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M and M Extra July 31, 2026 | Romo suspended; Is DSA Good or Bad for GOP? · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a meeting of the minds crafted from decades
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  Speaker 1: of talk show experience, an extension of the magic they've
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  Speaker 1: created together on radio in the phenomenon called M and
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  Speaker 1: M Hot Topics in the News and wisdom from Life.
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  Speaker 2: It's Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher.
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  Speaker 1: This is eminem Extra Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 3: We made it. It is the final day of July.
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  Speaker 3: Holy Molly Tomorrow, August first, where's the time going on?
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  Speaker 3: Mike Gallagher, He's Mark Davis, Marked It's.
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  Speaker 2: There's something visually shocking. I knew this would happened. We
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  Speaker 2: get way too comfortable. Look happy, Look at me. You
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  Speaker 2: got a dress shirt on?
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  Speaker 4: You?
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  Speaker 2: Look at what else have I got on?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: You got your headphones on?
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  Speaker 2: So talk to a couple.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm totally teasing. I'll leave it all Are you leave
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  Speaker 2: it all on? Old Are you kidding? I don't want
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  Speaker 2: the memo?
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  Speaker 3: Hang on, No, you're not going to get the memo
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  Speaker 3: on the podcast. Asked to go go ahead. You're all right,
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  Speaker 3: You're okay on the podcast. You're fine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm suiting up proper I'm suiting properly. What I'm putting in,
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  Speaker 2: putting in my old school nineteen fifties. Ifb close you
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  Speaker 2: up that wireless star Trek thing going, Oh now I'm gonna,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna, I'll do this the right thing.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, I got news for you. I want
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  Speaker 3: to start because I got Dallas Cowboys news. I got
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  Speaker 3: to start with with you. Mister a Cowboy fan beat.
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  Speaker 2: Me down already. Nothing would throw me more than to
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  Speaker 2: have a really good Cowboys season. Wake me up when
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  Speaker 2: we're in the NFC championship game. Well that's formally kind
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  Speaker 2: of where I am.
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  Speaker 3: The former star quarterback Tony Romo, as we know, was
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  Speaker 3: arrested this week in Wisconsin. Just moments ago. It was
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  Speaker 3: are you really going to change out your headphone?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? This is real life, baby, this is real life.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to change it. You're fine, Nobody, nobody's
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  Speaker 3: gonna send you a memo.
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  Speaker 2: As as as resolute as I am that I need
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  Speaker 2: these really cool teenage boy dorm room headphones for the
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  Speaker 2: radio show, as steadfast as I am about that, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm equally steadfast about the optics of the podcast world,
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  Speaker 2: where I need to be lighter and breezier and have
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  Speaker 2: this little thing in my ear. So that what am.
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  Speaker 4: I supposed to do.
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  Speaker 3: While you're changing them out do show tunes.
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  Speaker 2: I will still sit down you're rocking the book, I
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  Speaker 2: will not to pick one at random. I will still
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  Speaker 2: be able to hear you. But Micha will still be on.
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  Speaker 2: Everything can be just fine.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, here's the breaking news. Moments ago, CBS announced
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  Speaker 3: that Tony Romo is now on leave from CBS. Now
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  Speaker 3: this is which leads to a fascinating conversation. We had
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  Speaker 3: a little bit today on the show, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: wait to share it with you, because, after all, you
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  Speaker 3: are a veteran Dallas Cowboys fan. You are a proud
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  Speaker 3: Texas resident. You love your Cowboys. Denise and I and
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  Speaker 3: the kids loved ourk Cowboys. We used to be season
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  Speaker 3: ticket holders. We were part of that brand new stadium
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  Speaker 3: that you know that is now Jerry's World whatever they
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  Speaker 3: call it now, Texas Stadium, what's it? What's it called now?
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  Speaker 2: It's not called the AT and T Stadium. The FIFA people,
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  Speaker 2: the soccer people made us geographically inaccurately call it Dallas Stadium,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's in Arlington. But it's AT and D Stadium,
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  Speaker 2: colloquially and lovingly referred to as Jerry World or the
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  Speaker 2: Death Star.
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  Speaker 3: Don don Don Don dut On, Don dut on. All right,
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  Speaker 3: So this led to my knowledge, and this is public
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  Speaker 3: knowledge that as of twenty twenty six, Tony Romo, as
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  Speaker 3: the one of the lead CBS NFL color analysts, earns
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  Speaker 3: about one hundred and he's got one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 3: million dollar.
