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Piers Morgan’s Craziest Political Interview Yet—Ben Ferguson & Candidate Jaime '3 Beer' West · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Fighting all Republicans. I wouldn't let them. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: had a court's lie. I had a beer. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even talk to them. I don't like them. There are
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  Speaker 1: good Republicans out there.
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  Speaker 2: But then there's these.
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  Speaker 3: Maggots who are just racist and aren't very intelligent at all.
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  Speaker 1: Say just a few last words to the voters. We
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  Speaker 1: have guns, too.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Three.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 7: Good Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 4: So nice to have you with us on the 47
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  Speaker 4: Morning Update. And we've got one really interesting story for you.
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  Speaker 4: You may have heard about the candidate that went on
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  Speaker 4: TV and many assume that she was, well, completely hammered.
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  Speaker 4: She's now talked about just how many beers she had.
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  Speaker 4: Is this to say the Democratic Party? And why are
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  Speaker 4: so many people finding this candidate so intriguing? Could it
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  Speaker 4: be her honesty? I debated her on Piers Morgan's show,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm going to let you hear that interview. Before
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  Speaker 4: It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 6: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: So sometimes I get to start the show by just
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  Speaker 4: stating something that's pretty obvious, and there's a very good
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  Speaker 4: chance that you've seen the viral video clip that I
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  Speaker 4: was involved in with Piers Morgan and a Democratic candidate
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  Speaker 4: who admitted to drinking while doing her interview with the
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  Speaker 4: American people, or in her community, I should say, getting
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  Speaker 4: ready for Election Day. We're less than two weeks away,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, from the midterms, and this one political
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  Speaker 4: candidate in Indiana is getting international attention, not just national,
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  Speaker 4: but international attention, for something that happened at the local
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  Speaker 4: candidate forum. Now, her name is Jamie West. and she's
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  Speaker 4: running for local office in Indiana. Normally, let's just be clear,
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  Speaker 4: a local candidate forum isn't exactly the kind of thing
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  Speaker 4: that makes national headlines, but this one has. There's a
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  Speaker 4: video that went viral of West speaking at an event
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  Speaker 4: started circulating online, and people immediately began asking the question,
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  Speaker 4: how drunk is she?
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  Speaker 7: Has she been drinking? How many beers? And then the
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  Speaker 7: meme started, and.
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  Speaker 4: The rest is history. Now, not only did viewers question
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  Speaker 4: her delivery and behavior, and the video quickly became a political, well,
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  Speaker 4: nightmare for Democrats, but now I want you to know
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  Speaker 4: the second part of the story which I was involved in.
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  Speaker 4: Jamie West went on Piers Morgan with like a level
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  Speaker 4: of honesty and just like, I don't care that I
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  Speaker 4: have never seen from a political candidate before. Well, Jamie
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  Speaker 4: West has now acknowledged that she had not one, not two,
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  Speaker 4: but three beers before she did that televised event.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, three beers. We don't know, by the way, how
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  Speaker 7: big they are at this point.
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  Speaker 4: But what we do know is what she had to
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  Speaker 4: say while under the influence of those three beers was
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  Speaker 4: truly shocking. For example, her making it very clear that
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  Speaker 4: she wants to fire every Republican if she's elected. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: that's what she said out loud. And I want to
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  Speaker 4: play for you this incredible segment. It was on Piers
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  Speaker 4: Morgan Uncensored. I was one of the guests. And he
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  Speaker 4: sets it up exactly about the debacle of where the
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  Speaker 4: American people are with the Democratic Party right now.
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  Speaker 8: But no single charismatic talisman has seized the initiative. Gavin
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  Speaker 8: Newsom is saddled with the baggage of a dire record
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  Speaker 8: in California. AOC can fire her at the base, but
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  Speaker 8: she terrifies the moderates. Mamdani can't run because she was
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  Speaker 8: born in Uganda. Kamala Harris is what she's Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 8: If social media was a voting block, the nomination would
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  Speaker 8: shortly be going to a surprise challenger from a small
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  Speaker 8: county in rural Indiana. Jamie West is starting small. She's
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  Speaker 8: a Democratic candidate for Fayette County, Indiana. Council's District 4.
