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Hello, everybody, Welcome, Here
we go Happy Thursday. It is Matt

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Connerton Unleashed and we are live from
the studios of w m n H ninety

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Manchester, New Hampshire. Also now on

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Comcast Channel six. If you are
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our online listeners across nation and around
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links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Thursday,

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August seventeen, twenty twenty three,
so nice to have you all with

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me. By the way, we
have a great musical guest coming up later

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in the show. At the top
of the hour at five pm Eastern,

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we will be joined by Goose Spread, great and fascinating acoustic duo from Ohio.

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They've got a concept album. It's
a little dark, little dark,

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but I had to make a couple
of radio edits. In fact, that's

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how dark it is to play on
the show. But we'll we'll feature some

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of their music later and then those
guys are going to be skyping in at

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five pm and really looking forward to
speaking with them. Goose spread coming up

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today on the program. It is
Thursday, by the way, but no

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entertainment report, although I do see
him in the Facebook live chat EASYG.

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He did message me and wanted to
know if he could do an entertainment report

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on Friday this week because he has
an aim. I said that is fine,

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But speaking of Friday, So some
programming notes about tomorrow's show. That

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song that you just heard, Love
and Understanding, that is the first single

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from Houselights. Their third single,
No Longer Myself, drops tonight at midnight,

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and we're going to do a world
radio premiere for that song tomorrow,

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so it'll be available tonight. I
know it's going to iTunes tonight at midnight,

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you'll be able to get it.
But if you want to hear it

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for the first time on FM radio
here in the United States, tune into

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this show tomorrow. It will be
the world radio premiere of the new single

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from Houselights and our very talented friend
Sam Beechard, who's also a local promoter.

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Sam does a lot of stuff,
great guy and very very talented.

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So we're going to give that the
world radio premiere tomorrow on the program and

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then on Monday. Those guys are
going to be here to perform live for

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US Acoustic in the second hour,
so so we're kind of making it a

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two day event. But yeah,
their album actually not just a new single,

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but their entire album is is out
coming out on September first, What

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It Means to Feel. But that
song we played was the first single from

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it, Love and Understanding, a
great, great track, and they've had

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a second single as well. No
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so that hits tonight at midnight,
and then we'll be playing that tomorrow.

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So also, of course tomorrow we
have Eric Pilcher's classic film review and this

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week the subject is The French Connection, so lots going on. William Friedkin,

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of course just passed away recently,
also the director of the Exorcist,

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which is what he's most well known
for, but Eric decided you might as

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well. I guess is. I
think in the conversation that we had about

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William Friedkin recently, not this week. He was on with me yesterday,

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but I think we talked about William
Friedkin the previous week. He had said

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that The French Connection was probably his
Friedkin's second most famous film so so that

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will be the film review for tomorrow. So lots going on, but we

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will have Goose spread with us at
the top of the hour, skyping in

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from Ohio. And I just got
an alert on my phone because I forgot

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to mute my phone, which is
very unusual. I'm usually pretty good about

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that, but every once in a
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Hop Knot. Let's say hello to
everybody in the Facebook live chat and then

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we'll get into some stuff. I
see Miriam Bannish joins us in the chat

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and says good afternoon from Pine,
North Carolina. Or should I say good

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afternoon. Hashtag Matt Connerton. I
say to you, is that a North

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Carolina thing? I think that's just
a I think that's only if you're in

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Greensboro, Miriam. If you're in
Greensboro, North Carolina, you speak that

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way, I believe. Miriam also
says our trip has not been quite as

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we hoped thanks to COVID. I
blame anti vaxers and COVID deniers. It's

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been ten days and we probably are
not contagious, but we also don't want

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to take chances with medically fragile family
members, so it's visits through windows.

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Yeah, I don't blame you,
Miriam. Better to air on the side

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of caution. It's going to be, you know, as I've said on

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the show many times, COVID Unfortunately, I think it's going to be with

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us for the rest of our lives. And obviously it's you know, we're

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past the pandemic phase of it,
so you know, it's it's at a

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manageable level. And as I heard
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At this point, with the treatments
and therapeutics that are available like packs Slovid

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for example, and some other things, no one at this point, even

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with underlying conditions, no one should
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up, and it's they're talking about
this winter it's going to be you know,

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a triple threat COVID, RSV and
the flu. So you know,

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get vaccinated for you know, get
vaccinated. That's my that's my message,

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and if you're a regular, longtime
listener, you know that's always been my

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message. Medical science is your friend. Uh. Weird conspiracy theory websites or

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YouTube videos by people who just make
stuff up. Uh, information you get

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from that is not your friend.
Actual medical science is your friend. You

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know, listen to epidemiologists and virologists
and immunologists if you want to know what's

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going on. And that's what they're
warning about this winter. You know,

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take take care of your selves.
Uh, don't listen to Uh. I

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don't know some of the people Joe
Rogan has hat on. They don't listen

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to our fk Uh. He's uh, he's a little out there with the

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things that he says about it.
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join you in that, Miriam.
In terms of whom you blame, I

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do not disagree Tom Blanchard joins us
in the Facebook live chat and says,

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bonjour. Uh we uh Tom,
it's about all the French, I know,

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we we EASYG says, use some
of Birch's. Yes, we do

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have trees. Certainly, that's New
Hampshire. Oh. Easyg's putting together his

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report tonight. Oh that's great.
Easy G. By the way, if

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I could just since you're in the
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as you're putting together your report,
if I could just make a request.

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I feel that your entertainment report,
I think it needs a little bit more

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April Cushman, Amanda McCarthy and Katie
Dobbins. I feel like those are three

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entertainers who get left out. I
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them in your report. Let's see. Tom Blanchard says, they're still saying

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COVID. They're still saying COVID is
the fifth largest killer. Yeah, I

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believe that. You know, there's
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to take it seriously. And again, you know, obviously the pandemic is

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over, certainly, but you should
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protect others. In the process,
Jenny says, shalom, peeps. She

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is in the chat room as well
as Rona Ferverro of course, from the

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great state of California. All Right, six O three two five six Z

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item that I wanted to Oh,
I see. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry

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five point three, and Mike is
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Nights. Oh, Tomorrow's Friday,
my favorite day of the week here at

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WMNH Friday Nights for Retro Spectrum Radio
with Paul c Oh. I'm speaking of

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sponsors. Yesterday I got to meet
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I hadn't met him yet in person. Greg Joseph popped in from Clementos,

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another one of our great sponsors here
at w MH. Clemento's Pizzeria. Blah

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blah blah. I don't know all
of the words clement but I know the

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Clemento's Pizzeria parts. See that's the
hook, you know, when you're writing

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a song, that's the hook.
Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in

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the chatroom, Micris a media item
that because that's usually what we talked about

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with our friend Derik Pilcher, my
favorite conservative on Wednesdays we talk about things

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in the media. But yesterday we
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on you know, he's in Iowa. He's in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,

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so he's at you know, he's
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the Iowa Caucus, which is the
first in the nation, U first in

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the nation event in the twenty twenty
four election. Oh hello to Chris from

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Edgewise who joins us in the Facebook
lap chat as well. High Chris,

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great band from the area. And
by the way, Chris, I do

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know I have a message from you. I will get back to you.

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I promise, and I'm sorry for
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I will get back to you,
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to work with you on that.
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get to it, but we were
talking about the Iowa Caucus and oh they

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just had the Iowa State Fair which
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even Trump showed up, not that
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to be the nominee, that is
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a bit, and we got into
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got to this. But you know, I'm always interested when regardless of who

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it is, regardless of whether I
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I'm a fan of their content or
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I'm always fascinated by things going on
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which is a term that really hasn't
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than a decade. I think.
If we've been talking about d platforming,

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where people are restricted from certain platforms
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content. And you know, I've
talked about my own struggles with YouTube,

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even though I'm not ideologically controversial in
that sense, I certainly don't violate any

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of their terms of service, and
yet I've been I've been flagged on occasions

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in an unfair way, I feel. But this just happened. So apparently

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Glenn Beck is the latest to experience
something. But this is very strange,

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actually, so Deadline is reporting Apple
Podcasts removes nineteen hundred Glenn Beck episodes the

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platform and then restores them nineteen hundred. Now, the last time I heard

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about somebody having a lot of their
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Joe Rogan first went to Spotify.
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I don't think Spotify wiped out a
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they sort of, you know,
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this episode's a little controversial, this
episode's too much or editing certain episodes.

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But apparently Glenn Beck had nineteen hundred
of his episodes removed, but then they

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reappeared, it says here a conservative
mediamogled Glenn Beck has had his Apple podcast

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account restored after seeing his entire nineteen
hundred episode trove deleted. Apple Podcasts removed

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his show from the platform without any
warning or reason earlier in the day,

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he claimed, And by the way, that's something I can relate to even

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people who aren't content creators. If
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you've ever been in Facebook jail,
you know, and you get something that

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restricts you even either you're restricted from
posting or you're not restricted from posting necessarily,

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but you're restricted from doing certain things
on Facebook, whatever it may be.

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And you're going, well, what
did I do? I don't know

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what I did? And sometimes they
tell you, sometimes they let you twist

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in the wind. Oh, Paul
sees in the Facebook Clatchett and says,

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greetings, big fan, seventies shill
tomorrow night on Retrospectrum Radio, eightpm Eastern.

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Excellent, excellent. But yeah,
so apparently, according to Glenn Beck,

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they just removed nineteen hundred episodes his
whole catalog and didn't tell him why.

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In a video posted to x formerly
Twitter on Wednesday, Beck said that

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is the Glenn Beck Program vanished without
explanation. He posted, quote all of

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my podcasts have been removed from Apple
iTunes with no explanation unquote. Apple sent

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a message that said, quote,
we found an issue with your show,

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The Glenn Beck Program, which must
be resolved before it's available on Apple podcasts.

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Your show has been removed from Apple
podcasts unquote. Now what one thing

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that does surprise me a little bit
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I have not ever run a foul
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obviously is very famous is and has
an enormous audience, I would I would

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have assumed that he would get more
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an issue with your show, and
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stuff back up. Because I know, for example, if you're a content

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creator on YouTube, for example,
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YouTube and they strike your channel.
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it like it goes away. I
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channel and then you maybe you can't
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or they suspend your channel, or
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if they do that, and I
know people to whom this has happened,

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if you are famous enough, if
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you do get a certain degree of
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example, does not get. You
know, when I've run a foul of

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something on YouTube and I get a
strike, and then I do the appeal

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the strike, I assume the strike
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I'm going to say that I'm biased. I'm talking about me and my content.

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But the strike is always unfair.
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wasn't actually doing, but a bot
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a bot. I assume there's not
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everything. A bot picks up on
something and says, oh, we don't

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like this and flags it, and
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I appeal the strike, hoping that
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an actual human But that doesn't happen
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I mean, it's so bad.
I know, boy talk about first world

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problems, right, But I actually
I talked about this on the show.

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Some of you might remember a number
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I had just gotten a YouTube strike
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which, by the way, they've
since changed that policy. Now they don't

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care what you say about the twenty
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they had strict rules about you could
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which I never said anyway, I
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got a strike for it. But
listen to this, So I got a

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strike for spreading before they had changed
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actually spreading misinformation about the twenty twenty
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twenty seventeen. And I was sure, okay, this appeal I should win,

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and I wrote the appeal and I
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know, keep it terse. I
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I did win one, but it
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have been a layup. Hey,
guys, I couldn't have even spoken about

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the twenty twenty election at all,
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twenty seventeen and I'm not a time
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apart in the appeal. You'd never
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be polite and professional. They denied
the appeal, So that strike is,

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you know, say it on my
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know, usually you get some sort
of direct access and you can work stuff

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out. You gets talked to an
actual human Can you imagine? Can you

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imagine being so famous he gets to
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Anyway, So, but Apple,
I guess Glenn Beck isn't famous enough

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for Apple to care more than to
send him that simple message. So according

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to this again this is from Deadline
dot com. Beck added that Apple quote

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sent us a link and said for
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And then the link only says your
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Well, we got that one dummy
unquote that claimed he never received a strike

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quote. I cannot imagine what they
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is crazy crazy, There's nothing that
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And then the Deadline story is incomplete
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of the story that the podcast was
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is not there. So let's see
what this says. We'll go over to

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media. I now this is a
little different media. It says they'd platformed

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me. Glen Beck goes off on
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company, chalking it up to a
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here? We have a we have
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about this. Let's see get the
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their platform yesterday. In case you
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At about noon, they removed every
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was removed with no explanation why,
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Glenn Beck has one of those voices
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He's got one of those. He's
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agree with him politically, you know, I'm not a conservative, but but

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I've always been very envious of his
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in morning radio, and you know, and then it became a political commentator.

