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Mike Gallagher Podcast - Monday October 5 2026 | Midterms, Pike Execution, Kennedy for President? · Salem Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a meeting of the minds crafted from decades
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  Speaker 1: of talk show experience. An extension of the magic they've
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  Speaker 1: created together on radio in the phenomenon called M & M.
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  Speaker 1: Hot topics in the news and wisdom from life. It's
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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher. This is M & M Extra.
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  Speaker 2: It is the 5th of October and here in Texas
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  Speaker 2: where I am and maybe where you are. I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know where you are, wherever you are. We're so
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  Speaker 2: grateful to have you here. Boy, first of all, here's
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  Speaker 2: the clue. Look at this. If you're watching, what are these?
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  Speaker 2: I scarcely recognize them. They're long sleeves. What is this?
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  Speaker 2: What kind of sorcery is this? It's long sleeves. Haven't
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  Speaker 2: needed this in seemingly forever. It was like 64 when
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  Speaker 2: I got in the car this morning. And if you're
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  Speaker 2: listening in Michigan, it's probably snowing already. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: Texas thing, so just ride with me here a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And do me the honor of riding with me solo.
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  Speaker 2: Our buddy Mike Gallagher, the other M in this M &
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  Speaker 2: M Extra Enterprise. I'm Mark Davis, longtime DFW talk show
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  Speaker 2: host here on 660 AM The Answer and the Salem
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  Speaker 2: Media Group Wonderland. And Mike, of course, has been a
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  Speaker 2: national radio fixture forever. And every once in a while,
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  Speaker 2: we both get time off. And when that happens, doggone it,
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  Speaker 2: the other guy just steps up. And such is the
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  Speaker 2: case today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Mike is back on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have some big shindig planned, and who knows what
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  Speaker 2: will have happened by then. But in the meantime, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for hanging out with us wherever you do, and thanks
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  Speaker 2: for the people who make it all possible, like our
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  Speaker 2: friends at Preborn. You can stand for life today. By
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  Speaker 2: joining us and providing ultrasounds to girls and women, you
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  Speaker 2: will double the likelihood she will choose life. Just call 833-850-BABY, 833-850-BABY,
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  Speaker 2: or go to preborn.com slash mmextra. That is preborn.com slash mmextra.
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  Speaker 2: More on those good people later on. So there's some
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  Speaker 2: good people we're trying to get across the finish line
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  Speaker 2: here in the midterms. I played the Angela Paxton ad
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  Speaker 2: on my local show this morning. If Ken Paxton's wife
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  Speaker 2: can see her way clear to some courage and some
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  Speaker 2: clarity and say, I love the way she phrases it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the elephant in the room, she says.
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  Speaker 2: Useful because the elephant is, of course, the mascot of
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party, and the elephant in the room concept
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  Speaker 2: is the thing that everybody knows is there, but you
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  Speaker 2: just don't want to talk about. And she said, look,
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk about it. Sometimes it's not about the individuals
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  Speaker 2: on the team, but getting the entire team across the
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  Speaker 2: finish line. What a creative, wonderful, and inspiring way for
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  Speaker 2: her to get on board and do what it is.
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  Speaker 2: For her to be able to do this and John
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  Speaker 2: Cornyn can't, I can't even. I just can't even. And
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  Speaker 2: with regard to the midterms, the war and affordability are
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be the things that are the albatrosses around
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  Speaker 2: our necks as Republicans. And look, affordability is real. Things
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  Speaker 2: are expensive. But on both the war and affordability, is
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  Speaker 2: there any universe in which Democrats have better answers? Is
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  Speaker 2: there any Democrat who is, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona
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  Speaker 2: talked about his affordability plan and took about 30 seconds
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  Speaker 2: for him to get into tax increases. Tax increases? Does
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  Speaker 2: that make anything more affordable for anybody? So as Republicans
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  Speaker 2: get this question time and time and time again, let's
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  Speaker 2: try something crazy. pivot it back and say, okay, ask
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  Speaker 2: any Democrat, what would you do to make it better?
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you a clip of Fox News. This
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  Speaker 2: is cut six. Affordability, my answer is, red states are
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  Speaker 2: more affordable than blue states. Let's run America like a
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  Speaker 2: red state. Would that take 30 seconds? Iran might take
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  Speaker 2: a little bit longer, but I have asked rhetorically and directly,
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  Speaker 2: and I ask you now, shouldn't it be worth something
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  Speaker 2: Can we all grasp that a non-nuclear Iran is safer?
