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don't get sorely matselfing you welcome everybody, Here we go. It is that

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et cetera. Today is it is
a Wednesday, October eighteen, two

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thy twenty three. Jenny is going
to be calling in in a moment talk.

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Oh and Eric is on the Skype
there, Eric Pilcher, my favorite

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Conservative. Welcome sir, good after, good afternoon to you. I was

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just saying too, Jenny's going to
be calling in just for a few minutes

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to talk about the hearing that happened
today, and of course you and I

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will do our usual thing after that
as well. But welcome, how are

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you feeling. You know, our
v really isn't that bad. Yes,

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you have RSV, which is uh
what does that stand for respiratory something viral

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something something? Yeah, for something
virus. Ah, yes, Well,

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at least you don't have the gone
a herpasiful flu. That would be even

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worse. Yeah, I mean they
do the same test when you test for

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COVID, you test for OURSV as
well. Yeah. The only drawbacks they

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said the symptoms can last for like
two to three weeks. Oh wow,

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that's a that's a long haul.
I mean the average cold only last seven

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to ten days two to three weeks. That sucks. That's lucky. And

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they can't give you an antibiotic because
it's a virus, right, so you

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just, yeah, a kind of
gotta deal with it. Let's see,

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I'm just letting try. Oh,
here we go. But yeah, it's

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definitely uh it's been just like really
bad cold. Yeah, it's the best

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way to put it. Isn't anywhere
close to COVID, at least in my

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experience. Well that's good. At
least Jenny is on the line with us

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speaking of health issues and such.
Hello, oh Jenny, can you hear

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me? Sorry, that was my
faults with my phone. Yeah. Actually,

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today was actually a really cool day
in that on Monday I told you

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guys about having a meeting with Senator
Hassen's one of our senior aides and our

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own Miriam actually shared information about what
happened with one of her family members and

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how they were almost harmed by one
of these Medicare disadvantage or so called advantage

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plans. And Senator Hassen was really
actually paying very good attention and utilize that

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information today in the here and she
spoke about Miriam and what had happened in

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her family's situation, and that the
Senate needs to act and stop these predatory

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calls and predatory advertisements from happening,
especially with people in our society who are

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vulnerable. You know, these insurance
companies prey on them and promise things that

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don't exist, or do fault to
advertisement or push them into signing up for

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one of these plans. And all
too often, once you're on one,

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unless you're in just a handful of
states, you can't get off of it.

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You'll be haunted by pre existing conditions. So it was really amazing and

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Senator has and also talked about another
family up in the northern part of New

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Hampshire who had also been harmed by
one of these ma plans. And it's

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it was really great to see activism
producing fruit. You know. Yeah,

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yeah, we do what we do. We talk about things, we try

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to raise attention, but it's rare
that you actually get to see some good

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fruit come of it, to see
what you've been trying. You know,

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there are a lot of people yesterday
that were reaching out to people and trying

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to get them to talk to their
senators that sit on the Finance Committee for

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this hearing. And incidentally, now
that I've just said that the committee is

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still is open to receive comments,
you can actually write to them and they'll

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they'll definitely read it. And it
does go into the record regarding medicare advantage

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plans and advertisements or sales tactics that
are predatory or you know, promise the

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world but don't deliver. Like,
hey, free glasses, but it's not

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really free glasses. That's not exactly
how it works. Unless you want beginner

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glasses for a child, because that's
what they cover for lenses, right,

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that's not what an adult needs.
You can't have, you know, a

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hair's breadth of reading in beginner Bifle
in beginner Progressives. I'm sorry, it's

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it's ridiculous. They don't they sell
you on it, right, Oh,

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you'll get free glasses if you choose
our plan. They don't tell you is

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that once you get off of traditional
Medicare, you're done. You're stuck because

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any pre existing condition is going to
get used against you with the gap plans.

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That's the thing. So you can
go back to traditional, but you're

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going to have that twenty percent you
have to pay unless you get a gap

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plan. But that's the one place
in our healthcare that you can still use

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a pre existing condition against somebody.
Right, So hopefully we're going to make

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some headway on this now. And
it's it was a definitely it was a

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nose under the camel's ten, if
you will, because it was a chance

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to finally open the door to some
hearings and talking about what these plans are

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doing, and hopefully you get to
talking about how they're ripping off the American

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public and they're sucking in Medicare dollars
that they pocket as profit. Yep,

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exactly, Okay, huge shout out
to our very own Miriam. She's amazing

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and she stepped up and she you
know, used her rights as a citizen.

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She spoke up, and it made
it all the way to the Senate

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in DC and now it's actually making
a difference. So I'm super proud of

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you, Miriam. If you're listening, thank you. Absolutely well done.

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Well done, Miriam. And is
the is the video up? Can people

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go and watch this online? You
can? It is up. I have

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a link that I just got recently
that actually goes to trying to see whose

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website It goes to, Oh,
okay, yes, actually I'll drop it

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into the chat room. Okay,
and you know, contact me if you

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want it. So this is a
link that actually takes you right to the

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governmental website of the Finance Committee,
so you can actually see the video right

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from there. And I think you've
got to get I think a bit over

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an hour in there when Senator has
the starts speaking and actually talks about some

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New Hampshire families and like I said, our own Miriam, and you know

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what concerns her and what she wants
the committee to look like or to excuse

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me to look at in order to
try and rain this in. I mean

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to put it bluntly, CMS has
got plenty of laws on the box about

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what these plans are supposed to do
or not do, and they're certainly not

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supposed to display themselves as a medicare, but they do. They try to

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sell you as if this is a
form of Medicare, and it absolutely is

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not. So you know, this
is huge that this has finally happened,

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and you know, I encourage you. They're accepting comments until November eighth.

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If you have any trouble wanting to
do that, feel free to reach out

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to me. Be happy to help
you. It's an opportunity to where your

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voice gets hurt on the hill and
hopefully works towards decreasing the risks out there

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that you know, in decreasing the
harm, I mean, ultimately I want

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to get rid of medicare advantage altogether. But in this moment, if we

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can at least stop them from sucking
people in and lying to them or giving

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them false advertisement or false hope,
we're at least stopping the harm in that

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way. Yep. Exactly, all
right, Well, very good, Well

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done, and well done to Miriam
as well, if she's listening or if

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she hears this letter. Well done
to both of you. Jenny, you

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Wayne Miriam, awesome work. Thank
you. All right, I will let

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you guys have your By the way, hi to my favorite conservative. I

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didn't give you a problem. Well, what you're doing it far bigger than

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anything I would have to talk about
today, believe me. Oh that's nice.

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No, stop that. Everybody people
are doing the same. I'm going

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to be like other people and I'm
gonna hang up now and be a listener.

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All right, Jenny, thank you? Yeah, yeah, go ahead,

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Eric back on what she was saying. You know, I've been pretty

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open about this. I'm a Type
two diabetic. Yes, and my work

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place advertises on our company bulletin boards
you can get free uh cgms with our

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insurance. What's what's us? What's
the CGM Continual Glue Coost Monitor. Okay,

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but the CGM is really it's an
outdated version. It's the Lee Bray

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one and they make Lee Bray three
NAP Like the app for Bray one won't

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even work on my phone. Oh
really, that's not good. So I

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have state insurance as a secondary to
cover what my work insurance doesn't. Oh

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okay, I'm almost surprised they even
have that in Iowa. Yes, we

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do allow people. It's very stringent, and you literally every four months,

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you have to turn in check stubs
with every medications. Every four months they

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make you do that. Wow,
yep, every four months. I have

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to submit my check stubs. Oh
my god, what a pain. But

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at least they have it. I
have to print them off, mail them

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in and I do it by priority
mail, just so I can get tracking

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to ensure they get it smart smart
every four months. So and you have

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to mail them in. So it's
not something you can send them a likettronically,

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No, it has to be mailed
in. Cannot be scanned it,

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God forbid. Government function in the
present day. Yeah, it's like okay,

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all right, and then like one
time, then they call you for

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a phone interview. Really every time
every four months, yep, you have

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to go through the phone interview and
they're like, well, don't know why

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you're sending it, why you send
it priority mail? And it's like,

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well, because knowing you guys,
you would tell me that I didn't send

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it in. And then I go
to the Then I go to my then

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I go to my pharmacy and I'm
told I owe money, right, And

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it's like and they're like, well, we understand that, but it does

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put great string on our mail room
to have to sign for priority mail.

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And it's like, well, considering
that it's my tax dollars that employ the

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mail room. Wait, I wait, hold on, so somebody actually said

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that to you it puts great strain
on our mail room. So that's astonishing.

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Wow did they did they preface that
with, uh, well, you

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know we are a government employees that
No, I shouldn't say that, but

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I just it's completely ridiculous. Oh
my god. Wow, Actually you don't.

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Well, you shouldn't have to sign
for priority mail unless you request the

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signature. What if you what if
you did it without the signature requirement,

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but just send a priority so you
still get the track in. I don't

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do it with the signature requirement.
I think because it's going directly to a

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state building. Ye, someone signed
or to ensure there's nothing in it that

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can harm anyone. Oh okay if
I had the Yeah, well, whoever

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asked to sign for it, it's
probably an incredible strain on their psyche and

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it ruins their day. Apparently.
Yeah, well, you know what,

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tough luck. No, I don't
blame you at all let me make fifty

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two thousand a year signing for mail
at a state office. That's right,

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That's right now, Eric, before
we go any further now, as you,

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I'm sure you remember last year we
had a chat GPT. I asked

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chat gpt to prepare a script to
introduce you with What's that you said?

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Last year? Matt? Oh?
Did I last week? Did I say

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last year? Yes? It was, well, you know time time is

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relative, Well it was really not, but no, last week, I'm

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sorry. Yes, last year,
I don't think we had chat GPT.

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Uh. Last week we asked chat
gpt to prepare a script that I could

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read as an official introduction for you. Make it a little bit more official.

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But I was thinking about it.
I wasn't that happy with with the

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one last week because I think it
left out some pertinent details. So I

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want to do that again. But
I want to add in a couple of

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things here. So I've got chat
GPT open on this computer, so I've

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already started the prompt. That's what
you call it. Of course, you

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call it a prompt, write a
script to introduce the My favorite conservative segment

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with Eric Pilcher on the I'm like
an intermediate typer. I'm not super fast,

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but not step on the Matt Connorton
Unleashed radio show. Now here's the

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important thing. I think we should
include some pertinent details about you that should

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go into the into the introduction.
So I was also going to add to

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the prompt include, Uh, let's
see that you endorsed Chris Christy. Should

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we include that? Let's not let's
not talk about past mistakes. Oh you're

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Oh, I'll have to follow up
with you on that. I'm curious why

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why you say that? Okay,
how about include that his favorite wrestler is

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Brett the Hitman Heart Uh? And
uh? Well what else? What else

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do we make sure? Oh?
And and of course that you do the

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classic film reviews. Uh? Yes, appro your universary of that at the

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end of this month. Yes,
yes, classic film reviews. Uh,

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let's see lead. Uh guitar is
in Jerry and the Scumbags. Yes,

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we have to include that and uh
oh and how about this? How about

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if we say and regrets endorsing Chris
Christy. How's that sound? No,

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I don't regret it. It's just
at the last Republican debate he said something

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and I literally did the the double
face palm like both hands because it was

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just so cringe. I know exactly
what it is, but we'll we'll,

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we'll, we'll talk about it.
But I'm pretty sure I know what it

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is. We may have even talked
about it before. I'm not sure,

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but okay, so and may or
may or may not regret endorsing Chris Christy.

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How's that. Yes, that's fine. I'm surprised that you you have

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it brought it up, but yeah, I'm really open to talking about it

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because I'm I actually missed that debate
in Dirk Don sent me the video and

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he's like, it's your guy,
and I'm like, oh, he said,

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so he said something good and I
clicked it and I watched it and

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I'm just like this, this is
how a candidacy ends. All right,

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Well, let's see what we Oh, I'm sorry, yes, go ahead.

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Well we'll go ahead with thept I'm
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this, right. I have another
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A little for the background here.
You're gonna like this. Ladies and

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gentlemen, Welcome back to another exciting
episode of the Matt Connerton Unleashed Radio Show.