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I don't know his entire career trajectory, but I've always been very jealous

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of his voice. He's got a
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possible to be about my own voice. You know, people tell me,

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you know, Matt, you have
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I have a good radio voice,
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have a good radio voice. Glenn
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soon as I heard the news,
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or whatever. I asked you to
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Well, thankfully, a lot of
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we were trending on x all day
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right calling Apple out. I was
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people on the left who would food
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Paul's asking in the chatter and Paul, see how's mine. You've got a

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great radio voice, Paul, because
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White. If we were talking about
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and Peter White, I think both
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a perfect morning show voice. You've
got a great voice, Paul. Kyle

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Heavy, I would put him in
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good we don't have great voices,
but we have good voices. Rob as

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a veto, I would put in
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you know, he's got a very
New England affectation. But he's but I

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would say he's got a good he's
got a good radio voice. Rob die

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On. Rob die On might be
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good radio voice. I put him
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great. But trying to think him, Am I missing anybody? I think

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that's everybody. Right. When Ben
Dyeon still did a show here, I

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would say he had a good radio
voice. But but no, Paul you

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and Peter White you have you have
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like Glenn Back level. Well maybe
not Glenn Back level, I mean Glenn

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Back's radio voices perfect, perfect,
This is wrong. Yes, thank you,

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thank you for that. So thank
you if you did any of it,

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because after six hours of you raising
all kinds of ruckus online, Apple

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restored my show to their platform.
Well one nine hundred and fifteen episodes of

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three thousand plus catalogue. M So
they removed at least a decade worth of

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content yesterday without explanation, at least
until we started making noise about it.

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Today, I read an article in
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of a trademark dispute and quote it
has since been resolved. Really really a

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trademark Wow, over three thousand episodes
all over trademark issue. That is weird.

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By the way. I have a
theory, but I'll wait till the

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end of his comments on it before
I tell you what it is. Oh,

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hello to j Fat in the Facebook
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Vermont. I'm gonna get into the
weeds over this. But there was a

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trademark dispute on one episode they let
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It was resolved within hours. Like
not really, now, if that

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is the reason, that's one episode, we resolved it with them within hours.

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Why would you Why would you remove
over three thousand episodes for a dispute

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with one The great question? All
right, I'm just gonna go ahead and

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tell you now my theory. My
theory is there was no reason and that

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it literally was a glitch. I
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Not the most satisfying answer. I'm
surprised though now maybe I shouldn't be,

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but I am surprised that Glenn Beck
is not gone. Maybe it's still coming.

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There's still a couple of minutes left
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he hasn't gone with the Apple's gone
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And then they they just caved to
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But they've gone woke and they're against
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to us. But the public outcry
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done that. But maybe that's yet, Maybe that's yet coming, maybe it's

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not. I don't know. I
think it was a glitch. I'll see

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explain it. I mean, it
does happen. Things just go wrong sometimes,

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unless you were the one filing to
dispute saying someone's using my name,

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there's no real reason to pull don't
pull those Yeah, no, of course

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not. It doesn't explain why they
would remove the entire catalog, at least

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to me, it doesn't. Apple
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is a prime example where I learned
first hand why the Blaze is so important.

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I learned the power of these middlemen. If you're a conservative, the

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threat of deep platforming is always there, even in the background, like a

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like the Sword of dami damlick Les
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You remember the guy who's holding the
sword over the head. This is

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why the Sword of Damocles we built
the blade the Blaze. I'm not gonna

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have a sword over my head.
Not gonna do it. Companies like Apple

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and Google and Meta can down your
speech, our speech literally with a key

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stroke. So yeah, he is
sort of going is he took the long

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way around, but he is sort
of going that way right saying, you

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know, playing the I'm a victim
of of having my First Amendment violated.

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But again, as I always say
on the show, see when I talk

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about my own problems, the only
platform I've ever had an issue with multiple

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times as YouTube and having content removed
and for reasons that I felt were unfair.

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But what have you never heard me
say? As much as I might

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complain about YouTube, and there are
arbitrary policies and the enforcement of them in

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a very odd and unfair way at
times, what have you never heard me

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say? You've never once heard me
say YouTube is violated my First Amendment because

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they have not. Have they censored
me in some way, sure, but

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they haven't violated my First Amendment.
I still have a First Amendment right to

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say whatever I want to. YouTube
has a First Amendment right, or Apple

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podcasts or any other platform. They
have a right to make decisions about what

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can and cannot go on their platforms, and they have a right to make

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whatever rules they like. So it's
not you know, and and it's not.

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Look, I'm not a conservative,
but again I've had my content censored.

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It's not it's not about censoring conservatives, not from my vantage point.

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It just so happens that the things, you know, we live in a

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time when some of what you hear
in conservative content, whether it be the

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anti you know, the anti vax
or COVID deny or stuff that Miriam was

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referring to that she's you know,
having to deal with on this trip,

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or misinformation about the twenty twenty election. Uh, you know, there are

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some things that have certain consequences.
Now. YouTube, interestingly enough, and

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I refer to this a few minutes
ago, YouTube actually reversed their position on

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twenty twenty misinformation. And I heard, Oh, I forget what show it

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was. I heard them talking about
it. Oh yes, yes, yes,

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I remember now. It was the
PbD podcast Patrick Bett David his show

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and his guest was jenk Huger from
the Young Turks, and they were talking

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about this reversal in position, and
they they both had theories on y YouTube

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reverse that position. So now you
can go on YouTube and talk about the

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twenty twenty election and say that you
agree that it was stolen. You can

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do that now, whereas before you
could not. Patrick Bett David's and he's

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a he's a conservative or he's an
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although I think he's I think on
some social issues he's kind of left,

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so he might yeah, he might
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center right. But on economic issues, he's definitely a conservative, and he

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buys into some right wing conspiracy theories
two on FO fortunately. But so I've

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I've mixed feelings about him. Some
some of what I think he repeats is

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actually genuinely dangerous, Okay. But
his theory was just telling you if you

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don't know who he is, although
his podcast is getting really, really big,

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so if you haven't heard of him
and you pay attention online media,

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you will hear of him. But
his theory was that, you know,

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YouTube was just caving to pressure from
conservatives who we've spoke up and said this

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wasn't right, you're censoring us.
But Jak Huger's position was that, well,

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not not really that different a theory, but basically that well, you

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know, this has become the mainstream
Republican position, and if you're if you

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look at polling data there is I
think his theory is valid that, you

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know, if that's the mainstream Republican
position, if something like I saw a

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poll recently, I think seventy percent
of Republicans actually do believe the election was

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stolen. If that's the mainstream position, and you're gonna strike everybody off off

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of your platform, who says that
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going to have any Republicans left?
And then he also mentioned rumble. How

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a lot of people Okay, now
I'm getting I'm not sure now I'm trying

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to remember which one of them one
of them said, well what about rumble?

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Oh? I think it was Patrick
Bett David who said, what about

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rumble? You've got all these people
leaving YouTube and going to rumble for that

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reason. And then Jank replied something
like, well, yeah, but Rumble's

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a non factor. Rumble is only
one eighth if that much is the size

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of YouTube, and it's never going
to catch up, so Rumble's not really

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a factor. My theory about it
is they just ran into a problem where

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people like me who talk about the
twenty twenty election but actually refute what I

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feel is a completely you know,
not evidenced, base, not evidence based

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idea that the election was stolen.
So people who speak against that, but

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who get caught up by the bots. You know, if I if I

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quote something that Rudy Giuliani said,
and then a bot at YouTube, here's

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that in my content, and then
the bots says, oh, he's saying

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00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,880
the election was stolen, we got
a flag him. I think that that

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was causing problems for YouTube. That's
my theory because it couldn't have just been

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me. And again, if you're
if you're famous and you're on YouTube,

415
00:32:30,759 --> 00:32:35,599
you can you can do what I
just described because you're gonna get a pass

416
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,559
no matter what, and you're gonna
have actual humans reviewing your content and saying,

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oh, okay. You know,
if somebody like the Young Turks,

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who are like the biggest YouTubers of
all time. I don't know if that's

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still the case now. It may
not be, but you know, ten

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fifteen years ago, the Young Turks
was the largest most viewed YouTube channel in

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history. That may have held up. I don't know, but you know,

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if you're if you're famous, you
can do whatever and you'll get an

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actual human reviewing your content. But
I think the system that they have in

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place with bots reviewing things. You
know, too many people were probably getting

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caught up in that. You know, they're talking about the twenty twenty election.

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They're not making false claims, but
the bot doesn't know that. The

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00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:22,519
bot. Here's you quoting something somebody
else said, like Rudy Julianni or Steve

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00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:23,640
Bannon or something, and in the
bot says, oh, we got a

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problem. Here got a flag.
This that's my theory. But it's not

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00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:35,160
a violation of anyone's First Amendment rights. And you know, you you take

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00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,359
the risk in terms of the content
you put out there. All right,

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00:33:38,359 --> 00:33:43,119
there's a little bit. There's a
little bit more to this, Glenn Beck

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00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:46,160
talking about his The elites have always
wanted to control what you see and what

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00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:50,519
you hear. Now big tech is
giving them the means to do it.

435
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,640
They have done this. Oh he's
doing the Stephen Crowder routine now to several

436
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:01,480
of us. Since the Republicans have
had Congress, they've been a little more

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00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:08,599
shy. But I will tell you
yesterday would have been a loss of about

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00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:15,800
three million views if you're not getting
the podcast. But see now he's contradicting

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00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:21,000
himself though isn't he, Because wasn't
he saying? He was saying before,

440
00:34:21,119 --> 00:34:23,400
this is why the Blaze is so
important, you know, his platform,

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00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:28,239
This is why the Blaze is so
important because I'm not going to have the

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00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,920
sort of damocles or how did he
pronounce it as a sort of damn laklees

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00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:36,119
or something. I'm not going to
have the sort of damocles over my head.

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00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:37,320
So that's why I have the Blaze, so I don't have to worry

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00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:42,239
about being de platformed. But then
he's saying that there was a serious consequence

446
00:34:43,039 --> 00:34:46,599
between being de platformed, which again
he really wasn't it was. Again,

447
00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:51,039
I still think it was a glitch. But see he's going, he's going

448
00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:53,440
with that spin. All the elites
are trying to censor us, The elites

449
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:57,599
are trying to silence us, when
in reality, if that were true,

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00:34:57,599 --> 00:35:01,880
Glenbeck, wouldn't Apple just kick you
off? Who's silencing you? How are

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00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:07,159
they silencing you? Nineteen hundred of
your episodes disappeared, but then they were

452
00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:14,880
restored, and they're too embarrassed to
admit they made a mistake. Probably Yeah,

453
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,960
who knows if an actual human being
even got involved in the process at

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00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,599
any point it could have all just
been AI. But but you know,

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00:35:22,679 --> 00:35:29,159
he's given his audience what they want
to hear from Apple. If that's where

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00:35:29,159 --> 00:35:32,280
you normally go, there's about three
million people that do that every day.

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00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,000
Uh, that's a problem. That's
a real problem if we lose touch with

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00:35:39,119 --> 00:35:44,559
three million people. Yeah, but
if they care about your content that much,

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00:35:44,599 --> 00:35:49,199
won't they won't they just find it
someplace else like the Blaze. I

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00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:52,559
don't know, just wondering. All
right, we'll move on from that.

