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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to a new episode. If you're wrong

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with Molly Hemingway and David Harsani. Just as a reminder,

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if you'd like to email the show, please do so

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at radio at the Federalist dot com. So, Molly, are

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you all revved up and excited about the DNC? Have

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you been watching what's going on?

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Speaker 2: I mean, who couldn't be excited about the Democrat National Convention.

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I am not watching except via Twitter. I'm finding that

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I get a lot of my news via Twitter, more

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than any other delivery device. So I have I feel

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like I'm aware of what's going on, and I'm seeing

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snippets and I'm following what the speeches are saying, but

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I do not have the time, and neither do I

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have the energy to actually watch. Are you watching or what?

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Speaker 1: I only saw snippets from the first night. I watched

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all the primetime speeches. Yesterday we had Bernie Sanders. It's

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still it's still remarkable to me that a National Convention

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is a full bone COMI speaking like it's completely normal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do want to talk about that, but do

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you mind if we first talk about Monday night and

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what he did to Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: Oh having him speak. I think it was after midnight.

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So do you think that they planned and purposely pushed

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him off so that he wouldn't be seen by people

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because it's so embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, And I will say that one thing

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that is weird that has happened in recent years is

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that Republicans began running a much better and tighter and

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better produced convention than Democrats. And it used to be

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exactly the opposite. I thought, you know, the content might

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be good on the Republican side, but the actual show

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running it wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as

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the Hollywood produced Democrat conventions were. And then in recent

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years it's just kind of flipped, like the Republican convention

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was tight and well run and it was enjoyable for participants,

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and all of my reporter friends who are there have

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been complaining about how much worse this one is than

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the Republican convention. So I don't know, but it was

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a mean thing to do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a mean thing to do. I

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mean I sometimes begin to feel bad for him and

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what's happening to him, and then I hear him speak

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and I realize he's just such a terrible person that

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I don't really care anymore, and I think he deserves it.

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Of course, the most the line that stood out to

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me in the speech, which was not in the prepared text,

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was that he said that the people outside, meaning the

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pro Hamas anti American protesters, had a point. I think

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he said something like that really off putting. I would

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say that I try to be you know, in my

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I try not to be biased about it, but just

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doesn't seem like there was really it seems a big

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contrived There doesn't seem to be the organic excitement that

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I felt from watching the DNC. Or you have something

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else to say, jump back.

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Speaker 2: I want to on the Hamas thing. You know, there's

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nothing inherently wrong with trying to see the perspective of

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a protester or see what their point is. It just

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is infuriating to me that the same man who in

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the same speech lies about Donald Trump's Charlottesville speech where

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he said that there were good people who don't want

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to tear down statues in addition to the you know,

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sort of bad people who were there as part of

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a white supremacist group, you know, lying about that and

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then saying that the Hamas people have a point. It's

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what I find particularly infuriating.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he lied about what Trump's said, and then

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he said the thing that he lied about, he said

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there were very fine people on both sides. Basically. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He also lied about the bloodbath comments, where he was

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saying where Trump said there would be an economic blood bath,

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and he's like he's calling for genocide, which is not true.

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He also lied about the sucker, suckers and losers hoax,

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which has been cannot be refuted anymore with on the

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record sources, but Democrats just keep saying it. And then

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he also claimed that he controlled the border and that

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the border invasion was worse under Trump than under him,

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which is just a brazen line. He also said that

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crime was down. You know, crime reporting is down, but

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crime isn't down, meaning a lot of municipalities have changed

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so that they just don't report crime. That does not

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mean crime is going down, if anything the opposite. Do

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you get any stats, as the Wire says, yeah, how.

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Speaker 1: Many people live in urban areas feel like crime is down?

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I mean, and you know, I know, you know, sometimes

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sticks tell a different story. But like you say, the

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Duke the stats, but also maybe murderer is down in

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one city, but then carjackings are up or you know,

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there are all kinds of there's all kinds of criminality.

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But yeah, he lied. I wanted to talk about this

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because there is the blatant line that went on. Now, listen,

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I get it, everyone exaggerates, everyone says things, but the

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Blaine line that went out on in day two, they

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were speeches that I was trying to figure out if

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they could say a single truthful thing about Republicans, and

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you know, it was just it was crazy. Who's the

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pin scar something prit scrit. He gave a speech that

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I don't think had it legitimately did not have a

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single truthful comment in it. You know, he accused, but

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we'll get to that in a second. So it you know,

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so what they did was mean. I don't know if

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they did it on purpose, but you know, it was

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actually wasn't I watched snippets. I think Biden was terrible.

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didn't have any defining moments, right, there was no big

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speech that everyone's talking about I don't think.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, someone told me that Philip Bump, who's the

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propagandist at the Washington Post, said that Biden's speech is

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a speech that will we talked about for you the decades.

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Speaker 1: I forgot about just on this podcast. I forgot that

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he had spoken the first Dame when we started. So

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I just I don't think that that's true. But maybe

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these things is confusing to me. So I tried to

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do my best to understand what's going on, but I

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wanted to say, yes, there doesn't seem to be this

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organic excitement, like everyone's holding USA signs, and I just

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I hate to call my political opponents unpatriotic, but I

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just don't buy it that all those people of America

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in that way and it's all the same sign It's

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obviously just contrived and most of the stuff is I

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get it, but I didn't feel that.

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Speaker 2: So not say in their quote unquote defense, Yes, partly

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they are more what would you say, globalist and they're

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thinking than American patriots. But it's also true that what

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we have in this country right now are just two

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very different visions for what America should be. And if

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you look at it that way, then each side loves

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America just in a different way, or they have a

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different idea about what America is.

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Speaker 1: I think that it's true that we have different ideas

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about how, you know, what makes us Americans and what

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makes America great. I don't think that the modern progressives

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beliefs comport with any view of this country because the idea,

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you know, they are saying that American's an idea. I

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think it's both an idea and a country. But the

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ideas are in the Constitution, and they don't particularly like

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that document. So I don't really feel like they're pro America.

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Speaker 2: Do I keep asking you if you've read Christopher Caldwell's

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book on this, the.

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Speaker 1: One about like where he goes to the sixty I

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forget what it's called. Yes, yes, I did, I forget it.

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That's a good book.

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Speaker 2: I mean, but you know how his whole point is

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sort of that there are two constitutions. One is the

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United States Constitution and one is the Civil Rights Act basically,

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labor this point, a lot of conservatives love the America

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as defined sort of this in the United States Constitution

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and then a lot of people on the left love

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in America that they have created through the administrative state.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm going to jump ahead, and a lot

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of a lot of the speeches had then, you know,

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noted that Democrats want to protect democracy, and then the

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next sentence would be some program from the Great Society

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or from FDR that is their constitution as well. It

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has nothing to do with the first you know, the

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Bill of Rights or anything of that nature. So yeah,

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I completely buy that argument. I think they should be

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more honest about it. Obama did this and we'll get

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to him in the second one. When he was president,

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is redefined what freedom really meant. You know, freedom means

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not being scared that people have guns or whatever, you know,

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and just we'll get to him in a minute. I

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had started not to hate him as much as I did,

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or detest what he does, and then hearing him and

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his wife speak brought back all these horrifying memories.

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Speaker 2: So I feel that way about all politicians that when

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they're off the stage, I don't hate them nearly as much.