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We've got a fantastic segment lined up
for you today and it's a fan

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favorite, my favorite conservative Now you
know me. I love to bring you

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a diverse range of opinions and personalities, and today's guest is no exception.

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Please give a warm welcome to the
one and only Eric Pilcher. Eric,

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it's always a pleasure to have you
on the show. Now, before we

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dive into the political chatter, I
hear you're a man of many talents and

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interests. First off, tell us
about your love for professional wrestling. I've

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heard you're a big fan of Breatha, Hitman Heart. And then you're supposed

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to it actually wrote me an actual
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you're supposed to say a bunch of
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we do. In addition to being
a wrestling aficionado, I understand you're quite

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the movie buff. You do classic
film reviews fantastic. Now here's something that

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might surprise some of our listeners.
You're not just a commentator, you're a

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musician too. You're the lead guitarist
in a band called Jerry and the scumbags.

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That's pretty cool. Eric. Finally, before we delve into the political

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discussion, I have to ask you've
been known to have some mixed feelings about

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your past endorsement of Chris Christie.
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A man of many talents and perspectives, Eric Pilcher, It's always a

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pleasure to have you on the show, and I can't wait to hear what

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you have to say during My Favorite
Conservative Today. Stay tuned, folks,

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because My Favorite Conservative with Eric Pilcher
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How do you feel about that one? I like it, especially since

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we included something about bresta hit me
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ero. Oh yes, yes,
he's my number two, as you know,

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as we've discussed before, my number
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but bret'sa a close number two for
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or uh, and I don't mean
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endorsed. I mean the person he
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I assume you're referring to Chris Christie's
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oh why it was extremely cringe.
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the show, but I guess I
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you on after the debate to talk
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or that smug grin that he had
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it was very cringe, very very
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there and I'm like, now I
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two thousand and seven. Yeah,
well, here, let's if I can

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find Oh, here we go.
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or just don't remember, I'll play
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his facial expression at the end is
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of course, but you know,
they can always go and look it

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up online if they haven't seen it. But he he has a look on

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his face like, oh that really
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this is whatded me of man.
I bet guy, oh, the

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disgusting guy in the off the disgusting
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with that passes gas and wants to
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just a little grin. Right.
Yeah, that's a good analogy. It

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reminded me of the time years many
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was scripted for him, had to
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that was a Vince mcmanu Vince McMahon
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was that was very bad. Now, let's play this for anyone who doesn't

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know or doesn't remember why. It's
a little refresher. This is Chris Christie

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at his most cringe. Progressive prosecutors
were elected by their constituents and they can't

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be fired by a president. So
what would you do to end the revolving

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door of criminality? Well, look, Dana, the only one on this

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stage who has done it. For
seven years. I ran the fifth largest

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office in this country, at the
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we set records for the number of
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been broken. And the reason was
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affecting people's lives. And as president, I will point an attorney general and

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it struck that Attorney general that you
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necessary to bring our cities back under
control. The fact is they will be

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stretched. There's no doubt about that. But that's what they take the job

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for because they love the idea of
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long order back to this country,
and not just in our cities. Sorry

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everybody for the wind up. This
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I didn't realize that. But we're
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shot there, and we needed in
Washington to see also. And Donald Trump

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should be here to answer for that, but he's not. And I want

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to look at that camera right now
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you're watching. You can't help yourself. I know you're watching, okay,

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And you're not here tonight. Not
because of polls and not because of your

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indictments. You're not here tonight because
you're afraid of being on the stage and

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defending your record. You're ducking these
things. And let me tell you what's

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gonna happen you keep doing that.
No one up here is going to call

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you Donald Trump anymore. We're gonna
call you Donald duck. Hey set Oh

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so bad? Actually everything was,
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and then he's like, anytime a politician

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says, I'm going to look right
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good, it's coming out of this. Yeah that's true. Uh,

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that's true. You know something cringe
is coming okay, you know, because

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they make it bigger than what it
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oh no, do not do this. Look at your feet, look

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at Nikki Haley, look at the
flag, look at the wall, look

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somewhere else. But no, and
then you called him Donald duck. You

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know what. It also reminded me
of a little bit. So this is

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I think I have the right clip
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This is from a twenty sixteen debate. And uh, I don't know

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if you've heard this, Eric,
or if you remember this, or if

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the listeners will, but let me
just play this. This one's definitely short,

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I promise, and then I'll tell
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We're gonna ran down of the White
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uh oh that was very short.
And then it went to something else,

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did it? Did you? Were
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Yeah, I vaguely remember that.
The I remember the audio on that wasn't

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very good. I'm sorry, Yeah, go ahead, but if you're like

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just just say the other word,
like you're on cable TV, like kick

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your rear end. You sound like
my grandfather when if he's had if he's

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had some valume and then he gets
mad at oh, that's not the thing

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that I found very cringe about it, and and other people pointed this out

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too at the time. What I
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he's says he's he's doing that thing
you were complaining about where they were a

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politician says, I'm gonna speak directly
into the camera. So he does that,

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and then he says he says he's
talking to Barack Obama, and he

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says, you know, come this
November, we're gonna kick your rear end

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out of the White House. And
what was cringe about that was, dude,

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Uh, he's in his second term. He's leaving, no matter what.

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You don't have to kick him out. He's going to be leaving.

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You're talking about him like he's an
active candidate, he's this is it for

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him. And that's what was so
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even more cringe was knowing that the
only reason he was even going out of

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his way to say something about like
something like that was because Republicans were still

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mad at him for actually, you
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went and visited after Hurricane Sandy,
went and visited New Jersey and they shook

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hands and you know, the quote
unquote hug and all of that. So

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that was to make up for that. But but it was just like,

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dude, you don't have to kick
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leaving on his own accord. He
understands when the next person is sworn in,

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he has to go. So I
always found that very cringe. Yeah,

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yeah, I didn't even that didn't
even cross my mind. But that's

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very true. It's like evicting someone
when they've already moved out, right right

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exactly? Mean someone there's someone we
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Yes, maybe they chime in.
Interesting thing about that person too, though

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it's never his fault anyway, Well
we should uh yeah, go ahead,

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And when did it's their fault?
Right? Yeah? Like it's like a

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judge doesn't allow an eviction order to
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I don't know if that's I don't
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uh, I mean, we we've
had a tenants, right activists here on

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the show, who coincidentally I happened
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win today because she works in this
building and she's told some horror stories.

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But but I do think in terms
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you and I are referencing specifically,
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to assume it it's usually his fault, it's always his fault. I'm sure,

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mean, I'm and I am sure
there are You're right, there are horror

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story self help evictions and all of
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yeah, no sympathy one your fault. Yep, yep. Uh.

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We have a call. We'll see
who's on the line here. Hi,

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Welcome to Matt connorson Unleashed. Who's
this deep? The rock runs deep?

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The rot runs? Can I just
say in the in the Imperial in the

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imperial political system. I was going
to respond to that with the red fox

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flies at midnight? How about ghosts? Writ er? The pattern is full

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Oh, that's a good one one. Uh. Dave Ridley has joined us

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on the phone. Hello Dave,
Hello, now we have we have,

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of course, our friend Eric Pilcher
from Iowa on the phone. Or you

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are you calling to try to get
Iowa to join nh exit and maybe and

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would you be open to something like
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the Union together and we become even
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I mean, you know, the
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over the world. I guess we
could do it too, right, we

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could have some sort of a partnership
outside of the United States. Are you

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calling to propose something like that?
Because I think it's a great idea and

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I just thought of it. Let
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Oh yeah, go ahead, Eric. I of Iowa's citizens can't spell

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seceede, so uh, yeah,
it didn't work well that that might not

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be a disqualifier. What do you
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don't secede or I favor the succession
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mean, Texas keeps saying they're going
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a bit higher in Texas than it
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can't spell it? So fair point. Yeah, So you think, if

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you think about it, both New
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starting to have a shared interest in
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New Hampshire has already been partially kicked
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a sense that the Democrats are no
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And I think that haven't they targeted
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Yeah? What what's up with that
there? Eric? Is that true?

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I have heard that for longer than
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white and I I will bash Iowa
if it's warranted, Believe me, I

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will, yes, But this is
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are pretty diverse all things considered.
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Mother Mosque. I didn't know that. Yeah, we have the University of

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Iowa. It's a very diverse campus. Iowa State University die very diverse campus.

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Drake University another diverse campus. Yeah, we have a lot of diversity.

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from. I don't know who's getting
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and utterly ridiculous. Yeah, and
people are yeah, no, A go

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ahad day. The reason I bring
it up is just because they targeted our

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primary. It seems like, aren't
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I? Am I getting ahead of
myself? I'm the Democrat Party. I

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did hear something about that. I
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it seems I mean, I think
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he wants South Carolina to go first. Because, as I've always said on

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the show. I'm sure both of
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than once. Joe Biden owes his
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James Clyburn of South Carolina because he
was doa when he got there. He

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came in like fourth or fifth in
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Had he not won South Carolina on
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president today. So he's he seems
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couldn't care less about New Hampshire,
it would seem. Yeah, and I'm

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for the uninitiated. I'm talking about
the Iowa pocket. So the first few

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things that happen in the presidential race
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New Hampshire primary and then Iowa caucus. May it actually may not be in

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that order. Maybe the Iowa coccus
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even more important. It's just,
you know, if they're trying to take

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us out of their you know,
traditional political system, then why should we

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be part of their political system.
I mean, it's gonna be wonderful to

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have Iowa join in the Amshire in
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So you are open to that,
Dave. Yeah. There's this organization called

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Americans United for Peaceable Separation or something
like that. And it's interesting how fast

407
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,800
people in independence movements become friends and
united with each other, regardless of their

408
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other differences. You know, because
I considered Daniel Miller definitely to be not

409
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:50,320
just an ally but a friend,
the guy who runs the Texas Nationalist movement,

410
00:34:51,039 --> 00:34:54,440
and he he and I do not
agree about politics actually all that much.

411
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Yeah, but just because we're just
because we're united them at one issue.

412
00:34:59,599 --> 00:35:02,000
It makes the steel. It makes
us feel I feel very closer to

413
00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:08,360
the guy. He's actually, he's
probably the most interesting politician in America.

414
00:35:09,519 --> 00:35:15,519
I've heard the name Daniel Miller.
Yeah, I feel like I've heard the

415
00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:22,519
nationalist movement. He looks he looks
like Texas. He's just he's he really,

416
00:35:22,559 --> 00:35:25,920
if he wasn't leading the Texas nationalist
movement, he would have a career

417
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:31,360
in the stand up comedy. He's
you know, he's the federal government.

418
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:37,719
Federal government has an approval rating somewhere
between that of syphilis and gonorrhea. And

419
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:42,679
they're telling us we're supposed to be
ruled by him. It's like eating a

420
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,159
bowl of bowels. No, he's
vulgar. By the way, well we

421
00:35:47,199 --> 00:35:50,760
have we have an actual Texan in
the chat room. By the way,

422
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,760
my old friend from high school,
Markkastik, who moved down to Texas some

423
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:59,480
years ago and uh speaks, speaks
highly of of the of the state.

424
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:06,760
So you want to do like a
tri state sort of secession with New Hampshire,

425
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,159
Iowa, and Texas. Is that
where we're going with this? Is

426
00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:14,719
that the idea it'd be nice to
have a fifty state as an independent movement

427
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,840
of fifty states, right, and
I think we'd all get all the states.

428
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,320
I think we just get along better
without using the federal government against each

429
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,960
other. Well, now you're getting
I mean that sounds a little ambitious,

430
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Dave. I mean baby steps.
I mean, we gotta let's do the

431
00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:30,880
three first and then we'll figure out
the other forty seven. I mean,

432
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,599
come on, I mean, we
could probably get Alaska in there. I

433
00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:37,760
know Sarah Palin's husband was a big
secessionists there, so maybe we can have

434
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,880
a quad. And then but if
we have four states, So if we

435
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:45,840
have four states also seeded together,
would those four states be a union of

436
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:50,079
our own? And if so,
which state would be in charge of our

437
00:36:50,159 --> 00:36:52,880
nuclear weapons? Because the only way, and Dave, we've talked about this,

438
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,239
the only way I'll go along with
this whole plan, is if we

439
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,239
can have some nukes, just put
me in charge of them. It'll be

440
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,360
fine, there's nothing to worry about. I'll be very careful. But you

441
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,960
know, if I see Maine or
you know, New Jersey or somebody coming

442
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,440
to invade, you know, I'm
going to fire one of those off,

443
00:37:08,519 --> 00:37:14,800
of course, to protect us,
all of us. Well, you know

444
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,039
historically what happened best with nuclear weapons. The big I think the second biggest

445
00:37:19,039 --> 00:37:27,119
reduction in nuclear weapons ever was after
the Soviets collapse and unilaterally. I think

446
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:34,280
the unilaterally reduced nuclear arsenal that resulted
in the Americans didn't take advantage of it.

