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Normally Podcast: Trump, Democrat Messaging & Hollywood’s Box Office Bust · Normally

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  Speaker 1: Okay, guys, we are back on normally. The show What
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  Speaker 1: Normalis takes for windsay she just gets.
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  Speaker 2: Weird in Mary Captain him, and I'm Karl Marco Riz.
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  Speaker 2: How was your weekend, Mary Captain?
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  Speaker 1: It was good. I did a quick up and back
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  Speaker 1: to New York City and I saw two matches at
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  Speaker 1: the US Open, which I thought before wonderful. Tennis is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a huge tennis person, but I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I have to follow it a little bit living
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  Speaker 2: in South Florida because everyone here is like full on
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  Speaker 2: obsessed with it. I don't know if you saw claim
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  Speaker 2: Buck had this whole thing back and forth that that
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  Speaker 2: bus could hit the tennis ball. I think I was
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  Speaker 2: one hundred miles broad. He came close, though, like on
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  Speaker 2: his initial thing, and he's like, I feel like, if
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  Speaker 2: I got trained for this, I could totally do it.
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  Speaker 1: I rooted for him. I believe that he could train
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  Speaker 1: up to it because he got pretty close he did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the serves I was seeing yesterday were like one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen miles an hour. Tennis is something that I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I sho take up and take into my
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  Speaker 1: old age. I'm gonna work on that there's I know,
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  Speaker 1: pickleball is very, very popular. It's almost triggering my oppositional
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  Speaker 1: defiance disorder, and I don't want to be into it. Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know, but the pickleball and
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  Speaker 2: the tennis communities like they fight to the death, like
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  Speaker 2: they hate each other, and even though there's some crossover,
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  Speaker 2: but they.
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  Speaker 1: Like court space exactly. Perhaps I should do both and
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  Speaker 1: mediate this conflict interest in both communities or neither. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep you posting. Let us know.
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  Speaker 2: So as we are recording this, President Trump is expected
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  Speaker 2: to sign an executive order ending cashless bail by threatening
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  Speaker 2: to revoke federal funding for jurisdictions across the country that
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  Speaker 2: have this cashless fail. It's interesting because I've seen a
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  Speaker 2: few different liberals on X commenting things like, shouldn't conservatives
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  Speaker 2: not want the federal government used in this? Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but that's a battle you waged and I lost. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it really. There is this thing where they
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  Speaker 1: demand like that conservatives just unilaterally disarm after they have
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  Speaker 1: escalated four him sometimes and sometimes I do argue against it.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I say that's not the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to ratchet this up, But it's really
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  Speaker 1: hard to to make that argument exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Trump is flexing the power that you wanted presidents to have.
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  Speaker 2: You won, look at you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, these things specifically about Trump that cracks me
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  Speaker 1: up in people's response to him is that the same
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  Speaker 1: people now who cry fascism at anything at the drop
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  Speaker 1: of a hat wanted him to be a fascist in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, much harder, much than he was willing to
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  Speaker 1: be right, and they're just lock us down, put us
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  Speaker 1: in our host forever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, with they you know, with the vaccine from far away,
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  Speaker 2: like anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just as heavy handed as possible. And in this
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  Speaker 1: case sometimes I disagree with him, but at least he's
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  Speaker 1: heavy handed in the attempt to target people who are breaking.
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  Speaker 2: Up crime, right, people want to like, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: People are making life worse for others protecting citizens against
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  Speaker 1: violent crime because in the cashlest bail situation, people get
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  Speaker 1: out of jail very quickly, reoffend very quickly because there's
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  Speaker 1: the message that they're not going to pay a price
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  Speaker 1: for this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't take Democrats serious with this outrage thing.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Wilcow posted a picture from New York from the
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  Speaker 2: subway station in New York City where there are National
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  Speaker 2: Guards troops in the subway stations because Governor Kathy Hochel
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  Speaker 2: called them up because they were having such problems with crime.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's saying, oh, she's a fascist or this is the
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  Speaker 2: second coming of Hitler. They're just saying, like, oh, she's
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  Speaker 2: trying to fight crime. That's a good thing, because that's
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. Right.
