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Today’s Popcorn Moment: Trump to Erika Kirk: Sue their asses off · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: Tony Kats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff to talk about. It is time
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  Speaker 1: for us to do the thing they do every single
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  Speaker 1: day at this time. It is time for a popcorn moment.
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  Speaker 1: So go ahead and get that gone. The popcorn moment
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  Speaker 1: to me yesterday, well it probably should have been Artemis two.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't help talking about that as much as I
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  Speaker 1: already have. So I'm going to go with this. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump spotting Erica Kirk sitting at a table in front
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  Speaker 1: of him while he was speaking to people and giving
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  Speaker 1: her some advice. I want to do about all the horrible,
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  Speaker 1: terrible people out there that have been commenting about Erica,
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  Speaker 1: talking about you know, the conspiracy theories around here are
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  Speaker 1: just stupid comedians that do borderline pretty racist, like not
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  Speaker 1: even borderline, just actually racist stuff. He's got very simple
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  Speaker 1: advice for her.
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  Speaker 2: Happy anybody that doesn't want on loud darling. Wow, this
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  Speaker 2: is a good take. I like that table. You're doing well, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I think you should sue them, but I told you
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  Speaker 2: you are to sue some of these they're so jealous
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  Speaker 2: of Erica. I said, you're to sue there are I
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  Speaker 2: can say, you're not allowed to say that you have
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  Speaker 2: to be nicer. Sue their ass off.
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  Speaker 1: A meant to that advice. I think that is excellent advice.
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  Speaker 1: You should sue their asses off, because everyone out there
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  Speaker 1: not just saying conspiracy theory crazy stuff about Erica, is
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  Speaker 1: also just being like, uniquely mean. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to say that differently. I know, let me let me
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  Speaker 1: explain that what I mean by that, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: mean that we should be quiet in our society if
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  Speaker 1: we think there's a legitimate reason to criticize something, even
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  Speaker 1: if that something we're criticizing winds up making us quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote mean, Like, I don't think the behavior itself dictates
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  Speaker 1: that we have to be quiet. However, if I were
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  Speaker 1: ever going to say that you deserve to give someone
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  Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt, as far as as a
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  Speaker 1: person goes, it's the widow of someone who's spouse, it's
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  Speaker 1: a widow, it's someone who's spouse has been killed, And
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  Speaker 1: especially the graphic way in which Erica Kirk's husband was
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  Speaker 1: killed and everybody watched it like that even more so
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  Speaker 1: makes me think there's be some level of humanity in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of this. And then I'll even go another
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  Speaker 1: step further. Since she's such a deeply faith person, a
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  Speaker 1: deeply Christian person, I think that another component to maybe
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  Speaker 1: some of the behavior that people have thought was odd
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  Speaker 1: comes from a place of her faith. Whether she believes
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  Speaker 1: that her husband is in a better place now, so
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  Speaker 1: there can be a mixed set of sadness and emotions
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  Speaker 1: of missing someone but then also being comforted by something
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of the people who are criticizing Erica
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  Speaker 1: Kirk don't believe in the afterlife and the belief that
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  Speaker 1: Charlie is with God. There's just there's a myriad of
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  Speaker 1: reasons to think that Erica Kirk's behavior is the typical
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  Speaker 1: behavior of someone going through an unimaginable tragedy and trying
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  Speaker 1: to cope with it while also trying to then step
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  Speaker 1: in into the forefront of a company, an organization that
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  Speaker 1: she's tasked with leading because Charlie Kirk was killed. But
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  Speaker 1: it's just surreal to watch all of this stuff, all
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  Speaker 1: of this back and forth kind of crap out there,
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  Speaker 1: and the amount of people that seem to hate her,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna play it one more time because
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  Speaker 1: it's the popcorn moment, and also I just really liked
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  Speaker 1: it because I heavily agree with it. Sue their asses off.
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  Speaker 2: Happy anybody that doesn't want on loud darling. Wow, that's
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  Speaker 2: a good trip. I like that table. You're doing well, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I think you should sue them. But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: told her you are to sue somebod these they're so
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  Speaker 2: jealous of Erica. I said to sue, there are I
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  Speaker 2: can say. You're not allowed to say that. You have
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  Speaker 2: to be nicer. Sue their ass off.
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  Speaker 1: It is something to choose to just do nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the face of the way she's being treated by a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. But it's sort of admirable. I would
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  Speaker 1: say that too, even though I'm probably fall in the
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  Speaker 1: camp of President Trump. I would like to sue their
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  Speaker 1: asses off if it were me and this amount of
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  Speaker 1: people saying ridiculous stuff about my life and my family.