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Some I retain my dislike very strongly. Yeah, But like

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when Mitt Romney isn't talking. I don't care that much

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about him.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me just say that Democrats are unrestrained with

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the lying, like they just make stuff up. There's no

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not that they are fact checked, but even if they were,

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they don't care. So they lied about like you said,

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many of them lied that about the Charlottesville. Charlottesville hoax,

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I'll call it, like many of them they said. Many

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of them said that Donald Trump told people to inject bleach,

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which is not lime.

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Speaker 2: You're seeing how people who are low information fall for

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Speaker 1: But go on, then Chuck Schumer, who has a party

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filled with anti Semites, filled with them right now, and

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he ignores that, said that Donald Trump was an anti Semite,

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that he was peddling anti Semitism. Then this weird thing

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that they're doing now is they mentioned in vitro fertilization

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IVF in every speech. In every speech, almost someone mentioned

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that Republicans want to take IVF away from you. Now

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we've spoken about this issue. I don't have that very

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strong feelings about it, honestly, but Donald Trump specifically said

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he would not do that when we asked. I tried

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to find a single instance of Jade events even talking

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about it, and I couldn't. I'm not saying it doesn't exist,

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but certainly it's not central to his campaign. He's Catholic,

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so he's probably against it. And yet that's just a

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blatant lie. I mean, and they just repeated it must

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poll well, and we'll get to uh Tim Walls in

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a minute and his his lie on that. But then

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after all this lying last night, Obama, the Obamas get

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up there and lecture America again on how they need

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to be more decent and better. They're very Michelle is

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extremely disappointed in how things have gone. Barack Obama. You know,

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here's what Barack Obama does. He goes up there and

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he says, you know, half of America just a bunch

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of slack jawed, racist yokels, you know, who need to

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be taught how to be better people. And then he's like,

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and it's really sad how politics are tearing us apart.

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Like so many of our problems go back to that presidency.

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The way he came in and acted like a king,

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The way Congress passed Obamacare without any kind of national consensus.

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It was the first time anything like that happened. The

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way they just legalized tens of millions of illegal immigrants,

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you know, ignoring the law the way the way they

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did their political opponents as enemies of decency rather than

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people they disagreed with, as racists, as misogynists. They are,

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you know, they're at the heart of a lot of

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the problems we have right now. I think Donald Trump,

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and I've always said this was a reaction to Barack Obama.

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I don't think Donald Trump exists without Barack Obama anyway.

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Speaker 2: One of my favorite lines I said on Special Report

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before Trump's inauguration was that Trump was Barack Obama's ultimate legacy.

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You do not get Trump without the Barack Obama presidency.

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talk about how you know, there are these awful people,

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like half the country are just evil, and then the

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problem is that they fear monger, and I'm like, but

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you're not fear mongering right now with what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they say. One think he actually said that there

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was a cult of personality and it was problematic around Trump.

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Speaker 2: But it reminded me of just how much that era

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was awful and how that era really brought. You know,

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you could also say that George Bush's legacy has brock Obama,

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so it kind of goes back and forth here as well.

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division and racism and making everything racist, and it was

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a real setback. I think I've mentioned before that one

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of the worst things I ever said in terms of

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getting it wrong, was that I thought that the Obama

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presidency would be good for race relations. And my husband

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was like, are you high right now? And he was right,

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as he is about so many things, but it was

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to be kind of dragged back into that speaking of

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the saying things that are exactly the opposite of what

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you claim to be saying. Michelle Obama saying that her

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family taught her to to oppose people who have too

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much wealth. Ay, that's not a very American thing. To

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oppose one thing that makes America great, as opposed to

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other countries that have the whole tall Poppy syndrome or whatever,

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other countries where if you achieve beyond your station in life,

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you are dragged back down. In America, we tend to

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celebrate achievement, whether that's athletic or financial, or academic or otherwise.

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And Michelle Obama's talking about how her parents taught her

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that you shouldn't take more than your do or something.

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This is a family that has never really had private

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sector experience, yet gets outside of government and become near billionaires.

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I mean they have palatial houses with more bedrooms than

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every house I've ever lived in combined, you know, and

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they make so much money and they travel all over

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the world in these fancy, elite vacation where they don't

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have to deal with normal people. It was like, really, you,

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Michelle Obama, who's got more money than you could possibly

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know what to do with and only through the corruption

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of government do you have that money? You know? I

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think Donald Trump is literally the only major president or

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vice president to not make money by being in office.

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Speaker 1: They also said some thinks so stupid it was. Let

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me just say, I actually think she's quite a good speaker.

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just I think she can speak to the normal person

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in an interesting way and just talented in that way.

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But she's just it's like she can deliver a platitude

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like no one else. But she said, we have to stop.

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Did she call it the affirmative action of inherited wealth?

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She said, which sounds super calmy to me. You know

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what I mean, what does she mean? Is she not

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going to lead money to her kids Barack Obama bank rolls.

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Speaker 2: See, even if she even if she didn't, because of

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the corruption of our regime, even the children of wealthy

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are able to achieve wealth, or the children of powerful

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are able to achieve wealth. You look at Hunter Biden

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and the Biden family business. Not just Hunter, but every

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member of the Biden family was able to cash out,

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getting millions upon millions of dollars from corrupt foreign governments

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and foreign oligarchs change for their proximity to power. So

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it's even you know, yes, of course they have. They've

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given their generational wealth to their children. But even if

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they didn't, they give their generational access to wealth to

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their children. And again, if it were in the industry

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and not government, you know, this wouldn't be such a

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bad thing anyway.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's why I hate the term public service when

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we're talking about people become millionaires like Barack Obama, who

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who was a community organizer, he bankrolled that within a

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few years into I don't know how much money they have.

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They're building a mansion on a Hawaiian beach right now.

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On the whole entire beach is there, so I assume

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that's like a seventy million dollar mansion or something.

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Speaker 2: But her mom cautioned her against people who have too much.

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So I'm sure that speech will be something we can

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all access and we will be provided trips to.

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Speaker 1: But I was anyway watching them, I was reminded of

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the line by George Willy years ago, and he said

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that Obama was a pyromaniac and a field of straw men.

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That's exactly what his speech was like. He just knocked

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out one nonsensical straw man after the next. It just

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reminded me of his presidency, which I was very frustrating

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because he has a you know, he's a way of

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lecturing you about things that he's doing. It it's like projection,

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I guess. But anyway, he spoke, and it did make

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me think. It didn't remind me of how much more

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talented he was, and how much more talented Bill was

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Bill Clinton than the crop we have today thank Kamala,

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or than Joe or than any of these people. They're

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just better speakers, They're more exciting. Reminded me of that.

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I just don't think they have kind of charisma anymore

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that those those candidates did. Because for all, I think

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Obama was a terrible president, but he won, you know,

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he won pretty two terms, pretty easily, frankly, you know,

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and he was he was a good politician, god giving speeches,

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terrible at governing. Dizzy.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to mention was how Michelle Obama kept talking

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about how like Hope is having a comeback and her

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husband or her husband's vice president have been the president

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for twelve of the last sixteen years, like what's including

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the current year, so Hope is having a comeback because

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of Kamala who's currently in office.