447
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:39,320
The Americans reduced their nuclear arsenal wia
of massive by two thirds eventually,

448
00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:45,679
So when the Soviets backed down,
that's when the Americans started getting a little

449
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,159
bit more benign. So that's the
thing you do with nuclear weapons. You

450
00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:51,320
give them up, you back down, you walk away. You do what

451
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,400
South Africa did when they got rid
of their nuclear program. You just walk

452
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,880
away from those things. Well,
I'd like to I'd like to have at

453
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,719
least one. I mean we could
we could, uh we you know,

454
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,800
just just just one ICBM just in
case. Uh we could. Uh We'll

455
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,320
let Eric watch over it in Iowa. How does that sound, Eric,

456
00:38:08,519 --> 00:38:13,960
We'll have another. I mean,
you wants to have silos already in Iowa.

457
00:38:14,039 --> 00:38:17,559
I assume you have silos. We
do have silos. But here is

458
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,840
my thinking. I'm the type of
guy that there's a little bit of me

459
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:30,519
that wants to watch the world burn. So I will turn the honor you

460
00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:35,639
have given me to watch the nuclear
weapons. I'm gonna give that honor the

461
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,920
Texas. Oh okay, now,
how would that work logistically? Would you

462
00:38:42,079 --> 00:38:45,880
let Texas actually have the missile itself
or are you saying we'll put the missile

463
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:51,079
in a silo in Iowa, but
whoever is in charge of Texas can have

464
00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:58,400
the launch codes. The whole shebang, missles, launch codes all go into

465
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:00,800
Texas. Okay, all right,
how's that? Does that sound fair to

466
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:07,320
you? Dave? Well, I
mean, that's kind of what happened after

467
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,719
the Russians collapsed. After the Soviets
collapse, they just handed all everybody handed

468
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:15,599
their nuclear weapons over the Russians basically, and that actually did not work out

469
00:39:15,639 --> 00:39:19,960
all that badly. Yeah, you
know, the Russians are a very imperfect

470
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:24,840
government, very imperfect system, the
bad bad president maybe not quite evil,

471
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:30,239
but bad, and you know,
and yet it has kind of worked out

472
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:35,239
just because having it in fewer hands
is better. So yes, I would

473
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,000
certainly trust Texans with nuclear weapons a
lot more than I would trust Russia.

474
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:44,079
But I agree with you there and
a lot and a lot more than I

475
00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:49,400
would trust Biden and his diapers well
as a great man once said, don't

476
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:54,159
mess with Texas, and I'm referring
to you. I'm sorry. Oh,

477
00:39:54,639 --> 00:39:58,320
just to clarify, I'm referring to
the song, not the person who actually

478
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,119
said it. When I say,
great man, I'm so right? What's

479
00:40:00,159 --> 00:40:07,920
that? Eric? That's with our
union? Who would what if we had

480
00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:13,400
Texas in charge of the nuclear weapons
with the launch coakes. This is a

481
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:19,039
state that basically has a turnstyle for
the death penalty. Who is gonna mess

482
00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:22,599
with us? You blanket this union? Wrong? Nukes are coming your way?

483
00:40:23,679 --> 00:40:28,199
Or a nuke because I think Dave
will only let us have one,

484
00:40:28,519 --> 00:40:30,920
and I'm not sure he's even gonna
let us have that one. He sounds

485
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,480
like he sounds a little unsure about
that. You sound a little unsure about

486
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,920
that, Dave. I think it
would be better for all the American states

487
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:43,079
and the federal government to walk probably
walk away from their nukes. I see,

488
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,719
I could be wrong. That's no
fun. But you know the other

489
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:52,280
thing with independence, you know you
were talking about having you know, three

490
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:57,840
states all the clear independence or something. The thing is, historically what happens

491
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:02,920
is this republic sort of the states
that declared independence first are usually the safest.

492
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:09,079
So for instance, in Yugoslavia,
the Slovenians went first and they they

493
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,800
were very successful with very little violence, and you know, you saw what

494
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:21,840
happened to the republics that declared independence
later on, like like Bosnia. Yeah.

495
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,559
And then also in Russia, the
Estonians I think were first and they

496
00:41:24,679 --> 00:41:30,039
did really well. The Chechens were
last and they ended up having war two

497
00:41:30,119 --> 00:41:34,760
wars, yep. So it's you
you want to be the first one out.

498
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,480
It was sort of the same thing
with the Arab Spring, where I

499
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:49,239
guess it was Tanzania was the first
country to anyway, the first country to

500
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,559
rise up in the Arab Spring,
did very well and replaced their government peacefully

501
00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:59,039
with with no bad results really right
now, But all the other countries have

502
00:41:59,079 --> 00:42:00,880
had problems, didn't do that well, and of course we know what happened

503
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,320
to Syria. So you want to
be first with this stuff. You don't

504
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,280
want to be last one out the
exit, right right, So New Hampshire

505
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:13,519
first is what you're saying. If
we could be the first one out,

506
00:42:13,519 --> 00:42:15,599
the exit will be the safest,
right yeah, Right now, right now,

507
00:42:15,599 --> 00:42:19,519
we're kind of we're kind of number
two. We're like Texas, is

508
00:42:19,559 --> 00:42:22,639
ahead of us, and we're we're
doing the best we can to catch up

509
00:42:22,679 --> 00:42:24,800
with them, but we're not.
We're not as far along as we should

510
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:30,239
be. Does California fit in any
of this? The only reason I ask

511
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:36,159
is California has, what is it, the seventh largest economy in the world.

512
00:42:36,199 --> 00:42:39,239
They could usually succeed it and be
their own country and maybe we could

513
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:44,559
ride their coat tails or would that
that wouldn't exactly be us being first.

514
00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:49,280
I suppose it would be better if
they're road ires. But they are doing

515
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,159
pretty well there. I guess the
third, the third furthest along. They're

516
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:59,400
doing the third best, and they
have a pretty pretty strong independence movement called

517
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:04,559
you know col Exit or yes,
California. Yeah, there was somebody years

518
00:43:04,599 --> 00:43:08,079
ago who wanted to split some billionaire
who he was either running for office or

519
00:43:08,119 --> 00:43:10,719
he was thinking about it or I
don't remember his name, but he had

520
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:16,079
a plan to like he actually wanted
to not not necessarily secede from the Union,

521
00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:21,159
but he wanted to take California and
split it into five separate states,

522
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,440
which was an interesting proposal, or
maybe six or seven different states. It

523
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:31,440
was pretty interesting anyway. Yeah,
that Kim Draper, Kim Draper and uh,

524
00:43:31,559 --> 00:43:35,360
yeah, that that failed. But
you know, Rusfall Canning was always

525
00:43:35,519 --> 00:43:37,480
he always likes to say, you
could split any state all you want,

526
00:43:37,559 --> 00:43:40,920
and that won't make very much difference
at all. But if you split a

527
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:45,760
state off from the Union, you
have effectively eliminated two thirds of the government

528
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:51,280
that's going on in your in your
state, and and that that makes a

529
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:57,000
big difference. All right, Dave, Well, any anything else, anything

530
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,639
you'd like to add or well,
I was going to tell you an exciting

531
00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:07,199
story about Dean Kyman, the New
Hampshire billionaire, and his successful secession attempt,

532
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,480
but I'll have to I'll think I'll
call about that some other times.

533
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:13,280
Since I've taken up so many minutes. Well, we'll leave that for another

534
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,480
day. All right, that sounds
good. Anything you'd like to plug you

535
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:21,440
want to plug NH exit NH exit
dot us. All right, Dave,

536
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:24,039
we appreciate the call, my friend. Thanks guys, all right, you

537
00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:28,519
got it? Bye bye? All
right. That was Dave Ridley from the

538
00:44:28,599 --> 00:44:32,400
Ridley Report and NH exit. Is
there is there a strong secessionist movement in

539
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,599
Iowa. Eric, I never hear
about it, but oh what's up?

540
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:44,079
No, not at all. That
we're pretty we're pretty lazy. Yeah,

541
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,760
we do have enough. Oh sorry, go ahead. The speed takes a

542
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:55,280
lot of effort. Yeah, and
we ain't about that, like like we

543
00:44:55,559 --> 00:45:00,840
no, all right, well I
get I. Yes, we'll we'll leave

544
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,440
you out of our new uh,
our new uh separate country then, but

545
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:10,159
we do have a if New Hampshire
and Texas and Alaska want to do the

546
00:45:10,199 --> 00:45:15,079
heavy work, oh well we'll jump
on it. We'll jump on it the

547
00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:19,559
end. Oh okay, work smarter, not harder. We do have a

548
00:45:19,559 --> 00:45:24,320
call. Hi, Hi, welcome
to Matt Connorton unleashed. Who's this It's

549
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:29,519
your buddy in Texas. Oh,
Mark, how are you? You sound

550
00:45:29,599 --> 00:45:31,320
more? Uh? I haven't heard
from you in a while. You sound

551
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:37,719
even more Texan than ever. Yes, I'm a proud member in Texas for

552
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:45,239
about a year. You've been what
a proud member in Texas? A proud

553
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:51,679
member of Texas? Yes, yes, tex Oh tex It. I'm sorry.

554
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,679
Yeah, it's not a it's not
a very good phone connection. So

555
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:59,760
that so that's a that's the name
of the organization tex It. Yeah,

556
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:04,400
it is a textit movement that started
a while back. Oh yeah, you

557
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,079
sound a little better now. Whatever
change you sound better. Yeah, so

558
00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:13,480
you're a part of that. Yeah, I joined the the email list or

559
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,480
whatever. There's a there's a group
kind to seceed Texas in the state.

560
00:46:16,599 --> 00:46:21,599
As you know, we're once its
own country as well with its own currency.

561
00:46:22,119 --> 00:46:25,440
Interesting. Interesting. Do you think
it'll ever happen or is it just

562
00:46:25,559 --> 00:46:30,679
kind of a because I think all
the secession stuff is I mean, respectfully,

563
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,679
I don't think anybody's going to ever
actually successfully secede. But what do

564
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,159
you think? No, I agree
with you one hundred percent. I think

565
00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:40,880
it's like curtain cats. But if
it were to happen, I mean,

566
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:45,239
it's it's a good idea overall,
but you'll never get everyone to agree on

567
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:50,639
anything right now if you weren't.
If you were to successfully do it,

568
00:46:50,639 --> 00:46:53,480
though, would you be willing to
take Iowa? Because Eric would like to

569
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:58,719
tag along if possible with Iowa,
but doesn't want to actually do the hard

570
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,960
stuff. Well, the wife went
to Iowa. She's a hawk eye,

571
00:47:02,159 --> 00:47:05,800
so yeah, we'd have to take
that because her mom and dad's still living

572
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,400
here. Oh and and we might
as well take Minnesota because that's where her

573
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:16,599
brother lives. So we'll just Canada
that Eric Minnesota's Minnesota is a deal breaker.

574
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:21,840
We don't get along with Minnesota.
Oh why is that so? Which

575
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,840
part the southern part where the Muslims
are or the northern part where where the

576
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:31,719
farmers are. Minnesota in general,
they're up there with Nebraska. It just

577
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:40,280
doesn't work. Like I don't understand. Like whenever my family is originally from

578
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,039
Albert Lee, Minnesota, whenever we
go to Albert Lee, uh, they're

579
00:47:45,039 --> 00:47:51,599
all they always scoff at us when
they hear, Oh, you're from Iowa.