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  Speaker 2: Contract one hundred over how many years? Ten years?
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  Speaker 3: One hundred eighty million dollars ten year deal. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 3: so the first, the obvious, easy question is should he
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  Speaker 3: be fired from CBS for getting pulled over and may
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  Speaker 3: be convicted of a DUI? The second question is, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna now I want you to answer both of
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  Speaker 3: them because I don't want to get your reaction to
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  Speaker 3: both of these. I want to get I want to
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  Speaker 3: get your take. And number two, shouldn't a guy who's
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  Speaker 3: on a contract that's going to pay him one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and eighty million dollars over ten years? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: like the mega jackpot, that's the that's the mega millions
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  Speaker 3: or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: The thing.
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  Speaker 3: Be real careful about how you live your life. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: it just means I'm going to have a driver, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to pay somebody one hundred thousand bucks a year
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  Speaker 3: to drive me everywhere I need to go. I'm never
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  Speaker 3: going to be in a position where I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: go to a golf tournament. And maybe, and he's innocent
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  Speaker 3: until proven guilty, we don't know yet because he didn't
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  Speaker 3: take a blood test, he wouldn't submit to a breathalyzer.
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  Speaker 3: They said he did not do well on the field
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  Speaker 3: sobriety test. But my second question is shouldn't you be
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  Speaker 3: very responsible for the fortune that your talents have earned
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  Speaker 3: you at a network like CBS.
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  Speaker 2: Go one hundred percent? What you've asked is a close
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  Speaker 2: cousin to the Tiger Woods question. Remember the last time
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  Speaker 2: he rolled an suv? Is like, dude, get a driver.
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  Speaker 2: So the short answer to that is yes. Everything, every
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  Speaker 2: approach to this is necessarily funneled through. It's like a
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  Speaker 2: beer bong funneled through one question, and that question is
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  Speaker 2: was he drunk or not? And we don't know the
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  Speaker 2: answer to that, like we know our own names. But
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  Speaker 2: you spent we spent some time this week on do
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  Speaker 2: you ever do the breathalyzer? Do you ever do field sobriety?
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  Speaker 2: And most attorneys would say no, and no, but if
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  Speaker 2: you really are stone cold sober, what wow? Do you
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  Speaker 2: refuse the blood test? You know?
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  Speaker 3: But if you do, do you realize the wisdom behind
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  Speaker 3: refusing everything, because then it leads a couple of big
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  Speaker 3: mouths like you and me and the world to have
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  Speaker 3: to recognize we don't know if he was drunk or not.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, he is cutting off any way to
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  Speaker 3: scientifically link him to confirm it. And if that's the case,
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  Speaker 3: well that's why you do it, that's why you would
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  Speaker 3: never take it, and which I guess there's some wisdom
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  Speaker 3: in that.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, especially when on the now infamous bodycam video, the
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  Speaker 2: officer asks how many like either how many drinks? I
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  Speaker 2: guess says how many drinks have you had? And he
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  Speaker 2: says zero? And we either believe that or we don't.
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  Speaker 2: I probably don't, but that's well the same as knowing,
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  Speaker 2: you know factually that he was impaired. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Also, he also evidently said he was on his way
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  Speaker 3: to grandma and Grandpa's house, and apparently both his sets
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  Speaker 3: of grandparents are all deceased.
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  Speaker 2: They are often to my kids. I have often referred
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  Speaker 2: to Lisa's parents when they were alive as Grandma and grandpa.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if his bride's parents are still
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  Speaker 2: alive and might similar, But of course I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if they'd be in Wisconsin either, So I'm probably really
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  Speaker 2: contorting myself to give Tony a break on this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when this is a fact that we probably.
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  Speaker 2: Have is a story of a guy probably drunk, probably
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have been driving, and certainly should have been as
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  Speaker 2: you've properly laid out a little more vigilant over risks
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  Speaker 2: to take when you're in that kind of rarefied environment.
