Dean Simpson

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I'm a giant in New York, in Miami.
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Gary Eats, it's the earnestly.
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Thursday podcast here on the Monday morning.
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Why is the song playing over again? I don't know.
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I didn't plan that.
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Sorry about that.
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My man, conservative author, Dean Sims with us on the podcast.
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It's been about a couple of years. Dean, what's going on, brother?
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It's like every time we show up here, we show
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up around election time. Every time. It's like week before election,
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let's show up and talk some midterms.
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You saved that slot for me, so I appreciate it.
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Yes, yes.
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And I'm glad it got a hold of me a
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couple weeks ago to do this, especially too, because I
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do– even though regardless of where the country is at now,
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politically speaking, it doesn't matter. I, as someone who has
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been into politics as a child, I do enjoy this
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time of year. I love the banter back and forth
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and all the stuff around the election, whether it's the midterms,
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general election, all that. So, Dean, how are you doing, brother?
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Thank God. All is good, Ernest. Hey, quick question. Where
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did you grow up?
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Well, I was born in New York. I lived in
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New York till I was nine. Then I was.
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Raised in Miami from age nine till 18. Moved to
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Fort Lauderdale from age 19 through 23. And I've been
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in Palm Beach ever since.
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And that's how you track me. I mean, look, I'm
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New York born, but I'm a Floridian. Let's be real.
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I'm 46 years old, so I'm a Floridian.
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I mean, I took the same snowbird track just a
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little bit later in life. I was in New York
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until about 35, 40, and then I bought a place
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to come back and forth, and now I'm here. I
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love it.
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Yeah. Look, I love New York. I mean, I do
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love it. I was just there last month.
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My wife and I go up once a year to–
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maybe because we love Broadway, and we love doing events there,
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and she loves the city. I do as well, too, also.
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So when we go to New York, it's always intentional.
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it's always intentional for reasons, you know, last year we
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went last year to go to a concert. Um, um,
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then this year we went to see a couple of
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Broadway shows, which we totally enjoyed.
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And of course I love to eat. So I ate
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a lot this trip. Uh, no credit cards maxed out.
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That's a joke here.
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It's like, okay, we're going to have fun and then
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we're going to pay the penance after we're done.
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So, A lot of room on noodles for dinner for
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the next couple of nights.
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Yeah, something to the extent. You got a new book.
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New book.
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It's the third in the series, isn't it?
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Third in the series. Last one. I have six books total,
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but both of them trilogies. This one was the Godless series.
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Okay.
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And started with Godless V Liberty, and that's how we
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got started. Right. And then, you know, that basically set
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the foundation for, our country, you know, the constitution explaining
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where we're at, where I felt like we were going.
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And I will say this for anybody who's read the book,
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every prediction I've made in my first two books, that
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would be God is free, liberty and God is we trust.
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Everyone has come to fruition. It's not that I'm Nostradamus.
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It's just that you could see what's coming. And that's
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why this election is even all that more important. And
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in the last book, God is we God, it, Basically
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brings everything together and tells us where we are going
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to end up, which may sound scary for anybody who's
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read Revelation and understands a bit about the end times,
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which is not easy to grasp because it is a
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pretty frightful thought. But it's not the end. It's the beginning.
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So it's that hope that comes with it. It's just
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right now we're in the middle of it. So it's
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like we're in the middle of a storm and it's
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a storm I think is going to get worse. It's
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not something I'm going to stay up at night worrying about.
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I have no real control over it. The little bit
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I have, like voting, like trying to choose our leaders wisely,
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that's why it's so important. I mean, politics and the
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spiritual side of things are connected. I mean, it's in
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the Bible. We should pray for our leaders regardless of
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if you're a registered Democrat, Republican, Independent. So in the
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last book, I just try to tie everything together and
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I enjoyed writing it, but I'm done now. That was it.
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Those were my, that's the trilogy. Moving on to other projects.
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I started writing when I was 50. I'm 60 now.
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So 10 years, six books. Wow, 10 years.
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I have to ask you, and it's funny, I'm surprised
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I never asked you this on the previous pod if
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you've done the past.
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Because I'm someone that wants to write a book at
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some point down the road. How much work does it
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take to do this?
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What does that process look like for you?
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Because I'm someone that's going to write a book very soon.
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I want to do that.
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But I need to make time for that, obviously. Got
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a family still, two young kids. How's that look like
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for you?
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You know, I recently did a podcast. You might know
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the name, Illich Family. They own the Detroit Red Wings
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and Detroit Tigers. Denise Illich has a podcast. And she
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had me on there mostly for that. It stemmed a
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little bit around 9-11, which was the 25th anniversary just
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came up. And basically what I conveyed to her was–
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It does take discipline. So the most important thing is
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to have an outline. But what I've said before is
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like when I've given talks in different venues, somebody always
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comes up to me and says what you're saying. Like
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I have an idea. I'm thinking about writing a book.
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I know nobody's going to read it. And I get
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frustrated because I always say everybody has a story. And
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I'll give you one example. I had somebody come up
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to me, the guy– He said exactly the same thing
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about writing it, but I don't know. Wait till I
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saw it. Probably nobody will read it. And I turned
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around and I said to him, I said, well, first
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of all, what's your story about? What are you interested
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in writing about? And he said, well, I was on
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a fishing boat for 30 years. And I said, you've
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got to have some crazy stories, man. Yes, absolutely. Out
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in the ocean fishing for 30 years. Every day had
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to be an adventure. So I said, so don't diminish
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your capacity from the start. Get your outline. And what's
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going to happen, especially for novice writers, they are going
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to have the tendency to start with one thing and
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then they kind of zigzag a little bit. I'm not
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saying you have to stick to that outline religiously, but
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know where you're going with it. Know where you're going
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to start. Know the anecdotes you want to tell and
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know how you want to finish it. And if you
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have that combination, you can zigzag a little bit. What
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I've done is I've always started with the outline and
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I've always changed the chapters. I've always... you know, put
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chapters together or edit a chapter. Like in, in, in
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my folder, I'll have, let's say, just say chapter two. Right.
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And then all of a sudden I'm up to chapter
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seven and I'll go back. I'll be like, you know what?
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That chapter two is incomplete. I'm going to make a
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chapter two a, and then I'll see if I'm going
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to add it to the chapter or if there's enough
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to really start a new chapter and do that. So
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you play with it a little bit, but having the
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foundation is the outline, the discipline and, and always be carrying, well,
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we have smartphones now, but you'll never see me without
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a pen. I mean, I have a pen and paper
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all the time. Because I get thoughts, I get ideas. Because,
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I mean, I'm not done writing. I'm done with the books,
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but I have other projects that I'm going to be
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working on. And there's a lot of things that happen.
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My father taught me this. When I was a police officer,
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he told me to keep a journal. And I always
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liked writing, so it wasn't really that difficult for me.
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And I was like, okay. And he goes, because what
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I didn't believe him, though, was... He said, what happens today,
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what happens, you're going to go to work and you're
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going to have this experience. And he goes, but 20
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years from now, you're not going to remember anything about it.
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And he goes, he goes, believe me, Dean, 20 years
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is going to go by like 20 seconds. And I
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thought that was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.
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But as you get older, as I have, you start
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realizing like time goes by fast and the memory starts
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to diminish. So you definitely like when I'm out or
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if I see something or I get an idea, um,
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That's what I do. I have my paper. I have
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my notes. My wife has it different. She's all tech savvy.
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She has a notebook on her phone. I don't even
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know where to find it. I'd lose it. I just
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keep a piece of paper and pen and just write
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down notes.
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That's awesome.
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I'm always fascinated by authors. To me, some of my
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favorite guests on this show through the years of doing
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this podcast have been people who have written books. I
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know how tedious it is, how much work it is,
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and how much How much was sacrificed? Because I write
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too also, but I've never written a book. I've written
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through– in my love of sports and stuff and written
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on blogs and written columns and stuff and whatnot.
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But those are easy. You find one subject. You find
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a thing.
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You write out 500 to 5,000 words on how you
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want to put it, and then you put it out,
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and that's it.
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Done.
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With a book, it's a project. It's like you've got
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to organize.
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You've got to storytell depending on what you're doing.
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And it's like I've always found authors to be some
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of the most responsible.
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People I've ever come across doing this medium for the
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last 15 years.
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So that's why I was always intrigued. I'm surprised I
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never asked that question.
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Now, this is your sixth book you said, right, of pre-written, right?
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A second series, obviously.
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What was the first book you did? The first one
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I started with was my story with the NYPD. And
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I had a lot of success with that. That was
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the one that went international. The New York Post picked
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it as book of the year in 2018. Oh, wow.
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Okay.
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They did a big exclusive story on it. Then the
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UK picked it up. And when the UK picked it up,
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it just went viral. I mean, it really took off.
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I was getting letters from New Zealand, all over Europe.
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I didn't realize that the story had caught on that much,
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but people would, I received back feedback from it was
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it gave an insight what it was like to be
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a police officer. And I didn't hold back. Like I,
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things were kind of raw, you know, there's stuff in
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there that's very emotional.
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What year did you start together? Let me ask him.
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I was in from 87 to 95. Okay. And I
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was shot in the line of duty. And then I
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got out and the book kind of takes place. In
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the beginning, around 9-11, I do go back because my
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father was a police officer, too. I tell his story
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a bit. But when 9-11 happened, I was already off
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the job. And the night before, I was out. I
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wasn't living a good lifestyle.
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Were you in New York when 9-11 happened?
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I was in New York, and I woke up.
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Because I was in the city, and I left. I
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was living here already, but I was in the city
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that weekend. and left the day before the attacks happened.
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I went to see Michael Jackson's concert that weekend at MSG. Yeah,
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and then his last show was on the 10th of September,
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and I was going to go to that last show.
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Had I stayed for the second show, I would have
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been stuck there. I decided not to go because tickets
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were sold out. I couldn't get cheap tickets. I was like, oh,
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screw it. I went to the first show on the
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7th of September instead. Come to find out the next morning,
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I had friends who were at the concert who were
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stuck in New York for a whole week because of
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the whole attack. So That's my connection to 9-11 in
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terms of my presence being there that week.
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Wow. I mean, that's crazy. I mean, you were right there.
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People were definitely stranded. There was a book, I forget
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the name of it, but it was a book about
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this one town in Newfoundland where people got stuck for
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like a week. It wasn't a hotel on the island.
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And people just opened up their homes. And, you know,
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that's something I bring up. And it kind of segues
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into the politics of things. Yes. In 9-11... There was
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a togetherness. There was this camaraderie. We were, as a nation,
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I felt we weren't divided. We still may have our
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own different opinions and differences, but we really came together.
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And I saw it like, I was going down, you know,
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I would start to say, I was staying up all night,
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waking up late. You know, I used to joke, you know,
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I'm going to wake up at the crack of noon.
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And I got hungover. I go up to get a
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coffee newspaper from, you know, the store up to the
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block from where I lived in Brooklyn.
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By the way, for someone who has been in New
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York in a long time, your accent still sticks.
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Oh, my God. That's never going away.
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When I was in the service in South Carolina, I
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used to just turn around and say, just shut up.
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I don't want to hear your voice. It would drive
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them nuts. Just because we won the war, don't get upset, guys.
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Right, right.
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So we– so I got up there and I just
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could feel something was off. I could feel– it was
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the weirdest thing. I actually thought it was a weekend
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because the entire feeling was of a holiday. Like there
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wasn't that much traffic. People– I saw people going into
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the church because the church was right across the street
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from where I lived. So as I'm walking up, I'm
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seeing people going up to the church. I'm like, what
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the heck is going on? And then I found out
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when I went into the store and it was on
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the news. And then I got down to 9-11. And
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then for the next three weeks, I was down there
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every day. And it was a very surreal time. It was,
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you know, like I said, there's something good to come
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out of it. And, you know, you don't want to
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look at things from that perspective when something so tragic
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happens because a lot of beautiful lives were lost. It
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was that we did come together as a nation. And
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I just feel like now I'm like, what the hell
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is going on, man? Like, we are so divided. We,
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people are trying, you know, they're dug in, they're trenched
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into their opinions. They feel like whatever their outlook is,
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that has to be the right outlook. They're not open
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for discussion. And I've always been one that I've always
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kept an open mind. Now, I think now I see
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things a little bit differently. I see the dangers that
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are ahead. And because of that, I, I have to stick.
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I mean, I could listen to you and you may
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have a different opinion than me. Um, and I won't
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be disrespectful, but I can't, I can't be respectful of
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the opinion. If it goes against my beliefs, if it
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goes against the safety of this country, like for a
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quick example, when, when president Biden was in office, you
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could see with your own eyes, people walking across that
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border and, um, Everybody would say, oh, no, but the
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border's closed. And you're kind of like, and this is
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what happened. And you introduced me before as a conservative author.
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I'm a conservative. OK, so I understand from my perspective
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that words are important. It just seems to me that
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the left just likes to change them as they go
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to redefine them to fit their narrative. So when you
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turn around to me and say, well, no, the border
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is closed. OK, the fine clothes then, because I'm seeing
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I'm literally seeing people walking across the border in real time.
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And now they're not. So what happened? We didn't pass
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any new laws. And that's and that's where all these
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people didn't come in. They weren't.
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And that's something like me is torturing this thing also
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to us as a center left guy who on the
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issue of sports. I'm also pro closed borders as well, too,
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also directly. Like there's a way– a process. Why I've
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always pushed back– I think I spoke about this in
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the past with you on the show is that we
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got to have a clearer process from a policy perspective
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of how to get people here. As a child– I'm
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an immigrant myself. I'm a firstborn American child. My parents
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are both immigrants from Trinidad. So as someone who has
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skin in the game who was a child immigrant, we
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got to have some– obviously laws, border control, whatever question.
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Even some of those liberal countries in Europe.
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Have close borders. They have strict border rules as well
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as themselves. So we shouldn't be any different regardless of
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left or right. But the only thing I've always pushed
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back on was the fact that we needed more common
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sense immigration policies.
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That's it. How we get there, I don't know, but
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we got to figure it out.
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The safest country right now, to the best of my knowledge,
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the last I looked, was Poland. And Poland has some
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of the strictest immigration laws. Mm-hmm. There has to be
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a process and the process that took place in President
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Biden's administration. I was saying before, nobody was vetted. They
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didn't have to take the COVID-19 shot at the same
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time that military personnel were getting kicked out. So it
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just seemed to me like, you know, what exactly are
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we doing here? We sent them in. You know, my
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wife came from Colombia. She worked the butt off. She had,
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you know, cost a lot of money. to get her
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citizenship here, there was a process. And in 2016, I
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remember her, because she was going back and forth to
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Columbia a lot at the time. And in Columbia, it
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was very anti-Trump. And so when she came back, she
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was kind of down on Trump. He's like, oh, he's
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against immigrants. And in Columbia, they only get CNN. They
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don't get Newsmax or Fox. And I'm getting a balanced
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diversity of politics. And I said, I don't think that's fair.
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And I explained it to her. I didn't want to
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prejudice her, but I explained to her that you came in,
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you had a process and you worked hard and it
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cost you a lot of money. How do you feel
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about people just walking across and they're giving a cell phone,
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they're giving a card, they're giving a place to stay,
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they're giving free meals. To me, it just seems like
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a little unfair. So there has to be a better
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way of doing things. When I explained it out, she
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understood it better and she understood that once– I mean
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this is what drives me crazy with the media is
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because I do think it's slanted. I do– that's– in
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The Godless We Trust, the second book, I talk about
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the breakdown of our institutions. And one of the ones–
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I have a whole chapter on it– is the media,
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is the press because they were caught red-handed. I mean–
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I always laugh when you see the guy. And something
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that recently happened was very similar. The guy turns around.
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He's burning buildings and cars behind him. And he goes,
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but it's mostly peaceful protest. And recently you had this
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female reporter turn around. You had Hamas supporters chanting death
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to America. And she goes, yes, they're chanting death to America.
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But I must say they're doing it very peacefully. They're
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very respectful. I'm like, no, they want to kill us.
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You told me how nice they are. This is the
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warpedness that I feel. I'm finding it more and more
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difficult to understand.
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Is that, though, a binary? Because, yes, I do agree.
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There are a lot of people on the left who
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do have those views, who are very laissez-faire when it
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comes to the borders, whatever.
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I don't care. Let them in. I don't give a crap.
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There are also a lot of liberals I know that
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are– have the same stance.
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I do that are no we need closed borders we
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need to do it there's a process you know I
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know I will say I can't speak for Biden necessarily
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because I know Biden was very laissez-faire with how he
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did with the border obviously that was one of the
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reasons why Trump got re-elected in the first place I
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know Barack Obama was much more strict on the border
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I know Bill Clinton, Democrat, was also most strict on
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the border.
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So there has to have been a demarcation somewhere.
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Between 2008 and 2023 or this change. I don't know
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if it was necessarily the Democratic Party apparatus. Is it
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the widening? I feel like maybe this is part of
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the problem of having a large tent, which the Democrats
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have had for years.
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You have a large tent.
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You have a tent that while you may be a
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Democrat by– by label, by name, there's a sector of
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people on that side also who don't necessarily agree with
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the same policies either, too. Which is why I also
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hate the two-party system to begin with, because it doesn't
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give you more leeway to vote, you know, diversely speaking.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Because if I had my way, none of these candidates
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I had in 2024, I would vote for.
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None. None. I don't like them, and I agree. That's
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the problem. That's the problem.
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And I think– I don't know where you stand on that.
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Like I don't like Kamala Harris. I never liked Kamala Harris.
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Look at her ascent. Look at how she got to
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where she was. Correct. Yeah. And you talk about somebody
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that basically hit it perfectly except for the last step.
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She– what was she? I know she was the attorney general.
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Attorney general. She was a senator.
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California. California.
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She was by name qualified by virtue of what she's done.
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Labels. For titles.
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For titles. Doesn't mean anything anymore at this point.
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Now she runs for president in 2016, and she's actually
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one of the top candidates until she started talking. And
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then you realize there's not that much substance there. There's
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a lot of feel good. And this is something the left,
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besides controlling the language and redefining words... They also like
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to have a platform of feelings. And I'll tell you what,
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if you ever get into a debate with somebody who's
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going to use feelings, you will lose every time. You
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cannot debate somebody's feelings. They're their feelings. And, you know,
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the road to health.
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I always say, you got to start with standards.
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The road to health is paved with good intentions, right?
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So I could tell you, you know, well, it sounds
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good and it'll feel good. But then you see the
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unintended consequences of this. And socialism is a perfect example
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of this. If you listen to socialism, there's a reason
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it's gaining traction. There's a younger generation. They're not happy.
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I mean, things got expensive, as we were saying before.
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Now we add 10 to 20 million people into the country.
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You think rents are going to go down because of that? No,
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they're going to go up. And the corporations love it
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because wages go down. So it's kind of a win-win
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if you have money. See, this is where I think
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the Democrat Party did a U-turn somewhere. They used to
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be for the working person. I was a registered Democrat
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when I grew up in New York. It really was
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for many years. And my grandfather used to explain politics
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like this. He goes, you know, if there's crumbs on
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the table, the Democrats at least allow you to have some.
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The Republicans won't. They'll take the crumbs too. And that
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was his mindset. And this was a JFK Democrat going
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back to the 60s and onward and stuff. And that
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kind of stuck with me until I started seeing– you
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were saying like what happened? Like why would you allow
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all these people in? And I was always taught if
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you don't know the answer to a why, it usually
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comes down to money. And if it's not money, it
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usually comes down to power. And I think it's a
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combination of both. The Democrats, they are trying– something that
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they're losing a lot of their voting group that they had.
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They have to replace that. They're not replacing, in my opinion,
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and everything I say is in my opinion. I'm not
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trying to wedge anybody. Well, I'm right. You're right. This
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is what I'm seeing is because their policies are failing.
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Let's just take California, for example. Does anybody think that
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California is succeeding? They've been working on a trail, one
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of these rail tracks.
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Yeah, I heard about that. It's a $ 2 billion project.
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And there hasn't been a foot of rail laid. So
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you got to say, well, what's wrong here? You go there,
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you see Skid Row, and you say, this isn't working.
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And again, good intentions. We're going to give them needles,
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free needles. They're clean. There'll be less disease and HIV
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and These are good intentions. We're going to give them things.
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We're not going to kick them out of their tents.
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You know, we're going to allow them to stay on
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the street. It's not fair that they don't have anywhere
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to go. But when when I went, I mean, I
487
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was traveling recently. We went by a park. We had
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to walk out of the park, the stench in the park.
