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Welcome to Dead Air.

Once again, my name is Dean Blundell.

You can find me at Dean Blondel.

com joined as always by legendary political strategist, my very good friend, Mr. Steve Schmidt. How are you this morning, pal? How you feel? I'm good, Dean. I'm good, Dean. How are you? Yeah, really good. I am in Costa Rica this morning. I've been given a hall pass for three hours so I can play with you today.

That's good. How's the weather in Costa Rica?

37 every day, hot every day. People here are absolutely beautiful. I don't know that I've ever been to a country where you're like, oh, oh, immediately as soon as I landed, I realized we do it wrong.

We do everything wrong.

We do everything for the wrong reasons.

I'm watching people on bicycles take giant ox, hurting ox on bicycles in the ditch in the

middle of Tamarindo, on their way to their friend's house, stopping and having a coffee, laughing.

People here have very little. But my God, the spirit of the people here, dude, it's incredible. They've got the saying here called pure a vita, pure life, good life, live a good life, live a healthy life. And man, oh man, you know, you get out of your rat race sometimes and you get out of your head and you get out of your country.

And we've got it real good in Canada and the United States.

I mean, we're going to get to some shit today that obviously would dictate that, yeah, we got it good, but we got a lot of fucking work to do. Pardon my language. but bottom line is that you know when you get out of your country you get out of the civilization that you live in on a daily basis,

and you see how other people live and the smiles on their faces

and the community that lives here, it is truly unbelievable.

It really, really is.

I think a lot of Americans particularly think through a type of soft jingoism and I think a lack of worldliness,

an extraordinary percentage of the country doesn't have a passport. And they think Americans that they have the best quality

of life in the world. And they don't. We don't. And the more you travel, the more you realize the

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