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Join us as we discuss the latest on the Brett Brett Kavanagh/Brown-Jackson vote, the media's handling of the story, and how the media handled the story and the reaction to it. We also cover the latest in the hunt for the newest Republican to vote for Brett Brown-Jakson and much more!
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welcome to the podcast it is pat gray and stuber gear here for glenn today he's going to be back
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on tomorrow had a fun show today a lot of important things we go over the hunter biden information
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the latest republicans who are going to vote for katanji brown jackson will give you a list
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of who they are they're not a huge surprises on that particular list uh we also will go through
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nostradamus's predictions for 2022 so you know exactly what's going to happen on a minute-to-minute
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basis in your life uh and uh lots of we also we also talk about kayaking there's a there's a long
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conversation about kayaking and how it relates to your children and what they're taught in schools
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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so the new york post got a hold of what was in the computer and um you know because the new york post is
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a republican paper and the new york times and the washington post are the democrat paper that's
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where we are again kind of and the republican paper twitter wouldn't cancel their account
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can't even report on this story and now two years later the new york times and the washington post have
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come around to say okay there was something there now what i said at the beginning how it came to them
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it came to them through rudy giuliani and steve bannon so yes of course when rudy giuliani says
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i've got some evidence you take that with a giant thing of salt
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but not two years it didn't take two years it looks like the left-wing media just buried the
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story because it wasn't part of their narrative and that's why people don't trust the media
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you have to love the crowd at the bill maher uh show for hbo where the only thing in that entire
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monologue they clap for is the one slap at rudy giuliani everything else is a slap at the media
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how they didn't handle the hunter biden story they are dead silent and then he says one little
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throwaway line about rudy giuliani not being completely trustworthy as a campaign operative
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and there is where the crowd goes crazy by the way you can get a hunter biden laptop case at
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hunterbidenlaptopcase.com it's uh something you will enjoy i think hunterbidenlaptopcase.com
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is the place to go to get that if you're if you want to have the ultimate in hunter biden where
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you'll you'll enjoy that hunterbidenlaptopcase.com we are at uh we're talking about the media and we
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are talking about the way the entire media and not to mention just the media but the republicans as well
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how they decide to react to these stories as they break and this goes to the katanji brown jackson saga
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as well katanji brown jackson of course is going to be uh the nominee for the supreme court that is
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going to uh happen she's going to get on the supreme court and that is a that is a that's real that's
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really going to happen we talked we told you this at the very beginning if you were expecting a real
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fight from republicans on katanji brown jackson you were going to be bitterly disappointed they were
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going to do a whole lot of nothing there of course would be a couple of senators who would say some
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critical things they weren't going to just sit there and act as if she was perfect but there was
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never any chance that you were going to get a real fight from the republicans on this one because
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they looked at the political realities and they tried to judge them judge them and what they saw
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was that they could not stop katanji brown jackson basically no matter what so they decided not really
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to try that is essentially what you just saw happening you read the stories about this and
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they act as if brett kavanaugh was nothing compared to what katanji brown jackson just went through
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it's just it's incredible to see the reaction to this they didn't accuse as far as i know and pat
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great joins uh the program as far as i know pat they didn't accuse katanji brown jackson of rape
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no i didn't i didn't hear him do that i didn't hear that happen once no murder no uh embezzling
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funds no any made-up crime what about um drinking too much in high school did they accuse her no no
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they did not did they ask her anything about her drinking habits not that i ever saw she could be a