580
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,960
And it's like, you're in Albert
Lee, Minnesota. You don't even

581
00:47:53,960 --> 00:48:00,119
have a super Walmart. You have
just a Walmart. Like, I pretty

582
00:48:00,159 --> 00:48:06,880
sure we're step above you. That's
one way to one way to measure it.

583
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,880
I suppose I thought maybe it was
some sports rivalry type of thing.

584
00:48:10,599 --> 00:48:16,000
It is like Nebraska football and Iowa
football have a big rivalry. Iowa and

585
00:48:16,039 --> 00:48:23,280
Minnesota in Iowa Wisconsin which Iowan Minnesota
play for a trophy that's a pig.

586
00:48:24,159 --> 00:48:29,599
It's a literal pig. Oh oh, well, well I've heard they make

587
00:48:29,639 --> 00:48:32,400
great pass You're talking about the the
Heartland Trophy that I would just won last

588
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:38,639
week. No, Uh, the
Floyd of Rossdale is the one, and

589
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:45,239
yes, the Heartland Trophy is also
a pig, which it's Yeah, it's

590
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:52,719
ridiculous there. The reason is,
obviously is, uh, you know big

591
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:58,800
exporters of pork products, right right. I. I just think, like

592
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,639
I'm a big college forotball fan.
If you're going to play for a trophy,

593
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:09,480
like, have it have a bit
more than have it be something more

594
00:49:09,519 --> 00:49:20,320
than a pig. Like there's a
say, you could put makeup on a

595
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:24,159
pig, but it's still a pig, Like Notre Dame in sc play for

596
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:31,079
the Jeweled Chale, Like that's who
doesn't doesn't like the frist smell of frying

597
00:49:31,159 --> 00:49:40,280
bacon? Well if it came before
it? Well, but is it a

598
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:47,079
live pig. No, it's just
uh, it's just a pewter pig man,

599
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:52,519
a pig on a piece of wood. Oh. I thought maybe it

600
00:49:52,599 --> 00:49:54,760
was like in a state fair where
they they present the pig that won the

601
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,519
Blue ribbon or something, and you
get to take the pig home and you

602
00:49:58,559 --> 00:50:00,639
can make it a pet, or
you can eat it or whatever you're gonna

603
00:50:00,679 --> 00:50:07,719
do. Are you just reciting the
plot line for Charlotte's Web I might have

604
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,519
I did read that when I was
a kid. I don't remember much of

605
00:50:09,519 --> 00:50:15,320
it. Melanie in the chat room
says, why are you putting makeup on

606
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:21,800
a pig? Weirdo? Melanie's been
coming at me an awful lot lately.

607
00:50:22,119 --> 00:50:24,599
Yeah, I think she thinks you're
a weirdo because of the makeup on the

608
00:50:24,639 --> 00:50:30,599
pig. I've been reviewing horror films
for almost two months now. I thought

609
00:50:30,599 --> 00:50:35,400
that would make her happy with me. Yes, yes, well, I'm

610
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,199
sure it does. I'm sure it
does on some level, but she still

611
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:45,199
has concerns. How are things in
Texas? Mark? Thing's good? There?

612
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,760
You doing well? Yeah, we're
we finally got ball It's down to

613
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:55,079
eighty two degree. I'm jealous,
but we did. We just put in

614
00:50:55,119 --> 00:50:59,960
our fall garden, so we got
Brussels sprouts, cabbage, buckley, cauliflower,

615
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,920
and butternutsquash excellent, excellent. You
know we have a Texan on the

616
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:07,760
show sometimes, Texas Mike joins us. He's a former a w A tag

617
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:13,039
team champion with black Jack Mulligan.
He's retired, of course. Yeah,

618
00:51:13,079 --> 00:51:15,679
yeah, Texas Mike. Yeah.
I think I've heard him on the show

619
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:17,599
and seen him in studio. Yeah, yeah, he's He wears a big

620
00:51:17,639 --> 00:51:23,400
belt buckle and uh spurs and everything. It's great. That's why we're so

621
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:30,559
popular in the Dallas Fort Worth areas
because of that. Well, Mark,

622
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:35,159
I was just up in Dallas actually
about a month ago for a movie premiere.

623
00:51:35,159 --> 00:51:37,639
A friend of mine wrote a movie
really and it's a Yeah, it's

624
00:51:37,639 --> 00:51:43,320
an indie film. It's called The
Jones Plantation. Oh wow, and uh

625
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,159
so what is this? So is
that that's where it was premiering. Yeah,

626
00:51:47,159 --> 00:51:50,599
they had a premiere up there and
it's only about three and a half

627
00:51:50,599 --> 00:51:52,400
hours from here, so we drove
up to meet him. Oh very cool.

628
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:55,960
Yeah, it was nice to It
is one of those people that I've

629
00:51:55,960 --> 00:52:00,000
met online that never met in person
before, so it was a good opportunity

630
00:52:00,159 --> 00:52:05,400
after thirteen years, actually meet them
in person. Oh wow, So is

631
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,199
it? Is it a film?
That's just it's just got a limited release

632
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:13,159
for now, but it could could
expand over time. Yeah, essentially,

633
00:52:13,199 --> 00:52:15,639
it's a it's an indie film.
They did the whole thing for about two

634
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:19,039
hundred and fifty thousands, which is
usually about the food bill on a regular

635
00:52:19,079 --> 00:52:22,719
production. Yeah, no kidding,
no kidding. Hey, I was about

636
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:27,400
to say that's like the catering bill. Yeah, yeah, exactly. In

637
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,719
fact, i'll put the trailer.
It's on YouTube. I'll put the trailer

638
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,119
in the link for today's show if
anyone wants to check it out. Yeah,

639
00:52:34,159 --> 00:52:37,679
it's available for purchase for ten dollars, okay, forever. Okay,

640
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,760
yeah, geez, maybe we can
interview him on the show. Who knows,

641
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,679
we have a that would be interesting. All right, but yeah,

642
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,760
yeah, I'll check that out if
you if you post that link, I'll

643
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:51,519
check it out. Definitely, definitely, okay, yeah, right on,

644
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,000
all right, Mark, all right, we'll just checking in from FEMA Region

645
00:52:54,079 --> 00:53:00,239
six and all right, well,
hey, we appreciate the call. Good

646
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:04,079
dear, if you good to hear
from you, old friend. You all

647
00:53:04,159 --> 00:53:07,039
right, Mark, take care,
bye bye. All right. That was

648
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:10,800
uh yeah, I went to high
school with Mark, but he didn't sound

649
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:15,079
like that when we were in high
school. Obviously, he really picked up

650
00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:21,119
that Texas accent, although Texans probably
think he still sounds like somebody from out

651
00:53:21,159 --> 00:53:27,239
of state, so who knows.
But yes, I'm sorry, I have

652
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:31,840
a guest that's invading my recording space
right now. Oh is it your dog?

653
00:53:34,159 --> 00:53:39,199
Yes, he's trying to be on
air. Oh okay, let's uh,

654
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:42,599
let's say hello to everybody in the
Facebook live chat. We can we

655
00:53:42,599 --> 00:53:44,960
can go a little long on the
segment. That's fine because I do have

656
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,960
some I have a couple of specific
things I want to make sure we get

657
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,719
to. It's been a busy show, which is wonderful. Yah, but

658
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,280
uh yeah. In the chat room, Jenny is in there. She loved

659
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,440
that opening song, by the way, one of the songs I played well.

660
00:53:55,440 --> 00:54:00,079
I did play the radio edit of
Unicycle of course by Jerry and the

661
00:54:00,119 --> 00:54:04,599
Scumbags, but I also played something
from Best Not Broken, our musical guest

662
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:08,320
yesterday on the show, and such
a great band and a great song.

663
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:13,400
Jenny was commenting on that. In
the chat room, our friend Jay Fed

664
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,000
from the great state of Vermont joins
us. Jenny said, shalom, peeps,

665
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:21,960
Eric, I see here in there
of course DJ Steve from Retrospect Radio,

666
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,519
who I get to hang out with
every Friday night from a two eleven

667
00:54:23,559 --> 00:54:27,960
pm here at WM and H.
He says, good afternoon everyone, killer

668
00:54:28,039 --> 00:54:30,679
opening, thank you. B Pinard
joins us. In the chat room,

669
00:54:32,159 --> 00:54:37,039
Jenny was making a comment Please share
the show in New Hampshire and Manchester groups

670
00:54:37,079 --> 00:54:43,039
on Facebook. Share to wherever you
would like. Matt and I are unable

671
00:54:43,039 --> 00:54:46,920
to share our show anymore. Facebook
made us spam and put us both on

672
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:52,440
warning. Yeah, Facebook is being
really difficult about Like I shared the show

673
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:57,000
out to my own Facebook page and
I get a warning that I'm spamming,

674
00:54:57,079 --> 00:55:01,639
and it's like, but it's my
show. Melanie we mentioned is in there.

675
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,679
Also. Hans Smith from the band
Sepsis says, hey Metal, Matt,

676
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:12,559
hello to you. Let's see Carroll's
the Warwitz is in the chat room,

677
00:55:12,599 --> 00:55:15,880
Hello Carol. Ronda Faverro from the
Great State of California joins us.

678
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:21,280
Isaac Banks of course from Greensboro,
North Carolina. In the Facebook live chat,

679
00:55:21,519 --> 00:55:24,639
Scott Robinson has a question. He
says, why doesn't Dave Ridley just

680
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:29,400
move away? Well, I think, you know, Dave, for you

681
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:34,400
know, for our lack of our
lack of autonomy here in New Hampshire.

682
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,280
He still loves the state and but
he just wants us to be our own

683
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:42,000
country, that's all. Jay Bellow
is in the chat room says love the

684
00:55:42,039 --> 00:55:45,039
show and thank you for all you
do. Thank you Jay. Jay of

685
00:55:45,079 --> 00:55:49,119
course another very talented musician and he's
been on the show with his band Chasing

686
00:55:49,159 --> 00:55:53,920
the Devil. I still wear that
shirt with great pride. Let's see,

687
00:55:54,280 --> 00:56:00,000
we just want to make sure we
don't miss anybody in here, oh,

688
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:04,880
Scott Robinson said, And don't forget
Iowa also has an excellent wrestling team.

689
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:10,000
Every year, they really do.
I think at one point they won like

690
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:15,639
twenty out of twenty three national championships. Oh wow, that's really good.

691
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:22,679
Yeah, Dan Gable, it was
their coach. Uh. But you know,

692
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,400
college wrestling has really gained a little
bit of parody. Instead of just

693
00:56:27,559 --> 00:56:31,920
Iowa being dominant, they're more top
heavy now. There's like one to four

694
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:37,360
contenders every year. Okay. Uh. Tom Blanchard is also in the Facebook

695
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,960
live chat and says enjoying the show, thank you, Tom. Glad you're

696
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,519
with us, And if you'd like
to be with us, Eric is with

697
00:56:43,599 --> 00:56:45,880
us on Skype. So the studio
phone line is opened six oh three two

698
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five oh six oh seven six oh
three two five oh six oh seven.

699
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,199
You can also text me at six
one seven nine one seven four four seven

700
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:58,320
six. I'm on social media at
Matt Connorton. You can email me Matt

701
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,079
at Matt Coonnorton dot com. And
of course you can interact into opine in

702
00:57:01,119 --> 00:57:04,599
the Facebook live chat. But the
best thing to do so that we can

703
00:57:04,639 --> 00:57:07,320
hear and enjoy your dulca tones is
to give us a call at six O

704
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:10,039
three two five six seven. Isaac
Banks in the chat room, says Matt

705
00:57:10,079 --> 00:57:15,079
Connerton. Maybe sometime if you get
a guest sometime. Is the Interrupters a

706
00:57:15,199 --> 00:57:19,880
rock band? I don't know the
Interrupters, but that's a that's a cool

707
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:25,440
name. Eric, Uh you have
any uh any thoughts on what's going on

708
00:57:25,639 --> 00:57:30,000
in the House of Representatives right now? Have you been uh been watching that

709
00:57:31,239 --> 00:57:37,559
it's just a microcosm of everything wrong
with this country. Well, that's a

710
00:57:38,119 --> 00:57:45,679
that's a big statement, but go
ahead. Look, we have to have

711
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:52,480
the house functional and we cannot get
petty differences set aside to just nominate a

712
00:57:52,599 --> 00:58:00,719
speaker. Petty differences is what led
to the former speaker being ouse, and

713
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:07,559
now petty differences they're keeping one from
being from getting the nomination. Well,

714
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:12,800
I feel that we're in a terrible
position here because either we continue to not

715
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:17,360
have a speaker or we have Jim
Jordan, and I think both of those

716
00:58:19,159 --> 00:58:22,400
options put us on the road to
ruin. Now, you're a conservative So

717
00:58:22,559 --> 00:58:24,400
you might agree with Jim Jordan on
a lot of things. You probably do,

718
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:30,039
But I think he's dangerous because I
think he'll absolutely take us into into

719
00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:36,199
a government shutdown. He's never voted
for a continuing resolution and and I think,

720
00:58:36,559 --> 00:58:38,280
you know, if he's Speaker,
when the opportunity arises, I think

721
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:43,320
he'd be perfectly happy to take us
over the fiscal cliff and into default.