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Speaker 1: As then their speeches, Yeah, the speeches spoke about Trump

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as if he was incumbent and the Biden administration had

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never happened. It was very I don't know, it's a

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weird way to approach it. I mean, Barack Obama did

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say some nice things about Joe Biden, some ridiculous things

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about him. I'm not even sure if Michelle even mentioned him,

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and she was just also, they promised to fix healthcare,

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they promised, you know, she apparently Barack Obama was going

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to fix climate change, all these things, and now we're

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she said something like, we're at our darkest hour or

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something like that. It's such an insane wait.

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Speaker 2: A moment when the oceans rise began to fall or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But no matter how often they rule, we're still constantly

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at the cusp of despair and destruction and the end

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of our country. It's just I don't understand, you know,

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why people keep buying into that kind of thinking. Whatever.

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Speaker 2: The other thing is that the corporate media, the propaganda press,

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and other Democrats are all focusing on this joy idea.

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Speaker 1: So the.

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Speaker 2: Way this works is, yes, Kamala Harris is the incumbent,

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and yes, the country is going in the wrong direction.

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According to all but twenty five percent of Americans right,

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and the economy is bad and inflation is bad, and

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crime is bad, and the border is open, and foreign

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policy situation is more perilous than it has been in decades.

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But we're joyful. So they're thinking, like if we pretend

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we're joyful, if we say we're joyful, people might forget

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about how much it costs to go to the grocery store.

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And every time they do these like really big smile things,

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like Tim Walls is out there like jumping around on stage,

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and Kamala Harris has her really big smile, which is

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actually one of her best features, I would say, but

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it just reminds me of the Joker having that painted

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on lipstick smile, and like how happy the joker is.

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He's the Joker, he's happy, and you shouldn't you be happy?

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And then it all becomes quite evil.

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Speaker 1: None of it is joyful. I mean, I watched all

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the speeches that they're all angry. You know, just because

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you're smiling when you're demeaning hat and smearing half the

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country doesn't make you joyful. I forgot to mention I

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think the most effective speech, weirdly was the second Gentleman

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Doug M. Hoff I mean in real life, he doesn't

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seem to be a very nice guy. But he said,

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you know, stuff like he said, I actually or something

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along these lines. I actually like her laugh or I

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think it's a great laugh, I love her or whatever

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it was. So it was I think the most normal

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speech given yesterday. You know, talked about her being a

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mom and this and that, so anyway, I don't know,

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I thought.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, side benefit is she has no children,

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so there's no nanny to impregnate.

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Speaker 1: That's right. With the nanny problem. He kept talking about

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a blended family and in the way that I think

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intimated that there are people out there who have something

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against it, you know what I mean, And I just

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I just don't buy that.

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Speaker 2: I will fully admit I have something against impregnating your nanny.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean blended nanny. I don't believe blended

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nanny man family. I mean blended as in African American

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and white. I think he's talking about.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh my gosh, are you that's so stupid.

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I really don't know a single person who like care

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that Kamala is black Indian.

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Speaker 1: Well I don't either. But you know, they also yesterday

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were saying stuff like they did this weird thing. It's

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even hard to explain pretending that they were the party

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who wanted more children out there in the world. You

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know what I mean. They're saying that because of anti

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abortion laws, maternity wards have to close. Like I'm not joking.

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Someone said that, and they kept repeating that kind of

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framing or formation of that argument. That made no sense

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to me. You know, they're the party of abortion. Yet

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they kept saying that Republicans don't want people to have children.

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It didn't make any sense. And oh yeah, here's how

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they frame it that Republicans want to tell you how

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many children you can have, which makes it sound like

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they want you to have a fewer children, not more,

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which doesn't seem to be the case.

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Speaker 2: Because Coumblicans don't want your children violently murdered. Therefore they

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want you they want to tell you how many children

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to have. Okay, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It was so frustrating to watch because there's just no

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limit to the kind of like they said that Republicans

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want to institutionalized discrimination against gay kids and schools. So

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I'm wondering, what are they talking. I don't even know

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what they're talking about. I assume they're talking about that

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Republicans don't want books about oral sex in elementary schools,

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gay oral sex, or any oral sex, but I'm not

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exactly sure because they didn't explain.

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Speaker 2: I do wish Republicans were doing more to respond to

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the abortion propaganda. I mean, you've got corporate media and

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Democrats who are like very bloodthirsty in their support for abortion,

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and you see this kind of general silence from Republicans

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and Trump is not great on that issue, and it

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would be great if other people. You know, he's it's

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always been an issue for him that I mean, he's

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done amazing things him during the first debate with Hillary Clinton,

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or that first with Hillary Clinton pointing out that she

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supported abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and she

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was just left there sputtering because she couldn't deny it

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that she supports abortion up until the moment of birth.

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That was great, and obviously his policies were great, but

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it would just be good if I don't know, is

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much McConnell still alive, Is Mike Johnson out there? Other

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Republicans kind of providing guidance so that everyone can talk

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about it. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Things have been blown up and there are no norms anymore.

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But wasn't it usually the case that when people had

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when one party had its convention, the other party basically

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didn't say anything and let them have their convention. I

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think that used to be the form, you know, the

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form of that. And I feel like I've heard Trump

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say I'm going to let them have their convention, then

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I'm going to attack that something like that. But yeah,

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I actually think Trump, when he does talk about it,

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does a relatively good job pointing out that they take

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extremist position. He mentions even after birth abortions were defended,

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which they were by Democrats who are refused to vote

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for Ben Sass's bill protecting children who survived abortion attempts

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who survived attempted murder. And yet, yeah, I don't know

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that many Republicans really want to be in that fight. Honestly,

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they just view it as you know, they just view

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you know, it's very obvious to anyone, for instance, that

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the border issue is bad for Democrats, that they've done

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a terrible job, that Kamala has done a terrible job,

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So what does she do. They don't hide from it.

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They just essentially attack to try to you know, deflate

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some of that, you know what I mean, they pretend

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they did a good job lie about it. I'm not

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saying Republicans should lie about abortion, but they should go

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on the offensive in the same way, even if it's

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an issue that they think is going to hurt them.

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I think they need to do a far better job.

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So I agree with you. Are we ready to move

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on from that or yeah, okay. We wanted to spend

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a little time talking about Kamala Harris's economic plan. And

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when I say plan, we need to note that there

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are really no specific, very many specifics to this, but

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it's insanely terrible. So let's start with first, she has

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decided that she wants to put price controls on groceries.

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It is all predicated on this nonsensical claim that big

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groceries colluding and price gouging, which there is not any

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evidence for. The profit margins big grocery stores are actually

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quite low, under two percent. Historically they have not changed

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though this year they're at historic lows. I think it's

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one point one or something like that, you know, net

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profits and it has stayed consistent throughout the years, meaning

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that the prices that have gone up are due to inflation,

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not through any kind of see where exactly when inflation

487
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was happening, all the grocery stores that generally compete with

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each other all got together and decided to manipulate prices.

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In any event, if there is one economic idea that

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history has proven over and over and over is terrible,

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that creates shortages, that creates black markets, that creates hunger,

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it's putting price controls on food. And yet she's supporting it.

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And what does the media do. They immediately try to

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defend her and say it's not real, they're not really

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price controls. They're, you know, anyway, just embarrassing. I don't

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know if you saw that Axios story where she's with

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the same author once called voluntary voluntary price fixing price

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control says that this isn't price control, it's just to

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stop gouging, which does so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually what I kind of wanted to talk about,

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among a few other things. But Axios has a story

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by Emily Pepeck and Emily Peck the headline for this is,

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don't call it price controls, how price gouging bands really work?

