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The Erin Molan Show - Fox News Host WARNS Republicans You're Missing Something BIG About the Midterms! · Salem Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Candidates before casting those ballots i really tried to hit
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  Speaker 1: the introduction hard not realizing we should pace ourselves it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a busy eight days between now.
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  Speaker 2: And next tuesday yeah you get deep breaths deep breaths.
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  Speaker 1: Todd pyro you're watching fox and friends first here on
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  Speaker 1: a monday morning join me now thanks for being here
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  Speaker 1: lady samantha i'll begin with you what issues are the
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  Speaker 1: deciding factors for you Well.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Cost of living is certainly way up there.
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  Speaker 5: We're talking about we're having soaring property tax issues, the utilities.
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  Speaker 4: We're starting to add data centers, amongst other things.
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  Speaker 5: If you're on Fox News in America, President Trump watches
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  Speaker 5: a lot. So is it nerve wracking knowing that at
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  Speaker 5: any time he could put out a truth social post,
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  Speaker 5: either completely in love with what you're saying or or
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  Speaker 5: admonishing you to the entire world. Todd Pirro is, well,
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  Speaker 5: one of the most familiar faces on Fox. I watch
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  Speaker 5: him here in Australia every night.
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  Speaker 4: He's the early Fox and Friends show.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to ask him about that, talk to him
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  Speaker 5: about the midterms, of course, and his own story.
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  Speaker 3: Go.
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  Speaker 5: Todd Pyro, it is such an honour to have you
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  Speaker 5: on the show. I feel like you are part of
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  Speaker 5: my bedtime routine here in Australia. I watch you at
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  Speaker 5: 7pm and then I go to bed at 8. So welcome,
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  Speaker 5: welcome to my show. Thank you for returning the favour.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of things. Thank you for having me, too.
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  Speaker 3: Do you mean that like I put you to sleep?
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  Speaker 2: Because we are really big with.
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  Speaker 3: People who wake up, at least in America, in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the night, especially, you know, older men to
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  Speaker 3: use the bathroom because of various issues with the prostate.
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  Speaker 3: And then they turn our side and are able to
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  Speaker 3: go about to sleep to get a little bit more sleep.
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  Speaker 2: So when you say nighttime routine, is that what you mean?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's actually very above board. It's during dinner. You're welcome.
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  Speaker 5: Don't mind you if I do have to get up
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  Speaker 5: post-childbirth bladder, even though she's eight years old. I will
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  Speaker 5: make sure to watch repeat. I wouldn't watch those Fox
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  Speaker 5: and Friends losers. I'm the early show girl.
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  Speaker 1: All the way.
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  Speaker 3: When, when you say that, what, what is funny is
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  Speaker 3: I have not like, it's not like I've got 4,000
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  Speaker 3: friends down under, but I have a few people who
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  Speaker 3: I'm close.
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  Speaker 2: With in Australia and they're like, bro, you're prime time here.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, Ooh, so like, if I go to
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  Speaker 3: Australia right now and I like take my shirt off
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  Speaker 3: on Bondi beach, because I, That shows you how well
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  Speaker 3: I know Australia. I just mentioned the one beach. And
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  Speaker 3: the great coral reef. If I tell you, are people
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  Speaker 3: going to be like in the paparazzi? Are people going
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  Speaker 3: to be like, whoa, it's Todd Pyro.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You would be front page of the Woman's Day, which
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  Speaker 5: is like our trashy tabloid magazine, front page. You would
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  Speaker 5: be harassed by middle-aged women and men.
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  Speaker 2: That's my dream. That's why I got into this. Your dream?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I want to ask you about that, but first
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  Speaker 5: I want to start with midterms. And off the back
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  Speaker 5: of something you did on the show last night, you
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  Speaker 5: had a couple of great guests. including just an everyday voter.
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  Speaker 5: And she made the point, and you were not stunned,
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  Speaker 5: that's the wrong word, but I loved your reaction.
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  Speaker 4: And this is why I.