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raging alcoholic do we know we don't know we don't know they didn't even ask about it no they
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basically didn't even come up you had a couple people like ted cruz who asked him some questions
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and josh hawley about about her uh seemingly lenient sentences sentences for child porn purveyors which
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seems fair when you're talking about a judge and some of her rulings yeah uh i think that's fair game
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and this was sort of portrayed as like why are the republicans saying she's in favor of child porn
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nobody's saying she's in favor of child porn what they're saying is she her judicial philosophy
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shows she's not tough on criminals especially serious ones and that do we want that as you know
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the the supreme court justice we're getting is that what we want i'm gonna say i don't i don't either
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maybe i'm in the minority maybe we're in the minority it's possible because uh she's gonna skate
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right through so yeah she's gonna get through and and she's basically over yeah it is i mean and
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not only the joe mansion vote to me and joe mansion has held the line on a couple of small
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things here and there but generally speaking joe mansion will not save you he will not be your
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savior that is true he will not he will not come from the clouds i remember you predicting that
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i just that joe mansion would not save the day he will not save the day he will not come from the
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clouds with beams of sun behind him to save the day now he might shave a couple of uh dollars off
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of uh you know a bill here and there it's it's possible but particularly when he's alone he's not
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going to do that he had kirsten cinema with him on build back better which still i think has a good
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chance of going through in some form you know scaled down form i mean mansion has said he wants to he
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wants to spend 1.5 trillion dollars yeah this is not a guy who's holding the line on spending he just
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didn't want to spend 3.5 because his state absolutely would hate him for it so mansion is
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not going to hold the line that was the end of the actual drama to this hearing the question now just was
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what republicans were going to uh go the other way and vote for confirmation and pat i've worked up a
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list here of the worst votes all right the worst votes for republicans when it comes to this
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confirmation i'm gonna give an honorable mention to lindsey graham and i want to say lindsey graham
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is voting against katanji brown jackson okay however we have to be realistic about this lindsey graham is
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terrible on these votes he constantly is going the wrong way on them yeah he is a senator you do not
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need to tolerate in south carolina south carolina could give you a good senator you could have one
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that is good and people like oh well i liked lindsey graham in the in the kavanaugh hearings and he was
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great in the kavanaugh hearings there's no doubt about it this is when he shines when he could make a big
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deal of himself and use that to raise funds that's the lindsey graham guarantee he will show up in those
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moments and so now he's showing up uh to oppose katanji brown jackson
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not because he has any principle because he has a personal relationship of sorts with another person
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who was in the final three uh judge childs from south carolina and that's who he wanted and he's mad he didn't
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get it because he he said in advance he would vote for her one of the uh final three in joe biden's
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short list was from south carolina he came out publicly and advocated for her she did not get
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the nomination his feelings are hurt and now he's going the other way that's lindsey graham so he gets
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an honorable mention for me okay okay so there's three republicans that we believe are going to vote
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for katanji brown jackson to get her through so let me give you the most understandable okay the least
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offensive to me and that's susan collins susan collins is from maine this is a state that is i you might
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be able to convince me it's sort of purplish at times but it certainly leans blue a real conservative
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in maine would have a tough time winning here is a case where a political consideration if you're
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going to make one and not vote on principle which is what i would prefer but if you're going to make
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a political consideration you could make the argument this vote might actually help susan collins
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stay in the senate and while susan collins is a terrible senator i mean she's awful she is barely a