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And I said to my wife, I said, this isn't
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fair as a taxpayer. You know, this isn't fair to me.
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I'm paying taxes. It shouldn't be like this. And her
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big heart, good person. Better person than I am turns
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around and says, where are they supposed to go? What
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are they supposed to do? And I said, well, we're
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paying taxes to people that are hopefully smarter than us
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to figure out that problem, aren't we?
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Yeah, that's not our problem.
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That's another problem. Can we? I mean, this isn't what
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we want. And by giving them everything, it's not helping
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the situation. It's only making it worse. I mean, the
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homeless problem in California has only worsened since they've given
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all these incentives that they call kindness incentives. But it's
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attractive people.
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Where's that money going, you think? Is it going to
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the pocketbook? Where's that money going? Because the tax is
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going up, obviously.
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Well, I think we've seen in the last, since Trump
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came back into office, I think there was a effort
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to expose corruption in this country. Now, corruption works both ways.
510
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It's not a Democrat, not a Republican. But I'll tell
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you one thing. There was one side that was very
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upset about that Doge.
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And AID.
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All of a sudden, when we started exposing that they're
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giving millions of dollars to Honduras to study shrimps on cocaine,
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you know, well, you know, but you don't understand. You
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don't see the good that it does. No, you're right.
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I don't. I mean, you take the education in our nation.
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Just take Baltimore. Baltimore has the highest one of the
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highest costs per capita per student. OK, in the same county,
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you have private schools that the tuition is less than half.
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They have better test scores. And you say to yourself, why?
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And this is what frustrates me with the Democrats in general.
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It's failing in Baltimore. Many of these inner city schools
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are failing. This is the equal playing field. You want
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to talk about civil rights and equality and stuff like that.
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If you don't get these kids off to a good start,
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they're lost. They're going to fall in the cracks and
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they're going to be done. So we really need to
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get this education system right.
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That's an important problem. Yep.
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So what do they do? They continue the same failed system.
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If you look at the numbers in Baltimore, all right,
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it's costing somewhere around, last time I looked, $ 25, 000 per student. Right.
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Only 20% passing in math.
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It was like 18% in science.
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They had a whole district that not one high school
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student was at reading level. When you dig down to
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the numbers, don't point at the Republicans. Because if you
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take Baltimore, you're talking about an inner city community that
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has been run by Democrats, primarily African-American Democrats, that are
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putting this out there. And there's not enough of an
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outrage from the community. So it continues until the community
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turns around and says, no masque. We're not going to
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put up with this. We need something better. But instead,
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they see blue, they see Democrat, they go down the line,
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and they vote these people in. So as long as
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you win the primary, like you were saying before, you
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may not have liked everybody that was up for election
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from that side of the party, but you didn't have
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a say in it. You're like, I wouldn't have chosen
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this person. That's the machine. That's the machine talking. And
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that's why I believe in competition. I'd love to see
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a third party get off the ground.
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I was totally for, like when the whole, I wish
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we had you on the podcast when this happened. which
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I predicted for the record, and I nailed the exact
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day he left the race.
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Nailed the date back then. I have it on the podcast.
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I said, I prefer to see an open contest for
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this thing as opposed to just giving it to the
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prime president.
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I understood why they did it. It was more prudent.
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Because of the money that's only transferable to the vice
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president as opposed to anybody else because they already fundraised
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for those couple years. So it was proven. I get
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that part. Fundamentally speaking, I would rather see an open primary.
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I want all seats at the table. I want everybody
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to have on both sides. I think it's a healthy
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competition on both sides to have both parties to have
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open competition, open primaries to see who has the better ideas.
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Well, that's the question. Kamala Harris gets it. Now, you
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would think She's starting from behind the eight ball. I mean,
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she wrote a book, 107 Days. So she had 107
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Days to get this.
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Which I read, by the way.
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No kidding. You're the first person I met.
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I read it. I read it. I read it. As
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someone who's in politics, I'm very curious about.
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And I should read those because I should get the
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other side. Because I... What did you like about the book?
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I wanted to see what that whole thing entailed. Having
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to go through that.
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It was a diary. It was a diary. That's what
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it was.
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You talk a lot about feelings by any chance.
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No, well, I mean, she outed Biden a couple times.
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She was very critical of Biden in that book, which,
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you know, cool.
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You passed up.
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You should have been that way during the campaign. Why
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do you wait till after the fact to say, oh,
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by the way, come on, bro.
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Stop, stop.
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No.
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But we're also learning about what goes in the process
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of running a campaign.
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And hers being so unique of being, you know, handpicked
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as the one to take over a campaign because the
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preceding person running the campaign, the President of the United
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States at the time, backed out. We haven't seen that
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since 1968 when Herbert Humphrey did the same thing to, well,
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when Lyndon Johnson left the race.
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Yeah.
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And Humphrey, which, wait, they did the primary act then, actually,
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in 68, if I'm not mistaken. They did the primary,
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which is the right thing to do for the record.
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Yeah. So, yeah, I was very curious.
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And, you know, being a political hunk, I want to
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see all the dirty seedings behind the whole thing, you know,
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It was an okay book.
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It was fine. I'm just curious about one question. In
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a book like that, 107 days, okay, so she's going
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through the process.
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Yeah.
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Now, to the best of my recollection, she went like
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about the first 18 days without giving an interview. Correct.
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Which bothered me. You're starting behind, and now you're waiting
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all this time. I mean, in my opinion, I would
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think you'd want to be out there and just hit
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the ground running.
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You know why she did that, right? You know why
623
00:31:25.980 --> 00:31:26.400
she did that, right?
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No, I don't.
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And I'm telling you right now, because this is why
626
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:31.920
I can say this freely, because I was saying this
627
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.599
in real time on this show when it was happening
628
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in real time.
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She was fundraising on this.
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Because remember when they announced her as the predecessor to
631
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the campaign, she was killing it with money.
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Killing it. So why stop? Why change anything?
633
00:31:51.930 --> 00:31:54.059
Don't say anything for the first two, three weeks.
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Now, as a traditionally speaking, I want you to talk, have.
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Your ideas, you know what I'm saying?
636
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And I thought for the first, obviously.
637
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I don't agree with this, but for the first few weeks,
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she had started distancing herself from Biden a little bit.
639
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She started talking about policy, about housing, about things that
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the Democrats actually do care about, really, most Democrats do
641
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care about, really.
642
00:32:18.150 --> 00:32:20.730
And that ended at some point pretty much in September.
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You know, where all the Biden, you know, sycophants, I
644
00:32:24.490 --> 00:32:27.009
call them, got involved in the campaign, and kind of
645
00:32:27.029 --> 00:32:29.650
reeled her in, and she sounded like a robot again.
646
00:32:29.670 --> 00:32:33.099
You know what I'm saying? And, you know, you start
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bringing Dick Cheney's.
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Sister? Liz Cheney.
649
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:42.200
Liz Cheney. Dick's daughter. Into the campaign.
650
00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:43.359
Which you know.
651
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:45.960
Damn well, both sides of the aisle can't stand the guy.
652
00:32:46.549 --> 00:32:48.369
So why would you bring that person to your campaign
653
00:32:49.750 --> 00:32:50.529
to advocate for you?
654
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Which is dumb. And by the way, I said this
655
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in real time on this show.
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00:32:55.950 --> 00:32:59.500
So go back two years on the folks two years
657
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:00.720
ago on this podcast.
658
00:33:01.019 --> 00:33:03.619
It's still available on the archives. I said this. I
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was very critical of that.
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I see you running a campaign in your future, Ernest.
661
00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:10.539
And by the way, I got so much shit from
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00:33:10.579 --> 00:33:14.700
the left in 2024 that people thought I was over Trump.
663
00:33:15.309 --> 00:33:17.970
I swear to God, my own wife gave me shit.
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Who's more left than I am.
665
00:33:21.170 --> 00:33:22.769
She tells me about Trump because I was critical of
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Kamala and the Democratic apparatus.
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00:33:25.589 --> 00:33:26.849
That's where we are in politics today.
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00:33:27.369 --> 00:33:29.809
I can't be critical of my own side.
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I can't be critical of my own side, you know, that, oh,
670
00:33:34.710 --> 00:33:35.450
are you a Trumper now?
671
00:33:36.230 --> 00:33:39.880
No. You think I think Trump is perfect? There's a
672
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lot of things I don't like about Trump and I
673
00:33:41.410 --> 00:33:43.920
didn't like about Trump early on, not when he was president,
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before when he, you know, was in New York as
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a contractor in Atlantic City and a lot of guys
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that I know that he stiffed. um that had contracts
677
00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:55.289
with him um but today i have nothing but respect
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for the guy i look like this i always compare
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people to myself i can't help it like you know
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like how would i put my how would i do
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00:34:02.289 --> 00:34:04.930
that situation could i do that and my entire life
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00:34:04.970 --> 00:34:06.329
i've always been like yeah i could do it no
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00:34:06.369 --> 00:34:09.070
problem let's do it all right i couldn't do what
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00:34:09.090 --> 00:34:11.690
this guy does first of all he gets attacked left
685
00:34:11.750 --> 00:34:16.090
and right um figuratively and literally i mean how many
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00:34:16.130 --> 00:34:18.389
times has it has it been shot at? How many
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00:34:18.429 --> 00:34:19.449
times has this guy.
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00:34:19.590 --> 00:34:23.980
There was definitely two, possibly three, possibly three for one.
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00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:26.280
Well, in the last book I write, I write a
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little bit about it. A lot of people forget that
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when he was running for president, because I had researched,
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00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:32.679
I forgot this. Because they're saying, how many times has
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00:34:32.699 --> 00:34:37.409
this guy, somebody gone after him? When he was, in 2016,
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when he was running, there was a man, I have
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the name in the book, I forget it now.
696
00:34:40.409 --> 00:34:41.949
Was that the one in the hangar, the airport hangar?
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00:34:41.969 --> 00:34:44.349
Yeah, he grabbed the gun. He tried to get the
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gun out. Yeah. State troopers or something. He tried to
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00:34:47.570 --> 00:34:49.250
get the gun to shoot Trump. And when he was
700
00:34:49.329 --> 00:34:51.469
asked why, he said he wanted to stop him. And
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00:34:51.489 --> 00:34:54.489
this is part of the rhetoric and the hate. You know,
702
00:34:56.820 --> 00:34:59.980
in the last book, Godless V God, I have two
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separate chapters just on hate. Because hate, that is the
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key for Satan's success. If you and I hate each other, boy, man,
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00:35:10.309 --> 00:35:12.610
he just sits back and he just says, OK, go
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00:35:12.670 --> 00:35:14.869
at it. And I don't have to do anything. And
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00:35:14.949 --> 00:35:17.510
he's white and he's black. And just let him go.
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00:35:17.630 --> 00:35:21.010
He loves that. And the ignorant people buy into that.
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And that fest is this hate. And this is why
710
00:35:23.989 --> 00:35:27.409
I hate to see anyone divided in this nation. But
711
00:35:27.570 --> 00:35:30.380
it's it's festering. And then you have the assassination attempts.
712
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:30.949
Right.
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00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:34.960
But you got to admit, though, he makes it easy, though,
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to pile on a guy.
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He makes it easy.
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00:35:39.699 --> 00:35:43.320
He makes it easy to power on the guy.
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On Trump.
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00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:51.710
To Trump. Like I said, I go to policy. One
719
00:35:51.730 --> 00:35:54.809
thing I was curious about Kamala Harris' book, and I
720
00:35:54.829 --> 00:35:58.019
was asking before, Was it about feelings or was it
721
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about policy? If you were to give me a book
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and you're looking maybe to run in 2028, which I
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have no idea. I would say right now she's right.
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I already said it on the show. I'm actually planning
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to do an episode this week on that, a topic
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on that, and I'm praying to God she don't do it.
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00:36:15.579 --> 00:36:17.820
Please don't. Let's go stage right.
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I think she's going to read the tea leaves. I
729
00:36:20.059 --> 00:36:22.780
think she's going to realize that the door is closed.
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There's other people coming up. The other thing I have
731
00:36:24.409 --> 00:36:26.460
a problem with getting back on her, and I think
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it's in the book, because I have seen excerpts in
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the book. I have an issue, and this is in
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general with all politicians, but specifically a couple of examples
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with Democrat politicians that are running now. I have a
736
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problem with politicians that come out after the fact and
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do a mea culpa or something like that. And in
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her case, it was, She didn't pick Shapiro, the governor
739
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of Pennsylvania, because she felt the American people weren't ready
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for a Jewish vice president. I mean, okay.
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She also sent a book to Wallace on top of that.
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I'll tell you right now. She thought he was way too,
743
00:37:05.380 --> 00:37:07.579
like he wanted the role too much. In other words.
744
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:09.340
He was going to be his own man. See, there's
745
00:37:09.380 --> 00:37:12.820
a formula Democrats have perfected over the last decade and
746
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a half.
747
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I can't stand it.
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I think it started with Obama. Obama needed somebody. First
749
00:37:19.170 --> 00:37:21.670
of all, nobody's really going to outshine Obama. But he
750
00:37:21.690 --> 00:37:24.670
needed somebody. He was younger, a little less experienced, especially
751
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:29.179
in international affairs. He picks Biden. You couldn't have picked
752
00:37:29.260 --> 00:37:31.860
a better– if I'm the president, I don't want anybody
753
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:37.139
showing me up. So Biden's perfect. He's got the nice smile.
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00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:38.760
He's going to go out there. He's going to kiss
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some babies.
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His grandpa. Yeah.
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You're going to think he's harmless. But remember what Obama
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said yesterday. Yeah. Obama said about Biden, never underestimate this
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00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:54.719
guy to blank things up. OK. But he picked the
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00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:57.590
right guy for him. He complimented him. He didn't pick
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00:37:57.610 --> 00:38:01.190
the right guy that if anything happened to Obama, especially
762
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being the first black president. I would say the Vegas
763
00:38:04.260 --> 00:38:05.969
odds were a hell of a lot higher, him getting
764
00:38:05.989 --> 00:38:10.610
knocked off than Trump. Before, if you put him. But
765
00:38:10.650 --> 00:38:15.480
look who's been attacked more. So you would think you'd
766
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:17.139
want to put somebody who's ready in day one to
767
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:19.500
step in. And maybe he thought that was the case.
768
00:38:20.059 --> 00:38:23.090
I don't think Joe Biden was much sharper back in
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00:38:23.090 --> 00:38:25.489
2008 than he is in 2020.
770
00:38:25.489 --> 00:38:28.130
There was a massive difference between the two guys.
771
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That's the mental decline. But in terms of character, I've
772
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always had issues with his character. But I'm going to
773
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leave that aside. Right. So he picks Biden. And then
774
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Biden runs and he picks Kamala Harris. And again, he
775
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picks the perfect candidate because nobody, as bad as Biden
776
00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:50.170
was– Nobody was banging on the table saying, resign, resign, resign,
777
00:38:50.190 --> 00:38:52.090
because they knew what was coming in the door after him.
778
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So I said, okay. He picked what was best for him.
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Kamala runs. And could you have picked a better candidate
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for Kamala than Tampon Tim from Minnesota?
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I mean, you couldn't pick.
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00:39:08.190 --> 00:39:11.809
For her a better person because she knew nobody was
783
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going to be clamoring saying, boy, I wish Tim Walz
784
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was in that Oval Office right now. Nobody. Nobody. And
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this seems to be, like I said, the trend for
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that time. The Republicans, on the other hand, they seem
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to be grooming as they go. And I think that
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they have a better bench right now. I think J.D.
789
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:34.860
Vance is brilliantly smart. And I think Rubio is just
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00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:35.480
out there.
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Rubio's the only Republican I would even consider voting for
792
00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:40.079
right now. If there's a Republican I would vote for,
793
00:39:40.139 --> 00:39:41.880
he'd be the only one. Only because he's a grown-up.
794
00:39:43.929 --> 00:39:45.570
I've been so impressed. They put him in the right
795
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position as Secretary of State And they're friends. Rubio and J.D.
796
00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:53.320
Vance are friends. So it will get interesting as this
797
00:39:53.389 --> 00:39:55.690
thing moves on to see how things play out. Sometimes
798
00:39:55.730 --> 00:39:58.289
these things have a way of working themselves out. But
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00:39:58.329 --> 00:40:00.769
if it comes down to a primary, and I'll say
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it here now, if J.D. Vance and Rubio come down
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to a primary, and I know this is not the
802
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thinking right now. Everybody thinks that J.D. Vance is ready
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for the position and he's going to basically win the primaries.
804
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I think it's Rubio. I think Rubio is more well-rounded.
805
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And he's more and even more presidential. You see him.
806
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He gave a he gave a speech in Athens about
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a week or two ago and he did another one
808
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in Greece. And it's just he just nails it. He
809
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like you look at him and say, you know what?
810
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I feel comfortable with this guy at the helm. And
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it's the same way. Listen, I felt the same way
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about Bill Clinton. You know, I felt when he spoke,
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I felt, okay, I feel comfortable with this guy, and
814
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here I am.
815
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And Bill, outside his extracurricular activities, of course, is looked
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at as a, by both, by, you know, I think
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some Republicans who also like him to a degree because
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he worked with, on both sides, he worked with Republicans.
819
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He had to.
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He lost, remember he lost seats in 95, 94 rather, midterms.
821
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He had to work with them.
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They got shit done.
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Under his watch.
824
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He realized that there's only way you're going to have
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government work together. So now what's going to happen? What's
826
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going to happen now? You have a midterm. You have
827
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a Republican in the White House. So it's going to
828
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be interesting. Last midterm with Biden, Biden held– I should
829
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have researched this before.
830
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I came on. So we did a podcast before that midterm,
831
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you and I. Remember?
832
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Right.
833
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Right.
834
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And I said to myself, too, we're going to see
835
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a red wave of epic proportions.
836
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That didn't happen.
837
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No.
838
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What saved it, I told you, well, after the fact,
839
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was the.
840
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Evaldi gun violence that happened in one, and he had
841
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Roe v.
842
00:41:53.659 --> 00:41:58.159
Wade get overturned. That kind of saved Democrats in that cycle.
843
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:01.400
Now, they did lose seats, but not to the effect
844
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that you and I predicted that would happen.
845
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I was wrong on that one. I'll put my hand
846
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up in the air. Hey, I was wrong. You know,
847
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I don't mind being wrong. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
848
00:42:13.769 --> 00:42:14.070
You know.
849
00:42:15.090 --> 00:42:18.949
Go ahead. We were still in the middle of COVID
850
00:42:18.989 --> 00:42:19.719
at that time, right?
851
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Oh, yeah.
852
00:42:21.179 --> 00:42:24.480
We're still, you know, we're back to what was in Florida.
853
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This was different for us. We were back to commerce
854
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already here in Florida.
855
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I mean, I'm not being a soul loser. No, go ahead. No, no, no.
856
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:32.320
Go ahead.
857
00:42:32.829 --> 00:42:34.789
But there was a lot of anomalies with the voting.
858
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Even in 2020, there were a lot of things that
859
00:42:37.070 --> 00:42:41.260
just didn't add up right. You know, the counties that
860
00:42:41.320 --> 00:42:43.960
were bellwethers, that if a president, anybody running for president
861
00:42:43.980 --> 00:42:47.079
won those counties, you know, won the White House. And
862
00:42:47.099 --> 00:42:49.260
it didn't turn out of all the elections. It was 2020.
863
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:53.880
Any any. Buddy running for president that won Ohio and Florida.
864
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:57.329
I don't remember that being a 2022 issue.
865
00:42:57.409 --> 00:43:00.710
I think they were still doing the ballot boxes, but
866
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I don't remember. But listen, he did. Where I think
867
00:43:03.969 --> 00:43:07.230
I was frustrated with 2022 was I was kind of
868
00:43:07.250 --> 00:43:10.750
saying to myself, what are you voting for? Like, what
869
00:43:10.849 --> 00:43:13.780
policies are you keeping with that? You're saying this guy
870
00:43:13.820 --> 00:43:17.559
deserves to keep this together. And I think that the
871
00:43:17.619 --> 00:43:20.139
same thing, the same case, the same question can be
872
00:43:20.179 --> 00:43:24.300
made now. As Trump is running and we have this midterm.
