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Speaker 2I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to say this, that Amy has a serious problem.
Speaker 1Ooh, my goodness. That's horrible, just horrible. Shame on Vivek Ramaswamy, the Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate, for putting out that ad. Against Democrat Amy Acton, starring Amy Acton's mom. I cannot imagine a campaign using members of the family of a politician to attack that politician. It's unthinkable and unprecedented. Or maybe. So here's another ad. You might remember this. It's really, you know, part of the Biden campaign. Actually, the Biden campaign did this a lot. You might remember this, actually.
Speaker 3We are so happy today to pledge our unwavering support to President Joe Biden and President Kamala Harris. He's trading in on Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories, and conflict for personal gain and fame.
Speaker 4I've known Bobby my whole life. We grew up together. It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. I watch his younger brothers and cousins follow him down the path of drug addiction. His basement, his garage, his dorm room, we're always the center of the action.
Speaker 1Oh, wait, that's the same thing. That's the same thing. I mean, that's every member of Bobby Kennedy's family coming out to attack him when he endorsed Donald Trump. Like all of them, like his cousins, his siblings, everyone around him. Kind of weird. Kind of weird. Almost as though people are only outraged when a Republican does something. It's so weird. Okay, so everybody right now is pearl clutching about Vivek Ramaswamy's ad against Amy Acton in Ohio. And let's be real, I don't love it. It's not my favorite thing, but we should not pretend this is unprecedented because it is not even remotely unprecedented. Remember that time Democrat David Brill in Arizona put out an ad starring six siblings of Paul Gosar's all condemning him. Do you remember this?
Speaker 5My name is Tim Gosar. David Gosar. Grace Gosar. Joan Gosar. Gaston Gosar. Jennifer Gosar. Paul Gosar is my brother. My brother. And I endorse. I endorse Dr. Brill. Dr. Brill wholeheartedly endorsed Dr. David Brill for Congress.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'll bet you didn't remember any of that because nobody was outraged because they were attacking a Republican. Remember that time that Amy McGrath, she was a Democratic candidate in Kentucky, ran an ad against Mitch McConnell that basically targeted Elaine Chao, his wife, for being Taiwanese-American.
Speaker 6Remember this? His trade deals made China richer. Their military stronger. They're spying on us. And they didn't stop the corruption. Oh, and Mitch made millions from China.
Speaker 1And, again, they tried to connect that to Elaine Chao. Remember that? Or that time the Washington Post ran a cartoon attacking Ted Cruz's daughter. Or the time the Democratic groups ran trucks around Josh Hawley's sister's office in Missouri. Or the time the entire media ran with the joke lie that J.D. Vance had sex with a couch. I know we're all supposed to have short-term memory loss, but I got to tell you, the pearl clutching is a little bit much here. Just a little bit much. It turns out that in politics, lots of bad things happen. And people cut really mean ads about each other, going all the way back to James Callender running interference for Thomas Jefferson against John Adams. And then later turning around and hitting Thomas Jefferson for sleeping with Sally Hemings. So, you know, there's kind of a long history, as it turns out, in American politics of scurrilous ads or hard-hitting ads or ads that everybody clutches their pearls about at the time. But let's go through this Amy Acton ad that it turns out was funded by Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign. We're going to play the whole thing so we know what we're dealing with here because there's some controversy that's attendant on exactly what happened between Amy Acton and her mom.
Speaker 2My name is Donna Arthur, and I'm Amy Acton's mother. I worked at Children and Family Service Association, building one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America. I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to say this. But Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true. She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, and she can't help you if she needs help herself. People can change, but first they have to tell the truth. And my daughter still isn't doing that. Don't vote for people who lie. Don't let her become your governor. If you think she'll make your life better, you're fooling yourself. It will only get worse.
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Compare life insurance quotes from top companies. See how much you could save. That's policygenius.com slash Shapiro. Again, policygenius.com slash Shapiro. Life insurance is a thing responsible people need. Be a responsible human. Go to policygenius.com slash Shapiro. Okay, so the blowback on this thing is that there are accusations that Amy Acton, when she was a child, when she was between the ages of nine and 12, was molested by her mother's new husband. That's the accusation, and so therefore there's sort of a she said, she said about her childhood and sympathy with the child and all of that. Okay, so let's go through the facts here. We may as well, you know, actually go through the facts here. We may as well go through the things you need to know. So, back in 2020, Amy Acton's estranged mother, Donna, Arthur, spoke to the press to share concerns about her daughter. She disputed the amount of times they moved, and she disputed Amy Acton's claims that the men in her life sexually abused her. So when she was 12, Amy accused her stepfather of sexual abuse and rape. A grand jury never brought any charges. The mother eventually got college degrees, including a master's in public administration from Penn State. According to Operation Rescue, reporting in 2020, quote, Acton has repeatedly told the story that she was neglected as a child, moved 18 times in the first 12 years of her life, was homeless and living in a tent over one winter, and often did not have food to eat. Acton alleges that her mother was a loose woman who had a cast of characters of men in her life, one of which became her stepfather, who abused her when she was between the ages of nine and 12. Acton also alleges that criminal charges were filed against both her mother and her husband, who skipped town and have not been heard from since. Okay, so in 2019, she gave an interview with the New York Times. Acton said, quote, Acton, the New York Times, the New York Times, to The Vindicator, which was a daily newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio, in which she said that she'd been sexually abused between the ages of nine and 12. According to a newspaper report at the time, Acton's stepfather was charged with raping her in 1978 after her biological father made a report to the police. But police and court officials in the Youngstown area could not actually produce records from the 1970s. At that point, Acton's mom came forward to say that after her husband was arrested, she supported her husband rather than her daughter. She denies that the charges were ever filed against her or her husband in Mahoning County, and they moved away until things could calm down and charges could be dropped. The AP reports that Acton's stepfather was indicted by a grand jury, but failed to show at a court hearing and remained a fugitive until at least 1981. So this is all under heavy, heavy, heavy dispute, obviously. And that's the pushback on the ad. The pushback on the ad is that it's not Amy Acton who has a problem. It's Amy Acton's mom who has the problem. And Vivek Ramaswamy and his campaign are jumping right into the middle of all of this, which, of course, is dicey business. For sure. Again, we should separate out two things. Familial use in ads is nothing new. This particular ad, obviously springing from a source who is, shall we say, questionable based on the available evidence. That is a risky business at best. Now, CBS is reporting that originally the origin of the ad was unclear because it lacked the mandatory disclosure