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republican but as opposed to what you might have in maine if collins were to lose you could make an
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argument she's better than the alternative there she's about as good as you're going to get in
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maine at least there's an argument to be made that that's true and this vote may actually help her in
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maine so she can say i swear she needs moderates there she needs some liberals there to vote for her
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to win so you could make the argument that that might actually help her stay in power it's the most
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understandable of the three next up is lisa murkowski this one's baffling it's somewhat baffling
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because she's in the middle of a primary battle right she could lose the nomination now she did
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lose the nomination a couple of uh cycles ago and she ran as a write-in candidate in the state and her
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name is so well known in the state that she actually won as a write-in candidate in one of the i would say
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one of the most incredible political achievements yeah because that just doesn't happen yeah when you
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get to the write-in period you just don't win i mean it's it's very difficult she might be the only
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u.s senator to ever win a writing campaign that's a good question yeah you might you might be right
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on that i can't remember another one there was another was it a congressman that did it recently
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it does happen very occasionally but i don't think i've ever remembered a statewide race going that way
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i don't know i i don't yeah she won as a write-in because she it was during the tea party wave election
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and she lost the primary to the tea party sort of candidate who then wound up uh losing to her
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and she didn't run as a democrat she ran as a i believe in an independent and went as a as a
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writing candidate and won so she has real name recognition she might think she's safe but she
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is in the middle of a primary challenge in a likely republican wave election year and this is not going
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to help her in the primary so it's not an understandable vote i don't i don't see why she would do this other
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than the fact that she really is just a left-leaning politician who believes katanji brown jackson will
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probably be halfway decent and you know there is this thing and we've seen this before from senators
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there's this um thought that you should just approve the nominees of the president yeah even
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rand paul rand paul has talked about a bunch of times and now he's not in this case it's constitutional
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that you just yeah you basically just say yes unless it's really egregious right which is when i
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want somebody and they're you know somewhat decent just give it to them you just give it to them
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especially in this case where it's not going to change the balance of the court you're going from
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a hardcore liberal to a hardcore liberal so the thought is just give it to them rand paul did not
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go that way this time it doesn't appear at least we haven't we don't have any official vote but he's
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not announced anything of that effect so murkowski might just be that person she just approves these
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things and she's also on the left but the gold medal the number one the unquestionable worst moment
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of this entire hearing is of course obviously without a doubt mit romney mit romney a guy who's from
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freaking utah a senator from utah a state that can give us someone like mike lee who's the best senator in
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the senate we can get that out of utah and instead we have what i now believe is the worst senator
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in the senate because you know he's terrible you could say susan collins has a worth worst voting
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record and you'd be right on that collins is worse when it comes to a voting record but again from utah
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yeah you can get a good senator out of utah and instead you have mit romney and what's completely
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inexcusable here is that mit romney voted against her last time when she was up for just a federal
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court uh so weird gig yeah he voted against her that wasn't that long ago no right yeah right yeah
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it was months yeah ago voted against her then and now voted for her and this is the thing with romney
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which is so irritating is where someone like lindsey graham will vote you know for a katanji
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brown jackson when no one's paying attention you know and then when people are really looking at him
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he's like ah crap this is a big one everyone's gonna remember this i'm gonna vote the right way
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this time that's lindsey graham mit romney's the opposite i think mit romney knows she's radical
