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August 9, 2024 54 mins
Hy and Christopher take on the question Does Likeability Matter Most? Will the choice of “Minnesota Nice” Gov. Tim Walz double down on Kamala Harris’ pro-positivity strategy against Donald Trump?

Christopher leveled a challenge to Hy last week; sincerely say something nice about Kamala Harris! Unexpectedly, Hy’s response may explain why the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates are tied in the battleground states. Hy McEnery replied to the question, “She has a nice smile.  I have thought so since I first became aware of her.”  As the socially conservative Baptist minister (who runs a charity working on behalf of troubled Inner City kids in New Orleans) described, he meant his observation as a true compliment—without irony.

However, he's still was voting for Trump, who had Hy's ardent support as a “fighter." Nevertheless, two of us examine whether this positive perception provides a clue as to why national polls have tightened—as swing voters have gotten to know Harris in the weeks after President Biden‘s demurral.

It is never a disadvantage for a presidential candidate to come off as a “Happy Warrior." That was the moniker applied to VP Hubert Humphrey when in 1968 he nearly overcame a grim two-time presidential candidate after his unpopular boss decided not to run for reelection.  Positivity also stands as the main reason in the last few months of the 1980 campaign that Ronald Reagan prevailed over the somewhat gloomy incumbent Jimmy Carter. Undecided swing voters just liked Reagan more. A cheerful personality trumped policy weaknesses.

Three weeks ago, after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, veteran Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik remarked to columnist William Kristol that the period until the August Democratic convention would be crucial. Vice President Kamala Harris stood relatively undefined in the minds of many voters. Who would prevail in the fierce race to define her?

As Kristol noted last week, “We’re now halfway through those four weeks, and Harris is winning the race to define. She and her campaign have over-performed in almost every respect while Donald Trump and JD Vance have gotten in their own way—or simply reminded us who they really are.”

“And Harris has gained ground," Kristol continued. "The polling team at UMass Amherst…has Harris leading Trump nationally by three points, 46 percent to 43 percent—compared to a four point lead for Trump over Biden in their January poll."

The important detail came when Kristol noted, “Harris leads Trump on personal characteristics like honesty and likability, but keeps the contest closer than one might have expected on traits that might have been thought big winners for Trump, like strength (only 54 percent to 46 percent) and patriotism (only 52 percent to 48 percent). And by 57 percent to 43 percent, voters think that Harris is more moderate than Trump, an indicator that the effort to define Harris as radical isn’t working—so far.”

Other surveys have seen similarly tightening polls, both nationally and in the battlegrounds. Does Likability trump ALL? Moreover, from the perspective of positivity without disturbing the delicate balance of ideological base politics, Kamala Harris’ Vice Presidential pick of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate makes sense.  His very nickname is “Minnesota Nice”.  He enjoys high approval ratings from his constituents in his critical battleground home state— a trust often credited as the reason Democrats regained control of the state legislature after years out of power.

Unlike his two rivals for the VP slot, Walz holds no ideological heresies for the Left which could divide the Democratic base.  He is not a strong supporter of school vouchers in Pennsylvania or the Israeli campaign in Gaza like Josh Shapiro, nor does he stand hesitant to support a repeal of “Right to Work” like Mark Kelly seemed to indicate when the Arizona Senator refused to sign on as a co-author of the PRO Act.  Waltz actually tightened pro-unionization laws during his time in Minnesota Governor’s office.

Nevertheless, Walz comes off as a very nice, likable, middle-of-the-road type of guy.  He stands attitudinally as the polar opposite of the ideological warrior exemplified by Trump’s choice of JD Vance, and that explains Kamala Harris choice of him better than anything else.  That doesn’t mean he’s the best choice politically. Shapiro and Kelly arguably would’ve had more of an impact in swinging their swing states.

But Walz does no damage, as we discuss on today’s show, along with talking about some potential solutions for the recent boil advisories plaguing the NO S&WB—later in the show.
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Divide it vention, politics, politics, politics, folks, it's getting exciting.
Who's the most beautiful candidate? Could that push them over
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Speaker 3 (01:25):
With Christopher Tibnryroving a reporter, resident radical moderate and associate
editor at the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot Net.
And Hi, if you hear a little sound of the
ocean flowing by, it's because I'm coming to you on
the Queen Elizabeth going through the Fiords of Alaska. Yes,
we're up in Alaska, in the nation's forty ninth state,

(01:47):
broadcasting today, looking at the choices in this vice presidential
contest for Kamala Harris, amongst other topics on today's show.
Talk a little bit more about this Alaska voyage earlier.
But you can hear the sound of the waters as
we put through the inner passage heading towards Ketchikan. It
is absolutely beautiful out here, looking at the glaciers, even

(02:08):
the ice in the water as the Queen Elizabeth goes
by and the ice peaks.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
The opposite of obviously what New Orleans is right now.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
But I come to you from here because I'm watching
the perspective almost as far away as you can get
in the United States and still be in the United States,
Hawaii would be probably be further, but maybe guam very honest,
But the point being that I was trying to judge
the reaction of the choice of Tim Waltz, the Minnesota governor,
to be the running mate of Kamala Harris, and I've

(02:40):
heard various reactions not just on this boat, but in
and around Alaska, which is not a swing state.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
It will go for Trump.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Overwhelmingly, but it's also a place where there's a sort
of libertarian spirit that's kind of not always you know,
loyal to Donald Trump no matter what, or and that
this has a lot of thinking people there sort of
in the middle. Lisa Rakowski, of course, is Donald Trump's
biggest critic. The Democratic congresswoman from here is very probably

