do you know anything about the villages in Florida?
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Speaker 3: Not far from me.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am. I went to college actually was there's
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Speaker 2: a firm was actually an internship. I was still in college.
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Speaker 2: It was a firm that they did private value. They
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Speaker 2: did like valuations for private businesses. So be for companies
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Speaker 2: that were, you know, offering private stock to their employees. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, because the stock's not publicly traded, they would
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Speaker 2: hire a third party firm to do the valuation. And
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Speaker 2: I remember they had the villages as a client. I
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Speaker 2: can't remember for what exact service it was, but I
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Speaker 2: had gone through their website and was looking at all
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Speaker 2: the amenities and the day in the life there. And
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Speaker 2: I thought, all right, I'll retire here in another 40
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Speaker 2: or so years. I'm not sure.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you'd fit in there. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if you'd fit in in the villages.
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Speaker 2: Probably not.
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump was there.
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Speaker 2: It looked like a good time.
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump was there Friday giving a speech, and he
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Speaker 3: has a lot of support there in the villages. Here's
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Speaker 3: what he had to say about Cuba when he was there.
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Speaker 5: And he comes from originally a place called Cuba, which
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Speaker 5: we will be taking over almost immediately.
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Speaker 3: No, Cuba's got problems.
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Speaker 2: We'll finish one first.
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Speaker 6: I like to finish a job.
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Speaker 5: On the way back from what we'll do, on the
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Speaker 5: way back from Iran, we'll have one of our big,
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Speaker 5: maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the biggest in
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Speaker 5: the world. We'll have that come in, stop about 100
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Speaker 5: yards offshore, and they'll say, thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: We give up. Matt, people don't get that all of
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Speaker 3: that is just a joke. He is not serious. And
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Speaker 3: I know people will say, he's the president of the
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Speaker 3: United States. He shouldn't say things like that. The market,
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Speaker 3: the market, the market. Who cares? Yeah, who cares? Lighten up.
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Speaker 3: Laugh a little bit. That's all that was, wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the left does not understand... I can't believe I'm
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Speaker 2: actually saying I feel bad for the left, but I
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Speaker 2: can't imagine having the funniest man alive as your president,
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Speaker 2: and you can't even appreciate it or enjoy it. You're
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Speaker 2: missing out on so much comedy gold. You saw last
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Speaker 2: week when Trump had– who was that? The administrator of NASA,
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Speaker 2: and he– anyone who doesn't know what he looks like,
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Speaker 2: his ears are unfortunately large. Yeah, they're big. Not to
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Speaker 2: bully the guy.
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Speaker 3: You know who he looks like? And I'm not bullying
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Speaker 3: him either, but this is radio. It's audio only podcast.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: He looks like the guy on Mad Magazine.
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Speaker 2: A little bit, yeah. But Trump was talking about it.
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Speaker 2: He was like, this guy, I mean, this guy can
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Speaker 2: listen really well. Look at those ears. Every day he
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Speaker 2: says something that's a 10 out of 10 comment.
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Speaker 3: Well, NATO has been in the news lately, and a
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Speaker 3: lot of people in the Trump administration, they want to
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Speaker 3: move out of NATO. They can't do that arbitrarily. It
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Speaker 3: has to be done through Congress first. And guess who
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Speaker 3: made that a law? It was Marco Rubio back several
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Speaker 3: years ago. So you can't arbitrarily move out, but you
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Speaker 3: can do other things. And one of the things that
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Speaker 3: we are hearing that America is going to do is
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Speaker 3: move troops out of Germany. And Donald Trump was caught
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Speaker 3: on the tarmac over the weekend on his way to
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Speaker 3: watch the golf tournament in Miami at his golf course.
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Speaker 3: And here is what he had to say about Germany.
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Speaker 5: We're going to cut way down and we're cutting a
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Speaker 5: lot further than 5,000.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. So more than 5,000 troops are
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Speaker 3: going to be removed from Germany, Matt. And I guess
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Speaker 3: one way or the other, we can kind of draw
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Speaker 3: down the troops from Europe and let them deal with
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Speaker 3: it themselves.
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Speaker 2: I think we've always done far more than every other
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Speaker 2: country has in terms of our NATO commitment. And in fact,
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Speaker 2: that's objectively the case. And Trump obviously has gotten them
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Speaker 2: all to pay more recently. But there's still a many
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Speaker 2: decades long backlog where we were overpaying relative to them.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm fine with this. I would rather have
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Speaker 2: them at the southern border or somewhere more productive for us.
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Speaker 3: We've got more of this conversation coming up after the break.
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Speaker 3: We're going to talk about Christian nationalism. We're going to
18:14
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18:18
Speaker 3: They are now closed. They're out of business.
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Speaker 3: right now on The Truth Be Told. Matt, let's get
20:03
Speaker 3: into a conversation about Christian nationalism. I don't think you
20:06
Speaker 3: and I really ever have talked about it, but it's
20:08
Speaker 3: something that really triggers the left. The Democrats, they can't
20:12
Speaker 3: stand the thought of Christian nationalism. in your understanding, what
20:17
Speaker 3: is it?
20:17
Speaker 2: Well, it's one of those things that I think you
20:20
Speaker 2: and I could define in an honest way, but it's
20:23
Speaker 2: something the left just uses as a scare term. Because
20:28
Speaker 2: the thing you have to understand about the left is
20:30
Speaker 2: they live entirely through fiction, which is why if you're online,
20:33
Speaker 2: you'll see they make analogies like The Republicans are Voldemort or,
20:37
Speaker 2: you know, such and such Republican is just like this
20:40
Speaker 2: guy in The Handmaid's Tale. It's always a reference to fiction.
20:44
Speaker 2: And with Christian nationalism, that's what they're trying to fearmonger over,
20:49
Speaker 2: that it's going to be that people want theocracy. They
20:52
Speaker 2: want totalitarianism. They want, you know, something out of like,
20:56
Speaker 2: you know, Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale, which I just mentioned.