873
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:28.159
So you say to yourself, should we have a divided government,
874
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:30.699
which many would believe that that's a good thing. And
875
00:43:30.739 --> 00:43:33.440
I do, too, to an extent, in the sense that
876
00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:36.869
if you have two strong parties, but when you have
877
00:43:36.969 --> 00:43:40.170
one party, it's slowly being taken over by the Democratic
878
00:43:40.230 --> 00:43:43.760
Socialists of America. And some of their policies are to
879
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:45.179
do away with the Senate.
880
00:43:45.219 --> 00:43:48.719
How many DSA candidates are currently in office now?
881
00:43:48.739 --> 00:43:50.579
Do you know? Do you know? Well, it depends what office. Okay,
882
00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:50.840
in the House.
883
00:43:50.860 --> 00:43:52.780
In the federal government, should I say? I don't think so.
884
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:54.719
Well, in the Senate, I mean... I mean, the squad probably...
885
00:43:54.659 --> 00:43:55.530
It's the DSA, right? It's the DSA.
886
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:10.539
This is relatively a new thing. I don't think– like
887
00:44:10.619 --> 00:44:13.420
now we– like even the guy from Michigan, El Saeed,
888
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:16.650
who's running for Senate, he's actually said I'm not with
889
00:44:16.670 --> 00:44:17.309
the DSA.
890
00:44:17.610 --> 00:44:19.309
He's a liberal.
891
00:44:20.130 --> 00:44:22.030
He's a liberal. But you look at his policies, they're
892
00:44:22.429 --> 00:44:27.360
pretty close. But you start looking at some of the–
893
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:33.079
Congress people that are running. You have AOC. But even she,
894
00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:34.760
I thought she distanced herself.
895
00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:36.460
No, she's been doing that. I don't even know what's
896
00:44:36.500 --> 00:44:38.159
going on. This is why I love politics.
897
00:44:38.179 --> 00:44:39.929
This is the best part about politics, bro.
898
00:44:40.710 --> 00:44:43.409
She's been there long enough now to be insulated enough
899
00:44:43.429 --> 00:44:46.309
to know, okay, if I'm going to even think about
900
00:44:46.329 --> 00:44:48.230
running for Senate, which she should do for the record,
901
00:44:48.250 --> 00:44:51.300
because she'll crush Schumer, primary his ass, if he runs
902
00:44:51.340 --> 00:44:52.559
again next year, or 2028, rather, that even.
903
00:44:58.190 --> 00:45:02.889
The conservative Democratic wing don't want that stuff. And that's
904
00:45:02.909 --> 00:45:05.119
the thing. Again, this is the problem with a big tent.
905
00:45:05.139 --> 00:45:09.559
You know what I'm saying? So, in essence, ALC has
906
00:45:09.619 --> 00:45:13.119
moved more by, you know, middle, I'm going to call
907
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:16.500
it that, because we will say DSA is more far
908
00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:18.199
left type of policy.
909
00:45:18.219 --> 00:45:19.280
Absolutely.
910
00:45:19.619 --> 00:45:21.389
ALC has moved more to the middle now on that,
911
00:45:22.409 --> 00:45:25.769
based on appearance. Because I think she's, I don't think
912
00:45:25.789 --> 00:45:28.070
she should run for president. Because the one she won't win,
913
00:45:28.090 --> 00:45:28.750
in my opinion.
914
00:45:29.469 --> 00:45:31.289
What is she doing? Just give me what she's done.
915
00:45:31.329 --> 00:45:32.150
Give me a policy.
916
00:45:32.170 --> 00:45:35.150
Give me– Well, the thing is, she's also a representative
917
00:45:35.170 --> 00:45:40.679
of a very strong blue demographic that there's nothing to
918
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:44.320
challenge her there. She hasn't– being a senator will probably
919
00:45:44.340 --> 00:45:47.480
get her more of a chance to see her political power.
920
00:45:47.900 --> 00:45:52.739
I wouldn't do it anyway. But you're seeing– Divide with that, too, also, too. Now,
921
00:45:52.940 --> 00:45:56.360
you said something about the bench of the Republican Party
922
00:45:56.389 --> 00:45:58.809
is strong, in your opinion, and the Democrats are probably
923
00:45:58.829 --> 00:46:03.190
still a mess. I would agree with you if your
924
00:46:04.210 --> 00:46:06.889
bench looks like Kamala Harris and.
925
00:46:06.829 --> 00:46:09.369
People of that ilk, people who are still.
926
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Attached to the Biden-Obama thing. I've been saying for the
927
00:46:13.780 --> 00:46:16.219
last four years now the Democrats need a remix. They
928
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:18.449
need a whole new fresh set of candidates. There are
929
00:46:18.469 --> 00:46:19.230
some good candidates out there.
930
00:46:19.269 --> 00:46:22.329
I agree. I think the Democrats do have a bench
931
00:46:22.590 --> 00:46:25.070
if they allow them. The problem what I'm seeing with
932
00:46:25.090 --> 00:46:29.530
the Democrats, because of these primaries and because of the
933
00:46:29.670 --> 00:46:33.880
strength that's behind this DSA and this far left, it's
934
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:36.619
very difficult. It's going to be very difficult for somebody–
935
00:46:36.699 --> 00:46:40.000
like look at El-Said in Michigan. He won his primary.
936
00:46:40.739 --> 00:46:43.139
Two points on that. One, the polls are way off.
937
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:44.659
The polls had him winning by more than 10. And
938
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he won by a point. Okay. There's an issue going
939
00:46:49.610 --> 00:46:52.409
on in this country with the polling because, first of all,
940
00:46:52.429 --> 00:46:55.510
I think polling in general is corrupt. There's some corruption
941
00:46:55.550 --> 00:46:59.070
involved in it because it serves their purpose. Like when
942
00:46:59.130 --> 00:47:01.789
Trump ran last time, I think it was Iowa. They
943
00:47:01.889 --> 00:47:03.110
were saying, oh, he's going to lose Iowa. Oh, he's
944
00:47:03.170 --> 00:47:04.670
going to lose by four points. He wound up winning
945
00:47:04.710 --> 00:47:07.409
it by like 12 points. And the person that did
946
00:47:07.429 --> 00:47:11.530
that polling never had an answer to it. But why
947
00:47:11.550 --> 00:47:12.050
did they do it?
948
00:47:12.210 --> 00:47:13.949
Because you were tired, too.
949
00:47:13.969 --> 00:47:16.869
They wanted to answer, oh, why bother voting? He's not
950
00:47:16.889 --> 00:47:20.309
going to win. And people may think like that. But
951
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with El-Said in Michigan, it's going to be interesting because
952
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:28.820
if he can win there, that is, in my opinion,
953
00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:33.139
it's a scary proposition for the nation, yes, for Michigan, definitely,
954
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:36.519
but also for the Democrat Party because now, to me,
955
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:38.139
it's not going to be the Democrat Party. It's going
956
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:39.280
to be the AOC Party.
957
00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:42.989
If we assume that we.
958
00:47:42.869 --> 00:47:46.090
Could take this party, Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat.
959
00:47:47.900 --> 00:47:52.019
He aligns with them. But now he's really becoming the face.
960
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:56.210
Where's Schumer? Has anybody seen Schumer? Has anybody seen Jeffries?
961
00:47:56.650 --> 00:47:58.690
These are the two leaders of the Democrat Party. I
962
00:47:58.730 --> 00:47:59.710
have not seen them.
963
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They've been around, but they're not really doing anything of
964
00:48:01.909 --> 00:48:02.530
significance right now.
965
00:48:02.889 --> 00:48:05.190
Jeffries I haven't seen at one event, but maybe he has.
966
00:48:05.250 --> 00:48:05.969
I'm not following.
967
00:48:05.989 --> 00:48:06.780
I haven't seen either.
968
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:15.960
But Schumer, these guys, AOC and Bernie Sanders and These
969
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:20.079
guys and Obama, they're the ones out there. They're the
970
00:48:20.139 --> 00:48:23.800
ones traveling and going to prop up these campaigns. So
971
00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:27.460
if he should win, I think there's going to be
972
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:29.800
even a bigger divide, and I think that hurts the
973
00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:32.909
country for the reason I said before. You need two
974
00:48:33.050 --> 00:48:36.110
healthy parties. If we're not going to have a third party,
975
00:48:36.369 --> 00:48:38.570
and right now I don't think it's realistic the way
976
00:48:38.610 --> 00:48:40.150
things are set up that there will be a third party,
977
00:48:40.829 --> 00:48:42.449
but if we're going to stick to this two-party system,
978
00:48:43.070 --> 00:48:45.610
You can't have one of the parties be so extreme.
979
00:48:45.989 --> 00:48:49.760
Because eventually, the way this country works is eventually they
980
00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:52.500
will win a national election.
981
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:55.760
If you assume.
982
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:02.280
If you assume, Dean, that the far left of the
983
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:07.489
wing of the Democratic Party is taking over the overall apparatus,
984
00:49:08.210 --> 00:49:09.110
which I don't.
985
00:49:08.989 --> 00:49:11.690
Know if we're there yet. I know there's definitely influence there.
986
00:49:12.099 --> 00:49:16.940
I know Joe Biden definitely acquiesced a lot to the
987
00:49:16.980 --> 00:49:19.329
left wing of the party for a good chunk of
988
00:49:19.369 --> 00:49:22.570
his term. There's definitely evidence of that. But to the point,
989
00:49:22.610 --> 00:49:24.610
do we know that it has taken over the party?
990
00:49:24.630 --> 00:49:27.500
Because there is a divide in that party also, too.
991
00:49:27.699 --> 00:49:30.900
But there is guys and gals in that party that
992
00:49:30.980 --> 00:49:35.599
I'm looking at that could be 2028 people that I
993
00:49:35.619 --> 00:49:38.239
could look forward to as someone who's a center-left guy.
994
00:49:38.710 --> 00:49:41.449
Who's a couple people you would give for 2018?
995
00:49:41.449 --> 00:49:42.449
John Ossoff is one.
996
00:49:42.489 --> 00:49:45.230
John Ossoff in Georgia, who's also doing this in a
997
00:49:45.309 --> 00:49:46.750
very lean red state.
998
00:49:47.090 --> 00:49:51.639
In a red state. Andy Beshear in Kentucky. In a
999
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:52.679
ruby red state.
1000
00:49:53.059 --> 00:49:56.260
More red than Georgia, who's a two-term governor in Kentucky.
1001
00:49:56.699 --> 00:49:59.099
Very popular for the record. You have that. You have
1002
00:49:59.139 --> 00:50:03.690
Wes Moore. There's also another one I was thinking about also.
1003
00:50:04.230 --> 00:50:05.989
And these are all moderates. These are all people who
1004
00:50:06.050 --> 00:50:09.400
are moderate Democrats. They're not DSA, they're none of that.
1005
00:50:09.500 --> 00:50:12.500
They're not even far left. They're very moderate, who probably
1006
00:50:12.579 --> 00:50:15.420
disagree with Republicans on certain issues, but they're not far left,
1007
00:50:15.619 --> 00:50:16.059
in my opinion.
1008
00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:18.619
You know what I'm saying? They're not over the hilt
1009
00:50:18.639 --> 00:50:19.219
like the squad.
1010
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:23.119
Look at Schlesinger, and I might be mispronouncing a name,
1011
00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:24.619
in Virginia, the governor of Virginia.
1012
00:50:25.099 --> 00:50:26.480
The new one, right, that came out two years ago?
1013
00:50:27.820 --> 00:50:30.780
She won the governorship in Virginia, and she came in,
1014
00:50:30.789 --> 00:50:34.869
and from day one, she started implementing pretty far left policies.
1015
00:50:35.579 --> 00:50:40.360
She did away with the previous governor's policies on sanctuary things.
1016
00:50:40.420 --> 00:50:43.539
And this is the thing. Right. I need to know.
1017
00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:46.159
I need to find out what a moderate Democrat is now.
1018
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:48.320
So it comes to the policy. OK.
1019
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:50.300
Now, if you're going to come in and you're going
1020
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:52.130
to turn around and you're going to be in favor
1021
00:50:52.190 --> 00:50:57.389
of no bail. You see, you mentioned the guy from Maryland,
1022
00:50:57.409 --> 00:51:00.550
the governor there. That's what a girl was killed. The
1023
00:51:00.590 --> 00:51:03.909
girl was killed on a train there. The Ukrainian girl. Right.
1024
00:51:04.070 --> 00:51:04.789
Remembering the names.
1025
00:51:05.110 --> 00:51:05.869
The guy had.
1026
00:51:05.769 --> 00:51:09.510
A rap sheet a mile long. He kills her. He
1027
00:51:09.570 --> 00:51:14.960
stabs her several times. And this is getting back to
1028
00:51:14.980 --> 00:51:17.519
the bias of the media. This one drove me nuts.
1029
00:51:18.969 --> 00:51:22.449
He not only kills her, but he yells out, I
1030
00:51:22.489 --> 00:51:25.190
got that woman. And you know, there's never been an
1031
00:51:25.429 --> 00:51:28.079
utterance of race in this case. Why? Why? I mean,
1032
00:51:28.099 --> 00:51:30.679
if that's the other way around, I mean, we're talking
1033
00:51:30.699 --> 00:51:32.769
about nothing but race. And all I'm asking for is
1034
00:51:32.789 --> 00:51:34.829
consistency across the board. I'd love to take race out
1035
00:51:34.869 --> 00:51:35.610
of everything if we could.
1036
00:51:35.730 --> 00:51:37.969
He was obviously caught and arrested, right? Was he arrested
1037
00:51:37.989 --> 00:51:38.230
and caught?
1038
00:51:38.349 --> 00:51:41.510
He was arrested. He had a record where he should
1039
00:51:41.530 --> 00:51:42.030
have never been out.
1040
00:51:42.050 --> 00:51:44.039
They have this no bail policy just like New York.
1041
00:51:44.539 --> 00:51:47.480
And who was supporting these policies are the Democrats and
1042
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:50.900
not even the far left Democrats. This was Maryland. This
1043
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:53.610
was the governor. You mentioned it.
1044
00:51:53.659 --> 00:51:54.789
Westmore. Westmore. Westmore.
1045
00:51:56.769 --> 00:52:00.960
He supported this. The guy in Chicago, Slim, another governor
1046
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.260
that supports these type of things, and another place where
1047
00:52:04.300 --> 00:52:09.239
a girl, a college student, was killed by a guy
1048
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:11.760
that should have been in prison. Some of these policies,
1049
00:52:11.780 --> 00:52:14.199
I've got to say to myself, what defines a moderate?
1050
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.530
So, I wonder, and I'm glad we're having this conversation
1051
00:52:17.550 --> 00:52:19.349
because this is where you and I actually have agreement
1052
00:52:19.550 --> 00:52:19.789
on this.
1053
00:52:19.909 --> 00:52:22.730
I'm very law and order. But I feel like, I
1054
00:52:22.789 --> 00:52:24.929
wonder if there's a lot.
1055
00:52:24.829 --> 00:52:33.030
Of more Because of Clinton's, you know, three-strike rule, that
1056
00:52:33.030 --> 00:52:36.789
94 crime bill rule, set the stage for, I mean,
1057
00:52:36.809 --> 00:52:40.760
so what happened? And I think they, you know, people
1058
00:52:40.780 --> 00:52:42.539
always use it against Biden a lot. Like, oh, well,
1059
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:43.280
he fought for the crime bill.
1060
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:44.199
He was a racist. No.
1061
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:48.519
I don't think they thought of the, of the, what
1062
00:52:48.539 --> 00:52:50.820
would happen. Correct.
1063
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:51.400
That's the right word.
1064
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:51.599
Right.
1065
00:52:51.980 --> 00:52:52.139
Right.
1066
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:54.699
Right phrase. I don't think they thought about that in
1067
00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:55.099
the moment.
1068
00:52:55.909 --> 00:52:58.010
And I think that's why they're probably reacting the other
1069
00:52:58.030 --> 00:53:00.289
way now, which, okay, I don't think you should do
1070
00:53:00.309 --> 00:53:03.110
that either. I think you should still, law and order,
1071
00:53:04.050 --> 00:53:06.230
is there a way to work it to where we
1072
00:53:06.250 --> 00:53:09.809
can still keep families together and make it where it's
1073
00:53:10.969 --> 00:53:14.849
mental health situation is accessible to people and whatnot.
1074
00:53:15.429 --> 00:53:16.110
That's the problem.
1075
00:53:16.210 --> 00:53:20.849
Everything is so freaking binary in politics now that we never,
1076
00:53:21.030 --> 00:53:22.630
and you'll love this one because I know you love
1077
00:53:22.650 --> 00:53:25.750
talking about this stuff too also. getting to the root
1078
00:53:25.789 --> 00:53:28.190
of problems, getting to the very root of the problems.
1079
00:53:29.269 --> 00:53:31.880
No one's talking about that situation. We want to sit
1080
00:53:31.909 --> 00:53:35.440
here and make laws, which we should, you know, and whatnot,
1081
00:53:35.820 --> 00:53:38.179
but we never get to the root of these issues.
1082
00:53:38.460 --> 00:53:40.500
Why are people doing the things they're doing?
1083
00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:44.059
Well, I tried before. If you remember, I mentioned education,
1084
00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:49.880
and it starts there. Because if children are not learning
1085
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:53.869
and are leaving school illiterate, The chance of them being
1086
00:53:53.929 --> 00:54:00.199
incarcerated or dead before they're 18 increases unbelievably.
1087
00:54:00.219 --> 00:54:01.820
So why is that happening?
1088
00:54:02.219 --> 00:54:04.699
Right. And why is it happening in mostly blue states
1089
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:08.699
and mostly blue cities? Why? Because the people are allowing this.
1090
00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:11.989
They're accepting this. They're not looking to change this because
1091
00:54:12.150 --> 00:54:16.570
they've been told like the Republicans, they're the devil, they're bad. Listen,
1092
00:54:17.409 --> 00:54:19.840
You have to change the policy. And the only way
1093
00:54:19.860 --> 00:54:21.719
you're going to change the policy is to wake up
1094
00:54:21.739 --> 00:54:24.360
the politicians by voting these people out. You know, Trump
1095
00:54:24.380 --> 00:54:26.219
had a line and I agreed with it. What the
1096
00:54:26.260 --> 00:54:28.260
hell do you have to lose? And I'm not here.
1097
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:31.670
You know, there are a lot of Republicans I don't respect.
1098
00:54:33.550 --> 00:54:35.750
I'm a part of a party. You're part of a party.
1099
00:54:36.090 --> 00:54:38.750
It kind of it's like a family thing. OK, I
1100
00:54:38.789 --> 00:54:40.559
got to take them all. But we have a thing
1101
00:54:40.579 --> 00:54:43.039
called rhinos in our party. Republicans are name only.
1102
00:54:43.059 --> 00:54:43.719
Name only, right.
1103
00:54:43.739 --> 00:54:47.710
These guys make me sick. The Bushes absolutely are disgusting
1104
00:54:47.750 --> 00:54:48.190
what they've done.
1105
00:54:48.210 --> 00:54:49.210
I voted Bush in 2004, actually.
1106
00:54:49.230 --> 00:54:51.190
Okay, how many times has Trump had to get shot
1107
00:54:51.250 --> 00:54:54.269
at before former President Bush comes out and says, hey, listen,
1108
00:54:54.309 --> 00:54:58.650
let's cut it out? Not one time, all right? Even
1109
00:54:58.969 --> 00:55:02.659
previous first ladies haven't done that. Where is the camaraderie
1110
00:55:02.699 --> 00:55:07.880
amongst that fraternity? It's so entrenched. The hate is so
1111
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:10.090
entrenched that they won't come out. That goes back to
1112
00:55:10.269 --> 00:55:14.230
Trump going after Jeb Bush. And get over it. We're
1113
00:55:14.250 --> 00:55:16.610
in this party together. OK, we want to make this
1114
00:55:16.650 --> 00:55:19.250
country better. We know what works. We know what doesn't work.
1115
00:55:19.309 --> 00:55:21.659
And this is the other thing that's frustrating me, especially
1116
00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:23.159
with the Democrat Party. And you will hear this. If
1117
00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:25.619
you listen, you will hear the following word, and it
1118
00:55:25.659 --> 00:55:28.780
infuriates me. And Elizabeth Warren used this word last week
1119
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:34.599
when she was talking about some of the policies about El-Said. Experiment. No, no,
1120
00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:38.070
we're not here to experiment. We're not lab rats. OK,
1121
00:55:38.409 --> 00:55:39.889
we know what works. We know what doesn't work.
