07-16-24 FULL SHOW - Day Two from the RNC, Plus Trump is Different

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The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored byBelle and Pollock, accident and injury lawyers,
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thing, All right, my friends, welcome, welcome, Welcome to the
twenty twenty four Republican National Convention inMilwaukee, Wisconsin. I am your host
for the next three hours, andI have got my right hand man literally
right now, Anthony Rodriguez. Youcan call him a rod if you don't
get see a Ron is actually playingthe air horn from his phone into his

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microphone on his headset, so heis making it happen even though he's not
even in the studio. So holyMacaroni. Yesterday yesterday, yesterday, yesterday
was a long, long day,but what a great day. And Rob
Dawson, our crack reporter, ishere as well. Rob, you have
been hustling, running after people,chasing people down. What has been the

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most interesting thing that you have seenhere at the at the convention show so
far? I think the leader inthe club ass Since we last left the
show yesterday was the vec. Yes, just the because I remember how it
happened. We saw him walking towardsus after the sessionary and uh, I

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was we were walking together and Iwas like, oh, Eric Vic and
this was rob. I mean,maybe I pulled it off and you didn't
realize that was my first ever walkand talk. We saw him, Aaron
hands me the microphone and you cansee all of this, by the way,
on our social media. So Ijust said, hey, Vivic,

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can we walk in talk? Andhe said sure, And there's like seven
or eight people around him. Imean they were you know, there's a
lot of people, and he wasvery generous, and you hi, man,
that's this giant Amazonian woman next tohim. He's not a large fellow,
I learned yesterday. But then hegave us a few minutes. I
got a chance to ask him aboutseveral different things, and I want to

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play it. It's like a minuteand a half as we walk down the
street in Milwaukee. So let mego ahead and hit that audio and let
you hear my conversation with vik Ramaswamithe vag How do you feel about the
selection of JD. Van's very good. I think that he is the right
pick, and I think he isgoing to be an outstanding vice president.
What role do you want to havein the next Trump administration. You've been
such a great surrogate for him anda great advocate. So look, I

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think that shutting down the administrative stateis a core focus for me. I
think that there are ways to dothat, certainly through the executive I think
that, Look, if I getthe question I've gotten obviously a lot today,
is there's a lot of ways todo that through the legislative branch too.
I think JD's vacancy the only it'snot even a negga. I mean,
this is a compliment to him,but leaves a big vacuum in the
US Senate, and there's also goingto be a lot of work need to

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be done there to drive the Trumpagenda to the next level. Are we
ever going to see the Vake runfor Congress at the USNN. I think
it's something that I haven't really consideredrunning for in the past. If asked
to serve in JD's seed, Iwould strongly consider it. But I would
also want to have a serious conversationwith President Trump to discuss the other ways

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that I could possibly have a biggerimpact, whatever the biggest impact is I
could on the country, and soI look forward to those conversations. Yeah.
We uh. I just want youto know my audience was very disappointed
that you were not the VP.So you were beloved in Denver by the
few conservatives that are left stating there. Tell them I appreciate it, and
one way or another, we're goingto save this country and it's gonna take

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all of us. It's got atop, down and bottom. If love
you guys back. Good to seeyou guys, and thanks to the Dead
Runs. I love Colorado. Wewere just there, all right. That
was the vak Ramaswami. Yes,as we walked down the street. I
mean he's very he's got great presence. Oh yeah, yeah, he commands
the room, a very fast walker. You did a good job keeping up
with him. Yes, he isa very fast walker, and he was

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really good. It was. Itwas a great interview. You've crashed into
several people over the last day alittle bit. You know. We had
Avaka I then I'm trying to rememberbecause I've been there's so many. But
we got Eric Trump. Yeah,Eric Trump. Aaron and I both were
running up to him. And chasehim through the arena. Florida Centator Rick

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Scott as well just had a scrum. He thinks that we've been saying this
too. We mentioned Marjorie Taylor Greenries the subdued message inviting people in,
and Rick Scott senses that too.He thinks that there is a change of
tone for the convention. And hebrought up the fact that, especially in

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a state like Florida, so manymore Republicans than Democrats down it was flipped
fourteen years ago in twenty ten whenhe ran, well, I'm trying to
remember and I should have grabbed thisearlier, but somebody gave a speech last
night, Ron Johnson. And RonJohnson from Wisconsin had rewritten his speech to
make it more with the theme ofunity, and they loaded the old speech

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onto the teleprompter. Oh wow.We kind of got caught a little flat
footed by his own trying to changebecause it is I think significant the difference
that we're hearing in tone and tenorbecause to your point, Marjorie Taylor Green
is usually the bomb thrower, andshe was very measured yesterday. And here's
the thing too, Lauren Bobert's presssecretary for the campaign. Yes, I

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met him yesterday in the concourse ofthe ffier after the afternoon session. As
I've been reporting, the cars womanis coming today. How does her message?
First of all, we don't knowshe's a speaker or not. We
will find out, I guess noton the agenda for tonight. We just
got all the speakers for tonight.But if where does she fit in?
Because Marjorie Taylor and her have thatsimilar you know, well firebrand. Let

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me just say this, Lauren Bobertis likely going to be the fourth congressional
district winner. But I don't thinkshe was ready for as much Republican opposition
as she got. And it isher bound bastic style that I don't like.
I don't like that, I don'tlike that about her. Policy wise,
she and I are in the samepage, right, we should we

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should be great. So this couldbe an opportunity for her to hit the
reset button on her style, onher bomb bask if indeed she is going
to speak it again. They're notreleasing the speakers until like noon the day
up. Well, I felt likethey think session yesterday it was about twenty
minutes, five minutes, five minutesbefore fifteen fifteen minutes yesterday. Rest Yeah,

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well you know it was yeah,it was about yeah, within the
hour, and isn't it. AndI mentioned this this morning. There is
no plan. We are running ona roller coaster. Well, here's the
thing. I think yesterday they wereprobably holding back. Maybe they were trying
to decide if Trump was going tospeak yesterday, because that was the initial
word. We spoke by video message. Oh well, yes, I know,
but remember sometimes he sells things rightright. I mean I think that

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today we've settled more into the routine. I know that yesterday they were not
going to have the role call yesterdayuntil Trump said I want to roll call
on money and then you're doing yourshow. I'm looking at the monitor and
they're doing role yeah. Yeah,and then it was like I got to
go over there to see if wecould catch Colorado. Yeah. I think
he went, uh, just saidwe're going to get that out of the
way. Do you think he's producing, like, you know, we have

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an editor, Brenda Stewart in themorning, he organizes the show. Yeah.
Do you think Donald Trump is doingit? No? I think you're
telling people what he wants to havehappened there. And this is what he's
ordering. This is his party now. I think he says, make this
happen, and someone else has toscramble around and run around and make it
happen. This is his show andthere's no doubt about it. And if
it's not him doing that kind ofstuff, it is his. We're close

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to him. It is you know, Eric and Donald Junior have a very
strong presence here. They obviously havea lot of influence with their father,
especially Donald Junior. We're hearing Iheard yesterday that the reason that Jade Vance
is the vice president is because ofDonald Trump Junior. He's very keen on
him, very fond of him personally, and he really leaned on his dad

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to say this guy is the rightguy. And we saw him in the
arena yesterday on the tees. Yes, and we're hoping to talk to Eric
Trump tomorrow. We're gonna see ifwe can make that happen. It's everything
is very loosey goosey, so we'reprobably not getting really the most might look
for particular day, who has themost people follow him, And right now
Eric Trump patt the most people followinghim. I will say this, Marjorie

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Taylor Green, maybe on the showtomorrow, so we're trying to make that
work. The problem is that logisticallygetting everybody where they need to be is
challenging sometimes. And we're in thisbig media room, which is super cool,
but people have commitments and they're comingand going. And the theme is
you have a plan and then itchanges in five minutes. That is actually

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the plan. This is not aplace where people should be rigid. Okay,
let me do this before I forget, because I did forget and A
Rodgers like, hey, what aboutthe blog. The blog is a little
short, but we have a bunchof good stuff on and it's worth your
time to go to mandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for
the headline that says seven sixteen twentyfour blog Day two from the r NC

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plus Trump is different. Click onthat and here are the headlines you will
find within anyone's listening office happen andall the ships and clips And that's class
today on the blog, Holy cow, that was a lot yesterday. Jade
Vance is the second banana. ThingsI didn't expect from last night. Today's

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theme is make America Safe again.Joe Scarborough is salty about being booted yesterday,
Elon Musk is committing fully to Trumpand uh, if you wait,
we ran into the vikaramasrubbed yesterday.If you missed any of our interviews yesterday,
and those are the headlines on theblog at mandy'sblog dot com, please
check it out there. We missedour interviews from yesterday, you can feel

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free to go ahead and find themon yesterday's blog. A Rod taught me
how I to embed them, whichis a new trick I didn't know how
to do. So that's the thingthat's on there now. So if you
want to hear from any of thepeople we spoke to yesterday, you can
do that as well. We willdo that every single day and provide that
information for you so you can followalong as best you can. Now today

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on the show, we are goingto talk to the only I think the
only thing we have super scheduled rightnow is Dean Kine, formerly of Superman
fame. Let's just say this,Rob, and I'm gonna ask you your
your opinion on this. Hang on, I just muted myself in said I'm
needing you. There's not the celebrityappearances market. There are Oh okay,

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so all Michael Lindell, the mypillow gum sales want to feel around here.
He's probably around here somewhere. Hehas been walking around literally talking to
anyone with a microphone. What hasit been saying? Because you sit there
and tried to like get a wordwith it. Well, I tied him
up because I wanted to. Isaid, I said, was God with
Trump on Saturday? And he saidabsolutely, absolutely was? And we were

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one more and God was with us. Oh, very nice? It was
with us. All yes, butyou're right, celebrity, you're talking about
a yeah, yeah, yeah,we're not exactly. Yeah. This person
on the text line the VIK isa punk Manny are you going to kiss
make up with Dave Williams. No. Anyway, Secret Service had ramped up

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security after receiving intel on an Iranianplot to assassinate Trump. No known connection
to Saturday shooting. That from CNNright now, you know yesterday. I
want to talk about Donald Trump's appearancelast night at the RNC. First of
all, it's not traditional for thecandidate to show up early, but it
was an effort to tamp down anymore concerns. Also, get to greet

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the face full, as it were, but I didn't tell you Rob.
He came out last night a differentman than the man that we have seen
previously. A couple of things.Number one was the applause is loud?
Did it come through a loud onTV? Because I thought it would be
louder, But then there were alot of NDC's because it's Monday, right,

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so I felt like it could Iwanted I thought it would be more.
Oh wow. So the people thatwere there were incredibly enthusiastic but interested.
It wasn't a full house, rightright. I was kind of I
don't know. I was shocked alittle bit about how he kind of came
out. He almost seemed humble,humble. Was he tired? You know?