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  Speaker 1: No, of course it's a good if you're a Democrat. Right. JB.
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  Speaker 1: Prisker had a piece, I believe this weekend in the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times that said, you know, Trump's cracked down
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  Speaker 1: on crime will just create more crime. Yeah, And I'm like, look,
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  Speaker 1: I am willing to listen to the argument that there
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  Speaker 1: are very serious trade offs for having a heavy law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement or military presence in your town for an extended
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  Speaker 1: period of time. Noted civil libertarian understand you can't make
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  Speaker 1: the argument that it will make crime worse. In the
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  Speaker 1: week that it made zero murders right the Washington d C. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but that's I think zero murders is good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we need to find somebody who doesn't
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  Speaker 2: think zero murders is good and ask them why they
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  Speaker 2: think that. But Democrats just refuse to answer that, and
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  Speaker 2: they just keep screaming fascist at us. And so the
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  Speaker 2: thing with this cash list bail is, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about this a lot on the show, but
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  Speaker 2: I used to be a outspoken proponent of that bail
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  Speaker 2: was too high. You'd read stories and somebody would be
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  Speaker 2: arrested for shoplifting and the bail would be twenty thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars and true story, and I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: twenty thousand could be twenty million.
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  Speaker 1: For certain somebody else. It doesn't. Actually, it's crazy. It should.
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  Speaker 2: It should line up with whether they're a flight risk.
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  Speaker 2: So Democrats took this sane opinion of let's reduce bail
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  Speaker 2: and said how about no bail? And then nobody came back,
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  Speaker 2: A fewer people started coming back to their court dates.
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  Speaker 2: Crime went up because the people would reoffend as soon
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  Speaker 2: as they exited, you know, the jail. And it didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't work, And Democrats now need to face it
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  Speaker 2: that they went too far with an idea that someone
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  Speaker 2: like me would have agreed with. Now I can't agree
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  Speaker 2: with anything that you guys say.
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  Speaker 1: This is like they always know because they've they've lost
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  Speaker 1: me to some extent on criminal justice reform because I
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  Speaker 1: was very I am very much and I think still
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  Speaker 1: in the group of people that's in the Van Jones
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  Speaker 1: Trump Alliance of the First Steps Act or something right
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  Speaker 1: that does give non violent offenders a way to come back,
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  Speaker 1: that burdens more non violent offenders, that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: just so that you don't have people who are in
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  Speaker 1: the grinder for their entire lives because they did one
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  Speaker 1: nonviolent thing. I think that's good, right, But they go
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  Speaker 1: so far and then they demonize law enforcement, all law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: and they say they should defund all of law enforcement, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then you watch twenty twenty summer and you go, no, right,
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  Speaker 1: I will not be standing with you guys on this
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  Speaker 1: issue because you can't keep it together exactly.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much of that, and they step all over
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  Speaker 2: their own cause. I mean, the thing is that the
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  Speaker 2: left controls the Democrats. They are just afraid of their left.