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But six zero three two five six
seven six zero three two five six seven

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is a studio line if you would
like to join us. Melanie Liberty has

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00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,360
joined us in the chat room and
says, Hey, guys, who knows

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00:36:05,679 --> 00:36:08,480
that Glenn Beck isn't a robot?
That's true, Glenn Beck could be.

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00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:20,800
He could be a cybernetic organism of
some kind. We should look at this

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00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,960
is something kind of a big subject. We might have to We have a

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musical guest joining us at the top
of the hour, so we might have

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to start this and then finish it
in the second hour, because there's a

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lot to this. But yeah,
actually we'll come back to this. I'm

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gonna hit this in the second hour. I think after our probably in the

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last half hour, after we talked
to our musical guests, there's something going

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on in New York where you've got
Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York

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is fighting with the governor, Kathy
Hokel. And it reminds me of there's

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a little bit of a a little
bit of history repeating because when Mayor Deblasio,

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Bill Deblasio was Mayor of New York, he was fighting, you know,

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a Democrat, he was fighting with
the Democratic governor at the time,

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00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,960
Andrew Cuomo. Actually, let's go
ahead and dive into this now, I

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don't want to wait. And this
has to do with migrants, you know,

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migrants being put on busses and sent
to New York City and other cities

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00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:28,920
as well. But apparently so you've
got these this is something that they never

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expected to be dealing with. But
you've got the mayor, Eric Adams,

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fighting with Kathy Hokel, the governor, over this and the latest in this.

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If you haven't been following this story, and I was listening in the

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car earlier, I heard Dan Abrams
talking about this on satellite radio, and

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his take on it was really interesting. But Politico reports. HOCl alleges lack

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of coordination by Adams as state defends
New York City migrant response. A twelve

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00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:02,519
page letter from Hokel's attorney is a
governor's response to request said Adam's formerly formally

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rather made a week earlier for more
state intervention. By the way policy says

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in the chatroom, I just made
fresh taco meat and poured it all over

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a pile of Fredo's. Now I'm
going to eat like I'm getting the electric

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00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,280
chair in an hour. That doesn't
sound healthy. Paul, I hope you're

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00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:30,159
still alive tomorrow night for retrospectrum radio
with police after you consume that. I'm

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not entirely certain that you will be, but I hope that you are,

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it says here. Governor Kathy Hokel's
attorney is alleging a lack of coordination and

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communication from New York City Mayor Eric
Adams over handling of the city's influx of

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00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:49,760
migrants, and is defending the state's
efforts the latest riff among Democrats over how

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to address the crisis. In a
letter late Tuesday to a judge overseeing a

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court case to ensure homeless people have
shelter, Hokel's office outlined an array of

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steps it has taken or to offer
the city to deal with the surge and

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asylum seekers, but also rebuked the
city's push that the state needs to do

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more so. The state's new council
Faith Gray, in a document on Wednesday,

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said, quote, in particular,
the city chose to send migrants to

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counties and localities outside of the city
with little or no notice to or coordination

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with the state or those counties and
localities. Unquote. That stands out to

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me because if that is true,
that would make New York City Mayor Eric

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Adams a bit of a hypocrite,
because if you remember when De Santis in

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Florida and Abbot in Texas, when
they started putting migrants, putting asylum seekers

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on buses and shipping them, which
again I vehemently oppose because I've seen it

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00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,440
as a cheap political stunt and you're
using human beings and as pawns, and

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I disagree with it. But when
they started doing that, one of the

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things that Eric Adams and mayors of
other cities too. But I remember Eric

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Adams of New York he said specifically, he said, look, we don't

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mind you sending people here. They're
welcome here, but you have to tell

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us. You have to give us
a heads up, tell us these people

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are coming, so that we know
that they're coming, we know how many

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people are coming, and so that
we have services ready for them when they

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get here. That was his statement
at the time, and she said this

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has been going on for what more
than a year at least, right,

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00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,719
so, at least in the beginning, that was his statement. I think

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now his statement is please stop.
But he said, you know, let

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us know that they're coming, don't
just send them without telling us. But

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if what the state is saying,
if with Faith Gray, I'm sorry,

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Faith Gay, who's the counsel for
the state of what she's saying is true,

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what she's saying about Mayor Eric Adams, and he's doing the same thing

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that he said, don't do to
us, says here. Deputy Mayor Fabian

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Levy said the Adams administration is reviewing
the State's letter. He added, quote,

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but because this is such a significant
crisis, we need more, including

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more space around the state and a
statewide order that bars localities from passing ordinances

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that prevent asylum seekers from being relocated
to other parts of New York State unquote.

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Adams meanwhile said the city and state
would continue to work together, refraining

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from criticizing Hucal's efforts. Adams later
told reporters yesterday, quote, we are

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really pleased with the relationship we have
with this governor, unlike some of the

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00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:47,239
tension with other administrations. We the
governor and I have constantly talked about our

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00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:52,280
coordination. So if our observation is
that here's some things that you can do

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differently, we're all in unquote.
I don't know. It doesn't sound like

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they're on the same page to me. If the governor's office is making statements

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saying that the city isn't isn't holding
up their end here, Gay and her

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00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:14,239
private law firm replaced Attorney General Tis
James and representing the state after James took

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00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,320
the unusual step to not defend the
state, citing a philosophical difference over the

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state's contention that a right to shelter
regulation that requires housing for the homeless in

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00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:29,360
the city doesn't apply statewide. The
twelve page letter is Hokeel's response to requests

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that Adams formally made a week earlier
for more state intervention in a letter obtained

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00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,880
by Politico. The court fight is
the first evidence of what appears to be

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a behind the scenes tussle between the
city and state over how to handle the

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issue. Adams and Hokel have stressed
publicly that they are working collegially collegiately to

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address the problem as a city faces
an overrun of its shelter system, and

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as Adams has shipped to other parts
of New York, often to the disapproval

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00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:08,760
of local leaders. Well, he
is in a tough spot. Yeah,

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you know, I have sympathy for
him. He's in a tough spot.

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00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:20,280
But at the same time, you
got to at least I mean, are

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there not other localities in the state
of New York who are willing to cooperate?

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00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,079
Is there something that is there something
that the State of New York can

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be doing? Maybe Eric Adams is
right, maybe the state's not doing enough.

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00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:36,320
Is there something the state can be
doing to help maybe incentivize some of

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these localities to want to take these
people who Eric Adams ascending from New York.

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00:43:44,679 --> 00:43:49,079
The document detailing state funding and resources
for support of migrants comes as pressure

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00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:54,119
intensifies on the local administration to do
more for Adams's team. The city's shelters

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and emergency housing system has buckled under
the weight of the nearly one hundred thousand

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migrants who have arrived since last spring, so less than a year, one

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00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,719
hundred thousand migrants. Elected officials,
community advocates, and business groups have joined

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us. I'm sorry, I've joined
in a course of demands for more federal

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and state aid to the city,
though the calls for President Joe Biden expedite

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work authorization are by far the loudest. And that's something too that Mayor Eric

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00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:30,400
Adams has set so actually, Eric
Adams not only has I mean he denies

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that there's fighting, but not only
does he have an issue with the state's

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00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,039
response, but he also has an
issue with the federal response because he also

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has said the Biden administration isn't doing
enough to get you know, things like

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work visas approved for these migrants.
So these at odds with the Biden administration

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00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:55,639
as well. And I don't know, I mean, look, it's like

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I said to somebody yesterday on the
phone who called the show, we need

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migrants, We employers need more workers
in this country. So but we have

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to figure we have to get all
this figured out and obviously we need comprehensive

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immigration reform, a huge overhaul,
which we're probably never going to have for

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00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:17,239
all kinds of political reasons that are
too numerous to get into right now because

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it's already almost top the hour.
But I do wonder, I mean,

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is there more that the Biden administration
can be doing as far as work authorizations?

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You know, is there something Biden
can do by executive order? In

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the state letter Tuesday, Gay also
wrote, quote moreover, the city's failure

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to inform the state of critical incidents
that have occurred in shelters outside of the

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city has compounded these difficulties unquote.
The bulk of the state's response was concentrated

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00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:51,519
on what Albany is granted to city
Hall to shelter and care for newcomers from

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the US Mexico border. The newest
state run and state funded emergency housing complex

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on the parking lot of the creed
More Psychiatric Center in Queens opened to migrant

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men Tuesday afternoon. The letter also
stressed an argument Hocal made has made verbally

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that the state doesn't believe the law
requiring shelter for those who need it applies

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00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,559
beyond the five boroughs. Yeah,
that's an interesting disagreement that I wasn't aware

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00:46:17,559 --> 00:46:21,320
of. I knew that the city
had a right to shelter law, but

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00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,320
again I thought it was for the
city, the public defenders and housing advocates

589
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:29,880
who want an emergency hearing on the
right to shelter law. After migrants were

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00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:35,079
forced to sleep on the streets earlier
this month in Midtown Manhattan urged the sides

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to come together. Members of the
Legal Aid Society and Coalition for the Homeless

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set in a statement, quote,
at this consequential time, we need both

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00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,360
the state and the city, along
with assistance from the Biden administration, to

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work together constructively and in good faith. Unquote Well that's obvious because they're currently

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00:46:53,360 --> 00:47:00,199
failing at this and they need to
get it together. And again there's any

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00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:01,760
blame to go around, And just
to be clear, I don't want to

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00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:07,039
be misunderstood. I still I maintain
my position that I don't agree with again

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without telling the migrants where they're going, and without telling the people who are

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00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,159
going to have to take care of
them when they get there that they're coming.

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I don't agree with taking people for
what I believe is a cheap political

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00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:22,400
stunt and putting them on busses and
sending them away or sending them to you

602
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,719
know, dumping them off in front
of Vice President Kamala Harris's home, things

603
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,840
like that. I don't agree with
any of that. I'm very disturbed by

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00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:35,880
it, actually, but I will
say they do need to get their act

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00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:40,719
together in New York, regardless of
how the problem is created, regardless of

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00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:46,119
what the causes are. This isn't
a good look. And Mayor Eric Adams

607
00:47:46,199 --> 00:47:52,280
and Governor Kathy Hokel and President Joe
Biden. I think they should all get

608
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:58,039
in a room together and figure something
out here. And you know they can

609
00:47:58,159 --> 00:48:04,800
just they can just continue to blame
the governors who are sending the people,

610
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,880
but just blaming them. And I'm
not saying they're not to blame, but

611
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,639
it's it's more complex than that.
There's a lot of there's a lot of

612
00:48:12,679 --> 00:48:16,000
blame to go around amongst both parties. We need comprehensive immigration reform in this

613
00:48:16,079 --> 00:48:20,559
country, for one thing, I
mean really comprehensive. We need a complete

614
00:48:20,599 --> 00:48:23,440
overhaul. And like I said,
well never we've never really gotten it,

615
00:48:23,519 --> 00:48:28,920
we never really will probably, And
there's plenty of blame to go around for

616
00:48:29,159 --> 00:49:15,639
that. Hey, welcome back everybody. Let's see Yeah, not sure,

617
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,679
so that was we just played the
song Freedom Wagon by our guests, Goose

618
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:24,239
Spread. They did confirm actually for
today that they were going to be on,

619
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:28,960
but they're not here. They're skyping
in. So when that happens,

620
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:35,199
it's usually because there's some sort of
a skype issue. We know that they

621
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:37,400
know that they're supposed to be on
because they did confirm with Jenny, so

622
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,440
hopefully they get that figured out or
maybe they can call in instead. So

623
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,800
if that doesn't happen today, that's
fine. We've got plenty to talk about.