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  Speaker 3: So that leads to his future at CBS, and is
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  Speaker 3: the Daily Wire just posted online, Tony Romo's future at
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  Speaker 3: CBS is now in question. He's on leave until further notice.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I can't get out of my way in
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  Speaker 3: knowing how much I like the guy and what a
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  Speaker 3: good guy he is said to be exactly, so maybe
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  Speaker 3: we're both being sort of biased here, But of course
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  Speaker 3: he shouldn't lose. What is it of his arrest for
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  Speaker 3: the alleged offense of driving while drinking that could gate
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  Speaker 3: his skills or ability to be a CBS sports.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing coloring, there's nothing, there's nothing skills related in this
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  Speaker 2: at all. It's all optics related, it's all accountability related,
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  Speaker 2: and properly. So here's the thought that just binged into
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  Speaker 2: my head. Let me run it by you. Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the podcast here. I think it's say it. See how
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  Speaker 2: it works out. If indeed he's drunk driving, that's something
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  Speaker 2: that deserves a sanction from CBS. Is his position right
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  Speaker 2: now that I was totally sober if so, okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: go with that. And maybe if i'm CBS, I leave
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  Speaker 2: him right where he is and I don't exact a
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  Speaker 2: sanction until he is convicted. Is that fair?
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  Speaker 3: It is?
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It makes me think though, of a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: morality clauses in the contact contracts of public figures. You
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  Speaker 3: may have it in yours, Many people have it, and
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  Speaker 3: that is and it's always terrified me. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: accepted that companies that enter into an agreement with somebody
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  Speaker 3: like Romo can say, if you are charged with a
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  Speaker 3: crime involving some and boy, that's dangerous because you think
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  Speaker 3: about losing your career over maybe somebody who is falsely
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  Speaker 3: accused of a crime, somebody who's falsely charged and maybe look,
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  Speaker 3: let's be let's get neutral for a minute. Maybe he
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  Speaker 3: was sober as a church mouse. Maybe he just didn't
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  Speaker 3: do well on the field sobriety test, because it's hard
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  Speaker 3: to do to conduct successfully or fulfill the standards of
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  Speaker 3: a field sobriety test. Somebody in our chat room right
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  Speaker 3: now are live chat room see it, says I think
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  Speaker 3: it's Feo's fiend. Field sobriety tests are designed for failure. Now, ps,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to get one. I've got Roger P. Shulman
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  Speaker 3: on the case. He said he's already got a law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement officer who's willing to administer a field sobriety test.
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  Speaker 3: To me, how cool is that? And there has to
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  Speaker 3: be full video of this that we can do. We
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  Speaker 3: have with clips we need.
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  Speaker 2: To play here.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I got a better idea middle of the
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  Speaker 3: night last night because you and I talked about this
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  Speaker 3: idea yesterday and you thought it was a great idea.
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  Speaker 3: Because again with that in mind, what's a field sobriety
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  Speaker 3: test entail? Can you pass it? Can you?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: We need to do what we're gonna get. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: get really clever here. I'm going to do the field
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  Speaker 3: sobriety test live streamed with you on the M and
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  Speaker 3: M Extra Podcast where.
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  Speaker 2: I can do play by play of your field, Sobriety,
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  Speaker 2: you sure can. How cool is that it's Christmas in July.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be cool? I thought you'd like it.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to do it outside in the parking lot.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to do it here, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: be and we're going to live stream it for you
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  Speaker 3: and you and I are going to talk as I'm
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  Speaker 3: getting the field, Sobriety, you'll be.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be miked up and have your magic Star Trek
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  Speaker 2: if B so you can hear the entire proceedings.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be able to I'll be able to talk and
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  Speaker 3: hear you and talk to you. I'll have a mic
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  Speaker 3: on and we'll do the whole kitten kaboodle and you
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  Speaker 3: can be well, you can be Tony Romo calling the
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  Speaker 3: color analysis.
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  Speaker 2: Without the blood alcohol.
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  Speaker 3: No, you'll be.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to be Tony wrong. But look, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm just going to say it, for crying
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  Speaker 3: out loud, if he was gambling on sports, if he was,
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  Speaker 3: if he if he was caught betting on NFL games.