21:01
Speaker 2: In reality, it's just people who understand that the country
21:05
Speaker 2: was founded upon largely Christian principles. And yes, I understand
21:09
Speaker 2: not all the founding fathers were Christian, but the overwhelming
21:12
Speaker 2: majority were. Yes, I understand the founders wanted a separation
21:17
Speaker 2: of church and state, but that's because they understood a
21:20
Speaker 2: state church could be harmful to religion.
21:22
Speaker 3: That's right.
21:23
Speaker 5: And.
21:25
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really just the ideology I think most
21:29
Speaker 2: people in this country have had since its founding up
21:31
Speaker 2: until relatively recently. Now the Christianity seems to be, unfortunately, declining.
21:36
Speaker 2: But it's, I don't know, it's just a fear monger
21:41
Speaker 2: attacking from what I see. Now, there are people who
21:43
Speaker 2: do identify as Christian nationalists. I think there even, in fact,
21:47
Speaker 2: is a book out there called The Case for Christian Nationalism.
21:51
Speaker 2: But It's very toned down relative to the fear-mongering of
21:58
Speaker 2: the left claims that people would believe.
22:01
Speaker 3: And the irony of this is coming through the Biden years,
22:04
Speaker 3: where they weaponized the Department of Justice and the FBI
22:08
Speaker 3: to go after Christians. And now, just because maybe some
22:12
Speaker 3: people in this country, they want to elect people that
22:15
Speaker 3: are Christians because of what you just mentioned. And a
22:19
Speaker 3: lot of people on the left call that Christian nationalism.
22:22
Speaker 3: That just happens to be my ideology. I want people
22:25
Speaker 3: that maybe think the way that I do. But let's
22:28
Speaker 3: go back to what the Biden administration did and persecuted,
22:33
Speaker 3: in particular Catholics. There was a report released the 30th
22:37
Speaker 3: of April, and I'll just read from it. Today, the
22:40
Speaker 3: task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias published a report detailing
22:46
Speaker 3: how the Biden administration's prosecutions, policies, and practices demonstrated anti-Christian
22:52
Speaker 3: bias throughout the federal government. The acting attorney general serves
22:57
Speaker 3: as the chair of the task force, and the Justice
22:59
Speaker 3: Department coordinated this significant interagency effort. Quote, no American should
23:05
Speaker 3: live in fear that the federal government will punish them
23:08
Speaker 3: for their faith. And that was from Acting Attorney General
23:12
Speaker 3: Todd Blanch. He went on to say, as our report
23:15
Speaker 3: lays out, the Biden administration's actions devastated the lives of
23:19
Speaker 3: many Christian Americans. That devastation ended with President Trump. The
23:24
Speaker 3: Department of Justice will continue to expose bad actors who
23:28
Speaker 3: targeted Christians and work tirelessly, tirelessly, tirelessly. They'll work their
23:34
Speaker 3: ass off. They're going to work their ass off to
23:38
Speaker 3: restore religious liberty. Go ahead, Matt.
23:40
Speaker 2: There was a Biden prosecutor who, and I think it
23:43
Speaker 2: must have been from that report, I think I saw
23:44
Speaker 2: Mary Margaret Olihan on the Daily Wire, or she went
23:48
Speaker 2: with the Daily Something, well, Wire Signal, one of the two,
23:51
Speaker 2: covered it where he was basically salivating Over the prospect
23:55
Speaker 2: of targeting nuns to prosecute, which it's like a cartoonish
24:01
Speaker 2: level of evil you would expect from like a right
24:04
Speaker 2: wing fan fiction of liberals take over the country. But
24:07
Speaker 2: that's exactly what they were doing. They were literally targeting nuns.
24:12
Speaker 2: So these are supremely evil people and they are far
24:15
Speaker 2: more totalitarian than any Christian nationalist would ever dream of being.
24:19
Speaker 3: This report found that President Biden pushed policies to eliminate
24:24
Speaker 3: statutory protections for religious Americans that interfered with his policy goals,
24:30
Speaker 3: although he failed to change federal law under his direction.
24:34
Speaker 3: It also says the Biden Justice Department aggressively opposed concerned
24:38
Speaker 3: parents through the Garland School Board memo and diligently attempted
24:43
Speaker 3: to use its enforcement authority to against parents who defended
24:46
Speaker 3: their children's safety at local school board meetings. Remember all
24:50
Speaker 3: of that? Most of that, I think, really took place
24:52
Speaker 3: in Virginia. And then the election after that, we had
24:57
Speaker 3: a lot of the school boards in Virginia, they went
24:59
Speaker 3: conservative after that. And then this latest election, those school
25:02
Speaker 3: boards in Virginia, they flipped back to Democrat, unfortunately. But
25:07
Speaker 3: that's sort of some background there on that report that
25:10
Speaker 3: just came out the 30th, which I guess would have
25:12
Speaker 3: been last Thursday. So I don't know if you saw
25:15
Speaker 3: that or not, Matt.
25:16
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, a hundred percent. Um, but, uh, yeah,
25:18
Speaker 2: my favorite part of the school board meetings was, because
25:21
Speaker 2: a lot of them were about, um, Bathrooms. Bathrooms and
25:26
Speaker 2: also books that were borderline pornographic being in schools. And
25:29
Speaker 2: the left had some success at first in framing it
25:33
Speaker 2: as war against book bans. But then once people started,
25:37
Speaker 2: you know, wising up and asking, well, what what exactly
25:40
Speaker 2: are the books being banned? And, you know, by ban,
25:43
Speaker 2: they really just mean they're not going to put it
25:44
Speaker 2: in a school curriculum, which is not a ban. There's banning.
25:48
Speaker 2: There's tens of millions of books out there in the world.
25:51
Speaker 2: You got to pick, what, 10 a year to read
25:53
Speaker 2: to kids. People really wised up to that. clips that
25:58
Speaker 2: would emerge from those meetings were when the parents would
26:01
Speaker 2: walk up to the podium and they would start reading
26:04
Speaker 2: from the books and they would silence them by saying
26:07
Speaker 2: it wasn't appropriate for the meeting and it's like so
26:10
Speaker 2: they're not appropriate for a school board meeting but it's
26:12
Speaker 2: appropriate for the schools that the school boards oversee okay
26:16
Speaker 2: that makes sense.