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  Speaker 5: Love watching you so much, because you actually listen to
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  Speaker 5: what people are saying. And then it may not be
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  Speaker 5: your next prepared question, but you'll touch on that and
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  Speaker 5: you'll react. And she made the point about I think
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  Speaker 5: it was data centers. And you said so much of
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  Speaker 5: the focus is maybe elsewhere when we cover the midterms
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  Speaker 5: and what people might care about or who's affiliated with
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  Speaker 5: who or who did this. And it really brought me
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  Speaker 5: back as well as an Australian who covers this space
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  Speaker 5: into what everyday Americans actually care about heading in.
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  Speaker 4: What's your take on it?
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  Speaker 3: I thought that answer was I don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: blew my socks off. It's something I should have known.
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  Speaker 3: And this is where I think I'm different.
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  Speaker 2: Than a lot of people. Like, I'll admit, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we should probably be paying attention to that. What am
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  Speaker 2: I doing wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Because when you think about it, let's just take the
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  Speaker 3: data center issue as the prime example, right? I'm worried
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  Speaker 3: for the Republicans that there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: that are Trump all the way and have loved Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Since he walked down the escalator. OK, in 2015.
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  Speaker 3: But if they're going to put a data center in
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  Speaker 3: their community, they're going to vote for the person that says,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want the data center in their community. Because
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  Speaker 3: while immigration does touch us all, if they're literally in
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  Speaker 3: the process in your town hall of talking about we're
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  Speaker 3: going to put a data center in fill in the
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  Speaker 3: blank Nebraska, Well, then the immigration issue kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of falls by the wayside a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And the data center is a more immediate, tangible thing
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  Speaker 3: that you have in front of you that you want
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  Speaker 3: to try and control. And if you don't want it,
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  Speaker 3: and the Republican is saying, I want it, well, then
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  Speaker 3: you're going to vote against the Republican. And I'm worried
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  Speaker 3: for Republicans that that is what is going to happen. Now,
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  Speaker 3: my personal take is... AI's happening whether we want it
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  Speaker 3: or not. And I've gone back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: I see a plot of land in my town where
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, if they.
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  Speaker 3: Decide to put a data center there, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably just going to have to suck it up
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  Speaker 2: and deal with it.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not as anti-data centers as other people, but
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it's really important as well to take
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  Speaker 5: that seriously when people bring it up. And I know
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  Speaker 5: that both sides of government can be dismissive of things
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  Speaker 5: if they think it's, you know, a political pot shot
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  Speaker 5: from the other side of the aisle. But often it's not.
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  Speaker 5: It's genuine concerns from very loyal supporters. And I think
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  Speaker 5: that you don't help yourself if you are dismissive of that,
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  Speaker 5: even though it is absolutely true that the Chinese Communist
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  Speaker 5: Party is pushing a lot of this fear mongering online.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't actually matter if people are legitimately concerned who
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  Speaker 5: you need to vote for you. I think sometimes that
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  Speaker 5: can be handled a little bit better as well. What
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  Speaker 5: do you make of some of these candidates? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: Abdul El-Sayed, I would have thought, Todd, that the first
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  Speaker 5: time he campaigned alongside Hassan Paika, that would be enough
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  Speaker 5: for most everyday Americans, whether you're blue or red. I
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  Speaker 5: would have thought the hurt people, hurt people would have
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  Speaker 5: been enough. I would have thought the mother, the sister,
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  Speaker 5: the father-in-law, who's the biggest donor linked directly to Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 5: I would have thought the letter he signed supportive of
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  Speaker 5: Muslim Brotherhood would have been enough for everyday Americans. And again,
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  Speaker 5: I make the point, it's not against Islam. It is
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  Speaker 5: Muslim Brotherhood, which is a terrorist organization. What do you
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  Speaker 5: make of him and how there is still some kind
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  Speaker 5: of chance that he will be elected?
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a very good chance. And I think
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  Speaker 3: this boils down to two things. And I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we talk about them enough. And there is, as you
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  Speaker 3: well know, being in Australia and being, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: call you British adjacent, there is a significant white guilt
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  Speaker 3: among the upper crust liberal elites.
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  Speaker 2: And they think that coming to.