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So it sort of adopts this euphemism of price gouging

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and then says that they're not price controls. The community

506
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notes feature, which is not perfect on X but is

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much better than all other fact checking combined, says the

508
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same author. Emily Peck called it price controls wh when

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the UK proposed voluntary caps on grocery store profits, and

510
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Axios called it price controls when it was proposed to

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limit how much Russia could profit off of oil in

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a time of crisis. And it's an insane proposal, as

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is her unrealized capital gains tax prepared.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about that too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Axios, which was always you know, left leaning publication,

516
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has just become an overt Democrat pr firm. I mean

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they have shown no sense of shame since they replaced

518
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Biden with Kamala Harris. It's like all movement ahead. But

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what I was thinking about this too, is related to

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the convention. The Democrats are doing that thing they do

521
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that they in corporate media do, where they take left

522
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,279
leaning Republicans and then they say even this solidly, amazingly

523
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,880
conservative Republican is voting for Kamala Harris. And in twenty

524
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sixteen that kind of worked in part because Trump was

525
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such an unknown quantity and so disruptive to even the

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conservative establishment, they had a lot of people expressing concern.

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By twenty twenty, once people had seen how he governed,

528
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it was kind of a joke to be never Trump,

529
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even as the media still rolled out all their favorite

530
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former Republicans to condemn Trump by twenty twenty four. It's

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not just that you've got the comparison of the Biden

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Harris administration with the Trump administration. It's also that Harris

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is proposing absolutely insane things like price controls and unrealized

534
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capital gains taxes, and so, first off, I just want

535
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to point out that the quality of the individual involved

536
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in the never Trump information operation has just declined. And

537
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it didn't really start out that great. I mean, no offense,

538
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,799
but Bill Crystal and David French you're not, you know,

539
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,200
not the top of the class there, and it's only

540
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,519
gotten worse since then. So it was like some eighth

541
00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:35,720
tier communications official from the Trump campaign and crying Adam Kinsinger.

542
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But imagine what you have to say if you are

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a quote unquote never Trump quote unquote Republican. What you're

544
00:31:43,839 --> 00:31:46,960
saying is you don't care about the First Amendment, you

545
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,599
don't care about the weaponization of our justice system. You

546
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,640
don't care about foreign policy and how great things were

547
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,519
under Trump versus how awful they are now. And now

548
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you don't even care about literal communism being proposed, like

549
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it's a joke. And also then you kind of have

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to say, for it's not just how foolish all these

551
00:32:10,119 --> 00:32:15,279
supposed Republicans who endorse Kamala. Look, it's also like why

552
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:18,920
why isn't everybody got their head? Why does not everybody

553
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,799
have their head screwed on straight about the threat posed

554
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:27,160
to the American economic system by Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.

556
00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 3: You have more wealth than your neighbor and they don't

557
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,519
have a clue. The watch Dout on Wall Street podcast

558
00:32:36,559 --> 00:32:39,519
with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps unpack the connection

559
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,400
between politics and the economy and how it affects your wallet.

560
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,640
Don't get into this vicious cycle of trying to compete

561
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,359
with people on social media or people you live near

562
00:32:48,519 --> 00:32:51,440
with material items. If you're putting money away, you can

563
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,559
take advantage of those opportunities throughout your life, whether it's

564
00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:56,200
happening in DC or down on Wall Street.

565
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,039
Speaker 1: It's affecting you financially. Be informed.

566
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Speaker 3: Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Christmakowski

567
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on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

568
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Speaker 1: David Frencher at this column where he says he's going

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to vote, you know, for Kamala Harris to save democracy

570
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or whatever. Now, so if you're never Trump, people can't

571
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the media will call you a Republican because you were

572
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once a Republican forever even if you and most never

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Trumpers fall into this category now, not all, but most

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that they don't actually hold any conservative views at all anymore.

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They're out there not just supporting Democrats because of Trump,

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They're out there bashing conservatives who hold conservative views. So

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if you don't want to vote for Trump because you

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00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:46,640
think he's a bad guy and all that, I honestly

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I get it. But if you're voting for Kamala, you're

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just a fraud because she is no better for democracy

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at all. That's first of all. And then she has

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communistic views on the economy because I'm sorry, price controls

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on food, all food. And by the way, let's talk

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about that just for a split second. This Emily Peck

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wrote a piece where's talking about how oh states already

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have state, you know, gouging laws that are Yeah, they

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have gouging laws in emergencies like a hurricane, where they

588
00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:16,199
don't let people charge too much for gas or whatever, which,

589
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,800
by the way, is also stupid because price gouging helps people.

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It disincentivizes hoarding and things like that. I don't want

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to get into it, but why do I have it here?

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Kamala supported Elizabeth Warren's Price Gouging Prevention Act. That's a

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that's a bill, it's a real thing. It's written out,

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and in that the FTC would have unilateral, wide ranging

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control over basically all food prices. That is communistic. I

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00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,639
mean that is socialism at for sure. And like you said,

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the twenty five percent taxi unrealized gains is insane the

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00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,239
other day where the other week we had like a

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mini crash in the market, people are supposed to pay

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ahead of time. I mean, it's just it would destroy investment.

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But she also wants a forty four point six capital

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00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,599
gains tax in a twenty five and a twenty eight

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00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:13,079
percent corporate tax. Right, she wants to hike. So let

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00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:15,880
me tell you something that is all passed on to consumers,

605
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,760
the corporate tax rate in the middle of an inflation problem. Well,

606
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,679
inflation is cool, That doesn't mean that the compounding inflation

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is not there. We're paying a lot more like thirty

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percent more for food over the last few years, and

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that would of course add even more. She is either

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incredibly illiterate about economics, which I suppose she is. Who

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ever told her to propose those things is going to

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be in her administration. And I just find it amazing

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that people are talking about cat that jd Vance's cat

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00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,159
lady comment, but not the most insane. By the way,

615
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,119
even leftist economists, no price controls don't work, like it

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is widely agreed upon. The only person I so came

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out to defend her, and even that just typidly was

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Paul Krugman, who said it wasn't don't worry, it's a

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it's just a populist, you know, talking point during the campaign.

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Imagine imagine if that's how they dealt with Donald Trump

621
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and his populist stuff. You know, I mean, it is

622
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just insanity. And so yeah, I always say everything's insanity,

623
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and maybe it is.

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Speaker 2: It's feeling a little insane right now. It does remind

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me too. I saw I just am going to quote

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Peachee Keenan every week on the podcast, but she was

627
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saying something last night about basically like how terrified she

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is at the prospect that Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz

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might win. And I was noticing just a big uptick

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in normal people concern about the possibility that Harris or

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Waltz could win. So if you interview people inside a

632
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:55,280
cable newsroom or a corporate media newspaper, they are so

633
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,239
excited about the prospect of Kamala Harris that they cannot

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deal with it. They are extremely excited, and they're showing

635
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,760
it in everything they say and do in the media.