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  Speaker 3: Right now that I can see you know, you fire
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  Speaker 3: somebody who is directly impacting his ability to be a
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  Speaker 3: neutral color analyst. But but a d U I that doesn't,
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  Speaker 3: that shouldn't negate your career with And that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say we learn ultimately X weeks and months from now,
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  Speaker 2: we learned that Tony absolutely was drunk is a weird word,
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  Speaker 2: is bad. And then there's just beyond was impaired enough
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  Speaker 2: where he shouldn't have been driving? Right that that to
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  Speaker 2: me smacks of a three four game suspension. That's okay
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  Speaker 2: if i'm if, if they're they're neat because you're right
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  Speaker 2: about the gambling thing, that it affects the ethics of
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  Speaker 2: the actual job. But his gambling doesn't, doesn't kill somebody
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  Speaker 2: in an in an s his drunk driving might. It
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  Speaker 2: is enormously more serious right societally, even though you're the
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  Speaker 2: point you make about the relevancy of the job is correct.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what's killing me here. We're living in the
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  Speaker 2: land of I don't know where Tony has placed us,
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  Speaker 2: as you say, probably skillfully, so I think I probably
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  Speaker 2: to tie a bow around it. If that's what you're
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  Speaker 2: seeking to do. Is I might be less than comfortable
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  Speaker 2: with the notion of CBS sidelining him. You know, before
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  Speaker 2: the wheels of justice have turned you bet well.
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  Speaker 2: He did not say Texas is going to turn blue.
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  Speaker 2: an Austin bar does not mean you've been to Texas.
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  Speaker 2: They look at our state, look at our politics, especially lately,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the successes of Paxton himself and Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: and the enormous popularity of brand new congress people like
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Brandon Gill And then take a look at woke Opie,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: take a look at James Tallerico with that Oh God,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: is bond non binary? I've got this special thing for
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: trans kids. There's no way in the world this guy
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: gets elected to the United States Senate from Texas. And
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to add a PostScript so that nobody thinks I'm kicking
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: back and relaxing and said, we got this, don't worry
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: about it. This is a call to action to make
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: sure that my prediction is correct. Because we are on it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: We will stop this guy. We will elevate Ken Paxson
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: to make him Cornyn's successor, thank God, and this will
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: happen because this is the state that I know, the
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: state that I love, and the voters that I recognize.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, speaking of mister Meghan McCain, she had
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: a great post. She said this pulling on to be
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: a five alarm fire for Republicans. We should not sit
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: back and roll our eyes. Not I'm not talking about
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: She's not she's not even talking about Tall Rico. She's
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: just saying in general, these DSA candidates are winning. There
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: is momentum.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Mom.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Donnie is the face of today's Democrat Party. And I
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: have to share with you what Stephen Miller said earlier
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: this week on Fox News, because he is absolutely one
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: hundred percent. Let's check out together. Stephen Miller describing today's
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Democrat Party.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: The people you mentioned, the names you mentioned, AOC, Bernie,
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: the squad Omar. These are people who even ten or
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: fifteen years ago, but it would have been relegated to
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: the outer extreme fringes of the Democrat Party. They're now
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: the center of the party. They're the heart of the party,
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: They're the soul of the party. So the Democrats have
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: become a party of freaks, weirdos, losers and crazies. But
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: you can't laugh it off because it's deadly serious. When
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: you give these people power, everything you know and love
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: in this world falls apart, you have chaos, corruption, decay, violence, poverty.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: So of course I think he's completely spot on the latest.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: The weirdos, losers, and crazies.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: That's the trust Troy Jackson and Maine. He's fathered two
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: kids with his cousin's he's a.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Cousin, second cousin. To his defense, oh.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, makes it better. They had two kids with his cousin.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I came into work today somebody posted on social media
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: and I couldn't stop laughing. I could barely get through
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: the opening monologue of the first hour because I saw
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: the post right before I turned on my microphone. The
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: person said, I can picture it now, first debate, no
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: matter what you think of Susan Collins. Susan Collins stands
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: up and says, well, at least I'm not blanking my cousin.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: And it just and and never thought we would ever.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: We'll go down in the annals of political history. But
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: this is the time we're in, and this is the
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: guy they picked to replace Graham Platner.