26:16
Speaker 3: Yeah it's perfect for a second grader but not for
26:18
Speaker 3: you the adult that makes those decisions a lot of
26:22
Speaker 3: them also were about the bathrooms i remember the one
26:25
Speaker 3: in virginia where this young man went into a same-sex bathroom,
26:31
Speaker 3: and he ended up raping a girl. And it turns
26:33
Speaker 3: out that he was also at another school prior, did
26:38
Speaker 3: the same thing. They moved him from one school to
26:40
Speaker 3: the new one, and he did the same thing again.
26:43
Speaker 3: And that dad was so furious in that school board meeting.
26:46
Speaker 3: He was ready to kill someone, and they arrested him.
26:48
Speaker 2: I remember that.
26:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, in a school board meeting. I think sometimes we
26:51
Speaker 3: forget about all of those things that happened and the
26:54
Speaker 3: things that we went through. We're going to segue now
26:57
Speaker 3: into Iran and what is going on there, which it
27:00
Speaker 3: seems like it's pretty quiet. I don't know who's in
27:03
Speaker 3: charge still. And no one knows. I mean, even Trump
27:08
Speaker 3: is saying that at this point.
27:11
Speaker 2: He's like, well, say Mohammed's in charge. Which one's that?
27:15
Speaker 2: It could really be anyone.
27:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't know who is in charge. The blockade
27:19
Speaker 3: is still going on. And I guess Iran now is
27:22
Speaker 3: trying to get around a couple of different ways to
27:26
Speaker 3: get their oil out so they don't have to completely
27:28
Speaker 3: shut down the pumping of oil rigs. They are using
27:32
Speaker 3: the rail system that they have that goes to China.
27:35
Speaker 3: The problem with that is it doesn't hold as much
27:38
Speaker 3: oil as a tanker in the ocean. And it's also
27:42
Speaker 3: more costly. And when China is buying oil, they like
27:45
Speaker 3: to steal it and not pay much of anything for it.
27:49
Speaker 3: And that drives up the cost of the oil. But
27:51
Speaker 3: Iran's in big, big trouble here. And we keep waiting
27:55
Speaker 3: for something to happen. But it doesn't really seem like
27:59
Speaker 3: anything is, except for our gas prices are going up
28:02
Speaker 3: here to $ 4. 29 is what the national average is now.
28:06
Speaker 3: And that's a problem. And we're starting to worry about
28:08
Speaker 3: inflation and things here at home. And I think as
28:12
Speaker 3: this midterm election gets closer and closer, it's going to
28:14
Speaker 3: be something that's going to be a concern to Donald Trump.
28:17
Speaker 3: And he's going to have to find a way to
28:18
Speaker 3: get this thing over with.
28:20
Speaker 2: Gas prices are one of those things that is going
28:23
Speaker 2: to be a huge factor going into the midterms, as
28:27
Speaker 2: you say. I mean, Trump largely won in 2024 because
28:31
Speaker 2: the people were far more confident in Republicans on the
28:34
Speaker 2: economy and the border, obviously, too, than the Democrats. And then, unfortunately,
28:40
Speaker 2: it seems to have shifted quite a bit in the
28:41
Speaker 2: Democrats' favor as a result of this. So, yes, I mean,
28:45
Speaker 2: he has to get under control quickly. I mean, we
28:48
Speaker 2: can pray that there's a category of voter out there
28:52
Speaker 2: that if gas prices do crash back to where they
28:55
Speaker 2: were under before the Iran war, we'll maybe hopefully forget
29:00
Speaker 2: what preceded it and then just be happy with low
29:02
Speaker 2: gas again. But, no, it is something that objectively is
29:05
Speaker 2: going to hurt us and hurt. I'm probably a broken
29:07
Speaker 2: record with this, but they need to wrap this up
29:09
Speaker 2: pretty quickly.
29:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. And here is the CEO of Chevron.
29:13
Speaker 3: His name is Mike Wirth. He was on CBS with
29:17
Speaker 3: Martha Raddatz.
29:18
Speaker 8: If there is an actual negotiated end to the war,
29:21
Speaker 8: do prices come down or is just a truce enough
29:25
Speaker 8: to give relief?
29:26
Speaker 6: What's really needed is for flow to resume through the
29:29
Speaker 6: Strait of Hormuz. you can't take 20% of the energy
29:33
Speaker 6: out of the system. And some of it's finding its
29:34
Speaker 6: way around to the Red Sea. But there's still a
29:37
Speaker 6: substantial amount of world energy supply that is not able
29:40
Speaker 6: to flow. And so that's the key thing, is to
29:44
Speaker 6: restore that flow. It allows markets to begin to rebuild
29:47
Speaker 6: these inventories. It allows us to get products to where
29:50
Speaker 6: they're needed and to alleviate some of the pressure. But
29:53
Speaker 6: that all will take time. It's a world where we've
29:55
Speaker 6: got logistics of ships and pipelines and moving things around
29:59
Speaker 6: to markets around the world. And so that's why I
30:02
Speaker 6: say I think it's going to be with us for
30:03
Speaker 6: some time, because even if the Strait were to open today,
30:08
Speaker 6: getting supplies to where they're needed and resuming the normal
30:12
Speaker 6: functioning of the system is going to take some time.
30:14
Speaker 3: And I think that's a little bit funny, because when
30:17
Speaker 3: all of this started, it took about two days to
30:19
Speaker 3: for gas to go up a dollar. I think Trump should.
30:23
Speaker 2: Pull a page out of the left playbook and be like,
30:26
Speaker 2: it's corporate greed, they're price gouging, it's way out of
30:30
Speaker 2: our hands, we can't do anything.
30:32
Speaker 3: And that was Face the Nation. That was not Martha Raddatz.
30:36
Speaker 3: But I do have her, and here's a piece from
30:39
Speaker 3: Democrat Senator Jack Reed. He was on with her on Sunday.
30:43
Speaker 3: So this is ABC, and he is talking about Iran
30:47
Speaker 3: and what is going on there in the conflict.
