What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.
Chip DarnellGranville Teague is a lobbyist who says he represents Trump's loyal voters and also the rising prices they're upset about. Granville, how does that work?
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Granville TeagueVery well, Chip.
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Granville TeagueNinety-two percent of people who voted for him in twenty twenty-four rate him positively, says the Wall Street Journal, and I represent every one of them.
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Granville TeagueThat answer was two hundred an hour.
Chip DarnellBut the AP-NORC poll says just seventeen percent approve of how he's handling the cost of living. Who's speaking for them?
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Granville TeagueAlso me. Same people, different invoice.
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Granville TeagueCalvin Ott in McConnellsburg says his medications have more than doubled, and he still says he supports the president one hundred percent.
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Granville TeagueI love that man. Three hundred an hour.
Chip DarnellSo you represent his loyalty and his pharmacy bill.
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Granville TeagueI represent his loyalty, his pharmacy bill, and the gap between them. The gap is where I live.
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Granville TeagueThat's four hundred, and I'm holding this gold parking meter key as my retainer.
Chip DarnellPrices rose three point seven percent in September from a year earlier. Do you ever feel that?
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Granville TeagueNo. My rate rises with it, so I'm covered.
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Granville TeagueA professor at Syracuse says it would take a deep, prolonged recession to shake this loyalty, and I plan to bill through that too.
Chip DarnellIs that a yes, you're fine either way?
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Granville TeagueI'm fine every way, Chip. The midterms are November third, and I've got clients on every side of that date.
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Granville TeagueFive hundred an hour for that sentence.
Chip DarnellWow, five hundred. Is anyone on your side not paying you?
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Granville TeagueThe ones who voted. They're the ones sacrificing, and I send them a lovely thank-you card, billed to them.
Chip DarnellGranville Teague, thank you for your time.