624
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:52,280
But our guest goose Spread at the
moment is m i A unless you

625
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:57,559
know now they are from Ohio,
and Melanie did make a comment in the

626
00:49:57,599 --> 00:50:02,320
Facebook live chat and say, I
don't know Kennas state Jim Jordan lives in

627
00:50:02,679 --> 00:50:07,760
be considered great. Now. Maybe
they saw that and were offended, Melanie,

628
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,599
you thought that you were putting down
their great state of Ohio. I

629
00:50:10,639 --> 00:50:15,559
don't know I've been through Ohio,
because Ohio it's the kind of state you

630
00:50:15,639 --> 00:50:21,760
can say, yeah, I've driven
through there, and or at least I

631
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:27,599
can say that, and you know, it seemed lovely enough. But anyway,

632
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,119
so we'll see if they make it. They do, if they if

633
00:50:30,119 --> 00:50:34,360
they're having a technical issue, we
might have to reschedule them. And that's

634
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,519
fine, Melanie says. I'm not
taking it back, nor should you,

635
00:50:37,639 --> 00:50:42,880
Melanie, I I understand. Uh. I also find Jim Jordan to be

636
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,519
quite despicable, so I will join
you in that. But you know,

637
00:50:46,639 --> 00:50:50,239
but we have to separate. We
have to be able to separate politics and

638
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,960
music. So anyway, but yeah, that song is uh, that is

639
00:50:53,039 --> 00:50:58,639
a freedom wagon from the acoustic duo
Goosebread. So we'll see if they make

640
00:50:58,679 --> 00:51:00,599
it. If not, you know, we can always resk Edule. But

641
00:51:00,679 --> 00:51:04,119
in the meantime, the studio line
is open six zero three two five zero

642
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six zero seven six zero three two
five zero six zero seven. You can

643
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also text me at six ze seven
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644
00:51:12,559 --> 00:51:16,440
I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt

645
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Connerton dot com. And of course
you can interact end Opine in the Facebook

646
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:22,719
live chat. By the way,
did I do it again? I think

647
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:27,480
I just did it again. Did
I say Comcast channel ninety seven instead of

648
00:51:27,599 --> 00:51:31,039
channel six? I think I did
it's channel six now, which is great.

649
00:51:31,119 --> 00:51:35,159
That's a big upgrade. Yes,
not if I said ninety seven.

650
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,039
Just forget that I said that.
That's the old I'm living in the past.

651
00:51:38,679 --> 00:51:44,199
No, the time is now channel
six on Comcast here in Manchester.

652
00:51:45,119 --> 00:51:50,159
Miriam Banish says in the chat room, what's high in the middle and round

653
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on the ends? It's Ohio.
I get it. I think high in

654
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the middle of oh Yes, I
get it. Miriam says, I got

655
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:07,000
that from Devo, who are from
Ohio. I didn't know Devo was from

656
00:52:07,039 --> 00:52:09,239
Ohio. Well, now Ohio has
been redeemed. So what do you think

657
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:15,320
of that? Melanie Devo is from
Ohio. Great band and they wore those

658
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:22,559
funny hats six three two five six
z seven six three two six zero seven,

659
00:52:22,199 --> 00:52:27,880
My friends, might come as a
tremendous shock to you, but I

660
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:34,000
do love a good leaked memo.
And apparently this is from the Hill dot

661
00:52:34,079 --> 00:52:39,239
com and this hasn't interesting twists though. A leaked memo urges Governor Ron de

662
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:45,400
Santisa, Florida to take a sledgehammer
to Ramaswamy at the debate. Yes what

663
00:52:45,559 --> 00:52:49,800
debate, you may ask, Well, just because Trump isn't going to be

664
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,639
there, doesn't mean it doesn't count
there. There's a debate coming up next

665
00:52:52,679 --> 00:52:58,159
week on Wednesday, I believe,
less than a week away now in Milwaukee,

666
00:52:58,559 --> 00:53:00,280
which is odd in a sense you
would think it would be in Iowa.

667
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,639
Iowa was the first in the nation
contest, right, the first caucus.

668
00:53:05,199 --> 00:53:09,519
But no, it will be in
Milwaukee. There is still some speculation

669
00:53:09,639 --> 00:53:15,719
over whether Donald Trump will be there, the former president, forty fifth president.

670
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,360
You might be familiar with him,
He's been in the news a bit.

671
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:22,280
There is some speculation about that,
but I am sticking to my prediction

672
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:27,519
that he absolutely will not be there, and he has no reason to be

673
00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:31,679
there. He's going to be the
nominee no matter what. These indictments for

674
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,360
indictments. By the way, there
might be a fifth coming, believe it

675
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,679
or not, Arizona, but we'll
see. But you know, all these

676
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:43,519
indictments, of course, they help
him, help him to easily cruise to

677
00:53:43,599 --> 00:53:46,599
the nomination. They won't help him
in the general election, but they'll certainly

678
00:53:46,679 --> 00:53:50,039
help him in the nomination. He
has no reason to be there. There's

679
00:53:50,079 --> 00:53:52,880
no reason for him to show up. He's going to win Iowa. He's

680
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,599
going to win New Hampshire. He'll
then win South Carolina and he'll have this

681
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:59,639
this whole thing locked up pretty quick
as far as the nomination. But let's

682
00:53:59,639 --> 00:54:04,119
look at this leaked memo here.
This is fun. I like this kind

683
00:54:04,159 --> 00:54:08,079
of stuff. This is from the
Hill dot Com. A leaked debate memo

684
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:14,599
drafted by the heads of the pro
ran De Santis Superpack Never back Down,

685
00:54:15,079 --> 00:54:20,440
details how they think the Florida governor
should attack businessman Vavac Ramaswami. And by

686
00:54:20,519 --> 00:54:23,679
the way, it is Vvake.
I know that because I saw him interviewed

687
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:29,360
on another show where the host actually
pronounced it vvake, not Vvek Vvac,

688
00:54:30,039 --> 00:54:35,800
and Vvek thanked him for pronouncing his
name correctly, calling for De Santis to

689
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:42,440
quote take a sledgehammer to his GOP
rival. Now upon first hearing this,

690
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,679
first of all, I don't appreciate
the violent imagery of that, but I

691
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:53,239
do appreciate the song Sledgehammer by Peter
Gabriel. But I don't understand why why

692
00:54:53,599 --> 00:54:59,519
bother who cares vvec is not a
threat to anybody. He's not going to

693
00:54:59,599 --> 00:55:01,880
be the nominee. But none of
these people are going to be the nominee.

694
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,679
I mean, that's a funny thing, right, and none of these

695
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,760
people are going to be the nominee. It's going to be Trump. I

696
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,639
don't That's not an opinion, that's
not a that's not a theory, that's

697
00:55:09,679 --> 00:55:13,639
not speculation. It's a fact.
It is a fact Trump will be the

698
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,559
nominee. That's why I refer to
him as the presumptive presumptive nominee. But

699
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,800
why, why is this? Why
is there advice to De Santists he has

700
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:30,880
to go after, specifically after Vivek
Ramaswamy. I don't understand the memo urged

701
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:39,400
De Santists to take a sledgehammer to
Ramaswamy by calling him fake vevake or vake

702
00:55:39,679 --> 00:55:49,719
the fake. It's like doctor SEUs, I'm not By the way, this

703
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,559
is not something, this is not
satire. Just so we're all clear,

704
00:55:54,440 --> 00:56:00,840
this is real, This is happening. This is actual advice. This is

705
00:56:01,199 --> 00:56:08,039
somebody got paid to give Ron De
Santis this kind of advice. Oh yeah,

706
00:56:08,159 --> 00:56:12,719
people get paid to come up with
ideas like this. This is how

707
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:16,519
you should attack the vake, call
him fake v vake or the vac the

708
00:56:16,679 --> 00:56:22,760
fake. Why would you even tell
Ron De Santis does do Santis have a

709
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,760
history of giving people nicknames. There's
only one person I can think of in

710
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:29,280
the current field of Republican candidates who
has a history of giving people nicknames,

711
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:35,480
and that's mister Trump. Who.
While I'm not a fan of mister Trump,

712
00:56:35,679 --> 00:56:37,840
as many of you know, or
probably all of you know, if

713
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,400
you've even listened to five minutes of
the show, I will say this,

714
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,320
he's got a few redeeming qualities.
One of them as he comes up with

715
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,360
some pretty good nicknames. I liked
when he called Ron De Santis tiny d.

716
00:56:49,119 --> 00:56:52,400
You know, he also calls him
Ron Rond sanctimonious, which is a

717
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,480
little cumbersome. He calls him ron
to Sanctis for short. It's a little

718
00:56:55,519 --> 00:57:00,519
weird. But tiny D, I
think is a great nickname. Unfortunately,

719
00:57:00,599 --> 00:57:04,360
that's not the one that seems to
have caught on, tiny d. But

720
00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:10,039
although I bet it's the one that
hurts the most anyway. But why why

721
00:57:10,079 --> 00:57:15,599
are they Why is this the advice
that they're giving De Santis to go after

722
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,960
the Veke. All of a sudden, I stutter when I say his name.

723
00:57:19,239 --> 00:57:22,079
Did you hear that? Just now? The vec? You know what

724
00:57:22,199 --> 00:57:25,719
it is. It's I'm not used
to saying vavak. You know, you

725
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:29,199
grow up in a state like New
Hampshire, you're not used to names like

726
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:34,760
vac It's an unusual name. Most
people don't even say it correctly. But

727
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:39,599
see I go the extra mile I
say it correctly. It's not vavek anyway.

728
00:57:40,159 --> 00:57:45,159
Additionally, the memo called on the
governor to defend former President Trump.

729
00:57:45,239 --> 00:57:52,159
Should former governor New Jersey Governor Chris
Christy attack Trump? Yes, make sure

730
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,920
you okay. So we have two
pieces of advice here that we now know

731
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:00,119
that the Desantist campaign actually spent money
on. One is to come up with

732
00:58:00,239 --> 00:58:07,719
dom nicknames for the Vakee Ramaswamy,
and two to defend Trump. You don't

733
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:12,599
have to tell Ron de Santists to
defend Trump. You don't have to tell

734
00:58:12,679 --> 00:58:15,400
any of these people to defend Trump, with the exception of if you really

735
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:22,039
wanted Chris Christi or Asa Hutchinson or
Will Hurd to defend Trump, you might

736
00:58:22,119 --> 00:58:25,599
have to tell them because they're the
only ones who are predisposed to actually criticizing

737
00:58:25,679 --> 00:58:29,440
him. Ron de Santis, you
don't have to tell Ron to Santis to

738
00:58:29,519 --> 00:58:31,360
defend Trump. He will do it. He'll just do it on his own.

739
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:36,599
It's like telling someone, hey,
make sure you breathe. You know,

740
00:58:36,679 --> 00:58:44,679
he can't help himself. The memo, Oh, we have actual verbiage

741
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,280
from the memo. The memo reads, according to the an article in The

742
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:54,400
New York Times, quote defend Trump
when Chris Christy attacks him. Unquote,

743
00:58:55,480 --> 00:59:00,519
Oh, I know what it is
that'll help De Santis really distinguish himself from

744
00:59:00,559 --> 00:59:07,880
the rest of the field, right, okay. The memo also reportedly includes

745
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:13,519
a suggested line for De Santis to
use on Christy. Quote Trump isn't here,

746
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,000
so let's just leave him alone.
He's too weak to defend himself here.