(03:09):
the most moderate congresswoman in the country, and she, you know,
the center of both parties, and she's.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
A critic of Trump.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
On the other hand, you have one of Trump's big
supporters of the other Senate seat. So you've got an
interesting situation and the perspective. I've been trying to figure
out something about whether Kamala Harris's strategy has been working,
and I kept coming back to something you said last week, Now, folks,
I gave my co host my partner in the radio,
the host of this program, Hi McHenry, the most difficult

(03:38):
task he has had in his entire broadcasting career. Last week,
I asked him to say something nice about Kamala Harris
and also something critical about JD.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Vance, and he did so both very thoughtfully.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Talked about Jadvance, as we did, being a little too
libertarian for his taste, which is one of the reasons
why I am just kind of condect them.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
At a little bit.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
But he made an observation about Kamala Harris, and he said,
and Hi, if you remember, you said she has a
nice smile, and you didn't mean it pejoratively.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
You weren't looking for something, you were saying she has.
She comes off really well, she's kind of kind of positive,
kind of appearance.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
You didn't weren't going to vote for her, She had
no intention of supporting her, none of that.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
You know, you support Trump. He's your fighter, he's your guy.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
But the point you made was, well, Harris does kind
of come off a little positive. And I sort of
I've been asking people throughout the week about their thoughts
and their reactions to that, and you know what, this
kind of like a ability factor has been a lot
stronger than I would have thought it would have been.
I mean, it seems, you know, we talked about last

(04:44):
week how this happy warrior moniker that was often applied
to Hubert Humphrey, and you didn't think she was necessarily
a happy warrior. But those are my words, not yours.
But when he you know, in nineteen sixty eight, he
nearly pulled off an upset victory against Richard Nixon, who
thought after LBJ dropped out to be a sure thing
because you know, his sort of positivity. In nineteen eighty,

(05:07):
role Reagan was thought of as the weakest candidate against
Jimmy Carter. He ended up winning overwhelmingly in the last
ninety days because people just liked him more.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
He had more of a vision of positivity.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, one of the things that I've been wondering about
is whether this likability question would help Kamala Harris and
tighten the polls, and would her vice presidential running mate
double down on that well by choosing Tim Waltz. And
there's a lot of criticisms and I will go into
them very shortly of Tim Waltz. I'm not MSNBC actually

(05:41):
think he was one of the weaker choices for her,
but she's doubling down on the likability factor, perhaps at
the cost of swinging independence and swing voters.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
You know.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
One of the things that's been noted as somebody I've
always admired is Bill Crystal, you know, former editor of
the Weekly Standard, and he wrote last week we're now
halfway through the four weeks from Biden dropping out to
the convention conventions next week, and Harris is winning the

(06:12):
race to define. She and her race at her campaign
have overperformed in almost every aspect, while Donald Trump and JD.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Vance have kind of.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Gotten in their own way, reminded us you know who
they are, But there seems to be pulling out. And now,
I know you're not a huge support of polls, but
you liked them when Trump was ahead, So let me
put him right here. The polling team at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst has been releasing the latest national presidential survey.
It has Harris leading Trump nationally by three points forty

(06:41):
six to forty three, compared to a four point lead
for Trump over Biden in their last poll. So they
had predicted Trump was destroying Biden. Now they're saying it's swung.
Not surprisingly, Harris does betteran who had handled traditional Democratic
issues like reproductive rights ie abortion and healthcare, while Trump
prevails on more Republican issues. But Trump only has small

(07:02):
margins on the GOP issues fifty three to forty seven percent,
like crime, immigration. The Trump campaign would wish these margins
to be higher. Similarly, Harris leads Trump on personal characteristics,
and this is important. According to the poll the University
of Massachusetts Pole like honesty and likability, and keeps the

(07:23):
contest closer than one might have expected on traits that
might have been thought for big winners for Trump, like
strength only fifty four to forty six percent, in patriotism
only fifty two to forty eight percent in Trump's favor
by fifty seven to forty three percent, voters think that
Harris is more moderate than Trump, an indication to define

(07:43):
that the effort to divine Trump divine Harris Kamala Harris.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
As radical isn't working so far. So this is the point.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Likability makes you seem less ideological than you are. Attitude
kind of matters. Ronald Reagan pulled this off well. Is
the clear conservative choice because he was such a sunny disposition.
People tended to like him and trust him more at
a time when his policies weren't as popular as the man.

(08:12):
It seems like Kamala Harris is doing that. Other battleground
polls see this, and you know, let's face it, one
of the reasons Hillary Clinton lost in twenty sixteen was
people liked her less than Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Let's face it, and one of the reasons. I know,
you debate Biden's win, but people.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Tend to like him more personally than they like Donald Trump,
no matter how good the administration is well from the
perspective of positivity without disturbing the delicate balance of ideological
based politics. Kamala Harris's vice presidential pick of Minnesota Governor
Tim Waltz to be her reading mate makes sense. His

(08:49):
very nickname, you know, Minnesota is Minnesota and Ice. They
literally He's called Minnesota and Ice. He enjoys high approval
ratings from his constituents in his crucial battleground home state,
a trust that is often credited as the reasons Democrats
regain control of the state legislature after years out of power. Moreover,
unlike his two rivals for the VP spot, Waltz holds

(09:11):
no ideological heresies for the left which could divide the
Democratic base. Now, this is important, and I'm gonna come
to this in a moment after you have it, after
you'd comment on what I'm saying, because I think this
might be a weakness with independence. But follow me here
on the left, you know, Unlike Josh Shapiro, Waltz is
not a supporter of school vouchers or the Israeli campaign

(09:33):
in Gaza, nor does he stand hesitant to.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Appeal a right to work.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
A law like Mark Kelly seemed to indicate when the
Arizona Senator refused to sign on as co author of
the pro act that would basically would have repealed right
to work nationally and his forty eight forty nine co sponsors,
Kelly is one of the only ones who hasn't co
sponsored in the Senate Walt's actually titan pro unionization laws
during his time in the Minnesota governor's office. Nevertheless, Waltz