722
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:46,760
So I think he's a pretty dangerous
guy to have in that position. What

723
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:58,639
are your feelings on him? I
mean, he is really really far right.

724
00:58:59,239 --> 00:59:02,639
I mean I do agree with him
on some things, but I kind

725
00:59:02,639 --> 00:59:09,320
of get this Ron DeSantis vibe from
him that put him in a position of

726
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:15,559
power. He thinks every house should
be ward in June Cleaver, which,

727
00:59:17,159 --> 00:59:22,360
no, it doesn't work like that. Oh. By the way, Mark

728
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:27,199
shared the link to that film in
the Facebook laf chat. Thanks Mark,

729
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:32,400
I'll check that out. Yeah.
Now there's there is another possibility that is

730
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:37,320
interesting. Oh, hello to Adam
Slim who joins us in the Facebook clave

731
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:42,559
chat. Hello, it's a new
name in there. The possibility of Patrick

732
00:59:42,639 --> 00:59:47,000
McHenry, who I until very recently
knew nothing about. But he is,

733
00:59:47,039 --> 00:59:52,039
of course the speaker pro temp.
They could give him some additional power so

734
00:59:52,079 --> 00:59:59,079
that the House can function and still
carry on some business. But I don't

735
00:59:59,119 --> 01:00:00,599
know why, why not just if
they're gonna do that, why not just

736
01:00:00,639 --> 01:00:06,760
try to make him the speaker permanently. And I, like I said,

737
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:08,239
I didn't know much about him until
recently. I still don't know a lot

738
01:00:08,239 --> 01:00:14,440
about him, although I was surprised
to learn today that he's only forty seven

739
01:00:14,519 --> 01:00:17,440
years old because his hair is completely
white. I guess he's got the Steve

740
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:22,639
Martin thing going where his hair is
white. But he's still a young man.

741
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:28,639
But it's interesting because the Democrats are
willing to work with him. You

742
01:00:28,639 --> 01:00:32,360
know, Jim Jordan is obviously not
someone that you know, they're gonna keep

743
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,320
voting for Hakim Jefferies, but it
might be they might be willing to make

744
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:40,320
a compromise to at least give Patrick
McHenry some additional power to get things moving

745
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:45,119
again, because right now, I
mean, our government is essentially paralyzed as

746
01:00:45,119 --> 01:00:46,800
this drags on, and I don't
think people realize. I don't think a

747
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:51,079
lot of people realize how bad it
is for the country. And I would

748
01:00:51,119 --> 01:00:52,480
just add, and I'm curious to
get your thoughts on this. I do.

749
01:00:53,039 --> 01:00:59,840
I do also blame not primarily because
it's you know, the I heard

750
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:01,760
the referred to as the Crazy eight, you know, Matt Gates and the

751
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:07,480
Crazy eight, but you know,
they're the ones who created this problem because

752
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:15,280
they chose to houst McCarthy. But
I do also blame the Democrats secondarily because

753
01:01:15,679 --> 01:01:17,840
they could have saved Kevin McCarthy and
then we wouldn't be going through all of

754
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,800
this, and it's, you know, kind of the devil, you know,

755
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:24,000
type of thing. And I'd rather
have McCarthy than Jordan. I'd rather

756
01:01:24,039 --> 01:01:28,719
have Steve Scalice than Jordan, but
I'd rather have McCarthy than either of them.

757
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,719
But but Patrick McHenry seems like an
interesting possibility. And he wears a

758
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:37,000
bow tie. You gotta love that. Who's worn a bow tie in Congress

759
01:01:37,239 --> 01:01:42,039
since Senator Paul Simon. Not Paul
Simon Simon and Garfunkle, of course,

760
01:01:42,079 --> 01:01:45,840
but Paul Simon, the senator,
the late senator from the state of Illinois,

761
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,519
who my dad actually took me to
see speak live once when I was

762
01:01:47,559 --> 01:01:51,559
a kid, uh back with my
dad, believe it or not, was

763
01:01:51,599 --> 01:01:53,360
a Democrat when I was growing up
and was a big fan of Senator Paul

764
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:59,880
Simon. But uh, well,
I don't know any prediction predictions, Eric,

765
01:02:00,079 --> 01:02:06,239
where this goes. I thought it
was I thought last time we talked

766
01:02:06,239 --> 01:02:08,599
about this, I think it was
two weeks ago, Jim Jordan was a

767
01:02:08,639 --> 01:02:15,920
shoe in. He had Trump backing
him. I thought it was pretty much

768
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:23,039
a done deal, and I was
pretty much resigned to the fact that it

769
01:02:23,159 --> 01:02:27,639
was going to be Jim Jordan.
And I'm like, okay, you know,

770
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:31,519
at least we have at least there's
a person there now, right,

771
01:02:32,599 --> 01:02:42,159
hopefully they guide us through these choppy
waters, you know. And but now

772
01:02:42,199 --> 01:02:50,840
it's like, okay, Republicans,
we say, are Republican representatives say they're

773
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:55,440
so much better than the Democrats and
say how they put the country first,

774
01:02:55,480 --> 01:03:02,199
and Democrats don't. Well, they're
just showing their blind hypocrisy here that no,

775
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:07,280
they don't put our country first.
Because if they would have put our

776
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,599
country first, this process would be
done in over with. There would be

777
01:03:10,599 --> 01:03:15,440
a Speaker of the House, they
would be in position, and stuff would

778
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:21,119
be getting done. Yeah, they're
not voting there. Oh sorry, go

779
01:03:21,159 --> 01:03:30,440
ahead, this high ground and this
this holier than dow throne that they love

780
01:03:30,519 --> 01:03:35,840
to sit on is gone and over
with. This whole debacle has made the

781
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:42,360
Democratic Party, sorry, the Republican
Party, look like a bunch of bickering

782
01:03:42,679 --> 01:03:46,239
schoolgirls. Well, we've never seen
anything quite like it. We've never seen

783
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:52,679
a speaker ousted before, which reminds
me that's part of why John Bahner got

784
01:03:52,719 --> 01:03:54,239
out when he did. And did
you did you? Uh? I don't

785
01:03:54,239 --> 01:03:58,039
know if you were paying any attention
to the vote today, Eric, but

786
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:01,119
somebody, I forget who it was
now, somebody actually put when they were

787
01:04:01,159 --> 01:04:04,760
doing the roll call, somebody actually
voted for Bayner. Did you know that

788
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:12,400
I did not that person should have
their vote rescinded. You see, I

789
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,800
think it's funny because obviously they were
doing it, because they were doing it

790
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:24,079
out of protest of Jim Jordan.
I have been a little bit pleasantly surprised

791
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:29,800
seeing some of these moderate Republicans sort
of standing up to you know, because

792
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:31,679
I thought, yeah, you and
I talked about it before, and I

793
01:04:31,679 --> 01:04:35,480
think we both agreed that it probably
was going to be Jim Jordan, because

794
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:41,280
that's who Trump very publicly endorsed.
And you know, once the god Emperor

795
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:45,159
annoints someone that's what they're going to
do, but apparently not. And some

796
01:04:45,239 --> 01:04:50,079
of these moderate Republicans seem pretty you
know, some of them who won in

797
01:04:50,199 --> 01:04:55,880
districts that Biden carried in twenty twenty, some of them seem pretty worried about

798
01:04:55,880 --> 01:05:00,280
what's going to happen if they support
Jim Jordan. And I'm a a little

799
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:05,280
bit pleasantly surprised actually to see the
the pushback on Jim Jordan. I thought

800
01:05:05,519 --> 01:05:10,880
I thought he probably would be the
next speaker, but it doesn't look like

801
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:17,679
he's going to be right. And
I mean, I don't even know who's

802
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:23,679
next. No, that's the thing. There doesn't seem to be anybody next.

803
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:30,719
And I think here's here's I've been
wrong a lot with my predictions on

804
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:34,760
this whole thing. It's been very
difficult to predict. But I think it

805
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:42,800
is quite likely, not likely,
possible, that they're going to give They're

806
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,440
going to again working because Hakeem Jefferies
has already said he's open to this.

807
01:05:46,119 --> 01:05:49,960
I think, uh, they will
work with the Democrats as much as they

808
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:54,000
don't want to look like they're doing
it to just make a bit of a

809
01:05:54,039 --> 01:06:00,719
compromise, expand Patrick McHenry's powers as
speaker pro tempt and then at some point

810
01:06:01,159 --> 01:06:05,199
in the near future, if that
seems to be working, they might actually

811
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:09,119
just try to make him speaker,
because again, I don't know why they

812
01:06:09,119 --> 01:06:13,039
don't just do that anyway, you
know, I mean, he's running things,

813
01:06:13,079 --> 01:06:15,000
you know, to the extent that
he has any power, which is

814
01:06:15,039 --> 01:06:19,519
very limited. Already, they're already
talking about expanding his power, so why

815
01:06:19,559 --> 01:06:24,800
not just make him the next speaker? So, but I don't know much

816
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:28,800
about the guy beyond that, I
don't. I don't think I've ever even

817
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:36,760
really heard of him until recently.
Right, there are so many variables at

818
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:45,400
play with this that that yes that
I just I don't I'm with you,

819
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:55,239
Matt, I don't see how this
ends. Yeah, well, Eric,

820
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,440
we are uh yeah, wow,
it's it's uh five point fifteen. Do

821
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:01,599
you want to we can we can
wrap up, But did you want to

822
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:12,280
plug the film review for Friday?
Yes? This week is? This week

823
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:20,880
is Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness?
Ah? Yes, so yeah, I'm

824
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:27,440
sorry, Scott, I was responding
to a message. My apologies, Oh

825
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:31,559
Scott, Yeah, what is the
double toothpicks in the background? Yes,

826
01:07:33,119 --> 01:07:40,679
yes, Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness. Yes, and I actually, because

827
01:07:40,679 --> 01:07:45,960
of being sick, I was behind
this week. I watched it this morning

828
01:07:46,199 --> 01:07:54,719
in just such an amazing film,
Like so many different elements of movies are

829
01:07:54,719 --> 01:08:03,199
included in this comedy, horror,
fantasy, science fiction, like you can't.

830
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:08,079
What makes it great is you can't
just put it into one genre.

831
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:13,239
Right. So that was the first
one in the series, right, because

832
01:08:13,239 --> 01:08:16,880
that went on to spawn a whole
series of films. Right, it's the

833
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:26,239
third one. It's oh, it's
the third one. O two, Army

834
01:08:26,279 --> 01:08:31,000
of Darkness, the Diablo Cody,
Evil Dead Remake and Evil Dead Rise.

835
01:08:31,239 --> 01:08:38,000
And then there's the series Ash Versus. Oh. Okay, see I never

836
01:08:38,039 --> 01:08:41,479
got into those movies, so I
can't keep them straight. But what's the

837
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:46,039
name of that The actor with the
big chim, Bruce Campbell? Yeah?

838
01:08:46,239 --> 01:08:51,880
Is that? What he's most known
for is those films. Yes, And

839
01:08:51,920 --> 01:09:00,399
he's also written some He's also written
some books. Uh. He's written Confessions

840
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:06,880
of a B Movie Actor, which
is autobiograph, which is an autobiography.

