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'Null & Void' Experts Question the Autopen, Harrowing story of Survival in the Texas Flood plus When Woke Satire Stops Being Funny Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 2: with you, and these are the stories you may have
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  Speaker 2: missed that we talked about this week. First up, Biden's
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  Speaker 2: autopen dilemma and the New York Times now exposing exactly
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  Speaker 2: what may have been done without the President's knowledge, and
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  Speaker 2: there's an official investigation.
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  Speaker 1: We'll dive into that.
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  Speaker 2: Also, first hand account of the tragedy and an update
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  Speaker 2: of what's happening with the Texas floods. And finally, Stephen Colbert,
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  Speaker 2: not only did he alienate half the country, but he
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  Speaker 2: destroyed a show that had been around for decades. Stephen
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  Speaker 2: Colbert has been canceled. It's the Weekend Review and it
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  Speaker 2: starts right now. Finally, Sinader, I want to move to
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  Speaker 2: another issue, and it is really exploded over the last
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  Speaker 2: twenty four hours, and that is new information that we
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  Speaker 2: now have on Biden's use of the autopen. It is
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  Speaker 2: a scandal that I don't think people underst and just
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  Speaker 2: how big it is and what has now been admitted
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  Speaker 2: to when it comes the autopen usage and Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: maybe not knowing it was being used at all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so the New York Times on July thirteenth, wrote
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  Speaker 1: a major story that says Biden says he made the
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  Speaker 1: clemency decisions that were recorded with autopen, and you and
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  Speaker 1: I talked about in an earlier podcast that the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice has an opinion that it issued a number of
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  Speaker 1: years ago the Office Legal Counsel about whether you can
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  Speaker 1: use an autopen for presidential signatures, whether that's a presidential
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  Speaker 1: signature on an executive order, a presidential signature on a
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  Speaker 1: law that is being signed in a law, or a
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  Speaker 1: presidential signature on a pardon. And what the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice has concluded is that you can use an autopen
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  Speaker 1: for any of those. But the test is the authority
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  Speaker 1: is the president's and the presidents alone, so the president
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  Speaker 1: cannot delegate that authority to anyone else. The president has
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  Speaker 1: to make the decision. And what Department of Justice explained,
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  Speaker 1: and this was years ago, is that the operative legal
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  Speaker 1: test is did the president make the individual determination to
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  Speaker 1: sign the executive order, to sign the specific piece of
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  Speaker 1: legislation to grant the pardon. And if the president made
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  Speaker 1: that individualized determination, then you can use an autopen to
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  Speaker 1: reflect that, but the president has to be the decider
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  Speaker 1: and so that's the legal standard. But what the New
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  Speaker 1: York Times reported was, quote, mister Biden did not individually
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  Speaker 1: approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to
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  Speaker 1: large numbers of people. He and aids confirmed. Rather, after
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  Speaker 1: extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on
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  Speaker 1: the standards he wanted to be used to determine which
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  Speaker 1: convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence. Even after
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  Speaker 1: mister Biden made that decision, one former AID said, the
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  Speaker 1: Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates,
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  Speaker 1: resulting in small changes to the list. Rather than ask
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  Speaker 1: mister Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited
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  Speaker 1: and then ran the final version through the auto pen,
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  Speaker 1: which they saw as a routine procedure. The AID said,
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  Speaker 1: that is stunning because under the Department of Justice guidance,
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  Speaker 1: those pardons aren't valid. If the President didn't decide I
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  Speaker 1: am going to pardon Ben Ferguson, you know, if he
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that, that would not be sufficient. And the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times the consequence of this listen. I think
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  Speaker 1: the Trump White House needs to go through the records
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  Speaker 1: and look, they have the records because they're now in
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  Speaker 1: charge of the White House, and examine what specifically has
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  Speaker 1: a paper trail that shows Biden signed off on the
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  Speaker 1: specific action, and those that that there is no paper trail,
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  Speaker 1: that there is no evidence. In the New York Times
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  Speaker 1: is reporting there admitting, oh yeah, they're broad categories. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't know about it all. He didn't know the specific people.