(10:03):
comes off as a very nice, likable, middle of the
road type of guy. He stands attitudinally the polar opposite
of the ideological warrior exemplified by Trump's choice of JD. Vance,
and that explains Harris's choice of him better than anything else.
Now I'm going to go to some of his weaknesses

(10:23):
in a second, but I'm curious what you think about
He is even more likable than Kamala Harris. Even if
you don't think he's a Just watch Walts and you're like,
this kind of seems like a nice guy. He actually
has a very progressive record, a eliberal record in Minnesota government,
but he comes off as nice. Likability matters. Likability could

(10:44):
determine this presidential contest.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Your thoughts high, so, Christopher, what you're saying here is
this is a pretty boy contest. The prettiest boy wins.
Where have we gone, folks? But no, it is true, folks,
that politics is a at many times tragically so very
much a superficial contest. And what I mean by that
is people are looking at looks, maybe our person sounds.

(11:10):
They're not looking past this, past the skin, they're not
looking deeper than the skin. They're just looking at the outside.
And that means they're being superficial. And I'm sorry, but
there are many people who vote like that. I was
told many years ago, and I've been told since. And
one of the people told me is one of the
most successful female females I've ever known. She was one

(11:33):
of the top ten models for decades. It's from New Orleans,
and I'll never forget her telling me I was dating
her younger sister. This was thirty years ago, and we
had a Christmas part at dinner. And she's a she's
a big liberal. She's in New Orleans and beautiful knocked
down guard's big, tall, beautiful blonde gal. And I'll never
forget her telling me that she hated Clinton. I went,

(11:56):
what why he said? And then she went in, you
know all reads why he's a no good you know
woman eyes, a betrayer, and all the things he did.
He's a bad guy, let's say. But she said, but
he's so handsome, and she says, and that's why women
are so stupid. She says, they'll always vote for the
most handsome person. They'll always do it. They don't think
about what they're doing. I thought, that's interesting. Now, that's

(12:18):
not the first time I heard that. That's not the
last time I've heard that periodically. That comes to me
from different women all around the place, wherever I've been
in my life. I keep that, keep getting those like
insights from women I have a lot of respect for.
I admire for their accomplishments and life, their success whatever,
and so so you're saying it's it's getting down to

(12:39):
being who's who's the prettiest boy. Well, let's take a
look at him. Okay, yeah, I'll give you this. If
you look at him, he's he's you know, if you
just met him on the street and say, oh, what
a nice guy, friendly guy, happy guy, looks like a
good guy, you don't get that impression. But guess what,
when you could say the dvance, you even see more
of that. And for whatever reason, Vance looks more real.
He looks real, maybe because he's a real combat veteran

(13:01):
and not a fake like Waltz's a guy who is
guilty nout of stolen valor because he stole his credits
of what he did in the military when he didn't
do any He's not a war hero, never in combat.
He's lied and lied and lied about all that. So
much so this Command Sergeant Major's Association, the Sergeant major Socials,
they've all gathered together to protest his claims of having

(13:22):
been in combat. He was never in combat. He's lied
about that, versus JD. Vance, who has been in combat,
who is a decorated marine, a real war hero. But
forget that. Just look at the two men. Both of
them are really friendly, happy looking guys. If that's all
I did, I'd like either one of them. They are

(13:44):
so certainly he has no more appealability than Vance does,
not even a little bit. In fact, I'd say Vance
is a much more handsome guy. If we're looking for
pretty boys, well Vance is the one, because Walts is
not exactly what. You look at us and say, oh,
he's a real handsome guy. But you could look at Vance.
He's a handsome guy. You sure could. I know the
ladies do. I'm hearing them talk. So as far as

(14:06):
pretty boor thing goes, I guess that's the best the
Democrats could do. I heard all the other reasons why
they couldn't pick, and I'm agreeing with you, Christopher. You
got a lot of good insight and that I saw
that even before her. You know, before we started this show.
I knew that already, and so thank you for bringing
that out. But so I know you got some more
good insights and all that stuff. I'm looking forward to
hearing it. Certainly, Kamala is not a likable person. I

(14:27):
told you that. If all you see is a smile
and say, oh, what a nice friendly, a sweet gal.
But when you get past that and sooner or lady,
you got to get past it, and you start hearing
the cackling and the giggling. She's starting to sound like
a witch. She sounds like a cackling chicken or a
giggling goose. That's how she comes across. And that's not good, Christopher.

(14:48):
That doesn't give her a strong first appearance. Let's say
the outward look you're talking about the candidates need to have.
That's when we gave Kennedy great advantage. A handsome fella.
Nixon's average looking guy gave Kennedy an advantage. So whenever
you have somebody that's handsome, yeah, they're gonna get it.
It gives him a leg up politically speaking, or a
beautiful gal a leg up. That's right. The mental men

(15:11):
like the beautiful women too. I saw how much they
went after the candidate from Alaska who had good front buddy,
and he was crazy over he's a big liberal. He
was crazy over that gal, the governor of Alaska, when
she ran back against Obama as for the vice president's
the Republican vice president pick. All right, well, folks, it's

(15:32):
time for us to hear the rest of what Chris
got some more insights. Now, let's say what you got
to say, Christopher. Come on, I want to hear it.
I want to hear Brother Hi.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Having praised Tim Waltz's likability, let me give you one
attitude that I read on this race. He's a much
weaker candidate for vice president, in my opinion, than either
Mark Kelly or especially Josh Shapiro would have been. There's
a reason why so many people were saying Josh Shapiro
in the center and on the right, would be the