30:49
Speaker 9: Your colleague on the Armed Services Committee, Richard Blumenthal, said
30:53
Speaker 9: on Thursday that he had the impression from briefings that
30:56
Speaker 9: an imminent military strike is very much on the table,
31:00
Speaker 9: one that could put America's sons and daughters in harm's
31:02
Speaker 9: way and have the potential for mass casualties. Have you
31:06
Speaker 9: heard the same? Do you believe a new round of
31:09
Speaker 9: strikes is imminent?
31:10
Speaker 10: Well, they're certainly positioned for strikes. That's what a military
31:14
Speaker 10: force has to be. Again, one of the things that's
31:18
Speaker 10: so confounding in this whole situation is I don't believe
31:21
Speaker 10: the president has a plan. I think it's impulsive.
31:24
Speaker 2: It's day to day.
31:25
Speaker 7: It's how he feels.
31:28
Speaker 10: And he's not being given, I think, the support and
31:34
Speaker 10: the planning that is necessary to make judicious judgments.
31:39
Speaker 3: Matt, I think there are all kinds of plans out
31:41
Speaker 3: there for Donald Trump to choose depending on what he
31:45
Speaker 3: wants to do. And I don't think that he is
31:48
Speaker 3: not thinking this through. I think that ultimately it comes down,
31:51
Speaker 3: and he made the comment about this over the weekend too,
31:54
Speaker 3: it comes down to Iran is never going to have
31:57
Speaker 3: a nuclear capability. That has always been the objective for
32:00
Speaker 3: Donald Trump for 25 years. He has been consistent about that,
32:04
Speaker 3: and he says we're not going to leave until that
32:07
Speaker 3: is accomplished. He mentioned that over the weekend.
32:09
Speaker 2: I think it's inaccurate to say he didn't have a plan.
32:12
Speaker 2: I think his plans had assumed this would be over within,
32:16
Speaker 2: I think, the four to six weeks, so the six
32:18
Speaker 2: to eight weeks timeline that he initially gave that we
32:22
Speaker 2: are now beyond. But there obviously was a plan in place.
32:27
Speaker 2: It is unfortunate in that, you know, it's selling this
32:29
Speaker 2: to the American public. It's not like you can show
32:33
Speaker 2: what the counterfactual would look like if Iran is a
32:37
Speaker 2: nuclear weapon. It's not like we can, you know, put
32:40
Speaker 2: everyone in the time machine and go 30 years in
32:42
Speaker 2: the future and go, see, if we didn't do this,
32:45
Speaker 2: you know, half the world would be blown to smithereens. Right.
32:48
Speaker 2: It's one of those things that people just have to
32:52
Speaker 2: hope it's for the best. It is admittedly a tough
32:54
Speaker 2: sell for a lot of people. Even with issues like
32:57
Speaker 2: climate change, if you pull people on the climate and say,
33:01
Speaker 2: do you think that the government should do X, Y,
33:05
Speaker 2: and Z to fight the so-called climate crisis, it pulls
33:08
Speaker 2: very favorably when you add another variable and ask, would
33:13
Speaker 2: you be willing to pay an extra $ 10 in taxes
33:16
Speaker 2: every month to further this goal? Then people overwhelmingly turn
33:19
Speaker 2: against it. So, you know, when the, when the price
33:22
Speaker 2: of something, even if it's a good cause and a
33:24
Speaker 2: noble cause and one that could save millions of lives
33:27
Speaker 2: down the road, cost people an extra couple hundred bucks
33:29
Speaker 2: a month in gas prices, it does become a political liability,
33:33
Speaker 2: even if objectively it's the right thing to do.
33:35
Speaker 3: Matt, what about Spirit Airlines? Have you ever flown on Spirit?
33:39
Speaker 2: Oh, I, I've, uh, I've seen the videos of social media.
33:44
Speaker 2: Holy hell, man. I'm actually upset because... I think Spirit
33:50
Speaker 2: was doing a very noble thing in serving as a
33:54
Speaker 2: containment zone, meaning all the people that would fly Spirit
33:58
Speaker 2: that were causing problems and behaving the way we've seen,
34:02
Speaker 2: at least they're not on your airline then. So I
34:06
Speaker 2: don't know if this means they're not going to be
34:07
Speaker 2: able to afford to fly anymore or if they're now
34:10
Speaker 2: going to be on my airplane. But I'm hoping it
34:11
Speaker 2: just prices a lot of people out of being able
34:14
Speaker 2: to fly to us.
34:15
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, when you charge $ 29 to go to New
34:18
Speaker 3: York from Los Angeles, you're going to get some of this.
34:22
Speaker 3: I have some of that video. Let's listen to this.
34:25
Speaker 3: This is what Matt is referring to.
34:26
Speaker 11: You've all seen the endless videos of fights with Spirit Airlines.
34:30
Speaker 12: It's a video that's now been viewed by millions.
34:36
Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
34:37
Speaker 13: Spirit Airlines passengers attacked employees upset for having to verify
34:42
Speaker 13: their bag size.
34:43
Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
34:46
Speaker 3: Total chaos at the ticket counter.
34:49
Speaker 14: Broward County deputies were forced to cuff some passengers who'd
34:53
Speaker 14: had enough.
34:54
Speaker 1: The trouble exploded after Spirit canceled nine flights.
34:58
Speaker 3: But Spirit Airlines is more than just Mortal Kombat. Yes,
35:01
Speaker 3: that does appear to be a rat on the... I
35:03
Speaker 3: don't know about you, Matt, but I have never flown Spirit,
35:06
Speaker 3: but I have never had any of that happen on
35:11
Speaker 3: any plane that I've flown while I'm waiting there at
35:14
Speaker 3: the gate for the plane to come in. None of
35:16
Speaker 3: that has ever happened, but it seemed to happen all
35:18
Speaker 3: the time with Spirit. Spirit filed bankruptcy twice. They did
35:22
Speaker 3: last year, again, Chapter 11. They were trying to merge
35:26
Speaker 3: with JetBlue, I guess it was. And the Biden administration
35:30
Speaker 3: said no. And we've done a great thing for the
35:33
Speaker 3: American people. And Sean Duffy talks about that. Here he
35:37
Speaker 3: is speaking about boot edge edge.