of who paid for and authorized the spot. On Tuesday, Ramaswamy told reporters it was an ad from the campaign. And then he said, quote, Every person who appears to know her the best have told voters not to vote for her, but to vote for me instead. Connie Locke, who's a spokesperson for Ramaswamy, said in a statement, quote, We don't know what happened to Amy and her mother, who first spoke out about Amy in 2020. We know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulous who has some serious problems with the truth the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor. So, again, we should separate off now the ad and the character of Amy Acton. Because it seems to me that actually what the Ramaswamy campaign should have done is just put out ads pointing out all the things that they've been saying about Amy Acton. Also, we should know that the first person to get into the familial business in this campaign was Amy Acton. So she attacked Ramaswamy's mom. She put out a headline saying billionaire scammer Ramaswamy used mother to manipulate clinical trials and pump a numb scheme to make millions attacking his mom. But again, let's put all of this tit for tat aside and let's talk about just the candidates. Because in the end, if you're in Ohio, you have to vote for one of these people. These are the only two candidates. And this is, I think, the thing that we all ought to remember about all of these campaigns. In the end, one of these people will be sitting in a seat of power and one of these people will be unemployed. And so you shouldn't decide that based on whether you like a particular ad or don't like a particular ad. You should do it based on whether you think this person will be good for you or not good for you. So if you haven't been following the Ohio race, the reason the Ohio race is very, very important is not just because Ohio is a state that used to be a bellwether and now has moved into the red. And if it moves back blue, that's of coming things. It's also because if Amy Acton wins the governorship in Ohio, there's a very high likelihood that Sherrod Brown is also going to win that Senate seat in Ohio, which puts Republicans on the brink of losing the Senate. So let's talk about Amy Acton for a hot second. Now, if you lived in Ohio in the spring of 2020, you know who Amy Acton is. She was the state health director. She was standing next to Mike DeWine at the two o'clock press conference every day. And she was for about three months, the single most powerful unelected person in the state of Ohio. She's the reason Ohio was the first state to win the Senate seat. And she was the reason Ohio was the first state in the country to close all of its schools. She's the one who signed the order shutting the polls the night before primary. She's the one who signed the stay-at-home order. She also was the person who was saying crazy, crazy things like this about the virus in September 2025. She said this about COVID.
Speaker 7Because the pandemic, not only did we lose more people than all wars combined, it's actually a grave security risk. As you know, the economy completely crashed before a single order was written. But in those early days, the mortality rate was 50%. I started with that in March. We were actually working on things in January, the second we knew about it. By June, when we reopened, because we actually reopened earlier than everyone else, it's because we took swift, decisive action. The mortality had gone down to 5%. We learned how to treat it. We learned how to save lives.
Speaker 1Okay, so we should point out at this point that there was no point at which the mortality rate for COVID was 50%. That is not true. Her handling of COVID in Ohio was rather disastrous. In March of 2020, Ohio had about five confirmed COVID cases. So Acton then went to the podium and said that 1% of the state, like 100,000 Ohioans, were already carrying the virus. That number went national. And then the next day, she walked it back because she is kind of a fabulist. She said that she's not certain there were 100,000 people, but too late because the same day, Mike DeWine closed every school in Ohio. He was the first governor in America to do it. He limited gatherings to 100 people. Then he closed the bars and the restaurants. And then March 16th, the night before the Ohio presidential election, he closed the bars and the restaurants. He closed the bars and the primary. Acton signed an order closing the polls. March 22nd, that was the stay-at-home order. All non-essential businesses were shut, gyms and salons and the whole thing. In May of that same year, 35 gyms sued. And a Lake County judge blocked the department from enforcing the closure, saying the state went beyond its authority. And when there was a big question about nursing home deaths, because as you recall, many of the lockdown states basically locked a bunch of old people together in a place and told them not to go outside. And the nursing home deaths skyrocketed. Department initially refused to release facility level data and told county health agencies to do the same. They kept all the schools closed through the end of the year. And then in June, the house voted to strip her emergency powers. She resigned. She said that she quit because she would not sign an order allowing county fairs, which of course is insane because it was all outdoors. And she still thinks none of this was a mistake. So she still says, quote, our focus was actually on how to keep kids learning. Was it though? Was it though? Okay, so again, she was a terribly ineffective Ohio Department of Health director. Basically, the only thing she kept open in the state of Ohio was the abortion clinics. So back in 2020, abortion was legal in Ohio up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. But she's deeply tied to Planned Parenthood. And so during the pandemic, she said that the abortion facility she kept open. And then there's some, you know, questions about her actual activity. So in 2019, for example, according to NBC News, police in Bexley, Ohio responded to a report of a domestic dispute at the home of Dr. Acton. Acton, who is then the director of the state's Department of Health, pulled a mirror off a wall shattering the glass when she became upset because she felt her husband was antagonizing her, according to a police report. She told officers she'd been drinking and taking an unknown amount of prescription drugs and was about to drive away in the car before her husband, who also said he'd been drinking, talked her out of it. According to Operation Rescue. It turns out that when she applied for her initial medical license dated 1994, she checked yes to the box. For the question, quote, have you ever been treated but not hospitalized for emotional or mental illness, drug addiction, abuse or an alcohol problem? So, again, all this is weird, and there have been some kind of strange events on the campaign trail. There's one situation on the campaign trail where a suspect named Patrick Havis went to the Canfield and was kind of shoving his way through the crowd and knocked a couple of people down in the process. And she said there was an attempt at alleged assault on her. Here is what the actual event looked like. And then it turns out the prosecutors were like she was very unhelpful in this particular case.
Speaker 8We got a lot of work to do in 27. In a box. Dr. Acton. Get out. Dr. Acton. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out.
Speaker 1So the actual the actual person who is shoving through doesn't really even appear to be on tape. She kind of flinches a little bit. And then the prosecutor was like, well, we were trying to prosecute for assault, and she's not even helping us with that.
Speaker 9The information we've received is that the Acton camp requested individuals stop recording shortly before this incident occurred. So at this point, the only video we have is the. Defendants and what's that showing certainly doesn't support filing felony charges. What does that video show? It shows him walking into the tent recording and moving forward, calling out her name and the State Patrol and her security. I shouldn't say the State Patrol. Somebody in her security comes forward and then his phone is either dropped or tussled. And that's all we have.