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Somebody else pointed this out to methis morning the email. One of
our listeners said, he has tobe physically sore. He got knocked to
the ground and knocked out of hisshoes on Saturday, and we all know
that the second day after you havesomething like that happen, you're more sore.
So physically he can't feel great,you know what I mean. But
his demeanor was so different because Idon't think there's ever been a time where

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I've seen Donald Trump where I saidhe looks tired or you know, could
he be like when you say humbleemotional? He looked emotional though I saw
a little bit of that I onthe monitor. He looked. He looked
grateful for all of the instead ofjust taking the adoration for granted like he
has done, nor has appeared todo for so long. It was like

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he was soaking in the moment ina way that I have never seen him
soak in a moment before. Ithought he came across much differently than I've
ever seen him before. Right,and no words, no words on the
microphone, although he had a videomessage. But so I was wondering if
that was gonna happen. Oh,leave Greenwoods right in front of us.
I know, Lee Greenwood's here,He's proud to be an American. We

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may be able to talk to himin the next couple of days. Yeah,
full time. He's going to beback tomorrow. They toss. So
is Rob Anti God? Now?No, he was asking a very specific
question to a man who had Idon't want to say it like this,
but sort of sacrificed his entire businesslife over Donald Trump. Right right,
and had a religious awakening to getto away from his troubles. To right.

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Yeah, so we've got a bunchof people standing in front of us.
We've got Rick Scott, We've gotLee Greenwood, Lease Eldon just passed
by. He's on Fox. Congressman. Yeah, he's no on Fox.
I'm gonna tell you this, youguys, this is like, this is
like conservative nerd prom Every major conservativethat I am aware of is at the

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oorns. Nora o'donald said hello tome. But well, so I saw
her coming in on the ground levelCBS Evening News, right, yes,
and I was like, o'donald,Nora o'donald. She's like, oh,
hello, yes, she's walking past. So that was great. It's the
little thing. So it's news andpolitical nerd prop is what we're having right
now. So this text message issaid, kind of sad that Trump gets

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shot and he has to change histo and can liberal at least just going
y'all leave Rob alone. Rob hasdid an amazing job here covering our stuff
and helping us get stuff. AndI mean, you shut up, Texter,
No, can I just say this. He doesn't have to change his
tone. I don't think Donald Trumpwent oh my gosh, I got shot.
I need to change my tone.But if you know anything about what

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happened with Ronald Reagan after he survivedan assassination attempt, he was very open
about the fact that that assassination attemptbrought him much closer to God. It
strengthened his faith a lot. AndI'm wondering what kind of effect a near
miss like that that honestly should havebeen so much worse and shooting. You

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said politically, right, He's gotthe base, yes, so now he's
working on the non base. Yes. I don't know. Maybe it's more
philosophical for him. We're gonna see. We will see what happens next.
Maybe he was fired, maybe hewas sore, maybe all of these things,
but maybe almost getting murdered had abigger effect on him then we realize.

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I'm guessing we will see more ofthat on Thursday night. His speech
has been completely rewritten with the newunity message in mind, and I am
okay with that. I mean,I'm I'm I'm ready to hear a speech
that is unifying and uplifting for acouple of reasons. Number one, because
I'm ready to be unified and upliftedright. I think Americans are like tired

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of where we are right now.That being said, on the flip side
of this, it makes the DemocraticNational Convention a lot more difficult because if
they come out swinging with harsh rhetoricand really attacking like they want to,
it is not a good look.Chess moves and Republicans probably have the advantage
of going first. Usually they havegone first so often, right, Well,

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I don't know. Somebody asked methat the other day, and I
honestly can't say. I can't remember, or maybe they rotate when the other
one is going to be you know, but I think, yes, if
you go second in this situation,I think you're under pressure. Well,
I've Democrats are underpressure for a lotof things. Yeah, oh yeah,
for a lot of reasons. Thistexter said, Mandy, Trump was absolutely
different last night. My husband andI both noticed right away and throughout.

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Was irritated. When you asked MartyLens this morning and he said, kind
of, he just couldn't admit youwere right. Well, we all look
at things from our own perspective,and Marty looks at things from his Mandy,
I heard rumors that Trump played agreat round of golf on Sunday at
Caddie said he drained a twenty fifthput on the eighteenth green. That from
Andy, So there you go.This person said Trump has always been humble.

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You media people will never get that. I am going to disagree with
that statement. I think that hehas an extremely healthy ego and he likes
to flaunt his wealth. He alwayshas. I would not use humblethough.
The only described Donald. The onlything about talking with delegates, they have
this personal connection with him. It'sunifying. They like he makes you.

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He gives a sense, even ifmaybe he's not actually they feel he's listening
to That isn't it Isn't it likea paternal feeling, like like he's somehow
this father figure that all the delegatescountry say they just love it when they
talk to him. They feel likehe gives them the time. He cares.
He cares. All right, that'sRob Dawson, who I'm going to

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turn loose. Now. He's gonnabe wandering around getting us audio. Maybe
we can talk to some delegates todayif you can grasp them and Nana,
we'll get some delegates on the showtoday. It's going to be a busy,
busy day, but you can alwaystext us on the common Spirit health
text line five six six nine.Oh, that's five sixty six nine.
Oh. Oh, somebody else saidTrump did not play golf on Sunday.

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That was all made up. Sothere you go. I do want to
say this. I'd love to knowwhat you guys saw. If you watched
the convention covers last night, whatdid you think about Donald Trump's reaction to
the crowd. Did you sense anythingabout him that was different or unusual?
Go ahead and text us that fivesix six nine. Oh. We're gonna

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the ones that sponsored our coverage hereand brought us here, and I'm so
grateful for this experience. Now,I ask you, guys, via the
text line, what did you thinkof Trump's appearance last night? Because I

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thought we saw a completely different guythan we have seen before. And you
know, I'm not going to sayI watch every Trump appearance and that I've
seen every rally, but I don'trecall seeing him that reserved. He looked
grateful, he looked humble, Helooked quite different than we've ever seen him
before. And many of you haveweighed in on this via our text line.

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And he said, oh, excuseme, I thought it was andy.
Being shot at, missed is alife changing experience. I know,
actually being hit had to change hislife. Now we'll see on Thursday what
that looks like now going forward,this person said, I made I thought
for the first time Trump looked old. Well, I would guess that being
shot at and hit in the ear, but then being tackled by a bunch

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of Secret Service guys would probably makeyou feel your age at any age,
and his age is seventy eight,so yes, there might have been a
little bit of that. Trump isthe person who made rhetoric a word.
He is the worst of all,y'all. That's just silly. Rhetoric has
been a word for a very longtime. And I'm just not going to
engage in the it's Trump's fault.I'm not doing that because here's the reality.

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The last two political shootings that haveoccurred have occurred from people on the
left. Well we don't know aboutthis now, this shoot or now,
but the last guy that shot ranPaul and others at a softball game.
So to act like somehow Trump isthe guy who genned all this up and
is responsible when lots of people onthe right have been called nasty names for
a very long time, and yetwe've never shot a political candidate now,

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have we? We haven't, Sostop it, just stop it. This
person says your Friday show was creepytalking about assassinations, and I am going
to tell you I absolutely when Isaw this on Saturday, I went,
oh my goodness. And if youdon't remember Friday Show, I said,
look, I feel like we havedevolved in civil society to the point where

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we have to worry about what theyused to do in the in the Roman
Empire, and they never had toworry about a long term dictator back then
because someone got assassinated. Right,you'd be in power for a little while,
you're Julius Caesar, someone stabs youin the back to route and then
you don't have to worry about it. New guy takes over. But I
kind of wondered aloud on Friday aboutjust the nasty level of our discourse and

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where it's gotten this and it's notit's not heartwarming. And Saturday, when
all this happened, that was oneof the first things I thought about,
like, this is exactly what Iwas talking about. And again, we
still don't know anything about this youngshooter, and you know, just details
coming out. It seems to melike he was a sad twenty year old

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man who didn't seem to have muchgoing on in his life, and perhaps
this was his way of trying tobecome famous and making a mark in the
world. And his parents apparently areTrump supporters, so we shall see how
that all works out. I mean, I hate to say it is overly
simplistic, but what a way torebel against your parents, right, I

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don't know, we don't know sowe will say a lot of you were
saying, why hasn't Trump. Ohwait a minute, Mandy, I think
you meant Trump could have not shouldhave been much worse. If I did
say should have, yes, Imeant to say could have. So there's
a lot going on, and I'msuper distracted, and you guys know I
have a very short attention span anyway, So you're gonna have to bear with

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me in any of my verbal missteps. Mandy, I would say humble.
That's the way he looked to me. That was the word I chose.
He looked humbled. Mandy. Ithought Trump looked a little nervous to walk
at all in front of all thosepeople. I would yeah, well he's
not. You guys, the securityhere is ridiculous. It is they have

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this massive perimeter around the actual eventcenters. So for a bad actor to
get from where these perimeters and checkpointsare set up, there are men with
guns everywhere, there are metal detectors. There's every time you come in,
they scan your bag. I mean, everybody has these ginormous credentials, so

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if you don't have credentials, youimmediately get the stink eye. And it's
just the security here is so tight, and the secure in the Feisser Forum,
where the main parts of the conventionare taking place, is extremely tight.
So the thought that yes, hewas just shot at, I mean,
obviously that's going to have an impactthat this is probably the safest place

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to be right now if you haveto be anywhere. And it was a
closed venue, it wasn't an openvenue. But I did notice when he
came out from the back. NormallyPresident Trump will glad hand as he comes
down the aisle, He's you know, touching people, and there was a
solid line of Secret Service agents walkingwith him between him and the audience.

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So there are definitely a lot moreprecautions being taken. He's doing things differently
now because of that. And Idon't blame him, I man, I
sure would Mandy. While admittedly nota Trump supporter, I do feel,
oh dang it, that just updated. I do feel Trump's demeanor was different
yesterday, more calm, reflective.Perhaps upon seeing him on TV. I

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immediately told my wife that something wasdifferent about him, and that's what I
thought, Mandy. I felt likeTrump was a bit emotional when he first
entered and definitely had a much morehumble look to him. I understood what
happened to him. I can onlyimagine how life changing that must have been.
This person, said Mandy. PresidentTrump was on the verge of crying.
We teared up watching but Lee Greenwoodsong always makes me emotional. It

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was a little comforting seeing him walkingand smiling. But he is humbled and
that's okay. And really, tothe point that you're making about it was
comforting to see him walking and smiling. I think that's why he was at
the event Monday night. I thinkthat he just came to let the delegates
know he's okay. They could seeit for themselves, and walking out on

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stage allowed them to sort of putto rest any ongoing notions that anything was
significantly wrong with the president. Mandy. I think he believed that his bandage
and all it representative would say muchmore than any words. Yeah, yeah,
you're right about that. I thinkhe so humble is not a word
to describe Donald J. Trump,but he did appear less proud last night.

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Hi, Andy, Yes, Ialso noticed something different with Donald Trump.
I can't put my finger on it, but somehow a near death experience
has changed his physical appearance and mannerisms. Observable even through the television. The
only thing I can say is hehas had a spiritual change, and we
are seeing that in his physical presence. We'll see if it's Sicks right.
We're gonna hear speech on Thursday thatis much different than the speech here originally

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planned to give. And that speechon Thursday should be about unity. It
should be about bringing the country together. It should be about taking down the
political rhetoric, which would be great, but does that translate to actual action?
Now? I need to hear fromyou guys. Did anybody see President

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Biden's interview last night with Lesterholt.I've seen snippets, I've seen comments on
it. I haven't had time togo back and watch it, so that's
not something I've done yet. Butin it, lot of people are pointing
out he still was essentially blaming thevictim in this and went so far as
to say I don't say mean thingsexcept he does. He really really does.