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  Speaker 1: Those are null and void. Those have no legal force.
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  Speaker 1: And my recommendation to Pambondi in the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 1: is they should look specifically at the most vulnerable and
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  Speaker 1: and and devise and implement a legal challenge to challenge
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  Speaker 1: these and to make clear that an unelected aid running
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  Speaker 1: an auto pen does not have the power to grant
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  Speaker 1: a pardon under the United States Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: So, now that we have this information, the big question
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  Speaker 2: is when do these pardons, what happens next, how do
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  Speaker 2: you go about undoing this, and how big of a
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  Speaker 2: legal fight is that going to be?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be a termination number one of
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  Speaker 1: the White House and the White House Counsel assessing what
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  Speaker 1: of the records show? What records did they keep of
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  Speaker 1: Biden's signing off. We know that he personally signed the
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  Speaker 1: pardon for Hunter Biden, So that one he knew about
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  Speaker 1: and he did.
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  Speaker 2: So, so that one is is that also very telling?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And is that going to be used in many ways
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  Speaker 2: as an example of like, dude, he had no idea
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  Speaker 2: what was going on over here? The ones he did
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  Speaker 2: know about, he knew, he damned it well, better signed
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  Speaker 2: them himself. His son is a great example of that.
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  Speaker 2: Does that actually hurt the argument for Biden? All the
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  Speaker 2: others are.
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  Speaker 1: Valid potentially, although they are arguing that they discussed it
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  Speaker 1: with him and he approved. And so some of the
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  Speaker 1: high profile ones, like you look at Anthony Fauci who
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  Speaker 1: was pardoned, they're maintaining they discussed it with Biden and
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  Speaker 1: Biden said he wanted to he wanted to pardon him.
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  Speaker 1: If that's true, if he made the decision and directed
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  Speaker 1: them to sign a pardon, then under the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justices OLC memorandum, that is valid. The question is are
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  Speaker 1: there ones And according to the New York Times, there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot that Biden did not know and did
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  Speaker 1: not approve the specific individual receiving the pardon, And if
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know and didn't approve, then it's not a
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  Speaker 1: valid part.
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  Speaker 2: So when you look at the timeline of this moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: and some of these could be very significant. One that
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  Speaker 2: comes to mind is doctor Anthony Fauci for example. This could,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, open up a whole lot of can of
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  Speaker 2: worms on a lot of different issues.
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  Speaker 1: It could. It depends what so what I believe. I
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  Speaker 1: believe the White House should go through systematically through the
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  Speaker 1: records and see what the records demonstrate, and the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice should pick starting with a test case to
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  Speaker 1: go challenge this. The look for a fact pattern in
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  Speaker 1: which there is the clearest absence of any approval from
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  Speaker 1: the actual president and go so challenge those in particular.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you there was an article just came out
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  Speaker 1: in Texas Monthly about what happened, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: take a few minutes and actually read a significant portion
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  Speaker 1: of the article. The articles by a fellow named Aaron Parsley,
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  Speaker 1: and it's entitled The River House Broke. We rushed in
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  Speaker 1: the river, and he's telling a first hand story about
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  Speaker 1: his family that had a house right along the water
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  Speaker 1: loopy river. I want you just to listen to this. Rosemary,
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  Speaker 1: the four year old, woke up first. She told my
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  Speaker 1: brother in law Lance that there was something on the roof.
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  Speaker 1: Seven of us were at my family's river house on
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  Speaker 1: the Guadaloupe between Ingram and Hunt for the fourth Our
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  Speaker 1: little stretch of river is wide, green, cool, deep and slow.
