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Kristi Noem Responds To Allegations Of Husband’s “Double Life” · I Do, Part 2

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, folks, it is Tuesday, March thirty first, and
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  Speaker 1: please please be kind to Christoan, her husband, and her
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  Speaker 1: family right now. And with that, welcome to this episode
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  Speaker 1: of Amy and TJ Brogue. This is not an episode
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  Speaker 1: we were planning to do or would have done, had
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  Speaker 1: Christinome just a little while ago put out a statement
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  Speaker 1: responding to some pretty I guess, unbelievable, devastating in very
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  Speaker 1: private revelations about her husband. But now that she's addressed it, Robue,
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  Speaker 1: this has become a different type of story.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there are all sorts of rumors swirling about her husband,
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  Speaker 2: and look, we would never have touched these. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I think it's fair to say with a ten
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  Speaker 2: foot poll had she not, as you mentioned, responded to this.
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  Speaker 2: But this is about her husband, Brian, and.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps his well, go Ahead's it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's difficult to try to describe because we debated,
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  Speaker 1: how do you say this? It's okay? Accused of cross dressing.
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  Speaker 2: Used in cross dressing, and having a bimbo fetish where
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  Speaker 2: he apparently likes to dress with large boobs and share photos.
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  Speaker 2: And these photos have been discovered and have been published
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  Speaker 2: now and Yes, Christy Nome has responded to the photos
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  Speaker 2: being published, the story being reported about her husband's sexual preferences.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's why I say be kind. I mean robes,
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  Speaker 1: anything that comes, She's going to get attacked no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: And something like this having to do with her family,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people would have smiles on their faces
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  Speaker 1: and glad she's being to some degree humiliated. But we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta be careful, and I would just say kind,
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  Speaker 1: This is pretty tough stuff for a family to go through,
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  Speaker 1: for your personal life, to be her own out in
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  Speaker 1: this way, and to have the kind of heat and
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  Speaker 1: comments that are coming obviously with us robes to a
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  Speaker 1: certain degree, in a level there is no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: a degree of sympathy for what is coming the Famili's way. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: not just her and about politics. This is or can
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  Speaker 1: be robes. This is private stuff that is now public
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  Speaker 1: and it's kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Devastating, yes, being made very very public, and of course
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  Speaker 2: all coming within weeks of Christinoan being pushed out of
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  Speaker 2: a very prominent, high profile role as the Secretary of
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  Speaker 2: Homeland Security. So she loses her position in a very
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  Speaker 2: public and I would say humiliating way apparently moments before
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  Speaker 2: she was going on stage about to give a speech.
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  Speaker 2: She had to make her way through this speech with
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  Speaker 2: everyone reporting this breaking news that she's lost her job.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, now this and this is her husband of many,
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  Speaker 2: many years, This is a couple who married in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety two.
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  Speaker 3: Helped me do that.
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  Speaker 1: Last surprised to hear that, bab was that how many
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  Speaker 1: years ago?
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  Speaker 3: Thirty four years?
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  Speaker 1: I was very surprised to hear they've been married the.
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  Speaker 2: Long thirty four years of marriage. They were high school
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  Speaker 2: sweethearts in South Dakota. They worked together on her family's farm,
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  Speaker 2: and then she went into politics, he went into the
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  Speaker 2: insurance business. So it was this midwestern, you know, love story.
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  Speaker 3: And then they went on.
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  Speaker 2: To have three children who are now adults, Cassidy Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: and Buker.
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  Speaker 3: Two daughters and a son. And so yeah, kind of
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  Speaker 3: like this.
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  Speaker 2: All American farming family that is now in political power.
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  Speaker 1: You have. I'm so sorry to put you on the
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  Speaker 1: spot if you don't have a general idea of the
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  Speaker 1: ages of the kids.
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  Speaker 3: Now, yes, I actually do have that.
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  Speaker 1: So Cassidy.
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  Speaker 3: Cassidy is their oldest daughter. She's thirty one.
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  Speaker 2: She's been involved in her mom political campaigns and in
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  Speaker 2: just her professional life. She has children of her own,
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  Speaker 2: so she Cassidy made Christy and her husband Brian grandparents.
