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Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of the people either one don't like

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Speaker 1: Braun his statewide approval rating is sitting at just twenty

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Speaker 1: five percent. This was done by Public Policy Polling Survey.

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Speaker 1: It was done between February twenty and the twenty first.

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Speaker 1: They asked only five hundred and fifty four voters. I

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent. And the real deal here, Braun has

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Speaker 1: struggled to get his agenda through the legislature in a

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Speaker 1: lot of areas. Even when he signs bills like property

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Speaker 1: tax relief, the final results are completely different from his

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think what's interesting about this is I

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Speaker 2: opinion of mistrust. That's probably worse. Forget about the people

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Speaker 2: that don't like you. You're the governor of the state

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Speaker 2: and one out of every five people in the state

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Speaker 2: And look, a lot of people are gonna get caught

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Speaker 2: up in this twenty five percent and I look, this

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Speaker 2: poll that showed, you know, Jennifer McCormick was within a

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Speaker 2: fake poll. That was a poll for them to just

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Speaker 2: While people are focusing on the twenty five percent approval rating,

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Speaker 2: which they should, because that's terrible for Braun. It's bad

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Speaker 2: you can't trust polls. Okay, fine, let's say, let's say

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Speaker 2: that the truth is Braun's not at twenty five percent

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Speaker 2: approval rating, He's at thirty percent approve still terrible. Let's

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Speaker 2: give him a ton of rend Let's say Braun's at

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Speaker 2: thirty five percent approval rating, still a disaster. The guy

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Speaker 2: twenty percent minimum on the So if you take the

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Speaker 3: Shocking.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of his decisions in office, like replacing

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Speaker 4: Drawn some criticism.

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Speaker 1: He heavily pushed for the mid decade redistricting effort, even

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Speaker 4: He does, I'm gonna be honest, Okay, please.

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Speaker 1: He has had some successes, sure, of course, and they

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Speaker 2: Well, and I'll give Bron credit. You mentioned it as

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Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned. Look, Indiana University gets a ton

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Speaker 3: But you look about his signature.

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Speaker 2: the House and senate'll figure that out, and I'm going

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Speaker 2: all of those things that lead up to a wopping

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Speaker 4: The Mid States.

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Speaker 1: Corridors proposed new four lane highway through du Bois County

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Speaker 1: It was strongly opposed by forty one percent.

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Speaker 4: And I noticed that.

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Speaker 1: Just today in the state budget Committee, they're reviewing any

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Speaker 1: highway project costing two hundred and fifty million dollars or more.

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Speaker 1: You're putting new language in because of this Mid State's Corridor, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Putting it into Interestingly enough, they're putting this amendment and

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Speaker 3: The bill about the Chicago Bears, Cargo Bear.

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Speaker 2: So when I first read this story and I heard

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Speaker 3: First thought was those stinking politicians.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to cram through toll roads or a tax

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Speaker 2: This is actually a really good amendment. Not sure it

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Speaker 2: But essentially, what this is requiring is that any projects

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Speaker 3: Seems pretty reasonable.

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Speaker 2: To me that if you're going to spend a quarter

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Speaker 1: So, you've got a lot of local residents who are

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Speaker 4: Of strong resistance.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if this is a state wide

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Speaker 4: So you can look at this poll they say it's statewide.

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Speaker 1: However, the focus of it was something that doesn't affect

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Speaker 1: Forty six percent of the people polled were from Indianapolis.

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Speaker 3: And that about matches the population.

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Speaker 2: Almost half the people polled were from Central Indiana. About

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Speaker 2: this new proposal that we're trying to you know, tack

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Speaker 2: nothing to do with the mid State's corridor project. Now,

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Speaker 2: it's just a massive coincidence that that's the case. But

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Speaker 2: running through their backyard.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, or their front yard.

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Speaker 3: Highly just massively unpopular.

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Speaker 1: So lawmakers have added new requirements to a commercial trucking

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Speaker 4: Here is Governor Braun.

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Speaker 1: He was on Fox News and he was talking about

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Speaker 6: Most of that issue has been with CDLs that they've

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Speaker 6: faking them, you don't even know. But this is cropping

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Speaker 6: up enough. Most of it has come from states that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this bill also includes immigration related provisions. The

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is a good thing. We obviously

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Speaker 4: All of all the other states.

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Speaker 2: On California, which, by the way, the accident we just

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Speaker 2: California going to be terrible offenders, but we got to

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Speaker 3: Right in order here in Indiana as well.

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Speaker 4: Another thing that happened.

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Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs, and Braun was asked about how do tariffs

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Speaker 6: So if you're caught in one of the industries that

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Speaker 2: No, but you can come out and you can support

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Speaker 1: Well, if the goal is about fairness and trade, you

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Speaker 2: And when Trump and Braun mentioned fairness as it relates

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Speaker 4: You're listening to NYBC Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: Has TSA pre checked become a political football?

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Speaker 4: Certainly seems like it.

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Speaker 1: Is it open?