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  Speaker 1: It's some of the best swimming anywhere, and one of
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  Speaker 1: the most beautiful spots in Texas as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: I've spent many peaceful afternoons there, floating and staring up
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  Speaker 1: at the cypress trees that tower over the water. The house,
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  Speaker 1: a one story cabin on stilts about fifty yards from
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  Speaker 1: the river up the steeply slope. Yard, was built right
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  Speaker 1: after the nineteen eighty seven flood that devastated this region,
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  Speaker 1: killing ten teenagers. Concrete pillars put our family's place a
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  Speaker 1: few feet feet above what officials consider the one hundred
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  Speaker 1: year floodplain. More than once, I'd tried to imagine the
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  Speaker 1: water's rising that high, but it seemed impossible. I woke
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  Speaker 1: around three am to the sound of thunder and rain.
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  Speaker 1: My only thought was I hope it stopped so I
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  Speaker 1: could go on an early morning run. Shortly before four thirty.
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  Speaker 1: I would later learn Rosemary climbed down from the top
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  Speaker 1: bunk of the kid's bedroom and went to get her father.
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  Speaker 1: Lance stepped out of bed to see what was causing
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  Speaker 1: all the pounding and creaking. I stirred about that time too,
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  Speaker 1: and heard what I figured was the kids running around
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  Speaker 1: the house, excited by the storm. What's going on, I asked,
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  Speaker 1: We're in trouble. Dad said, big trouble. I looked past them.
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  Speaker 1: The river was as high as the deck, twenty feet
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  Speaker 1: above the ground. We talked through our options. Getting onto
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  Speaker 1: the roof was impossible. We had no ladder and the
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  Speaker 1: eaves were about eight feet above the deck. Patrick weighed
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  Speaker 1: whether we could all climb through a window onto the
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  Speaker 1: live oak, whose branches were near the back of the house,
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  Speaker 1: then realized it wasn't reachable. Lance called nine one one,
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  Speaker 1: but the dispatcher said he didn't know when anyone could
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  Speaker 1: get to us. As we reassembled in the kitchen, the
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  Speaker 1: vinyl flooring under our feet started to bubble, then water
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  Speaker 1: began to pool. My dad walked into the bedroom and
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  Speaker 1: saw the carpet floating off the floor. The river's musty
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  Speaker 1: scent permeated the house, mixed with what smelled like freshly
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  Speaker 1: chopped wood. My sister sat Rosemary and Clay on the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen island countertop. Rosemary was four and Clay was twenty
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  Speaker 1: months old. We discussed whether we could get them higher,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even on top of the cabinets, in the small
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  Speaker 1: space below the ceiling. Then the roof over the porch
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  Speaker 1: crashed down, and we heard glass shatter in my father's room,
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  Speaker 1: just off the kitchen. Rosemary asked, why did the window break?
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  Speaker 1: Clay started to cry. When the sliding glass doors open
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  Speaker 1: and water poured in. Lance ran to it, shoved it closed,
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  Speaker 1: and held it shut. The pendant lamps began to swing
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  Speaker 1: wildly over the kitchen counter. The house was shifting. It
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  Speaker 1: lurked sharply, and we all struggled to stay on our feet.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like walking down the aisle of a plane
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  Speaker 1: during strong turbulence. We're moving, we're moving, Patrick said. The
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  Speaker 1: realization was terrifying. The rushing, still rising water had lifted
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  Speaker 1: the house off its pillars. It was afloat, and then
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. I saw part of the deck rip away.
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  Speaker 1: I heard windows break, from every corner. Cracks split the walls.
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  Speaker 1: We crashed into something, probably a tree. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how long It took ten seconds, maybe fifteen, for the
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  Speaker 1: house to come apart. Alyssa managed to keep both kids
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  Speaker 1: on the countertop, one hand on each, still trying to
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  Speaker 1: reassure them. As the house came undone, she grabbed one
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  Speaker 1: in each arm. This is the part that will forever
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  Speaker 1: haunt me. If I or anyone else had been closer
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  Speaker 1: to them, we would have helped her. We would have
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  Speaker 1: grabbed one of the kids. But we simply didn't know
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  Speaker 1: that we were about to be plunged into the water.