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and voted against her last time because of it but now when he's in the sunlight of the media
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and everyone's fawning on people who will go against the republican grain people notice
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now he wants that adoration from the media he changes his vote to approving the nominee
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yep which is just despicable and frankly pathetic it's a sad puppy dog that's been kicked by its owner
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too many times and keeps coming back hoping this time they'll pet him they're not gonna pet you
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man they're gonna leave you on the roof is what they're gonna do nobody's gonna they're gonna drive
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down the highway leaving you on the roof this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really
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want to thank you for listening all right uh i always i i always hate it when republicans start
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trying to eat their own i let the democrats do that the extreme left wing eating the uh slightly less
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extreme left wing um i i don't understand why republicans feel the need to start attacking
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other republicans unless they're gonna start uh campaigning for president and maybe that's the
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case here uh governor larry hogan of maryland slamming a ron de santis over the disney bill
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and the fact that ron de santis was taking on disney for their uh action and trying in trying to
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stop that bill from passing and now they're trying to overturn it um here's what he had to say your
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fellow republican governor de santis in florida he suggested that he will retaliate against disney
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after it criticized florida's so-called don't say gay bill which bans certain instruction about
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sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom what's your reaction to that and then
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more broadly what do you make of that legislation well i didn't law i didn't really actually see
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the details of the legislation but the whole the whole thing seems like oh pause it for a second
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i i didn't really see the details i don't know anything about it i i have no idea what the bill says
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uh but let me go ahead and criticize it uh anyway this is how the whole media has handled this
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exactly right hogan is doing the same thing he's doing the same thing thoughtful well i didn't
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i didn't really actually see the details of the legislation but the whole the whole thing seems
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like uh just uh but you know crazy fight uh i'm not sure it's it concerns me that de santis is always
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talking about uh you know he was not not demanding that businesses do things but he was you know telling
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the cruise lines what they had to do he was telling local schools with mandating and now he's he wants
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to criticize disney for expressing you know how they feel about that uh that bill i mean they have every
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right to and we have a thing called freedom of speech they can they can come out and say what
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they think i think the the bill was kind of absurd uh and uh not something that would have happened in
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our state but you didn't know what he doesn't know what's in it i don't understand how how would you
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know it's absurd like how do we know katanji brown jackson is the first black female if she doesn't
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know what the definition of the word female is the same thing here if you don't know what's in the
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bill how do you know it's a joke how do you know it's absurd shouldn't you read it before you
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call it that though yes at the very least yes shouldn't you have an idea what's in it before
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you criticize it yes this is not a basic function of your job if you're going to go on television
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and talk about something shouldn't you know something about it in my estimation the answer
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to all of those questions stew is yes yes and by the way have have you heard any maybe there are some
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have you heard any republicans including ronda sanders say that they don't have a right to express
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their opinion never of course they do we're criticizing their opinion their opinion's dumb
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they have a right to express it it's just stupid and he's doing to ron de santis exactly what he's
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accusing ron de santis of doing to disney he's criticizing him for it right he's not taking away
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ron de santis's freedom of speech hey he's like de santis didn't take away disney's freedom of speech
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hogan has a right and uh to be able to express his admittedly for on his own behalf his admittedly
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uninformed opinion yeah but he has a right to express it i mean he doesn't know what he's
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talking about at all but he has a right to say the dumb thing he's saying that is that is your