(15:59):
most formidable vice presidential candidate.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
The Pennsylvania governor.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
While he's been very careful on what he said, he's
made some critical statements of Benjaminette Nayu. He's been very
outspoken in his support of Israel of the October seventh,
the response to the October seventh attack on Israel's right
to defend itself. Josh Shapiro is thoughtful. He's Jewish, and
that factor made him beloved by people in the center

(16:28):
who otherwise were kind of wavering but were pro Israeli,
and these were talking about Jewish voters in particular.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
He also is pro school.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Vouchers, and as some people on the show know, I'm
a strong supporter of school vouchers personally, but.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
I'm not putting that in.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's the willingness to take on an ideological surety of
the other side can often be a strength with independent voters.
Bill Clinton taking on welfare reform, Barack Obama when he
promises universal healthy and eliminating the idea of medicare for all,
that kind of thing. And since Kamala Harris ran as

(17:10):
the one of the more left wing presidential candidates on
Medicare for all and everything like that progressive shibaliths if
you will, having somebody like Josh Shapiro would have been
a good moderate temper. But most importantly, what did Josh
Shapiro do? Joshapiro would have helped her carry Pennsylvania, and
that is the one place where jd. Vance being on

(17:32):
the ticket helps Trump the most. Putting Shapiro there would
have neutralized Vance's ability.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Now not so much. Even with the problems Jadvance had
had the last few weeks.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
The core of Appalachia is still a place that he's
able to fight pretty well for Josh Shapiro not being
on the ticket. Frankly, they've seeded appalation. It's not a
whole lot of appalation. Some but not a whole lot
of Appalachia in Minnesota, some but not much. Frankly, appalation
something that does not run quite that direction. So Jos
Shapiro might have been the stronger of the candidate from

(18:05):
a standpoint, but he would the Progressives would have gone
a little crazy if Jos Shapiron. And one of the
things Harris, as we noted earlier, didn't want to do
is ideologically divide her party, do no harm being one
of the permanent points.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Of choosing a VP. Mark Kelly did not have that problem.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Mark Kelly would have come off as very sympathetic, and frankly,
the assassination attempt on Trump would have been neutralized. Senator
Mark Kelly's wife, of course, is Gabby Gifferts, who suffered
an assassination attempt and the bullet did go in her brain,
and so there was you know, you could respond to it.
That has also led him onto a campaign on some
degree of gun control, and particularly on AR fifteen's and

(18:47):
he would have made a pretty good argument to anything
that came through JD.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Vance.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Whether you think that's a good idea or not, it's
not what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
It's just from an ideological standpoint, it's a good response point. Plus,
Mark Kelly is frankly a military and in space hero.
He was a highly decorated fighter pilot for the Navy,
and he's been to space five six times, has some
of the largest record. He is a decorated astronaut, flew
the Space Shuttle Endeavor, a whole bunch of stuff.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
He would have been a sort of national piece.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'm not sure Mark Kelly would have swung Arizona, and
I think Democratic Colling began to see that. And Mark
Kelly had a liability with unions. Now what's been not
noticed as much. It's been noticed in some media sources,
but as Trump has gone to embrace the unions, the
union votes up for grabs.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
There's not it's not an accident.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Teamster's president was invited to speak in the Republican convention,
and Mark Kelly is one of only two Democrats who
didn't sign on to what's called the pro Act. The
pro Act is essentially the repeal of the Taft Hartley
Right to work Allowance provisions. Right to work is a
law is the ability of states to choose not to

(20:00):
have closed union shops, and Democrats have almost universally signed
on to this law that would have repealed the federal
provisions in the nineteen forty seven law that said right
to work states like Louisiana couldn't. He said he'd vote
for it, he was uncomfortable to being a sponsor of
it for a variety of reasons. This came off very

(20:21):
badly to labor unions who are in play, and so
his personal characteristics were trumped. If you will forgive the
pun by needing to appeal to the union vote, that
explains why to some extent, these two men had problems
to the left, and so Kamala Harris went with a

(20:42):
safe choice. I'm sorry a lot of Republicans are saying
they're going to swim at Minnesota. It did come close
in twenty sixteen. I do not think Minnesota is in
play this year. It's still a swing state, it still
can fight. But the fact of the matter is there's
no path to the presidency for a Democrat without Pennsylvania.

(21:04):
It's tough enough without Arizona, but there's none without Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
The math doesn't work. You to you'd have to win everything.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
You have to win Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, everything else, but Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
It doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
And so because of that, the likability factor that Kamala
Harris embraced, as strong as it's been, I'm not sure
it works on the math on the ground, your.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Thoughts high, it's over here, Christopher, You're right on. You
have great insights on what all these other possible candidates
would be doing, where they would fit in or could
fit in for the Democrats side. Very interesting. One thing
I'm saying on this, and I keep hearing it, the
Democrats just don't have a deep bench. Look at the Republicans.
They have so many quality people that if they lose one,
they just here comes the next one just as good.

(21:53):
Whereas the Democrats they're scratching and screaming and hower and
trying to find somebody, and they just can't seem to
find someone, so they pull up this this. I'm sorry,
he's a clown to me, he's a he's a traitor
to his men. I've been in combat, I know how important. Listen,
sergeant majors, command sergeant majors, uh in the Marine Corps,
UH the master guns and UH in in the UH

(22:17):
and also your first sergeants. They are magnificent Generals, colonels,
majors whatever. Lieutenant colonels look to them for guidance. They're
that strong. They're quiet, or they're in the background. You
never hear about them, but they are the backbone of
the military. And when when the game's over and uh,
you know, retired generals. I heard this from an old

(22:39):
colonel told me this story. He said, you know, he said,
you know what generals and colonels do when they retiring,
They meet together and there have their little closed meetings
and their various homes and libraries and salons or whatever
where they're meeting to have remembered the old days. He says,
you know what they talk about. You know what we
talk about. I said, no. He says, all we talk
about are sergeant majors. Come an sergeant majors, our first sergeants,

(23:02):
because we knew they made us and without them, we
could have never accomplished what we did. That's how important
the command sergeant major is, our sergeant major, our first sergeant,
our master guns and folks, let me tell you something.
That man betrayed that role. He was given a sacred honor,
a sacred trust, and he betrayed it. I'm talking about Waltz.