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So I don't think anybody has thecomplete mortal high ground on this.
And here's what I'm going to talkabout in the next segment. Mandy,
Rob and a Rod. You guysare doing great. Thank you so confused
by amber Rose thoughts on her speech. She does have twenty four million plus
followers on Instagram. I thought Trumplooked like he has been through a lot
the last few days and looked likehe was on pain pills, super relaxed

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and always grinning. That's an interestingtake, maybe, So I want to
talk about the amber Rose speech lastnight. I realized that there are many
in the very conservative sphere that we'revery unhappy about that. When we get
back, I'm going to tell youwhy. I think it was a genius
idea to have her speak thanks toRocking out in Voice dot com. We

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are here from the RNC and Milwaukeewill be right back. Happy to be
here thanks to Rocky Mountain Voice dotcom, your choice for conservative news in
Colorado. Now want to address thespeech last night by amber Rose, because
that when I saw amber Rose wasgonna speak her I think I even asked
a rod like, why is shefamous? Oh, she dated Kanye,

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she's a rapper, she is amodel, and now she I guess as
an OnlyFans page, I don't know, but I was genuinely confused. I
was, Okay, what is shegoing to bring to the party? What
are we going to do here?What is this? But last night was
kind of surprising on multiple levels.We'll get into in the next hour,
but a lot of you are like, what was she doing there? What

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was this woman doing at the RNC. And Matt Walsh noted very conservative commentator,
he was not happy on Twitter atall. As a matter of fact,
he warned about, you know,elevating another left winger to this sort
of and he said mouthpiece for conservatism, which I don't think that's what last
night was about. It absolutely waslast night. Amber Rose spoke at the

(29:03):
Republican National Convention about doing her ownhomework about she had believed for a long
time about what the media said aboutRepublicans. Her father is a Republican apparently,
and he urged her to do herown homework and start looking at the
things that were being said and investigatefor herself. And she said after that

(29:25):
conclusion, after that, she couldonly conclude that Donald Trump was the right
choice for America. Now, amberRose was not talking to rock ribbed conservatives.
Amber Rose was not putting herself outthere as the standard bearer of conservatism.
Amber Rose was brought to the RNCto talk to her twenty five million
Instagram followers and urge them to stopfollowing what they think they see in the

(29:51):
media and do their own research.That was the sole purpose of her appearance.
And I'm going to be perfectly frank. I thought she did a really
good job. She had great presence, she sounded great. Although I did
find the head tattoo distracting. Didwe ever figure out what it says?
I still don't know what we werefigure out what she's Yeah, find out

(30:11):
Google, Google what Amber Rose's headtattoo says. Can we all just agree
that face tattoos are a bad idea? But face tattoos incursive are just mean.
They're just mean to everybody else.Okay, because you can't read them,
you can't see what it says.What is your face? Sash slash
script tattoo dedicated to our two children? Ah, so she has two kids,
Bash and Slash. I guess they'reat least they're nicknames. Okay,

(30:33):
yes, so they're why But whatever, It's fine. It's her face.
She can do whatever she wants.But I don't understand the outcry when we
are at a point in time whenthe two party system is contracting, right,
fewer and fewer young people are registeringto be any party, they are
far more likely to be unaffiliated thanRepublican or Democrat, and they are far

(30:55):
more likely to remain that way.So if we're trying to grow the tent,
if we're trying to make the partybigger, you have to be willing
to talk to everyone. You haveto be willing to hear from everyone.
And she is part of that everyone. Now do I want to make her?
You know this? I'm reminded,and I think Matt Walsh does have

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a point in one area in thissituation. Conservatives get so excited when any
Hollywood type or a singer, oran actress or an actor, whenever anyone
of that ILK gives them a look, because it doesn't happen very often.
I was talking to Rob Dawson earlier. This is not a deep celebrity situation,

(31:36):
right, We were not running intocelebrities every five minutes. That's not
what's happening here. So when wedo get a look, I finally remember
that guy's name, by the way, Beca finally remembered his name. And
I'm seeing all these famous people thatI know, but I don't know who
they are. It's brit Mozelle fromMedia Research Center. So I think she
did a great job last night,and I think hopefully she will accomplish a

(31:56):
little of what she was set outto do, which is to urge young
people who follow her to do theirown research and maybe they come to a
different conclusion, and that is thebest possible outreach from this stage. This
week, someone asked me at oneof our meet and greets that we do
on the trip. They said,how do I convince someone of their wrongness?

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And I said, well, firstof all, you can't convince someone
who doesn't want to be convinced,right. That's an impossible it's a full
Errand the only thing you can dois ask them to consider that maybe there's
information they don't have that they shouldhave, and hope and pray and assume
that once they have better information,they will begin to see, well,

(32:37):
this might be a better way togo. That's what anamb Rose was about
last night. That's it. Sowe're not elevating her to a position of
power in the party. We're nottelling people that she is the new vice
presidential candidate or in any way,shape or form, the Republican standard bearer.
What that was was an effort totalk to people that we don't normally

(32:59):
talk to. And this is oneof the reasons that Trump has been polling
and do. He did better intwenty sixteen with African Americans and Hispanics than
Republicans previously did because they are talkingto people that the Republican Party has been
ignoring. So before you get yourknickers in a twist about amber Rose,

(33:20):
just know this. If you're nothappy about her showing up, she wasn't
talking to you. That's the simpletruth. Okay, we'll be right back
when we get back. We've gotto talk about last night's speech from the
president of the Teamsters union. Talkabout people talking to people who you don't
normally talk to. Wow, thatwas an earthshake last night. We'll do
that right after this. We arein Milwaukee at the RNC, brought to

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(34:02):
Connelly con presented by Rocky Mountain Boys. I'm Kola ninety four one them can
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(34:23):
hour of the show. We aregoing to talk about the team start speech
in just a few minutes, butwe are waiting to speak with Buck Sexton
from the Clay Travis and Buck SextonShow on our sister station, Freedom ninety
three point seven. They're doing theirshow right next to us, so we
thought, well, we'll pop himin to see what he thought of last

(34:43):
night and what he's thinking so far. Somebody just hit the text line and
said, what time is Nicki Haleyspeaking tonight? And I have to tell
you tonight there are some serious heavyhitters in the party that are speaking.
The vik Ramaswami speaks at seven pointthirty. Now they're all like five ten
minutes. They're very short slots,and then Ted Cruz at eight. We

(35:04):
have Nikki Haley probably at eight twenty, and then followed immediately by Ronda Santis.
So maybe this is the the VanquishedCandidate show tonight, and then it
goes on from there. Marco Rubiospeaks next to last, Doctor Ben Carson
speaks tonight, Sarah Sarah Huckybye Sandersspeaks tonight, and the night will be

(35:24):
capped off by CoA chair Laura Trumpfrom the Republican National Convention. Before that,
some members of Congress at last staphonic, Tom Ammer, Steve Scalise,
Mike Johnson, Boy. Steve Scalise'scomments are going to be super interesting tonight
because he also suffered a wound.Yes, Buck Sexton coming over here in

(35:46):
what I thought what I thought wasa car heart sweatshirt yesterday, but now
I know clearly it says Crockett Coffee. It's clearly it's a coffee shirt.
But I couldn't see because you're toofamous in your bright blinding light. Can't
be from seeing that. But goodto see you right next to me instead
of over there next to me.Yeah, good to see you. How

(36:08):
you doing? Is this your firstconvention? Yes, me too. It's
it's kind of like a tent polerevival for politics in a way. I
am not a I guess we're onthe air, so I want to saying
this right, I'm not an eventsguy. Yeah, I'm just gonna tell
you because I I mean, I'ma curmudgeon. And this is not so,

(36:30):
this is very Everyone knows this aboutme. I don't like loud noise.
I don't like people. You know, I like people. I just
I just like to be in controlof how much exposure to you know,
people. No. I mean,I look, it's it's it's amazing to
be here because the history of it. I mean, on a serious note,
for a second, I think thatthis is if I could have been

(36:52):
at an r n C or orany national convention to be here now given
what gone on with Donald Trump,where I think will go on on the
positive side, with this incredible momentin our politics, where I think that
we are I mean, I wouldsay, and I think that this is
Trump's election to lose. I thinkthat Donald Trump is going to do amazing

(37:14):
things in a second term. Ilove the pickup Jdvans. This is a
lot of times in politics you feellike you have to manufacture enthusiasm or you
or a story, but you haveto manufacture your enthusiasm for the moment,
right right, Okay, I lovethe GOP but like this, Mitt Romney's
speech in twenty twelve. This ispretty boring. But look, I love
the goopiece, I'm gonna try thisis different Donald Trump right now is he

(37:37):
is a man walking with destiny.I want to ask you what you thought
about his appearance last night, becauseI'm getting feedback from my listeners on the
text line. I thought we sawa change man last night. He looked
he looked grateful, he looked humble, he looked emotional almost as he came
out, and everybody's cheering, andit was such a big night, but

(37:59):
he was very and that's not theman that we generally see in these situations.
Well, I think that when youhave a five five six round clip
your ear, it changes your perspectiveon everything, at least for a period
of time, or it gives youperhaps a new perspective. And you know,
I think that Trump obviously was presidentbefore he was commander in chief.

(38:21):
He understands the seriousness of the rolethat he's stepping into. But there is
no there's no way that he couldn'tview what happened as somehow indicative of the
gravity of the fight that's ahead andthe seriousness of the mission that he is

(38:42):
on, and also the reminder thatyou know he is he is making sacrifices
to do this too, And Ithink that that's not always something you see
in politics, not always true ifpeople in politics. For some people,
it's like, oh, politics,that get to be kind of known and
eventually I'll make money. You know, Donald Trump's a billionaire, he's already
been ford. Why does he wantto do this? Well, now he's
a billionaire who's already been president,who had someone who came an inch away

(39:05):
from ending his life with a bullet, and he still wants to do this.
You can't tell me, And Idon't think you can tell any fair
minded person that's for any reason otherthan he thinks that this is his mission
to help the country. And Ithink that a lot of people, more
than ever a lot maybe have thoughtso before, view it as a mission
that has a touch of the divine. Now you just said you really like
the JD. Vans pick, andwe talked about it yesterday because it happened

(39:29):
when I was on the air.And for me, I look at this,
and a lot of people are saying, Look, this guy's been in
the Senate for two years, he'sbeen her a hot minute, he's all
of these things. But doesn't itseem like JD. Vance if you're Donald
Trump, and you're going to bea one more term, right, you
can't do another term, so onemore term. It seems to me like
JD Vance is the natural choice topotentially be the Trump policy standard bearer going

(39:50):
full work. How much do youthink that plays into it or is it
just a personality issue or I don'tthink it makes that much of an impact
in Ohio. I'll take a littlevictory lot moment here on your show,
if I can please. I toldClay on our show, The clan Buck
Show. I think it was sixmonths ago when they're oh it was all
about Tim Scott and that was allabout Christine Noman. You know you can

(40:13):
follow this betting markets and the dogand that was off the table. I
mean, that's never gonna happen.I love dogs. You don't want to
get me, but I've I've Ipromised the audience. I completely lost my
mind for a day over that,so I promised that I won't go.
It's like a big cuddle bears.I mean, if I could have fifty
my wife has to take care ofthe dog a lot, but if I
if I could, I would havefifty dogs. Anyway, But I said,

(40:34):
Jad Vance would be the guy sixmonths ago. And it's because I
brush my shoulder, I'll give myselfa little credit. It's because the people
that I knew around Trump, whoreally know what's going on, had the
word had gotten out that Trump reallywanted somebody who he thought could be the
future of the party, but alsothat he wanted to spend the next four

(40:58):
years as his battle buddy, ifyou will. And that's not just in
those incredibly tense moments that that cancome with a presidency, but just he
wants someone that he wants to spendtime with, that he likes being around,
that he can trust the same waythat he feels that way about you
know, various family members who havebeen involved with what he's with his administration,
right, he wants and I knowthat he likes and respects JD.