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  Speaker 3: Grips with whether in your case, it's colonialism, uh, Or
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  Speaker 3: in our case, whether it's, you know, what happened over
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  Speaker 3: the course of the Civil War, you know, right? And
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  Speaker 3: since then in our history, they are saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think we need to give people that we wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: necessarily give a chance a chance.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's part of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's the fact also, you know, those rich upper white
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  Speaker 3: middle class individuals, elitists, they hate Trump. So you combine
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  Speaker 3: all that and you have somebody who hates Trump, who's
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  Speaker 3: going to go against Trump in every way, shape or form.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's perfect.
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  Speaker 5: I actually think there's a better way to look at it.
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  Speaker 5: Slow down.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Ask questions.
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  Speaker 2: But the other part that we just don't talk about is.
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  Speaker 3: is the youth. And this guy was able to give
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  Speaker 3: the youth something. And think about it. The youth weren't
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  Speaker 3: around for 9-11. They do not have the same feelings
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  Speaker 3: that one experienced when they lived through 9-11. So take
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  Speaker 3: that part of it. I think that's the Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 3: Hasan Piker part of it.
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  Speaker 2: But there's also the financial.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you guys are experiencing this in Australia
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  Speaker 3: as well. The young people don't feel like they have
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  Speaker 3: a chance. And when somebody like this says, hey, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to give you a chance. We're going to go
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  Speaker 3: after the rich people. It makes it makes the young
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  Speaker 3: people who've never voted before enter the equation. Now, what
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  Speaker 3: happens on on November 3rd? I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: young people historically don't vote, but, you know, nobody historically
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  Speaker 3: votes in primaries. And the young people voted in those
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  Speaker 3: primaries are able to get this guy over the top.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 5: You make such good points and you're spot on. Even with,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, 9-11, you're right. I don't think even I
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  Speaker 5: would give enough credit to how much that moment, as
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  Speaker 5: an Australian very far away who knew not a soul
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  Speaker 5: who was directly impacted, but was in my early teens,
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  Speaker 5: woke up, ran downstairs, TV on, seeing mum and dad's reaction.
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  Speaker 4: That changed all of our lives.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if we ever felt safe in the
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  Speaker 5: way that we had before that, just as a society,
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  Speaker 5: and we weren't even in America. So that's my mentality
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  Speaker 5: whenever anyone even mentions a link to any kind of
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  Speaker 5: terrorist organisation that has a similar ideology. There's a whole
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  Speaker 5: lot of people. I'm not that young anymore, unfortunately. There's
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  Speaker 5: a whole lot of people who... who never had that experience.
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  Speaker 5: And you're right, that is a crucial part. And yes,
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  Speaker 5: young people here, they feel like, how do I buy
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  Speaker 5: my own home? How do I live this Australian dream
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  Speaker 5: that my parents were able to do and that I
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  Speaker 5: now cannot think of any way to do?
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  Speaker 4: It's not possible.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 5: There's also the element, of course, of what goes on
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  Speaker 5: in colleges, particularly in the US. There's money coming in
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  Speaker 5: from foreign actors who are malicious. It's not in their
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  Speaker 5: interest to teach them how great your country is, is it?
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  Speaker 5: You've got a whole group of young people who not
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  Speaker 5: only don't feel excited or enthusiastic, seem to despise your
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  Speaker 5: country sometimes or see yourselves as racist, that doesn't help
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: 100%.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you filled in the blanks that I left blank.
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  Speaker 3: And you did a great job of it just there
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  Speaker 3: with that answer. And all that's come together to explain
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  Speaker 3: why this is happening. And that's why I think Trump
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  Speaker 3: was so smart in 2024. if you remember, he went
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  Speaker 3: to Michigan and he secured the Muslim, he secured a
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  Speaker 3: fair amount of the Muslim vote for those that I
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  Speaker 3: would argue want to be delicate with what you're about
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  Speaker 3: to say here, if you're Todd, just the average ordinary
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  Speaker 3: Muslim who, you know, has their religious beliefs, but maybe
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  Speaker 3: isn't locked into the nitty gritty of the Koran that
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  Speaker 3: sort of the Muslim Brotherhood and those who want to do.
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  Speaker 2: Us harm latch onto.