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But if you talk to normal people, there's a sense

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that it's not quite I get so annoyed when people

638
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,039
are like, this is the most important election of our

639
00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:17,880
lifetimes or what you know. I hate that type of approach,

640
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,480
But there is this sense that should Kamala Harris and

641
00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:29,159
Tim Walls win, the response by the Americans who care

642
00:37:29,199 --> 00:37:33,400
about the constitutional order would not be the type of

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00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,840
response you have just at an election loss. It would

644
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,800
be more like realizing how far the country has fallen

645
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and taking steps to deal with that reality, which you know,

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maybe is what they should do, regardless of who wins.

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Speaker 1: I hate that this is the most important election of

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our lifetime. People say it for midterms sometimes I do.

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00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,320
I do well. I mean, I have a quote of

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my forthcoming book from Nancy Pelosi in a midas I

651
00:38:00,519 --> 00:38:02,320
believe she said if we lose the Senate, it will

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mean the end of civilization. So in a few years back,

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so you hear that a lot. I will say this though,

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So I don't believe this is the most important election

655
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ever because we don't. I don't know that, but I

656
00:38:14,039 --> 00:38:16,880
do know this. We're getting closer and closer on the

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progressive left to just ignoring the Supreme Court and destroying it,

658
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,480
getting closer and closer to just ignoring the guard rails.

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And I know that's kind of a cliche. That is

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my worries about bad, you know, authoritarian types being in office.

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Once those guard rails are down, then it's going to

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00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,320
be a huge problem, and I don't think we can

663
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,679
come back from it, and it's become it will become

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an arms race, you know, and who can use power

665
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,079
more effectively, and that's not really what the United States

666
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should be about, not the government of the United States,

667
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,360
for sure. So I do worry. I think each election

668
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,719
gets worse and work, we get closer and closer to

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the point where Democrats are just going to ignore courts

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and constitution and this these two. Kamala is a complete

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authoritarian everything. All her instincts are to use the state

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to force like I don't think she's ideologically on the left.

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I just think she's ideologically an authoritarian who will use

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power to further her career and further her cause in

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any way she can. I think Tim Walls is actually

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quite vacuous and empty, but ideological to the left. I

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think he's a dumb man. The more I see him,

678
00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:31,920
the more I hear him speak, the more I read

679
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,760
about him, and I think he's kind of a sociopath.

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Can we talk about that for a bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was thinking about it because last night

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at dinner, Mark was telling me about the situation where

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Tim Walls has falsely claimed his children were conceived through

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in vitro fertilization. And this is something we've written a

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lot about at The Federalist that involves the creation of

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a ton of embryos, then you select some of the

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embryos and you place them in the mother, And it

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also involves like destruction of a lot of embryos. So

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it's very controversial. Like a lot of people don't know

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what IVF is, but if they know about it, they

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have to think deeply about the ethical concerns related to it.

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And he was claiming that he and his wife had

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engaged in IVF, that as you noted that JD. Vance

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and Donald Trump are trying to ban this procedure, and

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that he wouldn't have a family without it. And the

696
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thing is, he does not have children via IVF. He

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has it through a procedure that's for men whose sperm

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don't swim right or who have you know, sperm problems.

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It's sort of like a Turkey based method of inseminating

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one's spouse. It's used commonly by lesbians or you know,

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where you just sort of inject semen and hope that

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it goes well. And he doesn't know how his children

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were conceived. And I find that deeply alarming, Like, thanks

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be to God that my husband and I did not

705
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have problems like that, because it's a very different to

706
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have fertility problems, But we know how our children were conceived,

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like we And yes, that you know certainly easier when

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you're having children naturally. But like, shouldn't he know how

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his children were conceived? And he doesn't even know? And

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Mark's like, no, no, no, he knows, he's just lying. Well,

711
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,840
both of those options are awful, Like you're lying about

712
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,639
the circumstances of your children's conception or you don't know.

713
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,639
I think, like it's very weird behavior for a man

714
00:41:31,159 --> 00:41:32,079
who's a husband.

715
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:39,599
Speaker 1: No, yes, it's demented behavior. Now, lying about your opponents,

716
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:43,079
lying about your accomplishments, that's all in the game, you know,

717
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:46,960
as Omar and the Wire said. But lying about how

718
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,079
you conceived your children to score some cheap political points

719
00:41:50,079 --> 00:41:54,639
against your opponents is demented. In my view, you're either

720
00:41:54,679 --> 00:41:59,480
a sociopath or you have lost all your moral bearings.

721
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:03,559
But add on to that that he also appropriated the

722
00:42:03,559 --> 00:42:08,000
bravery and honor of soldiers by either claiming he was

723
00:42:08,039 --> 00:42:11,480
in war or letting people believe that, and add this

724
00:42:11,599 --> 00:42:13,760
lie on to it, I think there's something seriously wrong

725
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,039
with this guy. I mean, it is immoral to do that.

726
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,320
Let me give you some examples he didn't just like

727
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:24,519
conf He said, quote, thank God for IVF. My wife

728
00:42:24,519 --> 00:42:26,880
and I have two beautiful children. She told that. He

729
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,400
said that in an MSNBC interview. He said, out a

730
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,000
fundraising letter, my wife and I used IVF to start

731
00:42:32,039 --> 00:42:35,639
a family. This. Of course, as we saw during the convention,

732
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:39,000
that this is a you know, this is a campaign message,

733
00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:41,840
it's central message. And then this is what I found.

734
00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:46,559
I was looking at videos. He started crying. In one

735
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,800
video he said, I remember it like it was yesterday,

736
00:42:51,559 --> 00:42:54,119
and then he goes, I'm not crying. You're crying. Now, tell

737
00:42:54,159 --> 00:42:56,960
me that's not sociopathic. Now, if he didn't know the

738
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:02,239
difference between freezing and destroying and having his own sperm,

739
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,400
you know, I don't know how to say it nicely.

740
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,760
You know, put into his wife at the right exact

741
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,320
time to try to help her conceive that he doesn't

742
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:15,480
belong near any kind of office of power because he's

743
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,360
an idiot, right, I mean, you're an idiot if you

744
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,440
don't know that. I'm not saying that a normal person

745
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,639
who isn't involved in kind of getting fertility help should

746
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:24,480
know all these things. But if you're actually involved in

747
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,280
that process with your wife, and you don't know the difference.

748
00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:30,360
There's something seriously wrong with you. So I think he's

749
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,159
a liar. I think you know. But here's here's how

750
00:43:33,199 --> 00:43:35,760
the New York Times this blew my mind. I know

751
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,599
I say this every week and it shouldn't. And you're

752
00:43:37,599 --> 00:43:40,239
probably like, why is it still blowing your mind? The

753
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,280
New York Times said that Walls had had to clarify

754
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,599
that his wife had to clarify his statements. Axio said,

755
00:43:46,639 --> 00:43:51,239
Gwen Walls sheds light on fertility journey, clarifies they did

756
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:56,880
not use IVF. CNN Gwen Walls reveals in a different

757
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,760
treatment not IVF and new details about her fertility. He struggles,

758
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,239
what on earth are they talking about? He got caught lying.

759
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,239
They weren't shedding light on any fertility journey or clarifying anything.

760
00:44:08,559 --> 00:44:11,960
He lied and he got caught again and they had

761
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,000
to fix and correct the lie. But you see how

762
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,760
they cover it. They make it sound like it's this

763
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,159
far journey. And there was a story in the NBC

764
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,239
on NBC Today about how some experts said that many

765
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:29,800
men get confused between IUI and IVF. All right, I mean,

766
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,639
I'm not even again with IVF. It's very I understand

767
00:44:33,679 --> 00:44:36,360
it's a complicated issue, but to lie about how you

768
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,760
conceive your children, I find that just gross. I just

769
00:44:41,159 --> 00:44:45,159
people who do that have no moral compass. I mean

770
00:44:45,199 --> 00:44:45,559
they don't.