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  Speaker 8: But tons of millions of people across the world saw
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  Speaker 8: her interview with local television last week.
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  Speaker 1: Parking is expensive. Driving is expensive.
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  Speaker 3: Going and have to face your elected leaders face to
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  Speaker 3: face is scary along. I need help, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: that's my opening statement. I'm a fighter and you ought
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  Speaker 3: to vote for me. What is the one decision that
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  Speaker 3: I would make that might not be popular?
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  Speaker 1: Right. That may be unpopular with some voters. But is
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  Speaker 1: in the best interest of the county. Firing all Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't let them. I mean, I don't even talk
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  Speaker 1: to them. I don't like them. There are good Republicans
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 3: But then there's these MAGAs who are just racist and...
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  Speaker 3: aren't very intelligent at all.
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  Speaker 4: Say just a few last words to the voters.
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  Speaker 1: We have guns too.
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  Speaker 8: Well, joining me now is Jamie West, a Democratic candidate
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  Speaker 8: for Fayette County Council, Indiana. Alongside her will be the
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  Speaker 8: co-host of The Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson. Well,
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  Speaker 8: welcome to both of you. Jamie West, welcome. Your clips,
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  Speaker 8: as you know from that interview, went viral very quickly
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  Speaker 8: around the world. A lot of people, I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: be completely straight with you, a lot of people assumed
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  Speaker 8: you might have had a drink before you did that interview.
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  Speaker 8: Did you?
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  Speaker 1: I had a Coors Light. I had a beer.
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  Speaker 8: One beer?
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  Speaker 7: Maybe a couple.
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  Speaker 8: How many beers did you have?
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  Speaker 2: I was nervous, okay?
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  Speaker 8: I get it.
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  Speaker 7: I thought I was going to win with the full Republicans.
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  Speaker 8: We've all had a drink when we're nervous, but just
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  Speaker 8: to be clear, Jamie, here's your chance to be completely
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  Speaker 8: honest and transparent. How many beers did you have?
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  Speaker 1: All right, three.
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  Speaker 8: Three beers. Okay, well, it's trebled in the last 30 seconds.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean insane, man?
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  Speaker 2: I had three beers, okay?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, so do you accept you may have been a
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  Speaker 8: little intoxicated?
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  Speaker 2: Not that intoxicated, but I do know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to Indiana politics.
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  Speaker 8: Have you had any beers before this interview?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 8: You're completely sober? Yep. Okay. Well, look, you said some
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  Speaker 8: very inflammatory things about Republicans. You wanted to fire them all.
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  Speaker 8: You called them racist and dumb and said we have
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  Speaker 8: guns too. Is there anything you said whilst under the
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  Speaker 8: influence of your beers that you now, with the benefit
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  Speaker 8: of hindsight, maybe wished you hadn't said? No.
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  Speaker 2: I say it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not friends with them. I don't like them.
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  Speaker 5: They voted for all of this that's happening to our country.
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  Speaker 5: We have a constitutional crisis. We have an illegal war
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  Speaker 5: going on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my next door neighbor just graduated high.
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  Speaker 5: School, just finished the crucible for the Marines. Now I'm
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  Speaker 5: afraid he's going to go into this illegal war and die.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I have every right to be angry, and
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  Speaker 5: so does every American.
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  Speaker 8: But you've got a Republican on the panel against you today,
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  Speaker 8: Ben Ferguson. Would you say that he's racist and dumb?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I never met the guy.
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  Speaker 8: He is a Republican, though, so do you instinctively— I'm
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  Speaker 8: a Republican.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be able to work for you.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, my husband is a Republican.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: He's a conservative. He's a libertarian.
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  Speaker 8: Have you fired him yet?
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  Speaker 5: No, we don't talk about politics. But I've got his vote.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Ben Ferguson. I mean, amazing, right? I've seen some
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  Speaker 8: candidates in my time. Jamie West is certainly unusual. I
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  Speaker 8: think we can all agree on that. She's admitted that
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  Speaker 8: she was loaded with beer the other night and the
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  Speaker 8: clips that went viral. What's your view of Miss West?