35:40
Speaker 14: There was a proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit. And
35:45
Speaker 14: Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, along with the Biden DOJ,
35:49
Speaker 14: decided that they did not want that merger to take place.
35:53
Speaker 14: And at the time, the Biden and Buttigieg DOJ bragged
35:57
Speaker 14: and said, as they canceled the option for this merger, that.
36:02
Speaker 2: This was a victory for U.S.
36:03
Speaker 3: Travelers.
36:05
Speaker 14: Who deserve lower prices and better choices.
36:08
Speaker 3: Now, many at the.
36:09
Speaker 14: Time said this was a disaster. This merger should have
36:12
Speaker 14: been allowed. And this today would indicate this is not
36:17
Speaker 14: better for travelers.
36:18
Speaker 1: This is not better for pricing.
36:19
Speaker 14: This is not better for competition.
36:21
Speaker 3: Actually, it's worse. Now, all those people that flew on
36:25
Speaker 3: Spirit are going to have to find another low-cost carrier.
36:28
Speaker 3: And there are some. You have Frontier. You have Allegiant.
36:31
Speaker 3: I've flown Allegiant before. Great planes, new planes, very clean,
36:35
Speaker 3: just no frills. What's another one other than Frontier and Allegiant?
36:40
Speaker 3: There's a couple more. There are a couple more options,
36:43
Speaker 3: but Spirit is gone, and they say they will repurpose
36:47
Speaker 3: those planes. But maybe those scenes at the gates will
36:51
Speaker 3: be better than what they were at Spirit Airlines. So
36:55
Speaker 3: I guess it's gone. Unfortunately, 17,000 employees are without a job.
37:00
Speaker 3: But they knew it was coming. They pretty much saw
37:03
Speaker 3: the writing on the wall for the last several years
37:06
Speaker 3: with Spirit. Spirit blamed the price of gas as the
37:09
Speaker 3: reason why. And, of course, you know, most airlines, they
37:13
Speaker 3: will hedge oil and gas purchases six, eight months out.
37:17
Speaker 3: Then they buy it when the market is low so
37:19
Speaker 3: that they can average the cost out and keep things affordable.
37:23
Speaker 3: Spirit didn't do that. And because of that, they are
37:26
Speaker 3: now out of business. And that's the way it goes.
37:29
Speaker 2: It should be pointed out, too, that they went bankrupt
37:31
Speaker 2: twice in the past year leading up to this. So, listen,
37:36
Speaker 2: it's undeniable that higher gas prices did not help, but
37:41
Speaker 2: they were going to go bankrupt again regardless. In fact,
37:44
Speaker 2: I believe that every single major American airline in existence
37:48
Speaker 2: right now has gone bankrupt at least once in the
37:51
Speaker 2: past 30 years. So it's unfortunately very common.
37:55
Speaker 3: I think Trump mentioned that there was a possible bailout,
38:00
Speaker 3: and I'm glad that didn't happen. I want to start
38:03
Speaker 3: seeing banks fail, airlines fail, whatever it is. The government
38:07
Speaker 3: needs to get out of that business of propping up
38:09
Speaker 3: these companies.
38:10
Speaker 2: The thing is, too, I mean, once it fails, it's
38:12
Speaker 2: as if they're going to get bought up probably by
38:15
Speaker 2: another low-carrier airline. So, you know, there's still going to
38:18
Speaker 2: be net job losses and a huge net destruction of wealth,
38:21
Speaker 2: but it's not like... Everything is going away forever. Like
38:24
Speaker 2: bankrupt does not necessarily– it doesn't always mean the company
38:29
Speaker 2: disappears forever. It can be taken over by someone else
38:32
Speaker 2: and so on and so forth.
38:33
Speaker 3: And they may keep the brand as well.
38:35
Speaker 2: And they might keep the brand. I don't know who
38:37
Speaker 2: would want that brand, but they might keep it. I
38:39
Speaker 2: was hoping if they were going to bail it out,
38:41
Speaker 2: it would be to turn it into like a deportation
38:43
Speaker 2: airline only kind of thing. which would have been cool.
38:46
Speaker 2: But it was funny because on social media, Elizabeth Warren
38:49
Speaker 2: was talking about how horrible it was that they were
38:52
Speaker 2: going out of business. And then people were pointing out
38:54
Speaker 2: that the year prior, she was praising the Biden administration
38:57
Speaker 2: for blocking the merger. And the merger, too, they claimed
39:01
Speaker 2: it was on anti-monopoly grounds. I think they only would
39:04
Speaker 2: have had something like 8% market share. And there was
39:07
Speaker 2: another company that the Biden DOJ also prevented from merging
39:11
Speaker 2: with another company. It was called iRobot. They do– what's
39:14
Speaker 2: it called? What are they called? I'm looking at it.
39:18
Speaker 2: The Roomba. They make the Roomba, the robot appliances, and
39:23
Speaker 2: they were trying to merge with Amazon.com, and it was
39:26
Speaker 2: blocked again on Monopoly grounds right after that. fails, the
39:30
Speaker 2: company goes bankrupt, and then a major Chinese company buys
39:34
Speaker 2: it up. So now our number one robotics home appliances
39:40
Speaker 2: company was formerly American-owned. What had been American-owned by Amazon
39:43
Speaker 2: is now owned by one of America's enemies, and that's
39:46
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39:47
Speaker 3: I think you're on to something with the deportation airlines.
39:50
Speaker 2: I think we need to pitch this stat.
39:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, no round-trip airfares, one-way only, deportation airlines.
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40:58
Speaker 3: Welcome back to The Truth Be Told on America Out
41:01
Speaker 3: Loud Talk Radio. I'm Booker Scott, along with Matt Palumbo.
41:04
Speaker 3: We are here to our final segment tonight. Don't forget,
41:07
Speaker 3: coming up tonight at 9 o'clock, it is After Dark
41:09
Speaker 3: with Rob and Andrew. Before that, the National Security Hour.