841
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:13,880
He's written a chim book, How
to Make Love the Bruce Campbellway, and

842
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:18,680
he's written Hail to the Chin,
which is like Hollywood antidotes about his life

843
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:24,279
in Hollywood. Oh okay, yeah, I thought I I thought I had

844
01:09:24,279 --> 01:09:27,640
seen that that he had written something. Then he also read something called if

845
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,279
This Chin Could Talk? Or am
I maybe that was an article that I'd

846
01:09:30,319 --> 01:09:36,199
read about him. That's the main
title of his first book. You're right,

847
01:09:36,279 --> 01:09:41,560
man, if Chin's Could Kill Confessions
of a B movie Actor. Oh

848
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:45,159
okay, if Chins could Kill?
Gotcha? Gotcha? Okay? Cool?

849
01:09:45,279 --> 01:09:48,720
Cool? Well, yeah, so
that'll be great. It's just such an

850
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:55,159
awesome movie, and the special effects
are dated, especially when I was watching

851
01:09:55,199 --> 01:09:59,479
it in four K. But I
can only imagine when this movie came out

852
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:02,880
in nineteen ninety one. Every member
of the Dead Eyed Army is claymation.

853
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:12,479
Oh really, it is so awesome
and just the one liners Bruce Campbell has.

854
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:16,640
By the way, Isaac Banks,
he's been really persistent with this suggestion,

855
01:10:17,079 --> 01:10:20,560
he says in the chat room.
Also hashtag Eric Pilcher if you do

856
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:28,319
the next movie review of nineteen eighty
eight's Jack's Back starring James Spader and Cynthia

857
01:10:28,399 --> 01:10:35,159
Gibb. I have actually heard of
Jack's Back. The thing is, and

858
01:10:35,359 --> 01:10:39,640
you know this, Matt, because
I send you the list. Yes,

859
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:45,520
the film reviews are planned a month, if not two months in advance,

860
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:53,760
and next week's is already planned and
I've actually started research on it. John

861
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:59,560
Carpenter's Halloween. Ah yes, yes, yes, yes, so Jack's back,

862
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:01,039
you know, maybe someday in the
future, but it's not on the

863
01:11:01,119 --> 01:11:05,520
Uh, it's not on the upcoming
uh because you No. I mean,

864
01:11:06,039 --> 01:11:10,439
like I said, I I have
to have an idea of where I'm going,

865
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:15,279
and there are some times where I
do have to, uh make a

866
01:11:15,359 --> 01:11:19,920
quick change, like with true Romance
and I forget the other one uh sweet

867
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:25,560
sweet Bax badass song that I had
to be like we can't do it.

868
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:31,479
Yeah, I remember that, yes, yes, Uh, I remember late

869
01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:39,119
night messaging you on Facebook like Matt, this ain't gonna work. Yeah.

870
01:11:39,239 --> 01:11:44,279
Yeah, I remember that subject this
film ain't gonna fly. Yeah. That

871
01:11:44,279 --> 01:11:45,880
would have been That would have been
tricky. That would have been tricky.

872
01:11:47,119 --> 01:11:51,600
Very yeah. But no, I
I do I do. You know.

873
01:11:53,239 --> 01:11:58,800
I love getting recommendations and I will
always take them under consideration since I know

874
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:02,520
now that I can just record clips
and don't have to rely on finding him

875
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:08,520
online. Right right, Well,
very good, So we look forward to

876
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:13,039
that, and Eric, we'll let
you go and as you continue to be

877
01:12:13,119 --> 01:12:17,399
on the end from RSV. But
obviously you're feeling better. Oh yeah,

878
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:23,840
Like I said to you today,
like I'll have one or two sporadic coughing

879
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:29,840
fits, yeah, throughout the day
and a runny nose. That's about it.

880
01:12:30,039 --> 01:12:34,239
I'm doing today is the first stamp. Actually felt like getting up and

881
01:12:34,279 --> 01:12:40,520
doing stuff. Oh no, that's
a win in my book. Yeah,

882
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:44,079
no doubt, no doubt. All
right, Eric. Well, oh,

883
01:12:44,119 --> 01:12:49,199
by the way, Isaac is also
recommending the nineteen eighties movie Transylvania six five

884
01:12:49,279 --> 01:12:58,520
thou. I will definitely look into
it and see. Okay, that's all

885
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:03,319
we can ask, all right,
Eric, Yes, well we'll let you

886
01:13:03,399 --> 01:13:06,520
go for now, and thank you
so much. Always enjoy getting to hang

887
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:12,840
out with you on Wednesdays and look
forward to the review on Friday. I

888
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:16,199
look forward to presenting it and I
always look forward to Wednesdays as well.

889
01:13:16,239 --> 01:13:18,760
Matt. All right, very good, All right, Eric, thank you

890
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:24,840
so much, Take care, bye
bye bye. All right. That was

891
01:13:25,199 --> 01:13:29,640
Eric Pilcher, of course from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. And we will conclude

892
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:31,840
that segment with a song. I
think I'm gonna play some eons encoded actually

893
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:36,199
because I saw a reference to eons
and the Facebook live chat. Oh yes,

894
01:13:36,239 --> 01:13:41,520
Eon Venom four. But you know, I do love this song Reconnection.

895
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,680
This is one of my favorites that
I kind of have an heavy rotation

896
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:46,119
on the show. I think I
played this once a week, but such

897
01:13:46,159 --> 01:13:48,359
a great track. So we're gonna
do that, and then we're going to

898
01:13:48,399 --> 01:13:51,119
show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we'll be back with the

899
01:13:51,159 --> 01:13:56,039
balance of our program today. So
there is more Matt Connorton Unleashed coming up.

900
01:13:56,079 --> 01:14:04,720
Don't go anywhere, Command God,
don't get supremely Matt south coving you.

901
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:41,479
Welcome back, everybody. Is we
cruising our final segment today of Matt

902
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:45,840
Connorton Unleashed And we are live from
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903
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904
01:14:51,319 --> 01:14:56,760
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to all of our online listeners across the

905
01:14:56,840 --> 01:15:00,640
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906
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:02,800
all of your live streaming options,
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907
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show archives, et cetera, et
cetera. Today is Wednesday, October eighteen,

908
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:13,840
twenty twenty three, so nice to
have you all with me. If

909
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,239
you would like to get in with
a call, the studio line is open

910
01:15:16,319 --> 01:15:19,920
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911
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912
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913
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,520
You can email me Matt at mattconnorton
dot com, and of course you can

914
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:35,359
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915
01:15:35,359 --> 01:15:40,000
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916
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:44,560
a call at six oh three two
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917
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:46,760
again, of course to Eric Pilcher
for joining us, and don't forget Eric's

918
01:15:47,079 --> 01:15:54,560
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919
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920
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921
01:16:01,399 --> 01:16:06,000
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922
01:16:06,119 --> 01:16:13,439
Open Mic features tonight include Matt Richards
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923
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:16,000
correctly, sign ups are at seven
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924
01:16:16,039 --> 01:16:24,319
pm, So our usual open Mike
Shenanigans tonight at the Hop Not. Also,

925
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:30,239
they've got an event coming up on
for Halloween. Let's see. This

926
01:16:30,319 --> 01:16:36,079
is on October twenty eighth. It
is a Saturday the Hopnot Halloween get down.

927
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:41,960
There's going to be a karaoke contest, a costume context and of course

928
01:16:42,039 --> 01:16:46,039
pretzels and craft beer. It says
here, We're celebrating our Halloween with our

929
01:16:46,159 --> 01:16:50,560
annual Halloween party on Saturday, October
twenty eighth, from seven pm to midnight.

930
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:55,199
We'll have a costume contest as well
as a karaoke contest with prizes for

931
01:16:55,239 --> 01:17:00,399
both. Karaoke starts at seven pm
with DJ Joe, with karaoke contest starting

932
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:03,840
at nine pm. Winners for both
contests will be announced at eleven thirty.

933
01:17:04,239 --> 01:17:10,079
So that is coming up on October
twenty ninth. So good stuff, good

934
01:17:10,119 --> 01:17:16,319
stuff going on there, let's see. Isaac Banks in the Facebook live chat,

935
01:17:16,319 --> 01:17:20,520
says Matt Connerton. I was giving
a shout out to my friend Will

936
01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:25,600
Florence from Greensboro, North Carolina,
and now he lives in Raleigh, North

937
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:30,119
Carolina. Tell him to chat message
me on Facebook. Yes, Will Florence,

938
01:17:30,119 --> 01:17:34,640
if you're listening, please chat message
Isaac Banks. Riley King joins us

939
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:39,600
in the Facebook live chat fellow broadcaster, Hello, Riley, Nice to see

940
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:44,079
you in there. Well, we've
got a little bit of time left.

941
01:17:44,159 --> 01:17:47,720
I think that this is We talked
about it a little bit with Eric.

942
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:53,319
But of course, you know,
there's really two stories running concurrently right now

943
01:17:53,359 --> 01:17:59,399
that are dominating the news. One
is the war Israel versus Hamas and the

944
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:04,399
other, of course, the House
Speakers race. I'd say the war is

945
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:10,199
the more depressing of the two subjects. But a couple things on the House

946
01:18:10,239 --> 01:18:13,640
Speakers race that have come up today. If you don't know, if you

947
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:15,520
haven't been following or you haven't had
a chance to catch up today, they

948
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:19,720
did do another vote today. Jim
Jordan actually lost a couple of votes,

949
01:18:20,319 --> 01:18:27,640
so something interesting though. People are
saying, some people in the media have

950
01:18:28,079 --> 01:18:31,720
made the observation that well, you
know, he's actually losing votes, not

951
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:36,439
gaining votes. He's probably he probably
has no chance of being speaker. But

952
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:43,359
remember it did take fifteen tries,
fifteen bites at the apple, if you

953
01:18:43,399 --> 01:18:46,920
will, so it would have to
be a pretty big apple for Kevin McCarthy

954
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:55,039
to clinch the speakership. Having said
that Kevin McCarthy is a divisive as he

955
01:18:55,159 --> 01:18:57,479
was in some ways, not nearly
as much, I would say, as

956
01:18:57,560 --> 01:19:01,840
Jim Jordan for different reasons. But
this is only his second vote, so

957
01:19:02,079 --> 01:19:05,520
he might yet be able to convince
some of these moderates. Although I'm skeptical,

958
01:19:06,159 --> 01:19:10,560
and as I said to Eric earlier, but if you're just joining us,

959
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:15,199
I have a prediction, kind of
a half hearted prediction, because I

960
01:19:15,239 --> 01:19:20,000
have found this very difficult, this
particular storyline, if you will, in

961
01:19:20,079 --> 01:19:27,359
politics, so difficult to really predict
that I'm used to being wrong about these

962
01:19:27,399 --> 01:19:30,920
things. But I think that it
is possible that Patrick McHenry, who is

963
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:36,039
currently the Speaker pro temp so which
you know, he shows up and he

964
01:19:36,199 --> 01:19:41,720
you know, hits the gavel and
calls votes to order and so forth,

965
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:44,399
but the only thing they're really able
to vote on right now, of course,

966
01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:48,840
is the speakership. I think it's
entirely possible that there is a deal

967
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:56,159
made Republicans working with Democrats to give
McHenry some additional powers so that he can

968
01:19:56,239 --> 01:20:00,840
actually so that the House can function
on some level, and then eventually perhaps

969
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:10,399
making him speaker. Something interesting that
I learned today about that possibility. So

970
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:15,880
because of the deal that McCarthy made
when he was trying to become speaker,

971
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:19,199
because of the deal that he made
with you know, as I heard referred

972
01:20:19,199 --> 01:20:24,640
to today, Matt Gates and the
Crazy Eights, those House Freedom Caucus members

973
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:30,800
who really wanted this. It only
takes one House member to call for a

974
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:32,800
vote to vacate and then if he
can get enough people to go along with

975
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:36,279
him, and by him, I
mean Matt Gates, then the speakership is

976
01:20:36,359 --> 01:20:44,039
vacated. And then that's what they
did to McCarthy. Apparently there is nothing

977
01:20:44,119 --> 01:20:47,039
in place now. The Parliamentarian would
have to rule on this, but apparently

978
01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:56,039
there doesn't seem to be anything in
place to vacate the speaker pro temp position.