1122
00:55:39.909 --> 00:55:42.489
What was she saying in context of them? I'm curious.
1123
00:55:43.030 --> 00:55:46.050
The context was the policies. She was saying she also
1124
00:55:46.090 --> 00:55:48.570
did this with Mamdami and his policies in New York
1125
00:55:48.590 --> 00:55:51.130
when he was changing things. And she's like, well, you
1126
00:55:51.150 --> 00:55:52.510
got to give it a chance. And this is part
1127
00:55:52.550 --> 00:55:55.309
of the experiment. This is a word. This is a word.
1128
00:55:55.389 --> 00:55:56.869
It's a bad word salad there, buddy.
1129
00:55:58.730 --> 00:56:01.289
It is a word that she has used consistently. Like
1130
00:56:01.309 --> 00:56:03.849
I said, she used it last week. The context was
1131
00:56:04.130 --> 00:56:06.610
more about just his policies. Like you have to understand that,
1132
00:56:06.949 --> 00:56:10.559
you know, When you're changing things, there's a way of
1133
00:56:10.619 --> 00:56:12.679
doing it, and sometimes it may not always work out
1134
00:56:12.699 --> 00:56:15.440
for the best, but this is the experiment that's made
1135
00:56:15.500 --> 00:56:17.360
for the greater good, which I always love that little
1136
00:56:17.420 --> 00:56:20.800
dog whistle. I'm tired of this because we already know
1137
00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:23.079
it doesn't work. Socialism doesn't work.
1138
00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:27.960
So let me just say this much. You brought Mom
1139
00:56:27.980 --> 00:56:30.679
Donnie in New York, and I was there for five days.
1140
00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:33.760
Five days is not a lot. I will say this much.
1141
00:56:34.570 --> 00:56:37.989
But in my exposure, I love talking to people, getting
1142
00:56:38.030 --> 00:56:40.840
a vibe of the city. And yes, it is a
1143
00:56:40.860 --> 00:56:43.000
blue city, so it's hard to really get a lot
1144
00:56:43.019 --> 00:56:46.139
of pushback. But I will say he's very popular in
1145
00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:49.630
Animal 1 still. I will say this much, and I
1146
00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:51.130
want to see how it is in the winter when
1147
00:56:51.150 --> 00:56:54.130
it gets cold and the snow and all that stuff.
1148
00:56:54.309 --> 00:56:58.280
The city is pretty clean. And even in comparison to last.
1149
00:56:58.139 --> 00:56:59.719
Year when I went– I'm going to find out next month.
1150
00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:01.460
I'll be interested to see that.
1151
00:57:01.539 --> 00:57:03.340
Okay. So I went last year, too, around the same time.
1152
00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:06.179
I went last year in August last year. And I'm
1153
00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:08.070
not saying it wasn't dirty last year. It was cleaner
1154
00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:10.309
than it used to be back in the days, pre-Giuliani,
1155
00:57:10.329 --> 00:57:14.030
of course. But I was impressed that the subways, which
1156
00:57:14.070 --> 00:57:16.730
I used a lot this time, was very clean in
1157
00:57:16.769 --> 00:57:18.989
comparison to what I've seen over the past, even last year.
1158
00:57:20.170 --> 00:57:23.110
So from what I can see, yeah, cost is high.
1159
00:57:24.409 --> 00:57:27.360
But I feel like from my little five-day bubble, and look,
1160
00:57:27.389 --> 00:57:30.400
I could be totally wrong on a bigger picture. From
1161
00:57:30.460 --> 00:57:33.800
what I can see, aesthetically speaking, things are getting done
1162
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:35.940
in the city. Now, again, we're less than a year
1163
00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:37.599
in this term. So I don't want to sit there
1164
00:57:37.619 --> 00:57:38.780
and say, oh, he's won the victory.
1165
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:40.610
He did all this stuff. I got to see more.
1166
00:57:40.619 --> 00:57:42.250
I got to see the whole four years he serves
1167
00:57:42.289 --> 00:57:45.210
as mayor and see if this plays out to a
1168
00:57:45.230 --> 00:57:45.789
positive city.
1169
00:57:46.670 --> 00:57:48.789
But from my little capsule.
1170
00:57:49.849 --> 00:57:51.210
You're saying it was cleaner, but I have a question
1171
00:57:51.250 --> 00:57:54.710
for you. Yeah. You're walking around Manhattan. How often did
1172
00:57:54.730 --> 00:57:59.019
you get a whiff of marijuana? A little bit.
1173
00:57:59.559 --> 00:58:00.619
Not a lot, but a little bit.
1174
00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:02.840
The last time I was up there was three years
1175
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:05.059
ago with my wife. We did not walk down one
1176
00:58:05.099 --> 00:58:07.920
block of Manhattan and not have that. I just said,
1177
00:58:07.940 --> 00:58:10.760
this is disgusting. We couldn't walk anywhere without people smoking.
1178
00:58:10.780 --> 00:58:13.079
They had vans. These vans, you know, you could sell
1179
00:58:13.139 --> 00:58:15.320
it legally and stuff. Well, it's legal now. Everybody was
1180
00:58:15.340 --> 00:58:15.800
getting high.
1181
00:58:15.820 --> 00:58:18.369
Well, it's legal now. So, I mean, I mean.
1182
00:58:18.690 --> 00:58:21.409
But I just mean the stench. I mean, the stench.
1183
00:58:21.449 --> 00:58:23.349
Are you anti-marijuana?
1184
00:58:23.610 --> 00:58:30.019
Anti-weed? It depends on the medical research of it. If
1185
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:32.320
we're just talking about it as a recreational drug, I'm
1186
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:35.050
100% against it. I mean, the effects of it and
1187
00:58:35.389 --> 00:58:39.670
the damage it does, you know, has been proven. And
1188
00:58:39.710 --> 00:58:43.269
today's marijuana is not the same marijuana that was there
1189
00:58:43.329 --> 00:58:47.289
when I was a police officer or when we were kids. So,
1190
00:58:47.969 --> 00:58:49.389
you know, they've made it more potent.
1191
00:58:49.949 --> 00:58:51.389
It's definitely more harmful.
1192
00:58:51.769 --> 00:58:54.409
I think a lot of these instances where you have
1193
00:58:54.449 --> 00:58:57.809
psychotic episodes, can be stemmed back from marijuana. But the
1194
00:58:57.849 --> 00:59:00.559
marijuana industry, which has become one of the strongest lobbyists
1195
00:59:02.019 --> 00:59:07.090
in Washington, have kind of quieted that down. So I
1196
00:59:07.130 --> 00:59:09.030
think there's more research that has to be done. But
1197
00:59:09.289 --> 00:59:13.699
in terms of record, I'm 100% against it. What about alcohol?
1198
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:15.000
Alcohol is just dead.
1199
00:59:15.420 --> 00:59:16.260
I'm that way.
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By the way, for record, Joe Biden was against it.
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More research has to be done. The little I know
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about it and the difference of the marijuana today as
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00:59:28.869 --> 00:59:31.150
it was years ago, I think it's very harmful for
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our children. And I, I think that, you know, two
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00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:37.559
wrongs don't make a right. I don't think you can
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be comparing it to alcohol. And it depends on the
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circumstances because I know there are cancer patients that use it.
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They lose their appetite. I know there are people that have, um, PTSD.
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00:59:50.539 --> 00:59:52.579
There's something about it with that. And we're also experimenting
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with legalizing this other drug. Like that's like a mushroom.
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It's not something I've looked into too much. Um, I'm
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for any drug that can help, but all drugs have
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01:00:03.190 --> 01:00:05.449
negative side effects.
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Which I'm very, like, you know, I'm very aware of that.
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01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:11.039
You have to be careful. Yeah, absolutely. You weigh the
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01:00:11.059 --> 01:00:12.980
pros and cons. You know, the upside to the downside,
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01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:16.019
and you say, okay, yeah, this drug is keeping me,
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01:00:16.099 --> 01:00:19.949
you know, normal, and, you know, I'm not as psychotic,
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01:00:19.969 --> 01:00:21.949
or whatever it is a person's using a drug for,
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01:00:22.429 --> 01:00:23.610
then you got to turn around and say, fine. But
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01:00:23.630 --> 01:00:26.269
you understand that everything has a, you know, a cost value.
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01:00:26.849 --> 01:00:30.920
Because I'm also very anti-alcoholic. myself. So, you know, with weed,
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01:00:30.940 --> 01:00:32.039
it's a little different because I.
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01:00:32.219 --> 01:00:34.139
Used to be very anti-weed myself growing up, and then
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01:00:34.380 --> 01:00:37.639
as I got older, I've laxed on that position, but
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01:00:37.659 --> 01:00:40.820
I'm also not, I'm very fully aware of, like, not
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01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:42.820
everyone's like me who can smoke once a blue moon
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01:00:42.909 --> 01:00:45.389
or take an edible and be okay, but there's people
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01:00:45.409 --> 01:00:46.889
who will get addicted to stuff to the point where
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01:00:47.030 --> 01:00:52.610
it does affect their thinking and the effects of what
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01:00:52.630 --> 01:00:56.250
they do to further in life and whatnot. I'm fully
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01:00:56.269 --> 01:00:57.940
aware of that part. So we have to– there's a
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01:00:57.980 --> 01:01:00.539
fine line there. We have to figure out what's good,
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01:01:00.579 --> 01:01:01.159
what's not good.
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01:01:01.219 --> 01:01:05.159
I get that. Let's go to the pharmaceutical industry, another one.
1236
01:01:05.780 --> 01:01:11.519
Another huge lobbyist. The amount of drugs that they have
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01:01:11.659 --> 01:01:15.980
brought to market in the last 20 years just for
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01:01:16.500 --> 01:01:20.239
psychological purposes, people that are struggling with things, and then
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01:01:20.280 --> 01:01:22.639
you have to research it. Are the people getting better
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01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:26.840
or is this just about profit? Yeah. I don't know.
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01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:29.280
I mean, this is why they have studies. And again,
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01:01:29.300 --> 01:01:32.179
I don't want to be the lab rat. I don't
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01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:34.019
want somebody I love to be one either. You know,
1244
01:01:34.619 --> 01:01:37.860
there's a lot of experimenting going on. And I think
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01:01:37.900 --> 01:01:40.679
drugs affect people differently as well. I do.
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01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:43.590
I agree. I agree with you. Trump's real rating on
1247
01:01:43.610 --> 01:01:44.210
the tank right now.
1248
01:01:44.929 --> 01:01:49.849
Why? Well, the war in Iran is not popular, but,
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01:01:50.010 --> 01:01:54.789
you know, Adam Smith, the father of economics, He said
1250
01:01:54.829 --> 01:01:57.610
in his studies that you have to have pullbacks in
1251
01:01:57.650 --> 01:02:00.449
order to have growth, that it's not realistic to have
1252
01:02:00.489 --> 01:02:04.610
a straight line going up. And I think that the
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01:02:04.650 --> 01:02:07.650
American people were we have a microwave. We want dinner.
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01:02:07.690 --> 01:02:09.889
It's ready in two minutes. You know, we don't have
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01:02:09.949 --> 01:02:12.619
time to make coffee. We have instant coffee. Everything is
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01:02:12.659 --> 01:02:17.719
immediate gratification. I think I'm not against Trump going into Iran.
1257
01:02:17.820 --> 01:02:20.280
I've always gotten frustrated because I being a first Gulf
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01:02:20.300 --> 01:02:22.519
War veteran. I always wondered why the hell we keep
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01:02:22.579 --> 01:02:24.860
on going into Iraq and Iran just sits there. They're
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01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:27.039
the one killing our soldiers. If you look back on
1261
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:28.960
a lot of the damage that's been done in the
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01:02:28.980 --> 01:02:31.139
Middle East, it's come at the hands of the Iranians
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01:02:31.179 --> 01:02:34.050
and their regime. I don't have a problem going in
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01:02:34.090 --> 01:02:38.230
there because of the nuclear side of it, because it's
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01:02:38.250 --> 01:02:40.449
something that they said. I mean, this was something else
1266
01:02:40.469 --> 01:02:41.369
I was going to talk to you about that we're
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01:02:41.590 --> 01:02:43.530
not going to have time to get into, but with
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01:02:43.550 --> 01:02:46.829
the Islam and what's coming into our country, what's going
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01:02:46.869 --> 01:02:50.619
on in Paris, that's a whole other topic. But Your
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01:02:50.659 --> 01:02:54.300
question is about Trump and his approval rating. It's going
1271
01:02:54.340 --> 01:02:58.929
to be down. And if gas prices were at 250,
1272
01:02:58.929 --> 01:03:00.269
would it make a difference? Sure.
1273
01:03:00.590 --> 01:03:01.750
Absolutely. Huge difference.
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01:03:02.389 --> 01:03:05.969
And real people are getting hurt. People that, you know,
1275
01:03:06.010 --> 01:03:09.650
when Biden was in office and there was real inflation,
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01:03:09.989 --> 01:03:11.989
I was saying the same thing. So Trump has to
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01:03:12.030 --> 01:03:15.030
look at the same way. But do I think we're
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01:03:15.050 --> 01:03:18.840
better off now than we were on the President Biden's administration? Absolutely,
1279
01:03:18.860 --> 01:03:21.989
I think we're better. But people look at it from
1280
01:03:22.010 --> 01:03:25.670
their own prism. And so what have you done for
1281
01:03:25.690 --> 01:03:30.059
me lately? Trump closed the border like this. It was
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01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:32.539
the number one issue in the 2024 election. Now it's
1283
01:03:32.579 --> 01:03:33.860
not even in the top 20.
1284
01:03:33.860 --> 01:03:34.059
Why?
1285
01:03:34.099 --> 01:03:36.500
Because he got rid of it. This guy is too
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01:03:36.519 --> 01:03:39.179
good for his own good. I compare it to George H.W.
1287
01:03:39.219 --> 01:03:44.170
Bush when the first Gulf War. It was so quick
1288
01:03:44.210 --> 01:03:46.699
and so fast. His approval rating, which people go back to.
1289
01:03:48.099 --> 01:03:49.199
It was over 90%.
1290
01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:51.179
You know what fucked them, right?
1291
01:03:51.199 --> 01:03:52.539
It was too quick.
1292
01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:53.380
The recession.
1293
01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:57.929
The recession did it. But I'm saying after the first score,
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01:03:58.909 --> 01:04:01.469
and then the recession came in and people forgot what
1295
01:04:01.489 --> 01:04:04.030
he had done two years earlier. He stuck to his word.
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01:04:04.050 --> 01:04:06.090
We're going to go in. We're going to liberate Kuwait.
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01:04:06.130 --> 01:04:07.809
We're going to get out. He did what he said
1298
01:04:07.849 --> 01:04:09.809
he was going to do. People loved him for him.
1299
01:04:09.969 --> 01:04:12.750
And the recession hit. Recessions are going to hit. And
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01:04:12.769 --> 01:04:15.769
I just want to make this one point. If the
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01:04:15.809 --> 01:04:19.489
American people choose and decide, oh, we're in a recession,
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01:04:19.699 --> 01:04:22.420
we need to change parties and we need to do
1303
01:04:22.460 --> 01:04:26.159
things differently, be careful. Because with this new Democrat party,
1304
01:04:26.199 --> 01:04:29.179
doing things differently means getting rid of the Senate, having
1305
01:04:29.260 --> 01:04:33.099
Congress vote in the president, packing the Supreme Court. It
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01:04:33.139 --> 01:04:36.880
means adding D.C. and Puerto Rico estates, adding senators and
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01:04:36.940 --> 01:04:40.639
congressmen and women to the Congress.
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01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:41.500
That's a thing?
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01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:44.429
Careful. Sometimes you got to have a little pain to
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01:04:44.469 --> 01:04:45.150
move forward.
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01:04:45.469 --> 01:04:47.010
That's the thing, though.
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01:04:47.309 --> 01:04:50.050
I understand you need you need change. But let's not
1313
01:04:50.070 --> 01:04:53.170
hit the panic button because we're talking about the experiment.
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01:04:53.610 --> 01:04:54.670
OK, so much.
1315
01:04:55.280 --> 01:04:57.679
Hold on. Lenin had an experiment. How did that work out?
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01:04:58.719 --> 01:04:59.679
Hold on. That's the thing, though.
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01:04:59.719 --> 01:05:02.739
People want the Democrats want to add Puerto Rico as
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01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:06.179
an extra state. And what do you think?
1319
01:05:06.599 --> 01:05:09.099
We had this conversation a couple of years ago. They
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01:05:09.139 --> 01:05:10.500
wanted to do– one of the things I was so
1321
01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:12.219
upset about at the time was they wanted to do
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01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:14.659
away with the filibuster in the Senate. And I turned
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01:05:14.699 --> 01:05:16.590
around to you and I said there were two Democrat
1324
01:05:16.610 --> 01:05:19.469
senators holding that back. And it was Manchin and West Virginia.
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01:05:19.489 --> 01:05:19.929
Harry Reid?
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01:05:20.969 --> 01:05:21.969
No, what? Oh, Harry Reid.
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01:05:22.110 --> 01:05:22.710
Oh, no.
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01:05:22.949 --> 01:05:24.469
Oh, that guy. Oh, you mentioned his name.
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01:05:24.550 --> 01:05:27.110
No, you gave me a– remember, you gave me a
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01:05:27.110 --> 01:05:27.829
history lesson about that.
1331
01:05:28.130 --> 01:05:31.550
Remember? About Harry Reid, yeah. He's a winner. He was–
1332
01:05:32.070 --> 01:05:35.429
but God rest his soul. Let's move on from Harry Reid.
1333
01:05:35.449 --> 01:05:38.519
I don't want my blood pressure to drop. But Merchant
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01:05:38.539 --> 01:05:43.159
was in West Virginia, was the congresswoman from Arizona. Cinema.
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01:05:43.860 --> 01:05:46.199
The senator from Arizona.
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01:05:46.460 --> 01:05:48.760
Cinema. Crystal Cinema. Crystal Cinema.
1337
01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:51.860
Thank you. I was at Cinema. And those two voted
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01:05:51.929 --> 01:05:54.510
against doing away with the filibuster. Now, think about this.
1339
01:05:55.429 --> 01:05:59.789
You had senators that years early when the Republicans were
1340
01:05:59.829 --> 01:06:01.789
in power and it was whispered that we might get
1341
01:06:01.829 --> 01:06:05.840
away with the filibuster. You had senators that were still
1342
01:06:05.949 --> 01:06:08.179
on turn around saying this is a bonehead idea. One
1343
01:06:08.199 --> 01:06:10.039
of those senators happened to be Biden, by the way.
1344
01:06:10.659 --> 01:06:13.579
But you had other senators saying this. Once the Democrats
1345
01:06:13.619 --> 01:06:16.619
got in power, oh, no, we need to do this. Why?
1346
01:06:17.260 --> 01:06:19.420
The whole reason they wanted to get rid of the
1347
01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:22.960
filibuster was to add D.C. and Puerto Rico. And this
1348
01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:26.090
way they could add to the Supreme Court. Well, you
1349
01:06:26.110 --> 01:06:27.369
think they're going to add it fairly? They're going to
1350
01:06:27.389 --> 01:06:29.289
turn around and say, well, let me get two conservative
1351
01:06:29.309 --> 01:06:31.650
judges and two liberal judges? No, they're going to add
1352
01:06:31.829 --> 01:06:35.849
four liberal judges. And this is exactly what happened in
1353
01:06:35.889 --> 01:06:39.130
Venezuela under Chavez. And this is the beginning of the end.
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01:06:39.429 --> 01:06:42.070
If the Democrats ever go this route, and this is
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01:06:42.090 --> 01:06:44.420
what I mean about having two strong parties. I don't
1356
01:06:44.440 --> 01:06:46.300
want to see the Democrats go the way of the DSA.
1357
01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:51.099
But I need them to come back to the middle.
1358
01:06:51.460 --> 01:06:52.619
But they're not going to come back to the middle
1359
01:06:52.639 --> 01:06:54.530
if the only way they're going to win primaries is
1360
01:06:54.570 --> 01:06:55.269
to be to the left.
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01:06:55.710 --> 01:07:01.389
Is there anyone you see? Is there someone you see?
1362
01:07:01.409 --> 01:07:03.409
Because you follow stuff like I do, like a sport.
1363
01:07:04.289 --> 01:07:06.769
Is there a Democrat or Democrats you see that are
1364
01:07:07.349 --> 01:07:09.130
reasonable that you can.