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  Speaker 1: But I do. I will say this last thing, And
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to be preachy. I know that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about faith, especially people who are not religious,
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  Speaker 1: that it sounds preachy. But I think there's probably something
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  Speaker 1: very aligned with her faith and her behavior so far
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  Speaker 1: in the way people are treating her, and her attempt
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  Speaker 1: to just move past it. I think there's something that
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  Speaker 1: probably comes from her belief in God that causes her
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  Speaker 1: to even do that, to not sue people. Even the
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  Speaker 1: attempt to sit down with Candice Owans and not actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, attack her publicly was something that I thought
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  Speaker 1: was interesting. She did answer questions when asked them about Candace,
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  Speaker 1: but she never tried to be a person yelling and
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  Speaker 1: screaming into microphones herself about how horrible Candis Owans is,
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  Speaker 1: which I have no idea again, how I would handle
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  Speaker 1: any of this if my loved one was killed and
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  Speaker 1: then a whole lot of people were crazily blaming me
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  Speaker 1: somehow for that person's death. All right, there's other stuff
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  Speaker 1: out there to talk about. And Gary Meyer radio Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Famer, I will be coming up after the break
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  Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Here. We will do a Facebook
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  Speaker 1: marketplace like we always do. But the Radio Hall of Famer,
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  Speaker 1: that's a friend of mine that I worked for. I
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  Speaker 1: was his producer for years at WGN Radio in Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: and Gary was one of the best people I ever
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  Speaker 1: worked with. And you know, what's funny about I'll just
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  Speaker 1: say this real quick. This isn't intent to be a
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  Speaker 1: Gary Meyer preview topic segment whatever, But it's funny because, like,
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  Speaker 1: you work with some people that wind up being absolute
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  Speaker 1: legends already probably are legends in your field, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they're the nicest people you work with, and you even
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  Speaker 1: hear from the periphery. And this actually might go back
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  Speaker 1: to the thing that President Trump said about Erica Kirk
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  Speaker 1: weirdly in saying that people were jealous of Erica and
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  Speaker 1: that's why they're behaving the way they're behaving because they
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  Speaker 1: want control of Turning Point USA and she has it,
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  Speaker 1: or they're jealous of something else about her. But the
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  Speaker 1: funny thing is that when you know somebody who's pretty successful,
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  Speaker 1: everybody says they're a terrible person. You hear from afar
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  Speaker 1: all the time, like that person to a jerk, they're
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  Speaker 1: good luck working with them, YadA, YadA, YadA. I remember
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  Speaker 1: when I first got the gig of being the producer
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  Speaker 1: for Gary Meyer at WGEN and that there were people
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  Speaker 1: that told me he was a complete jerk. I remember
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  Speaker 1: like people were like, watch out, you better be careful.
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  Speaker 1: And then after you work with the guy. You're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that's not a hymn problem, that's a them problem.
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  Speaker 1: That's something where someone else is obsessive for some reason
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  Speaker 1: as far as success or something goes. And I know
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  Speaker 1: a couple listeners here in Indianapolis had reached out to
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  Speaker 1: the station when I name dropped Gary before saying that
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  Speaker 1: we should have him as a guest on the show.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna go ahead and do that. I know
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  Speaker 1: that he was a big deal in Chicago and throughout
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  Speaker 1: the Midwest, so I assume a lot of listeners in
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Gary and some of the shows that he was
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  Speaker 1: connected to. But I guess just to to put a
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  Speaker 1: ribbon on that entire thought, it's funny sometimes to hear
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  Speaker 1: people talk about other individuals when they're in the same profession,
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  Speaker 1: the same orbit, and how you know, terrible they are
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  Speaker 1: when the people that they're usually crapping on are probably
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  Speaker 1: more successful than the people that are doing the crapping on.
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  Speaker 1: If you hear from less successful people their opinions of
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  Speaker 1: more successful people, by and large, I think you get
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  Speaker 1: a pretty tainted viewpoint, which is interesting and maybe some
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  Speaker 1: byproduct of that too also could be said about Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe President Trump also got targeted a lot for the
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  Speaker 1: amount of people that say he's a terrible person and
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  Speaker 1: hate him, regardless of what may or may not be
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  Speaker 1: true of some of the things they say about our
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  Speaker 1: current president. I just think it's interesting that maybe ever
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  Speaker 1: since he was a big name in building in New York,
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  Speaker 1: in construction and you know, all kinds of things, and
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  Speaker 1: rich person and loved by the left. I said this
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  Speaker 1: on my show in Texas yesterday, and I'll just mention
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  Speaker 1: it here again. It is so weird to go into
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  Speaker 1: the world of when President Trump was being interviewed by
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  Speaker 1: left leaning humans and far left people like Colbert and others.
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  Speaker 1: It's so weird to watch that because it feels like
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  Speaker 1: a parallel universe compared to the society we live in.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a point where they all loved him,
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  Speaker 1: they all thought he was great, and now they all
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  Speaker 1: hate him, and it's so interesting to see because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it might just be driven by jealousy and
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  Speaker 1: other things. But I don't know. All right, I rambled
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  Speaker 1: through that whole segment. I meant to talk about a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff. I ran out of time. We
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  Speaker 1: got to take a break. Paul's going to do some
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  Speaker 1: traffic for us in just a second, and then after
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  Speaker 1: that we'll have Gary Meyer, radio Hall of Famer on
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  Speaker 1: to chat about all kinds of things. I think the
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis cults are a specific thing he wanted to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: even though they're not playing right now, so that's coming
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  Speaker 1: up in a bit