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  Speaker 2: It means it's safer for the region, safer for Israel,
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  Speaker 2: safer for the Middle East, and safer for us, U.S.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a snippet of Fox News coverage. This
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  Speaker 2: is cut six, essentially talking about something I think we
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  Speaker 2: should be able to garner some appreciation for, that Iran
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  Speaker 2: is just not a nuclear power anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Go.
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  Speaker 4: We have a decision that I'll make about Iran. Iran's
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  Speaker 4: been decimated. So the only question is, it'll either be
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  Speaker 4: the easy way or the hard way. We'll have it
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  Speaker 4: the easy way or the hard way.
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  Speaker 2: What's your question?
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  Speaker 3: What's your question?
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  Speaker 4: I inherited high costs from the Democrats or the Democrats,
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  Speaker 4: as I call them, because their policy is so bad.
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  Speaker 4: But we inherited a lot and we've gotten the prices down.
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  Speaker 4: Oil is coming down. Oil is right now lower and
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  Speaker 4: it's been lower than it was under the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 4: And they did nothing about the fact that Iran cannot
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  Speaker 4: have a nuclear weapon. By the way, Iran, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: is virtually giving up any plans of a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: That ought to be worth something. Iran has given up
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  Speaker 2: a plan for a nuclear weapon. Now, you want $ 10 gas?
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  Speaker 2: Get Iran a nuclear weapon. Because then it's like, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to shut down the Strait. We're going to have
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  Speaker 2: $ 9 or $ 10 gas. What are we going to do
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  Speaker 2: about it? What can we do about it? Because Iran
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  Speaker 2: has a nuke. But they don't. And the war, the
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  Speaker 2: very admittedly dicey and unpopular war we're in is why.
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  Speaker 2: But Iran without a nuke is good. Red states are
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  Speaker 2: better than blue states on affordability. So can we lather, rinse,
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  Speaker 2: and repeat on that for the coming 29 days? Here's
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  Speaker 2: something we repeat a lot around here, and that is
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  Speaker 2: Mike's journey with PhD weight loss. And it's just been
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  Speaker 2: an inspiring thing because you can tell. It's kind of
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  Speaker 2: funny because we don't do full body shots here on
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  Speaker 2: the podcast. It's probably a good thing. But in Mike's case,
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  Speaker 2: it would be a slimmer Mike. And you can kind
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  Speaker 2: of tell in somebody's face, in their neck, in their face.
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  Speaker 2: just the way they present even from the neck up.
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  Speaker 2: And so as Mike has described, PhD weight loss has
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  Speaker 2: been an amazing, amazing journey. But Dr. Ashley Lucas and
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  Speaker 2: her team and their client data survey reveal that eight
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  Speaker 2: out of 10 PhD clients dropped 10% or more of
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  Speaker 2: their body weight and 96% reported better energy. So you
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  Speaker 2: can schedule a consultation today and And see what Mike
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  Speaker 2: already knows. Mention Mike G when you call him. He'll
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  Speaker 2: give you the number and the website in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: And you get two free weeks in the program. They'll
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  Speaker 2: even cover the cost of your food. That adds up
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  Speaker 2: to about $ 1, 500. So there's Ashley Lucas telling you about
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  Speaker 2: it there on the B-roll. And her team is just great.
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  Speaker 2: And the phone number is 864-644-1900.
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  Speaker 3: That's 864-644-1900.
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  Speaker 2: 1900 to go to myphdweightloss.com. Mention Mike G or Mike
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  Speaker 2: and Mark or Eminem Extra. They'll know what you're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: and that will enable them to help you out as
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  Speaker 2: well they should. Now, speaking of helping people out, Mike
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  Speaker 2: and I have been joined at the hip and joined
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  Speaker 2: corporately and joined with Food for the Poor for some
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  Speaker 2: years now because these are amazing people. What have you
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  Speaker 2: eaten today? What have you had for breakfast? What have
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  Speaker 2: you had for lunch if you're catching this later in
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  Speaker 2: the day? Chances are it was whatever you wanted because
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  Speaker 2: you had the ability to eat. Take that for granted much?
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  Speaker 2: Been to Guatemala? Been to Haiti?