Speaker 1Now, again, the initial reports were that this person was attempting something truly violent against her. and the evidence didn't back all that up. But again, put all. this stuff aside, all of that, right? The 2019 domestic dispute with her husband and what she was checking on her medical applications and all of that kind of stuff. Put all that aside. Let's focus on what she would actually do as governor. You know, the stuff that campaigns are supposed to be about. So Ohio is basically a school choice state. She wants to restrict or kill it. She wants to restore a thoroughgoing abortion across the state. She says that banning the transing of the kids is quote unquote draconian. She won't debate any of this, by the way. She doesn't even allow cameras at her events. She's certainly not debating Ramaswamy. Or you could theoretically vote for Vivek Ramaswamy if you're in Ohio, regardless of what you think of his ads. He wants to phase out the state income tax. He wants to get rid of the tax on capital gains so Ohio can compete business-wise with Florida and Texas. He wants to roll property taxes back to where they were before the pandemic. He wants to cut regulations. He wants to build energy projects. He wants merit pay for teachers. He's anti-transing the kids. He's not a pro-abortion radical, all of those things. So again, here is the thing about the current controversy over this campaign. I get why people are all up in arms over a controversial ad. I get it. But the attempt to get people to stay home based on the ad is really, really silly. If you're a Republican, you're staying home because you don't like Vivek Ramaswamy's ad. Let me introduce you to American politics, which have been pretty down and dirty for quite a while now for those who have not suffered from short-term memory loss. Some of us would still like for the Democrats not to win, for them not to be in power. Amy Acton, as governor of Ohio, is not a corrective to an ad you don't like. So speaking of these campaigns, one of the big narrative ops that is happening right now is this idea that Democrats are running away with this thing. Every single headline is Democrat tsunami, Democrat tsunami. You can see it. It's a Democrat tsunami. Okay. So here is the thing. It absolutely is not. It absolutely 100% is not. Not only is it not a Democrat tsunami, every major Senate seat right now is a dead heat. It is a dead heat. Well, listen, all of this politics, it's disquieting. It makes it hard to sleep at night, but you need to sleep at night. And this is why you need bowl and branch product. I can't speak enough about bowl and branch. I just can't. I mean, I literally replaced every single blanket used by me and my children's bowl and branch because it's just that good. It's not just their blankets. 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I myself cite polling an awful lot because again, data is data, but you actually don't have to read the data. And so let's start off with what the polling says. And then we'll talk about the garbage in garbage out problem. Basically there are three problems when it comes to polling. Okay. One, you could have a bad poll with a bad design. The way that pollsters actually do polls is they try to figure out exactly what the mix of the two is. And then they try to figure out voters is going to be. And there are a bunch of assumptions baked into the cake. So if you think there's going to be heavy black turnout, you oversample black voters, or you adjust for the black population in your voting poll to adjust for the general population of the voting pool. That's how you do these polls. You have to have a model of what the voter turnout is going to look like. And then you backfill your poll results from each particular group into that poll. So you can be totally off based on that. So number one, you can have polling misses. Number two, humans don't vote. Just to give you a quick example, let's say that you have a 48, 44 poll in favor of a particular candidate. And it says margin of error, four points. And what does that mean? Now, most people think that means, well, probably the race is fairly close, but not super close margin of error for the, it's a four point race, or let's take one that's even better. Okay. 48, 42, you see a 48, 42 number you're figuring, and that is a blowout in favor of the 48 candidate against the 42 candidate. Let's say that same race has a margin of error of four. That same poll is a margin of error of four. The way you need to read that poll is that it could be four points off in any direction. Meaning that 48, 42 race could actually be a 46, 44 lead for the candidate who's down 48, 42. It could be a 52, 38 lead for the candidate who is up 48, 42, right? Because you add or subtract four points from either side. And because it's a binary race, that's how polling error works. That's how the margin of error works. So you got to be able to read polls. And right now, again, the narrative is being built on people being unable to read polls. Who's going to give you the latest polling data from the RealClearPolitics polling average? Again, don't fall for the demoralization campaign. You're hearing it from the horseshoe right. You're hearing it from the left. You're hearing it from the legacy media, but I repeat myself. Here are the current RealClearPolitics polling average. In Texas, Tallarico, plus 2.2. In Michigan, El Sayed, plus 2. In Iowa, Republican Ashley Hinson, plus 0.1. In Maine, Jackson, plus 1.6. In Alaska, Mary Peltola, plus 1.2. So theoretically, Democrats are up in four of those five states. There is only one problem. Every single one of those races is a dead heat. That is a dead heat. If you pretend otherwise, you don't know how to read poll data. You don't. Tallarico is not up plus 2.2. He could be up four. He could be down. That's just the way to read margin of error. Now, as you aggregate polls, the margin of error goes down because your sample size is going up. The number of people who are polled in an average of polls is larger than any individual poll. And so your margin of error, meaning the amount that it could be wrong, goes down. It shrinks. But bottom line is that if a race is within two points inside the RealClearPolitics polling average, it's within three. That means that if a race is within two points inside the RealClearPolitics polling average, it's within three. That means that if a race is within two points inside the RealClearPolitics poll, it needs to be treated as a dead heat. That would not mean the polling is wrong. It means you don't know how to read a poll. And then finally, you get to the problem of the day. And the problem of the day right now is garbage in, garbage out. So there's an unbelievable story that is now breaking about the garbage that is polling in some areas. So there is a fake pollster called Wedgwood Polls. 50 plus one, which is the sort of revision of Nate Silver's 538 over at the They report, quote, last week, we received a credible tip from a trusted source that Wedgwood Polls might be faking data. We had received tips about Wedgwood in the past, but this particular tip had something crucial that others didn't. Evidence. So 50 plus one investigated by running an identical poll to Wedgwood's backend data, and they uncovered a bunch of red flags, including unnaturally clean sample data that lined up perfectly with Mississippi demographics, impossible user IDs, scrambled timestamps, and outdated serial numbers. So 50 plus one reached out to Wedgwood Polls. They reported that Wedgwood Polls might be faking data. We had received tips They said, quote, we reached out to them to ask who they were and confirm the methodology statement on their website. We were given two names, Jack Sims and Andrew Prater. We were able to independently confirm that Sims had previous experience in the polling industry and reviewed their methodology statement in detail. It is not atypical for a pollster to leave an existing firm, form their own, and self-fund some surveys to build reputation. We had no reason at the time to believe this case was any different. Wedgwood operated as if it were a legitimate polling firm, including collecting money from donors to conduct crowdfunded polls and sharing raw data, survey with 50 plus one on October 15th, 2026. Well, a few days later, 50 plus one reached out to Wedgwood with a request for comment on an investigation we had conducted into their alleged survey research. They did