747
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:22,280
We're all running against him. I
don't think we want to join forces

748
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:36,079
with someone on the stage who's auditioning
for a show on MSNBC. Governor,

749
00:59:37,119 --> 00:59:39,719
we have this great idea. This
is how you can really put Chris Christie

750
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:46,400
in his place. We want you
to defend Trump, but we also want

751
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:53,559
you to call him weak. But
we want you to say, here's here's

752
00:59:53,599 --> 00:59:58,599
exactly what we want you to say. And the great and by the way,

753
00:59:58,679 --> 01:00:00,840
the great thing about you, Governor
De Santa says, you'll be able

754
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,719
to say this. You'll be able
to pull this off without its sounding the

755
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:08,000
slightest spit rehearsed. It'll just roll
off your tongue. Let me repeat the

756
01:00:08,039 --> 01:00:13,480
whole thing. Trump isn't here,
so let's just leave him alone. He's

757
01:00:13,559 --> 01:00:16,800
too weak to defend himself here.
We're all running against him. I don't

758
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:21,480
think we want to join forces with
someone on the stage who's auditioning for a

759
01:00:21,559 --> 01:00:30,480
show on MSNBC. Oh my god, yeah, that'll that'll work. The

760
01:00:30,599 --> 01:00:37,519
Hill reached out to never back down
and the DeSantis campaign for comment. South

761
01:00:37,599 --> 01:00:44,519
Carolina Senator Tim Scott is also referenced
numerous times in the documents, which would

762
01:00:44,559 --> 01:00:49,960
suggest the superpack is zeroed in on
the threat of Ramaswamy, Scott, and

763
01:00:50,159 --> 01:00:54,719
Christy gaining momentum. By the way, before we go any further with this,

764
01:00:57,599 --> 01:01:00,199
can we just, i mean really
kind of take this in for a

765
01:01:00,239 --> 01:01:04,880
minute. This is all what is
what is even the point of any of

766
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:10,840
this? If you think about it
again, said, honestly, call off

767
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:15,679
the primary. It's going to be
Trump. You're all just it's like that

768
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:22,119
line from the song Nowhere Fast by
Meat Loaf. They're all fighting for the

769
01:01:22,239 --> 01:01:27,559
chance to be last. You know, none of this matters. It's all

770
01:01:27,639 --> 01:01:30,960
it's all for nothing. I mean, why are these people even running.

771
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:37,199
DeSantis isn't running for he knows he's
not going to be the nominee. DeSantis

772
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,880
isn't running for twenty twenty four.
He's actually running for twenty twenty eight.

773
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,519
Tim Scott, he's running for vice
president. Vague, he's running for vice

774
01:01:46,599 --> 01:01:54,360
president. Nicki Haley, she's running
for president in twenty twenty eight. This

775
01:01:54,559 --> 01:02:05,719
is a test run anyway, Okay, okay, So Tim Scott is also

776
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:12,480
referenced. One Republican strategist told The
Hill quote, they have to worry about

777
01:02:12,519 --> 01:02:15,880
the rest of the field catching up, preparing for the long haul in case

778
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:21,599
something happens to Trump, And the
memo for the debate basically makes this point.

779
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:27,400
Unquote. So I guess the idea
from the superpack. Their idea is,

780
01:02:28,159 --> 01:02:31,320
Okay, we just got to have
somebody ready. Somebody's gonna have to

781
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:37,679
be ready in case Trump falters,
and that somebody will be DeSantis, because

782
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:43,760
this superpack, this is the superpack
working with DeSantis. The problem is the

783
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:45,719
other problem is it's not going to
be to Santis. If something does happen

784
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:49,679
to Trump, it's not going to
be to Santis. I think it's going

785
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:53,719
to be Tim Scott personally, that's
my I mean, whoever it will,

786
01:02:54,199 --> 01:02:57,679
whoever it is, will have to
be Trump light. So it's not gonna

787
01:02:57,679 --> 01:03:00,519
be Chris Christy, A Sachinson or
Will Hurd. It's gonna be one of

788
01:03:00,519 --> 01:03:05,280
them. It's gonna have to be
somebody that can appeal to that Trump base,

789
01:03:05,559 --> 01:03:08,199
somebody who's been very nice to Trump
and has avoided criticizing him. And

790
01:03:08,239 --> 01:03:15,760
I think Tim Scott could be the
guy, all right. Internal polling that

791
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:21,239
was also posted in the same trove
of documents reportedly shows Ramaswamy surging in New

792
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,079
Hampshire. Is that true? I
haven't looked at polls here. Public pooling

793
01:03:24,119 --> 01:03:30,719
also suggests Ramaswamy has been creeping up
in the polls. According to the Real

794
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:35,559
Clear Politics polling average, to Santis
comes in second place at fourteen point eight

795
01:03:35,639 --> 01:03:42,239
percent, and Ramaswamy clocks in at
third at six point nine percent. Ramaswamy

796
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:47,039
responded to news of the leaked memo
on Thursday Today in a tweet referring to

797
01:03:47,119 --> 01:03:52,159
De Santis as robot ron boy.
The catchy nicknames are just flying around,

798
01:03:52,199 --> 01:04:00,840
aren't they Ramaswamy tweeted this, I'm
still gonna say tweet. I don't care

799
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,760
that it's X. Now, I'm
so I'm gonna say tweeted what am I

800
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:12,239
ram am? I gonna say X? He posted an X another boring establishment

801
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:18,239
attack from Superpack creation robot Ron,
who is literally taking lame, pre programmed

802
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:27,840
attack lines against me for next week
next week's debate. Hammer Ramaswammy unquote he's

803
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,880
given now he's given himself a nickname, Hammer Ramaswamy. Oh no, he's

804
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:39,920
see that's a paraphrase of what the
what the advice was? Uh. Meanwhile,

805
01:04:40,239 --> 01:04:44,960
the pro Christie Superpack Tell It Like
it Is appeared to trol news of

806
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:48,760
the league to memo by releasing their
memo that read, quote be yourself and

807
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:55,039
tell it like it is unquote.
By the way, the beat yourself might

808
01:04:55,079 --> 01:04:59,159
be a reference to Apparently, and
again, I don't have a lot of

809
01:04:59,599 --> 01:05:02,039
positive of things to say about the
former president Donald Trump, but I will

810
01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:05,559
say this, I appreciated this.
Apparently in Iowa during the state Fair,

811
01:05:05,599 --> 01:05:11,239
they trolled De Santis by flying a
plane with a banner that said be likable

812
01:05:11,519 --> 01:05:14,800
Ron, and I thought that was
funny. Okay, It is not unusual

813
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,480
for packs to telegraph strategy and memos, given that they are legally not allowed

814
01:05:17,519 --> 01:05:23,880
to coordinate directly with political campaigns.
However, it is unusual that the troph

815
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:31,199
of documents was publicly posted to the
firm working for the pack. The development

816
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:34,559
is yet another negative headline for Desantists, who has been in the midst of

817
01:05:34,639 --> 01:05:40,559
a campaign reset. The campaign has
seen two rounds of layoffs and a new

818
01:05:40,639 --> 01:05:45,119
campaign manager in recent weeks, and
polling continues to look less favorable for the

819
01:05:45,159 --> 01:05:50,320
Florida governor. A Quinnipiac University poll
released yesterday showed the Florida governor's support and

820
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:56,679
the GOP primary poll slipping to its
lowest level this year. Okay, so

821
01:05:56,840 --> 01:06:00,599
that's the story on the leaked memo
from the Hill. And then I just

822
01:06:00,719 --> 01:06:08,960
saw this pop up on media.
I oh, Melanie said in the chat

823
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:13,239
room. Stop saying regarding Trump and
the inevitability of him. Melanie said,

824
01:06:13,239 --> 01:06:15,880
stop saying that maybe everywhere everyone will
suddenly come to their senses and not vote

825
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:20,039
for that asset. No, that's
not going to happen, Melany. I

826
01:06:20,119 --> 01:06:25,679
appreciate your optimism. Let's see.
So then I see this show up on

827
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:33,079
media. I Trump booster Elise Stephanic
uses Desanti's debate memo to pressure the Florida

828
01:06:33,159 --> 01:06:38,719
governor to drop out of the presidential
race. It says, you're a representative

829
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:43,519
Elise Stephonic, Republican of New York. And the last time we really heard

830
01:06:43,519 --> 01:06:45,960
about her a lot in the news
was, of course, when she replaced

831
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:51,440
Liz Chaney and leadership. Even though
Stefanic historically and going by her voting record,

832
01:06:53,239 --> 01:06:56,639
more much more moderate than Liz Chaney. But but she is a Trump

833
01:06:56,679 --> 01:07:00,400
supporters, so Stephanik is. So
they got to Liz Chaney out and they

834
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:05,039
got Stefanik in. Okay, at
least Staponic the House GOP conference Share reacted

835
01:07:05,079 --> 01:07:11,719
to the news today of a memo
from the Prota Santis pack appearing online that

836
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:17,840
advised the Florida governor to defend Trump
during the upcoming primary debate. Stefanick wrote,

837
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:20,400
while sharing the story from The New
York Times, quote, as a

838
01:07:20,519 --> 01:07:27,079
former debate prepper, the first and
most obvious rule of debate prep is don't

839
01:07:27,199 --> 01:07:34,360
leak the debate prep memo unquote seems
up. That does seem obvious. I

840
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:39,599
wouldn't think that would even need to
be an obvious rule shouldn't be a rule

841
01:07:39,639 --> 01:07:44,000
at all, It should just be
obvious. Notably, the memo was not

842
01:07:44,199 --> 01:07:46,119
leaked. I see, by the
way, in reading that quote, because

843
01:07:46,119 --> 01:07:48,719
I didn't preread this, I thought
she was going to say. I thought

844
01:07:48,719 --> 01:07:53,519
where she was going with that was
the most obvious. The first rule is

845
01:07:53,920 --> 01:08:00,679
in debate prep, don't defend or
compliment your opponents. You know, don't

846
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:05,000
In other words, don't defend you
know you're If you're a Trump's political opponent,

847
01:08:05,039 --> 01:08:10,960
you should not be defending him.
But DeSantis, I mean, you

848
01:08:11,039 --> 01:08:15,079
know, DeSantis will occasionally faintly criticize
Trump, but it's usually only in response

849
01:08:15,159 --> 01:08:18,760
to something Trump says about DeSantis.
But for the most part, you know,

850
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:24,680
he sticks up for him. Okay. Notably, the memo was not

851
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:30,199
leaked, but posted online by a
website affiliated with the Never Backdown Packs chief

852
01:08:30,279 --> 01:08:35,359
strategist. Packs are not allowed to
directly coordinate with their candidate, and sometimes

853
01:08:35,399 --> 01:08:42,239
will post information publicly online as an
indirect way of getting it to the campaign.

854
01:08:45,279 --> 01:08:49,800
Uh Stephanic said quote this is absolute
malpractice. And as I have said

855
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:54,720
from the very beginning, President Trump
is going to steamroll the entire field there

856
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:58,920
is no real primary, and we
need to focus on defeating Joe Biden to

857
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:03,119
save America. Quote heavily suggesting RHND
de Santis and other GOP presidential candidates should

858
01:09:03,119 --> 01:09:12,000
clear the field for Trump. Well, that that will solve itself. Don't

859
01:09:12,039 --> 01:09:17,960
worry. Uh. The Times reported
today that the documents included four basic must

860
01:09:18,199 --> 01:09:24,640
dues for de Santis, who is
referred to in the memo as GRD at

861
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:30,479
the debate, Why is he GRD? Oh, Governor RHN de Santis.

862
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:34,840
I see GRD in all caps,
and I thought it was like some sort

863
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:39,520
of disease or something like. You
know this, Uh, this winter,

864
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:43,880
we gotta worry about COVID, the
flu RSV and GRD, which is really

865
01:09:44,039 --> 01:09:50,960
bad. A lot of people in
Florida end up with GRD. It's very

866
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:59,159
uncomfortable. Okay, So here are
the four basic must dues. Oh,

867
01:09:59,199 --> 01:10:03,560
this ought to be good. Must
do Number one, attack Joe Beaden.

868
01:10:04,039 --> 01:10:11,520
Joe Beaden, attack Joe Biden and
the media three to five times. Okay.