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  Speaker 2: They feel like they have to cater to them, and
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  Speaker 2: you have to keep ratcheting up the rhetoric and the
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  Speaker 2: policies to go with it, which is why you have
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  Speaker 2: When the defund police things started and all these Democrats
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  Speaker 2: were like, we don't really mean defund police, and all
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  Speaker 2: their leftist activists would post, no, we literally need to
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  Speaker 2: fund the police.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where we are. We have more on this
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  Speaker 1: actually when we come back, because there's a group of
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  Speaker 1: sane Democrats who have a group of words that they
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  Speaker 1: would not like Democrats to say, and it aligns with
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  Speaker 1: this idea, So we'll have more on that when we
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  Speaker 1: come back on normally. All right, we are back on
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  Speaker 1: normally with a semi regular segment, which is what the
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  Speaker 1: heck is going on with Democrats, And as I alluded to,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's some signs of life with the sane people
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going to get to first and then we
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  Speaker 1: can get to the insane people. Third Way, which is
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  Speaker 1: sort of a centristy moderate Democrat group often demonized by
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  Speaker 1: the left in the Democratic Party, there's a memo circulating
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  Speaker 1: with blacklisted words that Democrat candidates should not use. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to hear them? Here are the terms privilege,
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  Speaker 1: violence as an environmental violence, dialoguing, triggering, dialoguing, other ring, microaggression,
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  Speaker 1: holding space. That's a good one, yeah, Body shaming, subverting norms,
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  Speaker 1: systems of oppressure, and cultural appropriation. Over to the window
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  Speaker 1: existential threat to climate, democracy, economy, radical transparency, stakeholders, unhoused,
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  Speaker 1: food insecurity, housing insecurity, Yeah, person who ever gonted birthing,
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  Speaker 1: person cys gender dead, naming, heteronormous. It goes on and
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  Speaker 1: on and on. I actually don't know what they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: say now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I posted that on X, I said, but this
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  Speaker 2: is literally their whole vocabulary. I literally don't know what
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  Speaker 2: else they can say. This list is amazing because every
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  Speaker 2: one of those phrases is vaguely embarrassing. And I understand
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  Speaker 2: why Democrats are newly embarrassed by this, But you've been
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  Speaker 2: talking like this for a really long time, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Heteronormative is actually a great one to talk
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  Speaker 2: about because I remember, and this is going back I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know. This is early two thousands, mid two thousands,
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  Speaker 2: where Jada Pinkett Smith gave a speech on a college
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  Speaker 2: campus and this is like what I call my first
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  Speaker 2: moment of realizing something was shifting. And she gave us
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  Speaker 2: each and she talked about people getting married and having
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  Speaker 2: kids and that kind of thing, and her speech was
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  Speaker 2: criticized for being heteronormative. The first time I ever heard
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  Speaker 2: that term and this is a long time ago. This is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, decades ago now, and so to work these
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  Speaker 2: words out of their vocabulary now is going to be tough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is really tough. And there is this idea.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bit of pushback on this from pundits of
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  Speaker 1: the left who say, or representatives of left who say, well, now,
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  Speaker 1: you're just playing this game where anyone who's coded left,
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  Speaker 1: an elected Democrat or someone campaigning as a Democrat has
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  Speaker 1: to answer for these weird words that they don't really use.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, are you kidding me? You guys have
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  Speaker 1: been using these words right on the rest of us
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  Speaker 1: to impose whatever insanity you want for many, many years.
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  Speaker 1: This is not only an activist problem. You are led
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  Speaker 1: around by your activists, and every party has some of
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  Speaker 1: that to some extent. But wow, to pretend that this
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  Speaker 1: is like a new standard that you're placing on right
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  Speaker 1: democratic candidates that's coming from nowhere. No, no, no. As someone
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  Speaker 1: pointed out, the first page of the Democratic Party platform
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  Speaker 1: at the DNC was a land acknowledgement. The one page
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  Speaker 1: one those are your people.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the case. And you know, I hear all
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  Speaker 2: the time that when you go to college tours. They
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  Speaker 2: all start with land acknowledgments, and it's like, this is
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  Speaker 2: who you're listening to, Like, doofye eighteen year olds who
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  Speaker 2: came up with stuff like this and now it's part
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  Speaker 2: of your party, you know, party platform, party ideas, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I would just say one of the phrases
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  Speaker 2: not on the list, but I always like to throw
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  Speaker 2: back at them. Sit in your discomfort with these phrases.