(41:20):
And so that was the first tipoff for me of why I thought he'd
be the guy, because they getalong, right, and that matters to
Trump. And I don't think itreally makes much of a difference in terms
of the election. Who Donald Trump'svice president is a Trump election, So
everyone was saying, oh, okay, it should be you know, it
should be somebody from this state,so we could help him that state.

(41:42):
Well, I mean, is thateven going to work? And I don't
like this thing at all, ofOh, we should have a woman who
a minority we reject. We can'tsay we reject Ei and then always turn
around and say, well, butwe need to play our own DEI games,
right. I know there are peoplein the Republican Party who are women,
who are minorities, who are fantastic, and I'm respected like them and
would have voted for them or wouldvote for them going forward because of that,

(42:06):
not because they're you know what I'msaying, If you're the best,
they should be chosen the best.Then we should go with whoever's going to
be going to do the best job. So let me ask you this about
jd. Vance. He's been verystrong on Ukraine. I've seen some commentary
today from kind of the political classsaying things like this is a middle finger
to some of the establishment, themore neo con wing of the party.

(42:30):
Does a vice president's policy choices?How much does that even impact doesn't That's
what I thought, Well, see, but this is what's what's interesting to
me about this is it's a differentvice presidential pick in terms of the structure
that JD is coming into than whatyou would normally see. It's not that
this is unprecedented, but donaldrum cowenbypresident for four more years, right,

(42:52):
right, and in a first termof a president who's running the first time,
and your pick to be the vicepresident. You're assuming that if all
goes well again, a lot ofthings can change in the world. But
you're assuming that this is the eightyear pick of your party. With JD
vance after two years, people aregoing to be thinking is he the pick?

(43:12):
Now there will be a primary,right, we don't have a coronation,
but is he the pick for theRepublican Party that's coming up quickly?
The two years is going to gobuy in a flash, right, first
year of Trump two point zero isgoing to be I'm sure a heck of
a show, a lot of stuffgoing on. So I think that that
was an important consideration in this,even even more so than before. And
in terms of the the way thatyou know, is JD kind of a

(43:36):
slap to the face of the establishment, you know, I think that he
has in some ways he's got somecore. He's got core conservative values on
a lot of issues that really count. I think he's a little bit away
from the the GOP, you know, the Mitch McConnell wing of the party
on some things, maybe that's aneasiest way or you know, the so
in the GOP establishment sense, there'sa little bit of a break from that.

(43:59):
But he's also somebody who's shown thathe changes Luy changes his mind on
Trump. I mean, he's aguy who with new information, he comes
to new conclusions. And so Ithink that you want people of the highest
caliber in these kinds of role,especially because he's not I mean, I
think he's not going to just belimited to being a vice president. I
think that he's going to be activelyinvolved in the day day and actively involved

(44:20):
the day to day and actively involvedin the future of the party himself as
a candidate. But also, youknow, whatever it may bring, So
I think it's I think it's great. Also, we need I love Trump,
It's amazing. We do need peoplewho aren't in their eighties running the
country. That was what I wasabout to say. I feel like it's
time and I I feel like there'sgot to be a time to pass the

(44:44):
torch. And you just mentioned MitchMcConnell. I lived in Kentucky for three
years and did radio there, soI got to interview him until he decided
I was in conservative enough. ThankDanino just coming up. I don't know,
kid, I don't I'll never getto CEPN. I see Dan,
I'm excited, want to come areokay? Thank you for that. Thank

(45:04):
you for that, for getting mean interview. No, let me ask
you a little bit about the Democraticresponse to what's happened in the last couple
of days. And I'm talking justpolitical strategy here. So the Democrats now
have an option to go into thed n C swinging, but they kind
of look like a hole's right ifyou come out this unity message that we
kind of heard last night, itwas like even Marjorie Taylor Green greened it

(45:28):
in. So if the RNC isall about unity and moving forward, and
what does that leave for the dn C. Yeah, well, look
a few things on this I Icannot Maybe the term war game is a
little you know, I'm I'm notsure the best way to I can't see
across the I do well. Look, I mean we run political campaigns,

(45:50):
right, We use these words becauseof you know, we get them from
battle. So we understand if I'ma Democrat. I am sitting around thinking
over and over again about out verylimited options and coming to the same conclusion
about each of them, which isthat these options all suck. And that's
that's a challenge, right, Andthey have no good pathway no matter who

(46:13):
is advising them, no matter whatstrategy they try to pursue. I think
they have an incredibly It's not justyou can have a weak candidate because somebody
is not charismatic or hasn't had agreat record. They have a candidate that
people think shouldn't be physically or mentallycapable of being a candidate, or isn't
mentally capable of being a candidate.That's a that's a level beyond right.
You can't turn that around either.And you also you also can't expect that

(46:36):
anybody believes that this is going toimprove in the next administrations. I mean,
I will say I think I thinka lot of people underestimated and I
with myself in this category, underestimatedFetterman as a candidate and of underestimated Fetterman
as a senator. But what thehell happened to that guy? All of
a sudden, He's like, I'mlike, oh, my God, am
I agreeing with John Fetterman. Ican look, it's I like to see.
I mean, it's it renews myfaith in humanity at some level that

(46:58):
even people who are maybe philosophically mostlywrong or so capable of being right on
some things, you know, likeI don't want people to just be so
mechanical in the way that they viewall these different issues that you just know
everything they're going to say all thetime. Fetterman's good on Israel. He's
actually said some decent things on theborder if I remember as well now,

(47:19):
but on Israel particularly, he's beenvery strong. But the reason I brought
up Fetterman is that he can getbetter, right, I mean help wise.
Right. He can recover from astroke. You can't recover from old
age. Old age is old age. Yeah, And so I think that
everything that's going on with Biden atthis point is essentially the underlying premises we

(47:44):
just need to push this guy acrossthe finish line, so kamlok and then
take over as president. But shecan't win. So there's a deception baked
into it, and I don't thinkthey can address that because there's something inherently
dishonest about running a candidate that youknow isn't going to actually serve four years,
but he's a better I still believethis. By the way, I
think Joe Biden has a better shotthan Kamala Harris, and I think Trump's

(48:07):
going to win. But put thataside, I think, yeah, I
don't think Kamala is a terrible candidate. I mean, she's just not good
at being a candidate. She's notgood at speaking a semporaneously, She's not
good at any of those things thata candidate has to do. She's an
entirely Democrat political product. I meanpeople will point to they'll say, well,

(48:28):
you know, she was the Senatorfrom California, and before that,
she was the I think she wasattorney general for the state, and before
that she was a prosecutor in SanFrancisco. Catch So so she can get
the Democrat machine behind her. Youknow, Nancy Pelosi could win in Marin
County or San Francisco, wherever itis that she is. Nancy PELUSI was

(48:50):
never going to win a national election, right, I Mean, there's there
are limits to what you can doif you actually have to win over some
degree of people who don't buy inhook line and sinker with whatever you're selling,
especially as a Democrat, communist,whatever. So I think that there,
Kamala has never been tested in away where she had to win the
votes of she had to win acontest politically against somebody that involved her getting

(49:15):
moderates, maybe getting some swing voters. So this is ever say what you
mean about Joe Biden. The guyhas one hundred percent name recognition. He
is the President of the United States. It sounds weird when I say out
loud, but he is. AndI mean I never I've never gotten used
to it. And he is thePresident of the United States. And he
also has been playing this. He'sreally an anachronism. I mean, Joe

(49:37):
Biden is He's like a fossil froma bygone era of the you know,
union union loving, you know,you know, just you know, the
wife made me a sandwich and I'mriding to Chew Chew and going into d
C and rolling up the sleeves andlike this guy has you know, been
been getting the public to pay allof his bills and had you know,

(49:59):
drivers and cars and you know,became a millionaire by selling influence like this.
This is not a guy who's workingat the factory every day. But
that pretense unfortunately still has some residence, I think, and still works with
people. But don't you think jdVance it almost has a better story than
that at this point. I mean, I gotta tell your right, he'll
billy olig you. When it firstcame out, I interviewed Barmar radio show

(50:21):
because I was in Kentucky, right, so that was kind of in that
area. I was in Louisville atthe time the book came out, and
that was the people that we weretalking about. I mean that that whole
part of the country. And Iwas so impressed because he got it.
He demonstrated an understanding of that lowerclass mindset that I think is lost on
so many people in America. AndI think he's going to be able to

(50:45):
have a conversation with those working peoplethat Joe Biden thinks he talks to but
he doesn't. And I also haveanother theory that I want to admuy you.
This is my latest theory. Ithink the Democrats realize this is done.
They're gonna let Joe Biden write itout. He's gonna lose, and
they are already wargame. I meansomewhere, how to attack a Trump presidency
in the first term, how they'regoing to undermine him, how they're going
to keep him getting anything done.Sometimes it's funny because you know, my

(51:07):
my co host, Clay, wehave another bet, another stake bet.
This is all official on the era, right, keep track of this.
I've been saying for two years,two years without fail, that Joe Biden
will be the Democrat nominee, andpeople have thought at different points that is
absolutely insane. And I'm aware ofall the reasons why they think that's insane.
But I look at these secondary options, I look at the other pathways,

(51:29):
and still come back to Joe Biden, as crazy as it is,
is their best option. Now Here'swhere was it where we were saying your
theory, Oh, they're just insports, a team will realize we just
need to like clear the roster andrebuild, right, a rebuilding year.
I've learned this from Clay rebuilding year. And sure enough, I think that

(51:51):
the Democrats are are going to doeverything they can to just divide government with
either a House or a Senate win. I think the Senate's very for them.
They're gonna you know, they're gonnado everything they can to try to
win enough Democrats in the House,enough Democrat races in the House that they'll
they'll maintain any degree of control toslow down whatever the Trump agenda may be.