not respond to our request, but instead posted a public statement on social media, admitting they had been fabricating data. They also reached out directly in social media DMs minutes before publishing their memo with an official comment, FU, plus the name of an individual not affiliated with 50 plus one. Here is the screenshot of Wedgwood polls DMing the New York Times reporters saying FU. So Wedgwood polls is now admitting that it was all fake and they're claiming it was an experiment. It was all an experiment. Quote, Wedgwood polling, an experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities, lack of oversight, and overall low barrier to entry in the modern political polling industry makes this public statement. Having previously worked in the polling and wrote it alongside a rise in unverified, low quality methodology. We wanted to test a sample hypothesis. How easy is it for an entirely fabricated polling firm to gain traction, be taken seriously, and expose how little scrutinization exists in media and public commentary? The short answer, far too easy. Despite having no history, formal credentials, or real data behind the vast majority of our releases, Wedgwood polling was added to major polling aggregators, including the New York Times, 50 plus one, and Vote Hub, and repeatedly treated as a legitimate data source. Our fabricated numbers were given instant credit across national media platforms, including being cited on air and in reporting by outlets such as MSNL. The ease with which unverified figures were absorbed into mainstream political narratives highlights a systemic breakdown in media vetting and data aggregation. And so they basically are now claiming that they made up all these fraudulent polls as a way of exposing how bad the polling industry is. I don't buy this. Apparently, there are a lot of screenshots of them basically soliciting business and all this. So it sort of sounds like the excuse of the guy who's been searching kiddie porn on his computer and then says that he was just doing it for research. In any case, Wedgwood, their statement concludes. Quote, Wedgwood polling was never intended to sway an election or permanently mislead the public. It was designed as a wake up call. If a fictional entity run by a small group of industry veterans can be integrated into major polling averages and cited by major news organizations, the standards for how polling data is vetted, aggregated and reported must change. OK, so the New York Times did cite Wedgwood 15 times between June and October. It was cited by Decision Desk 17 times in that same period. Now, again, they are trying to rerun all their polling averages. Because of all of this. But their polls always tend toward the Democrats. So if you're polling average, right, we're talking polling averages before. If you're polling average included an El Sayed poll in Michigan. That showed him up. A week and a half ago, plus six. They're just making that up. Troy Jackson up four in Maine. That was included in the poll averages. Now, it makes a huge difference in some of these states that aren't routinely polled. Maine doesn't have tons of polls. So it turns out that one of your four polls is just totally made up by a Democrat oppo firm. Well, that's going to skew the poll average. And then that is going to generate people saying, well, the race is already over. I'm not going to vote. It has a real impact. And you can see that all of these polls are basically biased toward Democrats. Ohio has Brown up four. Tallarico up two. Even in Democratic districts. I mean, even in heavily Republican districts. They'll show Republicans up, but very, very, very slightly. An example. So they'll say that Ricketts in Nebraska, who is going to win that race. He's only up four in Nebraska. So in other words, they're push polling. They're push polling. And as you can see in their push polling, it has an impact. So they did a poll for the Democratic primary in Michigan. El-Sayed versus Stevens versus McMorrow. And it showed El-Sayed up seven. In fact, pretty much all of their push polling showed El-Sayed with a heavy lead in Michigan. Mallory McMorrow, who dropped out, says she dropped out because of Wedgwood polling. As one of the candidates featured in these polls, the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits, which was at odds with our internals. Here's the impact of this experiment. Donations dried up. Volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do. Reporters hounded me with calls to drop out. Sure, a point was proven. Polling is broken. But tens of thousands of people poured their hearts, time, energy, heart, and money into something they believed in for a year and a half. And it was treated like a game. Our volunteers gave their all and then some. I felt like I had let so many of them down. If this teaches us anything, don't get complacent and don't trust the polls. Lock in. Sign up for a canvassing ship. Leave nothing to chance over the next two weeks. And meanwhile, another polling founder named Adam Carlson says that Wedgwood went to great lengths to lie privately about what it was that they were doing. And then showed some screenshots. Quote, do you only do online polls? Do you have any sponsors or is this all out of pocket for now? And they said, yes and no. We are starting with an initial $10,000 investment from me and are hoping to attract clients after getting a few polls out. We also try to crowdfund a bit. Said Republican clients, probably. Well, we currently use Dynamics. Dynata. We also incorporate data from the Bonfire voter file to help with our LV model and waiting. We plan to shift to RBS fielded with text to online once we get funding. And they said, whoever will sponsor us, really? I myself am a progressive Democrat while my co-pollster is a Republican. So again, what does this mean? It means that if you are reading the polling data and all the polling data is very close. The only thing you know about all of these elections is that they're close. Also, there is a game. If you want to. Hide in the crowd. If you want to have an impact on the polling average, but you want to hide in the crowd like you're going to fake the polls. You don't have to fake them. All you have to do is change the sample sizes in various areas. If you're going to do that, you can easily skew the polling average. The only poll that matters is the one that actually includes actual voters voting on the day of the thing, plus the absentee ballots and mail-ins and all the rest. The only poll that matters is the election itself. So don't fall for any op that tells you that these elections are foregone conclusions or that the polling means. Tsunami or anything like that. It's not what the polls even say. And right now you're watching as people rush to group because let's say that you're a pollster and you have an outlier poll. Very often you'll ditch the outlier poll in order to ensure that you're not the one with the egg on your face. If it turns out that you're wrong, better to stick with the group average folks. We talk a lot about the midterms here on the program and you want to keep up with all the info, right? Well, there is a great way to do that. In fact, the best way to do it. Unparalleled. The Daily Wire's election hub. It's so awesome. You should check it out. Check it out. Interactive maps, a March Madness style bracket challenge where you can make and save your picks for the most contested races in the nation. All of our midterm related coverage in just one place. And then on election night, you can join me and the other hosts live from Nashville for all night coverage as we break down every race, every map, every call, what it all means for the country. So either we will be happier than you expect or we will be, you know, at the bottom of the bottle. The drama will be live. Turn to the Daily Wire Tuesday, November 3rd at 7 p.m. Central for our 2026 midterm coverage. Democratic Socialists of America won primaries across the country. Next, they're coming for Congress and they are coming for you. Democrats are. But if you don't actually care about the people who carry out the mission, none of that means much. And this is why the terminal list is awesome. The people behind. The mission. It's just great. The show is awesome. I love terminal list. It really is great. Chris Pratt returns as Navy SEAL Commander James Reese in the terminal list season two, now streaming only on Prime Video. And the