41:13
Speaker 3: And coming up in just a few minutes, it is Unleashed,
41:15
Speaker 3: the political news hour. Well, let's move into Cole Allen.
41:21
Speaker 3: He was the assassin that was there at the Hilton
41:24
Speaker 3: in Washington, D.C. last week. It really didn't seem to
41:27
Speaker 3: faze Donald Trump at all. It didn't that night, but
41:31
Speaker 3: this week it's like it never even happened. But it did,
41:34
Speaker 3: and we have found out some more information about this guy.
41:37
Speaker 3: And really, he's just trying to be a hero. A
41:39
Speaker 3: martyr is what he's trying to do, isn't it?
41:41
Speaker 2: Well, what's amazing is he fought the first two Trump
41:45
Speaker 2: assassination attempts. And by first two, I mean Butler and
41:48
Speaker 2: then the golf course one. There's actually more than a dozen. But,
41:52
Speaker 2: you know, I'm including some that admittedly are kind of half-assed.
41:55
Speaker 2: But there have been far more than just the three
41:58
Speaker 2: we think of.
41:58
Speaker 6: Yeah.
42:00
Speaker 2: He thought the first two were staged, so he wanted
42:03
Speaker 2: to do the only real one. And then immediately after
42:06
Speaker 2: doing so, and I'm just going off social media comments here,
42:09
Speaker 2: but it seems like a majority of liberals also think
42:11
Speaker 2: this one was staged. So that's got to be the
42:14
Speaker 2: most frustrating thing ever when you basically destroy your entire
42:18
Speaker 2: life to try to do something. And everyone goes, oh,
42:20
Speaker 2: you're just a right wing plant, which I will say
42:22
Speaker 2: is the most satisfying outcome.
42:25
Speaker 3: Did you happen to see over the weekend that this
42:27
Speaker 3: guy running for Senate in Pennsylvania? was arrested for threatening
42:31
Speaker 3: Donald Trump and John Fetterman, Fetterman's 13-year-old daughter as well.
42:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of kooks up there. The thing
42:39
Speaker 2: about Fetterman is Fetterman's an interesting case study in politics
42:43
Speaker 2: in what matters more, is it rhetoric or your actual
42:46
Speaker 2: voting record? And we've said this, I feel like every
42:48
Speaker 2: week on the show that Fetterman comes up, we're like, yes. Yes,
42:52
Speaker 2: he says the right things on Fox News. But once
42:55
Speaker 2: he actually goes to vote, I mean, under Biden, it
42:58
Speaker 2: was 90 plus percent in favor of Biden. And I think,
43:01
Speaker 2: you know, in the past few years under Trump, I
43:05
Speaker 2: think he is the Democrat that is broken with the
43:07
Speaker 2: party the most in the Senate. But it's still like
43:11
Speaker 2: 75 plus percent he's voting with his party. So, yeah.
43:16
Speaker 2: You know, it does seem that rhetoric is more important
43:19
Speaker 2: in determining voter opinions than is actual policy. And this
43:24
Speaker 2: looks like the biggest proof is that his approval rating
43:28
Speaker 2: has shifted more than 100 points among Democrats, and that
43:33
Speaker 2: when he got elected, it was almost universal support among Democrats.
43:37
Speaker 2: He's now underwater with Democrats, but has a positive approval
43:41
Speaker 2: rating among Republicans, which is a crazy situation to be
43:44
Speaker 2: in for him.
43:44
Speaker 3: Well, Fetterman has been very supportive of what Donald Trump
43:47
Speaker 3: is doing in Iran, and he was very supportive of Israel,
43:51
Speaker 3: and I think those things have made conservatives really pay
43:54
Speaker 3: attention to Fetterman because he is on target on both
43:57
Speaker 3: of those ideas from a conservative standpoint, not from the left.
44:01
Speaker 3: And I think those two things alone are what give
44:04
Speaker 3: you those numbers. Let's listen to special agent, former special
44:07
Speaker 3: agent Johnny Grusing of the FBI talking about Cole Allen.
44:12
Speaker 7: Some of Allen's writing, you know, he said that what happens...
44:17
Speaker 7: with the president, with the elected officials is now on
44:20
Speaker 7: his hands. So he's putting himself as the smarter, as
44:26
Speaker 7: this patriot, as the only one who can really fix
44:30
Speaker 7: this thing that's broken. And that's very dangerous. It's scattered
44:34
Speaker 7: instead of focused, which is a good thing. You know,
44:38
Speaker 7: if he would have been focused, he would have, uh,
44:41
Speaker 7: probably been more.
44:42
Speaker 3: Successful yeah the guy didn't have much of a plan
44:44
Speaker 3: did he.
44:45
Speaker 2: Matt i'm sorry who was that talking about who i missed.
44:47
Speaker 3: Uh it was johnny grusing uh former uh special agent
44:50
Speaker 3: for the fbi johnny grusing is his name talking about
44:54
Speaker 3: cole allen the assassin oh.
44:56
Speaker 2: Yeah no that was uh probably the worst planned assassination
44:59
Speaker 2: attempts i've ever seen not like i've seen very many
45:02
Speaker 2: but uh Doing the Naruto run through security probably wasn't
45:06
Speaker 2: the best strategy.
45:06
Speaker 3: No, that wasn't a good point.
45:08
Speaker 2: Although it was, I'm not going to lie, it was
45:12
Speaker 2: a funny clip. But, you know, ignore what happened afterwards.
45:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, and thank God that the Secret Service did what
45:20
Speaker 3: they were supposed to do. And now they are going
45:22
Speaker 3: to get paid because DHS is funded. Thankfully, that government
45:27
Speaker 3: shutdown of 76 days is now over. I don't know
45:31
Speaker 3: if you saw this over the weekend, but there was
45:33
Speaker 3: oligarchy conferences, fight oligarchy conferences going on. They had one
45:38
Speaker 3: in Minneapolis. They also had one in Detroit on Sunday.
45:42
Speaker 3: And guess who was there? It was Bernie Sanders. He
45:45
Speaker 3: was the one leading this. And let's start off with
45:47
Speaker 3: this audio from Bernie Sanders so you can get an idea.