(52:12):
And the way they're going to dothat is by I'm not really you
know, I'm not really a Bidenguy. I'm a this district. This
is whatever may be, which iswhat democrats. It's so funny you say,
you know, you talk. Ijust talked to Tim Sheehy was running
in Montana against against John Tester,say how how can a Montana I mean,
it's like, you know, cowboyboots and shotguns and open spaces and

(52:36):
steer and all kinds of stuff.Uh, you know, it's Montana.
It's not just like Texas but upagainst Canada and and it's not. And
one of the reasons it's not isbecause someone like Tester comes along and says,
you know, I'm I'm just likeyou said, Joe Biden thing,
I'm just like a working class guylike you, and I'm gonna take care.
But then they go and they voteone hundred percent of the time right
with Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi.I mean they they become tools of the

(53:00):
left wing agenda by the and theyget in that position by the pretense of
I actually don't stand for the thingsthat I'm going to then do when I'm
in office. So my concern isthat the Democrats will do that for the
House in key house races in orderto keep themselves in a position of uh,
you know, a bare majority.And I put it this way on

(53:22):
how I'm so sure Joe Biden willstill be the candidate Joe Biden who wants
to take over right? I mean, right now, do you want to
be the capital of the ship thatalready has three leaks and is going down?
I mean, this is where itis. Yeah, So I mean
people are talking still like, ohwell, Gretchen Whitmer is going to come
in or Gavin news is going tomove here. I'm like Christian Whitburn,

(53:43):
Gavin Newsom, they gets smoked inan election right now, there's no chance
against right like waste the capitol.If I were paid to advise Gavin Newsom,
Okay, which is a scary thought, I'm just telling you right now.
I mean, well, yeah,if you listen to me, California's
California. I am a New Yorker, and I grew up thinking California was

(54:04):
paradise, and it is. Itjust unfortunately has lunatic communist running it.
But if if I were advising Newsome, I would say, there's absolutely no
way, absolutely no way you shouldstep in now. You should wait.
You get involved in that primary.In two years. You have time to
raise money, set your narrative,do all the stuff you want to do,
because you don't want to be theone who takes over and gets crushed.

(54:28):
And you got to you got tobe the new you know, all
the new Democrat Party everything else.So it would be political suicide in my
mind for anyone to take over otherthan Kamala. She is the vice president.
And I don't think Kamala is goingto take over because Democrats recognize that's

(54:49):
an even worse position, and itwill it will make Trump seem even more
unstoppable if he's so formidable that Bidenat the last minute drops out and then
Kama again crush too. Yeah.Buck Sexton is my guest. You can
listen to him and his partner ClayTravis on Freedom ninety three point seven ten
am to one pm every weekday.Do me a favor If with your national

(55:09):
show. Do not fall for thenarrative that our democratic governor in Colorado is
any kind of libertarian. That whyis being sold across the country. Belus
right, he's gonna he's gonna runfor president. He is a big fat
liar. Do not fall for it. There is nothing libertarian about him.
Really. That's my most frustrating thingright now is that he is paying the

(55:30):
right pr firms to get that out. I'm going to listen to you on
this one because I had a friendCasey, who was a host, a
radio host in South Bend, Indiana, and many years ago he pulled me
aside when I was doing a visitto the station there, put me side
and he said, look, Iknow it's gonna sound crazy, and this
is South ben Indiana. By theway, He's like, our mayor is

(55:52):
going to run for president. Bootyjuice and it was boota judge. Well,
I said, dude, I givethis guy total credit for it.
By the way, Casey out ofSouth Bend, because because I was like,
you're the mayor of South Bend,like this is the this is the
I mean, like it could bethe mayor of you gotta be kidding me
the minute. Yeah, sure enough, ran and make out a cabet position.

(56:13):
And by the way, I don'tthink he thinks he's done at all.
So if you're telling me, Paula, this is going to run,
I could I get totally know he'sone hundred percent. You know what makes
me so sad? Don't I can'teven it's so beautiful that can't happened.
Why did the commedis take it overprint? No? No, I didn't know.
There's there's a book called The Blueprintabout how four Democrats that are loaded

(56:35):
created a plan and took over Coloradoand it is fascinating. And I've talked
to enough people involved with both thetakeover and the book to know it should
be required reading for every Republican becauseit lays out how to do it well.
I mean, they did this inCalifornia. They just did it earlier.
Apparently we have to go I justblueprints. You read the book.
It is stunningly good. Yeah.Can I can I do a quick plug
for something? By the way,I don't have a little side projects on

(56:58):
YouTube. It's called The Brief.I'm about to tape it in a few
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We're trying to build it up alittle bit. On the YouTube Underpants
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So the podcast on the people listening, which is great, but I'm

(57:21):
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YouTube to the Buck Brief and pleasebe a subscriber and we'll actually, you
know, start to build out somestuff there. Buck Sexton, it is
underpants. We're going to take aquick time out live from the RNC and
Milwaukee thanks to our friends at RockyMountain Voice News. From a right lady
perspective, We'll be right back again. Guess who I'm sitting next to.
I'm sitting next to Dean Kane.Well, I came and sat on your

(57:42):
lap, So that's what happened.And then we were like, I'm married,
and you were like, oh,it's funny, and chah, that's
fine. That's fine. Dean.You are one of the rare, i'm
gonna say, rare Hollywood people.Though you don't live in Hollywood anymore who
are unabashedly right wing. And Ihave a good friend or named Sarbrah Flora.
She was in Hollywood for a longtime and she said, it's like

(58:06):
there's this it's like you should havea secret handshake kind of thing. But
she said, there are actually somevery strong conservatives in California and Hollywood if
you know where to look. Yes, we hide under the rocks. We
have secret meetings. That actually happened. We had secret meetings for a long
time and there was a group ofus that met all the time, and
John Voyd brought me into that group. And John's a great friend. I
did a film with him that withmy dad called September Dawn, and we

(58:30):
started talking politics and he was likeyou, He's like, you should come
and see some of my friends here. There was a whole underground group.
Then actually under the Obama administration,we had a lot of tax issues IRS
came after this group and so onand so forth. But there's a whole
bunch of people in Hollywood that areconservative. It's just that it's been so
poo pooed and so frowned upon thatpeople fear saying anything for fear of ostrasation

(58:52):
and being blacklisted, and that's real. We talk a lot about sort of
the woke hive mind that has takenover so many Hollywood movies. If I
mentioned, like, you know,certain things shows for a Rod, he
gets very upset, Lesbian Space,which is named Star Wars show being one
of them. You know, it'show's that doing? By the way,

(59:15):
because we're going to talk about yournew movie, and those movies are bombing,
and you know better than I do, Hollywood is a money game,
right, So is there any possibilitythat movies like your new movie, God's
Not Dead are going to start toget more mainstream treatment because people go to
see these movies. There are allthese people who want movies that they can

(59:35):
take their kid and their parents toright time. So is there a chance
that movies like yours, we're goingto talk about what the movie is about,
are finally going to get a chancein the system. I sure hope.
So you go back and look attime back and look at Frank Kapper's
movies. You know, it's awonderful life and things like that, and
there is an element of God inthere, and there's family and one of

(59:58):
my favorite movies of all time isIt's a wonderful life. And you know,
mister Smith goes to Washington. Thishas kind of got a little this
This film has a little bit ofmister Smith's and mister Smith goes to Washington
in it, you know, andI think that the pendulum swings. I'm
hoping it swings back. Because AndrewBreitbart, way back in the day before
he was Andrew Breitbart of Breitbart,I was coaching his kid and my kid

(01:00:20):
in sports and running around. He'slike, he had written this book making
fun of Hollywood, and he's like, maybe we started chatting. He didn't
know anything about my politics, andhe look at this thing. I said,
that's funny. He's like, really, you'd read that, and I'm
like yeah. And then so webecame really good friends. He's like,
he was my my life goal isto make you get into politics because you
have the right views. And Iwas like, I don't want to get
in there. But he called hesaid politics are downstream from culture. Right,

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So when Hollywood's out there running cultureand you're getting the space lesbians and
in that whole situation and thing,and but then it starts to fail.
It takes Hollywood a long time tochange the way the direction of the of
the aircraft carrier, if you will. And but eventually it's a bottom line
deal and they're going to have tomake those decisions. It's changing, like

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I think it's changing pretty rapidly.But isn't there are there more opportunities now
because there's so many different outlets,So you've got streaming outlets, you got
you can go straight to consumer ifyou want to go straight to consumer.
So it's almost like you now havean opportunity to make the movies you want
to make and you don't have toworry about getting them sold in distributed.
You can do that yourself. Isthat kind of what you've done here?
That is very much what's what's goingon here. I mean, this is

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got good distribution and it's certainly gotto build an audience because it's the fifth
one in the in the franchise,and the first one broke all kinds of
records. If everybody wanted to bethat next one to jump into that faith
and family space. This is thefifth one. I did the first one,
now I'm doing the fifth one.Hopefully it has the great the same
kind of success. But I thinkthat that because there are all these different

(01:01:45):
outlets and you don't have to putyou know, twenty million dollars in print
and advertising afterwards to get it outand make a deal with Paramount or whoevers
to be. You can get itout because the way you can have things
streaming and you get a way todeliver these films without having to spend those
incredible numbers of dollars on distribution.I love that that's the new paradigm.

(01:02:06):
It's just gonna take a little while, I think, before you know,
culture catches up. Talk to meabout God? Is God's not Dad?
What did I sorry about that?God's not Dad? I was gonna correct
you. I get there, God'snot Dad. So tell me about the
movie. So the movie is abouta pastor who who come who jumps into
the race for a congressional seat becausesomeone falls out, and then you get
into you know, him talking aboutGod and how that informs his morals and

(01:02:28):
his values and the separation of churchand state and how it should be we
you know, we we keep Godout of politics, et cetera, et
cetera. But if you look throughwith the country was founded and like I'm
not going to push my religion onanybody or what I believe, but religion
informs your morals and your values,and then therefore the types of laws you'll
make. And we get into thatin the in the film, and it's
it's a really I think it's areally lovely story and it's I think it's

(01:02:51):
very timely right now. And youknow, if you're in Hollywood and someone's
like, well, I believe inGod and and then I feel God would
be like they're all poop you andthis is awful. Like you know,
Speaker Johnson, you know, hespeaks about God all the time. Half
of Hollywood just turns it off rightwhen he does that. So I'm hoping
that this film, and with what'sjust happened with President Trump and then the

(01:03:15):
possible divine intervention there, that peoplewill pay more attention to this. I
think, I think, and myprediction is because of what happened to President
Trump, he is he looks different. That's what we were doing right about
earlier. He seems humbled and andI think he's going to give a speech
that is going to be talking aboutunity and humbleness and when you when you

(01:03:38):
come a millimeter away from meeting yourmaker. I think that does. I
mean, did you see I'm sureyou saw yesterday when he came out during
the lead Green Winsling and everything waswonderful. It was wonderful, but the
moment that his demeanor was unbelievable.But then watching Dodd Junior watch his father,
I'll cry right now as a fatherwatching that because as you saw everything,

(01:04:00):
yeah, everything that people forget.These guys are human. One last
question for you before I let yougo, and that is when you do
this as a person faith, whenyou make a movie about God and unabashably
about God, how much of itis You're an actor and this is your
job, and how much of itis maybe this movie is going to bring
someone to have a relationship with Godthat they don't have. Well, that's
why I make so many of thesefaith based films is I'm an actor,