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  Speaker 1: Do the work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the work right, I'm not gonna I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to explain things to you.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck to them. I do think this is Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be tricky because they have learned. This goes
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  Speaker 1: back to the problem of like they need their own
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  Speaker 1: Joe Rogan again, Joe Rogan is a liberal, but they
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  Speaker 1: think they need their own Joe Rogan. The thing they're
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  Speaker 1: missing is freedom to speak. They don't feel that they
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  Speaker 1: feel that they must use these words because they will
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  Speaker 1: be absolutely crucified for not using them, and so to
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  Speaker 1: get away from them feels like the opposite of being
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  Speaker 1: a good Democrat. But they have to get on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of this vibe shift or they are in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's going on in Virginia. Let's tell us about this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh something something good, Carol, This one's crazy. Actually I
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  Speaker 1: checked this like four times to make sure it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: photoshopped or something. Indeed it was not. So the Arlington
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  Speaker 1: Public Schools had a school board meeting. Arlington Public Schools,
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  Speaker 1: along with several other Northern Virginia school districts, have had
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of scandals in the past several months. The
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  Speaker 1: one in Arlington in particular is that the gender bathroom
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  Speaker 1: policies allowed a fifty something child sex offender to go
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  Speaker 1: into a women's facility in a local high school and
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  Speaker 1: expose himself. Does that bad to minors? Yeah? And so
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of parents are like, hey, what are you
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  Speaker 1: doing about this? And Nick Monok, the local reporter, who
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  Speaker 1: must be commended for staying on these stories, is like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what are you guys going to do about this? And
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  Speaker 1: the Arly New Public Schools is basically like nothing. We think.
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  Speaker 1: We think our policy is good and it's on the
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  Speaker 1: opposite side of Trump, so we're fine to be good. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a gathering at the school board meeting and
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  Speaker 1: wins Seers, who is the Republican running for governor.
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  Speaker 2: Here lieutenant governor.
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  Speaker 1: Current lieutenant governor shows up to speak at this meeting
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  Speaker 1: because Abigail Spanberger, the allegedly normy Democrat running for governor,
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  Speaker 1: can't muster any statements on any of the great giant
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  Speaker 1: controversies happening northern Virginia schools, especially on these gender policies,
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  Speaker 1: because she would have to get on the right side
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  Speaker 1: of the left and that will make her not appealing
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  Speaker 1: to many in Virginia. So when some sears shows up
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  Speaker 1: to speak at this meeting, she is notably an African American.
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  Speaker 1: She is she would be the first female black governor
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  Speaker 1: of the state of Virginia. She's a Marine, she's an immigrant,
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  Speaker 1: she has a great life story. She's speaking inside outside
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  Speaker 1: a gathering of as is often the case, boomer Libs
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  Speaker 1: in Arlington very very affluent.
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  Speaker 2: You see them everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: You see them, ever, and one of them is carrying
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  Speaker 1: a sign that says this, Hey, Winsome, if trans can't
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  Speaker 1: share your bathroom, then blacks can't share my water fountain.
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  Speaker 2: She really thought that was a wind when she came
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  Speaker 2: up with that sign. She's like, I got her.
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  Speaker 1: I I was joking, Like can you imagine, like the
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  Speaker 1: husband and the family or friends who were like, girl,
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  Speaker 1: you can't, I can't leave with that. And then they
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  Speaker 1: just you know, they got steamrolled by her. Right, And as.
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  Speaker 2: I say what I want, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, And as there's a there's a guy, Ben Tribbett
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  Speaker 1: who's a trustworthy, smart Democrat who works specifically in Virginia
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  Speaker 1: politics and knows a lot about their activist base. He
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  Speaker 1: pegged that she was from this door knocking activist far
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  Speaker 1: left group, and he said, look, like, wake up to
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  Speaker 1: the Karen problem that we do have. Like there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people who have gone who have gone around
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  Speaker 1: the bend. Yeah, And he's like, the problem isn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: that there was one person who used this sign. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is that no one in that group of Arlington
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  Speaker 1: Democrats could say, no, you can't do this.