869
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:16,760
Now, by the way, it
might sound odd that there's a precise

870
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:21,079
range of numbers three to five times, but remember in these debates, when

871
01:10:21,119 --> 01:10:26,720
you've got a whole stage full of
candidates, and we don't know how many

872
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:30,439
candidates are going to actually qualify.
There's a minimum number of signatures you have

873
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:33,560
to have. I think there's a
minimum donations amount you have to have,

874
01:10:34,199 --> 01:10:40,079
and you have to sign the pledge. You have to sign the pledge that

875
01:10:40,199 --> 01:10:44,880
you will support the eventual nominee,
no matter who it is. By the

876
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:49,479
way, Trump apparently refuses to sign
the pledge. So if the RNC sticks

877
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:54,359
to their rules, Trump can't be
there anyway because he refuses to sign the

878
01:10:54,399 --> 01:11:00,159
pledge. But because you have so
many people on the stage, the amount

879
01:11:00,159 --> 01:11:03,880
of time that everyone gets to talk
is actually very limited. If you remember

880
01:11:04,039 --> 01:11:09,960
in twenty sixteen, they had so
many candidates in the field on the Republican

881
01:11:10,079 --> 01:11:14,560
side, they actually had to split
the debates. So they had they had

882
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:17,079
like a main stage and an opening
act, or they had I think of

883
01:11:17,159 --> 01:11:20,199
it this way, they had the
adults table and the kid's table. You

884
01:11:20,279 --> 01:11:24,880
know, the adults table would usually
be in prime time and the kid's table

885
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:28,520
would be like before that, but
on the same day. So you had

886
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,920
the less likely candidates, you know, to actually get anywhere that the ones

887
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,560
that are you know, sitting at
one percent in the polls. During the

888
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:39,039
kids table debate, and then at
the adults table you had Trump and Christy

889
01:11:39,159 --> 01:11:45,359
and Rubio and who else, lots
of people. They had so many candidates.

890
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:49,760
Miriam says, Beaden made me l
ol. I greatly prefer him over

891
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:56,680
Trump, but won't be able to
not think of him as beaten. I'm

892
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:59,399
sorry if I've ruined him for you, and now you'll think of him as

893
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:08,399
beaten always, Miriam. But Miriam
says she thought uh GRD was gastro uh

894
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:19,119
espeg saf eagle the esophagus and you'r
esophagus esophage esophageal gastroesophageal reflex disease. Well,

895
01:12:19,159 --> 01:12:23,560
that would be gurd But yeah,
that's what I thought it was when

896
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:26,800
I first looked at it. Though
one I saw GRD. Okay, so

897
01:12:27,279 --> 01:12:30,239
number one, attack Joe Biden and
the media three to five times and the

898
01:12:30,359 --> 01:12:34,159
media, yes, make sure you
you get in something about the liberal media

899
01:12:34,239 --> 01:12:43,079
with their woke agenda. UH must
do Number two according to the memo state

900
01:12:43,239 --> 01:12:49,800
GRD's positive vision two to three times. Does he have a positive vision?

901
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:57,720
What is his vision? I guess
stomping out wokeness and this all the Santa's

902
01:12:57,760 --> 01:13:06,640
ever talks about number three hammer the
vague Ramaswami in a response and number four

903
01:13:08,039 --> 01:13:14,680
defend Donald Trump in absentia in response
to Chris Christie's attack. So those are

904
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:17,800
the four must dues. The memo
even goes so far as to offer to

905
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:24,720
Santists some specific lines and the big
line we already h that was already in

906
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:29,840
the other article. But yeah,
so at least Stephonic is using this to

907
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:39,520
try to pressure the Santists to get
out. So I thought that was pretty

908
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:43,279
interesting. But that will be uh
yeah, so that's uh, that's coming

909
01:13:43,359 --> 01:13:45,199
right up. Can you believe it? We're already less than a week away.

910
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,840
We're already less than a week away
from the first Republican debate of the

911
01:13:49,960 --> 01:14:00,520
twenty twenty four cycle. Uh,
let's see, I should take a moment

912
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:05,079
before we go on to the next
thing, just remind you about tomorrow's show.

913
01:14:05,119 --> 01:14:08,359
So we've got a great show planned
for you tomorrow if you're just tuning

914
01:14:08,359 --> 01:14:12,560
in. Of course, this is
Matt Connerton Unleashed live from the studios of

915
01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:16,880
wm H ninety five point three FM
in downtown Manchester, Manchester, New Hampshire.

916
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,159
So tomorrow on the show. So
we've got a couple of things going

917
01:14:19,199 --> 01:14:21,439
on. Of course, we have
Eric Pilcher's classic film review, as we

918
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:26,399
do every Friday, and this week
the subject is The French Connection, which

919
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:30,399
was directed by William Friedkin who passed
away recently. He also directed The Exorcist.

920
01:14:31,199 --> 01:14:39,399
And we will also have the world
radio premiere of the new single from

921
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:44,319
the band house Lights. Actually the
full album comes out September first, but

922
01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:50,600
they've got a new they've got a
new single tomorrow, and then on Monday

923
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:55,520
they're going to come in and actually
perform live in studio in the second hour,

924
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:59,760
come in and perform acoustics, So
that will be a lot of fun.

925
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:01,800
So that's all happening tomorrow. And
then on Monday, of course we

926
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:09,720
will have we will have Yeah,
So on Monday they'll they'll be here.

927
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:13,479
But tomorrow we'll have the world radio
premiere of the of the newest single from

928
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:17,239
them, and the film review,
and I believe tomorrow also our friend easyg

929
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:23,760
is going to be with us and
via phone for a an entertainment report as

930
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:27,319
well. So we are going to
have a very very busy show tomorrow.

931
01:15:29,079 --> 01:15:35,920
I think we should probably touch on
in Georgia. What has happened with the

932
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:46,159
grand jury? Members of the grand
jury who voted to indict Trump their information,

933
01:15:46,239 --> 01:15:57,199
they've been dosed, and apparently it's
legal, and that their names their

934
01:15:57,279 --> 01:16:06,680
names being published. Yeah, this
is We have something about this here from

935
01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:15,159
The Independent, so it's interesting.
I am a big fan generally of transparency,

936
01:16:17,119 --> 01:16:21,920
which is the purpose of this law. The law in Georgia is that

937
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:27,560
the names of the grand jurors be
released, and I'm generally a kind of

938
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:30,800
a transparency hawk. I like a
lot of transparency. However, in this

939
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:36,079
particular instance, these people's lives may
have been put in danger, so I

940
01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:41,520
don't think that this law, this
particular law, is a good one.

941
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:48,920
Sorry for the awkward pause. I
just realized my computer is not plugged in

942
01:16:49,079 --> 01:16:55,359
and I need it to for this
story. I've pulled up here from the

943
01:16:56,319 --> 01:17:02,000
Independent. But what is happening in
Georgia now since this grand grand jury indictment

944
01:17:02,159 --> 01:17:08,560
was handed up is all the names
and obviously we're not going to say any

945
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:11,279
of them here, but all the
names of the people on that grand jury

946
01:17:11,319 --> 01:17:15,560
have been released publicly. And that's
the law. It's not even an option.

947
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:21,960
Legally, it is required and what
is happening now is their lives are

948
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:28,439
being threatened. The Independent has a
story of truth social users are doxing grand

949
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:32,359
jury. I'm sorry, grand jurors
who indicted Trump in Georgia. A plethora

950
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:45,119
of truth social users came to Trump's
defense following his fourth indictment. Actually,

951
01:17:45,239 --> 01:17:48,800
somebody else had an updated story.
I think it was NBC News. But

952
01:17:50,319 --> 01:17:54,800
you know, we've got all kinds
of you know, the judges like Judge

953
01:17:55,039 --> 01:18:01,520
Chutkin is getting death threats. It's
it's not good, and I'm not sure

954
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:08,039
exactly what the solution is other than
everyone has to have more security. But

955
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:13,359
we've really, I mean, we're
living in times. Oh, here we

956
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:15,960
go. We'll go with the media
eight story. We're living in times that

957
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:18,880
we've never seen in my lifetime with
all that's going on now. You know,

958
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:23,199
judge is getting death threats, and
other people in the who work in

959
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:25,760
the criminal justice system getting death threats. That is not, in and of

960
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:29,680
itself something new, certainly, but
I don't think we've ever seen it like

961
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:33,760
this, and it's really it's scary
and it's pretty upsetting. We'll go with

962
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:39,000
this. Trump supporters are doxing Georgia. Grand juries online. This is from

963
01:18:39,039 --> 01:18:44,119
media. MSNBC reported yesterday the supporters
of Donald Trump are doxing the grand jurors

964
01:18:44,119 --> 01:18:47,760
who indicted him and eighteen co conspirators
on charges they tried to overturn the twenty

965
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:55,560
twenty presidential election. Katie tur anchor
on MSNBC said, quote, let's talk

966
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:59,239
about what's happening in Fulton County.
We just got word that there are Trump

967
01:18:59,239 --> 01:19:04,359
supporters posting the grand jurors addresses online. Security has already been ramped up there.

968
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:10,119
It's been ramped up from the DA. How is this likely to affect

969
01:19:10,239 --> 01:19:14,920
things? Senior legal correspondent Laura Jarrett
said, quote, certainly, it's something

970
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,960
that Fannie Willis has been concerned about. She has put everybody on notice in

971
01:19:18,079 --> 01:19:23,239
sort of an unusual way, sort
of telegraphing when this indictment, if any

972
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:28,960
was going to come down, because
she was so worried about security. You

973
01:19:29,039 --> 01:19:31,920
know, a lot of times we
never know grand jurs names, but Georgia

974
01:19:32,159 --> 01:19:38,079
law is different. It was trying
to be more transparent, perhaps not appreciating

975
01:19:38,159 --> 01:19:41,479
that in a case like this,
this is what happens. And so now

976
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:45,319
that their names are out there and
people are calling on dosing their houses and

977
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:50,239
harassing them. It's certainly an unfortunate
occurrence, but the court can do anything

978
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:55,880
about that, and anyone who makes
threats or does something criminal can be prosecuted

979
01:19:55,960 --> 01:20:01,279
for that unquote. Yeah, I
mean there is such a thing as criminal

980
01:20:01,359 --> 01:20:09,159
threatening. So this is a serious
offense if you'd do this. But they

981
01:20:09,199 --> 01:20:11,520
had to have known this, They
had to have seen this coming though,

982
01:20:12,119 --> 01:20:14,920
So I wonder if there is something
that could have an exception that could have

983
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:19,880
been made somehow. NBC News reported
that the names and addresses were posted on

984
01:20:20,119 --> 01:20:28,520
a fringe quote fringe website that often
features violent rhetoric, adding MSNBC News is

985
01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:32,640
choosing not to name the website to
avoid further spreading the information unquote. The

986
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:40,279
information was first spotted by nonpartisan research
group Advanced Democracy, Inc. NBC News

987
01:20:40,399 --> 01:20:44,439
reported on Monday, Willis began presenting
her case to the grand jury, which

988
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:47,560
only meets on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Okay, so we know about that already,

989
01:20:49,279 --> 01:21:00,319
but that is a little bit Oh, what's this something new regard Bill

990
01:21:00,359 --> 01:21:06,479
Barr. I will have to look
at this, but uh, you know,

991
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:10,800
that's something we'll have to keep an
eye on. But you know,

992
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:18,640
remember in Georgia. Uh uh what
are their names? Their names escaping now?

993
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:25,119
Oh, Ruby Freeman and her daughter
Shamus. Uh. You know they

994
01:21:25,239 --> 01:21:29,119
testified before Congress about the danger that
they were put in, you know,

995
01:21:29,239 --> 01:21:32,439
just by having their names put out
there and being labeled as quote unquote vote

996
01:21:32,479 --> 01:21:40,920
scammers. So you know, these
these things have consequences. This is uh,

997
01:21:41,039 --> 01:21:45,359
this just popped up on media.
I Trump warrens Fox News to start

998
01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:50,199
quote putting the right people on air
or else they will never recover unquote in

999
01:21:50,319 --> 01:21:55,479
Bill Barr rage post, I this
just showed up. I don't know what

1000
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:59,680
this is about, but I'm awfully
curious, says you're a former president.