1365
01:07:09.030 --> 01:07:09.969
Say, I can work with that guy?
1366
01:07:11.590 --> 01:07:16.699
Well, I like Shapiro from Pennsylvania, but sometimes he opens
1367
01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:19.840
his mouth and I go– like he goes on to
1368
01:07:19.860 --> 01:07:22.619
that left side just to appease them a little bit.
1369
01:07:22.659 --> 01:07:26.059
Whitmer from Michigan, I always thought she was pretty good
1370
01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:29.650
level head. Yeah. I'm sure I'm forgetting some off the
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01:07:29.670 --> 01:07:32.429
top of my head. But you know who I thought
1372
01:07:32.489 --> 01:07:37.510
was like that was the governor of Virginia. I mentioned
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01:07:37.530 --> 01:07:45.969
the name before. She gave a speech on the Florida House,
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01:07:46.989 --> 01:07:52.090
and she actually reprimanded her colleagues for being too liberal.
1375
01:07:52.690 --> 01:07:54.469
for going too far left. And it was after one
1376
01:07:54.489 --> 01:07:58.050
of the midterms. And it put her on the map
1377
01:07:58.210 --> 01:08:02.309
because people walked away from that when she spoke. And
1378
01:08:02.469 --> 01:08:06.360
forgetting about how articulate she was and how passionate, but
1379
01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:11.320
how moderate and how common sense was the order of
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01:08:11.340 --> 01:08:16.659
the day. And people are going away of that in
1381
01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:21.989
order to keep their base happy. Because the base is
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01:08:22.010 --> 01:08:25.770
not common sense. The base is crazy. We have to
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01:08:25.829 --> 01:08:28.810
agree on that. If the Democrat Party can agree on anything,
1384
01:08:28.829 --> 01:08:32.970
they have to agree that this DSA, which is slowly
1385
01:08:32.989 --> 01:08:34.470
becoming their base, or the people that are on the
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01:08:34.550 --> 01:08:36.569
far left, let's say. Let's forget about the DSA. Let's
1387
01:08:36.600 --> 01:08:38.979
just say the far left of that party are out
1388
01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:42.000
of their mind. You know, what's his name? Malcolm X
1389
01:08:42.020 --> 01:08:45.859
said the most dangerous thing to him, to his cause
1390
01:08:45.899 --> 01:08:50.560
and everything, was the White Liberal. And I go a
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01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:52.319
step further in the book I just wrote. I turn
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01:08:52.340 --> 01:08:55.060
around and I said, it's the white woman liberal. I
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01:08:55.119 --> 01:08:59.199
see more and more. I went there. I put it down.
1394
01:08:59.699 --> 01:09:00.760
I see more and more.
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01:09:00.979 --> 01:09:04.939
They take no accountability. They throw hand grenades and then
1396
01:09:04.970 --> 01:09:07.430
look and turn around and say, I don't know what happened.
1397
01:09:08.050 --> 01:09:13.289
And this is what's happened in the Democrat Party. Eventually,
1398
01:09:13.789 --> 01:09:15.609
they're going to turn on each other. They already have.
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01:09:15.949 --> 01:09:20.510
Think about this for a second. You're supporting El-Said. I'm
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01:09:20.529 --> 01:09:23.689
just saying in general. The left is supporting El-Said in Michigan,
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01:09:23.909 --> 01:09:27.630
which means LGBTQ is supporting them and this community is
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01:09:27.649 --> 01:09:31.460
supporting them. But meanwhile, if you look at what their
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01:09:31.500 --> 01:09:34.479
platform is, there's a town in Michigan. I forget the
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01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:36.260
name of it, but Google it. There's a town in
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01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:41.260
Michigan that the whole council members now are Muslim. And
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01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:42.680
what they did was one of the first things they
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01:09:42.739 --> 01:09:46.960
passed was you're not allowed to fly the gay pride
1408
01:09:47.239 --> 01:09:50.239
flag in public anymore. Now think about that. Ain't that
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01:09:50.260 --> 01:09:53.140
a kick in the ass? Be careful what you're wishing for.
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01:09:53.439 --> 01:09:53.699
I agree.
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01:09:53.739 --> 01:09:56.060
These people are doing everything they can to get into power,
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01:09:56.380 --> 01:09:57.859
and they kick you out. And who are the ones
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01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:02.239
helping them are these white liberal women. To me, they're
1414
01:10:02.260 --> 01:10:04.149
the foxes. I agree with Malcolm X when it comes
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01:10:04.649 --> 01:10:06.090
to that.
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01:10:06.310 --> 01:10:10.550
The part with the Muslim thing and assimilation and stuff,
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01:10:11.170 --> 01:10:16.369
I can see it's for me a little personal in
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01:10:16.390 --> 01:10:18.130
a sense because I have a lot of friends and
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01:10:18.210 --> 01:10:22.720
family who are very much, who are obviously Muslim, but
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01:10:22.840 --> 01:10:26.409
are not in that camp of, like, anti-gay and all
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01:10:26.430 --> 01:10:29.470
this stuff. They just happen to be Muslim, who happens
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01:10:29.510 --> 01:10:32.329
to be free speech, all that stuff. But I also
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01:10:32.409 --> 01:10:34.630
understand that a lot of Muslims, especially in that region,
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01:10:34.909 --> 01:10:37.510
you know, who are very anti-gay and to the point,
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01:10:37.550 --> 01:10:39.199
you know, if you're gay, you're going to die. You're
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01:10:39.220 --> 01:10:42.180
not going to live. You're going to die for being that.
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01:10:43.060 --> 01:10:45.659
And people don't understand the perspective of that also, too.
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01:10:46.210 --> 01:10:48.140
So there's a lot of that, too. Also, I just
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01:10:48.149 --> 01:10:51.279
don't like the fact that everything we talk about when
1430
01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:54.760
it comes to politics in general becomes a binary conversation
1431
01:10:54.819 --> 01:10:57.260
instead of like a broader conversation about, OK, what about
1432
01:10:57.560 --> 01:11:00.460
this sector versus this sector and whatnot? And the same
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01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:03.220
thing like I why people think I defend MAGA a
1434
01:11:03.239 --> 01:11:07.180
lot because like people think that I don't I'm sorry.
1435
01:11:07.779 --> 01:11:11.619
So my best friends are MAGA. So my best friends
1436
01:11:11.640 --> 01:11:14.199
are Republican MAGA. And I love them to death. I'll
1437
01:11:14.220 --> 01:11:14.859
take a vote for those people.
1438
01:11:15.300 --> 01:11:15.520
Okay?
1439
01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:17.880
Because they're good people. Okay, first and foremost. Do I
1440
01:11:17.899 --> 01:11:19.680
agree with everything they're saying on public speaking? No, I don't.
1441
01:11:20.039 --> 01:11:22.850
But we can still have a conversation and then move
1442
01:11:22.979 --> 01:11:25.850
on and have some Coke and ice cream and whatever
1443
01:11:25.890 --> 01:11:26.369
dinner we have.
1444
01:11:26.390 --> 01:11:26.949
You know what I'm saying?
1445
01:11:26.970 --> 01:11:29.689
So I just, I think we need to get back
1446
01:11:29.770 --> 01:11:32.750
to the standards of these conversations in general.
1447
01:11:33.250 --> 01:11:34.949
And I don't know, man.
1448
01:11:35.850 --> 01:11:38.149
It's frustrating for me now because people look at me
1449
01:11:38.340 --> 01:11:40.819
and like, I'll give you an example. I was at
1450
01:11:40.859 --> 01:11:43.560
work the other day about a month ago. And I
1451
01:11:43.579 --> 01:11:46.430
had one guy Call me a communist. And one guy
1452
01:11:46.449 --> 01:11:49.010
called me a MAGA. And that's why I love Franny. See,
1453
01:11:49.029 --> 01:11:50.170
this shit I have with her all the time.
1454
01:11:50.390 --> 01:11:52.130
Literally right here. This guy thinks I'm a communist. This
1455
01:11:52.149 --> 01:11:52.989
guy thinks I'm MAGA.
1456
01:11:53.510 --> 01:11:53.750
Okay?
1457
01:11:54.210 --> 01:11:57.430
This is the fucking problem in this country. I can't
1458
01:11:57.449 --> 01:11:58.289
have a conversation like that.
1459
01:11:58.310 --> 01:11:59.829
You're in identity crisis mode, man. You don't know what
1460
01:11:59.850 --> 01:12:00.329
the hell you are.
1461
01:12:00.350 --> 01:12:02.390
No, I'm a common sense guy.
1462
01:12:02.449 --> 01:12:05.729
Dean, I like to think I'm a common sense guy.
1463
01:12:06.279 --> 01:12:07.619
Absolutely, you are.
1464
01:12:07.640 --> 01:12:10.979
We will... You know, do what you want. We live
1465
01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:14.039
in a great country. And I'm sorry. People would sit
1466
01:12:14.060 --> 01:12:16.180
there and tell me that this country is in the
1467
01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:18.539
worst state there's ever been. They'd kiss my ass.
1468
01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:21.640
Ernest, my battery is– I can't believe this. My battery
1469
01:12:21.659 --> 01:12:25.199
is about to die. Damn it. I could change it.
1470
01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:27.390
It would take me two seconds, but I had a problem.
1471
01:12:27.699 --> 01:12:29.050
I could pause real quick. I could pause real quick.
1472
01:12:29.470 --> 01:12:31.510
Pause real quick. I'm sorry. Give me one second.
1473
01:12:33.100 --> 01:12:35.439
Alright, we just recharged the batteries here on Dean's side.
1474
01:12:35.460 --> 01:12:36.439
We're back.
1475
01:12:37.399 --> 01:12:41.739
So what was I saying? I like to think I'm
1476
01:12:41.779 --> 01:12:42.760
a common sense guy.
1477
01:12:43.260 --> 01:12:44.840
You're a new guy.
1478
01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:47.140
You're a commie MAGA. We're going to set that up
1479
01:12:47.159 --> 01:12:47.579
just for you.
1480
01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:50.649
A MAGA commie?
1481
01:12:50.770 --> 01:12:52.779
I don't know, man. We can go either way.
1482
01:12:53.949 --> 01:12:57.810
It's silly some of those things we argue about. Like
1483
01:12:57.850 --> 01:13:02.720
I said, are there things on that side I'm very
1484
01:13:02.920 --> 01:13:04.579
mad about yes and the things on the other side
1485
01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:07.840
yes i am but you know i i always start
1486
01:13:07.880 --> 01:13:11.779
here at we got to have standards we gotta have
1487
01:13:11.819 --> 01:13:15.989
conversations and discussion because we look i gotta share this
1488
01:13:16.010 --> 01:13:17.770
with you and i know bill maher gets on a
1489
01:13:17.770 --> 01:13:19.609
shift from the left now too also because people think
1490
01:13:19.649 --> 01:13:20.989
he's snuggling up the right a little bit now because
1491
01:13:21.010 --> 01:13:24.010
of some of his commentary which he's really not i
1492
01:13:24.050 --> 01:13:25.369
mean maybe he's been less.
1493
01:13:25.810 --> 01:13:27.739
A brace with trump in.
1494
01:13:27.859 --> 01:13:32.279
Recent years but he's still liberal but he's open having conversations.
1495
01:13:33.319 --> 01:13:33.750
Same with Stephen A.
1496
01:13:33.739 --> 01:13:33.979
Smith.
1497
01:13:34.779 --> 01:13:36.520
Why is that bad to have a conversation with people
1498
01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:39.220
that you may disagree with? But we have to share this.
1499
01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:41.979
This is all our home. We got to share this, bro.
1500
01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:46.279
Let's figure it out. That's my two cents. And maybe
1501
01:13:46.560 --> 01:13:47.279
I'm just getting old.
1502
01:13:47.310 --> 01:13:48.710
I'm 46.
1503
01:13:48.689 --> 01:13:51.550
I'm just getting old. Maybe I'm just like naive. But
1504
01:13:51.569 --> 01:13:52.550
that's how I feel about it, man.
1505
01:13:53.409 --> 01:13:55.850
You said it before. People are trenched in. And then
1506
01:13:55.890 --> 01:13:57.670
what happens is if you criticize, if you go back
1507
01:13:57.729 --> 01:13:59.930
at somebody, like I said something a little controversial. I
1508
01:13:59.949 --> 01:14:03.409
turn around and I specifically said white women. And somebody
1509
01:14:03.430 --> 01:14:04.710
may turn around and take offense to that. And we
1510
01:14:04.729 --> 01:14:07.149
could have a conversation, be like, well, Dean, you specifically
1511
01:14:07.189 --> 01:14:09.340
said that. How come it wasn't, you know, your wife's Colombian?
1512
01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:12.100
How about Colombian women? How about black women? And, but
1513
01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:13.960
that gives me the opportunity to turn around and say, okay,
1514
01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:16.800
I threw the grenade now. Now let me back it up.
1515
01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:20.460
Watch TV. And I want, I have in my books,
1516
01:14:20.479 --> 01:14:23.170
I have a nickname for myself. I'm a BOFA. That
1517
01:14:23.250 --> 01:14:29.090
stands for bold, old, white, fat, opinionated guy. BOFA. And
1518
01:14:29.109 --> 01:14:33.949
I see in commercial after commercials, Every time the bad guy,
1519
01:14:34.010 --> 01:14:37.149
the criminal, the stupid guy, the punchline is always at
1520
01:14:37.189 --> 01:14:40.550
the Beaufort. It's always at the stupid white guy. And
1521
01:14:41.390 --> 01:14:45.560
I always see that the smart person is not. Look
1522
01:14:45.569 --> 01:14:48.300
at commercials, do it for a night, and you don't
1523
01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:51.399
even realize it's happening. But this is how the media
1524
01:14:51.479 --> 01:14:55.539
is brainwashing that me, I'm the bad guy. Now, here's
1525
01:14:55.560 --> 01:15:00.539
where I have a problem. Recently, I was somewhere and
1526
01:15:01.100 --> 01:15:02.619
I had this white woman come up to me and
1527
01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:04.899
I was loading something up. And she's like, you know,
1528
01:15:04.920 --> 01:15:06.060
you're not supposed to be parked there.
1529
01:15:06.439 --> 01:15:07.020
I'm like, OK.
1530
01:15:07.270 --> 01:15:10.050
You know, she's right. You see, I'm loading this stuff.
1531
01:15:10.069 --> 01:15:12.369
I'm getting out of here. I apologize.
1532
01:15:13.010 --> 01:15:13.270
All right.
1533
01:15:14.210 --> 01:15:17.390
And she kept on doing it or whatever. I just
1534
01:15:17.409 --> 01:15:18.890
came home and I said to my wife, I said, God,
1535
01:15:18.909 --> 01:15:21.409
you know, it's really annoying that they do that. Like
1536
01:15:21.569 --> 01:15:24.569
they got to police everything. Sure enough, the next day
1537
01:15:24.630 --> 01:15:26.609
I go and there's a guy doing almost the exact
1538
01:15:26.649 --> 01:15:28.789
same thing I'm doing. And I love the way he
1539
01:15:28.829 --> 01:15:31.430
handled it because he's loading up a truck. The lady
1540
01:15:31.470 --> 01:15:33.949
comes up to him, you're in a fire zone. And
1541
01:15:33.989 --> 01:15:35.829
he turned around and goes, I'm sorry, ma'am. Handle it
1542
01:15:35.850 --> 01:15:36.569
kind of like I did.
1543
01:15:36.609 --> 01:15:36.930
Apologize.
1544
01:15:36.949 --> 01:15:38.090
I'm going to be out of here in two seconds.
1545
01:15:39.010 --> 01:15:41.130
She keeps on yelling at him. And the guy lifted
1546
01:15:41.170 --> 01:15:44.189
his leg and he had a prosthesis. He goes, you
1547
01:15:44.220 --> 01:15:46.439
know what? I fought in a war so you could
1548
01:15:46.460 --> 01:15:48.420
have that freedom to say what you want to say.
1549
01:15:48.460 --> 01:15:50.300
So I'm going to ask you now is are you done?
1550
01:15:51.300 --> 01:15:53.560
And I loved it because for the first time in
1551
01:15:53.579 --> 01:15:56.069
my life, it shut up a carriage. But then it
1552
01:15:56.090 --> 01:15:57.890
made me think. I turned around and I said, you
1553
01:15:57.909 --> 01:16:02.649
know what? What if that guy was a Muslim? Better yet,
1554
01:16:02.869 --> 01:16:05.229
what if it was a black woman? Do you think
1555
01:16:05.270 --> 01:16:07.649
for a second a white liberal woman is going to
1556
01:16:07.670 --> 01:16:09.449
go up to a black woman? Because I've never seen it.
1557
01:16:09.970 --> 01:16:12.949
When the pandemic was going on, I've had white women
1558
01:16:12.970 --> 01:16:14.909
come up to me and criticize, you know, your mask
1559
01:16:14.949 --> 01:16:16.810
isn't over your nostrils or you're not doing this. You're
1560
01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:18.859
not standing six feet apart. You're not on the yellow
1561
01:16:19.359 --> 01:16:24.220
foot signs on the grocery stores. Because I've become a target.
1562
01:16:24.300 --> 01:16:28.520
For some reason, I'm the bad guy. And this is
1563
01:16:28.640 --> 01:16:31.350
part of the push that goes on to brainwash and
1564
01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:35.630
have this hate and have this divisiveness. And people don't
1565
01:16:35.689 --> 01:16:37.670
even see it in themselves because I know for a
1566
01:16:37.829 --> 01:16:41.109
fact they wouldn't do it. So if you wouldn't do
1567
01:16:41.170 --> 01:16:44.979
it against someone else, why do it against me? And
1568
01:16:45.020 --> 01:16:46.680
people turn around and have gotten to the point and say, well,
1569
01:16:46.779 --> 01:16:49.880
come on, man. You know, like you're privileged. You've had
1570
01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:53.029
it so good. You're a white man in America. I'm
1571
01:16:53.060 --> 01:16:55.720
not complaining. I'm not complaining about that part of it.
1572
01:16:56.479 --> 01:16:59.859
I know I've had opportunities, but most of my opportunities
1573
01:16:59.880 --> 01:17:04.800
have come from my upbringing, come from the parenting, that
1574
01:17:04.819 --> 01:17:07.279
I went to good schools, that, you know, my father
1575
01:17:07.300 --> 01:17:09.539
worked extra jobs in order to put me through a
1576
01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:12.439
private school. Like, I don't take any of that for granted,
1577
01:17:13.060 --> 01:17:16.739
but those things weren't given. But I also didn't have
1578
01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:19.359
the displeasure of And you would relate better than this.
1579
01:17:19.380 --> 01:17:21.039
I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. I've
1580
01:17:21.079 --> 01:17:22.800
never gone into a store and had people look at
1581
01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:25.439
me like, hey, is this guy going to take something?
1582
01:17:25.500 --> 01:17:26.899
Is this guy going to rob me? Is this guy
1583
01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:29.300
got a hoodie on? So I can't relate to that either.
1584
01:17:29.380 --> 01:17:33.550
And that's not good. But don't generalize that on the
1585
01:17:33.569 --> 01:17:34.609
rest of the people that look like me.
1586
01:17:34.609 --> 01:17:35.140
I can't stand it.
1587
01:17:35.529 --> 01:17:35.689
Yeah.
1588
01:17:35.949 --> 01:17:39.289
I'm an individualist. But hey, it is what it is.
1589
01:17:39.329 --> 01:17:42.750
I'm not going to change who I am. Some predictions
1590
01:17:42.789 --> 01:17:43.630
here for the midterms.
1591
01:17:44.590 --> 01:17:44.689
Sure.
1592
01:17:44.710 --> 01:17:45.529
All right.
1593
01:17:46.359 --> 01:17:53.390
Before we go overall overview, let's start in Florida. So, again,
1594
01:17:54.489 --> 01:17:56.970
for the first time in years, I'm actually not trusting polls.
1595
01:17:57.430 --> 01:18:00.489
Because polls, I've been someone in this show that has
1596
01:18:01.609 --> 01:18:03.449
said polls, yes, right, X.
1597
01:18:03.569 --> 01:18:03.960
Y, and Z.
1598
01:18:04.970 --> 01:18:08.449
And granted, I use polls as a way for content,
1599
01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:11.699
as a way to push content, to push conversation.
1600
01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:13.539
I'll show the poll what it is, and I give
1601
01:18:13.560 --> 01:18:14.039
my two cents.