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  Speaker 1: We simply didn't know. As we were thrust into churning water,
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  Speaker 1: into darkness, our disintegrating house sucked us down into the river.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing I remember from inside the house was
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  Speaker 1: seeing the refrigerator coming at me. Patrick saw the countertop
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  Speaker 1: tear away from the kitchen island with Alyssa and the
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  Speaker 1: kids on it. As the river carried me downstream, I
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  Speaker 1: struggled to stay above water. I was surrounded by branches,
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  Speaker 1: by twisted metal, by uprooted trees, by countless smaller objects,
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  Speaker 1: bottles of sunscreen, books, couch cushions, coolers that came from
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  Speaker 1: inside our home or somebody else's. I realized I lost
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  Speaker 1: my shoes and my phone. I grabbed at every branch
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  Speaker 1: in every tree that was still standing. A few snapped
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  Speaker 1: off in my hands, leaving me with a fistful of leaves.
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  Speaker 1: I managed to briefly hold onto one, perhaps for a
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  Speaker 1: few seconds, until the force of the water and the
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  Speaker 1: constant assault from debris ripped me away. I latched onto
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  Speaker 1: a tree with branches large enough to support me and
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  Speaker 1: pulled myself out of the water. My breathing was frantic,
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  Speaker 1: but my mind was focused. I considered the possibility of death.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, if I survive, I'll be the only one.
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  Speaker 1: The tree began to crack, creak, and moan. Then it
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  Speaker 1: slowly fell into the river, and so did I. I
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  Speaker 1: reached for another tree and climbed as high as I could,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of feet above the rushing water. I stepped
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  Speaker 1: up to a higher branch, and then another. If this
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  Speaker 1: tree collapsed, I wasn't sure if I would fight to
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  Speaker 1: stay above the water again. I pleaded with the tree
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  Speaker 1: to hold me, to withstand the power of the river. Please,
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  Speaker 1: I whispered, please, over the roar of the water and
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  Speaker 1: the crackling of the trees. I heard screaming. It was guttural, primal.
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  Speaker 1: Who's there, I called, I'm in a tree too. We
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  Speaker 1: have to hang on, someone will help. It's Alyssa, my sister, screamed,
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  Speaker 1: I'm with Rosemary. Clay is gone. The memory of those
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  Speaker 1: words will never leave me. A combination of profound relief
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  Speaker 1: and unbearable sadness overwhelms me now, even as I type this.
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  Speaker 1: Alyssa and I kept yelling to each other, though neither
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  Speaker 1: of us could clearly make out what the other was saying.
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  Speaker 1: Be strong for Rosemary, I implored, you have to survive this. Intermittently,
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  Speaker 1: I could hear just one word, Clay, as Alyssa cried
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  Speaker 1: out out for her son. Then I noticed Patrick running
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  Speaker 1: along the river bank. I couldn't believe he was there,
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  Speaker 1: fully dressed, wearing his tank top and shorts, his shoes
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  Speaker 1: somehow still on. He had lost only his wedding ring.
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  Speaker 1: He told me later, Patrick, I'm here, I yelled. For
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  Speaker 1: the first time, I thought we had a shot at surviving.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick was the first normal thing since the house broke apart.
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  Speaker 1: It was like being alone on an alien planet. And
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  Speaker 1: another human being randomly arrives, and then Lance came jogging
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  Speaker 1: up after him. They'd ended up in the same pecan tree,
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  Speaker 1: about two hundred feet away from the river bank and
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  Speaker 1: about two thousand feet from where our house once stood.
