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Glutton for punishment, eh?

When will you ever learn?

Now, here's the host that you hate to love,

the man who was the reason your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Matt, Texas.

Folks, welcome. I'm excited to have, as my guest right now, my friend Larry Taunton, Larry, welcome.

How are you doing, Eric? I'm doing all right. I'm just going to say I'm excited particularly because you have been putting out, you know,

in your own podcast and in other places, information to sort of help us process the Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir Putin that happened last week.

I guess it was Thursday of last week that it aired. But I've seen some of

your analysis on that. And I thought, we've got to get you on the program because it's, it's

vital that we really understand what happened. So help us understand the context and then what

you think happened in the interview between or with Vladimir Putin

conducted by Tucker Carlson.

Yeah, let me begin by saying that I think Tucker Carlson has been subjected to withering

and quite frankly obscene personal criticisms here, you know, suggesting he's a traitor and nonsense like that from people who are actual traitors.

I was going to say, but, you know, it's good when people who are actual traitors who hate America accuse you of being a traitor to America because you know you're on the right side.

Because the people accusing him of that are really dramatically guilty, scores of times

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