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 2: Mike and I went to Guatemala some years ago and
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  Speaker 2: saw what the people of Food for the Poor are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine being a mother and you got three kids and
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  Speaker 2: you have enough food for one. What do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Feed that one kid and tell the other two, hey, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Spread it out really thinly so that all three kids
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  Speaker 2: get something but they're still hungry. Would you like to
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  Speaker 2: do something about that? People in our hemisphere, the neediest
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  Speaker 2: of the needy, and something that this magnificent faith-based organization
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  Speaker 2: is doing every day. And I've seen it. Listen, I've
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  Speaker 2: done a lot of advertising for a lot of charities,
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  Speaker 2: and I know the good work they do. But in
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  Speaker 2: this particular case, I know firsthand. I've held these children
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  Speaker 2: in my arms in these impoverished countries. Kids who are alive,
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  Speaker 2: kids who are eating, moms who can have a kind
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  Speaker 2: of a job and subsist. This is not about just
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  Speaker 2: throwing money or even throwing food at people. It is
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  Speaker 2: doing something so that they don't need to all come
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  Speaker 2: here to America and so that they can all be
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  Speaker 2: subsisting and thriving in their own countries. And here's what
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  Speaker 2: you do. Text FFTP, like food for the poor, text
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  Speaker 2: FFTP to 51555. Those letters, FFTP to 51555. Throw them
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  Speaker 2: 20 bucks. Throw them 100 if you got it. But
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  Speaker 2: if you can do this for me today, I'll appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Michael will appreciate it. Food for the Poor will appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: You know who will really appreciate it? A family, a
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  Speaker 2: child that gets to eat today who otherwise might not have.
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  Speaker 2: Food for the Poor, we love them. And I can't
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  Speaker 2: say enough good things about these people. They deserve your treasures,
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  Speaker 2: your love, your prayers. So it's biblical that where our
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  Speaker 2: money goes, where our treasure goes, that's where our minds
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  Speaker 2: and hearts are. My mind and heart is always with
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  Speaker 2: these kids and what I've been able to help them
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  Speaker 2: out with with Food for the Poor. Text FFTP to 51555.
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  Speaker 2: That's FFTP to 51555. All right. I can't get this
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  Speaker 2: botched execution out of my head. Krista Pike, she's still alive.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: This was, well, we tried to stick her with the
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  Speaker 2: needle and we're pumping stuff through her and the woman
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  Speaker 2: just would not die. Well, what do you do? What do?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm serious. What do you do? The law.
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  Speaker 2: The law requires her to be dead. Like now she's not,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to drag her out in the parking
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  Speaker 2: lot and put a bullet in her head, even though
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  Speaker 2: some people have suggested that, but we have got to
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  Speaker 2: figure out a way for this to not be such
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  Speaker 2: a dog and pony show. I don't. And there's a theory.
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  Speaker 2: Mike had it, shared it with me. He's not the
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  Speaker 2: only person who has shared it with you, probably kind
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  Speaker 2: of a conspiracy narrative that someone who just doesn't like
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  Speaker 2: the death penalty sabotaged her execution so that it would
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  Speaker 2: be messy, so that it would fail. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it happened, but I certainly can't
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  Speaker 2: discount it. So what do we do with this woman
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  Speaker 2: who is a brutal murderer? This is cut eight. Her attorney,
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Farrell, with a little update on his still alive client. Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Farrell, your team said in a court filing that Ms.
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  Speaker 5: Pike is in the hospital on a ventilator. What's her
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  Speaker 5: condition this morning?
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  Speaker 6: It remains the same. She's still in the hospital on
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  Speaker 6: a ventilator, critically ill. We don't really know the prognosis
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  Speaker 6: yet and may not know for several days.
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  Speaker 5: Was she ever conscious after this? Has she been able
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  Speaker 5: to say anything?
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  Speaker 6: Not that I am aware of, no.
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  Speaker 5: On Thursday night, the hospital staff was trying to clear
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  Speaker 5: the two doses of pentobarbital from her body.
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  Speaker 1: Were they able to?
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  Speaker 6: No, that's still the ongoing process right now.
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  Speaker 5: Have the doctors been able to explain at all how
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  Speaker 5: she survived these two attempts at execution?