commitment to military authenticity goes way up. Way beyond putting somebody in the right uniform. Real-world military experience is embedded throughout the production. From the writer's room and the director's chair to technical advisors, on-screen roles, this is realistic stuff. The people making this series are committed to getting it all right for the people who have actually lived it. Watch The Terminalist, season two, only on Prime. Meanwhile, again, the odds on the Senate are very, very close, even in the prediction market. So, Kalshi, one of our sponsors, it shows this is not, by any stretch of the imagination, like a blowout in favor of the Democrats. And the sort of late-breaking movement in the prediction market, I do not think is reflective of anything but the narrative power that's being presumed. Basically, if you go back to February, from February all the way to the beginning of October, the Kalshi markets had this thing dead even. Today, the Kalshi markets suggest that Democrats essentially have a 66% shot of winning the United States Senate. Again, I think that's overstated, and I think that is a reflection of people who are putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to the narrative. All of which brings us to the nature of the current race. So, you have been told, for example, that Michigan, El Sayed, has a. There's a clear advantage. Michigan, you know, no big deal, Michigan. El Sayed's going to win. Okay. Abdul El Sayed in Michigan is not acting like a candidate. He's running away with this thing. He's just not. Sometimes you can tell by the behavior of candidates where things are. So, for example, Abdul Rahman, El Sayed, is now disavowing the Muslim Brotherhood. It took him weeks and weeks and weeks to do it. Weeks and weeks and weeks. Here he was walking out of. Of the Detroit Economic Club. And suddenly saying, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. I don't believe you. I don't believe you. In fact, why don't we show a montage of him obfuscating on the Muslim Brotherhood for months? And then we'll get to what he did yesterday. You or your family have any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? No, but let's talk about this.
Speaker 7No, you don't have any ties.
Speaker 10No.
Speaker 7And your family doesn't. No. Do you support the designations of the Muslim Brotherhood in those countries? I want to understand.
Speaker 10Show me that they're engaged. Any organization is engaged in political violence, I will back a terrorist designation. So on October 7th, the Egyptian chapter. As I said, any organization engaged in political violence or calling for political violence is engaged in terrorism, and I would support those designations. I have not heard you disavow them yet. Have you disavowed them? I haven't heard you disavow them yet. I disavowed them. Do you? Great.
Speaker 1Obfuscating, obfuscating. But now, now, at the very end of the campaign, he is now disavowing the Muslim Brotherhood. Suppose, again, here's my question. Whenever somebody does a reversal like this. What I need from them is, what about the Muslim Brotherhood do you disavow? Why do your entire family associate with the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you taking money from your family? father-in-law who's a front for muslim brotherhood associated groups like isn't why like tell me specifically what about them do you disavow because then he'll start obfuscating again but here he is now doing the routine i clearly disavowed
Speaker 10it but here's the question the implication of the question is that somehow i'll have dual loyalties right and there's nothing about my history or record to imply that so you go ahead and watch where i clearly disavow if it's not clear enough i clearly disavow it are we good uh no we're not good
Speaker 1because i need you to explain why you disavow it and more importantly all the other things that you've done and commented on you know you're just shouting i declare bankruptcy like michael scott in the middle of the office doesn't actually mean that you've declared bankruptcy i don't believe you i think you're lying and the reason i think you're lying is because you can't explain any of the changes or your belief system but this is the point the reason outside is doing this put aside the actual merits of what he's what he's saying the reason he's doing this is because it was damaging him in the polls he is vulnerable other indicators he's vulnerable he's going and he's campaigning heavily in the black community question do michigan democrats typically have to campaign super heavy in the black community i really explain that one to me here is abdul rahman el sayed on a podcast called the root which is obviously meant to have a largely black audience and there he basically says something more islamophobic than anything that i've heard in the recent past for too many black detroiters in
Speaker 10particular their experience with somebody who looks like me is not a good one you go into a gas station you go to a party store you're being talked at from behind a glass yeah if you're a woman you're being catcalled if you're a kid you're being sold a lucy out the back being denied a bathroom i've always tried to be on the right side of that but i also understand that like if that's somebody whose name is like mine that leaves a terrible taste in your mouth okay so he's not
Speaker 1a gas station abdul i mean the stuff that he is saying about arabs in michigan by the way the person who owns the small shop in michigan behind the glass is doing more for michigan than anything abdul el sayed has ever done that guy is i assume that guy is not a supporter of terrorism and then he's not going to occupy a seat in the senate in order to destroy the country the reason he is doing all of this the reason that he is making these moves is because of losing now again every so often the real abdul el sayed escapes the laboratory so for example he's now dismissing wait times at medical offices because who cares who
Speaker 10cares i have a friend whose cousin who used to own a goldfish their former owner that person had to wait in a long line for an mri and i say well that sucks for them but also that person has never had to worry about medical debt oh
Speaker 1okay so um you waiting in long lines for an mri uh or not getting the cancer care that you need that's okay according to abdul el sayed also he says that the second amendment only allows you to own a musket which we'll see how that goes over because michigan is a is a very gun rights friendly state i'm going
Speaker 10to swear an oath of the constitution constitution has a second amendment in it but the second amendment just so we all are clear even the most conservative folks they hew to this idea called originalization originalism and originalism is the idea that you should interpret the constitution in the context in which the constitution was written when they promised the right to bear arms they had muskets so yeah everyone should have like equal rights to
Speaker 1a musket god he is good luck with this i mean truly has ever heard anybody that he is smooth and also a bad candidate it should not be a competitive race this is a very competitive race speaking of competitive races i have to say things are getting rough out there over in maine where troy jackson is um running neck and neck with susan collins the republican senate leadership fund is relying on ai to put out a song that has already gone viral on the radio over there it is targeting the fact that troy jackson uh is married to his cousin uh or what was married to his cousin um and uh it's a good thing that
Speaker 11troy jackson is married troy jackson is married he has two kids with his cousin if he'll screw his own family he'll screw yours too troy jackson's a bully he's always yelling at women shut up susan if he'll screw his own family he'll screw yours too
Speaker 12troy jackson's a freak he has two kids with his cousin if he'll f**k his own family he'll f**k yours too
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Speaker 1content of this advertising paid for by slf pack not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee slf pack is responsible for the content of this advertising paid for by slf pack not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee essentially take over the United States under the auspices of the DSA. That's what this is about. Hassan Paik are saying this openly.