771
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,559
Speaker 2: Or he's so out of touch with what his wife

772
00:44:48,599 --> 00:44:52,280
is like his wife's pregnancy, that he doesn't.

773
00:44:52,039 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: He's an idiot, right, he's an idiot, or he's a

774
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,480
completely terrible husband. If you don't know, I mean, this

775
00:44:57,559 --> 00:45:02,719
is the IVF process is a completely and morally and

776
00:45:03,199 --> 00:45:09,239
ethically and you know, scientifically, completely different not completely different,

777
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,440
but a very different process. I don't think anyone I've

778
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,119
never heard anyone say I want to ban IUI process.

779
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:20,119
Has anyone even ever said that? No, anyway, he did

780
00:45:20,119 --> 00:45:22,119
it on purpose, he did it to fundraise, he did

781
00:45:22,119 --> 00:45:24,400
it to dunk on JD. Vanser's a Catholic in my

782
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:29,599
opinion because he hasn't said anything, but I'm sure he's

783
00:45:29,679 --> 00:45:31,000
probably against it. Right.

784
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,559
Speaker 2: This reminds me that someone we got a ton of

785
00:45:34,639 --> 00:45:38,039
really great listener email this week.

786
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 1: Different emails at the end. I think is helpful people

787
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:41,800
hear it at the end and their emails at.

788
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,679
Speaker 2: They're But someone had said that I should be mentioning

789
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:49,480
that Tim Walls is not a confessional Lutheran, which I

790
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,400
immediately upon his announcement as VP, made sure that I

791
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,679
put something out there about that.

792
00:45:55,119 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: So explain that to us.

793
00:45:56,679 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Lutheran Church basically has two. So you know,

794
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,559
like in Roman Catholicism, you have all sorts of different

795
00:46:03,599 --> 00:46:06,599
streams in there, you know, Jesuit or Franciscan or Dominican

796
00:46:06,679 --> 00:46:10,039
or and they have different emphasies and whatnot.

797
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,159
Speaker 1: Can I ask one quick breakfast one? But they're still

798
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,760
under the auspices of the pope and all that. Like, Yeah, yeah,

799
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,760
have Rome. So Jews have different denominations? Is it more

800
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,760
like that? Is it more like it's a.

801
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 2: Little bit like that? But it's also just like a

802
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,159
bigger thing than just a different denomination. They're basically two

803
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:32,639
two main different approaches to for people who identify as Lutheran.

804
00:46:33,039 --> 00:46:36,039
And Lutheran started out as kind of a negative term

805
00:46:36,119 --> 00:46:39,119
to describe people who were part of the Lutheran Reformation,

806
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:45,199
Martin Luther being the most famous person who was hoping

807
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,119
that the that Rome would reform from some of it,

808
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,360
would reform some of its teaching, particularly as it related

809
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,159
to the doctrine of justification. Okay, so it kind of

810
00:46:55,159 --> 00:46:58,039
spreads like WildFly wildfire, and there are all these churches

811
00:46:58,039 --> 00:47:00,360
in Europe kind of come to the United States. But

812
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:06,119
globally speaking, their two main approaches. One's called confessional and

813
00:47:06,159 --> 00:47:10,000
one is probably called progressive. And Tim Walls is a

814
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,800
member of the Progressive Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which

815
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:18,280
maybe like forty years ago became kind of like joined

816
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,199
together all these different Lutheran church bodies into one big

817
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:28,239
Lutheran church body, whereas the confessional Lutherans are still not altogether.

818
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:33,320
But you know, globally speaking, a lot of a lot

819
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,679
of the state Lutheran churches became this more like liberal Lutheran,

820
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,239
much more political. They have a division over whether the

821
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,039
Word of God is an errant or not. So I'm

822
00:47:43,119 --> 00:47:46,039
confessional Lutheran. We believe the Word of God is in errant.

823
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,400
The ELCA does not, and so that affects all sorts

824
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,320
of things about They sort of change their teaching more

825
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,679
to match with the culture. Now, I do want to

826
00:47:55,679 --> 00:47:59,440
make a really important point here, which is each congregation

827
00:47:59,559 --> 00:48:05,159
can be different, and particularly in congregational situation. So I

828
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,079
know there are a lot of people who are a

829
00:48:07,119 --> 00:48:10,199
member of a congregation that's in the Evangelical Lutheran Church

830
00:48:10,199 --> 00:48:13,800
of America that is nowhere near as lefty as the

831
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:18,880
one that Walls belongs to. So he was raised Roman Catholic,

832
00:48:19,159 --> 00:48:23,599
his wife was raised like Minnesota Lutheran. They become Lutheran

833
00:48:24,519 --> 00:48:27,800
and he joined a church that's called Pilgrim Lutheran Church,

834
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,920
and it's known as being one of the sort of

835
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:35,079
crazy lefty congregations within the ELCA. So they are super

836
00:48:35,159 --> 00:48:40,199
into trans issues and gay issues and female pastors, like

837
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,480
we don't even have. We do not believe in female

838
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:49,840
priests or pastors, but the LCA does. So when it

839
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,880
came out that he was Lutheran, you just saw all

840
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,920
sorts of confessional Lutherans being like, not our kind of Lutheran.

841
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:01,280
We are, we're super conservative. And so I've done my duty.

842
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,960
Now also a lot of questions on which version of

843
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,440
the Bible I read, which translation I should say, And

844
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:17,000
I personally prefer the new King James version. I think

845
00:49:17,039 --> 00:49:19,400
it keeps a lot of the poetry of the King

846
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:24,559
James version with some updated language. But my Lutheran study

847
00:49:24,559 --> 00:49:27,920
Bible uses the ESV, which I think is the English

848
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,960
Standard version, and so whether I was reading it in

849
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:36,679
my printed Lutheran Study Bible or online. I used ESV

850
00:49:38,639 --> 00:49:41,039
on that note too. I will just say my Study

851
00:49:41,079 --> 00:49:45,320
Bible is awesome, and it's put out by Concordia Publishing House.

852
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,639
It has such good notes, such good language notes, really

853
00:49:49,679 --> 00:49:53,800
great history notes, and they just started an online version,

854
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:55,679
which I know a lot of people like. So I'm

855
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,880
about to purchase the online version so that i can

856
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,840
read it on the road as well as at home.

857
00:50:03,039 --> 00:50:06,800
Speaker 1: One of the most embarrassing mistakes I ever made it

858
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,760
was in a book, so I couldn't just like correct

859
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,679
it was I referred to the King James Bible as

860
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,000
Saint James Bible in the middle of it. So so embarrassing,

861
00:50:16,159 --> 00:50:21,400
and what yeah, it's embarrassing. But one person reviewing the

862
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,239
book for one of these Catholic some lefty socialist Christian

863
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,880
guy just ragged on me for that. The whole review

864
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,280
was so terrible. I wish I could just go in

865
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:37,880
and fix it. Anyway. I do like these intra religious fights,

866
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,000
and I would like to know more about them. There.