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  Speaker 2: I know nobody nor I thought Maine was a state
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: filled with such upstanding, lobster eating, fine citizens, good people,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: good behavior.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: It's made yeah again freak, weird freaks and weird losers.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: But it's they're crazy. But Megan McCain let me read
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: it for batim because I like what she said. I
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: think she's right. She said, republic need to treat these
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: new poll numbers like a five alarm fire. Trump's numbers
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: are now the same as when Bush left office during
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the Iraq War. This is not a joke. The American
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: people do not like what they're seeing and experiencing in
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: the country right now. To piggyback onto that, Benny Johnson,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: very prolific social media guy and podcaster, he said, end
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: this war now. People don't like even the prospect of
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: a forever war. Young people are majorly turned off by
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: the Iran war, and we got to end this thing,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: get out of it, and get back to fixing America.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Mark it's hard to argue with that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: It been, nor will I exactly exactly right, and so on.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of things in the salad bowl. At
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the same time, our polls showing Democrat Democrats winning for
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: governor and Senate in Texas ridiculous. Yes, does that mean
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: we should rest on our laurels?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: No?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Does it mean we have to be really serious in
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: my state, in every state about the mid terms. Yes,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: are Trump's poll numbers flagging? Yes? Is that a cause
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: for concern? Yes? Are the things he can do about it?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Some but a lot of it is things that are
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: so largely out of his control, like the affordability bugaboo,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: The part got to be able to find some way
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to get out of this war, et cetera, et cetera,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: et cetera. So absolutely, the concern, the vigilance, the pedal
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: to the medal, nose to the grindstone. Choose your metaphor,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent, let me point that in a question
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: to you in the following way. If indeed the Democrat
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Socialist Alliance wing of the Party of the Democrat Party
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: which is getting bigger, if they are indeed freaks and
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: weirdos and losers and crazies, do we feed not fear them?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: There is that rise bad news for us? Or is
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: it in a way good news for us? Because they
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: are just cartoon characters who might be easier for us
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to beat in the general elect.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: It should be good news except for the fact that
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: they keep winning. However, somebody pointed out to day earlier
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: today on the show Remember these primaries, they might if
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: you're lucky you got ten percent showing up. There's such
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: a low turnout for these a lot of these primaries
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: and general special elections and all of that, that a
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: general election is going to be a story of a
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: whole different nature. Texas comes to mind when normal Texans
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: show up to vote, and God willing, they will in November.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: This guy doesn't stand a chance. But I do think
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: you can't shake off because conventional wisdom would say, well,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: if they're really a bunch of freaks, weirdos and losers,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: then they wouldn't be winning primaries. But they are. They are.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I believe more than ever in my theory.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: My theory is they think we're all a bunch of
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Nazis and fascists and we're really crazy for supporting Trump.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: So their response is, let's get let's get crazier. Hold
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: my beer, I'm gonna get crazier. I'm gonna go bring up,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna advance communists, full scale, full fledged, hardcore,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: redistribute the wealth all. We're going to go crazier than
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: they are. And that's the only way we can take
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: the country back. But I keep coming back to the
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: old Gallagher one oh one. There's more of us than
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: there are them.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I'd like us to be. There has to be. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: even in the Democrat Party there are people like Harold
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Ford Junior and the Texas State Democrat chairry, a young
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: man named Kendall Scudder, who I had on the show yesterday.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Good dude, just wrong on a lot of issues. And
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I look forward to the day when the worst thing
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I ever say about a Democrat is I think you're
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: mistaken about the issues, rather than you're a lunatic or
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: a freak, or a weirdo or crazy. I think the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: majority of Democrats are still sort of normy and that
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: this is a fad of the moment. But I don't know.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it gets worse before it gets better,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: and what the definition is for that for the Democrats
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: and thus for us. I know all I want to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: do is beat them. Anything that helps us beat them
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: is good. Anything that makes them harder to beat is bad.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: And then I wonder if dismissing them as a bunch
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: of freaks, weirdos and crazies backfires on us. That you've
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: got you've got people in this You know, you've got
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Democrat voters who are going to say, well, show you
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: you Yeah, you're not gonna call me a freak and
• 24:11
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• 24:13
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• 24:16
  Speaker 3: it could be, it could be a terrible terrible is
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: what a year? What a year this is?
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  Speaker 2: Are there large largely correct. Paxton is keeping all the
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  Speaker 3: Well, what I like is that we're going to also
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  Speaker 3: heat up very quickly. You know the date is that August.
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  Speaker 3: as good as this one, but who is? I really
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  Speaker 3: If I'm in the Palmetto State, I don't know. In God,
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• 28:43
  Speaker 3: what happened to your brother senator for six years? No,
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 4: I like him.
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  Speaker 2: Him and Darlene are going to be in the runoff,
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  Speaker 3: They're the two that are ahead in the polls don't
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• 29:22
  Speaker 3: do it again Monday, shall we We got and we got,
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  Speaker 3: My friend, where.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Does the summer go? They say, if time truly flies
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  Speaker 2: So I have a wonderful week. God bless you, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Happy weekend. We'll see everybody on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: I love you to see you Monday. As the steps,
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