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  Speaker 2: This does not speak for us, right, that's crazy. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Broklowski, vice chair of the Virginia Democrats, he thinks
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  Speaker 2: the sign might be the fault of the black lady.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, the lady embracing Jim Crow in public.
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  Speaker 2: That'sh No, not her, that's not her fault.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not her fault.
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  Speaker 2: He posted what happened in Arlington wasn't just about a meeting.
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  Speaker 2: It was about the climate when some seers is creating
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  Speaker 2: one where contempts currency, and neighbors are turning against each other.
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  Speaker 2: How dare she with her It's amazing contempt is currency
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  Speaker 2: and neighbors turning against each other, telling herself not to
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  Speaker 2: use the white people found.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she did show up, you know, with her skin
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  Speaker 1: in Arlington. Right, one would think that that would go okay,
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  Speaker 1: but no, she disagrees with them. And what happens is
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: if you are a minority or a woman or an
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: lgbt Q person who disagrees with the left on any
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: given issue, you are subject to basically just whatever they
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  Speaker 1: want to say to you. Yeah, and this one was
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  Speaker 1: WHOA And I wonder, Look, this is a race that
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: is going to be a little a bit of an
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  Speaker 1: uphill battle for wins Sears and Spamberger by not saying
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  Speaker 1: anything about these issues. She did denounce the Sign, that's
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  Speaker 1: the one thing she's been specific about. Yeah, she did
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  Speaker 1: come out and denounce the Sign. She's still silent on
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  Speaker 1: all these other controversies, and she is giving winsome seers
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  Speaker 1: the exact same dynamic that made Youngkin governor. She is
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  Speaker 1: handing it right to her, as are the public school
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  Speaker 1: which can't get seen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I hope that the voters do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing here and realize how bad of a governor
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  Speaker 2: she would be. But yeah, I like her giving that
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  Speaker 2: preview and kind of ducking all these issues that are
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  Speaker 2: important to parents. Meanwhile, in my home of hometown of
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  Speaker 2: New York City, Zora, Mom, Donnie was like at a
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  Speaker 2: street fair and somebody asked him if he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: bench press, and he said yes. Now, let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you if I were running for mayor and I was
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  Speaker 2: at a street fair and somebody asked me if I
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: wanted a bench press, I would know that I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to bench press.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how come he didn't know that?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what is it that happened here? He attempted to
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  Speaker 2: bench press and it failed completely? The guy holding the
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: bench press had to kind of pull it up for him.
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  Speaker 2: What went wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty confused by this because there's not much on the bar.
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  Speaker 2: So Frey also in like like he's clearly wasn't there
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  Speaker 2: for this, Like it was just you know, he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to seem spontaneous and cool, and that did not work out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is just straight up Hubris. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think he he he's very He's quite capable as
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  Speaker 1: a campaigner. He clearly has charisma. He might think he
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  Speaker 1: can just do anything. Yeah, and he gets on this
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  Speaker 1: bench at like whatever this men's Day was. It was
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  Speaker 1: some sort of male focused celebration. He doesn't even allowed.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that was permitted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, his form is bad poor. Yeah, his spotter has
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  Speaker 1: to do most of the work for him. There's not
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: much on the bar for the uninitiated. The bar is
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  Speaker 1: forty five pounds. It looks like there's a total of
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: a little over one hundred, like one thirty one thirty
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  Speaker 1: five on this on him total. Yeah, that's not It's
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: not a lot for a thirty something man. And he
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: struggles with it. And I just think if you're running
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  Speaker 1: for something, if you're a public figure, you got to know,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: beyond a shadow of a doubt, what you're capable of.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: You put yourself in that position. Also, in this case,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: there's a standing narrative that men of the Democratic Party
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: are affet are liberal? Are we not do things like
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: lift weights? So if that's the narrative, you do everything
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: you can not to play into it and he did
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of embarrassing to watch, but I
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: think you got.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: A lot of attention too. I was like x CEOs
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: wrote it up.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: They were like, yeah, I think Hubris is the correct.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Really thing there, as famous New York or Biggie Small said,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: never get high on your own supply, and I think
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: that's exactly what Zorn I'm Donie has done here.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and here's the thing about both the racist
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: sign in Arlington or this event. The truth is that
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: campaigns change in these weird symbolic moments. That doesn't mean