(23:23):
Never forget that as you're thinking about pulling the lever.
Do you really want a guy like that who may
be the one day the commander in chief, who would
betray you like you betrayed his own men? Think of that, folks, Well,
they don't have a deep bench. That was my point.
And I know I went off into this thing about it,
but it's got to be known. It's just Americans. Tell everybody, folks,
you let them know that the guy who's running on
the Democrat's side for VP is a coward and a trader.

(23:46):
Proven by the collective group of the sergeant majors of
the Army and the command sergeant majors. They gathered together
and wrote a letter about it. It's so they're so
upset about this guy so and he did not he
claimed he was the sergeant mat No, he was demoted
because he refused to complete the course because he didn't

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want to go to war. It's that simple. He checking
out left his men waiting for him. Not a good sign,
not a good sign at all anyway. But they just
don't have a deep bench. That's one of their biggest problems.
That's been going on for a long time. So they
grab all these crazy people. You talk about weird. There's
nothing more weird than a Democrat candidate. They claim, what's
his name is weird? Paul jd Vance? Why because he

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grew up poor? He's a poor guy. Is that why
he's weird? He grew up as a redneck? Is that
why he's weird? Hillbilly? Is he weird because of that?

Speaker 4 (24:38):
That's it?

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Hey, half the people in this country had rednecks and hillbillies.
Praise God for the rednecks. And they're the greatest people
in America. They're the ones who always go to war
forest by in case you have noticed, folks, they're the
ones who're going to give the most blood for our security.
Of those very people that the Democrats are not calling weird.
Of course, they call us fly over people. They call
us undesirables. U think of every horrible thing they can

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say about the average American voter. Do you really want
someone like that as your leader in America? But wait, wait, wait,
just a minute, Christopher, guess what I don't just saw
the time. It's time for us to take a break.
Folks will be right back. But Chris, I just got
to ask you something. His political stuff is so dirty,
it's so ugly. Can we hear a little something about
mother nature? I mean, you way up there in the
northern regions of our continent, enjoin all the beauties of

(25:24):
the Canadian Rockies and the Alaskan Fords and all that
right now on your tour. Please, can you tell us
something happy about this world? Mother nature?

Speaker 4 (25:33):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
She's beautiful. She brings joy to my heart. Why don't
you cheer us up with a little something about what
you're seeing up there, Christopher? Do that after the break?
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(29:54):
what's happening? You got some good stories for us? I
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here about the beautiful mother name. You're right in the
middle of it, your lucky Rascal, tell us about it.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
If you hear a little sound behind you, that is
the Queen Elizabeth arriving in Ketchikan, Alaska. It's been an
incredible trip on this particular voyage of the Quneard Queen Elizabeth,
a cruise ship that regularly translations the Pacific. In the east,
we went through Glacier Bay National Park and Tracy Fiord

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for those that don't know, those are two national parks
you can only access by boat and they are spectacular.
You're able to go up to what's called tidewater tidewater glaciers,
glaciers that literally flow to the sea, glaciers that are
retreating every year.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Good way.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
What's the difference between ice and glacier, Well, glaciers like
it moves. A glacier moves this way, I think is
an ice flowing river that just moves very very slowly,
but it moves. And actually in some of these places,
the glaciers are moving towards the water. Even as they
get smaller, they're getting closer to the water, so it's
kind of it still allows a beautiful view ketch you can,

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of course, is the salmon capital of the world, and
I've been watching the salmon runs, which has been one
of the great success stories of environmental restoration. In fact,
in this particular town, as you walk around there actually
are one of the main historic streets is called Creek
Street and along, there's a walk you can take, which

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is the salmon actually going up a staircase so they
can get to their proving grounds.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
For those that don't know, salmon live in.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Saltwater, but they're born in fresh water, and they return
to their freshwater place, to the place they were born
to spawn and die.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
In fact, by the time they come back, they've.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Become saltwater fish, so they can't actually breathe, so they're
coming there to do it. Salmon will travel hundreds and
thousands of miles to return to where they're born, which
gives you an idea of you know, I love salmon,
eate it all the time. It's a surprising amount of intelligence.
There's so much that we can do to maintain our environment,
and there are success stories out there sometimes we don't

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talk about, but I will say it has been a
remarkably beautiful time. As I mentioned on last week's show,
there's been an unusual heat spell in Alaska, just like
in the rest of the country. You know, days which
for New Orleans seemed like spring or fall even winter

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where the temperature gets up above seventy degrees.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
For here, that is a heat wave. But when you're
dealing with glaciers, and that's a huge part in.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
The cold weather of the environment, as you saw in Canada,
that can actually cause extensive wildfires. Well, if you heard
helicopter going over it's heading out over the Fiords and
to the glaciers and.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Much about that.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Alaska, of course, that's right, Christopher, North to Alaska. We're
going north. The rush is on. I'm singing an old song,
Johnny hard and song North to Alaska, I love, one
of my favorite songs. Alaska is a huge place, folks.
It's like humongous. It's one fourth to one fifth the
size of the whole United States, the lower forty eight,

