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Speaker 1: Regular listeners will know. When it comes to free speech, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty into it. How else do we get smarter

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Speaker 1: but to debate ideas, put them through the ringer, shout

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Speaker 1: and scream and reason and argue. We've been doing it

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Speaker 1: since we could talk, which is well, a very long time.

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Speaker 1: When the Maga mob came for Jimmy Kimmel and I

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Speaker 1: defended him on this program, many of you agreed, some

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Speaker 1: of you did not, which is what we call an argument,

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Speaker 1: and hey, that's okay too. So yesterday when the Talco

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Speaker 1: when one in Z decided to pull those ads with

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Speaker 1: the activist, I had a genuine moral conundrum. See, I

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Speaker 1: think people should be able to protest, not in work

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Speaker 1: uniform obviously, and not get the sack. I don't like

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Speaker 1: canceling people in this case. The fact she gave out

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Speaker 1: Winston's address on the Internet probably crosses the line. But

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Speaker 1: if we're being honest, did it need to take a

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Speaker 1: crowbar through his front window, shattering glass onto poor Kobe

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Speaker 1: the dog for the head honchos at one enz to

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Speaker 1: tank action. She'd been plastered all over the news for

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Speaker 1: sharing his address for days before crowbar glass. I don't

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Speaker 1: like that she's been canceled, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: but I can see why they did it. And as

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Speaker 1: for activists more generally, apparently there's a shortened street actor

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Speaker 1: packing his bag for some flotilla somewhere. They're just annoying,

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Speaker 1: aren't they. Don't you just find them annoying, whether it's

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Speaker 1: the pre set chaining themselves to an electrot office, just annoying.

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Speaker 1: You know, who doesn't need a lecture on gigo politics

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Speaker 1: of the Middle East from a guy who wears a

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Speaker 1: fake stethoscope for a living, Like, what do they think? Anyway?

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Speaker 1: In most cases the real subject matter, of course, is themselves.

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Speaker 1: In most cases they achieve nothing, and in most cases

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Speaker 1: they're ignored. And the beauty of democracy, along with freedom

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Speaker 1: of speech, is that we can do that. For more

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