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  Speaker 2: Then their next youngest child, her name is Kennedy, and
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  Speaker 2: she also served as a policy analyst in her mom's
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  Speaker 2: gubernatorial office there in South Dakota, so she was a
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  Speaker 2: part of all of that. And right now she also
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  Speaker 2: founded a pilates studio. And then they have a son
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  Speaker 2: who's around Booker is his name. He is twenty three
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  Speaker 2: and he is their only sons.
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  Speaker 1: How many do you say, one grandkid? Two?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many grandkids they have, but I
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  Speaker 2: know that they do have grandchildren.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so we a story like this, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to read her statement here in a second. But a
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  Speaker 1: story like this world is as people want to poke fun.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know social media, I know it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: I know tabloid media is tough, tough, tough toughes, and
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  Speaker 1: something like this just caution people not just be as
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  Speaker 1: kind as you can, because it's not just about Christy Gnome.
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  Speaker 1: They are grandparents. I mean, they have kids, they have
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  Speaker 1: kids that work in offices with other people in around.
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  Speaker 1: It's just there's a whole community and family that's now
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  Speaker 1: dealing with something that's very private now public, and it
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  Speaker 1: can be humiligating what you do behind closed doors. Knock
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  Speaker 1: yourself out, fine, but something like this it's hard to take.
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  Speaker 1: And I know people are taking joy in it. It's
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  Speaker 1: just it just take no joy in something like this happening.
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  Speaker 2: I think after everything we've been through, it was one
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  Speaker 2: thing to be even in the media and reporting on
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  Speaker 2: things and also having public and private lives.
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  Speaker 3: It's still you don't know what.
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  Speaker 2: It actually feels like until you are at the center
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  Speaker 2: of some controversy or some negative spotlight, and until you've
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  Speaker 2: actually experienced not just what it does to you, what
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  Speaker 2: it does to your parents, to your siblings, to your children,
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  Speaker 2: to your aunts, to your uncles, to your cousins, to
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  Speaker 2: everyone who has your last name, to everyone who is
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  Speaker 2: associated with you.
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  Speaker 3: You're outer circles.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that is humiliating to an extension you
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  Speaker 2: can't possibly fully recognize until you've lived it. And so, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we may many of us, many of you might not
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  Speaker 2: agree with Christy Nome's policies or even how she delivered
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  Speaker 2: her policies, but she's still a human being, And I
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  Speaker 2: just this is a moment I think where you can say, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I just hate when people kind of jump on something
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  Speaker 2: like this and say, yeah, she deserves it. This is
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  Speaker 2: called karma, this is what's coming to her. I just
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  Speaker 2: would I think this is where we would ask people
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  Speaker 2: just to recognize this as something that is tragic on
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  Speaker 2: a human level and put politics aside and just recognize
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  Speaker 2: that someone is hurting, because this is a painful, painful
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  Speaker 2: thing to go through, not just for yourself but for
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  Speaker 2: everyone you love.
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  Speaker 1: Les we should hold on to that. That's a great point,
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  Speaker 1: Robes Away to put it. This is tragic on a
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  Speaker 1: human level, and this is devastating to a human being,
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  Speaker 1: and this can to have it thrown out there in
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  Speaker 1: this way. I just can't imagine just the kids and
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  Speaker 1: the family, and the extended family and the extended friends
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  Speaker 1: and everybody who has touched with the family in any
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  Speaker 1: way is having to deal with this now. So Ropes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't it's hard to look at it at this
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  Speaker 1: point of we need to read her statement now to
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  Speaker 1: try to maybe further understand this story. So here we go.
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  Speaker 1: The stuff had kind of been out there and been
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  Speaker 1: talked about rumors for the most part, and stuff covered
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  Speaker 1: on in tabloids and whatnot. And then she responded to
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  Speaker 1: it and this is what she said, very short statement
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  Speaker 1: though ropes.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Gnome is devastated. The family was blindsided by this,
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  Speaker 2: and they asked for privacy and prayers at this.
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  Speaker 1: Time, and that was it. That was it, they acknowledged, right,
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  Speaker 1: But what I mean, you can I mean, that could
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  Speaker 1: be very very carefully written. We look at a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pr statements and releases over the years, robes and
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  Speaker 1: words matter, and they chose several ones in particular, and
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  Speaker 1: there's some things they could have said that they didn't say.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So just to even acknowledge she's devastated means obviously
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  Speaker 2: that this is something she's upset by and then didn't
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  Speaker 2: know about. But what is it that she didn't know about?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will stop at the she was the first thing.