45:51
Speaker 15: I want to thank you all for the role that
45:54
Speaker 15: you have played in standing up to Trump's domestic army
45:59
Speaker 15: called ISIS. There is a reason why the last No
46:11
Speaker 15: Kings rally was centered at your state capitol in St.
46:15
Speaker 2: Paul.
46:19
Speaker 15: And why 150,000 people came out to that rally. Minnesota's
46:30
Speaker 15: grassroots resistance to the illegal, unconstitutional, and brutal actions of
46:37
Speaker 15: ICE inspired the entire nation.
46:41
Speaker 3: Matt, when you have people, communists in particular, going around
46:44
Speaker 3: the country speaking like this, you're going to continue to
46:47
Speaker 3: get Cole Allens, Butler PAs, the golf course in Florida.
46:51
Speaker 3: Those things are going to continue. And I think last
46:53
Speaker 3: week on the show you mentioned there's actually been like
46:56
Speaker 3: 17 assassination attempts, but we really only know about three.
47:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's still 19 total. I mean, some
47:05
Speaker 2: of them are like a guy tries to mail race
47:08
Speaker 2: into Trump, like things that never had any conceivable way
47:13
Speaker 2: of even ever being successful, but still do count as attempts.
47:17
Speaker 2: I mean, the one that I think most notable was
47:21
Speaker 2: his first– campaign in 2016. There was a guy who
47:24
Speaker 2: got close to him, tried to grab a cop's gun,
47:27
Speaker 2: and it's only because he couldn't unholster it properly that
47:31
Speaker 2: he was tackled in time. But Trump could have been
47:33
Speaker 2: killed 10 years ago in that case that I don't
47:35
Speaker 2: think even most people are aware of or even remember.
47:39
Speaker 2: As for the whole being against oligarchy, it's one of
47:42
Speaker 2: those things where they just are upset about it because
47:44
Speaker 2: they want to be oligarchs themselves. To have centralized power,
47:48
Speaker 2: to have socialism or communism, you basically need that. It's
47:51
Speaker 2: a prerequisite. So they're not against it. They're just against
47:54
Speaker 2: who's doing it.
47:55
Speaker 3: Well, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan is running for the U.S.
47:59
Speaker 2: Senate.
48:00
Speaker 3: She was there speaking in the Fight Oligarchy Conference. She
48:04
Speaker 3: was there with Bernie Sanders, and here are some of
48:06
Speaker 3: her words.
48:08
Speaker 2: The first vote in.
48:09
Speaker 8: The second Trump administration that he brought forward was for
48:12
Speaker 8: the Lakin-Riley Act. It was one of his biggest priorities.
48:19
Speaker 8: It stripped due process away from immigrants, allowed for the
48:23
Speaker 8: indefinite detention of adults and children, and was the green
48:29
Speaker 8: light to give ICE unprecedented power to totally terrorize our communities.
48:36
Speaker 8: And I want to be clear. that there is a
48:40
Speaker 8: straight line from the Lake and Riley Act vote to
48:45
Speaker 8: what we saw in the streets of our communities.
48:48
Speaker 3: Now, Lake and Riley Act really has nothing to do
48:51
Speaker 3: with any of that. Did you hear the people boo
48:54
Speaker 3: when she brought up the Lake and Riley Act? That's
48:56
Speaker 3: how sick these people are. Lake and Riley was the
48:59
Speaker 3: young lady in Georgia that was killed by an illegal immigrant.
49:04
Speaker 3: You know, that's how bad these communists are.
49:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and all the consequences she lists in the Lincoln-Riley Act,
49:10
Speaker 2: I support every single one of them and wish they
49:13
Speaker 2: were far more severe.
49:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
49:15
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like, I just... Listen, obviously we believe in due process,
49:22
Speaker 2: but when it's, yeah, we want due process, but boy,
49:26
Speaker 2: do we really want it for a Venezuelan rapist. It's like,
49:29
Speaker 2: all right, it's a little weird. I'm for due process
49:33
Speaker 2: for American citizens, but if you break the rules to
49:35
Speaker 2: get in here, I don't think you should get it.
49:37
Speaker 2: And to any liberal listening to this saying, well, blah, blah, blah,
49:41
Speaker 2: court ruling says that illegals actually have the same right
49:44
Speaker 2: to due process. I just don't care. This is my opinion.
49:47
Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't think they should have the
49:49
Speaker 2: right anyway.
49:49
Speaker 3: Well, let's go on to voting in North Carolina and
49:52
Speaker 3: a little bit from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in this.
49:56
Speaker 3: This is Kaylee McEnany from Saturday on Fox News.
50:00
Speaker 12: A voting calamity in North Carolina. The State Board of
50:03
Speaker 12: Elections entered more than 7 million voter records through a
50:06
Speaker 12: federal database. The results, about 34,000 dead people on the
50:11
Speaker 12: state voter rolls. The head of the State Board of
50:14
Speaker 12: Elections responding, quote, while we expected to find some cases,
50:17
Speaker 12: this is much higher than we anticipated. And while there
50:20
Speaker 12: are dead people on voter rolls in North Carolina, over
50:22
Speaker 12: in Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz passed automatic voter registration.
50:26
Speaker 6: We protected everyone's right to participate in our democracy by
50:31
Speaker 6: making your right to vote easier. We've established automatic voter registration.
50:37
Speaker 3: Nothing good is going to happen out of that in Minnesota.
50:40
Speaker 3: But let's go back to North Carolina real quick. 34,000
50:44
Speaker 3: dead voters. And the Department of Justice has tried to
50:48
Speaker 3: get this information from every state. The only people cooperating
50:52
Speaker 3: are the states that are Republicans. And the Democrat states
50:56
Speaker 3: are not. They are suing trying to get this information.
50:59
Speaker 3: The 34,000 dead people still on the voter rolls in
51:02
Speaker 3: North Carolina, that too is another problem going into the
51:06
Speaker 3: midterm election.