1001
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,760
Donald Trump went after Fox News in
a Thursday rant on truth social for giving

1002
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:08,920
airtime to his former Attorney General Bill
Barr, who indicated recently he would be

1003
01:22:09,039 --> 01:22:13,960
willing to testify against Trump. Barr
routinely criticized as a former president over his

1004
01:22:14,039 --> 01:22:17,119
actions to overturn the twenty twenty presidential
election. Moreover, Barr noted that he

1005
01:22:17,159 --> 01:22:21,960
would be willing to testify against his
former boss if called by prosecutors, and

1006
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:28,319
Trump's criminal trails in DC and Georgia
as a typo, I think they meant

1007
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:33,199
trials. The four time indicted Republican
frontrunner turned his attention towards Fox News for

1008
01:22:33,239 --> 01:22:40,560
giving so much airtime to former ag
Now critic. Trump wrote on truth Social

1009
01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:45,840
quote, why does Fox News constantly
put on slow thinking and lethargic Bill Barr,

1010
01:22:46,279 --> 01:22:51,000
who didn't have the courage or stamina
to fight the radical left lunatics while

1011
01:22:51,039 --> 01:22:57,640
he was a g and who even
more importantly refused to fight election fraud.

1012
01:22:58,159 --> 01:23:01,520
He knew what was going on us
look at his past remarks. Unless Fox

1013
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:06,039
News starts putting the right people on
their ratings, will never recover. And

1014
01:23:06,159 --> 01:23:12,680
of course the word ratings is capitalized
for no apparent reason. He later added,

1015
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:16,680
quote, his bravado changed rapidly because
he didn't want to be impeached.

1016
01:23:17,079 --> 01:23:21,239
Republicans have to be much tougher and
smarter, or you won't have a party

1017
01:23:21,399 --> 01:23:26,359
or a country. Left Barr didn't
have the courage or stamina to fight,

1018
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:30,840
but he knew what was happening.
I canned him and felt really good about

1019
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:34,159
it. Now he goes all over
the place, especially Fox, pretending to

1020
01:23:34,239 --> 01:23:40,920
be a tough guy. Unquote all
right, so there you go. Trump

1021
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:49,520
very very unhappy with Bill Barr,
all right, we should talk about we

1022
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:58,079
should talk about Arkansas, because boy, how often in your life do you

1023
01:23:58,119 --> 01:24:00,880
ever say that we should talk about
Arkansas? Huh. Well, there's a

1024
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:05,359
story that connects to something that we
discussed earlier in the week, which led

1025
01:24:05,399 --> 01:24:10,359
to a pretty contentious moment on the
show. So we'll look at this as

1026
01:24:10,399 --> 01:24:12,359
we approach the end of the show, though, But let me just give

1027
01:24:12,359 --> 01:24:15,159
the studio line when we're give that
out one more time six zo three two

1028
01:24:15,199 --> 01:24:19,640
five six z seven six three two
five six zoo seven. You can also

1029
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:24,359
text me at six one seven nine
one seven four four seven six. I'm

1030
01:24:24,399 --> 01:24:29,199
on social media at Matt Connerton.
You can email me Matt at Matt Connerton

1031
01:24:29,279 --> 01:24:31,720
dot com, and of course you
can interact end O Pine in the Facebook

1032
01:24:31,760 --> 01:24:33,520
live chat. But the best thing
to do so that we can hear and

1033
01:24:33,640 --> 01:24:38,399
enjoy your dulcet tones is give us
a call at six zo three two five

1034
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:42,000
zero six zero seven. Oh,
and don't forget Tonight is trivia night at

1035
01:24:42,039 --> 01:24:45,640
the Hop Knot, as they do
every Thursday night. Make sure you call

1036
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:49,079
ahead to reserve a spot. It's
a very popular feature there and that does

1037
01:24:49,279 --> 01:24:55,600
fill up quickly. All right,
Arkansas, what's going on there? Well,

1038
01:24:57,119 --> 01:25:03,960
the Hill dot Com is reporting Arkansas
joins Florida in nixing AP African American

1039
01:25:04,079 --> 01:25:12,760
Studies. There is a trend here
my friends in school systems in certain states

1040
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:19,039
where they seem to be I guess
it's part of that whole anti woke movement.

1041
01:25:20,119 --> 01:25:24,600
But I don't know what else could
be the reason for doing this.

1042
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:30,640
But the current governor of Arkansas,
of course, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, not

1043
01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:36,039
the first Huckabee, of course,
to be the governor of Arkansas. Her

1044
01:25:36,159 --> 01:25:40,920
father, of course, one of
the more famous former governors of Arkansas,

1045
01:25:41,039 --> 01:25:45,479
Mike Huckabee, and of course another
famous former governor of Arkansas and also a

1046
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:49,079
former president, William Jefferson Clinton.
So they've, you know, they've had

1047
01:25:49,079 --> 01:25:56,199
a couple of other notable governors.
But here's what's going on. Arkansas is

1048
01:25:56,319 --> 01:26:02,560
joining Florida in nixing the Advanced Placement
AP African American Studies course from its schools.

1049
01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:10,159
The state announced right before classes began
for the twenty twenty three twenty twenty

1050
01:26:10,199 --> 01:26:15,159
four school year that AP African American
Studies would not count for credit toward high

1051
01:26:15,239 --> 01:26:23,680
school graduation. The College Board that
the organization that administers the AP program said,

1052
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:28,000
quote, on this first day of
school, we share in the surprise,

1053
01:26:28,199 --> 01:26:32,840
confusion, and disappointment at this new
guidance that the course won't count toward

1054
01:26:32,920 --> 01:26:39,119
graduation credits or awaited the same as
other AP courses offered in the state.

1055
01:26:39,359 --> 01:26:44,319
Unquote. The news of the course
getting dropped by the state was first reported

1056
01:26:44,359 --> 01:26:47,600
by The Arkansas Times over the weekend. The Arkansas Department of Education release a

1057
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:53,600
statement Monday saying the course is still
in the pilot stage and cannot be accepted

1058
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:59,319
until revisions are finalized. Oh revisions. I wonder what those revisions might be.

1059
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:04,000
Probably something like they did in Florida. You know, got to include

1060
01:27:04,079 --> 01:27:09,000
something. If you're going to teach
about slavery, I want to mention some

1061
01:27:09,119 --> 01:27:12,640
of the perks that go along with
it. Right, is that what's going

1062
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:17,199
on here? That's my theory.
Let's see. The department said in a

1063
01:27:17,279 --> 01:27:23,399
statement to Education week quote, the
AP African American Studies Pilot course is not

1064
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:28,960
a history course and is a pilot
that is still undergoing major revisions. Arkansas

1065
01:27:29,159 --> 01:27:38,479
law contains provisions regarding prohibited topics.
Without clarity, we cannot approve a pilot

1066
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:45,560
that may unintentionally put a teacher at
risk of violating Arkansas law unquote. What

1067
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:51,039
is going on here? Republican Governor
Sarah Huckabee Sanders ordered curriculum to be reviewed

1068
01:27:51,239 --> 01:27:57,439
at the beginning of this year after
the state band critical race theory, an

1069
01:27:57,479 --> 01:28:01,359
academic framework evaluating US history through the
lens of racism that has become a political

1070
01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:08,199
catch all buzzword for any race related
teaching, including a review of AP African

1071
01:28:08,239 --> 01:28:14,439
American studies that was in two school
districts in the state last year. The

1072
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:16,920
College Board said in a statement,
quote, more than two hundred colleges and

1073
01:28:17,079 --> 01:28:23,159
universities nationally have already signed on to
provide college credit, including the University of

1074
01:28:23,279 --> 01:28:28,640
Arkansas Fayetteville, the flagship institution of
the University of Arkansas system. Early credit

1075
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:33,000
support for the pilot course has surpassed
expectations, and it is our strong expectation

1076
01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:39,399
that many more colleges will provide credit
with an official review when an official review

1077
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:44,439
is completed in the spring unquote.
The College Board underwent a similar battle over

1078
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:50,560
AP African American Studies with that Da
Dada Florida earlier this year that ended with

1079
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:57,119
Florida banning the course and the company
apologizing for changes it made to the class

1080
01:28:57,159 --> 01:29:01,000
after Florida's initial complaints. Advocacy groups
are all ready to cry in Arkansas's move

1081
01:29:01,039 --> 01:29:08,199
to ban the course and double ACP
President and CEO Dereck Johnson said, quote

1082
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:13,760
another day in America and another extremist
state government has waged war on Black America

1083
01:29:14,079 --> 01:29:18,600
while attempting to rewrite history. It
is abhorrent that any so called leader would

1084
01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:23,199
attempt to strip high school students of
an opportunity to get a jump start on

1085
01:29:23,279 --> 01:29:27,840
their college degree. Let's be clear, the continued state level attacks on black

1086
01:29:27,960 --> 01:29:33,359
history are undemocratic and regressive. The
sad reality is that these politicians are determined

1087
01:29:33,399 --> 01:29:40,079
to neglect our nation's youth, youth
and service of their own political agendas unquote.

1088
01:29:40,560 --> 01:29:44,920
So that, my friends, this
is what's going on this week in

1089
01:29:45,279 --> 01:29:55,760
Arkansas, and I don't know that
that will be that will be the end.

1090
01:29:58,920 --> 01:30:00,640
Let's see. Oh, we still
have a little bit of show left

1091
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:02,880
if you'd like to get in with
a call. Six zero three two five

1092
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:11,039
zero six seven six three two five
zero six O seven. Another media story

1093
01:30:11,840 --> 01:30:15,199
that I would have liked to have
gotten gotten. Eric's thoughts on yesterday during

1094
01:30:15,239 --> 01:30:20,520
our segment, but we didn't get
to it. And this happened a number

1095
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:23,560
of days ago, and I've been
wanting to get to it on the show.

1096
01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:28,760
But a Kansas, Kansas police and
a small newspaper are at the center

1097
01:30:29,279 --> 01:30:32,680
of a First Amendment fight after a
newsroom raid. And this will be the

1098
01:30:32,720 --> 01:30:35,760
second time on the show today that
the First Amendment has come up in conversation.

1099
01:30:36,439 --> 01:30:40,239
My favorite amendment. I don't know
about you. This is from the

1100
01:30:40,319 --> 01:30:45,279
AP Associated Press if you haven't heard
this story, and it's gotten some media

1101
01:30:45,399 --> 01:30:49,720
play, but it's this is important. A small newspaper and a police department

1102
01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:53,600
in Kansas are at the center of
a dispute over freedom of speech, as

1103
01:30:53,680 --> 01:31:00,640
the newspaper struggled Monday to publish its
next edition days after police raided its office

1104
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:05,399
and the home of its owner and
publisher. Officials with the Marian Police Department

1105
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:12,119
confiscated computers and cell phones from the
publisher and staff of the Marion County Record

1106
01:31:12,479 --> 01:31:17,119
in Friday's raid. On Monday,
Kansas state authorities confirmed they are also involved

1107
01:31:17,159 --> 01:31:23,119
in a criminal probe of the newspaper
over allegations that it illegally obtained and used

1108
01:31:23,199 --> 01:31:32,520
personal information about a local business owner. Friday's rays have been widely condemned by

1109
01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:40,279
press freedom watchdogs as a blatant violation
of the US Constitution's protection for a free

1110
01:31:40,319 --> 01:31:45,239
press. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly called
the raids concerning an attorney for the newspaper,

1111
01:31:45,359 --> 01:31:50,239
deemed the searches and seizures illegal,
and said the police department's action quote

1112
01:31:50,279 --> 01:31:57,000
offends the constitutional protections the founding fathers
gave the free press. Unquote. The

1113
01:31:57,119 --> 01:32:01,880
Society of Professional Journalists pledged twenty thousand
dollars toward the newspaper's legal defense, but

1114
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:06,079
some Marian residents hold a different view, accusing the newspaper of aggressive news coverage

1115
01:32:06,079 --> 01:32:11,560
that has driven out businesses and painted
a negative picture of the town of about

1116
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:16,960
nineteen hundred people. By the way, apropos of nothing having to do with

1117
01:32:17,039 --> 01:32:20,880
the substance of the story. Not
only is that the second time in today's

1118
01:32:20,920 --> 01:32:25,840
show that the First Amendment has come
up, That's the second time in today's

1119
01:32:25,880 --> 01:32:30,319
show, this is weird. That's
the second time in today's show that the

1120
01:32:30,439 --> 01:32:33,520
number nineteen hundred has come up?
What are the odds of that? For

1121
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:39,119
real? If you remember one of
the other well, actually, the other

1122
01:32:39,319 --> 01:32:44,239
media story that I talked about in
the first hour today was Glenn Beck having

1123
01:32:44,920 --> 01:32:50,960
nineteen hundred episodes of his show suddenly
removed without explanation from Apple Podcasts. Nineteen

1124
01:32:51,079 --> 01:33:00,319
hundred episodes, nineteen hundred people in
this town of Marion campus. That's weird.