867
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,880
When we were together the other week in Utah, a

868
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,320
Jewish woman told me his joke about Jews who loved

869
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,039
this kind of stuff. That they once found a Jewish

870
00:50:49,039 --> 00:50:51,239
person as shipwrecked on an island and he had built

871
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,440
two temples, and they asked him why, and he said,

872
00:50:53,679 --> 00:50:55,320
there's one I pray and then one I would never

873
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:56,000
step foot in.

874
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 2: So okay, that reminds me of another thing from last week,

875
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,639
which is I was talking about going to my husband's

876
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:07,519
family reunion and a reader sent in or a listener

877
00:51:07,559 --> 00:51:10,800
sent in a note complaining that I'd referred to members

878
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,159
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints

879
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,320
as Mormon. So I was talking to my husband about it,

880
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,840
and he was like, you know, he was raised Mormon.

881
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,920
He does not view it as a like a negative term,

882
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,599
and he even has kind things to say about his childhood.

883
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,079
But he was pointing out that at the family reunion,

884
00:51:29,639 --> 00:51:32,400
we were addressed by a member of his family who

885
00:51:32,519 --> 00:51:34,920
is part of the Quorum of the seventy.

886
00:51:35,079 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: So in.

887
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 2: The LDS Church they have different levels of authority, so

888
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,320
they have a prophet and then they have I think

889
00:51:44,519 --> 00:51:46,360
the Quorum of the twelve and then the Quorum of

890
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,480
the seventy. I'm getting the names wrong, I'm sure, but

891
00:51:48,559 --> 00:51:50,039
one of the people was in the Quorum of the

892
00:51:50,079 --> 00:51:52,960
seventy and he's a family member of my husband's, and

893
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:58,119
everyone there used Mormon and Latter day Saint interchangeably, and

894
00:51:58,199 --> 00:52:01,639
so I think partly it's a culture thing. So no, like,

895
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,400
I totally get what the listener was saying in wanting

896
00:52:06,679 --> 00:52:09,119
me to abide by the style guide put out by

897
00:52:09,159 --> 00:52:11,800
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, but

898
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:13,800
that is kind of a recent thing. So for a

899
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,360
lot of people who are, you know, my my husband was,

900
00:52:18,039 --> 00:52:20,920
I think like seventh generation Mormon or something. No, sixth

901
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,280
generation Mormon. So for a lot of people who have

902
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:27,000
deep cultural roots, that is not the same as maybe

903
00:52:27,079 --> 00:52:31,760
some other people. I'm just pointing out that that I

904
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:35,639
heard at this family reunion. People use the term Mormon

905
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,880
a lot more than LDS and I use.

906
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,800
Speaker 1: But I was just reading like a thread from the

907
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:46,960
Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, and he was referring to Mormon, Mormon,

908
00:52:47,159 --> 00:52:50,800
Mormons and Mormonism and all that. So it's it seemed

909
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:54,039
weird that email, But I don't know why. Why is

910
00:52:54,079 --> 00:53:00,800
does Mormon have insinuate something like historically wrong to really.

911
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,599
Speaker 2: Kind of interesting. I always think of the keep Austin

912
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:08,199
weird motto. You know, people are really proud of being

913
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:13,119
different in Austin, and some of my husband's Mormon cousins

914
00:53:13,159 --> 00:53:15,760
have talked about this recent change of the church to

915
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:20,400
try to make it. They view it as they think

916
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,400
the church is trying to make itself more mainstream and

917
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,119
less weird, and they don't like that. They like being weird.

918
00:53:25,119 --> 00:53:27,760
They like that they have this frontier pass, that they

919
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:32,039
were pioneers, that they came across the planes in push carts,

920
00:53:32,159 --> 00:53:34,679
although one of the things I learned at the reunion

921
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:39,800
was that, in fact, my husband's ancestor came across not

922
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:41,920
in a push cart. So the pushcarts were the very

923
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,360
first people, I think, and then the wagons came after that.

924
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,639
Speaker 1: So there's a violent history. I mean, I've read, you know,

925
00:53:48,679 --> 00:53:50,840
some histories on the Mormons. They were pretty violent in

926
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,079
the beginning. So maybe they're trying to help people forget

927
00:53:54,119 --> 00:53:56,159
that part of it. I don't know, no, no, no.

928
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,519
Speaker 2: I think what I think there was a real sense

929
00:53:58,559 --> 00:54:04,719
of being set apart for generations in the LDS, and

930
00:54:05,079 --> 00:54:08,599
in recent years there's been a push I think, to

931
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:15,079
identify more closely with the general American Christian experience.

932
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you for clarifying about those things.

933
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,159
Speaker 2: Through all the listener email. We had other good things too.

934
00:54:23,159 --> 00:54:24,519
Should we talk? But no, we don't have time. We

935
00:54:24,559 --> 00:54:26,039
need to get we need to finish this.

936
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: Well. Did you do you have any culture I know

937
00:54:28,559 --> 00:54:29,199
you were traveling.

938
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 2: Boy do I I had the best cultural experience in

939
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:38,639
my lifetime. So yeah, it was pretty amazing. Went from

940
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:46,760
Utah to Nashville and got to be backstage at the

941
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:51,519
Grand Old Opry, which was truly the thrill of a lifetime.

942
00:54:51,559 --> 00:54:52,599
Have you ever been there?

943
00:54:53,159 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 1: I literally just went there, not long ago, except I

944
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:57,719
have to ask you something. I went to the Grand

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Old Opry. I thought I was going to that old

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building where red A Lynn saying and everything, and.

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Speaker 2: I had rhyme in the theater.

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, So I ended up in the other place.

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Were you at the original or that new giant one

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they built?

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Speaker 2: I think the Grand Ole Opry was built before I

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was born.

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Speaker 1: So I think a new one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh really, when you say, like, are you in

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the new one? Yes, the new one that's been around

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since before I was born.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that one I wanted to see, the one that

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was in a coal miner's daughter. That's the way you can.

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Speaker 2: You can go to the unto there's still things there.

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But okay, So a couple of years ago during COVID,

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we took a backstage tour of the Grand Ole Opry

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and it was a fantastic tour. I highly recommend it.

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So it also helped me not totally geek out and

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act like I didn't belong when we got to come

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in backstage through the artist entrance, you know, seeing the

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different dressing rooms, seeing all the different people who were there.

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And one of my favorite things about it is the

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Grand Ole Opry band. It's like a permanent band and

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00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:02,079
permanent backup singers, and so they do backup and accompaniment

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for many of the acts and they get no time

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to prepare. So you come in, you get like fifteen

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minutes with them if you're the act, and they just

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kind of go over and take notes on your songs

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and then they go out and they perform and it's amazing,

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like it's the best thing you've ever heard. So we

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were there to see Monty Warden perform. We're big fans

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of his, and it was the anniversary of Elvis's death,

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and so Monty Warden, who's you know, famously with the

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Wagoneers and Monty Warden and the Dangerous Few Big Elvis

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Presley fan did the did put together this set that

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was really great of two Elvis songs and then one

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from his latest album which is on the charts called

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Steadfast Love, which is just great and it blew the

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roof off. Like the crowd just loved it. It was great.

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But we also got to see some other people who

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were really interesting. I also got to meet Adam Wainwright.

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Do you know who that is?

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Speaker 1: Sounds so familiar? Does his dad someone? No?