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  Speaker 1: She's devastated that period after this period period, Okay, she's
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  Speaker 1: devastated by what though, you really can make the argument
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  Speaker 1: she's devastated that this is out. She's devastated because she
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  Speaker 1: just found out. She's devastated because she's been talked about
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  Speaker 1: on social media. What exactly she devastated by That's how
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  Speaker 1: I took the first part.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, then the family was blindsided by this, by this
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  Speaker 2: what the revelations about. I mean, this would be the
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  Speaker 2: obvious presumption that they are.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking specifically to Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what you have to do in this point,
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  Speaker 2: at this point with that ambiguous response this, But you
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  Speaker 2: would have to think that that is referencing this. Are
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  Speaker 2: these photos that we're seeing of him cross dressing and
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  Speaker 2: some of the payments that have been revealed that he
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  Speaker 2: has made to these bimbofication websites, these fetish websites that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know existed. So yeah, this would be yes,
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  Speaker 2: the allegations that are now out there with photographic evidence.
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  Speaker 1: See, I am looking and reading this so differently. I
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  Speaker 1: am looking and reading to this as they left an
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  Speaker 1: opening here for him to be not guilty. They're leaving
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  Speaker 1: it open. They're not actually saying he did any of this.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't say she's devastated to learn of her husband's behavior.
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  Speaker 1: He's just saying she's devastated. They could leave room here
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of stuff, and they didn't condemn him.
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  Speaker 1: They did not, And for me, that was intentional, and
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  Speaker 1: she could have buried him, can't believe he had been
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  Speaker 1: up to such things, can't believe this was hidden from her,
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  Speaker 1: can't believe she has been betrayed, can't believe they could
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  Speaker 1: have said a lot of stuff. But there's nothing in
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  Speaker 1: there that even close to suggests that she's saying, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's guilty of the things he's being accused.
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  Speaker 3: You're correct, I mean, yes you are. And look, that
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  Speaker 3: is probably the very smart way to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: This has been carefully and specifically crafted through a pr
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing, though, ro someone who knows a lot more
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  Speaker 2: about public relations than we do. Yes, but that would
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  Speaker 2: make sense that you leave openings to have different outcomes
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  Speaker 2: based on what you need them to be, based on
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  Speaker 2: what information comes out.
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  Speaker 1: Devastated by blank, blindsided by this which is blank. That
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  Speaker 1: is really interesting when you dive into these things. However, folks,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how deep of a dive Robes necessarily did.
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  Speaker 1: But there's this term I never heard before today, bembo fication.
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  Speaker 1: Do I have that right, Robes?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: All right, well stay here, we'll try to explain what
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  Speaker 1: that is.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ,
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  Speaker 2: where we are talking about former Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 2: Secretary Christy Noome dealing with some pretty horrific headlines about
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  Speaker 2: her husband today, a lot of folks saying that he
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  Speaker 2: is a secret cross dresser who has a bimbo fication fetish,
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  Speaker 2: and she has directly addressed some of these reports by
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  Speaker 2: saying she's devastated.
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  Speaker 1: I consider something here. Is it devastating that people are
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  Speaker 1: into whatever they're into. It's just that people found out
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  Speaker 1: about it, and now it's supposed to be embarrassing if
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  Speaker 1: this worked for them in their private lives. I mean
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  Speaker 1: to make it, what business is it. I'm not mad
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  Speaker 1: that he does whatever he wants to do in his
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  Speaker 1: private life. If his wife has a problem with it,
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  Speaker 1: then okay, But that's for them to suss out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, and for her to say that she was
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  Speaker 2: blindsided by it would indicate that she was not aware
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  Speaker 2: of it, or she's at least yes saying she does
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  Speaker 2: not know or was not aware of this beforehand.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I look at it. She possibly could saying she's
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  Speaker 1: devastated by it getting out publicly. It left the room
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  Speaker 1: in that statement to give her a little wiggle room
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  Speaker 1: if it ever comes out down the road that maybe
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  Speaker 1: she knew about this at a time.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the weird thing.
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  Speaker 2: So if you look up what bimbofication is, it's basically
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  Speaker 2: a fetish that is that's centered around women becoming real
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  Speaker 2: life Barbie dolls with gigantic proportions. What how weird is
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  Speaker 2: that when you think about Christy Nomes Moniker, not one
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  Speaker 2: that she wanted that was meant as a critic.