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as they say. And you know, Chris is on a
boat right now. It's a big beautiful ship, Queen Elizabeth.
But he's been he's been flying around up there. He's
been on trains, he's been on you know, he just
talked you just Christopher, you just told us about the
helicopter that's flying overhead. But Christopher, Christopher, Christopher. For such
a vast area, I know, it's kind of hard to

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get around. They don't have a lot of highways they
can and it's very dangerous traveling on the highway in fact,
if you see someone walking on the highway, by law,
you have to stop and see see if they're okay.
If they're walking, you have to put them in your
vehicle because it's too dangerous. The bears and the moose
are very dangerous animals, and certainly bears are. You have

(33:59):
to take them and pretty them because it's just that
dangerous in Alaska. So I wonder many times, how do
they really get around up there? I know one great
way would be a train. Trains are big powerful things.
Bears aren't going to charge them. You know, the moose
won't try to butt heads with them, so at least
you'd have safety on a training can get and boy,
they get you around. And I know they build some
good trains up there. And I'm thinking of Casey Jones, Christopher,

(34:19):
Casey Jones. Remember that Cllegrades, a good old country Western song,
Casey Jones at the Throttle, Remember that one from way back?
That's my time, folks. I'm seventy three years old. Maybe
many of you don't remember those days, but I love
that song. When I was kid, Casey Jones at the
at the throttle, good old Mississippi boy. Well, folks, Christopher
come on, now, what's going on in Alaska up there?
And how do they get around?

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Tell it?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
You gotta know because you're you're a tour guide. You're
a major tour guide in this country, and you understand
what it takes to move people. So how do they
get around in Alaska? Christopher? Tell us? Please?

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Hi? You know, even here in far Alaska. I think
about the fact that trains are actively used now. People
are stand sometimes how big Alaska is. Take your hand,
you know, as if you're making a palm, push it
up forward, have your thumb extend out and all your
fingers together. Then turn on the left and you've got

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a pretty good idea of Alaska. But where your thumb
is That hits Florida, where the top of Alaska is. Well,
if you laid it out of across, that would hit
North Dakota with the Aleutian Islands hitting California.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
It's one fifth land mass of the lower forty eight states.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
And that's important because they found effective ways, including trains
in Nulli National Park, to transverse that area because.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
It's so vast. Well, we had in our own train situation.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
The Mobile City Council has decided that it is time
to actually restore the train between Mobile and New Orleans.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
The state wouldn't do anything, but Mobile said the city.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Would pay for it after a lot of conflict, and
hopefully the trains will be back in time for the
Super Bowl. The problem with the proposal is not train
service between the Mobile and New Orleans. Connecting the Gulf
Coast is incredibly important for our economy, and one of
those trains, the train will stop at Louis Armstrong International Airport,

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so connecting that transport to here plays a big economic role.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
But what's interesting.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
About this is we've been talking about connecting New Orleans
to Baton Rouge for some time, and every proposal for
the train from Mobile to New Orleans includes an extension
of Baton Rouge, but nobody in Louisiana's taking up the total.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Second, it's only two trains a day.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
You need at least four, because not everybody's ready to
travel the first thing in the morning one way and
the last thing in the back the other.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
And that takes money. But the question is if you
build it this.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Trains are one of those situations for tourism, particularly come
connecting us to the casinos of the Gulf coast and
the cruise ship terminals and Mobile is an economic necessity.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
And look I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Cruise ship business, particularly New Orleans doesn't get the kind
of cruise ships it used to because it takes a
day to come down the river, it doesn't come out
of Mobile Bay. However, what's interesting about all of that
is here in Alaska. You see these towns Juno Ketchcan
where I am currently in Ketchikan, a town of four
thousand people, beautiful place looking out in the mountains and

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the Fiords. They have three cruise ships and they have
tripled the population size of the town almost quadrupled with
the cruise ships that are here. That tells you something
of economic power. And my wife and I were walking
around and seeing why does that happen here? Partially it's
because it's tough to bring cruises to New Orleans even

(37:53):
with our river, we where to host them. And by
connecting by a rail to Mobile where there is a bigger,
closer connection into the Gulf of Mexico, we could increase
that traffic.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Your thought sight, yes, of course, five, I've got lots
of thoughts about this. Trains plains via gle lanes and
cruise lines. We need them, folks. They get us around,
They move us all over, they move our products and
materials all around the place. They're critically important, and Louisiana
and New Orleans should have a very efficient system going

(38:25):
for us. You know, let's why can't we start thinking
smart down here in New Orleans and in Louisiana and
think of ways to really upgrade and improve the great
gift we've been given on this planet. I mean, we
sit at the greatest watershed of wealth in the world,
New Orleans, Louisiana, largest port in the world, Great New
Orleans Port, and it passes us, going up wherever and

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going down wherever every year, this enormous watershed of wealth,
no pun intended, but you know it's moving on the water,
of course, and what do we do about it? It's
about nothing. We just let it come and go, sing
our song, take the easy way out. And this could
have to do with corrupt politicians who make it very
hard for innovative people to do anything productive down here.

(39:09):
That probably has a whole lot to do with it.
We need to get past that, folks. We need to
shake up our politicians and make them start really working
for us. As public servants and improving all these things.
Christopher has a great plan right there. We need a
great train service. We could have it. By the way,
I love trains. I could live my life on a train.
Something about trains that just always have encouraged me. I've

(39:30):
had great experience on trains. You can get great tours
on trains. Still, Christopher does that, by the way, and folks,
let's try to do something to help upgrade our condition
down here, like Christopher's talking about it. I think it's
a great idea. Chrisopher, thank you for bringing that up.
And so what about our water? We having water problems
down there, and we're talking about our rivers and movements

(39:53):
on water, but what about our water down here in
New Orleans? Is it saved? Christopher? You got any thoughts
on that for us?