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  Speaker 3: He latched onto that Muslim vote of The person who
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  Speaker 3: gets up every day and goes to work and just
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  Speaker 3: wants to lead a normal American life, they just happen
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  Speaker 3: to be Muslim, right? And I would like to think,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that this is true, that's the majority
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  Speaker 3: of Muslims in America. The guy who drives me every day,
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  Speaker 3: he's got so much in his life right now that
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  Speaker 3: is human. He's got a wife who is sick. He's
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  Speaker 3: got a kid who is sick. And he's got an
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  Speaker 3: older kid who went away to go follow a girl,
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  Speaker 3: you know?
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  Speaker 2: And so those aren't Muslim, Christian, Jewish things. Those are
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  Speaker 2: American things.
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  Speaker 3: And the guy's working his tail off, driving me in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the night to make a living.
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  Speaker 2: That's the majority. But, you know, those.
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  Speaker 2: He's not running for Senate in Michigan on a platform
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  Speaker 2: with Hassan Piker.
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  Speaker 5: And we are so on the same page. I spend
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  Speaker 5: so much of my time trying to fight Islamic extremism.
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  Speaker 5: As someone who lived in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation,
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  Speaker 5: 300 million people there. I speak the language fluently. I
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  Speaker 5: love that country. I knew you would, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 5: I've got that on record now to destroy your career
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  Speaker 5: down the track at home.
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  Speaker 4: But I love the people. I love the culture. They
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  Speaker 4: are phenomenal. And the irony, Todd, is that.
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  Speaker 5: The president prior to Prabowo, Widodo, actually came in and
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  Speaker 5: was elected on a platform of eliminating Islamic extremism.
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  Speaker 4: Muslims die more from it than anyone else.
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  Speaker 5: So that's my belief as well, that the vast majority
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  Speaker 5: are good and decent and want to live their lives.
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  Speaker 5: So I think it's an important point to make. I'd
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  Speaker 5: love to wrap up a little bit and ask you
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  Speaker 5: just about your story. You're such a familiar face to
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  Speaker 5: so many people. Your style is so personable, and that's why...
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  Speaker 5: I think you're easy to watch. And I say to
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  Speaker 5: a lot of young people who come to me after
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: 20 years in the business, and I say, you don't
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  Speaker 5: need to be word perfect or polished or, you know, fancy.
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  Speaker 5: It's about being easy to watch. If you're someone sitting
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  Speaker 5: at home, you want someone to be relaxed. You want
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  Speaker 5: someone to react the way you might in a conversation.
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  Speaker 5: You do all those things. You're also polished and articulate.
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  Speaker 5: All those things as well.
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  Speaker 2: I was just going to jump on that. I was
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  Speaker 2: going to say, thanks, Erin, for saying I'm not polished.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Our minds.
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  Speaker 4: So how did you start?
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  Speaker 5: What is your story and how did you become such
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  Speaker 5: a feature on American television and internationally?
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  Speaker 3: I'll get into the story in a second, but I
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  Speaker 3: think what you did is what.
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  Speaker 2: I just do.
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  Speaker 3: And it's even before I listen, I also listen to
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  Speaker 3: myself and I look for an opportunity to make fun
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  Speaker 3: of myself if I do something like you just did.
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  Speaker 2: And I do that all the time. And I think
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  Speaker 2: the audience.
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  Speaker 3: Likes that because let's face it. conversations are not linear.
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  Speaker 3: They're not perfect. We have conversations in real life all
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  Speaker 3: the time with everybody where we say something and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we want to tweak it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have to be, I have to do the
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: same thing on the news.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm not above correcting myself when I say
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  Speaker 3: something wrong or when I say something awkward, like you calling.
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  Speaker 2: Me not polished. Um, but yeah, But I think that's
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  Speaker 2: good sauce.
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  Speaker 3: If Aaron, the next time you're here in New York and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we hang out, you're going to see I'm
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  Speaker 3: exactly the same for better or for worse.
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  Speaker 2: And there are people that, you know, let's face it,
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  Speaker 2: don't like me off air.
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  Speaker 3: So they're probably not going to like me on air.