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  Speaker 6: They haven't, and I need to emphasize that we are
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  Speaker 6: not getting... We're not consulting directly with the doctor. She
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  Speaker 6: has a medical power of attorney that gives us information.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure what all they may have told that person,
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  Speaker 6: but this is the extent of what we know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this I don't know if this was a sabotage.
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  Speaker 2: I do know we need to get better at executing people.
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  Speaker 2: I witnessed an execution in Florida in 1984. It was
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  Speaker 2: old Sparky, the electric chair. Yeah, that was direct. That
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  Speaker 2: didn't take long. Firing squads, those tend to be fairly
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  Speaker 2: effective and it's kind of old school, but just whatever
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  Speaker 2: it takes so that we can do this and do
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  Speaker 2: this efficiently and do it reliably because the death penalty
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  Speaker 2: is symmetrical. It's funny, a lot of people say, well,
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  Speaker 2: what about thou shalt not kill? That commandment is thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt not murder. And if Anybody has a moral quandary
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  Speaker 2: with this. First of all, just consult your Bible, because
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  Speaker 2: the Bible doesn't. Nothing God or Jesus ever said contradicts
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  Speaker 2: the death penalty. But if anybody is kind of struggling
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  Speaker 2: with this, like, I don't know, is it right for
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  Speaker 2: us through the law to consciously, proactively take somebody's life?
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  Speaker 2: The reason I say yes is because innocent life is sacred.
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  Speaker 2: And please understand, Add that adjective. Innocent life is sacred.
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  Speaker 2: You say, well, all life is sacred.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: If somebody's hovering over my wife with a switchblade, they're
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  Speaker 2: dead in my house. Their life no longer sacred. If
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  Speaker 2: you're in a just war, if it's World War II,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an American, you're a German soldier, it's 1944, your
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  Speaker 2: life not sacred.
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  Speaker 1: Boom.
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  Speaker 2: Innocent life is sacred. Without that modifier, it is moral idiocy.
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  Speaker 2: So to tie a bow around this. We take the
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  Speaker 2: lives of people who take innocent life because innocent life
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  Speaker 2: is sacred. Because innocent life is sacred, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: take yours because of what you have done. I hope
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense. I know that relief factor makes sense,
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  Speaker 2: makes sense for me, makes sense for Mike, and it's
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  Speaker 2: The reason they say, why three weeks? Because it didn't
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  Speaker 2: even take me three weeks to get my shoulder situation resolved.
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  Speaker 2: And some of those early morning aches that you get
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  Speaker 2: when you're 68 years old, maybe you know, maybe you
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  Speaker 2: know a little something about that. And maybe you'd like
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  Speaker 2: So I mentioned, we always mention at the top of
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  Speaker 2: each show about our friends at Preborn and what they do.
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  Speaker 2: Something great happened here on M & M Extra last week.
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  Speaker 2: Mike and I, because they're, let me give you the
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  Speaker 2: levels of kindness that you can show for pre-born. What
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  Speaker 2: pre-born is, you can see there on the B-roll, pregnant woman,
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  Speaker 2: little pregnant belly, got the gel, got the sonogram thing going,
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  Speaker 2: got the ultrasound going. Because this is what women need
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  Speaker 2: to see as they are thinking about abortion. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: take a look at what is at issue here. And women... Girls,
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  Speaker 2: an unwanted pregnancy, I'll never understand firsthand, but I understand
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  Speaker 2: intellectually and emotionally and morally how tough that's got to be.
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  Speaker 2: So your choices are to be a mom. Well, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be a mom. But if you're not up
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  Speaker 2: for the next 18 years, adoption, adoption, adoption, adoption. These
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  Speaker 2: And when you see the ultrasound, you are twice as
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to mention. That's the $ 15, 000 ultrasound machine. You
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  Speaker 2: got 15 grand? Hey, if you do, we'll gladly take
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  Speaker 2: it and talk nice about you for a really long time.
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  Speaker 2: Because what that does is it buys the whole ultrasound machine.
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  Speaker 2: So you just put that somewhere and just save lives
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  Speaker 2: all the live long day. What a great idea that is.
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  Speaker 2: So Mike and I had an idea that we would
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  Speaker 2: have sort of an M & M Extra ultrasound machine
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  Speaker 2: with five listeners slash viewers. So we took five people
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  Speaker 2: at $ 3, 000 a piece, and we're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: and we got it. Took us just a few days.
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  Speaker 5: Boom.