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00:57:12,639 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 2: You're thinking maybe Rufus or Loud and Waynet. No. Adam

990
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:20,400
was this picture for the Cardinals. Oh yeah, like twenty years.

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00:57:20,559 --> 00:57:24,280
I'm a really great guy. And this was his second

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time performing. It was like Monty's thirteenth time performing at

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the Opry. But it was cool to see the band

994
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practice with the artists and then to see them go

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out on stage and just be able to watch it

996
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,440
from backstage was so cool. I got to complain to

997
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Adam Wainwright about Major League Baseball and how it had

998
00:57:41,199 --> 00:57:43,079
lost me as a fan. He was very polite and

999
00:57:43,199 --> 00:57:45,519
nice told me to come back to being a fan.

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Got a picture, super excited, send it to tell my

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Cardinals friends. But then we also got to see a

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bunch of other stuff this weekend, different singer songwriter events

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and I you know, so different songwriters will explain how

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00:58:02,679 --> 00:58:05,480
they wrote the song or you know, what went into

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writing the song, and then what happened to the song,

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like it went to number one when it was recorded

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by so and so, And I really love that kind

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of stuff. So we did a couple of events at

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this thing called Third and Lindsley, and then another at

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the Listening Room and another. You know, one of my

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00:58:23,559 --> 00:58:29,639
favorite things was this bluegrass event on Sunday at the

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stage House in It was a gospel bluegrass so good.

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00:58:33,519 --> 00:58:37,679
So we just had a wonderful time listening to music,

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meeting songwriters, seeing it performed. In addition to Monty Warden,

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we saw Tony Lane and Bryce Long and they were great.

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00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:55,320
Oh and Monty's twenty year old son made his debut

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00:58:55,559 --> 00:58:57,440
on the stage with the Grand Ole Opry and it

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00:58:57,519 --> 00:58:58,320
was great.

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00:58:59,079 --> 00:59:02,519
Speaker 1: That sounds like a lot of fun. Nashville's incredible. I

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went to visit that Ryman Center you said it was

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called and I went around the corner. I don't know

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what the name of the street was there, but there's

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00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,079
tons of bars and this was like on a Thursday

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at one right every single bar had a band playing,

1025
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you know, and it was just it was just so

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00:59:20,559 --> 00:59:23,840
much energy there and I don't know, it was just incredible.

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I'd never I think i'd ever been there before.

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Speaker 2: So oh, we'd have one more exciting thing. Sorry, of course,

1029
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on Sunday we went to church at Grace Lutheran up

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in Clarksville, where we have some good friends who go there.

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And I got to meet a little girl named Mollie

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who's named after me. Whoa And she's amazing, super sweet

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00:59:46,119 --> 00:59:46,760
and wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Clarksville, Virginia, Tennessee. Oh, in Tennessee. Okay, Clarksville's everywhere.

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I don't know where you were. That's amazing named after you.

1036
00:59:57,719 --> 00:59:59,719
I wonder how many people, how many little girls are

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named Molly after you? Have?

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Speaker 2: I know precisely how many one.

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Speaker 1: I don't know it is more and you don't know

1040
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,760
about Oh. Readers can email us at radio at the

1041
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,119
Fellas com and tell us if you named your child

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01:00:10,119 --> 01:00:14,440
after Molly, cool anything else?

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01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 2: No, what'd you don't do?

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01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: Anything I watched TV. I told myself, I need to

1045
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:23,599
watch some stuff so i'd have something to talk about.

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01:00:23,639 --> 01:00:28,000
So I saw a movie called Furiosa with Yeah, I mean,

1047
01:00:28,039 --> 01:00:32,159
I know what it's about, Anya Taylor Joy. I think

1048
01:00:32,199 --> 01:00:35,440
it's her name. You're somewhere. She was in that great

1049
01:00:36,039 --> 01:00:39,440
Chess Show movie. Yeah, anyway, she's in it.

1050
01:00:39,519 --> 01:00:41,519
Speaker 2: Queen Scambit. I haven't seen it, but I know the

1051
01:00:41,599 --> 01:00:42,000
name of it.

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01:00:42,119 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good, and Thor was in it. It wasn't great, unfortunately.

1053
01:00:47,039 --> 01:00:49,480
I'm just a huge fan of Mad Max movies. I

1054
01:00:49,519 --> 01:00:52,880
would say this is probably the worst of them all. Yeah,

1055
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:54,039
I got bored.

1056
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 2: I loved that last Mad Max, but I had no interest.

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01:00:58,719 --> 01:01:03,039
Speaker 1: In seeing this. It just it has a very similar feel.

1058
01:01:03,079 --> 01:01:06,440
It's just that last Mad Max movie was just one

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01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:08,840
big chase. It was just exciting throughout, and this just

1060
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,800
does it just loses steam over and over again. Then

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01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,320
I made a huge mistake and I went on to

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01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,079
Netflix and I watched a movie called The Union with

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01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:24,480
Mark Wahlberg and what is her name, Halle Berry, who

1064
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,039
looks great, she's like sixty, I don't know, she looks amazing.

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01:01:27,159 --> 01:01:31,760
But the movie is just it was just terrible. I

1066
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:33,719
was so mad at myself for watching. I watched her

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01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:35,920
the end just there was no purpose for this. I

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01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:37,599
don't even know what the story was about. I couldn't

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01:01:37,599 --> 01:01:39,880
even tell you. Then I watched something that I enjoyed

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01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:43,880
I would recommend, I think, not strongly, but definitely called

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01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,559
Bad Monkey. It's a TV show with Vince Vaughan on

1072
01:01:46,639 --> 01:01:51,360
Apple Plus and it's based on what's that guy's name,

1073
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,800
Carl Hyacin. Maybe, Oh, I kind of.

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01:01:53,719 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 2: Love him, might go on?

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01:01:56,199 --> 01:01:57,639
Speaker 1: Sorry, no, no, go on.

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01:01:58,599 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 2: He's the one that does like really Sartain stories that

1077
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have some basis in fact, all based in Florida.

1078
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very Florida centric. This is what happens in

1079
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the Keys in Miami. Vince Vaughan, I like. I just

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01:02:11,719 --> 01:02:13,840
he's always just being Vince Vaughn and I like it.

1081
01:02:14,239 --> 01:02:17,760
You know, he's kind of funny and he's in it

1082
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,760
and he's pretty good. It's okay, you know, it's fun

1083
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,480
to it's like entertaining enough and fun to watch. It's

1084
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:29,400
a mystery. It's for adults, but it's not you know,

1085
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:32,239
it's not crazy. There's not so far. I've only watched

1086
01:02:32,239 --> 01:02:34,440
like two episodes, so I think if you know you

1087
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:38,039
can watch it. There's some cursing, nothing too crazy so far,

1088
01:02:38,239 --> 01:02:45,039
so and that's it all right, good podcast. So I

1089
01:02:45,079 --> 01:02:46,880
just want to quickly again say you can reach us

1090
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,880
at radio at the Federalist dot com. We look forward

1091
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:51,960
to hearing from you. And then until next week, be

1092
01:02:51,960 --> 01:03:00,679
lovers of freedom and anxious for the fred come along

1093
01:03:00,719 --> 01:03:05,639
the street. Park They freeze it faster in doors listed

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by

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Speaker 2: Fasters listed fast Interglos faster