979
01:20:57,479 --> 01:21:02,760
In other words, if they may
make a deal to give Patrick McHenry

980
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:09,640
of where's he from North Carolina.
I think if they make a deal to

981
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:14,880
give him additional powers, they could
vote on that giving him additional power so

982
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:18,000
that he wouldn't be the speaker.
He'd still be the Speaker pro temp,

983
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:23,800
but he would have the ability to
actually run the House and have votes on

984
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:27,680
things like continuing aid for Ukraine,
additional aid for Israel, things like that,

985
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:32,199
things that will have bipartisan support.
And I don't know what happens if

986
01:21:32,239 --> 01:21:38,640
he's still there in that position,
fulfilling that function when it's time to you

987
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:42,479
know, when we're on the eve
of another government shutdown. I'm not sure

988
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:44,920
what happens then. I don't know
much about him. I don't know if

989
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,119
he's more of a moderate guy,
that's my impression, but I don't know.

990
01:21:47,199 --> 01:21:50,439
I know very little about Patrick McHenry
and have a feeling I'm gonna have

991
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:54,680
to be learning a lot about him, we all are in the coming days.

992
01:21:55,359 --> 01:22:00,600
But if they can give him those
additional powers, but there's nothing,

993
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:04,560
there's nothing that says, there's nothing
in the House rules that says you can

994
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:11,560
actually vacate the not the speakership,
but the Speaker pro temp. You can't

995
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:15,800
vacate that. If that's correct,
that there's no mechanism to do that,

996
01:22:15,279 --> 01:22:20,720
then they could, in theory,
expand his power and then just leave him

997
01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:27,520
indefinitely or for the rest of this
term as the Speaker pro temp. So

998
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:30,279
if he has all the powers that
a speaker does and can fulfill all of

999
01:22:30,319 --> 01:22:35,039
those functions, but without the fear, without that sort of damnically is hanging

1000
01:22:35,039 --> 01:22:39,640
over his head the McCarthy hat all
the time. So did John Bayner.

1001
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:43,600
That's why he left, So did
Paul Ryan. Sort Of little more complicated

1002
01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:46,560
with Paul Ryan. But in theory, that's why he left. I think

1003
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:51,680
he wanted to get out before Trump
came in to the presidency. I think

1004
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:58,359
that's what really chases Paul Ryan out. That's my theory. But so they

1005
01:22:58,359 --> 01:23:03,439
could give mckenry these powers so effectively
make him a speaker, just not in

1006
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:06,920
name. He'd continue to be the
Speaker pro temp, but fulfill those duties

1007
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:12,680
without fear of somebody calling to vote
to vacate him if they're upset with him.

1008
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,960
Somebody like Matt Gates gets upset because
there's no mechanism to do that.

1009
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:20,720
There's nothing in the House rules that
says you can vacate the Speaker pro temp.

1010
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:26,760
In theory, we'll see we're in
uncharted waters here. We're in uncharted

1011
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:30,600
territory because prior to the ouster of
Kevin McCarthy, that had never happened before

1012
01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:35,359
in the history of the country.
Again came close with Bayner and Paul Ryan,

1013
01:23:36,319 --> 01:23:44,880
especially Bayner Dennis Hastert he was probably
would have happened to him. He

1014
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:47,199
was forced to resign. He's in
prison now. I believe he's still in

1015
01:23:47,239 --> 01:23:55,079
prison, you know. But uh
so, maybe they can work out a

1016
01:23:55,119 --> 01:24:00,119
deal here. We'll see on that. But I saw this pop up and

1017
01:24:00,159 --> 01:24:02,279
I thought this was particularly interesting.
This is on media, and I heard

1018
01:24:02,279 --> 01:24:09,439
something about this earlier in the day. It's like what GOP moderate boasts that

1019
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:14,840
Jim Jordan is running into brick wall
in speakers race after quote, harassing our

1020
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:23,439
spouses, says here Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, I think he's

1021
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:27,119
the one that Brian kill me.
That's how I say his name, Brian

1022
01:24:27,199 --> 01:24:30,600
kill me, called a dumbass.
We might get to that too, if

1023
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:36,520
we have time. Representative Don Bacon
boasted that Representative Jim Jordan is running into

1024
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:41,319
a brick wall in his quest for
the speaker's gavel ahead of a second vote

1025
01:24:41,319 --> 01:24:47,760
on Jordan's candidacy this afternoon. Explained
Bacon, quote, Jordan is headed for

1026
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:54,640
defeat. He'll fight to death likely
and we won't let off. Their tactics

1027
01:24:54,720 --> 01:25:04,159
angered us. They're harassing our spouses
even unquote now Kyle Griffin tweeted this out

1028
01:25:04,199 --> 01:25:11,720
earlier representative Bacon to at NBC News. Oh, same thing, same thing

1029
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:16,000
that I just read. Okay,
Bacon's wife, This is where it gets

1030
01:25:16,039 --> 01:25:20,600
interesting. Bacon's wife, Angie Bacon. That's a fun name, isn't it.

1031
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:25,600
Bacon's a fun last name. And
when Mark was on earlier with us

1032
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:28,840
and we're talking about pigs for trophies
and Bacon, it says, would you

1033
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:30,199
love to have a last name,
like I'm thinking about changing my last name

1034
01:25:30,239 --> 01:25:32,439
to Bacon, by the way,
And the other day on the show,

1035
01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:35,960
well, actually I think it was
yesterday. Yeah, it was yesterday when

1036
01:25:36,279 --> 01:25:40,319
Best Not Broken was here. They
were talking about opening when they opened for

1037
01:25:40,359 --> 01:25:43,279
the Bacon Brothers, or they've got
a show coming up opening for the Bacon

1038
01:25:43,319 --> 01:25:46,479
Brothers. I'm telling you, Bacon, it just it dominates our lives.

1039
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:50,359
It consumes us. Not literally,
we consume it, you know what I

1040
01:25:50,399 --> 01:25:57,000
mean. This is Bacon everywhere anyway. Bacon's wife, Angie Bacon, has

1041
01:25:57,079 --> 01:26:04,079
received anonymous text messages asking her why
her husband was not supporting Jordan and promising

1042
01:26:04,119 --> 01:26:11,840
that his opposition would sink his political
career. An anonymous supporter of Jordan's texted

1043
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:15,560
this to Angie Bacon, your husband
will not hold any political office ever.

1044
01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:24,760
Again. What a disappointment and failure
he is unquote, Oh wait, I

1045
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:30,359
think there's more. There's more of
the texts. I just clicked something.

1046
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:40,199
UM. I'm waiting for that to
load. Twenty Republicans voted against Jordan during

1047
01:26:40,239 --> 01:26:44,159
a vote yesterday, and he lost
a few more members of his party during

1048
01:26:44,159 --> 01:26:48,560
today's vote. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy
was ejected from his office when just eight

1049
01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:55,119
Republicans with the entirety of the Democratic
Caucus, voted to strip him of his

1050
01:26:55,239 --> 01:27:03,319
title. UM. Skipping down here, but addressing the situation on CNN on

1051
01:27:03,359 --> 01:27:09,800
Monday, Bacon said, quote not
Angie Bacon, but Representative Bacon. Quote.

1052
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:13,000
I can't abide by the fact a
small group violated the rules to get

1053
01:27:13,039 --> 01:27:15,840
what they wanted. So now I'm
supposed to play by the rules. So

1054
01:27:15,880 --> 01:27:19,760
I got to So I think we
got to have consequences and we have to

1055
01:27:19,760 --> 01:27:26,000
stand up to this. That's what
Americans do. Unquote. I'm trying to

1056
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:31,760
load the uh wow X. I'm
trying to get used to calling it X

1057
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,279
and not Twitter, trying not to
live in the past. X is loading

1058
01:27:35,399 --> 01:27:42,039
very slowly on my computer, but
I'm trying to load. I want to

1059
01:27:42,079 --> 01:27:45,960
see what else was tweeted to Angie
Bacon. You know I say all the

1060
01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:49,560
time, leave Angie Bacon alone.
What does she ever do? I mean,

1061
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:53,119
what is her? What is her
crime? The after her ass her

1062
01:27:53,159 --> 01:27:58,880
because she she married a guy with
a fun last name like Bacon. All

1063
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:04,159
right, So someone anonymously tweeted to
Angie Bacon, why is your husband causing

1064
01:28:04,239 --> 01:28:09,039
chaos and not supporting Jim Jordan.
I thought he was a team player.

1065
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:14,800
Angie responded, who is this?
Oh, now you have nothing to say?

1066
01:28:15,399 --> 01:28:18,840
I guess there was a Those are
two separate text messages, and Angie

1067
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:23,479
got a response, your husband will
not hold any political office ever. Again,

1068
01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:29,640
what a disappointment and failure he is? And Angie responded, he has

1069
01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:33,560
more courage than you. You won't
put your name to your statements. Aha.

1070
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:40,520
Score one for Angie Bacon. Yes, at this point, I'm just

1071
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:44,520
looking for excuses to say Bacon,
But I thought that was interesting. You

1072
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:57,039
shouldn't harass someone's someone's spouse. We
have a call. Looks like our friend

1073
01:28:57,359 --> 01:29:00,560
Ron is on the line. Hi
Ron, Yeah, Hellovia, I actually

1074
01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:05,560
dialed the wrong number. Can you
imagine that happy from you anyway? Sir?

1075
01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:10,079
How ironic? Ah? See what
I did there? All right?

1076
01:29:10,159 --> 01:29:13,840
Ron? Well, I'm sorry you
misdialed, but always nice to hear from

1077
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:16,079
you. Yes, thank you,
sir. I have a nice all right

1078
01:29:16,159 --> 01:29:19,960
you tube bye bye? All right. Well, apparently we were on Ron's

1079
01:29:20,039 --> 01:29:25,560
mind because he dialed us. Uh, if you'd like to dial us six

1080
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:30,119
O three two five six seven six
O three two five six oh seven,

1081
01:29:30,239 --> 01:29:32,720
just be aware that in doing so, you'll be calling the studio line here

1082
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:39,840
at WMNH ninety five point three FM. Also, media reports, Uh,

1083
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:46,119
Fox News hosts are getting upset they've
lost Fox News, it says here.

1084
01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:53,199
Fox hosts on Outnumbered fumed over the
GOP's inability to reunite around a candidate for

1085
01:29:53,239 --> 01:29:57,319
our Speaker, as Jim Jordan failed
to gain enough votes on the second ballot.

1086
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:00,000
The House has been leaderless for the
last few weeks. After Kevin McCarthy

1087
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:10,199
was ousted. Okay, we know
all that. Let's see so former Press

1088
01:30:10,199 --> 01:30:15,439
Secretary Kaylee mcinaney, I was like
saying her name mcanany, asked analyst David

1089
01:30:15,479 --> 01:30:21,079
Webb about his thoughts on Patrick McHenry
as temporary House speaker, which we were

1090
01:30:21,079 --> 01:30:27,359
discussing a few minutes ago, and
Web said this quote, McHenry is pro

1091
01:30:27,479 --> 01:30:30,720
tem. If you change this and
you start to try to adjust in the

1092
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:36,720
Speaker's office, you affect the speaker's
office, you affect the parliamentary procedures in

1093
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:42,239
the Congress, you create a mess
and you give the Democrats a weapon to

1094
01:30:42,359 --> 01:30:45,520
use this. There's a point at
which, whether it's messy, you don't

1095
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:50,039
like it, you're for or against
it. This is getting idiotic. We

1096
01:30:50,119 --> 01:30:55,640
need some possibility at this time,
and it's not all related to Israel or

1097
01:30:55,760 --> 01:31:00,960
Ukraine funding. There are investigations underway, there's an ex mean battle over the

1098
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:03,520
debt ceiling. There is so much
more that's going on that needs to be

1099
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:09,000
addressed by Congress. Jordan's your best
chance, whether you're for or against,

1100
01:31:09,119 --> 01:31:15,479
because no other path exists at this
time. Unquote Fox contributor Dagan McDowell,

1101
01:31:16,399 --> 01:31:19,520
I don't think i've ever heard the
name Dagan before. That's a cool name.