1602
01:18:14.979 --> 01:18:18.100
Now, the polls here in Florida, okay, you have mainly
1603
01:18:18.140 --> 01:18:22.920
the governor's race between Byron Donald and David Jolly, and
1604
01:18:22.939 --> 01:18:25.060
you also have the Senate race between Andy Nixon and
1605
01:18:25.779 --> 01:18:28.180
Ashton Moody.
1606
01:18:29.239 --> 01:18:29.579
Ashton Moody.
1607
01:18:31.439 --> 01:18:33.579
The polls suggest these races are closer than they probably
1608
01:18:33.600 --> 01:18:36.029
should be based on the trends of the last 10,
1609
01:18:36.029 --> 01:18:36.420
15 years.
1610
01:18:37.579 --> 01:18:38.300
I don't trust those polls.
1611
01:18:38.850 --> 01:18:43.229
Yes, I agree there is some Trump frustrations. But you
1612
01:18:43.270 --> 01:18:47.069
tell me you're going to swing 10, 15 points in
1613
01:18:47.109 --> 01:18:47.449
two years?
1614
01:18:48.069 --> 01:18:48.850
I don't see that, bro.
1615
01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:54.020
No it's gonna be competitive maybe some degree but not much.
1616
01:18:54.729 --> 01:18:56.109
You know why the polls are like that this is
1617
01:18:56.149 --> 01:18:57.689
a pet peeve of mine and it goes both ways
1618
01:18:57.710 --> 01:19:00.109
it's not just a democrat thing or republican thing right
1619
01:19:00.250 --> 01:19:02.949
i have a theory behind this but let's do the
1620
01:19:02.970 --> 01:19:05.810
republicans first The reason these polls are close– and I
1621
01:19:05.850 --> 01:19:08.640
got caught with this years ago. They were doing a
1622
01:19:08.680 --> 01:19:12.239
fundraising for Graham, the senator of South Carolina.
1623
01:19:12.479 --> 01:19:14.680
Yeah, it's his sister, right? Yeah.
1624
01:19:14.760 --> 01:19:15.920
No, but this is the brother.
1625
01:19:15.979 --> 01:19:17.359
Oh, Lindsey. Okay.
1626
01:19:17.859 --> 01:19:20.270
Lindsey Graham. And they were saying that he was in
1627
01:19:20.310 --> 01:19:21.810
jeopardy of losing his seat. And I was a big
1628
01:19:21.850 --> 01:19:23.250
fan of his. I mean he gave a great speech
1629
01:19:23.289 --> 01:19:27.729
during the Kavanaugh hearings and I donated money to his campaign.
1630
01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:29.329
I kind of wanted to win him by like 12,
1631
01:19:29.329 --> 01:19:31.369
13 points or whatever it was. And then I got
1632
01:19:31.390 --> 01:19:34.050
sucked in again with Cruz when Cruz went against Beta.
1633
01:19:34.069 --> 01:19:35.750
And all I'm hearing is, oh, Texas is going to
1634
01:19:35.850 --> 01:19:38.069
turn blue. This is going to be the end of civilization.
1635
01:19:38.859 --> 01:19:41.380
And once again, Cruz won. He didn't win by as much.
1636
01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:43.670
No, he won by two or three points. That's it.
1637
01:19:44.560 --> 01:19:47.300
But he did win. Graham would be a better example.
1638
01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:50.000
What I noticed that what the Republicans like to do
1639
01:19:50.079 --> 01:19:51.859
is they never want to say that they're winning by
1640
01:19:51.880 --> 01:19:54.430
too much because then the fundraising dries up. They got it.
1641
01:19:54.770 --> 01:19:56.949
I mean, Donald has got this in the bag, right?
1642
01:19:57.340 --> 01:19:58.880
They don't want you to say that because then you're
1643
01:19:58.899 --> 01:20:00.550
not going to send money in. And it always comes,
1644
01:20:00.590 --> 01:20:02.670
like I said before, comes down to the money. What
1645
01:20:02.689 --> 01:20:05.930
the Democrats do is they try to it's not about
1646
01:20:05.970 --> 01:20:09.479
as much about that as it is about trying to
1647
01:20:10.579 --> 01:20:14.399
negate the vote to get people to think like it's over.
1648
01:20:14.960 --> 01:20:18.960
I said before, Iowa in the last presidential election. Trump
1649
01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:21.159
was predicted to lose by like three or four. He
1650
01:20:21.199 --> 01:20:24.819
wound up winning by like 13. That just can't happen.
1651
01:20:25.100 --> 01:20:27.020
You're really bad at your job then. I mean, you're
1652
01:20:27.039 --> 01:20:29.439
either really bad at your job or you're corrupt. And
1653
01:20:29.460 --> 01:20:33.090
I'm going to go with the latter because you're trying to,
1654
01:20:33.310 --> 01:20:37.069
in your own way, shape the vote. And I think
1655
01:20:37.130 --> 01:20:40.130
that the polling, what's going to eventually happen, that's what's
1656
01:20:40.149 --> 01:20:43.890
great about America, is– Once you lose trust, it's very
1657
01:20:43.930 --> 01:20:45.430
difficult to get it back. So the people that have
1658
01:20:45.449 --> 01:20:48.880
been consistent and close to the polls, they're the ones
1659
01:20:48.899 --> 01:20:51.500
that credibility is going to stay up there. There were
1660
01:20:51.520 --> 01:20:53.819
two guys on Newsmax last night. I didn't get their names.
1661
01:20:53.859 --> 01:20:55.220
I knew one of them, but there were two guys
1662
01:20:55.260 --> 01:20:58.020
on Newsmax on both pollsters, and they've been very good.
1663
01:20:58.500 --> 01:21:00.100
And what they really narrowed it down to is that
1664
01:21:00.699 --> 01:21:05.310
we noticed there's about a four-point difference because, one, Republicans
1665
01:21:05.329 --> 01:21:07.090
are less trustworthy in the sense where they don't like
1666
01:21:07.109 --> 01:21:08.750
to do this polling because they don't know where that
1667
01:21:08.770 --> 01:21:11.380
information is going and as we've seen with Jack Smith.
1668
01:21:11.460 --> 01:21:13.340
I mean, if you bought a MAGA hat at a
1669
01:21:13.380 --> 01:21:15.539
certain time at a certain place, they got an investigation
1670
01:21:15.579 --> 01:21:17.840
going on on you. They were doing all this surveillance
1671
01:21:17.859 --> 01:21:21.500
stuff on MAGA. So people on my side of the
1672
01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:24.460
camp are much more cynical when.
1673
01:21:24.380 --> 01:21:26.659
It comes to some of that stuff. Yeah, yeah.
1674
01:21:27.020 --> 01:21:31.229
Absolutely. So I think that four-point thing that the gentleman said,
1675
01:21:31.550 --> 01:21:33.409
it resonated with me because if you look back on
1676
01:21:33.449 --> 01:21:36.569
some of these races, it's like a four-point difference between
1677
01:21:36.590 --> 01:21:39.050
the polling and what it actually is. And if you
1678
01:21:39.289 --> 01:21:43.149
use that But this upcoming election, I don't think it's
1679
01:21:43.180 --> 01:21:44.939
going to be a blue wave as bad as Trump's
1680
01:21:45.420 --> 01:21:50.920
approval ratings are. And I still think what's hurting Democrats
1681
01:21:51.420 --> 01:21:53.920
because they're going to get stuck with it is this
1682
01:21:54.340 --> 01:21:55.619
DSA stuff.
1683
01:21:55.640 --> 01:21:57.590
The DSA thing I believe is going to hurt them
1684
01:21:57.609 --> 01:22:00.829
because at the end of the day, while there are
1685
01:22:00.850 --> 01:22:02.550
a lot of people who want that stuff, there are
1686
01:22:02.569 --> 01:22:05.189
more people who don't, even in the Democratic aisle, that
1687
01:22:05.270 --> 01:22:08.170
may– or independents, for example, may say, you know what?
1688
01:22:08.890 --> 01:22:09.449
I don't like Trump.
1689
01:22:09.909 --> 01:22:13.189
I hate the gas prices, this and that, but that's
1690
01:22:13.229 --> 01:22:18.689
too risky also. And that's my biggest thing. I think
1691
01:22:18.729 --> 01:22:24.220
in Florida anyway, you'll see both Republicans win. Well, I'm
1692
01:22:24.229 --> 01:22:27.319
a little more bullish on the governor's race more so.
1693
01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:33.020
I have no doubt that Ashley Mooney wins the Senate
1694
01:22:33.039 --> 01:22:36.060
seat because, number one, because the DSA is not very popular.
1695
01:22:36.079 --> 01:22:38.119
It's not very mainstream yet. It's not very popular even
1696
01:22:38.319 --> 01:22:41.140
on independents. And ultimately, That's where you need to pull
1697
01:22:41.180 --> 01:22:42.659
from to win these elections.
1698
01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:44.260
And discussion.
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01:22:44.439 --> 01:22:46.100
That's the data.
1700
01:22:46.239 --> 01:22:47.220
Data is the data. That's it.
1701
01:22:48.239 --> 01:22:51.149
People work hard for their money. And people, you know,
1702
01:22:51.159 --> 01:22:53.250
when you're being overtaxed, like what's going on up in
1703
01:22:53.289 --> 01:22:55.409
New York, even New Jersey, because I lived in both places.
1704
01:22:56.109 --> 01:22:58.770
And I remember when my property taxes, you know, it
1705
01:22:59.170 --> 01:23:01.829
just went through the roof. This is crazy. I come
1706
01:23:01.850 --> 01:23:04.939
down to Florida and I'm embarrassed to tell you. I mean,
1707
01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:07.159
I have a nice house. I'm in a nice community.
1708
01:23:07.180 --> 01:23:07.880
All right.
1709
01:23:08.800 --> 01:23:11.760
But if this house was like where I used to
1710
01:23:11.819 --> 01:23:15.590
live in New York or New Jersey, my taxes, without exaggeration,
1711
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:18.909
would probably be about 10 times, 10 times as much
1712
01:23:18.949 --> 01:23:21.529
as what it is down here. So Florida is doing
1713
01:23:21.569 --> 01:23:24.029
something right. We have a budget that's less than New
1714
01:23:24.050 --> 01:23:27.770
York City. And we have almost three times as many people.
1715
01:23:28.340 --> 01:23:32.699
Like the governing is done better. And I see one
1716
01:23:32.739 --> 01:23:36.810
side being more fiscally responsible than another side consistently. And
1717
01:23:36.850 --> 01:23:39.640
that's what frustrates me when people turn around and they
1718
01:23:39.649 --> 01:23:42.140
start comparing it. I just look at numbers. I look,
1719
01:23:42.340 --> 01:23:47.180
who's more favorable towards business? You know, who's going to
1720
01:23:47.260 --> 01:23:49.560
regulate it to death? Who's going to tax it to death?
1721
01:23:50.020 --> 01:23:52.350
And this is what's happening in California. For the first
1722
01:23:52.399 --> 01:23:54.550
time since the beginning of last century, you had more
1723
01:23:54.590 --> 01:23:59.449
people leave California than enter California. So the policies really,
1724
01:23:59.770 --> 01:24:02.970
I think, should dictate where your vote should go. And
1725
01:24:03.090 --> 01:24:05.149
if you want higher taxes, I always said, look how
1726
01:24:05.210 --> 01:24:09.760
close it came for DeSantis not winning and the other
1727
01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:11.739
guy who wound up getting arrested.
1728
01:24:12.159 --> 01:24:12.840
Andrew Gillum.
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01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:16.539
Gillum, thank you. I think it would be a much
1730
01:24:16.579 --> 01:24:19.220
different state. I can't prove a negative. I mean, I
1731
01:24:19.779 --> 01:24:21.319
don't have a time machine to go back and do
1732
01:24:21.359 --> 01:24:24.279
that experiment. But I think looking at other blue states,
1733
01:24:24.640 --> 01:24:27.170
I think it's reasonable to believe that that we're doing
1734
01:24:27.210 --> 01:24:29.050
something right down here. Is it perfect? No, I think
1735
01:24:29.189 --> 01:24:34.159
the biggest problem down here is insurance for property. I
1736
01:24:34.180 --> 01:24:36.939
think we're in a hurricane area that, you know, they're
1737
01:24:36.960 --> 01:24:38.560
trying to figure out how to make this work. There's
1738
01:24:38.579 --> 01:24:42.539
not enough competition. But so by no means, there were
1739
01:24:42.560 --> 01:24:45.439
other issues going on that they're trying to address. But
1740
01:24:45.460 --> 01:24:48.989
I think I'm happy overall. I wasn't happy up in
1741
01:24:49.010 --> 01:24:51.029
the Northeast. What I'm afraid of is the people from
1742
01:24:51.050 --> 01:24:52.909
the Northeast are going to come down here more and more.
1743
01:24:53.470 --> 01:24:55.369
And we're going to start turning this place back into,
1744
01:24:56.010 --> 01:24:59.159
you know, Something we're going to be getting more taxes.
1745
01:24:59.359 --> 01:25:02.619
What is it with the Floridians hating New Yorkers to
1746
01:25:02.680 --> 01:25:03.260
come down here?
1747
01:25:03.279 --> 01:25:06.140
It's so funny. It's so funny, dude.
1748
01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:08.699
I think it's– well, first of all, I think New
1749
01:25:08.720 --> 01:25:10.800
Yorkers are a bit more aggressive. I mean you can
1750
01:25:11.260 --> 01:25:14.619
kind of see. Get out of my way. You can
1751
01:25:14.649 --> 01:25:16.520
just see the attitude. I mean I grew up with that.
1752
01:25:18.090 --> 01:25:19.609
So I can understand that part of it. But I
1753
01:25:19.649 --> 01:25:22.430
think from a political standpoint, I really do think it's
1754
01:25:22.449 --> 01:25:26.819
the policies. I think that if you start implementing some
1755
01:25:26.840 --> 01:25:32.500
of these non-common sense policies, that it's really it goes
1756
01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:35.819
against public safety. And it also is very costly and
1757
01:25:35.859 --> 01:25:38.479
also opens up for corruption. You know, I think there's
1758
01:25:38.500 --> 01:25:41.479
a reason why the corruption got exposed in Minnesota the
1759
01:25:41.510 --> 01:25:44.970
way it did. I think in California, it's it's getting exposed.
1760
01:25:45.189 --> 01:25:49.250
New York is on that track now, too. This one kid,
1761
01:25:49.630 --> 01:25:51.270
he was at the White House last week. He's only
1762
01:25:51.270 --> 01:25:54.109
24 years old. Can't think of his name. He's one
1763
01:25:54.189 --> 01:25:58.569
of these independent journalists, and he's exposing– he was the
1764
01:25:58.609 --> 01:26:02.449
one who came up with the layering centers in Minneapolis.
1765
01:26:03.090 --> 01:26:06.390
And here you have a kid that's just going out
1766
01:26:06.409 --> 01:26:10.699
there with like a video phone and going up to
1767
01:26:10.720 --> 01:26:13.399
these places and realizing, saying, you're supposed to have 80
1768
01:26:13.399 --> 01:26:17.859
kids in here today. There's nobody here. And you see
1769
01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:21.920
these people, mostly Muslim, mostly from Somalia. They're closing the
1770
01:26:21.960 --> 01:26:24.699
door or taping up the windows and things that you
1771
01:26:24.720 --> 01:26:27.439
would do if you were completely innocent, of course. And
1772
01:26:27.560 --> 01:26:31.270
you say to yourself, why isn't government doing that? Why
1773
01:26:31.329 --> 01:26:34.689
is this kid doing this? And in California, they went
1774
01:26:34.729 --> 01:26:37.310
as far as to try to– Nick Shirley. They tried
1775
01:26:37.350 --> 01:26:39.670
as far as to pass a law against this kid
1776
01:26:39.710 --> 01:26:42.550
called the Nick Shirley Act. This is crazy because you're
1777
01:26:42.569 --> 01:26:46.899
exposing fraud. So I think we're a very prosperous country.
1778
01:26:46.939 --> 01:26:50.600
I think we're a very– I think we're very blessed
1779
01:26:50.640 --> 01:26:52.960
in many ways. But as I write, going back to
1780
01:26:52.979 --> 01:26:56.840
my book, I write a chapter about turning this country
1781
01:26:56.899 --> 01:27:01.210
is turning its back on God. And when that happens,
1782
01:27:01.750 --> 01:27:05.909
bad things happen. And it's happened throughout history. And we
1783
01:27:05.949 --> 01:27:09.250
started this nation with a Bible in every classroom. And
1784
01:27:09.270 --> 01:27:11.189
I'm not talking about private schools. I'm talking about every
1785
01:27:11.270 --> 01:27:15.329
public school, every classroom had a Bible in it. And
1786
01:27:15.369 --> 01:27:18.810
we had prayer in schools until the early 1960s. So
1787
01:27:18.970 --> 01:27:21.270
we're not talking about going back to the 1700s on
1788
01:27:21.310 --> 01:27:26.149
all of this. We're talking about policies that have, you know,
1789
01:27:26.210 --> 01:27:28.149
are we better or are we worse? Do we have
1790
01:27:28.189 --> 01:27:30.850
more school shootings or less school shootings? You know, when
1791
01:27:30.869 --> 01:27:32.810
we had God in the classroom, we sure as heck
1792
01:27:32.850 --> 01:27:35.510
had less. And we're getting away from that. We're getting
1793
01:27:35.529 --> 01:27:36.590
away from the family values.
1794
01:27:38.630 --> 01:27:39.810
No, and I feel that.
1795
01:27:40.210 --> 01:27:42.880
I do think, though, we do also understand that a
1796
01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:45.930
lot of people who also are disenchanted, who were a
1797
01:27:45.970 --> 01:27:49.109
part of that world, have become disenchanted with that.
1798
01:27:48.989 --> 01:27:53.529
As well, too, also with Christianity or religion in general.
1799
01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:56.779
I know a lot of people who used to be
1800
01:27:56.960 --> 01:27:58.359
involved in the church who have backed away from the
1801
01:27:58.399 --> 01:27:59.880
church because of whatever.
1802
01:27:59.640 --> 01:28:04.199
Personal reasons and whatnot. Do their voices matter to you?
1803
01:28:04.239 --> 01:28:07.050
If they don't want to have that thrown in their
1804
01:28:07.090 --> 01:28:09.069
face over and over again in a public setting like that,
1805
01:28:09.670 --> 01:28:11.569
is that something that should be respected as well, too, also?
1806
01:28:12.050 --> 01:28:13.310
The suffrage of Church of State, for example.
1807
01:28:14.029 --> 01:28:16.840
There's a misnomer about the separation of church and state.
1808
01:28:17.140 --> 01:28:20.500
It's not in any of our founding documents. You know,
1809
01:28:20.520 --> 01:28:25.359
it was a letter that Jefferson wrote to the church
1810
01:28:26.060 --> 01:28:31.270
in Connecticut, Danbury, Connecticut. And it basically said that the
1811
01:28:31.670 --> 01:28:35.149
state was going to stay out of church's business, which
1812
01:28:35.210 --> 01:28:39.300
is very ironic because when COVID-19 happened, just the opposite happened.
1813
01:28:39.939 --> 01:28:41.760
I mean, abortion clinics were allowed to stay open. Liquor
1814
01:28:41.779 --> 01:28:44.779
stores were allowed to stay open. California, you couldn't have
1815
01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:46.960
your church open. You couldn't even be in the parking
1816
01:28:46.979 --> 01:28:51.000
lot in open air space having a sermon. Pastors were arrested.
1817
01:28:51.680 --> 01:28:54.239
So you could see how the tyrannical side of it.
1818
01:28:54.590 --> 01:28:57.069
So people want to talk about, you know, the secular
1819
01:28:57.590 --> 01:28:59.710
and keeping it separate. And this is the best thing.
1820
01:28:59.729 --> 01:29:03.380
You know, you don't want to have religion influence the
1821
01:29:03.420 --> 01:29:06.880
state where, in fact, what's happening is the state is
1822
01:29:06.979 --> 01:29:13.130
influencing the churches. That's what scares me more. And we
1823
01:29:13.170 --> 01:29:15.670
should never forget what this country was founded upon. It
1824
01:29:15.689 --> 01:29:22.789
was founded on Judeo-Christian values. And I intentionally leave out Islam.