(01:04:23):
so I got to do my job. Sometimes I'm the good guy, sometimes
I'm the bad guy. That guysare easier to play behind. They really
are. You just do whatever youwant to do to achieve the end,
and you don't care, so youcan do some of the most outlandish stuff.
Ever, good guys are much morecomplicated and much more difficult to play.
But it does change people's you know, if it's so cliche, if
it changes one person's opinion, Butit does. And I hear these stories

(01:04:46):
from people all the time over this, some some random little film. They're
like, I'll be honest, thatfilm touched me in a way that I
can't explain it. It's changed myentire life. And I'm like, you're
the good person. We made thisfor then, And that's and I hear
it constant. I get a lotof Superman, which is great. I
get a lot of Ripley's Believe orNot, which is wonderful andess great,
and I enjoyed those so much.I get a lot of Hallmark people who

(01:05:08):
like this that, but I geta huge number of people who thank me
for the faith based films and say, I can watch with my family and
this touches me here. My mothersuffered from this or had this happened here,
and that's what you guys dealt within the film, and I just
want to say thank you, andyou go, wow, okay, it
makes it different. We got tobe super gratifying on that, and it's
humbling. Where can people see themovie? God's not ted it's gonna be

(01:05:29):
on theater's nationwide September twelfth, so'severywhere, so you can buy your tickets
ahead as I'm on fandango as Ialways do because I always forget Dan.
Thank you so much for stock andWise, thanks for having to see you.
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(01:05:50):
a tiny bit of the audio fromlast night's speech by Teamster's President Sean O'Brien.
First of all, it is anearthquake that Shawn o'bra bryan spoke at
the Republican National Convention. But ifyou expected him to temper his comments for
the audience, you were wrong.Now, he started out talking about protecting

(01:06:11):
workers, which was very well receivedby the crowd, but towards the end
of the speech he had this littlesnippet and the crowd was a little quieter
when he went down this path.A fighted worker cannot afford corporate delays,
and these greedy employers know it.There are no consequences for the company,
only the worker. We need corporatewelfare reform. Under our current system,

(01:06:36):
massive companies like Amazon, Uber Lifts, and Walmart takes zero responsibilities for the
workers they employed. These companies offerno real health insurance, no retirement benefits,
no pay lead relying on undfunded publicassistance. And who foots the bill

(01:06:56):
the individual taxpayer, the biggest recipientsof welfare in the country, or corporations,
and this is rail corruption. Wemust put workers first. What could
be more important to the security ofour nation than a long term investment in
the American worker. In twenty twentyone, teams is nationwide elected me to

(01:07:26):
fight for them, and that's preciselywhat I'm doing. Something is wrong in
this country and we need to sayit out loud. I will always speak
for America and the American worker,both union and nonunion. I challenge each
and every one of you, andespecially my friends on the Democratic side,

(01:07:51):
to embrace cooperation, to truly collaborate, to achieve meaningful and productive change,
to ensure we make this great nationin this world the bigger, faster,
and strongest nation in the entire world. Now. In the speech last night,

(01:08:12):
he called the Chamber of Commerce andbusiness groups, unions for corporations,
and attacked strongly on the fact thatcompanies like Amazon and Uver don't pay benefits
and don't do things for their workers. This is not an unusual speech for
a union boss to give. Thelocation of the speech was quite unusual,

(01:08:33):
and just like amber Rose, whichis where I was talking earlier before we
had a slew of guests come in. Amber Rose was not there to talk
to rank and file Republicans who arealready conservative. She was there to talk
to young people who maybe have soldor may have been sold a bill of
goods that they need to investigate.The Teamsters were there last night to open

(01:08:55):
the door, just crack it openwith the Republican Party. Now. Do
I think that Sean O'Brien and theTeamsters are going to endorse Donald Trump?
Probably not, But the best casescenario would be a non endorsement across the
board. And what's interesting, especiallyabout Sean O'Brien is he ran as a
reformer. He ran and told membersof the union, I'm not just going

(01:09:17):
to do things without taking you intoconsideration. I got a text message earlier.
I think it's already scrolled off atthis point but it said, I'm
a steward in a union shop inCommerce City. This is Trump country.
So within the teamsters there is alot of support for Donald Trump. Obviously
a lot of support for Joe Bidenas well. So he's trying to thread
a needle with his workers while alsotrying to maintain power both with the Democratic

(01:09:44):
Party and the Republican Party. Ido understand that he said he reached out
to the RNC and the DNC,and when he reached out to the RNC,
reached out to Trump and the RNCand the DNC and Biden at the
same time to ask to speak attheir conventions. And he said today on
a program Fox, he has notheard from the Democratic Convention yet, nor
has he heard from Biden. Andas he said, it was crickets.

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So take that for what you will. When we get back, we got
a little bit of breaking news thatis happening outside the perimeter. We're gonna
check in with Rob Dawson about that. It's all coming to you live from
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(01:11:01):
thing. Hi, my friends,we are back. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to the third and final hourof the show. Today. We are
live from the r NC in Milwaukee. Tonight. They have a full,
I mean a slimmon group of speakersschedule. We'll get into that in just
a second. But our own RobDawson, being the news hound that he

(01:11:23):
is, is on a developing newsstory outside the perimeter. And when I
say that, it sounds very youknow, official, but it is official.
There's a massive perimeter around all ofthe venues that are being used for
the RNC. Rob, where areyou and what is going on? Okay?
So I'm about a mile north westof View six seven blocks away from

(01:11:45):
the perimeter. We'll remember we're inthe middle of the perimeter. See you,
I have to walk a good threetenths of a mile probably to get
out of the perimeter here, andthere's an ambulance just captain guy. It's
unrelated, but right now we're onthe scene of a shooting here. The
shooting has left a homeless man deadin the neighborhood. This is a neighborhood
in northwest Milwaukee. It is neara park. And what we know,

(01:12:10):
at least from what a neighbor hastold us, is that the homeless person
has lived in the neighborhood for quitesome time. Is there are conflicting reports
on whether he had a knife onhim. We've seen some reporting that says
he did, the neighbor safety didn'thave anything, and then we don't know
what led up to the shooting.But he is dead right now, and
this is generated at a lot ofanger in the community. We could tell

(01:12:34):
you that because we're only six sevenblocks away, and because there was a
thought at first that this might havebeen related to the convention. This has
drawn national media care as well,and I think that's further angering this community
here. So let me ask youthis rob who was where was the officer

(01:12:56):
from that was involved in the shooting? Okay, And this is where we're
hearing all sorts of things. Theonly thing that it might be safe to
say is the officer is not fromthe city of Milwaukee. Okay, now
we have heard a different states.Maybe remember because we had talked about this
earlier. There's other states and citieshelping out, So we don't know about

(01:13:20):
department. I asked the neighbor,did you know this officer or did you
see that this officer was out ofthe city. She said she didn't know.
So this is well outside the perimeterand there doesn't appear to be any
real connection to the Republican National Convention. Is that a fair assumption at this
point based on what we know,It's a fair assumption. But the only

(01:13:43):
thing is, you know, wehave talked about the difficulty of getting in,
especially yesterday and Sunday even and withthe more security, and I've seen
this play out here. People whoare natives have been yelling a little bit
at officers at the perimeter, saying, I can't go somewhere. Why are

(01:14:04):
you blocking me? You're in theway and I can't carry it my daily
life. And the neighbor said,we've been pissed off about the RNC being
here for days since all of thiscame up, it's been difficult to move
around. They're shutting out the cityof black people. And she says she

(01:14:24):
doesn't care who the RNC nominee is, so she just said the police,
all they're worrying about is protecting theardency and not our neighborhood. Well,
you know, you and I talkedabout this earlier. Rob. It is
impossible to get from one side ofthe city in a straight line on a
major portion of the city is disrupted. So I can see what the residents

(01:14:46):
would not necessarily be super excited aboutthis. And if perhaps this homeless gentleman
has some mental health issues, itmight have been difficult. And I'm speculating
wildly here, but you could imaginethat if somebody already struggling with mental health
issues could be really disrupted by everythingthat's going on right now. And also,

(01:15:09):
just as an aside, what Iam seeing with my own eyes,
there's tension with the police, Imean, the neighbors. And there's at
least someone who claims to be theman's sister here is fighting with police at
the Kasha tape, saying it tookyou guys forever to get here and respond,
and now you won't let me gosee him. So there's tension about
the police, first of all,and then there's tension about not getting anywhere

(01:15:31):
easily. I want to add somethingtoo, that's interesting, So about the
ease of getting through businesses, whetheryou're inside the zone or outside the zone,
really matters here. My cousin,who I'm saying with worse than Milwaukee
Business Journal. He's got all credentialstoo, but his wife cannot go to
her favorite bar this week, youknow. So aside from this, but

(01:15:56):
it just goes to show you thenatives here who are living here this week
are probably getting tired of all theclosures and the fact that this neighborhood seems
to have attension with the police.Anyway, I was talking with my cousin
about that this is this is areact. So they don't like the media
here. They're angry that the nationalmedia is here too, and they basically
say, you're all here for theRNC. You don't care about us,

(01:16:19):
all right. Rob Dawson reporting fromabout a mile outside the perimeter, and
a man, a homeless man,has been shot after allegedly wielding a knife.
There's still some confusion about it,but it doesn't appear to be directly
attached to the RNC in any politicalsense, but just maybe attached to the

(01:16:39):
disruptions that I conventioned the city withthis kind of security have had. I
appreciate it. One go ahead.Just one other thing I would add,
there was concern in our radio rowthat could there be something tonight in a
response to this shooting. So Iasked one of the neighbors that heeds like,
I don't know, there could besomething you didn't did not. Of

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course, we hope that doesn't happen. But from a logistical standpoint, if
something they were to happen, youknow, I know we have reinforced its
the police. You're just concerned aboutany other stress in other parts of the
city, exactly, Rob Dawson,I appreciate you. We'll talk to you
again soon, and I appreciate thatreport on that. Now. I want
to get to some of the peoplethat are speaking tonight. One of the

(01:17:21):
things that I wanted to know fromyou guys, and you can text us
on the Common Spirit Health text lineis what do you think of how they
have done like last night? BecauseI saw some criticism today. It's like,
look, one speech after another afteranother after another. Well, that's
kind of what political conventions have alwaysbeen. But is there a better way

(01:17:45):
to do it? Because tonight again, and what I like about it is
that all of these people are givena very limited amount of time, right,
so you know you're not going tohave to listen to someone you don't
care about drone on for a longperiod of time. But is there a
better way? Is there something you'dlike to see differently? Or are you
tuning in to see the speeches?And if so, are you watching them

(01:18:06):
on a network or are you watchingthem on c SPAN because the networks we're
talking over everyone last night. CharlieKirk's entire speech was talked over last night
by the network that I was forcedto watch because of the non cable package
that we have in our in ourspace. So I'm just curious, is
there a better way to do this? I like it, you know,

(01:18:28):
I'm a nerd, I get it, but I like hearing people give short,
concise, like little mini speeches,and I like the fact that they
are limited to a very short amountof time, so again, you don't
have to worry about getting bored.I'm just curious about whether you guys feel
the same. You can text usat five six six nine zero and let