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right as an american i suppose and framed in the question from dana bash on cnn is the don't say
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gay bill people the people who call it that are already setting it up to be a lie you've already
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set it up to be something it's not it's not the don't say gay bill that's not what it is it has
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nothing to do with not saying the word gay it has and yet you cannot find a headline that will call
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it something else you cannot find a story that will call it anything else it's what i find fascinating
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about this pat is it's all they all say it's the don't say gay bill right and what what do you always
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notice about the don't say gay bill when it's in the headlines it's in quotes who are they quoting
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they're quoting the gay activists i guess i guess we're marching in saying gay gay gay because they
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weren't going to be told by florida not to say gay even though florida wasn't telling them not to say
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that they always say this they always say well look it's just uh here's the thing uh critics call it
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that don't say gay but what critics call it where did it come from where did this originate i went back
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to to trace back the history of this on studios america the other night and went back to the very
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first tweet that was called this bill the don't say gay bill and it was some obscure organization in
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florida that supposedly was about reading it was like you know one of these organizations that was
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saying uh reading is fundamental pat and they wanted to make sure but they didn't read the bill
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obviously of course they didn't read the bill and also it seems like they really care about reading
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but only books about being gay when we're being read by children like they don't care about you know
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a normal uh everyday classic they only care about books that will tell you your kids that they can be
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gay or change genders or whatever else the thing of the day is uh which is is fascinating and it's some
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bizarre uh organization it's been promoted heavily by chasen buddha judge the husband of our wonderful
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labor secretary right um the first don't say gay uh tweet uh goes back to this there's equality florida
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jumped on the bandwagon very early um and uh another one called the florida freedom to read was the very
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first one that i could find that talked about this bill in that context and it seems like and this is
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just bizarre but like all on the same day pat out of nowhere all of these organizations on the same
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exact day all started calling it the same thing it's so weird that the rainbow democrats the equality
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democrats uh the florida right to read foundation or whatever the heck it is all these organizations all
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these random twitter accounts all on the same day all stallard started calling it the same thing
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interesting isn't it fascinating it's almost as if they coordinated i'm just gonna i'm gonna go out
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there and say this that's quite a limb to go out on i know and then the media picked it up immediately
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hook line and sinker just called it the don't say gay bill as we know i mean that you know the details
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we i'm sure you've been over it a million times on pat gray unleashed and we've talked about it here
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but it does not stop you from saying gay it does not even stop uh fourth grade teachers from talking
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to to putting in their curriculum uh stories about gay and gender transition all it does all it does
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is prevent you from having explicit sexual conversations with kindergartner through third
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graders and if it's fourth grade and above it needs to be age appropriate so if you're opposing this bill
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you are outwardly arguing for an inappropriate conversation with children yeah because if
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it's appropriate it's okay with the bill so the lies have been fast and furious from its inception as
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you mentioned the don't say gay things started right away the other thing that they started lying about was
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that teachers then couldn't talk about their gay partners they couldn't even bring them up i can't even
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i can't i'm scared to death yeah now that i can't even mention my life partner no you can mention
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your life partner nothing in this bill prevents you from doing that fact it specifically says yeah they
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went back and put that in the bill so that nobody could claim that and they still claim it they still
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say it uh you can look at the fact checks on the bill they're like well uh originally it was put in