1825
01:29:23.439 --> 01:29:27.239
and the Muslim people because Washington invited them here. He
1826
01:29:27.260 --> 01:29:30.420
turned around, he wanted to be inclusive. He wanted really
1827
01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:33.020
what the first amendment stood for with the freedom of religion,
1828
01:29:33.960 --> 01:29:38.140
but understanding that there are stark differences between our Bible
1829
01:29:38.180 --> 01:29:40.460
and the Quran. Having read the Quran, I know what's
1830
01:29:40.500 --> 01:29:42.960
in there and I know how they treat their women,
1831
01:29:43.140 --> 01:29:45.060
how would it says how they should treat their women.
1832
01:29:45.479 --> 01:29:47.100
And if more people knew about that, I think they'd
1833
01:29:47.119 --> 01:29:49.720
be less inclined to be all this, you know, we
1834
01:29:49.760 --> 01:29:52.060
need to be more inclusive. You know, this big 10 and,
1835
01:29:52.630 --> 01:29:56.149
inclusivity sounds good. It can make somebody feel good, but
1836
01:29:56.210 --> 01:29:58.369
it also could be dangerous if you're not knowing what,
1837
01:29:58.680 --> 01:29:59.850
what does that entail?
1838
01:30:00.279 --> 01:30:02.300
The problem is.
1839
01:30:02.920 --> 01:30:05.859
When you start getting into Sharia law, like you said before,
1840
01:30:05.899 --> 01:30:07.600
you have friends that are Muslim. They might not be like,
1841
01:30:07.920 --> 01:30:10.119
you know, practicing Muslims, but that that's what they were
1842
01:30:10.140 --> 01:30:12.590
brought up as. And, and I understand that because I'm
1843
01:30:12.600 --> 01:30:15.689
in the same boat, but when I hear somebody is
1844
01:30:15.850 --> 01:30:20.340
following the Quran and following Sharia law, That raises an
1845
01:30:20.399 --> 01:30:23.100
eyebrow to me because that's in direct contrast.
1846
01:30:23.359 --> 01:30:25.680
Do you know anybody personally that follows Sharia law?
1847
01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:27.960
No, I do not.
1848
01:30:28.359 --> 01:30:29.399
Okay. I haven't.
1849
01:30:30.119 --> 01:30:33.930
I knew people. I'll phrase it like this. I don't
1850
01:30:33.939 --> 01:30:36.729
have any friends, nor have I had friends that follow
1851
01:30:36.909 --> 01:30:38.770
Sharia law.
1852
01:30:39.789 --> 01:30:41.750
But you haven't had friends, though.
1853
01:30:42.250 --> 01:30:44.630
I know people. I know their practices. I know how
1854
01:30:44.729 --> 01:30:48.609
strict they are. I know that the man is the
1855
01:30:48.630 --> 01:30:51.750
head of the household. The women as a secondary citizen
1856
01:30:52.310 --> 01:30:58.060
that they, you know, believe in corporal punishment and their
1857
01:30:58.100 --> 01:31:02.220
value system, their pillars. You know, there was a reason
1858
01:31:02.279 --> 01:31:05.300
people forget history. You know, in the 1800s, when Thomas
1859
01:31:05.340 --> 01:31:07.720
Jefferson was president, there was an issue going on with
1860
01:31:07.739 --> 01:31:13.600
our ships being pirated by the Muslims. And we sent
1861
01:31:13.659 --> 01:31:15.500
our Navy, eventually sent our Navy. We don't want to
1862
01:31:15.520 --> 01:31:18.119
pay them tribute like Europe was doing for years to
1863
01:31:18.159 --> 01:31:21.579
protect the shipping lanes. And finally, Jefferson had it enough
1864
01:31:21.640 --> 01:31:23.800
and he sends the Marines in there and we do
1865
01:31:23.840 --> 01:31:27.680
what America does. As I said, Obama sent pillows and
1866
01:31:27.699 --> 01:31:32.210
blankets and Trump sent rockets. And I find that when
1867
01:31:32.250 --> 01:31:37.010
it comes to dealing with the Muslims and their philosophy
1868
01:31:37.029 --> 01:31:39.430
of what they think the world should be, it's better
1869
01:31:39.449 --> 01:31:42.569
to deal in strength than try to appease them. Appeasement
1870
01:31:42.590 --> 01:31:46.500
has never worked. Just ask Chamberlain when he appeased Hitler.
1871
01:31:47.279 --> 01:31:52.500
So people forget that Under their law, there are only
1872
01:31:52.560 --> 01:31:57.439
those that are Muslim, and then there's the infidel. And
1873
01:31:57.560 --> 01:32:01.260
if you fall into the latter category, then you are
1874
01:32:01.300 --> 01:32:04.149
to be destroyed or you're to pay tribute in order
1875
01:32:04.189 --> 01:32:07.909
to exist. So that was what they were doing. They
1876
01:32:07.930 --> 01:32:09.750
were like, because Jefferson had asked, like, why are you
1877
01:32:09.770 --> 01:32:12.390
doing this to our ships? And the ambassador turned around very,
1878
01:32:12.409 --> 01:32:17.149
you know, he's like, that's our law. You are not Muslim.
1879
01:32:17.609 --> 01:32:21.649
You have to pay us. Or convert. That is there
1880
01:32:22.180 --> 01:32:25.520
in a nutshell, and it hasn't changed. The Quran hasn't changed.
1881
01:32:25.899 --> 01:32:28.939
Their philosophy hasn't changed. So as they grow in numbers,
1882
01:32:29.539 --> 01:32:32.079
as these mosques pop up, people are saying, well, we
1883
01:32:32.100 --> 01:32:35.859
have to be more tolerant. Okay. But they are not
1884
01:32:35.899 --> 01:32:40.069
assimilating into our society like other cultures have. They're coming
1885
01:32:40.130 --> 01:32:42.090
over here with their beliefs. You know what's funny? There's
1886
01:32:42.130 --> 01:32:46.170
over 50 Muslim nations. You never see them leaving when
1887
01:32:46.189 --> 01:32:49.170
they left Aleppo and all these– countries that were in
1888
01:32:49.229 --> 01:32:52.689
civil war and blown apart. They didn't go to another
1889
01:32:52.710 --> 01:32:56.350
Muslim country, did they? No. They went to Christian countries.
1890
01:32:56.890 --> 01:32:59.060
And if you look back in history, all these countries
1891
01:32:59.079 --> 01:33:02.760
that were once Christian, you know, Morocco, and there's a
1892
01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:07.960
list of Christian countries that are now Muslim. So you
1893
01:33:08.100 --> 01:33:10.880
see what their thought is on a world stage, and
1894
01:33:10.960 --> 01:33:15.289
that should scare Americans. And the fact, you know, you
1895
01:33:15.310 --> 01:33:20.630
had the first two Congresswomen were voted into office were Muslim.
1896
01:33:21.380 --> 01:33:24.239
It was in 2016, I believe, and it was Ilhan
1897
01:33:24.319 --> 01:33:26.699
Omar and the other one from Michigan.
1898
01:33:26.720 --> 01:33:29.439
I know her name.
1899
01:33:29.920 --> 01:33:34.510
Okay, but why? How did those two women become... How
1900
01:33:34.560 --> 01:33:39.229
did that just pop up? That was Obama. Obama saturated...
1901
01:33:38.489 --> 01:33:42.369
Remember where Ilhan Omar is from? She's from Somalia. He
1902
01:33:42.449 --> 01:33:45.989
saturated that area so there was a whole block of
1903
01:33:46.090 --> 01:33:49.789
Somalians that could vote And have a representative in Congress
1904
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instead of spreading it out throughout the nation and having
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them assimilate. Basically, you brought their ideology into our country
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and kept it like that. And that's dangerous because if
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they look to do what the Koran tells them to do, well,
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then they're not going to assimilate. And if that's the case,
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I don't think I'm wrong to say that shouldn't be here.
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Do you think they believe in Sharia law and all
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this stuff? Okay, these two... 100%. Rashid Tlaib is the
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other one with the other.
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Tlaib, right. Ilhan Omar and Sharia law.
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Do you believe they are.
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Yeah, do you believe they're into Sharia law? It's one
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thing to disagree on politically, it's one thing. But if
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they believe in Sharia law, that's a whole different conversation
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we're talking about now.
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You know what I mean?
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Well, the guy voting for... Senator Michigan, he believes in
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Sharia law. He is a citizen as much. Al-Said. He
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is a citizen.
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He also renounced, you know, the guy who approached him
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about that.
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The Muslim Brotherhood.
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Yeah, he denounced it immediately when he was asked by
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a Republican.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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If you talk about the interview that happened last week,
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it was somebody in the audience.
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Who's actually Josh Hawley. Josh Hawley. like a couple of
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years ago, whatever, but, but.
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But yeah, he, he, he did denounce it, but it
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was like for like a split second. And then he
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started attacking. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And it was just, he, listen, Al Saeed scares me
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on many levels and he's a very aggressive guy and
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he's good at what he does. He's articulate. He's quick.
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He was a valedictorian of his class of Michigan. Um, I,
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in no means do I think the guy is an idiot. Uh, no,
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Nor do I think the Antichrist is going to be
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an idiot either. I mean, it's going to be somebody
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charismatic and articulate. I don't think El-Said is. I don't
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think he is charismatic, is what I'm saying. I think
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he's smart, but I don't think he's charismatic. I think
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he's too abrasive. What I'm afraid of is when you
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get an El-Said who is charismatic. And the closest thing
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we've had to that was Obama. And I still believe
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Obama was a Muslim. And that's just my personal belief.
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He was raised, you know, his father was a Muslim.
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He is quoted the Quran on many occasions. He fasts
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on Sunday, going back to his Muslim beliefs. And he
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talked about how his father would read philosophy to him.
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But he never mentions which books, those philosophy books that
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he read. And if you look back on Obama's history
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on Good Friday, and I have this in one of
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my books, on one of the Good Fridays, he actually
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criticized Christians because he says, you know, Christians have always
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not been known for doing the right thing. And we
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could go as far back as the crusade And he
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got on a soapbox. But he never once, and all
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the time he was in office, ever criticized Islam. As
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a matter of fact, he wanted us to call it
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ISIS when we were talking about ISIS and the Islamic Republic.
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So he always seemed very protective.
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What's it called?
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ISIL? ISIL.
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ISIL.
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He seemed to be very protective of that, which raises
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an eyebrow to me. So what I'm more afraid of
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is I'm afraid of the wolf in sheep's clothing. Al-Said
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is not. Ilhan Omar is not. Tlaib is not. But eventually,
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these people are going to smarten up as time goes on.
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And sadly, if the American people don't wake up, then
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they're going to find out that, you know, those fangs
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they weren't seeing weren't from a smile. They were from
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getting ready for an attack.
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But there is.
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Also a slippery slope here, though, to some degree. Like,
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even if there's a fear of, like, you know, Muslim takeover,
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I want to call that. Say that down the road,
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you can use that towards other people that don't think
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what we think also, too, who are probably less threatening
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in comparison.
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This is what I'm sensitive about. I do agree.
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I agree with you that government shouldn't get involved in it,
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but the American electorate can. Let's not forget. Right.
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No, correct. Correct.
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We can control this. We don't need legislation to control it.
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Right.
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But I don't I don't think, you know, also in
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the Quran, it also speaks about how that they justify
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lying if it's to protect their cause. So, you know,
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this this religion facade they have, they're using it more
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as a shield. I mean, El-Said at one of his
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last rallies was talking about playing the victim card. They're
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going after me because I'm a Muslim. And all this
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is about me being a Muslim. But Muslim isn't about
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lowering gas prices. It isn't about me. Muslim isn't about
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lowering the cost of food. That's what we should be
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talking about. It's a great talking point. And people are
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going to listen to that and say, yeah.
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He's also correct, though, really. Don't take your eyes.
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Off the shiny object. The shiny object is him and
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his beliefs and his policies and his Sharia law. You know,
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look what's happening in Paris. These people are flying the
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Palestinian flag on the streets of Paris. This is insanity.
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And they're doing it in New York City too. What
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were you asking me? I'm sorry.
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Are you certain he believes in Sharia law?
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Do I study it? Is that what you asked me?
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No, no, no. Are you certain he believes in Sharia law?
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He said something when I Googled it. Are you Googling
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it now?
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He said something about defending– he was defending Sharia law
2017
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because even when he was on Jesse Waters of Fox,
2018
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he was asked a question, and he was talking.
2019
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About the Catholic Church and comparing it and the laws
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that the Catholic Church have. So he didn't denounce it.
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He didn't say he doesn't follow it. He definitely was
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defending it. Does he follow it? That's a different question.
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Does he defend it? Yes. I will say he defends it.
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This is what it says.
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Abdul-Aziz does not support or advocate for implementing Sharia law
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in the United States or replacing the U.S.
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Constitution. Right.
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He also stated that he personally believes that by the
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tenets of Islamic faith, such as utilizing Sharia-compliant financial practices
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like home mortgage repos, is rightly alluded to as law
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as it's American civil or statutory law. He said he
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compared personal religious guidance to Islam to Christian canon law,
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reiterating that nobody is trying to push real law onto
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the legal system. Now, again, whether you believe him or
2035
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not is a whole different conversation. We can sit here
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and say he says one thing and does another. I mean, obviously,
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that's– but the same thing is also that I– and, again,
2038
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you used Obama's example. I've heard the same thing about
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Obama in 2008 where, like, this is the antichrist and
2040
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this stuff. So I'm so much– flooded this thing. The
2041
01:40:41.569 --> 01:40:44.689
same thing with Republicans being called. I remember Mitt Romney
2042
01:40:44.729 --> 01:40:50.010
being called the Antichrist by Democrats. If Mitt fucking Romney
2043
01:40:50.029 --> 01:40:52.409
wins presidency, this is the worst thing for our country ever.
2044
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Mitt Romney! That's why Donald Trump got it.
2045
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You know why?
2046
01:40:56.090 --> 01:40:58.170
Because he told his lie too many times and this
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is what happens.
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This is why I'm so sensitive to the both sides
2049
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part of this creating this narrative or this boogeyman, if
2050
01:41:08.899 --> 01:41:10.850
you call it that. Because I'm not saying that you're
2051
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right or wrong. I'm saying that, you know, I heard
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this from Obama on the right. Then I heard this
2053
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from the left about people like Mitt Romney, people like
2054
01:41:18.590 --> 01:41:21.350
George Bush, you know, three years. I'm like, okay, so
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someone's fucking lying. You know what I'm saying?
2056
01:41:24.329 --> 01:41:24.789
At some point.
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So, again, I don't want you to– You mentioned Mitt Romney,
2058
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and that's where Harry Reid comes in. Remember, he was
2059
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the one who wanted his taxes cut. And then he
2060
01:41:34.819 --> 01:41:36.520
turned around and he was lying about it. He goes,
2061
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I have it on on fact that he didn't pay
2062
01:41:39.229 --> 01:41:40.970
his taxes for 10 years. He was saying it from
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the Senate floor and the Senate floor because of the
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01:41:44.010 --> 01:41:49.760
closed debate thing they have. They can't be held accountable.
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And he just lied about it. I don't lie. But
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his answer was in the interview. Obama got elected, didn't he?
2067
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So he knew he was lying. And this is the politics,
2068
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and this is why you have to be educated. You know,
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this is– what you just read to me doesn't tell
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me that he denounces Sharia law.
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Right, and you still don't believe him.
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Yeah, yeah. He's saying that he doesn't believe it should
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be part of the Constitution. Of course he's going to
2074
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say that because if he comes out and says Sharia
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law should be part of the Constitution, what would the
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story be? What is in Sharia law? See, that's what
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nobody's talking about. So, you know, he's going to come
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into the radar. And that's why in the interview that
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I was referencing is he was defending it. He was
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just defending the fact of Sharia law. But the problem
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is when you look over in France, and I knew
2082
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this 10 years ago because I have friends over there,
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they were telling me there were parts where police weren't
2084
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allowed to go into certain areas because it was being
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policed from the Muslims inside under Sharia law. Now, I said,
2086
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come on, man. I mean, that's you got to be
2087
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kidding me. That's impossible. They're taking over. They're having their
2088
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own basic sovereignty within the country. And but now that
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I'm seeing what I've been seeing for the last week
2090
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or two on TV. Yeah, it's a problem over there.
2091
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And it's been it's been festering. You know, when they opened,
2092
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Trump turned around and said it best. He said it's
2093
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the greatest Trojan horse in history. When the Civil War
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happened in Syria and the refugees started pouring in and
2095
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they came in. Moving up north, they came in from
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Spain and it kept on coming in. And then Germany
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took in a ton and England took in many and
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obviously France and all these other countries. And America was
2099
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getting blamed. We weren't doing our fair share. And Trump
2100
01:43:35.250 --> 01:43:38.890
was president. And he said, you know, you guys be careful.
2101
01:43:39.270 --> 01:43:42.609
This is 10 years ago. He's saying, be careful. You're
2102
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changing your country. You're not putting in a system in place.
2103
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And what has happened? These people... These people have just relocated,
2104
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but they haven't assimilated. And that's a big problem. And
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it's a problem that if we're not careful, that's going
2106
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to happen here. And people may turn, oh, no, it's
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not going to happen here. I don't know. I'm seeing
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things when they're riding in Times Square, people wearing Hezbollah headbands.
2109
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I'm like, I never thought I'd see that after 9-11
2110
01:44:06.779 --> 01:44:10.720
in New York City. I mean, so I can't tell
2111
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what people are going to believe or not to believe.
2112
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But a guy like El Sayed, To me, fortunately, he
2113
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exposes himself. So it's not that difficult. I really do
2114
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think he's going to lose.
2115
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So maybe he gets elected.
2116
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We'll see. If he gets elected, he won't be president.
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If he gets elected, here's the ticket. Can he, though?
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Can he? Is he born here?
2119
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Yeah, he was born here. He was born here. Here's
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the ticket. Mamdami can. The ticket's going to be AOC
2121
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and El Saeed. I just don't know who's going to
2122
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be at the head of the ticket. It's going to
2123
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be one or the other. But that'll be– if he wins.
2124
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Maybe in 2036 that happens. I don't see happening.
2125
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I think they're going to– I think the Democrats are
2126
01:44:54.539 --> 01:44:56.039
going to play safe the next election.
2127
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Democrats have a strategy.
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They're going to go white man.
2129
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They're going to go white man, white man, white man,
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white man. Probably Andy Beshear or Ossoff. They're going to
2131
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go white man, a safe young white man. We tried
2132
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the two chicks already. We tried Hillary.
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It failed. We tried Kamala. It failed.
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Let's go back to the fucking drone board. I'm not
2135
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saying it's right. I'm not saying this is their thinking.
2136
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You know what I'm saying?
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I just wish they would talk about policy. If they
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talked about policy instead of feelings. I would feel a
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lot better.
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01:45:29.479 --> 01:45:31.500
The problem with the policy part is I don't think
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01:45:31.520 --> 01:45:33.460
you agree with the policy on their side anyway.
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01:45:33.720 --> 01:45:35.119
Because the kids are.
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01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:37.159
Failing in school. I don't agree with kids failing. I
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01:45:37.180 --> 01:45:40.039
don't agree with open borders. I don't agree with no bail.
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01:45:40.359 --> 01:45:42.079
They've got to come up with some policies.
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01:45:42.810 --> 01:45:47.189
I have like eight minutes left. I'm loving this conversation
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01:45:47.210 --> 01:45:49.029
because I can pick up my kids from school.
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01:45:50.350 --> 01:45:53.609
When you vote, when you vote, what is like the
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01:45:53.949 --> 01:45:56.310
top three things, power ranking style, and I do it
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01:45:56.329 --> 01:45:58.149
in my sports shows all the time. What are the
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01:45:58.170 --> 01:46:01.890
top three things that are of most importance to Dean Simpson?
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01:46:01.949 --> 01:46:04.899
What are the three things that, okay, check, check, check, check.
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01:46:05.270 --> 01:46:07.819
This is my most important things when I vote in
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01:46:07.840 --> 01:46:09.300
a voting booth. What matters to you more?
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01:46:10.300 --> 01:46:11.600
It kind of depends on the election. If it's a
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01:46:11.600 --> 01:46:15.520
federal election, if it's presidency, I mean policy is going
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01:46:15.539 --> 01:46:16.279
to be at the top.
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01:46:16.560 --> 01:46:21.229
Let me rephrase that. Which policies do you care about most?