(01:18:49):
me know that James says that isa blue state. Primarily they're gonna hate
eight outsiders either way. You know, we talked with Dan O'Donnell yesterday.
Wisn here in Milwaukee. There area lot of parts of Wisconsin that are
deeply read, deeply read, includingsome of the suburbs of Milwaukee. So

(01:19:12):
the assumption that we are in aColorado like blue state because we all know
Colorado is a blue state now orjust not accurate. He even said Wisconsin
is a true swing state still tothis day, and he expects it to
be in play this year as aswing state and all of that that is
brought with being a swing state,which, by the way, after living

(01:19:34):
in a swing state for a longtime in the state of Florida, I
don't want to live in a swingstate anymore because pretty much from September first
through the election, every single commercialon television is a political ad. Every
single commercial on radio is a politicalad. And you think I'm exaggerating when

(01:19:56):
I say every single commercial, Iam not. There is not a single
other product that is being advertised.While that is happening. So I don't
like living in a swing state.I don't want to live in a swing
state, and the people here probablyfeel the same way. So five six
six N I know you can textus that tonight if you're planning on watching

(01:20:16):
the RNC. They have a lotof good speakers plans starting at five point
thirty. And one thing I willsay is they have been on time,
like things are clicking along. Andas we've been sitting here today, we
have a big We are in thePanther Arena and all of the main events
happen just down the street in theFiser Forum. So we have a video

(01:20:39):
feed of the Fiser Forum, andthey are walking everyone who's speaking tonight.
They're walking them through the process.They're walking them up to the podium.
They're showing them where the timer is, They're showing them where the teleprompter is,
and it is like a tightly runmachine here. We're going to take
a quick time out when we getback. We all I forgot I had
to break here. We'll be rightback and I'll tell you what we're gonna
talk about we get back. Letme just read this to you. I'm

(01:21:02):
thinking they need strippers you know,like a second and third stage, a
little eye candy while the speech isgoing on, oh oh in clowns and
lots of clowns, and a hurdygurdy monkey. I always liked those two,
so I'm not gonna lie. Ihad to look up hurdy gurdy monkey.
I had no idea what that was. But it's basically an organ grinder
with a monkey. So yeah,I mean, why not. But here's

(01:21:23):
a better idea. Why don't wehave instead of having a hurdy gurdy guy
with a monkey, let's have ahurdy gurdy guy with an elephant? Get
it? Republican get it. Ithought you'd get that anyway. Also,
Mandy, I don't know if it'sRippin' or Ripen, Wisconsin is the birthplace
at the Republican Party. It's seventymiles northwest of Milwaukee. This person says,

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Hi, I had Likedvance to answerthe question that if he were put
in the same position Pence was onJanuary sixth, what would his answer me?
It's my understanding. And I didn'tlook this up because I think I
remember it that he said he wouldhave not his we would not have certified
that election. So take that withwhat you how you will, and I'll
if I get that wrong, Iwill clarify, just like I need to

(01:22:08):
clarify. I just gave out alot of times for the speeches tonight.
I gave them out in Central Time, so they are an hour earlier in
Colorado, so you want to dialin. And a lot of people on
the text line are mentioning that theywatch on c SPAN. I've watched so
much political stuff on c SPAN myentire adult life because there's no talking heads.

(01:22:31):
But then someone said this, Mandy, I try to watch full speeches
on c SPAN, which used tobe Gabble to Gable no comments station they
now co host with CNN. Lastnight, I turned it off as Chris
Wallace and Jake Tapper were discussing CharlieKirk's and Glenn Youenkin's anti semitism that from
rocking Out Bronx Bill, I couldnot get c SPAN on our TV last

(01:22:56):
night because they don't have cable.They only have like internet TV. It
was very confusing. But then Iwas forced to watch it on ABC and
they kept talking through everybody's speeches.It was very, very frustrating. This
person said, I really wanted tohear what the speakers had to say last
night, and I hated how thenews people talked all over them. I
ended up going to YouTube and watchingit all over again tonight. I won't

(01:23:17):
even bother with the networks. Mandyput Sassy Cassie on the stage. I'm
guessing she's one of our strippers,are newly minted strippers that we're gonna put
here in the convention. I likethe elephant as long as he's wearing a
fez, like a red, whiteand blue fez would be excellent. See

(01:23:39):
now we're cooking with gas, people, We are really cooking with gas.
Now. When we get back,I want to give a wrap up of
kind of the things that we've talkedabout briefly today. We've got to talk
a little bit about some of thespeeches last night, got to talk about
the tone and the tenor, andwe'll do a wrap up for the day
and a look at what's coming tonight, because Vicky Haley and Ron DeSantis are

(01:24:01):
supposed to speak tonight back to back. And as somebody was saying, what
do you think Nicki Haley does?I think, well, I'll tell you
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And I just found this. Oneof the men injured in Saturday shooting,
fifty seven year old David Dutch,was shot in the chest and the

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liver. He is no longer ina medically induced coma and has been upgraded
from critical to stable condition. Thatis great news. The other injured victim,
seventy four year olds James Copenhaber,has also been upgraded from critical to
stable conditions, so that is goodnews. We're talking about the last night

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at the Republican National Convention, andtonight the theme is make America Safe Again,
and this is going to be aboutborder security, it's going to be
about crime in the United States,and the theme is still unity. So
it's going to be really interesting tosee how speeches are going to change.
And we have some heavy hitters,lots of politicians tonight, way more than

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last night. Last night there wasa lot of regular people that got up
and told their stories and they wereTrump supporters. And I find that interesting,
but I'm not gonna lie. Idon't find it interesting. Is as
interesting as hearing people I've actually heardof talking about things. Now tonight we've
got Nicky Haley and Ron DeSantis backto back speaking and I'm guessing this is

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the we all need to unify.And someone just sent this to the text
line. Nicky Haley is a professionalpolitician. She will give a unification speech
then release her delegates to vote forTrump so she can either run for office
in the future or be part ofanother administration. I think that's absolutely right,
as will Ron de Santis. Ronde Santis is going to do the

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same thing. And for all thepeople out there who are like, how
can they do this? They calledhim everything but a child of God and
said he was a horrible person,and now they're going to throw their weight
behind him. Welcome to the worldof politics. All of the people getting
the vapors today all over the internetbecause JD. Vance back in twenty sixteen
didn't like the president right like,he did not like President Trump. He

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thought he was horrible. He saidthat the people that voted for him were
stupid, and he made a lotof noise about it. Well since then
and he said this, I waswrong. So I don't care when someone
has a conversion that happens well beforethere, we'll just call it a reward
because now he's been made vice president. But Jadie Vance has been a staunch
defender of Donald Trump for like thelast four years. Politics make stretch strange

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bedfellows. That's just the reality ofthe game. And as serious as this
is, as serious as everything that'shappening today, everything that's going to happen
tonight, everything that's going to happenbetween now and November. Politics is as
much about gamesmanship as it is aboutanything else. A perfect example of this,
and I didn't grab this. Ishould have put this on the blog

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today. Lindsey Graham does not likejd Vance. It is not a secret.
It is not a secret in DCbecause Lindsey Graham has never met a
war. He didn't right, He'svery jinguistic for a guy who has no
kids to send into war, heloves to send United States soldiers into war.

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And jd Vance has been a reallystrong voice against just sending more unchecked
money to Ukraine. So Lindsey Grahamwas actively arguing against jd Vance as vice
president. And when jd Vance isannounced as vice president, then Lindsey Graham
tweets out a tweet that's like,you know what, this guy is amazing,

(01:28:30):
this senator from Ohio, he's theperfect fit. He's going to be
so good. Everybody knows it's alie, but that's part of the game.
It's part of what makes it allso frustrating and so irritating. But
here we are. Yes, somebodyjust pointed out, remember what Kamalas said
about Joe. Remember what everybody saidabout Kamala. It's people in politics,

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the people who are actually in thegame. I can assure you they don't
care. They don't hair if someonedoesn't like them behind the scenes. They
just care if they support them infront of the scenes, Right, that's
what they care about. It's kindof like I don't care what you say
about me as long as you spellmy name right. That's the old Howard
Hughes a well, a bastarded versionof the Howard Hughes quote. Remember that

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Trump called Missus Haley too stupid andunqualified that from a Texter. Yes,
absolutely right, and luckily Nikki Haleycan handle it. This is another thing.
Women in politics don't get difference.They should not get difference because if
you want to get up there andyou want to have equality, and you
want to make the same choices andbe able to do the same things that

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men do in politics, then youbetter are tough enough and get a thick
skin, because that is the gameof politics. Okay, there's a guy
walking over there, a rod who'shair. Look look at the guy.
It's like, snap on hair.I'm sorry, I'm being petty and small.
I shouldn't do that. But youever see somebody who looks like helmet
hair. Look, at the endof the day, he gets home and
goes and just pops it off,often puts it over on the side there,

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So judging people were people people haveheadsets on? No, no,
no, that was not headset hair. I understand headset hair. I have
headset hair every single time. Thishas been some amazing people watching, don't
you think. Yeah, So what'sinteresting is seeing people that are obviously trying
to connect with people that they perceivedto be on a higher tier than they

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are, and watching them try tofigure out how to make those connections and
walk up and say hello, I'veadopted the stratagogy just walking up and throwing
my hand out and introducing myself sofast. That's so far, so good.
Nobody's actually like slapped my hand awayangrily. Oh no, that make
for a better story. Make ascene here inside the convention center. Oh
we had a scene earlier. Whatwas that? Okay, do you ever

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find out what was going on?Okay, so let's set the scene.
Okay, So we are on Iheartsradio road. We're sitting at a table
directly across Yes, from the DailySignal, which is part of it's the
Heritage's media operation. So we're rightacross from the Daily Signal. And earlier
during the show, a woman comesfollowing behind a rather large man. I

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would not have yelled at him likethat. I'm just saying. And this
little woman is behind him with hercell phone up and she's filming in and
she's like, screamy, get him. Yeah, I mean, she's one
that made the scene. I thinkshe really cares about being out there,
becase I'm Jerry Rhum's report on.So her name is Heathermull and she's an
election integrity journalists. As I showedyou, I don't know what was going

(01:31:30):
on. I think she was removed. I haven't seen her since no And
she was doing the full on whateverfollowing of this gentleman. That she was
doing the full on camera in thephase something. I heard part of the
story out here that she had somerun in with the individual and then she
followed essentially was looking to make somethingof it or making herself the story.