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that either one of these Democrats isn't going to win, right,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: they can still win. Yeah, these are moments that stick
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: in people's minds. They go, oh wait, I thought that
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: guy was like a dude's dude. I thought he was
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: somebody we could mix it up with. He seemed like that. Now,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: by the way, he was called Mom's scrawny. To his credit,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: put up a lot of weight or put up the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: same amount of wait, plenty of times with no help.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Someone else also noted, and I want to be bipartisan
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and fair, that Jamal Bowman that's his name, right, The
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: guy who was primaried out that he can bench four
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: o five. So I just want to point it out there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I want to be fair, good for him, good for her.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: He now he's not a congressman. That's why he got
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: immediately stronger after he was not a Democratic congressman anymore.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Anyway, that's what a herd.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I could see that, you know, like the Democrats being like, hey,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: we have somebody who knows how to bench press right now,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: we got.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: To get this how it does. Yeah, but yeah, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: think it's I don't want to be unfair to people who,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you know, not everybody benches, not everybody lifts. No, but
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: know your limits before you for your limits yourself in
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: that position.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. We'll be right back with stories you may have
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: missed from this wild weekend. Welcome back on normally. And
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I have to start this one off because I think
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: that this is just sort of interesting to me that
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: this did not hit at all. Andrew Kaczynski he posts
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: under a k file. He's a CNN senior politics reporter.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: He's known for digging up stories like really like things
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: people forgot or didn't know, and he posted over the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: weekend that Julane Maxwell was an honored guest at prestigious
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Clinton event in twenty thirteen, years after abuse allegation against
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: her were publicly known. Information we reviewed showed her on
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: a list recommended for free access by either Bill or
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton, per a source familiar. The weird thing about
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: this is it did not resonate at all. He got
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: four hundred and sixteen retweets on that, and I just
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: feel like that's nothing. Obviously, the left doesn't want to
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: highlight this because they're trying to tie Epstein to Donald Trump,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: But a lot of the Epstein obsessed people on the
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: right didn't talk about this at all either. Now that
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: might be because Donald Trump said, we're not talking about
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: this anymore, or my own personal conspiracy theory, because we're
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: in a world of conspiracy theories with this Jeffrey Epstein.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Thing altogether is that a lot of the people that
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: incessantly talk about Epstein on the right are just trying
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to hurt Trump with it. Also, So yeah, I think
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: take that with your grain of self. But that's my take.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Well, and I think there's a third take, which is
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: that in any contest between Trump's base and Trump, when
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the wins, Trump is going to win. Yeah, you can
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: take it to the bank like that. That is the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: lesson that everyone must learn. And like, sometimes I'm not
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: gonna like it, and sometimes I am gonna like it,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: but gonna be the victor when it comes to a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: break between him and his base. Yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Another story from this weekend that I felt was a
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: little undercovered. Summer box office for Hollywood won't reach four billion,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: which is what they thought it would. It hit about
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: three point five, which is higher than I would expect honestly,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: because I think all of these films are terrible, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I just I never go to the movies. Nothing looks
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: even remotely good to me. But some of the things
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: that they talked about being highly grossing are Lelo and Stitch,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Jurassic World Rebirth, How to Train a Dragon another one,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Superman again. Again, these are all remakes or familiar things,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: nothing new. I don't know. Do you watch movies.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I I do not go to the movie theater often.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I would like to see Naked Gun, which is another remake,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: but I have heard good things about it, and I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: would like to see Naked Gun in the theater because
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: it's good to support comedies in the theater because I
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: want them to make more comedies, and I've heard it's
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: quite good. So, but it's always like best laid plans,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: you know, like me getting out to a movie theater
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: is not easy, right, And here's the thing. My husband
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: used to talk about this all during the pandemic. Once
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you have broken people's habits, the chances that they will
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: revive them the same way that they had them before
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: are very low. So with meeting it with going to church.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Another bad one that went by the wayside during the pandemic.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Going to theaters. The idea of taking our full family