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Speaker 4: Is it not open? Do we have global re entry?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is going back to the partial government shutdown,

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Speaker 3: In February fourteenth, if you haven't.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have global entry and you're traveling, you're

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine, Let's say that you're an American and

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Speaker 1: No, you wouldn't actually throw a finging things under your breath.

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Speaker 2: Because I respect people at customs and border patrol and

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't And it's not their fault. They're just showing

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Speaker 1: So, what global entry is currently suspended? You've got the

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Speaker 4: Is that what's going on?

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Speaker 2: And both sides know that at the minute TSA PreCheck

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Speaker 3: The regular lines. Oh now, now I'm upset that there's

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Speaker 1: I mean, like what we do every time we travel somewhere,

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Speaker 4: Which we don't do often because I prefer to drive,

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Speaker 2: Or twice a year we'll fly somewhere, and yes, I

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Speaker 4: We got to put this to our audience and is

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Speaker 2: I go through TSA PreCheck and you go through with

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Speaker 4: Right, Yes, so my line is normally longer.

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Speaker 3: Much longer.

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Speaker 4: You don't ever feel bad about leaving me.

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Speaker 3: No, I do feel bad about leaving you, but you have.

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Speaker 2: It's not like your band from getting DSA pre check.

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Speaker 3: It's not like that.

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Speaker 2: You know, you got into a fistfight with somebody at

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Speaker 1: So is it on you to wait with me in

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Speaker 2: It's on you to go get TSA pre check, of

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Speaker 2: course it is. Yes, of course I've done the things.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 4: You just go on the website.

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Speaker 2: You just go on the website and you give them

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Speaker 2: If you invested ten minutes of your time to get

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Speaker 4: I'm not good with that. We are you to wait

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Speaker 2: So you would rather you would rather drag me down

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Speaker 5: Please?

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Speaker 3: For years to do that, it.

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Speaker 1: Now, I thought you had to go get interviewed and

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Speaker 4: No, the first originally did this, Yes, but.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna clip this segment

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Speaker 1: You ever concerned that I'm not gonna get through security,

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Speaker 4: Waiting for me.

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Speaker 1: You you go through the TSA pre check, you hustle

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Speaker 4: You're just like hanging out waiting for me to get

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Speaker 3: I watch you go through the line.

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Speaker 2: I watch as you go back and forth through the

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Speaker 4: You've got eyes on the whole time.

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Speaker 3: I'm watching you the whole time, but you're not.

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Speaker 3: I'm making sure you get through.

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Speaker 2: Well I could show up to the airport twenty minutes

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, thank you for waiting for me. That's very

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Speaker 2: And remember you said it. This isn't on me, This

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Speaker 2: have more places that serve coffee, Like most airports.

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Speaker 4: In the India got like one Starbucks.

447
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Indie Airport is guilty of this as well,

448
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Speaker 2: so it's good they're adding another coffee place. But come on,

449
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Speaker 2: coffee is usually one of the primary things that people

450
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Speaker 2: purchase when they're at the airport because we're all getting

451
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Speaker 2: up early and we're all traveling and that's a chore

452
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Speaker 2: and we need that little extra boost of energy. And

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Speaker 2: usually most airports, including the Indie Airport, have like one

454
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Speaker 2: Starbucks in your concourse and there's fifteen people waiting in

455
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Speaker 2: line and it takes you forty five minutes to get

456
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Speaker 2: a simple coffee.

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Speaker 1: They're also going to so kind of rotate some specialty

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Speaker 1: food spots, and they're also going to renovate shapiros.

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Speaker 4: You're listing to ninety three WIBC. Sure, refunds are going

460
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Speaker 4: to be higher, but that just means.

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Speaker 1: You overpaid throughout the year and you're just getting your

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Speaker 1: own money back.

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Speaker 4: Bigger refunds.

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Speaker 1: They're nice, but they don't automatically mean better long term

465
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Speaker 1: tax fairness or even lower tax bills overall. So it's

466
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Speaker 1: being reported that the average federal tax refund it's going

467
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Speaker 1: to be significantly higher this year, especially compared to last year,

468
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Speaker 1: up around fourteen percent or more. So far, the average

469
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Speaker 1: refund is going to be in the mid twenty four hundreds.

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Speaker 2: So this is mostly driven by the One Big Beautiful

471
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Speaker 2: Bill Act that was passed in twenty twenty five. So

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Speaker 2: keep in mind here this is another example of the

473
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Speaker 2: government picking winners and losers because who benefits from this. Well,

474
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Speaker 2: if you've got a child under eighteen, they increase the

475
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Speaker 2: income tax the child tax credit, so there's that, there's

476
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Speaker 2: a new deduction for seniors, things like deductions for you know,

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Speaker 2: the no tax on overtime, no tax on tips. So

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Speaker 2: and by the way, if you live in a state

479
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Speaker 2: that has super high property taxes and income taxes and

480
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Speaker 2: state taxes, it's called the salt tax deduction that was increased.