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01:46:21.270 --> 01:46:24.079
I was going to say which. The policy is going
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01:46:24.100 --> 01:46:27.420
to be, is this person going to uphold the Constitution?
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01:46:27.760 --> 01:46:31.619
That is my number one. OK. Number one above all else,
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01:46:31.659 --> 01:46:34.909
because if they say yes, the Constitution the way it is,
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01:46:35.510 --> 01:46:38.170
then I know the electoral college is in jeopardy. The
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01:46:38.210 --> 01:46:40.270
Senate's not in jeopardy. Congress isn't going to vote on
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01:46:40.289 --> 01:46:43.289
the president. We're not going to have D.C. and Puerto
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01:46:43.310 --> 01:46:45.609
Rico as states. Like, I know we're going to have
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01:46:45.689 --> 01:46:47.770
some control over this. The Supreme Court is going to
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01:46:47.810 --> 01:46:50.029
remain the way it is. And that the checks and
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01:46:50.069 --> 01:46:52.029
balances in government and our divided government are going to
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01:46:52.050 --> 01:46:54.489
work if we keep the Constitution the way it is.
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01:46:55.069 --> 01:46:57.930
And yes, we have amendments. The founding fathers were brilliant
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01:46:57.949 --> 01:46:59.390
enough to put that in there, but it also made
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01:46:59.430 --> 01:47:02.069
it very difficult to amend the Constitution. So if I
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01:47:02.109 --> 01:47:04.760
hear somebody, but when I hear somebody like Kamala Harris
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01:47:04.770 --> 01:47:07.779
turns around and says this lovely political talking point of,
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01:47:08.380 --> 01:47:10.520
we need to have that conversation. I think it's time
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01:47:10.560 --> 01:47:13.159
to have that conversation. We have 13 districts and we
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01:47:13.180 --> 01:47:15.659
should have 13 Supreme Courts. That drives me nuts because
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01:47:15.680 --> 01:47:17.640
you're not telling me anything. You're just giving me dog
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01:47:17.680 --> 01:47:20.539
whistles and If you can do it, if you can
2181
01:47:20.579 --> 01:47:23.300
get away with it, okay? The other thing is going
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01:47:23.340 --> 01:47:26.800
to be, are you going to be fiscally responsible? We,
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01:47:27.380 --> 01:47:30.380
both sides, have gotten drunk off the dole.
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01:47:30.579 --> 01:47:32.060
Yeah, that's where you get me there.
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01:47:33.710 --> 01:47:37.930
They're spending money. I mean, listen, Bill Clinton balanced the budget.
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01:47:39.550 --> 01:47:41.930
I don't think they don't have to anymore. I think
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01:47:41.949 --> 01:47:46.819
they're so far off. Over with all these programs, where
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01:47:46.840 --> 01:47:49.880
do you cut back? Now, I know where Obama and
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01:47:49.899 --> 01:47:52.000
Biden wanted to cut back, and they did, was in
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01:47:52.039 --> 01:47:54.220
the defense budget. That, they had no problem. Just slash
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01:47:54.260 --> 01:47:54.899
that right through.
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You agree with that, huh? You agree with that?
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Cutting the defense budget? Yeah. Boy, that's– I can't say
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yes or no. I have to question why there's like
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01:48:09.000 --> 01:48:10.920
a $ 1. 5 trillion budget. Correct.
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01:48:11.020 --> 01:48:12.140
I'm with you because I do agree.
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01:48:12.159 --> 01:48:15.210
Now, if you can't tell me you can't find some
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01:48:15.270 --> 01:48:17.649
fat in there, if you're telling me we absolutely need
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01:48:17.670 --> 01:48:19.970
this for our defense and for our security.
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01:48:20.760 --> 01:48:25.199
Uh okay but i think it's worth spending right correct the.
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01:48:25.140 --> 01:48:28.890
Difference is i really truly believe somebody like trump and
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01:48:28.930 --> 01:48:32.729
hank said there's a department uh secretary of war i
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01:48:32.770 --> 01:48:34.270
truly believe them and they say they're gonna go in
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01:48:34.289 --> 01:48:36.189
and they're gonna look for it and i think they
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01:48:36.250 --> 01:48:40.789
found something um I think corruption is always going to be,
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01:48:41.810 --> 01:48:45.390
you know, entwined with politics and government and big government.
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01:48:45.869 --> 01:48:47.989
So my attitude is and the third thing is this.
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01:48:49.770 --> 01:48:51.810
Are we going to be looking at a smaller federal
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01:48:51.850 --> 01:48:57.020
government or a larger federal government? Because our government has
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01:48:57.420 --> 01:49:01.609
blown up. I mean, Washington, D.C. is on steroids. There
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01:49:01.649 --> 01:49:04.029
are so many agencies. There are so many departments. Jimmy
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01:49:04.069 --> 01:49:08.010
Carter started the Secretary of Education. I'm sorry, the Education
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01:49:08.029 --> 01:49:11.829
Department of Education. Yeah, he did. That's great. Oh, I
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01:49:11.850 --> 01:49:15.289
love education. This is beautiful. I'm sure from 1976 to now,
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01:49:15.710 --> 01:49:18.810
scores have gotten better. We've spent trillions of dollars in
2216
01:49:18.829 --> 01:49:21.210
this Department of Education. So I say we keep it.
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01:49:22.060 --> 01:49:24.279
Or we take a look at what those scores are
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01:49:24.319 --> 01:49:27.960
and realize it's not working. So why do we have
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01:49:28.000 --> 01:49:32.729
this freaking department? The department is– it's just a bureaucratic
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01:49:32.819 --> 01:49:36.069
way to dole out money. So what we need to
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01:49:36.090 --> 01:49:37.329
do is give that money back to the states and
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01:49:37.350 --> 01:49:40.350
make the states be held accountable. See, I'm all for
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01:49:40.750 --> 01:49:44.529
the 10th Amendment to the Constitution puts the powers back
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01:49:44.569 --> 01:49:47.550
in the states if it's not specifically written into the Constitution.
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01:49:48.189 --> 01:49:50.329
I think states need to be held accountable more.
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01:49:50.789 --> 01:49:52.970
This is something where I partner Democrats on a lot,
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01:49:53.170 --> 01:49:56.069
especially to the states' rights thing because I got on.
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01:49:56.029 --> 01:49:58.470
Ship with this two years ago. I don't like New
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01:49:58.479 --> 01:50:01.069
Jersey doubling my taxes. That time they reassessed me that
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01:50:01.170 --> 01:50:03.729
one year back in 1997. You know what I did?
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01:50:04.289 --> 01:50:06.890
I sold the damn thing. I loved it. And now
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01:50:06.930 --> 01:50:08.949
out in California, people are doing that and they're scrambling
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01:50:08.970 --> 01:50:10.289
to turn around. Well, we need to penalize them. We
2234
01:50:10.310 --> 01:50:12.250
need to do this. No, that's not the American way.
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01:50:12.789 --> 01:50:14.250
We might've got policies.
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01:50:15.310 --> 01:50:20.449
And you mentioned the key word before to all of this. Yeah.
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01:50:20.909 --> 01:50:24.750
Who is going to be more pro individualism? When I
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01:50:24.810 --> 01:50:29.789
hear people talking about We together and we're going to
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01:50:29.829 --> 01:50:34.449
do it. I want the individual to be held responsible.
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And if he could be held responsible in his house,
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01:50:37.329 --> 01:50:39.649
then he could be held responsible to his neighbor, to
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01:50:39.689 --> 01:50:42.479
his congregation, and he could go further down the line.
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01:50:43.060 --> 01:50:46.159
But until that individual has his act together, all he's
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01:50:46.220 --> 01:50:48.720
going to be doing is being dependent on the state.
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01:50:48.760 --> 01:50:51.279
And once you become dependent on the state, now the
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01:50:51.300 --> 01:50:54.149
state can tell you, no, you can't do that. You
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01:50:54.229 --> 01:50:56.569
have to do this. You have to go get that shot.
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01:50:57.260 --> 01:51:00.760
So I am a big fan of individual rights because
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01:51:01.100 --> 01:51:04.840
it actually helps the greater good in the community when
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each person is being held responsible. But when you just
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01:51:07.560 --> 01:51:11.520
throw it out as this collectivism, it doesn't work. And
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01:51:11.539 --> 01:51:13.560
we've proven it doesn't work. And people still got to
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01:51:13.579 --> 01:51:16.399
turn around and say, oh, no, no, it works. Okay.
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01:51:16.920 --> 01:51:19.319
Then everything else that what I've learned is not true then.
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01:51:20.180 --> 01:51:25.600
Because when we've implemented these policies of collectivism, And we've
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01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:29.890
seen how politicians try to make it sound like, you know,
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01:51:29.899 --> 01:51:32.850
we're going to do this together. No, you're in there
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01:51:32.869 --> 01:51:37.329
to make sure you give a pathway. You give the opportunity.
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01:51:37.689 --> 01:51:42.380
That opportunity should be an equal opportunity, okay? By government standards.
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01:51:43.279 --> 01:51:46.640
But you're not there to take somebody and turn around
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01:51:46.659 --> 01:51:48.340
and say, well, listen, you've had it hard. You've had
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01:51:48.380 --> 01:51:50.119
it tough. We're going to push you ahead of the
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01:51:50.159 --> 01:51:52.020
front of the line, and we're going to do that.
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01:51:52.970 --> 01:51:54.710
That's where we get into differences.
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01:51:55.210 --> 01:51:57.010
One thing we'll say is that I think everybody, regardless
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01:51:57.069 --> 01:52:00.789
of who's in power, should look at everything with a
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01:52:00.829 --> 01:52:06.220
skeptical eye. Like, public education, like, okay, it's good in theory,
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01:52:06.310 --> 01:52:09.560
but why is it, you know, why does one take
2269
01:52:09.640 --> 01:52:12.979
it down? And wasteful spending is something that we don't
2270
01:52:13.020 --> 01:52:16.420
talk about enough in this country. As citizens, where's my
2271
01:52:16.460 --> 01:52:19.140
money going to? And we find certain things to attack
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01:52:19.180 --> 01:52:23.720
based on our personal beliefs, but I mean, I'm someone
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01:52:23.739 --> 01:52:26.800
who's a tight ass because of money. I'm someone who
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01:52:27.380 --> 01:52:28.659
I can balance my budget here at home.
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01:52:28.739 --> 01:52:29.800
Why can't the government do the same?
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01:52:31.149 --> 01:52:32.119
Because they're not held accountable.
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01:52:32.149 --> 01:52:33.590
They're not held accountable.
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01:52:33.609 --> 01:52:35.310
And the only way they're held accountable is to vote
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01:52:35.329 --> 01:52:38.010
them out of office. That's how we hold them accountable.
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01:52:38.689 --> 01:52:41.329
And if we did that, if Baltimore did that with
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01:52:41.350 --> 01:52:44.029
the people representing them, I guarantee you those scores would
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01:52:44.069 --> 01:52:47.590
go from 20% and start climbing into the 30s and
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01:52:47.609 --> 01:52:50.390
the 40s and where they're supposed to be. getting hired.
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01:52:50.890 --> 01:52:53.069
But because they're not held accountable, what is my motivation?
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01:52:53.909 --> 01:52:59.199
And you look at salaries of these city workers, it's
2286
01:52:59.239 --> 01:53:01.000
not a public service anymore.
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01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:03.579
I'll be honest with you. This country's a lost cause.
2288
01:53:05.359 --> 01:53:07.140
I become more skeptical as I get older.
2289
01:53:07.640 --> 01:53:08.420
We're a lost cause.
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01:53:08.399 --> 01:53:10.470
Because we're getting worse and worse for the day. And
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01:53:10.479 --> 01:53:11.829
no one wants to fix the problem. And then we
2292
01:53:11.850 --> 01:53:15.010
have this, yeah, okay, the Democrats might win in midterms.
2293
01:53:15.050 --> 01:53:15.369
Now what?
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01:53:15.590 --> 01:53:17.449
What are you going to do? Anything different? Probably not.
2295
01:53:18.270 --> 01:53:21.649
But it's supposed to be– you know, this is all–
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01:53:21.680 --> 01:53:23.859
the bigger picture is this is all an experiment. This
2297
01:53:23.899 --> 01:53:25.039
is all man-made.
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01:53:25.060 --> 01:53:25.939
This is a fucking experiment.
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01:53:27.079 --> 01:53:29.810
There's only one kingdom that is coming that's going to work.
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01:53:29.869 --> 01:53:31.630
We all know that. So what we're trying to do
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01:53:31.670 --> 01:53:33.890
is we're just trying to buy time. And we have
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01:53:33.930 --> 01:53:35.949
it good. It is a great country. You know, I
2303
01:53:36.109 --> 01:53:38.829
have a beautiful home. You know, I have my amenities.
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01:53:38.909 --> 01:53:41.369
I have materialistic things. I have a car. I can
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01:53:41.390 --> 01:53:43.270
get in there. I could drive to California today and
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01:53:43.289 --> 01:53:45.750
I don't even have to ask Ernest, can I get
2307
01:53:45.770 --> 01:53:47.949
permission to go? I could just go. This is a
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01:53:48.029 --> 01:53:53.479
great country, man. But what happens is sometimes we forget.
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01:53:53.949 --> 01:53:56.439
And sometimes, well, you know, yeah, it's been good, but
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01:53:56.449 --> 01:53:59.829
I think we can make it better. Let's experiment with this. Well,
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01:53:59.850 --> 01:54:01.989
first of all, what are you experimenting with? Oh, wait
2312
01:54:02.010 --> 01:54:04.159
a second. We already tried that. Other countries have already
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01:54:04.199 --> 01:54:05.239
tried that. It doesn't work.
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01:54:06.079 --> 01:54:07.979
I think the problem is no one has good perspective
2315
01:54:08.039 --> 01:54:09.640
on things. It's a problem.
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01:54:09.720 --> 01:54:11.199
And I'll tell you, this is something we didn't get into.
2317
01:54:11.239 --> 01:54:12.840
I'm going to throw a grenade now. We won't get
2318
01:54:12.979 --> 01:54:13.619
too far into it.
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01:54:13.619 --> 01:54:14.359
I've got two minutes.
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The dilemma I have is health care. How do we
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01:54:18.250 --> 01:54:22.029
fix that problem? Because anybody would tell you, like, hey, listen,
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01:54:22.869 --> 01:54:24.770
somebody gets sick. They should be taken care of. We're
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01:54:24.789 --> 01:54:26.979
this kind of country. And that one I can't figure out.
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01:54:27.439 --> 01:54:30.229
That one I can't figure out because the system we
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01:54:30.270 --> 01:54:33.229
have is not working. And if we implement what El-Sayed
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01:54:33.289 --> 01:54:37.109
and what some of these DSA people want, then we're
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01:54:37.130 --> 01:54:39.029
going to get away from private insurers, and that's only
2328
01:54:39.069 --> 01:54:43.220
going to balloon the budget it shows. That is a
2329
01:54:43.279 --> 01:54:44.720
dilemma I have no clue.
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01:54:44.539 --> 01:54:45.750
On how to fix.
2331
01:54:46.119 --> 01:54:47.399
Let's put a pin on this real quick because I
2332
01:54:47.420 --> 01:54:48.520
want to ask you one more thing before we get
2333
01:54:48.539 --> 01:54:50.460
out of here because I do want to have a
2334
01:54:50.460 --> 01:54:52.380
conversation with you again about healthcare going forward.
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01:54:54.520 --> 01:54:57.710
Predictions, midterms, the House. Who wins the House?
2336
01:54:58.890 --> 01:55:03.569
Traditionally, the Democrats win. But I think the redistricting is
2337
01:55:03.600 --> 01:55:06.020
going to give us four extra seats that nobody's banking on.
2338
01:55:06.460 --> 01:55:07.560
So I'm going to go out on a limb. I'm
2339
01:55:07.579 --> 01:55:09.220
going to turn around and say we hold the House
2340
01:55:09.239 --> 01:55:09.819
by one seat.
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01:55:10.739 --> 01:55:11.079
Really?
2342
01:55:11.180 --> 01:55:13.159
The Republicans. The Republicans sold the House by one. I'm
2343
01:55:13.180 --> 01:55:15.220
going against the track. I think the polls are wrong.
2344
01:55:15.960 --> 01:55:18.020
I think, you know, I'm not hedging because I'm saying
2345
01:55:18.060 --> 01:55:20.899
the Democrats should win, but I think that four-seat thing
2346
01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:24.159
that nobody's mentioning when they did the redistricting and Virginia
2347
01:55:24.199 --> 01:55:27.159
lost their Supreme Court case and they couldn't redistrict, which
2348
01:55:27.189 --> 01:55:29.489
would have balanced off that four, I think that's going
2349
01:55:29.510 --> 01:55:33.350
to be the difference. I give the Republicans the win.
2350
01:55:33.489 --> 01:55:35.729
Right. The Democrats are not short in the House. I
2351
01:55:35.750 --> 01:55:37.609
think they're not short in the House. How many? I
2352
01:55:37.649 --> 01:55:38.189
don't know yet.
2353
01:55:38.250 --> 01:55:41.939
So that's the whole conversation. The Senate, I'm very bullish on,
2354
01:55:41.939 --> 01:55:43.920
to be honest. A lot of Democrats think the Senate's
2355
01:55:43.939 --> 01:55:45.979
going to go to Democrats also. I am way bullish
2356
01:55:46.010 --> 01:55:47.810
on that thing. Very bullish on that.
2357
01:55:48.109 --> 01:55:49.869
I don't believe that. You say what?
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01:55:51.649 --> 01:55:55.250
Republicans hold the Senate. They hold the Senate just the
2359
01:55:55.270 --> 01:55:58.770
way the map is. So I'm not as worried about
2360
01:55:58.789 --> 01:56:01.869
the Senate. I'm very worried about the House. So if
2361
01:56:01.890 --> 01:56:03.869
the House wins, we're going to have hearings and impeachment.
2362
01:56:03.890 --> 01:56:08.649
If the Senate wins, we're still going to get judges approved. So...
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01:56:10.149 --> 01:56:13.439
American people like to divide the government. So as long
2364
01:56:13.449 --> 01:56:15.579
as the Republicans can hold on to the Senate, I
2365
01:56:15.619 --> 01:56:17.680
think we just buy out the two years, and then
2366
01:56:17.699 --> 01:56:20.159
we see 2028, and then we just– then it blows
2367
01:56:20.220 --> 01:56:22.020
up again. I'm getting tired of these elections.
2368
01:56:22.399 --> 01:56:25.119
So let me ask you– I'll focus on two states. Texas,
2369
01:56:25.159 --> 01:56:27.060
who wins Texas, the Senate seat in Texas?
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01:56:28.060 --> 01:56:28.439
Oh, Paxson.
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Do you think Paxson wins that?
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That's what– Tellurico doesn't win Paxson. What's his name?
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Yeah, yeah, Paxson.
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Ken Paxson.
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Ken Paxson.
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He wins it, and that's one of the states where
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I'm pretty upset with because I don't think it's going
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to be as close as they're predicting. I could be
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wrong on that, but Paxson wins, and I think he
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wins by about three.
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And in Michigan?
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I like this guy. Rodgers? El-Sayed loses. El-Sayed loses. Okay. Yeah.
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What's his opponent's name? Richard?
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Mike Rodgers. Mike Rodgers.
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I don't know what the name's today. Okay. I really
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like Rodgers. Of all the candidates out there, because the
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Republicans have a tendency to pick these like bofogs, as
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I put them, Rodgers is a man. He's an ex-FBI.
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He's a tough guy. Nothing is a closet. I think
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he's a stand-up guy, and I think he's a really
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good guy.
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Well, we're going to find out in a week or two.
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I want to say the same thing about Paxson. I
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want to say the same thing about what I just
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said about Rodgers. I would not say the same thing
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about Paxson, but I still think Paxson is going to win.
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Okay.
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We're going to find out in eight days, so we'll
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figure it out. I've got to run, pick up my
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kids from school. Thank you so much for going to
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the podcast, as always. We'll do this again soon, but
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maybe we'll do a wrap-up in a few weeks, if.
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You want to. We can do something quickly on that,
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if you want to.
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Always a pleasure, Otis.
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I love coming on with you, buddy. Excellent job, as always.
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Is the book out now? The new book's already out?
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New book's out. Amazon.
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Okay, cool. Excellent, excellent. I'll pick it up for myself,
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so I'll read it.
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God bless you and the family.
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Absolutely, brother. Good job, man, as always, man.
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Take care.