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Feed Up the Middle.
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Welcome to Up the Middle, a show that isn't about
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being middle of the road. It's about bringing the opposition
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into the room so our audience can hear exactly how
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the other side thinks. It's about arming our listeners with
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the best arguments by testing them against the other side
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in real time. Partisan extremist shows reach the converted. Up
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the middle reaches the undecided, the persuadable. If you want
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to join the forty five plus percent that is the
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swing voters and independence, join the show that those people
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actually listen to. I'm yours the voice that sounds like
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yours because like you, it's filled with common sense. Let's
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go up the middle. What you're about to listen to
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is part of a two hour live rate show recorded
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Sunday evenings at ten pm Eastern. You can listen to
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that show by going to www. Dot Mastiff, dot media
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slash u TM.
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I want to go through some of the things that
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I texted myself, and then you might be wrapping up early. Yeah,
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I mean, here's another one. The pastor who wore Charlie
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Kirk freedom shirt in sermon has been indicted for soliciting
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a minor and distributing child sexual abuse material. Just as
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a reminder, He's not a trans person, he's not an immigrant,
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and just another Maga male. Also not a drag queen
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Graham Platner. Here's another one, this from Reich Wing Watch.
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Meet Ret Bryan Morse, Republican from Franklin County, New Hampshire,
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thirty one, the freshman legislator who spent his first term
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crucheting against indoctrination and demanding schools be scrubbed of graphic content. Well,
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he got arrested after Nashull police saw a woman say.
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A woman told them Morse posted explicit photos of her
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online without her consent, a felony under New Hampshire twenty
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sixteen revenge porn Law published punishable by up to seven
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years in prison. He was released on two hundred dollars bail.
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House speaker Sherman Packers's
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office waited no time, yanking Morse
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off the Education Policy Committee with no further comment. Moose
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denies it all, claiming he's the victim of a smear
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campaign tied to his fight against indoctrination, because of course
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Maga always the victim. His quote, I am pleading not
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guilty and will be fighting vigorously to clear my name.
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Now he's passing the hat to the MAGA. Faithful Moose
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launched a give Spend Go campaign, asking supporters for ten
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thousand dollars towards what he calls mounting legal fees. Maybe
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that's what I should do to some of these different platforms.
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You can't do it for something like that, but I
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dropped seven grand that I didn't have, because what are
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actual false accusations that I can prove with cameras. Only
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my local sheriff's department was a real law enforcement agency,
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we wouldn't be in this mess. Framing his arrest is
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blowback for his culture war crusade in the state House.
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In his pitch, he wrote that the allegations shake you
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to Yeah, you get a letter like that saying you're
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being charged with something like that, it shakes it does
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shake you to your core and threaten to shatter our
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family's peace forever. I'll get over it. I'll come out
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on top. But this is the same guy who pushed
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to ban books from New Hampshire school's over obscene content
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and ripped Governor Kelly Ayode for vetoing it, saying he
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was horrified she didn't protect children. He's also posted that
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trans people using bathrooms of their choices are sickos threatening
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women's privacy. It's always the ones who project the most.