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  Speaker 2: We got it. Wrap it up. Listen, this having worked,
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  Speaker 2: we may just do that again. So stay tuned for that,
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  Speaker 2: and we will let you know. In the meantime, I
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  Speaker 2: want to let you know about the great work they
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  Speaker 2: do at Preborn. 833-850-BABY, 833-850-BABY, or preborn.com slash mmextra. OK,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: what do we think? Last couple of minutes here. What
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: do we think of Senator John Kennedy? I like his
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: folksy down home by you isms. I mean, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: He's great. There's something about the last couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just don't know. Is he getting
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: tired of Trump, tired of MAGA? I don't know. There
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: have been some let his his clips have been, shall
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: we say, less than inspiring of late. Now, look, if
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  Speaker 2: he wants to, he was raising Cain over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: about president trump giving out tom cotton's cell phone number
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  Speaker 2: on this entire daylight savings time imbroglio all right okay
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  Speaker 2: i get it yeah listen i don't even know if
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  Speaker 2: that's tom phone how many cell phones does tom cotton
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  Speaker 2: have is that maybe the one that's more congressional staff
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: than anything else whatever the earth does not spin wildly
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: out of its orbit for me on that story But
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I think the John Kennedy quote is that Trump can
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: go from zero to a-hole in about three seconds. All right, whatever, sir.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: We got midterms to win. Can you get on board?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: He was even talking about the Ken Paxton race, Paxton
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: and Tallarico here in Texas, as just an unpopularity contest.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Everybody hates both of them. Well, that's just simply not true.
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  Speaker 2: Conservatives here in Texas are ready to walk through fire
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  Speaker 2: and crawl on broken glass to get Paxton to the
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  Speaker 2: finish line, and doggone it, God willing, we're going to
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: do it in 29 days. So in the midst of
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: all of this, and I don't know where this came from,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Senator Kennedy is, what, 74? He's looking good and healthy
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: for 74. Do we need more octogenarian presidents? And I mean,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I guess he could get one term in there, but
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: he'd be 76. Anyway, the idea arose. of Senator Kennedy,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: John Kennedy, running for president. Look, Trump's 80. He's great.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: The number, the age is not the most important thing.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: It's what's in your head, what's in your heart, what's
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: in your spine. So Kristen Welker, I guess, doesn't meet
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the press. Ask Senator Kennedy. This is cut for, hey,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: people are talking about you running for president. Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: And first, let me correct Rahm. Rahm's running for president.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: If you don't believe that, you'll never own your own home.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: My plans right now are to run for reelection. But
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: as I've said before, if I don't think I can
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: be effective in the Senate anymore, I would consider it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: You know, what's the old judge song? Why not me
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: on a rainy day? Why not me to love your
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  Speaker 3: blues away? But I haven't made a decision. If a
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: bunch of on my side of the aisle, if a
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: bunch of goobers run and I think they're good. and
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: one of the goobers might win and I think I
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: could do a better job, I would consider running. But
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: right now I'm running for reelection.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: You can take this one.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: You'd likely be running against Vice President J.D.
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  Speaker 6: Vance.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Why should Republican voters pick you over J.D. Vance?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not going to talk about another potential candidate.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I'm just not there yet.
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  Speaker 2: I assume J.D.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: 's going to run, just like I think Rom's going
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: to run. But I think it'll be good for both parties.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: So I guess the question I'd like to ask John
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Kennedy is, is J.D. Vance a goober? Is Ron DeSantis
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: a goober? Is Marco Rubio a goober? What's a goober?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: You know, I obviously know what it is. It's a
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: candidate that Senator Kennedy would consider to be foolish and unworthy.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: The problem is I'm no longer certain and comfortable that
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: John Kennedy's radar on who is worthy is as good
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: as I once thought it was. So he's a senator.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: That's great. He's good most of the time. Let's go
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: with that. I'm going to give a respectful yet hard
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: no on John Kennedy running for president. I think we
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: have the bench strength to do pretty well in 2028.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: But before 2028, we have 28 days, at least tomorrow.
• 21:10
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• 21:16
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• 21:19
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• 21:21
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• 21:26
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• 21:31
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• 21:34
  Speaker 2: happens tomorrow will happen tomorrow. And then we'll be back
• 21:37
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• 21:39
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• 21:42
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• 21:48
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• 21:50
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