Speaker 14DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, is not simply a tool for popular candidates to run on the Democratic ballot line and become popular Democrats. We are not here to do PR for the Democratic Party. OK, we're not here to do PR for the Democratic Party. We're here to accomplish tangible policy goals. OK, we have an agenda. The agenda is to ultimately build socialism, to retool this capitalist system. To yield more prosperous outcomes for all and not just those who have capital, not just those who simply care about profit. OK. It's about building a better future for all.
Speaker 1That's the goal. So this is about the Communist Revolution. OK, that's what that's what it's all about. The Communist Revolution. And they're saying it out loud. One influencer named Mary Beth Barone. She's out there saying she's a Dior bag socialist, which I've got to tell you, maybe you're a D-bag socialist. I'm not sure that there's such a thing as a Dior bag socialist.
Speaker 15Well, I'm a Dior bag socialist, which means I have this deep belief that you can be a socialist and have a Dior bag. Because socialism, I asked her on Mamdani this when I first met him. I said, how do you explain socialism? And he said, giving people the resources that they need to live a dignified life. So there's this idea that socialism is like a it's like a, I guess, economic strategy so that everybody lives in poverty. Right. That's how that's how the right wants you to think about socialism. But actually, it's that they want nobody to live in poverty and that there's enough there's enough wealth in this country that no one should have to. But it's being hoarded by. Like 10 guys. And so if we redistributed the wealth, made them pay taxes, we could solve a lot of problems.
Speaker 1That's how I would. So the wealthy pay all the net taxes in the United States. Also, Dior is a private company generating Dior bags. But this is what the Democratic Party wants. This is the future of the Democratic Party. One person who's saying this clearly is James Carville. So James Carville is out there openly saying that he would rather that Republicans keep the House by five if the Democrats take the House narrowly. Then basically the DSA. Rules the roost.
Speaker 16However, I would be disappointed if it comes in at two or 25 house seats that day, and that would be that would almost be I would rather the Republicans keep the House by five than the Democrats win by five, because if that happens, they're hostage to the DSA. Hakeem cannot move. There's there's no place for him to go.
Speaker 1Again, he is not wrong about this. But the entire Democratic Party is being held hostage already by the Democratic Socialists of America. And let's do things. This is just about, you know, a bunch of the great lie. It's such an obvious line. People like Zarma. I'm just about local issues and affordability.
Speaker 7Pace that. And in Nevada.
Speaker 1And same thing with Abdul said, Abdul said, I'm just I'm just here about the affordability. I'm just here. I mean, let's just be clear about this. It's just about the affordability. No, it's not. It's about your. It's about your national movement to destroy the United States. That's the thing that you want, which is why Zoran Mamdani is now saying that it is critical to New York City that El Sayed wins. in Michigan. Now, I was under the impression that Michigan and New York City are two completely separate jurisdictions and that the federal Senate has little to do with the governance of New York City, a locality. Well, I wonder why Mamdani thinks it's important for El-Sayed to win. I wonder why. It's a mystery.
Speaker 17When you think about Dr. El-Sayed's campaign, I often go back to the way that he describes it. Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all. Those are concerns that ring true for Michiganders. They're also concerns that ring true for New Yorkers. And I think that his victory and the victory of Democrats across this country is of critical importance to our city, because what it also indicates is a willingness to chart a new course in Washington that has working people at the heart of it. And so we're hopeful. And yet we also know that hope doesn't always come. It doesn't win elections. The action that it motivates does. And we look forward to that.
Speaker 1Let's just grin about it. Let's just grin. This is where we're going. The entire narrative that is being driven by the DSA and is being promoted by the legacy media is that the United States sucks and requires fundamental transformation. Now, that sometimes meets reality in what has to be the most delicious piece of the day is a piece from Wired. It is titled They Fled Trump's America and Now They Regret It. Quote, In the autumn of 2024, Annie was ready for something new. She was living in the southern United States when her husband received an unexpected job offer that would move them to a town just outside London. They were in their twenties with no kids. We wanted to take a risk, she says. While researching their new destination on Reddit, TikTok and Instagram, Annie found Americans eager to explain how enchanting life in the British suburbs could be. All the benefits of a small town, just a short train ride away from one of the biggest cities in the world. The more she read, the sunnier her expectations about the UK's health care system, social culture and European transportation systems became. They moved before the end of the year, but the reality of life in the UK was dramatically different from what she'd imagined. Quote, There are huge misconceptions about access to quality health care, standard of living. The quality of life is significantly lower than in the United States. She cited challenges she experienced with the NHS's maternity care. Things in the UK that are considered luxury items are very common in America, like a dishwasher and a dryer, she adds. She also found it very common that people just mocked Americans. I found it particularly surprising how people feel so comfortable mocking my accent and culture, even in a workplace environment, she says. The UK is very much a place of it is what it is. But as Americans, we're taught to improve and strive for better things. There's a shock. It turns out that all the lies you bought on TikTok promoted by your legacy left wing media and the influencer class, they're lies. It's not true. When you move outside the United States, it turns out you want to move back. A huge number of people have been moving outside the United States based on all of this. In Spain, the number of American residents has reached a record high in twenty twenty six. The Financial Times reported in April there was a sixty three percent increase in American applications to Ireland's foreign births register. The UK home office reported a surge of residency. But it turns out that people who go there, they find that it kind of sucks. According to one Josh, who moved to Berlin in twenty twenty three, he had already lived in Germany. He spoke German. He had friends in Berlin, but, quote, finding work was so hard and the endless bureaucracy had grown worse since I'd left. I missed the friendlier people, freedom of speech and ease of daily life in the United States. If you aren't born and raised there and don't look German, you'll never be fully accepted, he said. Perhaps the best is Nick, who decided that he was going to move from liberal New York City to Poland to avoid the right wing populism. This is Casablanca. You move there for the waters. You're misinformed. Quote, in retrospect, he wonders if he got caught up in the frenzy of discourse when he chose to leave in the first place. Yeah, man, that is right. And listen, our most wealthy and famous fall for this in July 2025, Ellen DeGeneres said she was moving to England because of Trump. And then she just bought a twenty seven million dollar mansion in Montecito. Rosie O'Donnell went to Ireland and and now she's back, unfortunately. So it turns out that all the same people who hate the United States and talk about how terrible it is and how we're responsible for all the world's ills and so unequal and so unfree and it's fascistic. They go somewhere else and they realize, oh, wait, what did I do? Here's what I say. The best corrective to anti-Americanism is an airplane. Take it somewhere for more than like a week, more than just visiting the tourist sites and go live somewhere else for two months and see how it works for you. All right. Meanwhile, on the cultural front, when I say that the trans politics will come back, I really, really mean it. So latest WNBA update. The WNBA has now informed Enos Cancer Freedom that he is not eligible to play in the WNBA. And the reason he is not eligible to play is because he is not a woman. But they can't explain what a woman is. So there's that. Quote. As indicated in my previous response to your inquiry, this is Kathy Engelbert, the WNBA commissioner. WNBA officials are responsible for enforcing rules and assessing fouls and other violations that occur during gameplay. Based on that review, the league may upgrade fouls or take disciplinary action where appropriate. Fans, and WNBA arenas are governed by the WNBA fan code of conduct, which requires that they enjoy the basketball experience free from disruptive behavior. This is talking about why he was thrown out of a game recently for literally standing up with a t-shirt. Quote, with respect to your questions regarding eligibility, only women are eligible to play in the WNBA and the individuals you cite in your letter are both men. How does she know that? And it remains one of the great hilarious idiocies of modern society that we have to pretend we don't know these things. Our friend Matt Nuclear, who does a streaming show with us where he debates folks, he was touring with TPUSA, and he was accosted by a male-to-female transgender. This is a man with fake breasts, and the exchange went poorly for this person.