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  Speaker 7: I got to tell you, Ms.
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  Speaker 4: West, I actually have to give you credit for one thing.
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  Speaker 4: I am now a huge advocate for candidates drinking before
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  Speaker 4: debates because then we might actually find out what they
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  Speaker 4: believe in. Like, I can see the glass half full
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  Speaker 4: or your big glass almost half full.
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  Speaker 7: I also want to know, like, what size Coors Lights.
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  Speaker 8: Do they drink?
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  Speaker 4: It's got to be like 36 to 64 ounces.
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  Speaker 7: Like, is it a keg stand? And then you answer
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  Speaker 7: a political question. I will say this. I appreciate your honesty.
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  Speaker 4: I do think it is it is a bad moment
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  Speaker 4: when and this is what doesn't help this country is
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  Speaker 4: that when we have a society now where it's like
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  Speaker 4: if you're a Republican, I want to fire you without
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  Speaker 4: ever knowing you, talking to you, understanding what you do.
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  Speaker 4: I know some amazing civil servants, especially at the local level.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a trash collector is a great example. Should
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  Speaker 4: you be fired because you're Republican? If you're a police officer,
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  Speaker 4: you said that you'd.
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  Speaker 7: Fire them all.
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  Speaker 4: So, I mean, that's a dangerous precedent that every single
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  Speaker 4: time somebody gets elected.
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  Speaker 7: At a local level, the way you're describing it.
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  Speaker 4: You want a clean house of every civil servant, the
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  Speaker 4: dog collector, the trash collector, the people that go out
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  Speaker 4: there and deal with downed power lines, the people that
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  Speaker 4: cut trees and grass and do the groundskeeping, the janitors.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what janitor deserves to be fired because they
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  Speaker 4: may have voted for Donald Trump or another Republican or
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  Speaker 4: just registered Republican? That is dangerous what they do in
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  Speaker 4: dictatorship countries.
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  Speaker 8: Jamie?
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  Speaker 2: I think you're taking that a little bit out of context.
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  Speaker 2: You don't understand what's happening in Indiana. You said fire
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  Speaker 2: them all.
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  Speaker 4: No, but you said fire them all, regardless of the
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  Speaker 4: issue that you said.
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  Speaker 7: They asked you the question. I watched your interview. They
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  Speaker 7: asked you very clearly, like, what is your hot take?
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  Speaker 7: And you said fire all of them. I don't like them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even talk to them.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think a lot of Americans understand that our politicians,
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  Speaker 5: we pay their salary.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, we are their bosses. We are our politicians' bosses.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the ones.
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  Speaker 5: That I'm meant to fire. Not the janitors. Not the
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  Speaker 5: United Steelworkers. Not the factory workers.
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  Speaker 2: Not the groceries. Not the butchers.
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  Speaker 5: The politicians whose salaries we pay because we're their bosses.
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  Speaker 7: That's not what you said. I think now you're running
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  Speaker 7: for office.
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  Speaker 4: You're realizing, oh, that was probably a really dumb thing
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  Speaker 4: to say, seven or eight or 92 ounces deep of
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  Speaker 4: Coors Light. Like, that's my real take on this.
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  Speaker 1: Take it as you want. I said what I said.
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  Speaker 2: Fire the Republican politicians.
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  Speaker 1: You want me to? Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 7: So now it's just the politicians.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So if your.
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  Speaker 4: Husband, who you said is a Republican, was elected official,
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  Speaker 4: you'd fire him.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's not doing a good job.
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  Speaker 4: But you'd stay married to him. So he's a threat
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  Speaker 4: to society, but not in your house.
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  Speaker 5: In my county, Fayette County, Indiana, which is named after
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  Speaker 5: Marquis de Lafayette.
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  Speaker 2: Go France. I love the revolution that you're all.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I plead for you.
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  Speaker 8: And Jamie, when you said Jamie, Jamie, when you said
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  Speaker 8: we have guns, too. I mean, how many guns do
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  Speaker 8: you have? I own none.
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  Speaker 2: My husband does, though.