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  Speaker 1: Lance has a watch with a flashlight that he turned
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  Speaker 1: on after Rosemary woke him up. Patrick said he spotted
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  Speaker 1: the beam after he climbed into the tree. They were
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  Speaker 1: only a few yards apart, close enough that they could
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  Speaker 1: talk without yelling. Lance kept repeating, my son, my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way in wherever's roiling churn. With Rosemary clinging
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  Speaker 1: to her neck while she paddled with one arm, Alissa
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  Speaker 1: had somehow managed to push her daughter onto a branch,
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  Speaker 1: which Rosemary hugged with her arms and legs. Lying flat,
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  Speaker 1: Alissa stayed in the water just below her, gripping the
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  Speaker 1: tree's trunk, and as the waters were seated, she stood
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortably on a branch below her. Alissa would tell me
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  Speaker 1: five days later that Rosemary wanted to play I spy
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  Speaker 1: while they waded in the tree. Patrick waded into the
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  Speaker 1: water to intercept a blue kayak that was floating by
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  Speaker 1: an older couple watching from a house on a nearby
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  Speaker 1: hill brought Lance and Patrick an inflatable inner tube, and
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: they decided the tube was the better option to catch Rosemary,
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  Speaker 1: more control softer landing. After that, Rosemary's rescue happened quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick and Lance rigged the inner tube with a grin
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  Speaker 1: de garden hose they found and tied it around a
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  Speaker 1: down tree. Lance waded into the water, positioning the tube
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  Speaker 1: beneath his daughter. I stood downriver, ready to catch Rosemary
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  Speaker 1: if she missed the target and got caught in the stream.
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  Speaker 1: Alissa urged us to hurry, saying she didn't think she
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  Speaker 1: could hold onto the tree much longer. She had to
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  Speaker 1: pry Rosemary's hands from the branch. Rosemary, terrified, started to cry.
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  Speaker 1: Then my sister cradled her daughter and dropped her twenty
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  Speaker 1: feet into the river where her father was waiting. She
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  Speaker 1: landed directly in the middle of the inner tube, and
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  Speaker 1: we all cheered. Lance carried his daughter to shore. My
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  Speaker 1: sister jumped into the water right after, and I grabbed her,
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  Speaker 1: put my arm around her, and together we walked to safety.
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  Speaker 1: Alissa collapsed on the river bank, crying out for Clay.
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  Speaker 1: Rosemary became calm when she reached dry land, but her
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  Speaker 1: face had a blue cast. We were all shivering. We
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  Speaker 1: told Rosemary how brave she'd been and that she was
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  Speaker 1: now safe and it was going to be okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's the reality of what it was like for so
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  Speaker 2: many down there, and it happened. That article describes it,
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  Speaker 2: I think perfectly, so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to take a look at this picture.
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  Speaker 1: This is Rosemary and Clay. Rosemary survived, Clay did not.
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  Speaker 1: This family, like so many Texas families, is rejoicing at
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  Speaker 1: the lives that were saved and is forever grieving at
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  Speaker 1: the lives that were lost. And this family, like so
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  Speaker 1: many Texas families, needs their friends, their loved ones, to
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  Speaker 1: hold them tight. They need God's blessing and mercy and grace.
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  Speaker 1: And I will tell you everyone in Texas is standing
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  Speaker 1: with this family, is standing with all of the parents
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  Speaker 1: at Mystic, is standing with all the little girls who
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  Speaker 1: lost friends. Just today, I was visiting with parents who
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  Speaker 1: had two daughters at Mystic. One survived, one did not.
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  Speaker 1: They talked about the surviving daughter and the guilt and
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  Speaker 1: grief that every one of the survivors feels. Survivors guilt.
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  Speaker 1: Why did my friend, why did my sister die and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't, and those girls it's going to take a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of love and a whole lot of time
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  Speaker 1: for them to walk through that grief will do that.