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there and some critics believe that for example like a teacher saying they asked some kid asked the
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teacher what'd you do this weekend and they say oh i was with my you know a woman says oh i was with
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my wife and we went to the park they could get fired and like the the republicans are like that's not
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what we're saying all right let's put it in there specifically to make sure you know nobody has that
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idea you can talk about kayaking with your partner if you want to and again even conversations this is
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what i mean i think you could really make an argument that this bill does not do what republicans
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think it does it does not prevent a conversation about uh sexuality or gender with second graders it
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does not prevent that the only thing it does is prevent it from being in the planned curriculum
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so they could still have an off-the-cuff conversation about kayaking that leads to by the way your gender
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could change at any moment kids and that's totally allowed in the bill that's still allowed
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in florida amazing but it just can't be part of the planned curriculum that is it and it can be
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part of the planned curriculum with fourth graders and yet disney's opposed to it disney's opposed to
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it in fact it's their the goal of their company not to make good star wars movies right not to make space
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mountain not to embrace mickey mouse or just make a lot of money yep that's not even the goal apparently
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nope it is not to make kids happy right but to overturn this law in florida that's the goal of
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their company according to the company so obviously desantis ron desantis uh fighting against that
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uh and larry hogan from maryland slamming him for it when he hasn't even read the bill which leads you
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to believe larry hogan is going to run for president you hit on it pat he's i mean he wants to run for
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president that's incredible to me he can be the sensible republican who comes out who can win
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over democratic voters and moderate voters in the primary and have some path now this path does
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anybody even know who he is no outside of maryland i will say he's he gets he gets on msnbc a lot he
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gets on nbc a lot he gets on cnn he talks you know he's the acceptable republican to the left because
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he disagrees with republicans all the time yeah they like him like they like mitt romney yeah yes uh he is
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among the most popular governors in america too uh which is you know again impressive for a
00:25:57.360
republican in maryland just approval rating there 70 no 70 in maryland wow which is now that is not
00:26:05.240
the highest approval rating it's interesting the the most popular governors in america are one all
00:26:13.440
republicans and two all in deep blue states that's a weird phenomenon yeah but it's it's not the first
00:26:22.180
time this isn't the first year that's happened no hogan's been very popular ongoing for a while yeah
00:26:26.540
look there's an argument to be made right for there's a i'm not saying that i would support this
00:26:32.600
argument but there's a political argument to be made that larry hogan is a candidate that you might
00:26:36.840
want he's a guy who can win in blue states he can win over moderate voters probably and if you have
00:26:42.700
uh conservatives who are faced with a choice between larry hogan and joe biden the overwhelming
00:26:47.360
majority of them are going to go with hogan because for the love of heaven please don't present me
00:26:51.320
with that choice don't do that to me republican voters don't want this and because we have a
00:26:55.560
primary system in this country there's no path for larry hogan i don't think yeah i i don't think i
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mean his best opportunity would be as a real contrast to someone like donald trump he sees though that
00:27:07.900
ronda sandis might be his competition so he's going to try to attack him early and get out ahead of
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that um the three most popular governors in america uh number three is larry hogan 70 number
00:27:18.220
two charlie baker republican massachusetts 72 number one have you even i do you have any guesses
00:27:26.940
and i gave you a an opening here but i don't think i would have ever guessed i don't i know it's a blue
00:27:33.680
state yes i will give you obviously it's a state that also really loves bernie sanders quite a bit
00:27:38.320
uh wow really vermont i was gonna say vermont vermont but i couldn't tell you who right
00:27:44.120
the guy's name a republican phil scott is the of course phil scott that's right an approval rating
00:27:50.440
of 79 oh my gosh let me give you the breakdown of phil scott this is wild phil scott's approval
00:27:58.440
rating overall 79 yeah among republicans 75 my among independents he 75 among democrats
00:28:14.780
88 has to be higher right a republican in vermont has an 88 approval rating among democrats
00:28:24.520
wow that is wild wow the best of the glenn beck program
00:28:29.600
so uh joe biden's approval rating not getting any better in fact uh his approval rating the combined
00:28:41.720
real clear politics average now shows him at 41 that's incredibly low uh especially for this
00:28:50.500
at this point of his presidency for the average of all the polls the real clear politics uh features
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uh 41 you are way underwater 53.8 so almost 54 disapprove then i guess the rest are i don't know