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Brother Lamino, Hi.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
I want to conclude today's show from ketchakan Alaska and
the Queen Elizabeth by talking about a very local issue
in New Orleans, and that's water. Yet again, a boil
water advisory for the New Orleans Sewage and Water Board,
and it shows us that not only is there not
exactly the greatest competency, but mostly our entire sewage system
is falling apart. And part of the problem is the

(40:24):
billions upon billions upon billions it would take to rebuild
our water systems in New Orleans is beyond the ability
to pay.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
There is another alternative.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
However, give us an answer, Christopher, give us an answer.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (40:39):
The fact is three fourths of the properties in Orleans
Parish do not pay property taxes. This is in particular
the federal government, which has a huge extensiveness, the universities too,
Lane Loyal and others, and nonprofits including churches, and not
for water, not for anything. And this means that we

(41:00):
have a system it's catering to three fourths of the
population who pay absolutely nothing. Other cities have dealt with
us by creating something called a property service fee, where
basically you're the munch squarefoot. As you use, you get
a property service fee in place of instead of property taxes.
Why this works is the federal government actually has to

(41:21):
pay a tax on all of its property because it's
for you. In this case, it would be for water services.
Everybody does. It includes nonprofits including churches. But what it
does is it allows a huge amount of money to
come in and the average homeowner to pay less and
to some extent nothing, and it can be arranged so
the home state exemption is taken too account as well.

(41:43):
So that means we could lower the tax burden on
the average citizen of New Orleans and have a windfall
to rebuild these sewer systems that are over one hundred
and fifty years old and are slowly and carefully falling apart.
We lose somewhere between half of the amount of water
in the city each and every day, and of our

(42:03):
pipes in New Orleans, in New Orleans Parish, well, Hi,
they are made of Cyprus. I'm not exaggerating. So we've
got to do some serious investment. But that means everybody's
got to pay, the federal government, universities, nonprofits, even churches.
And this is the point I'm making. If you're using water, sewage,

(42:25):
drinking water, so and so forth, you shouldn't be exempted,
no matter who you are, because this is something every
human being needs.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
Your thoughts, yes, Chris.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Foh, I have great thoughts when you think about it.
Once New Orleans had the finest sworge and water board,
the finest water systems in the world. Great nations and
great cities came to New Orleans to study our systems
that were developed around the turn of the century, you know,
the late nineteenth century going into the early twentieth century
shocked the world. The Dutch came and studied us for

(42:55):
their great needs of flooding and water situations just like
we have. And now it's just all falling apart because
we've got a bunch of corrupt leader leaders in this city.
It's just pathetic to see that, to see the great
genius of what gave us one of the greatest water
systems in the world. I'm talking about water delivery and
water removal, meaning the sword systems of rain, water removal,

(43:15):
all of that. Christopher, it's time for a joke. And
I know we've said it before, but maybe we got
some new listeners never heard this, and they'll enjoy this,
and some old listeners may get another get a rechuckle
I always do. And that is what what is yellow
and black and sleeps six a surgeon waterboards truck And

(43:37):
that kind of gives you an idea of what's going
on with sean waterboard. Uh when when Lander was you know,
the head of it as a mayor, he messed it
all up. It seems like everybody comes along to try
to do something with this thing, turns it into a mess.
And we just we we've got to clean house folks
down here in New Orleans. We've got to clean this
city up. It's just gotten to be too bad. So

(43:57):
do whatever you can to try to get out politicians
to behave I don't know what it takes, but get
out there and start campaigning, doing something, shaking the bushes,
whatever we can do. We need to. We need to
get out there and get the hum and cry out
to turn this city back into some kind of form
of our government of being having some kind of form
of good government. Those are great insights you had for us, Chris,

(44:18):
thank you so much. But folks say this time for us,
take another break. We'll be right back after this brief
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Eights two shoements. So back, and this is Chaplin ho
McHenry and it's not time for us to go into
our chaplain. Bye bah. Patriotic moment. We'll just take a
brief moment to remind you of the biblical foundations of
our country. Our Judeo Christian jurisprudin they We're going to
talk about Harry S. Truman. President Truman when and truly

(45:59):
one of the greatest residence of America. He lived from
eighteen eighty four to eight nineteen seventy two, at a
nice long life. He's the thirty third President of the
United States, and he was on his inaugural dress January twenty,
nineteen forty nine, he said, with God's help, the future
of mankind will be assured in a world of justice, harmony,
and peace. And then in his first address to Congress,

(46:22):
he said, at this moment, I have in my heart
a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I
humbly pray to Almighty God in the words of King Solomon,
give there for thy servant an understanding heart to judge
thy people, that I may discern between good and bad.
For who is able to judge this great The judge

(46:43):
is great a people. I ask only to be a
good and faithful servant of my Lord and my people.
That was Harry S. Truman. We know he had to
assume tremendous mantles. Each kind of reminds me a little
bit of Advance because his old country boy like Vance
and FDR need of the country vote. That's why he
picked him up. I'm sure that's why he got him.
He needed to have a balance on his ticket to

(47:04):
running for his fourth term for President Franklin Roosevelt, and
Truman turned out to be one of the best picks
he ever could have made. He was such a great guy,
even a war hero like Vanceys World War One. Truman
was really a great American, great American and a great
man of God, and knew that without God we didn't
have a chance. And think of it, the poor man's
wanted had to make the call on Adam Baum. But

(47:27):
he made the right calls. We know because he saved
anywhere from five to ten million people versus I think
the two bombs dropped in Japan took out about one
hundred and fifty thousand, which is a terrible tragedy, but folks,
it's a lot less than five to ten million people,
so it was the right choice. Anyway, it is now
time for us to go into our chaplain. By by
gospel moment, we can see that Harry Truman knew the Lord.