Speaker 13Do men have a** like these? This is like the weirdest thing ever. You were born with a penis, correct? Am I wrong? Sure, I was. Okay, perfect. So you're a man? No, no, I'm not. I'm a woman. What makes you a woman? Curious. The fact that I say I am. Okay, so I say I'm a woman now. Am I a woman? No. Why not? Because there's a lack of action behind it. So what actions do I have to take? Believing it, first of all. How do you know it's not genuine? Because it's pretty f***ing obvious. So when you believe someone is being genuine about believing they're a woman, that's what makes them a woman, correct? No, because you are not a woman because you, quote, say you're a woman. Yeah, I agree that I'm a male. You're a male too, correct? Biologically speaking, and that's just about it. Well, male and sex. Is totally a biological phenomenon. So, yes, of course, biologically speaking. Gender and sex are two separate things. Yeah, but they're sort of inseparable. Gender happens up here. Sex happens down here. For you, I mean, it obviously is delusion what's up there. Oh, I always love them saying delusion. I don't think that you're helping your case, with all due respect.
Speaker 1Again, don't ask for logic from people for whom the illogic is the point. Meanwhile, on the cultural front. So, my producers sometimes offer up pieces of culture that they require that I then analyze. Apparently, there is a hot new video out by a human named Tate McRae. This is a new song called Housewife. According to Billboard, McRae teased Housewife during an appearance on The Tonight Show earlier in October, where she explained the single was about a woman who can't be contained. And the lyrics go like this. Think my paradise is tabloids and flashing lights. The truth is, it's more like loads of cash and a nice guy and a life lived right. I know that. I just want to make a lot of money. Be my own housewife. So, basically, this is just Miley Cyrus's I'm gonna buy myself flowers song. But, you know, kind of the same thing. You, you, you could be the one I'm calling honey. Be my sex on the side. You, you, you. Acres of open stars. Headlights of precious cars. Life imitating art. Be my own housewife. Go into my garden. Pick the money off a tree. I don't pay for nothing, baby. People pay me. And you writes beside me just the icing on the dream. I don't need you. I want you. I want you. And that's my favorite thing. I don't date nobody. People baby date me. Okay. So, apparently, being your own housewife doesn't amount to, you know, having a spouse or having children, which is usually what people mean when they say they want to be a housewife. And that's, that's usually why you're doing it. It's because it is, for many women, it turns out that the great highlight of life is having children and being a wife. Like, this is a very important thing to that. But according to our current culture, people like Tate McRae, to be a housewife means that you are your own housewife. You live in a house by yourself where you dance around in lingerie, apparently. Well, that's what I've been told. Here's the music video. It's also transparent. Okay, so for those who can't see, she's gallivanting around in lingerie, essentially. Oh, there she is with the stroller, but there's nothing in the stroller.
Speaker 18It's a cashier, nice guy, and a life-lived brat. I don't know that. It's just something they don't tell you, tell you. And all the dreams they try to sell you, sell you. Yeah, um, dress a family and take you to the movies. There she is, um,
Speaker 1boxing with some dude. I just wanna run away with me. I just wanna make a lot of money. Um, uh, she's not a good dancer. That is, that is not good dancing. As our, uh, PR guy Brad says, she dances is like when you're, uh, when your small child says, look at me, I'm dancing. Um, so this is, this is what women do. by themselves, by the way. If I'm getting this right, then apparently what women do when they are by themselves, they put on lingerie and dance around. Also, there's money in the stroller. There is money in the stroller. Why you would have cash in a stroller is beyond me. This is not where you should keep your precious assets other than your children. You should not keep your cash in a stroller. That is an unsafe place to keep your cash. But again, I'm always amused by all these women who are like, ah, this is a feminist anthem. Feminism is apparently about getting nearly nude and dancing around so men can watch you on the internet. True feminism happening in real time right there. I don't know. You know what? It's time for me to do what I always do in awkward conversations like this. We need to call in our female producers for a little bit of guidance. I do this because frankly, if I say things, then it's considered sexist. But if they say things, then it's just women saying things. Also, by the way, I don't just consult with my female producers when it's time to say awkward things about the questions of sexist. Also, like producer Sarah has a new video out about data centers. You should go watch. Like they do actual work around here. Anyway. Okay. So ladies, thank you. Savvy and Sarah, I have to ask you. I'm just going to ask it in this video. Apparently the ideal for women, and this is what they would do if they had tons of money, is to apparently be alone in a mansion and not only that, to dance around in lingerie. Now, maybe I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. Maybe I'm ignorant or deprived, but I do not think I'm just going to speculate that it is not a normal habit for a woman to put on lingerie and prance around her house.