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She was it seemed like in someway, and we have like in terms
of one hundred percent of the story, we have like twelve percent of right,
But it was a scene, nonetheless, and we saw all the you
know, the officers crowd around andand just basically where you can go,
you can go. So all thatto be said that, you know,
scenes can be made here and Idon't want to be part of it.
I'd rather report on it. Andthen there are people like Laura Lumer who

(01:32:14):
were she was walking around earlier.They are walking around waiting to be asked
to for somebody to talk to them. She is crazy, and I'm like,
now hard passed. I don't wantto talk to her, said Lindell.
Do I mean he also was II want you know, why don't
want to talk to Mike Lindell.And this is honest truth. I feel
sorry for him. I feel sorryfor him that he went so far in

(01:32:40):
down a rabbit hole that he destroyedhis company. I feel sorry for him.
I don't think his elevator goes allthe way to the top. In
some ways. Obviously he's smart.He built a really big company. But
to see someone destroy their entire livelihood. Yeah, and then let me just
look up Mike Lindell Networth. Iokay, well, you know, maybe

(01:33:01):
not great. Yeah, I know, I'm saying he just well, he
destroyed his business because by twenty eighteen, it says the company's annual revenue was
nearly three hundred million. Yeah,and then I don't know what Zippia is
or c A Club India, butthey're reporting could be anywhere anywhere. My
pillow annual revenue could be anywhere fromseventeen to forty million. Now, well,

(01:33:25):
he got kicked out of a bunchof department stores and his products got
kicked off the shelf. So yeah, it's a lot harder. And I
just I don't think I could talkto him and not just have that look
on my face like, uh,I believe in you. If he comes
by again, I'm getting him onthe show. It's happening because he's all
on the text line the Common SpiritHealth text line five six six nine zero

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one word only responses for the nexttwo minutes. Mike No, Micha Lindell
on the show. Pillow yes,Pillow No. Okay, that's the time
that you throw them in softball,you will. But still, you know,
hey, Mandy, if you hadany cheese cards yet, yes,
thanks to my friend and yours,Rob Dawson, who got a cheese house

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yesterday. And they were freaking delicious. I know they were. That's the
problem. Good Mandy, are yougoing to try and talk to the Republican
grifter on this trip? I thinkit might be funny and I'm sure he'll
avoid you. And you're talking aboutDave Williams because you said grifter, I
know exactly what you're talking about.We are not in the same space as
the delegates. The delegates cannot comehere unless they have a proper badge or

(01:34:30):
someone walks them in. I thinkso. I have not been on the
floor of the conventions that are yet. Tonight, we're gonna go dip onto
the floor for a little bit andtalk to some people down there. It's
funny you can only get on thefloor for like what twenty minutes. Rob.
Are there temporary passes like twenty minutepasses? Yes, yes there are,

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but the time one it might beirrelevant, but basically we're trading passes
to go up and down the floor. I was not on the floor last
night. I think we do ittonight. We have to do it.
Shut down to race. Now we'regonna go down. We're gonna stop some
things, maybe be yeah, Idon't know. No pillow Okay, yes,
nope. Day of the day withthe who is Beva Fry? I

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don't know who? That is?Very split? Yes, oh it is
split. So guess what. Let'sproduce her veto once again, he's coming
on the show, Mandy, Mandy. I just wish one of these Republicans
would stand on their high legs andcall Trump out on all his pettiness as
far as juvenile nicknames, et cetera. He doesn't do him something he favors

(01:35:33):
by resorting to name calling. Maybesince he came face to face with his
mortality, he's grown a bit inthat respect. And that's what we're waiting
to see, right that is whatwe're waiting to see. You say that
you don't know how you would approachthe interview. I'm going to ask him,
as zero to one hundred thread count, how hard would you go on?
Mike Lindell. That's the thing.I feel sorry for him. I

(01:35:55):
don't want to go at him,you know what I mean. I want
to go at him because I justfeel like, sir, I just want
to go sir, what did youdo? Was it worth it? I
heard him say something to Washington Post. If I knew what I knew today
I would do exactly the same thing, boy, And I'm like, no,
no, no, do not.He died on the altar of Trump,

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says this person, Mandy, didyou get a bloody Mary? What
an a Rod had? We havenot had one single drop of alcohol yet.
Tonight will be another story. Sotomorrow, by the way, let
me tell you all this stuff that'scoming up tomorrow, which is going to
be so good. Tomorrow morning,we got invited by my friend and your
Steve Moore, our economist friend.There's an economic forum with Art Laffer and

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Steve Moore at the head, andthen they've got Doug Bergham, they've got
Tulsea Gabbard, They've got Larry Kudlow. So we're going to go cover that
and hopefully get some good audio fromsome of these people for you tomorrow.
And then who do we have afterthat? A Rod? I would say,
I will start from the least amountof the lower percentage. I would
say there is a twelve point sevenpercent chance we'll talk to Eric Trump tomorrow.

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Okay, very very very low.We're going to round to thirteen.
Okay, around the thirteen, Iwould say there is a seventy eight percent
chance that we'll talk to Marjorie TaylorGreen tomorrow, but we will see.
Before anybody says, though, whydon't you talking to her? I want
to ask her if in light ofbecause she was very, very tempered last

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night, her comments were not hernormal kind of over the top, and
I'm going to ask her if,now that Trump is trying to unify the
country, if she is going totemper her comments and personality and perhaps embrace
that sort of, you know,less bombastic style. So I'd like to
ask her because I don't care ifshe likes me or not, So I

(01:37:45):
don't I love you care. Wealso have we have quite a few other
things. We have Ryan Walters,who's the Oklahoma States Superintendent. He's a
former Oklahoma Education secretary as well,So we're gonna talk about some stuff with
Wolkes on her as education days.Yeah, America's smart again, I think,
yes, yes. And then we'regonna talk to the Vice President of
National Initiatives, Chuck de Vore tomorrowas well. And what are we talking

(01:38:08):
to him about? Talking a littlecurrent events, the current threats of national
security that are in his mind thathe wrote for Canon, So we'll talk
about that excellent, and then Ithink, guess wise, I think for
tomorrow, Oh, we're gonna havea a oh yes, and her dad
because her dad, who is awonderful guy. I mean, he is

(01:38:29):
just a wonderful guy and he hasalways wanted to be a delegate at the
RNC. And I'm I'm gonna beperfectly frank. I don't know how people
get to be a delegate. Idon't know. Do they pay their own
way? So we're going to kindof get a nuts and bolts conversation about
being a delegate here at the rn C ask MTG about her AR fifteen

(01:38:49):
hunting ad. See, I don'tcare about that. I didn't respectfully like
at political ads, I don't care. And and you know her gun ad.
I don't care here. It's justone of those things I probably won't
get there, Mandy, Mike Wallacewould go full bore where I am far
from Mike Wallace. Trust me,people, Mandy, don't feel bad for

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Lindell. These are all from theCommon Spirit Health text line. He not
only destroyed his business, but healso all the people that work for him
because they can't handle the fact thatthey lost. True, Mandy are you
going to drink an old Milwaukee whileyou're there, just like high school.
You know what, I just mightdo that tonight, Texter, if you
can still buy it here somewhere.Whin Yogi Yes, to Mike Lindell,

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I love his pillows and even allowone to indy final nail meat Coffin win
Yogi says, make it happen.It's hello man, Yes, but the
blue Nun has spoken, Mandy.Have you seen Dan Bongino, the next
hand of the Secret Service? Wantto erect Longino probably be joining us tomorrow
as well. Okay, so here'swhat happened so much to Buck Sexton.

(01:39:53):
Yes, because Buck was over here, Dan Mangino walks by conversation. He
just he's like, yeah, Buckbails you. Dallian bails on me in
the conversation that I make eye contact, shake hands, and then Dan goes,
well, now they interrupted the show. I guess I'll come on your
show tomorrow, and obviously we're goingto do a deep dive onto the failures
of the Secret Service with him.Yes, so he is the most knowledgeable

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person that I can imagine to talkabout that. But other than that,
we are going to be talking tosome delegates today, We're going to go
wander around a little bit. Hopefullywe'll have some fun audio. But I'll
tell you, I don't know whatI was expecting. I don't know if
I was expecting anger. After Saturday, I felt like there was going to

(01:40:34):
be more I don't know, angst. But everyone is just relentlessly positive,
Just relentlessly positive. Okay, nowI know what you're talking about text or
the Democratic Hunting Ad. Yes,I will ask her about that. That
is a legit question. For god, I thought she was just standing there
with a gun, but then youreminded me, yes, indeed. So

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hopefully we'll have the opportunity to askthose questions. But overall, the mood
here is so happy. That's whatI'm looking for. Everyone is just happy.
No one is angry, no oneis upset, no one is vitriol
like, no one is doing anyof that stuff. Everyone is just in
a great mood and happy. I'ma little surprised by that. I'm interested

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to see because a Ron and Iare going to the Democratic National Convention.
Do you think it's going to bethe same atmosphere, especially now because there's
been so much turmoil on the onthe on the Democratic side are we going
to have. I think it's goingto be a different vibe. I think
with the events of last weekend andthe way that things are trending prior to

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the attempt on Donald Trump last weekend, I feel like there is a decent
chance now that you've asked, thatit's going to be a bit more extreme
because it's going to be start beingsome hail Mary's. In terms of the
speakers, in terms of their messaging, I think they see the blood in
the water. I think that they'regonna they're gonna be it's gonna be a
little more looney tunes. I thinit's gonna be nuts. And plus you're

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gonna have a million protesters yesterday.Can we just talk about the the march
on the RNC protester yesterday? Rob, Did you actually see any of these
people or did you coverage other No? I heard him. I heard him,
and we were trying to find them. You know, the Newsmax set
was right in front of Pfizer forhim and Ron Johnson was on Newsmax and

(01:42:24):
they were playing video of a lotof yelling and screaming. I know there
was a talk about how big theywere in terms of moving road signs or
stuff. But I heard them.I just I was like, where are
they? I can't see them welldispensing. According according to the march on
RNC website, which is actually athing, they were expecting thousands of people

(01:42:45):
to mobilize and it didn't happen.No, No, it was like,
oh, thousands or tens people mobilized, maybe a hun And part of the
reason is, you guys, thethe parameter is so far away right,
and they're not giving the protesters credentials. They're basically like, no, you
can protest over there, you can'tprotest here. So it's kind of sad.

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But the way that the Democratic NationalConvention is set up in Chicago at
the United Center, that's a muchlike more compact probably, Plus there's not
from what I hear, there's notas much around, Like there's no restaurants
or bars here or the United Center. Ah, Okay, I might feel

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I have a parking lot, feellike a stadium in a parking lot,
got it. Okay. It's gonnabe fascinating to see Mandy the libs of
TikTok Post Today or Gold calling outall of the teachers and politicians that have
been disappointed with the failed assassination attempt. You know, I get it,
and I love libs of TikTok bythe way, I just want to say
that right now, but I Iam not altogether comfortable with canceling people because

(01:43:51):
they said something stupid on the internet. I'm not comfortable with that. I
love it like it feels like,Ooh, we finally got him and we're
giving them as good as they giveus. But people say dumb things and
they shouldn't have their lives destroyed forit. Even if I think they said
a really dumb thing, and amplifyingit with the specific goal of getting someone

(01:44:15):
fired, I think is not productive. And all it does is do the
same thing that those on the hardleft have done for a very long time,
and that is cancel people. LaurenBoeber sire, Oh yeah, she
Wauren Bober just walked by and uhand I'm not down for it now.
Tomorrow it's gonna be another big show. You don't want to miss it.

(01:44:38):
We will have all kinds of stuffhappening. But in the meantime, we're
going to toss it over to KOASports as they take up rob It's like
taking off his headsets so we canget work. So we're gonna do that
next. No, you go talkto her and we'll we'll play that audio
tomorrow. Rab go get her.He's blood charge in his phone. Let's
see. If he'll halfway through theinterview, his phone will die. We

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will be back tomorrow. Keep itright. He here on k Awa