(47:48):
He had a deep and abiding faith. There are many
things I could tell you more about him, but of
course time doesn't allow. As far as his Christianity went,
and by the way his Judaism, he loved the Jewish people.
He's the one who played them major role in making
sure Israel would be established as a country. And when
he made that call against tremendous opposition. He remember, he

(48:09):
was a Democrat, a good a good democrat. They have
had good democrats in the past. I wish they'd come back.
But anyway, that's another story. So when he did with
a Jewish one of the famous Jewish rabbis in America
went to visit him, actually an old friend, and told
him that God has raised you up to save our people.
And when he told Truman that Truman was not a

(48:29):
man of tears, he was like a man's man, a
tough guy, you know, tough guy's never cried. Truman broke
down and cry like a baby when that rabbi told
him that he was a good man because he had
a good heart, because he knew the Lord Jesus, because
Jesus was his heart, folks, and Jesus your heart. Right now,
he could be. He could be right now as we're
now going to our Chaplin by by a gospel moment
where I'm just gonna take a brief moment to show

(48:50):
you how you can know that. You know that, you
know that, you know when you die, you go into heaven.
You say from a burning hell when you like that,
you know. The scripture says in John three. For God
so loved the world. God's got a lot of love
the whole world, folks, He loves the whole world, anybody
and everybody that's ever lived. He's loved us all with
an amazing love. And sometimes it's hard to see and

(49:14):
know about it, but it's there. It's there. Just try
to just slow down a little bit, maybe think about it,
maybe you'll see it. For God to love the world,
that he gave his only begotten son, you see, because
God's a lover, He's a giver, Love always gives. He
gave his only begotten son. Who's that, Well, that's God,
the son, the Lord Jesus Christ, all the way God
and all the way man. He gave him to us

(49:34):
because we desperately needed him, because you see, we were
going to a burning hell and we had no way
to fix it. And only the only person who could
fix that was God himself. And he did it when
he became a man. The Lord Jesus Christ came to
this earth, died for all of your sins. I mean,
from the day you're born, of the day you die,
you tis to your great sins all of mine also.

(49:56):
He was buried and then he rose to the dead
to win for you that press. It's just his precious
free gift of resurrection, everlasting life. If you've never gotten
this life before, you need to get it now. First
you got to repent, though, don't forget repentance. What is repentance, Well,
it's not doing all kinds of good works or suffering
or doing this or doing that or whatever. They come
up with all kinds of things about repentance. What is

(50:18):
turning from your sins, repent of your sins, do some
special prayer, some kind of religious ceremony. None of that
is repentance. And she just keeps saying repent and believe
you see, repentance is part of your belief. It's like
a two sided coin. On one side you repent. Repentance
means change your mind in Greek metanoia, when you change
your mind, which you believe is you can't save yourself.

(50:39):
That's the change of mind. And then after you do that,
you're free to put faith alone in Christ, alone, believing
that only he can, that he did, and that He
will save you from burning ill and guarantee you everlasting life. Folks,
repent right now. Believe you can't save yourself. You're hopeless.
You're a loser. You're hopeless and helpless without God. When
you come to that point, your pride's gone. See, your

(51:00):
pride gets in a way. That's the only hard part
of going to heaven is your pride. You got to
dump it, folks. You got to realize what a loser
you are. In the moment you do that, you just
change your mind and you realize you can't save yourself.
Then you're free to put faith alone and crist alone,
believing that He really did die for all your sins,
was buried in roseman the dead. Do it right, now,
do it with childlike faith. You may not get tomorrow, folks.

(51:22):
As the scripture says, now, today is a day of salvation.
And like the old country preacher, redneck preacher says, today now.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Is the day.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Don't wait till it's too late. Well, folks, there's another
day coming that we all need to know about. And
that's the day when Jesus returns. And he's coming back soon.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
You know.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
One of this I'm giving you all signs every week
just about there's so many signs.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
You know.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
One of the signs it's transportation. We talked a lot
about that on this show, didn't we Well, you know,
two thousand years ago, people would never travel more than
about ten maybe twenty miles from their house. That's it
in their entire lifetime. And how do they travel? They walked,
maybe wrote a donkey or a camel or a horse
or something where road a cart, you know, a carriage
or something. U They travel very didn't travel far at all,

(52:06):
try if they were. The most travel was on boats
if you were going anywhere. But most people never traveled.
And then as time went on, things improved, transportation, roads,
roman roads, you know, then eventually we got trains, didn't
we Things started moving up. Do you know that? Folks?
Today people travel so much. It's it's almost indescribable. The
travel is so huge now. And then one of the

(52:27):
signs was in the end travel would increase. It's the
way the scripture says that people would go to and
fourth and the grammar there means a lot of travel,
a whole heap, a lot of travel. Folks. Is it happening, Yes,
it's happening right now, right before our eyes. We're seeing
travel and the movement of people and goods and materials
like never before, even close one hundred years ago people

(52:48):
could imagine that there would be this much for two years.
Absolutely no way anybody could ever believe we travel like this.
But we're doing it right now, folks, I'm doing it
right now. So another fulfillment of biblical prophecy. It's all
coming together, jeans that we see all these things happening.
I'm at the door, folks, He's at the door. Are
you ready for him? You better be open that door
and let him in. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. And
no matter how bad it gets in the end, because

(53:09):
it's gonna get bad, when Jesus comes back, it's gonna
get really bad, you'll be ready for it because you'll
have him and he'll have you, and he's the best
protector you'll ever get, the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, it's
time for us to go now, as we're close with
am on Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye and God
bless all out there.

Speaker 6 (53:32):
They call him cel goodbye. They think we're just wasting time.
All three sevl.

Speaker 5 (53:49):
Me.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
There's time for a creo goodbye.
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