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  Speaker 8: How many has he got?
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  Speaker 1: A lot.
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  Speaker 8: How many?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I never made.
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  Speaker 2: He's probably got seven or eight.
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  Speaker 7: We don't talk about that either.
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  Speaker 8: So your husband has eight guns. So would you use
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  Speaker 8: his guns or what are you getting at?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't use any guns.
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  Speaker 8: Right. You did say we have guns too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a sign holder.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 8: Right. What did you mean by we have guns too?
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  Speaker 5: Well, when you get all these threats by MAGA, for
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  Speaker 5: the last 10 years, MAGA has been sending me messages.
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  Speaker 2: They threaten me to my face. I mean, they threaten
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  Speaker 2: to blow my head off. I mean, do they not.
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  Speaker 8: Understand they're Democrats? Well, you made it clear, just to
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  Speaker 8: be clear, on that, Jamie. Well, hang on, hang on.
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  Speaker 8: Just to be clear, you said that the sheriff's nephew
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  Speaker 8: tried to blow your head off. The sheriff who heads
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  Speaker 8: the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, Zach Jones. was told this
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  Speaker 8: and said, I don't know Jamie West. She obviously doesn't
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  Speaker 8: know me. I have five nieces and zero nephews. I
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  Speaker 8: don't know what she's talking about. I'm certain she has
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  Speaker 8: no idea what she's talking about either. So the sheriff's
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  Speaker 8: office said that Zach Jones has no nephews.
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  Speaker 2: Did you not read the Congressional News Examiner?
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  Speaker 5: Union County. This was the Union County. Who's right next
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  Speaker 5: door to me. Sheriff's nephew. They called him to verify.
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  Speaker 5: And he said, yeah, I do have nephews.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Because I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Specify a county.
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  Speaker 7: I just got to know.
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  Speaker 4: If someone's trying to blow your head off and kill you,
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  Speaker 4: is there a police report?
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  Speaker 7: Did you file a police report on this? Is there
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  Speaker 7: any documentation?
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  Speaker 4: No, I took a picture of his truck.
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  Speaker 5: It was after a No Kings protest. The sheriff sat
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  Speaker 5: there with us the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up with him.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, we're sharing stories about how we all
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  Speaker 5: grew up together and whatnot. And he's sitting over there
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  Speaker 5: listening to people drive by threatening us.
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  Speaker 2: He knows it happened. I didn't go and report it
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  Speaker 2: to him because I... I took a picture of his truck.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what am I supposed to do? What are
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  Speaker 2: you supposed to do?
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  Speaker 7: Go to the police?
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  Speaker 8: You get used to it.
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  Speaker 4: You're sitting with the police.
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  Speaker 5: I tell them.
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  Speaker 8: Can I ask you, Jamie? Jamie, let me ask you. Jamie,
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  Speaker 8: let me ask you. What reaction have you had to
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  Speaker 8: your now infamous interview last week? What's it been like
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  Speaker 8: for you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I've been getting all of these reporters wanting interviews.
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  Speaker 5: And you're, besides my local newspaper, you're the first and
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  Speaker 5: only one Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I have accepted it, honestly.
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  Speaker 8: What have I done to deserve the scoop?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's hard to trust American media right now because
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  Speaker 2: of our current administration.
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  Speaker 8: So you went British?
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you don't trust the liberal media in America that
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  Speaker 4: hates Trump?
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  Speaker 2: I do somewhat. The one that he's been trying to
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  Speaker 2: take over. I mean, Stephen Colbert.
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  Speaker 4: Out of curiosity, if ABC or NBC or CBS called you,
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  Speaker 4: would you do that interview?
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  Speaker 7: Because they hate Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: They all have tried to get a hold of me.
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  Speaker 2: CNN, Fox News, NBC.
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  Speaker 8: You're just the man here. Be honest, Jamie. Was it
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  Speaker 8: my British accent? Be honest. Was it the English accent?
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was the accent. It was the accent, man. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Jamie, you did say Jamie.
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  Speaker 7: You sound better.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Jamie did say about Republicans, I don't talk to them.
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  Speaker 8: I don't like them. I don't like them being around me.