1125
01:33:01,720 --> 01:33:04,680
I mean, if I were a
numerologist and I believed in that stuff,

1126
01:33:04,680 --> 01:33:10,000
I'd be like, Oh, Matt, that's the universe sending you a

1127
01:33:10,119 --> 01:33:15,880
sign about nineteen hundred something. Somebody's
about to venmo you nineteen hundred dollars or

1128
01:33:15,920 --> 01:33:20,840
something, you know, but which
would be nice. If anyone wants to

1129
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:26,520
venmo me nineteen hundred dollars, you
certainly can. But no, I uh,

1130
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:28,920
that that is weird, though,
isn't it. What are the odds

1131
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:31,239
of that number specifically? You know, it's not like it's it's a number

1132
01:33:31,319 --> 01:33:34,960
that you expect to run into,
like oh, the number ten that showed

1133
01:33:35,039 --> 01:33:38,800
up earlier in the show, and
its shown up up again if you if

1134
01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:43,520
you didn't hear earlier in the show. The first story, the first news

1135
01:33:43,520 --> 01:33:45,039
story that I talked about today,
at the number nineteen hundred in it,

1136
01:33:45,439 --> 01:33:55,680
that is actually very bizarre. Should
we end on something fun or should we

1137
01:33:55,840 --> 01:34:06,039
end on Oh no, we'll have
to save that. We'll save that.

1138
01:34:06,199 --> 01:34:13,439
That's a Ryan grimm as a story
in the intercept called Eleaked Cable and what

1139
01:34:13,560 --> 01:34:17,039
it reveals about the Biden administration's foreign
policy. But that's too much to get

1140
01:34:17,119 --> 01:34:21,920
into now because we're almost out of
time. All right, let's do something

1141
01:34:23,039 --> 01:34:26,359
quick and fun. You know Mike
Lindell, the my pillow guy. You

1142
01:34:26,439 --> 01:34:31,960
might have heard of him, excuse
me, Media Eyed as a story up,

1143
01:34:32,399 --> 01:34:36,199
no, no, no, Watch
Mike Lindell scramble to recover after tech

1144
01:34:36,319 --> 01:34:45,239
snapho derails the start of his Election
Crime Bureau summit. Yes, that was

1145
01:34:45,319 --> 01:34:49,840
his newest event, Election Crime Bureau
Summit. Oh yes, you know.

1146
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:53,840
Trump on Monday, by the way, is going to be giving a big

1147
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:58,800
presentation apparently, I'm sure as lawyers
are all just ready to walk off a

1148
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:04,159
cliff moving proving that the election was
stolen in Georgia. Well, Mike Lindell

1149
01:35:04,319 --> 01:35:10,119
also still added with this Election Crime
Bureau summit, and apparently he freaked out

1150
01:35:10,199 --> 01:35:13,920
during a tech snafoo, which we
have I think we have the audio of

1151
01:35:13,960 --> 01:35:15,840
it actually, but Ron is on
the line, so let's grab this call

1152
01:35:15,920 --> 01:35:19,000
from Ron. Hi, Ron,
how are you doing it? Quick and

1153
01:35:19,079 --> 01:35:23,479
funny? By the way, good
show today. I really appreciate it.

1154
01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:26,439
Thank you. Did you catch that
woman? I can't think she was from

1155
01:35:26,479 --> 01:35:30,520
Massachusetts. She was called for jury
duty and she tried to get out of

1156
01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:33,800
it, she said, and she
gave every reason why she couldn't get it

1157
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:41,479
go go. She had three triplets, all like under like two year old

1158
01:35:41,760 --> 01:35:45,520
plus, you know, somewhere around
that age, and she brought him the

1159
01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:46,880
quote with her. I don't know
if you caught that in the nose.

1160
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:49,920
It was. It was pretty cool, and the cameras just ate it up,

1161
01:35:50,039 --> 01:35:55,640
you know, the kids, which
is living an up happening a blast.

1162
01:35:55,880 --> 01:35:58,399
So that wasn't yesterday's news because I
don't know if she happened to see

1163
01:35:58,439 --> 01:36:00,159
it. I did not see that. I assume she got out of jury

1164
01:36:00,279 --> 01:36:04,560
duty. Yeah. Well, she
showed up the court and things were going,

1165
01:36:05,079 --> 01:36:10,279
and the judge at that point she
said, okay, I understand and

1166
01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:14,279
dismissed it. But you know,
she showed she put the kids in the

1167
01:36:14,359 --> 01:36:17,359
cop, brought him the court,
brought him inside the little strollers and sat

1168
01:36:17,439 --> 01:36:23,800
them all down and the kids were
just raising Kane huh oh, very cool.

1169
01:36:23,880 --> 01:36:27,760
Well I will have to look that
up. That's cute. You know

1170
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:30,479
you said short, fast, funny. It was cute if he had seen

1171
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:32,079
it, it's real cute. Yeah
yeah, all right, well very good,

1172
01:36:32,119 --> 01:36:35,000
Well, thank you, Ron,
I appreciate the call. Okay,

1173
01:36:35,079 --> 01:36:38,960
one more thing, real fast,
and I mean really really fast. Yeah,

1174
01:36:39,119 --> 01:36:43,359
I thought you when the crazy one
were on good terms. What happened

1175
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:47,079
yesterday? It seemed like he was
in the attack vote. Oh yeah,

1176
01:36:47,159 --> 01:36:50,560
well we don't really talk about him
on the show anymore unless he happens to

1177
01:36:50,640 --> 01:36:54,960
call in. But yeah, you
know, it's just it's just a good

1178
01:36:55,000 --> 01:37:00,600
old fashioned rivalry. Yeah all right, well you know, you know those

1179
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:03,439
New Yorkers are with that being said. All Right, good nights, and

1180
01:37:04,159 --> 01:37:06,319
you know we'll talk again. All
right, Ron, thank you for the

1181
01:37:06,359 --> 01:37:11,159
call. I appreciate it. All
right, bye bye, all right,

1182
01:37:11,199 --> 01:37:13,960
always nice here from our friend Ron. All right, let's play this audio

1183
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:20,239
a lot quickly. This is uh, this is from I'm not pre listened

1184
01:37:20,279 --> 01:37:24,079
to this, but it's Mike Lindall. I'm sure there's no bad words in

1185
01:37:24,159 --> 01:37:30,520
it. Let's see, this historical
election summit is so important that it's being

1186
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:38,359
broadcast around the world in eighty five
languages on frank speech dot com. Oh

1187
01:37:38,479 --> 01:37:43,640
yeah, Frank Speech, that's his
h thing. This election summit is not

1188
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:47,079
gonna be about more evidence. We
have enough evidence. Evidence has been the

1189
01:37:47,159 --> 01:37:54,560
easy part. This summit is all
about hope and the plan to secure our

1190
01:37:54,640 --> 01:38:00,039
elections. Immediately. I want you, I want you to watch this video

1191
01:38:00,119 --> 01:38:08,800
and see if y'all remember this attacking
his power. No, no, no,

1192
01:38:08,920 --> 01:38:15,039
this is the wrong one. This
is the wrong one. Hold on,

1193
01:38:16,840 --> 01:38:26,359
well that's coming the Rose Garden speech. Okay, yeah, that that

1194
01:38:26,560 --> 01:38:30,159
wasn't that great? Boy? I
thought that was gonna be a lot funnier.

1195
01:38:30,319 --> 01:38:35,159
So what what What they started to
show was the time that Mike Lindell

1196
01:38:35,279 --> 01:38:42,199
was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show.
Yeah all right, well sorry, hey,

1197
01:38:42,279 --> 01:38:45,159
they can't all be winners. Yeah, that one wasn't nearly as entertaining

1198
01:38:45,239 --> 01:38:47,640
as I thought. Although if I
can find uh, you know, we

1199
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:51,199
could I still have hope that we
might be able to snag him as a

1200
01:38:53,359 --> 01:38:57,520
snag my pillow, if you know, if he gets desperate enough as a

1201
01:38:58,239 --> 01:39:04,640
sponsor for the show. Do you
have that? Oh that's not the one

1202
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:10,920
I was thinking of. There's an
ad on Facebook. Oh yeah, here

1203
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:17,880
it is. Well, yeah,
this is the ad. If if we

1204
01:39:17,960 --> 01:39:21,680
ever do get my pillow to be
a sponsor, here's the ad we're hopefully

1205
01:39:21,720 --> 01:39:26,439
gonna use. Have you not been
wearing a mask or social distancing? Did

1206
01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:30,079
you recently attend a Trump rally?
Then you or someone close to you is

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probably laying down. I I'm Mike
Lindell and Venter and CEO of My Pillow.

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No one should underestimate the value of
a good rest, and I should

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know. When I was addicted to
crack passed out on a deserted street during

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a vendor in Mexico, I realized
this curb's doing zero favorites for my knack.

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Then, after talking directly to God
and not myself, my pillow was

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born. Years later, after a
settlement for deceptive ads and enough from the

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Better Business Bureau, I'm a multimillionaire. How America, there's no problem that

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a pillow can't solve freebasing in an
alley. You're gonna want my pillow.

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A woman wants to choose what she
can do with her own body. Chat's

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gonna need a pillow. Wife left
you in an ugly divorce. Us about

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eight pillows and if you vote Trump
come November, you can get two of

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my pillows. For the price of
two of my pillows, call my new

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new number. Now. Actually,
I suppose if we do ever get him

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as a sponsor, we'll need to
update the ad. But that's you know

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anyway, all right, well,
very good. We are about out of

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time, so I don't know our
guests never made it on, but that's

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okay. We will see about rescheduling. But don't forget tomorrow. We have

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a big show planned. Not only
do we have Eric Pilter's classic film review

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and this week the subject is The
French Connection, directed by William Friedkin,

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but we also have the world radio
premiere of the new single from the band

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House Lights. And Friday is my
favorite day here at w M ANDH.

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Not only do I do this show, but then I'm back later for retro

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Spectrum Radio with Paul ec And so
that will be a lot of fun if

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you're listening live on Thursday. Of
course, immediately following this show on wm

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NHS through the Stage Store hosted by
the great Rob die On, and don't

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forget to be back bright and early
tomorrow morning for the Morning show with Peter

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White. And on Friday's they do
the love Advice, which is a very

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popular end entertaining the segment on the
show. Oh Mike from Queen City Cabinetry

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says end mine as well. Friday
is his favorite day of the week as

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well, because we get to hang
out with Mike and DJ Stephen of course

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Polyc on Retrospectrum Radio with Polyc.
And it is Thursday, which means,

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don't forget Tonight is trivia night at
the hopnot call ahead to reserve your spot.

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But if you don't get a spot, hey, you can still enjoy

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some delicious scourmet pretzels and some craft
beer. And if you miss any part

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of today's show it we'll be up
in just a little bit at WMH radio

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dot org and at my website Matt
Connerton dot com. And that's it for

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me for now. I'll talk to
y'all a little bit later. By everybody,