00:29:08.280
they're a bunch of jeffies i don't know so uh while biden tries to pin all of his problems on putin
00:29:19.060
or the pandemic or donald trump i don't think the american people are buying it and uh there are
00:29:27.740
a bunch of democrat strategists who spoke to the hill because we're only seven months away from the
00:29:34.960
november midterms now and some of them are well all of them are really concerned that the democrats are
00:29:40.860
going to get a bloodbath one of them said uh we're going to be slaughtered in november it's quite an
00:29:47.660
admission from a democratic strategist no name attached to that one i said no no right though
00:29:52.820
this is clearly what they believe i mean they this is this is what's going on behind the scenes they
00:29:58.120
know they're in real trouble i keep saying you cannot overestimate the chances that the republicans
00:30:05.960
will blow this somehow you can't it's just it should be the easiest win in the history of elections
00:30:14.880
it should will they screw this up they might it's very possible so i would you know i could see
00:30:21.120
we've seen it too many times yeah i could really see a situation where they they maybe win the house
00:30:25.720
and then blow the senate somehow certainly possible and that would be a big one because of potential
00:30:30.420
supreme court nominees and such that would be a big one it would still allow them to block a lot of
00:30:36.440
the stuff in the house but the supreme court nominees would that would not prevent them we'll see
00:30:40.920
we're going to go through the um an election preview of sorts for the first time this week
00:30:45.220
i think on studios america uh because i you know kind of set the stage as to where we are what it looks
00:30:50.660
like and what is in the future what what do you think the what do you think the reasoning is for why
00:30:56.560
they believe it's going to be an electoral bloodbath in 2022 um i think there's several factors one is
00:31:02.600
inflation two gas prices uh the botched afghanistan withdrawal um pretty bad i mean pretty much
00:31:11.480
everything as one of the strategists put it who's he's the one who's unnamed he said it's bad you have
00:31:19.360
an energy crisis that's paralyzing and inflation is in a 40 40 year high and we're heading into a
00:31:27.680
recession the problem the problem is simple the american people have lost confidence in joe biden
00:31:33.960
everyone needs to come to terms with the reality that we're going to get slaughtered in november
00:31:39.020
that's a fact biden's polling has gotten worse not better it's indicative of the fact that people
00:31:44.520
have lost confidence in his leadership there's nothing they're going to be able to do that's a big
00:31:51.080
statement that is a big statement i think part of it too is these are issues that one the
00:31:57.680
smack you in the face and two you can't spin your way out of you can't spin your way out of
00:32:03.360
inflation he's been trying to do that yeah he's been trying to blame it on everybody under the sun
00:32:07.900
except him yeah you just can't do it though it doesn't work you can't say hey those gas prices are
00:32:13.680
somebody else's fault you know i i filled up my car today 70 to fill up my car now i don't have a suv
00:32:20.740
i have a sedan yeah 70 my last two phillips have been 93 and 90 93 and 90 and it's just a four-door
00:32:28.820
sedan it's incredible yeah it's incredible and you know and people in california now are like oh man
00:32:34.860
what i would do to pay only 90 to fill up my tank right now that'd be incredible you know it is and
00:32:42.160
this is hitting everybody it doesn't just hit conservatives it hits everybody and it's hard to
00:32:47.260
deny when number one the prices were going up before putin number two you have a role in the
00:32:53.400
putin situation i mean like you your actions taken beforehand did not help the afghanistan thing did
00:33:01.000
not help uh your statement that a minor incursion might not be a big deal did not help uh you know
00:33:08.180
did you stop you got all you're you're bragging about all your intelligence and you were right on
00:33:13.080
them invading what'd you do with that information did it work what you chose to do didn't do anything
00:33:18.960
that was positive and you couldn't keep that straight with the rest of your administration
00:33:22.540
either because everybody else was calling it a deterrent yep and then he's saying it was
00:33:27.100
absolutely nobody thought it was a deterrent just embarrassing everybody around you said it was
00:33:33.240
so people see these prices go up and they see the answer to this which is i don't know go buy a
00:33:38.900
70 000 electric car or something now i recently as i mentioned yeah pat uh i have there's been some
00:33:47.460
supply chain issues i don't know if you noticed this no i ordered a car uh now seven months ago plus
00:33:53.720
and still do not seven months seven months wow and i'm a couple weeks away from my eight month
00:33:59.160
anniversary uh and i actually just i actually did get contacted by the dealership recently
00:34:04.520
and they said hey what if we order your car without a bunch of the features you wanted
00:34:10.060
how do you feel about that uh and i was like no honestly at this point maybe put it in without
00:34:17.240
some of the features and let's see what happens and i at least i'd have something to as an interim
00:34:21.940
yeah situation i at this point i don't know what to do but i was looking around at a bunch of
00:34:26.220
different things and uh i was looking at one you know and i've talked about this before some of
00:34:31.540
these electric cars are really cool like i'm not against electric cars no me neither as we talked
00:34:35.400
about a lot of people especially on the conservative side these days seem to like elon musk quite a bit
00:34:39.300
which is an interesting transition what's happened to his he was the darling of the left for a zillion
00:34:45.000
years and now all of a sudden the left hates him and he's a darling of the right i don't know how
00:34:50.020
this happens so into climate change he's trying to find us a whole nother planet yeah a planet to
00:34:55.200
escape he's building spaceships to escape climate change but he's a right-wing figure all of a sudden
00:35:00.420
right anyway so he builds teslas which are really great cars and they're really really fast and some
00:35:08.000
of these other cars are really fast as well i was looking at one of them and the first of all if you
00:35:14.820
