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of him, I always think of the Marvel universe, and there's a famous line in the Marvel movies where whoever says it, I don't know. Somebody says, "We have a Hulk." Who says that? Is it Tony Stark? Who's the person in the superhero movies who says we have a Hulk? Well, whoever says it, it makes me think of Benz because we have a Benz. They don't really have one of those. And without him, we would n…

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talent at all.

They have an Eric Swalwell and we've got something. I'm running out of names. Yeah, they have a Jasmine Crockett. So but even if you didn't like Ted Cruz, you're smarter than most of them, right? We've got a Ted Cruz and they've got some lying weasels. They have most of the fraud. Now I will give them Mark Cuban because I think he has a real brain. But he doesn't, he's not really utilized in a strong way politically. And maybe he shouldn't be because it would interfere with his businesses. They have a Dan Goldman. Oh my god. Yeah, we've got a Thomas Massie. Not everybody likes that. I happen to like it. What about Michael Shellenberger? Who do they have that matches Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger? Nobody. Nobody.

They used to have the CEO of Starbucks. He wasn't that involved. Yeah, we have Rand Paul. They have Bernie. Good one. Yeah, they have Bernie and we have Rand Paul. Again, these are not equivalents even. Well, Glenn Greenwald, I would still call him an independent, but he has certainly been useful to the right. We have Gutfeld. They have Kimmel. Perfect. Perfect. So we have the number one guy for late night political stuff. Greg Gutfeld. And they've got three people who are really weak. Probably won't even be in business in a little while. Yep.

Now am I just being biased or is it super obvious that the talent on the right exceeds the talent on the left? Do you agree with the hypothesis? First of all, would you say that's true or am I just imagining it because I want it to be true? I might be. Yeah, we have Megyn Kelly. Who is the Megyn Kelly? Joy Reid. They don't have anything that yeah. I don't think the Democrats have anything that would equal Megyn Kelly, do they? I can't think of anybody. We have meritocracy and they don't. Well, Maddow. Okay. Well, I will give you that Maddow gets a big audience and she can make a dent, but she's so insane. She only works one day a week. I don't know.

You could argue that the right has a Fuente

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s problem. And I would argue that's true. Has to be well managed. Jake Tapper. Laura Loomer. Yeah, Laura Loomer is in her own category. You could have whatever opinion you want about her, but she kind of stands alone. There's not two Laura Loomers. We have Mark Levin. I don't know if Mark Levin fits into this model or not. He's kind of his own guy. I mean obviously he's right-leaning, but I wouldn…

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