Speaker 19No, absolutely not. Unless you're Britney Spears. Unless you're Britney Spears and you have knives.
Speaker 1Yeah. Because like, I mean, again, I'm a married man and when my wife is comfortable, it's she's, she's in like, you know, the slumpiest clothes that she can find. Basically. I'm pretty sure that that is kind of the norm.
Speaker 19Can confirm. Yeah. Sweatpants, sweatpants, big t-shirt.
Speaker 1Yeah. Yeah. So, so, so not lingerie that men would want women to wear.
Speaker 19And the best like dancing that does happen at home is like with my husband in the kitchen when we're making dinners. Like, you know what I mean? That's a, it's a. So, so not weird stretches
Speaker 1where you're putting your, and by the way, Sarah can do all those things. Sarah was like an actual
Speaker 19ballerina. Actually, I'm very sorry to say, but Tate McRae is actually like a classically trained dancer who turned like slutty.
Speaker 1Okay. So you need to analyze her dancing quality. Is she actually good at dancing and we're just making fun of her?
Speaker 19No, she has like obscenely long legs and a short waist. So she would have been a good ballerina, but she, um, went for like, you know, MTV music awards, you know, dancing around and nothing and barely singing and people actually drag her for this. Like they, they know that she could be good if she wanted to be a good dancer and she just chose the lesser path.
Speaker 1Right. So, so basically what it feels like is that there, there are a group of sort of artists and influencers, who are marginally good at a thing and then decide that because they don't want to get great at a thing, they're basically just gonna, you know, hoe it up a little bit.
Speaker 19Yeah. I mean, objectively easier ballet is super hard and you don't get paid that much.
Speaker 1So she, she did find a way to market herself. And it turns out that the best way to market feminism is to horny men. Um, that that's, that's what those videos are for. I mean, I imagine that if you did a breakdown on who's watching the video versus who's listening to the song, it's going to, it's going to skew a lot heavier male than, than it skews female probably, which is why you do that. And I assume that's why her PR I would, I would assume that all the cameramen and the producers are male on these particular videos.
Speaker 19Yes. Yes. Yes. It's a wonder why there's such a male audience for the Ben Shapiro show then.
Speaker 1I mean that this is our regular content. Yeah. Okay. Well, uh, okay. So that was one piece of culture that you guys asked me to analyze. I'm going to blame that on you. That's your fault. Um, so it does not seem like this is what housewives do, nor does it seem like that is what a vision of what a housewife typically should be for most women. Okay. Now Cardi B did a, a tiny desk concert for NPR. Now I'm unaware of this entire phenomenon. I believe the tiny desk concerts is she basically goes into a small studio and then warbles or speaks her songs. Um, that, that again, it's around a tiny desk is the, is the sort of conceit of this thing. Uh, well, let's see if it's any good.
Speaker 20It'd be me popping out shitting on these hoes. It'd be me. It'd be me. My body tear goes low. It'd be me. It'd be me with my stink glowing in the sun. I'll tell her mama raised a bomb. Hey, it'd be me just looking perfect. Head to toe. It's like, it's like
Speaker 1basically a home concert for Mozart.
Speaker 20Hey, it'd be me just popping out. Just looking fine. It'd be me looking better than all you hoes combined. Hey, it'd be me getting black boxes every week. Yeah. It'd be me. I think they need
Speaker 1to do this. Like not with the, not with the actual instruments. I like, you know what a better version of this would be? A better version of this would be Cardi B. And then like everybody in the background who's doing this sort of stuff, like you need one
Speaker 20dude with a kazoo and one guy with like a
Speaker 1tiny piano. I think that would be the best version of this.
Speaker 20That would be, that'd be a great version of this.
Speaker 1This is quality. This is, I'm sure the normal NPR listener is desperate for the Cardi B tiny desk concert.
Speaker 20My body. I have no idea
Speaker 1what she's saying other
Speaker 20than the word body.
Speaker 1And yeah, yeah, yeah. It is very funny how basically my treatment of, of alleged music like this is essentially the same as a 70 year old person watching television with the closed captioning on. I have no idea what she's saying. I mean, I assume that she's saying English words of some sort or another. And the fact that it is tiny and scaled down does not make it like, what, what is the point? The point of a tiny desk concert with Cardi B. It requires, what is she normally going to have a full orchestra or something? Oh, well, at least she's not doing the Super Bowl halftime show this year. Jay-Z picked himself. I think it's hilarious. Apparently Jay-Z, his team is responsible for picking who plays the Super Bowl halftime show. And he has finally picked the person who will take the stage. It's him. Cool. I love it. So, um, he was hired by the NFL commissioner to make the halftime show cool and build goodwill with casual fans. And so now he has nominated himself for the position. I guess he's going to save himself on the cost end. Just gets to pocket that cash. That's nice. Maybe we can have a tiny desk kazoo concert from Jay-Z. The kazoo Super Bowl halftime show. I would, I would love that. I would love that. Okay. Like what is it? I demand this. It's, it's such a good idea that again, we have no connections in this arena. Folks, man, you know what? I call on Nicki Minaj to do the kazoo concert. And Nicki Minaj is at least tangentially in the, in the land of Trump. So I, I, here's the, if, if Nicki Minaj is willing to travel to our studios, I will hire a band that is made entirely of people playing the triangle, the kazoo, and the tiny toy piano. And we can do a tiny desk concert of Nicki Minaj because that would be, it would be funny for no other reason than just the humor of it. Alrighty, folks, you thought that was a dumb topic. Wait, we have more. I'm gonna get into the question of whether good people, religious people can watch horror movies. Apparently this has become a big controversy online, but you have to become a member to hear that and all of our news and analysis and check out our election headquarters, by the way, we've been talking tons, obviously about the midterms every single day. Our election headquarters are awesome. They're just great. You're in one check. We're bringing you more content than any company on the right by far. And more great content than any company period. And there's much more coming, but you need to help us out. You need to become a member, become part of the team. Use code Shapira, check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us. Wait, we have more. You need to become a member to hear our election headquarters, by the way, we've been talking tons, obviously about the
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Speaker 6You will remember your duty.
Speaker 18This isn't heroism!
Speaker 6You useless sod. You sit there and shake because you're dependent on drink. You're sick as all over you. Have you ever seen a child starve to death, Professor? No. I have.
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