want to have a rational relationship with this car you have to put in uh an industrial electrical
00:35:21.640
outlet you know like the or like the one you have for your washer and dryer you need another one of
00:35:26.060
those to even have a chance to make this sensible if you do that you can charge it overnight so
00:35:30.980
eight to ten hours of charge it's too long car gets 200 miles yeah about 200 miles per charge for
00:35:37.060
full charge for me okay if you plug it in your normal outlet it takes three days three days to
00:35:43.740
charge there are three fast chargers three in the entire dallas fort worth metroplex three and how fast
00:35:51.700
are they they are fast if you're near one but again i don't live within a half an hour of any of
00:35:57.720
these things they're all at the fringes of town so if you were driving to let's say austin you might
00:36:02.860
stop on your way and and and and you can fill up i think about 20 to 30 minutes that's not bad which
00:36:08.420
is not bad i mean again you know you stop at a gas station it's going to be five minutes but you
00:36:12.460
probably walk in you maybe you know it's not terrible you can live with 20 to 30 minutes as long as
00:36:17.700
that's constantly improving i mean you don't want to get any longer than that yeah but two hours or
00:36:22.680
10 hours completely unacceptable to me at least yeah and if you plug let's just say you plug it
00:36:27.880
if you plugged it in in your outlet at home and you when you got home at you know seven o'clock at
00:36:32.480
night and you took it out seven o'clock in the morning when you leave for work and it could charge
00:36:36.520
all the way up you might say i can deal with that for most of the time right like that's not bad
00:36:41.360
but not only are you paying seventy thousand dollars for an electric car i think the average is 55 000
00:36:46.780
there are some like the nissan leaf is cheaper than that obviously a lot of the teslas are more
00:36:51.700
the porsche ticons a lot more but you can go and you can find a car that is pretty you know that'll
00:36:57.920
cost a lot of money with these things but even if you get a nissan leaf if you want it to be
00:37:01.700
rational to be able to charge it you have to spend a couple thousand dollars putting in a faster charger
00:37:08.520
in your garage so how just the extra charger you put in your garage is going to wipe out the
00:37:14.680
increased gas prices over an entire year at least yeah this is it's irrational it is and what people
00:37:21.180
see is wait a minute my gas prices have been going up my electricity electricity prices are going up
00:37:25.520
and the only thing i ever hear from these guys is not let's let's expand production let's not make it
00:37:30.640
you know let's not get off of russian oil and iranian oil and saudi arabian oil let's just all go green
00:37:38.000
and spend three times as much on electricity and on the vehicle itself well what this is not
00:37:44.900
no one this is a now problem this is not a 2050 problem it is a now problem and people are getting
00:37:52.220
killed right now on this and you can't spin your way out of it and i think all this also applies to
00:37:56.480
things like the gender stuff the crt stuff the you know the trying to talk about sex with your
00:38:04.520
second graders at school all this smacks people across the face it's not a nuanced issue let me
00:38:10.740
make you an argument as to why lowering the minimum wage would make sense economically it's not that
00:38:17.100
argument conservatives a lot of times get bogged down in that type of argument which is i think
00:38:22.020
really important but also difficult to win over voters easily you know the minimum wage is a very
00:38:28.740
popular issue because the emotion behind it is of course people who are hard working every day
00:38:34.500
people trying to make their way working as a as a at a role that might not be paying it a lot of
00:38:39.820
course they should get more money that would be great and that's an easy emotional argument the
00:38:44.720
economic argument is much more complicated and winds up affecting the economy in a bunch of different
00:38:49.920
ways which is why the conservative position is correct but with leah thomas there's no need to
00:38:54.960
argue those things what is a woman i don't do i need to answer that if you don't freaking know what a
00:39:00.760
woman is why are we even talking to you and that is not what just conservatives are saying right now
00:39:06.720
i think a lot of moderate voters i think even some democratic voters are saying wait a minute i want
00:39:12.900
i don't want people to hate others i don't want people to be discriminated against but you don't know
00:39:18.800
what a woman is what the hell is wrong with you ridiculous i think that's a big thing right now i think
00:39:24.640
moderate democratic voters people who are you know we talked about larry hogan earlier the larry
00:39:30.840
hogan republicans who might not consider normally a guy who's really conservative are saying wait a
00:39:37.260
minute i can't we can't be that we can't say that a guy standing there in a woman's bathing suit
00:39:44.100
with his junk hanging out is a good female swimmer can we be honest here we all see this right
00:39:52.620
and when do we start throwing women under the bus when is it okay that you don't consider their
00:39:58.740
feelings or their skill set or the fact that they've been working on this their entire lives
00:40:03.680
to get to where they are in in swimming or skiing or we've also got the bicycling thing that's been up
00:40:11.160
lately and we don't even care about any of that i mean title nine when it was passed in what 72
00:40:18.960
it changed college sports forever there were a lot of men's sports that were eliminated so that you
00:40:28.680
could accommodate women in colleges and so things like soccer went out the window uh lacrosse and and
00:40:36.820
hockey and and a bunch of sports that men played at these universities went right out the window
00:40:41.920
um and now we're throwing the women out the window so that you've got 0.7 percent of the population that
00:40:51.280
can compete against them it doesn't make any sense to a lot of people to most people i hope i hope we're
00:40:58.000
still at the point where common sense prevails uh on this and you know that there are biological
00:41:03.280
differences between men and women and if you got a biological man claiming to be a woman he shouldn't
00:41:09.780
he shouldn't be competing against biological women uh hopefully we're smart enough still as a society to