51:07
Speaker 2: I saw a graphic over the... I haven't fact-checked it,
51:11
Speaker 2: but it intuitively seems true that there are states that
51:15
Speaker 2: require voter ID, and Donald Trump won every single one
51:19
Speaker 2: of those states. He lost every single state that doesn't
51:22
Speaker 2: require voter ID. And I guess the innocent explanation would
51:27
Speaker 2: just be like, well, liberal states are against it, but
51:30
Speaker 2: they would have went left anyway. But it sure is
51:33
Speaker 2: a bit of an interesting correlation that is literally 100
51:36
Speaker 2: percent in both directions.
51:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's 36 states that require ID, and the
51:41
Speaker 3: majority of them are Republican. The ones that don't are
51:45
Speaker 3: two-to-one registered Democrat to Republican. So, you know, that's the
51:48
Speaker 3: way those numbers– but I interrupted you. Go ahead.
51:52
Speaker 2: I can't remember. Dan was said on the show that
51:54
Speaker 2: I had been doing work for DHS recently. No, we didn't.
51:58
Speaker 2: We did not? Okay, well, I can't actually say the
52:00
Speaker 2: position I'm in, but I've been with the AHS for
52:02
Speaker 2: a few months.
52:03
Speaker 3: And that's why I never mentioned it, because I didn't
52:05
Speaker 3: know if you wanted thousands and thousands to know that.
52:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I can't say what specifically, but during the training,
52:13
Speaker 2: there was an example we were going through where we
52:15
Speaker 2: were watching... someone's immigration interview. And it was a student
52:20
Speaker 2: who was not a citizen. And it had turned out
52:25
Speaker 2: he was registered to vote and had voted a presidential election. And,
52:29
Speaker 2: you know, the person with DHS interviewing him had brought
52:33
Speaker 2: this up to the guy and had him explain how
52:35
Speaker 2: this happened, and he tried to play it off as
52:38
Speaker 2: just being a mix-up or, oh, I forgot, I couldn't
52:41
Speaker 2: register to vote. But literally, the process was he was
52:44
Speaker 2: at a college campus. There was a booth to register
52:48
Speaker 2: for voters. He, a non-citizen, just put down his information,
52:52
Speaker 2: and he was automatically registered to vote and was able
52:55
Speaker 2: to vote in an election. And there's no cross-referencing to anything.
52:59
Speaker 2: He just put his name down in his address, and
53:01
Speaker 2: that was all it took. So... Yeah, it's pretty easy
53:06
Speaker 2: to vote illegally in this country.
53:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got to shore that up one way or another.
53:10
Speaker 3: Last story we have time for tonight is another Gotti
53:15
Speaker 3: is going to prison. Up there close to you. You're
53:17
Speaker 3: up in New Jersey, so this is just across the
53:19
Speaker 3: water there from you, I guess, in New York. This
53:22
Speaker 3: is the 16th Gotti to go to prison. The grandson
53:26
Speaker 3: of John Gotti. This guy stole from you and me
53:30
Speaker 3: during COVID. Over a million dollars. Listen to this story.
53:33
Speaker 13: The grandson of John Gotti was sentenced to 15 months
53:36
Speaker 13: in prison. Carmine Agnello pled guilty to COVID relief fraud.
53:40
Speaker 13: Your thoughts are you going to spend a year, over
53:42
Speaker 13: a year in prison?
53:43
Speaker 2: That's all right.
53:44
Speaker 3: Things could be worse.
53:45
Speaker 13: Carmine will be the 16th member of his family to
53:48
Speaker 13: go to jail. His lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, says the actual
53:51
Speaker 13: sentence will be shorter.
53:52
Speaker 3: The actual time spent on a 15-month sentence now is
53:56
Speaker 3: approximately four or five months, I expect.
53:58
Speaker 13: Agnello admitted to taking over a million dollars in COVID
54:01
Speaker 13: relief funds. He stated in the courtroom that it was, quote, wrong, selfish,
54:05
Speaker 13: and criminal.
54:06
Speaker 15: His life has been wrecked, I would say, over the
54:09
Speaker 15: last few years due to his own actions.
54:12
Speaker 13: The 40-year-old has to pay back over $ 1. 2 million in
54:15
Speaker 13: restitution to the Small Business Administration. During the pandemic, he
54:19
Speaker 13: received the loans for his business, Crown Auto Parts and Recycling,
54:23
Speaker 13: and used the funds to enrich himself and fund a
54:26
Speaker 13: gambling institution.
54:26
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to stop it right there because of
54:29
Speaker 3: the business that he has. Crown Recycling and Automotive. I
54:33
Speaker 3: can only imagine.
54:34
Speaker 2: It's so stereotypical. Yeah, it's so. Both stereotypical mob businesses.
54:39
Speaker 2: I will say, though, you could make a case in
54:42
Speaker 2: his defense that him doing this kind of fraud at
54:44
Speaker 2: least prevented him from doing fraud that resulted in people
54:47
Speaker 2: getting killed.
54:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so.
54:48
Speaker 2: Maybe it just saved lives. We don't know.
54:50
Speaker 3: And the good news on this story, do you remember
54:53
Speaker 3: his mom, Vicki, who was on the show, the reality
54:56
Speaker 3: television show with her boys? She needs a kidney, and
55:01
Speaker 3: he is giving one to her.
55:03
Speaker 2: Is it like mob wives or something?
55:05
Speaker 3: No, she had her own.
55:07
Speaker 2: Oh, she did. I had no idea.
55:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should go back and watch that. It's been
55:11
Speaker 3: a while. We're out of time here, Matt. Thank you
55:15
Speaker 3: for joining us again this week and every week. I
55:17
Speaker 3: really do appreciate it.
55:18
Speaker 2: My pleasure.
55:19
Speaker 3: We'll watch everything that happens this week. We'll come back
55:21
Speaker 3: Monday night next week, and we'll talk about it again.
55:24
Speaker 3: And don't forget, you were told 2,000 years ago that
55:27
Speaker 3: you are the salt of the earth, and salt without flavor,
55:30
Speaker 3: it has no value. So whatever you do, keep being salty.
55:34
Speaker 3: Have a great night.
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