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  Speaker 1: That's who Texans are. But these are hard times. As before.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
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  Speaker 2: on this topic, you can go back and dow the
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  Speaker 2: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story number
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  Speaker 2: three of the week. You may have missed, Senator, there
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: is just some news that shocked the left. I don't
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: know how this could be true, but the Late Show
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: has been destroyed by Stephen Colbert at the point where
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: they're like, we're not even just firing you, We're just
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: canceling the entire brand that has been a staple an
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: American culture, an iconic show for decades. And now they're
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  Speaker 2: just like, yeah, we're done. I mean, it's amazing, right,
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  Speaker 2: You alienate half the country, you hate half the country,
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  Speaker 2: you mock half the country. No one could have seen
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  Speaker 2: this coming.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, I got to say we you and I
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  Speaker 1: talked about just a few minutes ago. I'm not tired
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  Speaker 1: of winning yet, Stephen Colbert is a vicious, dishonest, partisan leftist.
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  Speaker 1: He is utterly consumed with Trump derangement syndrome, and he hates,
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  Speaker 1: he despises more than half of America. He thinks we're idiots,
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  Speaker 1: he thinks we're racist, he thinks were morons. Is a condescending,
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  Speaker 1: arrogant jackass. Now, look, I say this with direct experience.
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  Speaker 1: I've been on Colbert's show. There used to be a time. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm someone. I love comedy. I love late night comedy.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up watching in SNL. I grew up watching
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Carson and Jay Leno and like really fun late
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  Speaker 1: night comedy. And by the way, if you've got a
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  Speaker 1: sense of humor, you can laugh at both sides. I'm
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  Speaker 1: okay with late night comics making fun of Republicans making
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  Speaker 1: fun of Democrats. Look, both sides are funny. There's lots
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  Speaker 1: of jokes to tell. There used to be a time.
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  Speaker 1: I've been the Senate thirteen years. When I got there,
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  Speaker 1: it was part of the job. I've done just about
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  Speaker 1: every late night show. I've done Jay Leno, I've done Colbert,
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  Speaker 1: I've done Jimmy Kimmel, I've done Jimmy fallon. It was
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  Speaker 1: a fun part of the job. It's disappeared none of
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  Speaker 1: the late night shows have Republicans on anymore. They don't
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  Speaker 1: invite anyone. In fact, it was really fitting even Colbert's
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  Speaker 1: show where he announced I've been canceled, I'm pulled off
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  Speaker 1: the air. You know who his guest was Adam Schiff
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  Speaker 1: because of course it was Adam Shift because and Colbert's
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  Speaker 1: the worst of them. He's a vicious, nasty So I
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  Speaker 1: remember when when I first did a show. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the hosts come by and they talk to
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  Speaker 1: you in the green room and they chat with you,
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, I said, look like all of
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  Speaker 1: these late night comics they think they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: you know that they're going to be this like meet
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  Speaker 1: the press, Like we're going to ask you really tough questions.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Democrats they have love fests. They laugh,
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  Speaker 1: they joke, they kid around. But with the Republicans, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to nail you to the ground. And I'm like, look,
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  Speaker 1: you want to ask tough questions, that's fine, But you
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  Speaker 1: go on a late night comedy showed to to to humanize,
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  Speaker 1: to say a little bit of who you are, to
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  Speaker 1: laugh and Colbert just got angry. He's just like, I
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  Speaker 1: want to prove you are evil, you are the devil.
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  Speaker 1: And by by the way, they don't even do that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They just don't have Republicans on and and and Colbert,
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  Speaker 1: of all of them, was the worst. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon of the late night guys is the best. Yeah, Fallin.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting Fallon inherited Jay Leno's audience. Jay
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  Speaker 1: Leno inherited Johnny Carson's audience. Their audience is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Midwestern conservatives. And so Jimmy Fallon like, like, I
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  Speaker 1: had a great time. I did Jimmy Fallon back back
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  Speaker 1: when I was running for president. He had a very
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  Speaker 1: funny skit where he dressed up as as as Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump and and called me and went back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: But he was he was the one late night host
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  Speaker 1: who was not a jerk. Actually Leno wasn't either, but
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  Speaker 1: that was that was early on. Colbert is directly responsible,
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  Speaker 1: along with his compatriots, with destroying late night comedy. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to play.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, it's because it wasn't humor.