1102
01:31:19,680 --> 01:31:27,000
Then flamed Moderate Republicans for their quote
backwards ass decision to support McCarthy but

1103
01:31:27,079 --> 01:31:31,560
not Jordan for speaker. She noted
quote Don Bacon voted for McCarthy yesterday and

1104
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:36,239
today. Jordan was Kevin McCarthy's right
hand. He was his lieutenant. If

1105
01:31:36,279 --> 01:31:41,039
you like McCarthy, you like Jordan. That's the upside down, backwards ass

1106
01:31:41,079 --> 01:31:44,760
world that these Republicans are living in. Unquote well that's not true. If

1107
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:49,920
you like McCarthy, you like Jordan. Again, Jim Jordan is uh,

1108
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:56,880
you know Kevin McCarthy, I mean, not conservative certainly. But here's the

1109
01:31:56,880 --> 01:32:02,239
thing. Kevin McCarthy made it clear
government shutdowns bad and allowing the country to

1110
01:32:02,279 --> 01:32:05,920
default on our debt is bad.
So we're not going to allow those things

1111
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:15,359
to happen. And he made sure
those things didn't happen. And I mean

1112
01:32:15,399 --> 01:32:18,159
not just him, obviously, there's
other people involved in that, but but

1113
01:32:18,239 --> 01:32:23,640
he made sure those things didn't happen. Jim Jordan has never voted for a

1114
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:28,880
continuing resolution on the budget and generally
opposes spending money on anything. As far

1115
01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:32,680
as I can tell, Jim Jordan
will try to take us into a government

1116
01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:36,479
shut down, and I truly believe
if Jim Jordan is House Speaker, we

1117
01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:40,800
could very well default on our debt
for the first time in our nation's history.

1118
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:45,800
So I never had a ton of
confidence in Kevin McCarthy, but he

1119
01:32:45,880 --> 01:32:48,439
want a little bit of grudging respect
for me when he came through when it

1120
01:32:48,520 --> 01:32:55,119
really really mattered, Right, I
don't have any faith at all that Jim

1121
01:32:55,199 --> 01:33:00,439
Jordan will do the right thing on
these in these instances, or support Ukraine

1122
01:33:00,520 --> 01:33:04,239
funding or anything. I have no
faith at all in Jim Jordan. So

1123
01:33:04,960 --> 01:33:09,199
for anyone to say, well,
what's the difference if you supported Kevin McCarthy,

1124
01:33:09,199 --> 01:33:14,119
you should support Jim Jordan. No, No, very different actually,

1125
01:33:15,560 --> 01:33:17,520
and that's why too. I'm upset. Like I said, I'm also upset

1126
01:33:17,560 --> 01:33:23,760
with the Democrats because again, you
know, I always say I understand,

1127
01:33:23,960 --> 01:33:28,560
I understand why they weren't going to
help McCarthy, but I wish they had.

1128
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:31,199
I wish they'd saved him because now
we're in this mess and this is

1129
01:33:31,359 --> 01:33:35,000
really bad for the country. I
wish they had kind of taken a step

1130
01:33:35,039 --> 01:33:40,119
back. I mean, look,
it might all work out. It might

1131
01:33:40,199 --> 01:33:45,560
all work out for the Democrats.
If there is some sort of a calling

1132
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:49,359
it a coalition government might be going
too far. But if there's some sort

1133
01:33:49,399 --> 01:33:55,960
of a power sharing arrangement that involves
giving more power to Patrick McHenry, and

1134
01:33:56,000 --> 01:34:00,079
then he can kind of run things, but the Democrats help him get the

1135
01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:02,319
in terms of being in a position
to kind of run things while he's not

1136
01:34:03,119 --> 01:34:09,000
technically the speaker. Then the Democrats
can call that a victory, I suppose.

1137
01:34:09,159 --> 01:34:12,800
But what if that doesn't work out. What if Jim Jordan finds the

1138
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:16,800
votes and ends up being speaker,
then the Democrats will have helped oust McCarthy

1139
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:21,800
and Jim Jordan ends up being speaker, then we've really for the reasons I

1140
01:34:21,880 --> 01:34:25,840
laid out just a couple of examples, then we've really got a problem.

1141
01:34:26,119 --> 01:34:30,920
This whole thing is very, very
bad for the country. So I would

1142
01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:35,279
have preferred the Democrats kind of taking
the long view of things and sucked it

1143
01:34:35,399 --> 01:34:40,880
up and saved McCarthy. Again,
I understand McCarthy didn't want the Democrats help.

1144
01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:43,760
He sure didn't seem like he did. It was like, what was

1145
01:34:43,760 --> 01:34:47,319
the analogy I used on the show
yesterday. If you see someone drowning,

1146
01:34:48,239 --> 01:34:53,720
but instead of calling for instead of
saying yelling out, please save me,

1147
01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:57,600
they're yelling out that they hate you, and they're flipping you off as they're

1148
01:34:57,640 --> 01:35:00,680
going under. You know, you
might hesitate for a ho second, but

1149
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:03,840
you should still go and save them. Just because they hate you and don't

1150
01:35:03,840 --> 01:35:08,640
particularly want your help, you should
still go and save them. And that's

1151
01:35:08,680 --> 01:35:12,479
how I feel in this case.
Yes, McCarthy was, you know,

1152
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:15,399
going on the Sunday morning talk shows
and talking about how evil the Democrats are

1153
01:35:15,920 --> 01:35:19,279
just as he was about to be
ousted. So whereas he could have said

1154
01:35:19,279 --> 01:35:25,359
something maybe mildly conciliatory and just said, you know, I think that maybe

1155
01:35:25,359 --> 01:35:28,600
we should work together to keep me
in place so we can keep the trains

1156
01:35:28,640 --> 01:35:31,119
running on time and so forth,
but he didn't do that. He didn't

1157
01:35:31,199 --> 01:35:34,439
do that. He chose to go
on the Sunday morning talk shows and talk

1158
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:39,239
about how well we almost went into
a government shutdown and it's all the Democrats

1159
01:35:39,279 --> 01:35:43,239
fault. And that was not the
right play unless there was a part of

1160
01:35:43,319 --> 01:35:45,560
him that just said, screw it. If I'm going down, fine,

1161
01:35:46,479 --> 01:35:49,560
I've kind of had it with all
of this, which I have to wonder

1162
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:55,000
did that play into his decision,
for example, to decide not to because

1163
01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,439
he could be running right now,
He could have put his name in for

1164
01:35:57,520 --> 01:36:00,960
this, and some people you a
couple, are are still voting for him.

1165
01:36:01,119 --> 01:36:06,680
They're they're yelling out McCarthy when when
it's their turn to vote. But

1166
01:36:09,239 --> 01:36:12,600
this is really terrible. I mean, it's fascinating, but it's really uh,

1167
01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:17,680
it's really terrible. We're about out
of time. The only other thing

1168
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:23,720
we'll we'll probably get into this more
in the first hour tomorrow because we've been

1169
01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:29,359
so focused on the speakers race.
We haven't really talked much as much in

1170
01:36:29,399 --> 01:36:33,319
the last couple of days about uh
Israel and Hamas, and of course Biden

1171
01:36:33,359 --> 01:36:41,600
went over to meet with net and
Yahoo. I just I just just a

1172
01:36:41,680 --> 01:36:45,399
quick observation though that I want to
make, and I'll probably expand on this

1173
01:36:45,439 --> 01:36:48,840
tomorrow unless something else happens, or
you know, there's something else that we

1174
01:36:48,880 --> 01:36:54,079
need to get into, but just
just a quick observation. I'm noticing something

1175
01:36:54,119 --> 01:37:00,199
here in terms of a lot of
the dialogue around this. There's in terms

1176
01:37:00,239 --> 01:37:10,760
of Israel and well Hamas talking specifically
about Himas and the Palestinians on both ends

1177
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:15,399
of the spectrum. There's a certain
way that people are thinking about this that

1178
01:37:15,479 --> 01:37:21,000
I disagree with. But people are
taking this thing and interpreting it for their

1179
01:37:21,039 --> 01:37:25,600
own point of view, which is
what people tend to do. And I

1180
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:29,399
don't even mean an ideological spectrum like
liberal, conservative and all that. Just

1181
01:37:29,479 --> 01:37:30,720
kind of put that aside for a
second. I'm just talking about in a

1182
01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:35,960
vacuum, the spectrum in which people
are thinking about Israel and Hamas and the

1183
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:42,640
Palestinians. People on one there's you've
got people on one end of the spectrum

1184
01:37:42,680 --> 01:37:45,239
who are so pro Israel. And
by the way, I'm pro Israel.

1185
01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:49,680
I support Israel. I support their
right to exist, I support their right

1186
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:56,800
to be free from terrorism and their
right to defend themselves absolutely unequivocally. So

1187
01:37:56,960 --> 01:38:00,199
just to be clear about that,
because as I've learned the heart way,

1188
01:38:00,199 --> 01:38:01,840
I can be misunderstood about that.
I don't want to be misunderstood about that.

1189
01:38:02,039 --> 01:38:06,039
Okay, so I support Israel.
But there are people on one end

1190
01:38:06,079 --> 01:38:13,000
of the spectrum who are so fervid
in their support of Israel that they they

1191
01:38:14,479 --> 01:38:17,000
they don't care at all about the
Palestinians who are caught in the middle,

1192
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:21,239
and they just want you know,
there are people online. Again, it's

1193
01:38:21,359 --> 01:38:27,159
it's a small group. Most people
generally are sort of in a place where

1194
01:38:27,159 --> 01:38:30,520
they have a reasonable some reasonable opinions, but there are people on one end

1195
01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:34,039
of the spectrum who just want just
want the IDF to go in there and

1196
01:38:34,079 --> 01:38:42,560
just mow everybody down, and and
and they don't differentiate between the Palestinians and

1197
01:38:42,640 --> 01:38:46,359
Hamas the terrorist organization. On one
end of the spectrum, you have that,

1198
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:48,479
and then all the way on the
other end of the spectrum, you

1199
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:58,920
have some people who are so pro
Palestinian that they refuse to condemn Hamas as

1200
01:38:58,920 --> 01:39:03,399
a terrorist organization, which it very
clearly is, but they won't even condemn

1201
01:39:03,439 --> 01:39:08,479
Hamas because they're so upset. Now
again, I support Israel, but I

1202
01:39:08,520 --> 01:39:13,960
do have many criticisms of Israel on
a policy standpoint in terms of how the

1203
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:17,760
Palestinians have been treated, But none
of that excuses terrorism. Ever, none

1204
01:39:17,800 --> 01:39:23,439
of that excuses or justifies terrorism.
But what's the commonality between these two extremes

1205
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:28,319
on either ends of the spectrum.
They both have an inability to or perhaps

1206
01:39:28,359 --> 01:39:33,840
I should say more of a stubborn
refusal to separate Hamas from the Palestinians.

1207
01:39:35,239 --> 01:39:41,600
Hamas is a terrorist organization operating out
out of the Gaza strip, but most

1208
01:39:41,640 --> 01:39:46,159
Palatinians, I think, hate Hamas. You have to be able to separate

1209
01:39:46,199 --> 01:39:49,359
the two. So I would say
to the people on one end of the

1210
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spectrum. You know, let's remember
the Palestinians are also victims in this.

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They're caught in the middle. So
we have to separate Hamas from the Palestinians.

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And I would say to people on
the other end to the spectrum,

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hey, Hamas is a terrorist organization
and they're not. They're not there to

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help the Palestinians. That's that's what
they might pretend, but they're clearly not

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because they've all they've done, all
they've done is made things far, far

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worse for the Palestinians with that terrorist
attack on Israel. So they're no friend

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to the Palestinians. But again,
the through line, the commonality is you

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need to be able to separate the
two in your mind. You need to

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be able to separate the Palestinians from
Hamas. And we've got a lot of

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people on both ends of the spectrum
who just refuse to do that, and

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I think that's I think that's a
problem, and it's really infected our dialogue

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on this. All Right, we
got to go. We are absolutely out

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of time. Thank you again to
our friend Eric Pilcher. If you miss

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any part of today's show, it
will be up in just a little bit

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oh, and thank you to Jenny
for calling in earlier. She did share

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a link in the Facebook live chat. By the way, if you want

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to see the video from today's hearing
and we got to go. I will

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talk at you all a little bit
later tomorrow to be exact. Bye, everybody,