Ep. 2047 - The World Unites To Mourn Dolly Parton

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Tributes continue to pour in for Dolly Parton from all the living presidents, cities around the country, even Buckingham Palace in the UK. The mourning is so widespread that most people realize the grief over Dolly is about more than a country music singer. Some are saying it is about the loss of a monoculture. Dolly was the last person we all liked. Some say it's about the loss of civility and politeness. No, Dolly got along with everybody, regardless of political divides. I think it is even deeper than that. We will get to what her death means. Then, Lindsay Graham's sister, Darlene, beats Ralph Norman in the South Carolina Senate primary, which gives us a ton of insight into the 2028 Republican presidential primary. And speaking of that primary, it looks like we are getting close to our first declared candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. And he does not work for the Trump administration.
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Dolly. We didn't get to Dolly on the show yesterday. We filmed a little bit early and so we missed the biggest international news. It's not the war in Iran. It's not the economy. It's not mass migration. It's the death of Dolly Parton, the great, great Dolly Parton. Everyone is mourning the loss of Dolly Parton. I was in Washington DC two nights ago and I was at an event in DC and then an after party and this and that and there were all sorts of stuff going on. I wind up right before I go to bed, I wind up at that statue of my great, great, great, great, great grandpa Simon Knowles that was put up in Washington DC. It was really, really cool. I go there. I'm looking at it, looking at all the other beautiful statues in Freedom Plaza. But then I noticed something strange. I saw that the flags were at half staff.