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  Speaker 1: It's not funny. It's just I I hate you. I
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  Speaker 1: hate you it is not funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also By the way, the reason why I
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  Speaker 2: think Shanks was at the SP's because Historius like humor.
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  Speaker 2: Humor is actually back, and Colbert turned his show into
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  Speaker 2: this like sanctimonious woke lecture every night, attacking half of America.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and let me prove it. I want to play
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  Speaker 1: just just a a selection of you know, he became
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  Speaker 1: this this like scold for you must get the COVID vaccine.
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  Speaker 1: And here are a couple of examples of this bizarre
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  Speaker 1: song he did. You're gonna listen to it. I wish
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  Speaker 1: you could see the videos because the videos have him
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  Speaker 1: dancing like a fruitcake nut dressed as a human syringe.
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  Speaker 1: But just listen to it because you can get a
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  Speaker 1: sense of just how sanctimonious he was. Give a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Find out the way the vaccine is changing the scene
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  Speaker 3: in our new recurring segment, the vac scene, shut job,
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  Speaker 3: shot job longer Stoll. Why the can can you ask?
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  Speaker 3: I asked that myself. The answer public domain. It's the
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  Speaker 3: answer of most things, really.
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  Speaker 4: The vaccine, shot shot, the vaccine. We have a vacine.
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  Speaker 1: Get your shot right now in your art, your mom,
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  Speaker 1: get your shot, your mom.
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  Speaker 4: Get your shot.
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  Speaker 2: But by the way, I just wonder, like how many
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  Speaker 2: of those segments had vaccine commercials from pharmaceutical companies in there,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, hey, I got you, I'll do a
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  Speaker 2: big thing.
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  Speaker 1: They Stephen Colbert sponsored by Pfizer, right exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They put this thing out. It's ten minutes and forty
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  Speaker 2: nine seconds long. By the way, I say they literally
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  Speaker 2: the video we just played from you was the quote vaccine.
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  Speaker 2: The box set the Late Show is Stephen Colbert. They
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  Speaker 2: put this out themselves and were that proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: No, they were proud of it. And it's it's vicious,
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  Speaker 1: it's nasty, and it's not funny, like I'm fine with
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  Speaker 1: a comedy host that makes fun of everyone. That's you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies. And we didn't include this
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  Speaker 1: one we did on July fourth our our movie section.
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  Speaker 1: But one of my favorite movies was Team America World.
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  Speaker 1: Please did you ever see that?
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  Speaker 4: Ben?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, great movie, hysterical movie, and it's done. It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's puppets, and it makes fun of both sides and
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  Speaker 1: make funs of Republicans, but it make fun of Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: And now I will warn you it is profane. I
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  Speaker 1: had the incredibly poor judgment to play this video for
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  Speaker 1: my in laws on a family vacation, and I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you about nine minutes into it, when they had
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: dropped the thirty second F bomb, I was like, okay, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: this was a really bad idea, and my mother in
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  Speaker 1: law is frowning at me, and I'm like, wow, okay,
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  Speaker 1: never mind. But unbelievably funny because it's actually comedy. It's
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  Speaker 1: making fun just watching Stephen Colbert saying I hate Donald Trump. Yes, Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: we got you. But you know what, Stephen Colbert is
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  Speaker 1: now unemployed. He's been canceled. He's been canceled because, oddly enough,
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  Speaker 1: Americans don't like to listen to someone screaming at them.
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  Speaker 1: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: smarter than you. I'm a left wing elitist. I make
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars and I despise you. And so I
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  Speaker 1: got to say, in response to his his musical medley
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  Speaker 1: urging everyone you must get the vaccine, I have a
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  Speaker 1: different musical medley that I want to say, not just
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  Speaker 1: to Stephen Colbert, but also to NPR and d PBS.
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  Speaker 1: Here's my musical response.
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  Speaker 2: Truly amazing. You gotta love that song right there. Don't
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  Speaker 2: forget we do this podcast, this show, I say, as
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