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  Speaker 8: This doesn't sit very easily with the fact you're married
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  Speaker 8: to one who lives with you. I mean, you sleep
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  Speaker 8: with a Republican.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're not technically married.
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  Speaker 5: We've been together about 14 years.
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  Speaker 8: I hate to be personal, but do you have sex
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  Speaker 8: with your husband?
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: Common law.
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: Well, do you have sex with your husband?
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Every now and then.
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: Every now and then. You do? So you literally have
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: sex with a Republican?
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: He's a libertarian, a conservative. He's actually a libertarian.
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: Who does he vote for?
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: He didn't vote for Trump. He's never voted for Trump.
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: So he's not really a Republican?
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: If there's a libertarian running for office, he will vote
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: for them.
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: You said there are good Republicans out there. Can you
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: name one?
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: The Union County Sheriff is one of them. And there
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: are some in my county, my county clerk, you know,
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: because we are mostly rural Republicans.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: They're all Republicans.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I'm the only Dem running for county council.
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: Do you think you're going to win, Jamie, or not?
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: Do you think this publicity storm is going to help you?
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: A lot of people said that they've been voting for
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: me and a lot of people wishing that they lived
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: in Connersville just so they could vote for me.
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: What do your kids think of this? Are they old
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: enough to know what's going on? Oh, yeah. Are they
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: proud of mom?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Somewhat. Some are like, I just wish you would lay low.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: But what am I going to do? I've been fighting
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: this fight for 10 years, man. I've been going to
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: the statehouse to.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Beg the Republican politicians who have been in control of
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Indiana for 20 years not to take away our public funding,
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: our public schools, our emergency services that we need.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, look into the numbers.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: I have the numbers right here. Hold on.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: You said in an interview that if they didn't do
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: what you wanted to do, that the fire department was
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: going to go away. And then the fire department came
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: out and said there's no issue with the fire department funding.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: Like, they even said that you're making it up.
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: They said that they don't know what's happening because, honestly, the.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Republicans don't know what's happening because.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Of Senate Bill 1. Passed in 2025. They don't know
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: what's happening. The property tax bill. Everybody thought that their
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: property taxes were going to get lowered. No.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: That was only for all the data centers they want
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: to build around here. They're the ones that are not
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: going to be paying the property taxes.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: The richest companies in the world.
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: Jamie, let me ask you. Jamie, if people are watching
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: this who are in your local county, and I'm sure
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: the clips will get there, particularly your bombshell beer confession.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: If they watch these clips, just give a direct appeal
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: to the people of your county right now. Why should
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: they vote for you? Tell them.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Because I'm a fighter. I will go to the statehouse
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and fight for you.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: None of our local politicians went up there and told
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: them Senate Bill 1 is going to.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Kill our schools and our libraries and our emergency services.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: None of them.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Is it a delayed kill? None of them.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Is it a delayed kill?
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: It passed in 2025.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: It hasn't happened yet.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: So when does it kick in?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: It started to happen in 2026.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Okay, so it's a secret kill all the schools do.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I got all the numbers right here.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Would you like me to read them off to you?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, Fayette County is.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Going to be losing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: Pull out a keg.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Let's have a pint, as they say over in the UK.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: We'll go over the numbers.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Piers, the only thing missing from this interview right now
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: is someone rocking out going, tonight, it's Saturday Night Live.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: Like, that's the only thing missing right now.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: I got to tell you, A, I really hope that
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Saturday Night Live does this skit because it would be
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: truly amazing. And I also just have to give some credit.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: At least we found a Democrat that'll tell you the truth.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: That may be the.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: One thing this Democrat, you can actually believe. She's telling you.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: You elect her, she'll get rid of all the Republicans.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: She'll threaten you, by the way, with we have guns too.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: And she'll tell you, I don't like talking to anybody
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: in MAGA. That's what they believe. And at least she's
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: willing to tell you the truth on it. It may
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: have taken, as she described it, three Coors Lights to
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: get there. But Election Day is coming, folks. and this
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: is what we're up against.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Quick break. Ben Ferguson show. Much more coming up.
• 19:54
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