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  Speaker 2: That's like you can't please everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Um, so my, my story is this, um, grew up
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: in Jersey, excuse me, you're, you are again, British adjacent.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in New Jersey in, in, in the US. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: love it, especially if you love these big emotional musicals
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  Speaker 5: like The Greatest Showman. This one has to be top
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  Speaker 5: the ladies love it. That should be incentive enough. Now,
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  Speaker 5: this is such an uplifting story. It's got some seriously
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  Speaker 5: impressive musical moments, including, and this is huge, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: original music from the film for King and Country. It
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  Speaker 5: feels like the kind of movie you have to watch
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  Speaker 5: in a cinema, on the big screen. The music, the emotion,
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  Speaker 5: all the spectacle. It's like an immersive experience. And the
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  Speaker 4: And make sure you message me. Let me know what
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  Speaker 4: you think. Tell me. I want to hear all about it.
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  Speaker 4: And you know I see all your messages. Love you all.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy. And, and I, you know, when, when you think
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  Speaker 2: of New Jersey, I am the person you think of.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha. Um, so I, you know, most people in
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Jersey are like me.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: It's not all Jim tan laundry, like Jersey shore, but
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: that's a significant part of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to just, um, and I, I, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: always wanted to go to an.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Ivy League school. Boy, that decision is questionable now. And
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: so for whatever reason, I applied to the one that
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: was in the woods, even though I don't like the woods.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: So I went to Dartmouth, got a great education.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I got to give it that.
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  Speaker 3: I actually didn't love the social, uh, but that's a
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  Speaker 3: story for a different podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You should have me back. Um, and then I was like, I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: You're, you're an 18 to 22 year old male, you know,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: you're not crushing it with the ladies.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: So you're like, Oh, where should I go? I should
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: go to LA.
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  Speaker 3: Right. And so I went to law school in LA, um,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: continue to not crush it with the ladies.
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  Speaker 2: Um, This is a recurring theme.
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  Speaker 4: This is a real theme for you.
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  Speaker 2: People have said, oh, you'd be good at that. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: like to think that I'm pretty okay at this.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: But I wasn't willing to go off in, at least
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the way you had to do it back in the day,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: which is like golf into the middle, the outback for you,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: and go into the middle of nowhere and start in
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: a tiny station because... I grew up 30 minutes outside
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: New York City. I'm not like Mr. Urban, but I'm
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: also not Mr. Rural.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And I wasn't going to be able to.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Go to the middle of the country, make $ 12, 000 a
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: year and do that. So when the time came to
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: actually make the transition, you know, you live once, you
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: got to do this now. I used all my internship connections,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: made my resume tape, which the young kids out there
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: have no idea what I'm talking about. And Applied to
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: a bunch of jobs. And the first job I got
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: was Palm Springs, California. Which, awesome place.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Absolutely awesome. I was in Palm Springs for four years.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Loved my time there. But I'm an East Coast guy. Sorry,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Palm Springs, for those of you who are watching in Australia.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: It's Perth-ish. It's West Coast. Yeah. West Coast.
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  Speaker 3: So I decided to move back East. I'm in East Coast,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: New York area. adjacent guy. I love these hours.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: We're adjacent. It lets you to do anything.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: And so I got a job at a station in Connecticut,
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  Speaker 3: which is three hours away from where my family is
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: And it was great. I met my wife. We now
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: have two kids.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: I still live in Connecticut, but after about five years there,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I applied to Fox. I had a connection from my
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: old news director in Connecticut, ended up getting into the
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  Speaker 3: Fox family. And when my time at NBC was about
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  Speaker 3: to come to a close, I I'll say that in
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: a polite way.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, bro, he and I were bros.
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  Speaker 3: Like we definitely broed out, which is another part of
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the Todd brand that my wife hates. But I was like, bro,
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  Speaker 3: can you do anything for me? He's just like, let
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: me make some calls. And within two days, I had
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  Speaker 3: my first interview at Fox. Week after, I had my
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: second interview, third interview the following week. It was all
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Thursdays and got the job at the end, beginning of April,
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  Speaker 3: started there at the beginning of May.
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  Speaker 2: And here we go.