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  Speaker 3: She was literally called obviously ice Barbie.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So now to hear that her husband is being
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  Speaker 2: accused of bimofication, where that is what it's described as
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  Speaker 2: a kink centered around women becoming real life Barbie dolls
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  Speaker 2: with gigantic proportions and often acting airheady. So that's like
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  Speaker 2: something that people are into, big boobs, airheads think.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of a thing. But like, yeah, Barbie.
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  Speaker 1: Dolls, if you're into whatever you're into, like yourself. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think I got no problem with that. I just
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough time for that family. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 1: I don't obviously, you don't, obviously, but I hope no
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  Speaker 1: one would take any joy in seeing this happen to
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  Speaker 1: somebody's face.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough.
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  Speaker 1: No one takes joy in that. And if you are,
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself a couple of questions if you are. But
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  Speaker 1: even so, this is just not fun and funny in
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  Speaker 1: a joke, and plenty of jokes are flying, and you
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  Speaker 1: could only imagine if you haven't looked already broke some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff that's out there, you've read some of it, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And look, I think the word to describe it
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  Speaker 2: as it feels humiliating, whether it should be or not.
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  Speaker 2: I can only imagine that is what it would feel like.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like this is a story in which
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  Speaker 2: you would say, I wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy.
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  Speaker 2: I really do think that because this is one of
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  Speaker 2: those things where, look, I think we understand there's a
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  Speaker 2: you can experience a lot of things in your life,
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  Speaker 2: but when you experience shame, shame that is imposed on you,
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  Speaker 2: whether you deserved it or not, that is one of
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  Speaker 2: the world feelings in the world.
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  Speaker 3: It truly is.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like that is what I think of
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  Speaker 2: when I think about how christ you know, might be feeling,
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  Speaker 2: how maybe even her children are feeling, how anyone who
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  Speaker 2: has been a part of that family or loved any
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  Speaker 2: of them is feeling. That's just I just think that
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  Speaker 2: is one of the worst feelings a human being can
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  Speaker 2: feel's shame, especially when it isn't earned, especially when it
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  Speaker 2: isn't something that you necessarily did, and yet you endure it.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: Did he do anything other than have his private life exposed?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the story is between him and
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  Speaker 1: his wife. I don't know, see, I don't know. It's
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  Speaker 1: just it's just all for a family. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: all we can ask is folks, just be kind, Just
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  Speaker 1: be as kind as you can, offer a little grace.
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  Speaker 1: And what was the line I wanted to remember you
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  Speaker 1: had earlier? Robe, I forgot it already, But just a
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  Speaker 1: matter of being a decent human.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think, for instance, when you think about Christy Noman,
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  Speaker 2: she took a hard stance, took a hard line on
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  Speaker 2: a lot of folks.
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  Speaker 3: So people might want to.
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  Speaker 2: Return that now in this moment, and I can imagine
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  Speaker 2: how easy and how good it might feel to say aha, karma,
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  Speaker 2: or at least return the fire that was incoming or
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  Speaker 2: at least felt like it was coming towards you.
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  Speaker 3: This is an opportunity not to return fire.
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  Speaker 2: This is an opportunity to say okay, she may have
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  Speaker 2: fired shots, but I'm not going to return fire. And
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  Speaker 2: like that is the moment where plenty of us can
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  Speaker 2: rise above. And I think that it's a moment. It's
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  Speaker 2: a moment of opportunity, in a moment not to get
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  Speaker 2: down down in the mud with others that we've certainly seen.
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  Speaker 2: And I just think every one of us on an
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  Speaker 2: individual level can do something and collectively maybe maybe we can.
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  Speaker 2: We can take some of this conversation, the way we've
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  Speaker 2: been speaking and addressing each other, just take it to
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  Speaker 2: a higher level, a better level.
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  Speaker 3: And this is an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't that feel better? If you think she has wronged
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  Speaker 1: you to treat her better, then you think she treated
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  Speaker 1: you or your fellow American, treat her better.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we need, right, Someone has to start it,
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  Speaker 2: somebody right, and the person who does gets it and
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  Speaker 2: they're actually the happier person.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, hurt, people hurt, So try to remember.
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  Speaker 2: That, all right, without everyone, We always appreciate you listening
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  Speaker 2: to us. I made me robot alongside DJ Holmes. We
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  Speaker 2: will talk to you soon.