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: to a theater is expensive, tough. It could be fun,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: but it also could be a total dud depending on
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: what the movie does. So when I'm presented with the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: choice of theater versus my home, and I am very
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: often because just allow me to stream it at home,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick around the house, right.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I can't even now that you mention it, and my
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: kids are older by fifteen, twelve and nine, I don't
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: think we've been to a movie the five of us,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I mean definitely not since the pandemic twenty twenty.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Is who they need to be reaching and my families
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: who they need to be reaching and By the way,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: they haven't figured out how to advertise to me. Instagram
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: ads can be served to me for any other thing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Do I hear about children's movies? No? Never.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't even know Lilan Stitch came out neither.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So I don't know how the big studios are missing
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: how to advertise to people like me, and they should
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: work on that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Speaking of things that we haven't recovered from you from
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the pandemic, the New York Times as we're going to
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: as we're airing this, just published something that they're worried
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: that all the people that left blue states now means
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the Democrats will have a harder time winning and the
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: next census, the Democrats are going to suffer some losses. Yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I don't feel bad for you at all.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Now. This is I remember I used to get very
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: frustrated because there wasn't an immediate political backlash for COVID policies,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and I was like, are people just going to memory
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: hole this? Are they not going to be mad about it?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: And there was a little in Virginia where Yunkin was elected,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and then I think a larger backlash came in twenty
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: twenty four, and it came in people willing to vote
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: for Trump and moving away from the Democratic Party for
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: all of the insanity that they had served up from
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty to twenty twenty four. And this is like
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the real deal. This one is you drove a bunch
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of people out of your states with these horrible dare
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I say, sometimes fascist and authoritarian policies. They left, they
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: ain't coming back, and in many places like Florida, Georgia,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: they end up being converted to centrist or right leaning
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: people right keep those states red and then those red
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: states get more electoral college votes and get more representation
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and Congress.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Or they just drove out the people who were voting
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Republican but still represented numbers for your electoral college vote.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: They didn't consider that, you know. I both Andrew Cuomo
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and Kathy Hokeel made comments like if you don't like it,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: moved to Florida, and then a bunch of us did,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and now they may lose electoral votes because of that,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Like you know, you're bad.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, by the way, I just want to note this
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: because I forgot to note it in the first segment
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: or in our second second. But mom Donnie is suggesting
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: getting rid of misdemeanor charges entirely. So get ready, I
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: guess for another flood of thanks to Florida, because I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: feel like this isn't gonna go well, yeah, the city.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: It's pretty bad. One of the things that The New
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: York Times found in this thing Nick Corrassani Ti, who
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: posted this, he does politics voting democracy reporter for the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: New York Times. He said that if a Democratic in
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: twenty thirty to a Democratic presidential candidate who wins Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: and Nevada still loses the presidency, I mean, whoopsie, really,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe you should have thought of this as
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I can let you know from my new home of Florida.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, this is the blue Wall gone right.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: The blue Wall has been weakened because Trump was able
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to make inroads places that other Republicans were not Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And this is the you know, just that on steroids,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: because he did it through hard work and through appealing
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to these folks, and then the Democrats helped him by
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: sending a bunch of folks to the South, to otherwise
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: red states, and the past of the presidency is going
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: to get much much harder for Democrats in the future.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And that's what a lot of this redistricting screaming is about, right.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: It is the death throes of people who are looking
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: down the barrel at the twenty thirty census that's going
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to be very bad for them.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: If only someone would have said something during the pandemic
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: that all these things we're doing are going to have percussions,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Mary Catherine, why didn't anybody tell them? I know, if
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: only we had spoken out. Well, thank you for joining
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