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  Speaker 4: That is, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, bro.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't have a partner, but my mother
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: hates certain things that I say as well in a
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: similar vein to that. I've got to ask you, Todd,
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: before we wrap this up, because, you know, I've obviously
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: got back to back really important interviews to do. Take
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: my child to school. I need to ask, do you
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: get nervous? that the president is going to truth social
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: post whenever you're on air? And how do you guys
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: handle that element? Because sometimes he loves you passionately, other
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: times not so much.
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  Speaker 2: I got two answers on that.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like back in the day, in the first term,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: first Trump, it was on X and it was a
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: lot more.
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  Speaker 2: We would be in the middle of a show and
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: he would... write something.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, I am not going to attack the
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  Speaker 3: president on policy, but I will say those X posts
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: or Twitter posts back in the first third, he doesn't
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: write for television. And so I like to pride myself
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: on being somewhat polished and being somewhat mean. And I'd
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: have to read the Twitter posts and I'd be like
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: messing up because he doesn't write for television. And I
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: told him that, the president, you need to write better
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: for television. Make it easier for us. Now he doesn't
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: do it as much, I find. And when he does,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: we're not taking every single thing that he puts out
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: there like we did during the first term when it
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: was like everything the president says has to be put
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: out there immediately. We don't do that as much anymore. Secondarily,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I also think that one of the secret sauces to
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: my show is... It's not my job necessarily to criticize
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: the president or boost the president. And I think I
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: have heard from the president that he watches our show
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  Speaker 3: and thinks I do a great job.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: But I'm not sitting there being like, Mr.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Trump, you're the greatest human ever. I'm also not attacking him.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I'm asking the guest questions. And they are free to
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: answer from a policy perspective or an anti Trump pro
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Trump perspective. They can do what they want. That's not
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: my job. My job is to put them in a
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: position to give their thoughts on. the president and his policies.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: And I think I do a pretty good job of
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: setting the stage. Now there are times where I will
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: disagree with some stuff the president has done. And sometimes
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: that seeps out. There are a lot of times I
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: will agree with the president. I mean, the president's done
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: this to me. It's like one of those, Hey, we
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: should all be on board with this. Like, you know,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Pro national anthem. Like, why are we having this? So
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: for stuff like that, I, you know, maybe I show
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  Speaker 3: a hand or two to where I fit with the
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: president on something like that. But I I'll leave you
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: with this because I know you got to take the kids,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: the kid to school. I went to the Oval Office
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  Speaker 3: in April and I said he was very complimentary.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I said, but, Mr.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: President, you know, look, if if there's you know, there
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: are going to be times where. I will too, like
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I just explained. We'll have a guest that you're not
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: going to like. And that's kind of the show that
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: we put on. We try to include as much for
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: everybody as possible. And he seemed to get that. And
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I've heard from people, he does get it. He wasn't
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: just blowing smoke. He does get it. He likes a
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: little bit of pushback, even though.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you hear from everybody that, no, he doesn't like pushback.
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  Speaker 3: I've also heard from, you know, people that know him
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: that are in there with him.
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  Speaker 2: He likes to push back because it makes him sharper.
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  Speaker 5: I think spot on. And I think he gets it
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: as well. And I think a lot of it is
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: theater when it comes to him too. And it's in,
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: you know, he posted that I was a great journalist
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: and shared a piece of mine this month. If he'd
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: looked at my show the week prior, I was quite
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: critical of a couple of elements. And I just, you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: people will take you more seriously when you're willing to
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: just take it on face value and you're not, you know,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: obsessive either way. So I think you do a superb job.
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  Speaker 2: You're brilliant.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: I'm so grateful for your time and thank you so
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: much for letting my audience get to know you a
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Australia and the entire Aaron Mullen audience. And
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: by the way, when I'm in Australia next, with my
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: top off, my top off, with my shirt off because
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I'm on a beach, I demand that the paparazzi swarm
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: me and.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Make me feel special. Make me feel like the Brad
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Pitt of Australia, please. That's all I ask.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: They're not miracle workers, Todd. They can only photograph what's there,
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: my friend. You will look better than him.
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  Speaker 4: You're a legend.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.