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Congressman Auctioneer · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's did
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  Speaker 1: you see the congressman who became an auctioneer?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mama's.
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  Speaker 3: Alma mama.
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  Speaker 1: She said, is now we're American mama Terry Netterville. So
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  Speaker 1: this is a scene up on Capitol Hill. There's a
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  Speaker 1: protester at a hearing and then congressman this is Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Billy Long at a Missouri starts doing auctioneering. And first
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  Speaker 1: of all, you saw the video. I did, Yes, What
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  Speaker 1: did you think because the protesters up there, the protests
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  Speaker 1: got her own phone video and yourself as she's doing
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  Speaker 1: the interrupting of the hearing, and he just starts auctioneering
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  Speaker 1: until everybody laughs in the room.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of all this? I?
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  Speaker 3: I was so tickled at first. I thought, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: like we've never heard this before, We've never seen this before.
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  Speaker 3: So when he started doing it, I was like watching it,
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  Speaker 3: going wait, what's happening right now? And then as he
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  Speaker 3: continued on, because she continued to know the phone was
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  Speaker 3: on her, I didn't know if she was a journalist.
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  Speaker 3: You know how they're trying to get clicks, they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to get notoriety.
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  Speaker 2: And I think protester trying to Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no matter what it was about her, and she
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  Speaker 3: made it about her. She's trying to be famous in
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  Speaker 3: her group for like going against the establishment. But as
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  Speaker 3: she's talking and they realize that she's trying to take
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  Speaker 3: over their hearing. Yes, the congressman Long starts, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's an ex auctioneer. He starts doing it, and you
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  Speaker 3: look at the people in the crowd that are in
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  Speaker 3: the peanut gallery with her, and they're all kind of
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  Speaker 3: doing that half smile, like they're trying not to smile,
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  Speaker 3: and they're kind of looking around. And then at the
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  Speaker 3: very end they finally usher her out, and he says,
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  Speaker 3: I yelled back, and everybody they laugh.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a couple of people that are bending over
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  Speaker 1: like trying to snicker, and you know, you saw their
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  Speaker 1: body shake.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought, this is how you handle them. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're getting better, We're getting more savvy or savvier, yes
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  Speaker 3: as to how.
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  Speaker 2: We and I don't know it's more seven seven. I'll
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  Speaker 2: have to check that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but irregardless, it is, I think we're
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  Speaker 3: getting Trump's getting smarter on how to handle the journalist.
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  Speaker 3: Congress people are Republicans are anybody that's in the spotlight
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  Speaker 3: who has been having to deal with this for eight years,
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  Speaker 3: they're now like, you know what, we just have to
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  Speaker 3: combat this with humor.
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  Speaker 2: And nonsense, because that's really what this is. I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what.
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  Speaker 1: This actually reminded me of high school because when I
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  Speaker 1: was in high school, this was my second date with
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  Speaker 1: my wife now right, so we were high school sweethearts. Then
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  Speaker 1: our second date, we go to this auction and my
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  Speaker 1: principal's up there and Congressman Tom Delay is there, remember him, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So Tom Delays up there and he's auctioning, and he's
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  Speaker 1: doing the whole auction thing.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. You had a
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  Speaker 2: congressman doing the auction.
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  Speaker 1: There's an auction for charity, a charity event they were at,
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  Speaker 1: and my principal was there too, and he was doing
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  Speaker 1: the auction. So he and Tom Delay were back and
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  Speaker 1: forth on the auction well as crazy was. Whenever the
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  Speaker 1: principal did the morning announcements, he had the slowest drawl. Students, teachers,
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  Speaker 1: pardon this interruption, That's how he would be. And so
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  Speaker 1: I went up and I just told I didn't. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know Congressman Delay at that time. My parents knew him.
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  Speaker 1: But I just walked up and I said, look, I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you fifty bucks for this charity if you will
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  Speaker 1: make my principal do the morning announcements like an auctioneer.
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  Speaker 2: It was the best mind.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was the best morning. Tom Delay
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  Speaker 1: later went to jail, not for that, but he did
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  Speaker 1: later go to jail. But anyway, but look a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these congress people, they've done charity events, they've done auction,
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  Speaker 1: especially from rural areas. They've done auctioneering before, so they've
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  Speaker 1: got this skill set.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And well, before we go back to that, did the
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  Speaker 3: principal do it? Yes, he did, and he was able
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  Speaker 3: to do auction fast and furious.
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  Speaker 1: And students teachers football twenty seven seven, twenty seven to seven,
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  Speaker 1: how do tryouts for the theater seven o'clock today?
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  Speaker 3: Well? The whole point to me, I think this is
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  Speaker 3: why I love this is it's like America's back, baby.
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  Speaker 3: This is like we're handling because eight years ago, four
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  Speaker 3: years ago, we were afraid to combat these people because
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  Speaker 3: we gave them a platform and we gave them the
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  Speaker 3: ability to do what they needed to do and say
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  Speaker 3: what they needed to say without interruption. And now we
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  Speaker 3: realize it was such a bad move on our part
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  Speaker 3: to let them give them the floor and allow them
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  Speaker 3: to call us these things that we know that we're not.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're, if you're having to combat nonsense, isn't
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  Speaker 1: one of the best ways to combat nonsense with other nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: This lady's standing up there spouting something, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it not even true, right, right. It has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the agenda that they're on. She's just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get fame. She's doing nonsense. Yes, he combats nonsense
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  Speaker 1: with nonsense. Isn't that fighting fire with fire?
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  Speaker 2: It is?
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  Speaker 3: And there's another aspect to this, it's the humor aspect.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So I remember about maybe five or six years ago,
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  Speaker 3: you invited Denise and me. You were speaking at either
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  Speaker 3: lunch or a breakfast, and we were So we went
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  Speaker 3: up there and we were speaking, and I remember or
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  Speaker 3: an elderly gentleman. You open the floor and you allow
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  Speaker 3: them to ask us questions, right, And the elderly gentleman said, look,
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  Speaker 3: my grandson is having trouble at school. You know, some
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  Speaker 3: of the kids are kind of bullish and they're, you know,
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  Speaker 3: saying things, how would you handle that? And we said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's that's hard, because it's hard. You want
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  Speaker 3: to throat punch somebody that hurts your grandchild, right, But
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  Speaker 3: honest to God, the best way to combat anything like
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  Speaker 3: that is with humor. It is if you can do
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  Speaker 3: that self deprecating humor or like this congressman did bring
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  Speaker 3: levity to it because a lot of those people that
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  Speaker 3: were in the peanut gallery with or probably did not,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, the congressmen and women who were up there,
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  Speaker 3: but that tickled him. He used humor. And what it did.
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  Speaker 3: What that does is it kind of kind of disarms, yes,
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  Speaker 3: And if you're able to make fun of yourself, it
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  Speaker 3: kind of allows the other person like, wait, okay, well
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  Speaker 3: I guess I don't have any thing to say, come
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  Speaker 3: back back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I feel like desk American Mama's a question.
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  Speaker 2: Tern needviok. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,