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And by the way, these are from open sources. So yes,
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this guy was really arrested. Oh yeah, yeah, that's about
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best year. So some of these I text myself and
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then the only thing that comes up is, oh, well
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made it maybe? Ah. Vivik Ramaswami, his biotech company, is
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collecting a nine hundred and fifty million dollar payment from
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Maderna for COVID nineteen vaccine technology, while the Republican kubernatorial
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nominee campaigns against the vaccines and the pandemic response that
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made them possible. Ramaswami, who founded roy Vant Sciences and
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still owns roughly seven percent of the firm, step down
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from the company's born in early twenty twenty three, but
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remains one of its largest shareholders, positioning him to benefit
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directly from the settlement announced in March. So he's against
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the vaccine that his company developed. Well, yeah, I've had
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the Moderner vaccine actually, and I'll tell you what. I
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strongly believe it saved my life, pure and simple, Hunter,
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Biden secured a major legal victory come on against one
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of his most prominent critics. A federal judge in California
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has awarded Biden one point seven million dollars in punitive
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damages for his defamation lawsuit against pro Trump overstock dot
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Com CEO Patrick Byrne, ruling that burn knowingly spread false
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claims accusing Biden of seeking an eight hundred million dollars
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bribe from Iran kind of sort of hell two billion
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dollars from Saudi Arabia for Jared Kushner us to. Judge
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Stephen Wilson, a Ronald Reagan appointee, found that Burne's actions
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went far beyond a simple mistake, concluding that he engaged
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in intentional misrepresentation with conscious disregard towards plaintiff's rights. The
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judge said burn continued promoting the claims after publication, repeatedly
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reposting the accusations on social media and encouraging his followers
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to spread them further. Dope. Good for you, hunter, He
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had some I wonder if I still have that. He
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had a very classy reaction to to Lindsey Graham. Oh
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here's this. I wanted this one. Nathan Charles is an
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attorney A what type of lawd does he do? Like
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classified stuff like if you're a contractor and such. Got
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to look at that a little closer. So this is
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something else that we'll wrap up with. I knew back
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in twenty seventeen. I know I've told this story on
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here before, but I'll tell it
again. During Trump one
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point zero, his first term, I was the site agent
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for what was his final inaugural ball of the evening
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when he was first inaugurated. My staff counterpart was this
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guy named Luke. Won't put out his full name, we
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don't need that. Luke and I worked very well together.
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We were the only site in the city that was
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not penetrated by demonstrators. Very safe location, good site, something
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that Trump administration, the one point administration did later on
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in life. Soon after the inauguration, got the world's attention
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and in honor. About that time, I ran into Luke
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in a bar and I just said, Luke, what the hell?
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And he looked at me and said, Yergs, you think
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that's crazy, Wait till you see us in our second
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and third term. Second and third term that was in
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twenty seventeen. Now here we are in twenty twenty six,
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and we're wondering about We've got Republicans being busted for
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election integrity issues and now fired a Donald Trump fired
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all three remaining members of the US Election Commission ahead
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but right before midterms, a time when he would historically
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lose control of the Congress. Maybe now you'll believe he
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wants a third term. Maybe now we can consider this
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guy a threat. Like, how can you not? I just
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don't get it. What is the appeal? Seriously, what is
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the appeal? What do you see as good that this
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guy is doing? Because there's nothing there? All right, well,
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don't forget three weeks. It's now Monday. Now, actually it's
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not yet. Well three weeks from tonight, I will be
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sound asleep. He goes early on the morning of August third,
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the inaugural episode of the Mastiff dot Media Morning Show.
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Go to Mastiff dot Media, hang out there or here
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not saying who yet, but we are in the process
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of wrapping up various discussions. I've got some more tomorrow
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excited to be back on terrestrial AMFM radio, but putting
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County that can affect the entire state. So the Mastiff
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Go to Mastiff on Media to listen in. Craig Cassie
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love crafting his book coming out this summer. I gotta
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check out. I gotta check in with him that might
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be coming out a book that's already out, The Broken
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Mirror of Memory Iraq in Other Tales by Joseph Soul.
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You can get both of these books in the show notes.
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And we're still wondering what type of show he's going
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to put together. I'm also contemplating another station, this one
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for veterans, which Joseph is, so maybe something there. Jeff
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Klein and his podcast Beer with a Queer. He'll be
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at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival next month in Scotland. Go
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to Jeff Clincomedy dot com kline is k l e
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i n Comedy dot com and learn more about him.
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Bradley Shlegl staff writer, Town and Country News, local news
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Good night, stay positive. Oh hi, Poppy Shady's got a bed,
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all right, see you next week. All right, Well, that's
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all the time we have this week. My name is
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Linda Richmond and my name is Liz. Of course, this
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is my mother, Barbara. We love you. Hello, gorgeous. The
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movie was like Butla, like.
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Butter, like a big stick of butter, Mama.
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All this talk about food. I'm getting hungry, girl.
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Flutch butter, I can dorzo cancart, Baba's a beautiful It's changed,
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you know.
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Yes, I suppose I have.
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How about this, he's love dog to tick the hell.
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Out of here.
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That's all, folks,