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Speaker 2: So but if you don't qualify for any of those things,

482
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Speaker 2: which huge chunks of the American public don't qualify for

483
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Speaker 2: any of those things, you're really not going to see

484
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Speaker 2: a bigger tax refund this year. And that's the vast

485
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Speaker 2: majority of people. Oh and by the way, the One

486
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Speaker 2: Big Beautiful Bill Act, where you can thank them for

487
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Speaker 2: these tax refunds it's also going to add an additional

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Speaker 2: five trillion dollars on the national debt. Why do you

489
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Speaker 2: think that we had such crazy, out of control inflation

490
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Speaker 2: under Joe Biden. It's because during COVID, the US government

491
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Speaker 2: spent more than a trillion dollars in absolute free money

492
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Speaker 2: giveaways to both individuals and businesses. They flooded the marketplace

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Speaker 2: with money, and so the price of everything went through

494
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Speaker 2: the roof. This is just another example of that. So

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Speaker 2: if you qualify one of these tax it breaks great.

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Speaker 3: I'm happy for you.

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Speaker 2: Not all of us do, but keep in mind this

498
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Speaker 2: is only going to produce more inflation. The big beautiful

499
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Speaker 2: bill is going to add another five trillion dollars under

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Speaker 2: the national debt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you also have a lot of people that

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Speaker 1: didn't change there withholding to match any new tax cuts.

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Speaker 1: And so when you get this big check back, you're thinking.

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Speaker 4: Who look at me? Yay?

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Speaker 1: No, that was your money all along, the government was

506
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Speaker 1: just using it. And now you've got some amounts that

507
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Speaker 1: are going to vary a lot by income filing status,

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Speaker 1: also your individual tax situation. Not everybody is going to

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Speaker 1: get a bigger refund too.

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Speaker 3: Well, and let's be honest here too.

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Speaker 2: You know, Trump's been selling this that these are going

512
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Speaker 2: to be the largest refunds in American history. Americans are

513
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Speaker 2: gonna see the largest refunds in history. Ten twenty thousand

514
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Speaker 2: dollars were the types of numbers he was thrown out there.

515
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you're super rich. Sure, if you're super rich,

516
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Speaker 2: that's gonna be wonderful and fantastic for you.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of.

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Speaker 2: People have been selling this. Trump's been pushing it like

519
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Speaker 2: it's the greatest thing in the world. There's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a huge chunk of the American public that's going to

521
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Speaker 2: look at their tax refund and go, this is it.

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Speaker 3: This is what I got.

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Speaker 2: It's not very much. And again it's the government picking

524
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Speaker 2: winners and losers. If you earn overtime, okay, fine, good

525
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Speaker 2: for you. If you're a senior, you got a little something.

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Speaker 2: If you got a kid who's under eighteen and independent,

527
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Speaker 2: you're gonna get a little something. But a huge chunk

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Speaker 2: of the American population not gonna get anything.

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Speaker 4: I everything you just listed I don't qualify for.

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe that's why I'm so upset about it, because

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Speaker 2: we don't qualify for any of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: We don't qualify for one of those. What about me?

533
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Speaker 2: The no tax on tips that's not me. No tax

534
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Speaker 2: on overtime, that's not me. Don't have a kid that

535
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Speaker 2: can get a child Trax credit. I'm not a senior

536
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Speaker 2: yet I'm gonna get I'm one of the people, the

537
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Speaker 2: American part of the American population that's not gonna get

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Speaker 2: one extra bit of tax refund this year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, speaking of taxes, who's your taxpayers shouldn't be paying

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Speaker 1: the bill for a new billionaires stadium?

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Speaker 4: Right, let's talk about the Bears and that state fiscal

542
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Speaker 4: report that came out.

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Speaker 1: It's the Fiscal Impact Statement, and it outlines millions in

544
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Speaker 1: tax increases. Senate Bill twenty seven could lead to millions

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Speaker 1: and new taxes collected in northwest Indiana.

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Speaker 3: All right, Casey, are you ready for a little math here?

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Speaker 4: No, I hate math.

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Speaker 2: Now we're gonna do some math. Anyway, that was I

549
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Speaker 2: shouldn't ask that question. Let me start again, Casey, get

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Speaker 2: ready for some math? Okay, yeah, all right, So the

551
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Speaker 2: state is and these numbers are rough numbers here, but

552
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Speaker 2: you'll make the point. The state is contributing about a

553
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Speaker 2: billion dollars. So the math on and how they're going

554
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Speaker 2: to make up for that one percent food and beverage

555
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Speaker 2: tax in Lake and Porter Counties. The estimates on that

556
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Speaker 2: is that'll bring in about twelve million dollars annually. Okay,

557
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Speaker 2: just keep that number in mind. They're doubling the hotel

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Speaker 2: tax in Lake County and that's going to bring in

559
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Speaker 2: about another five million dollars a year. Then there's going

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Speaker 2: to be an admissions tax. So anytime you go to

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Speaker 2: the stadium p twelve percent. Anytime you go to the

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Speaker 2: stadium for any event like a Bear's game, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: be twelve percent on your tickets. I did the math

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Speaker 2: on that. Bears get about a million dollars in revenue

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Speaker 2: from a single game twelve percent. It's about a million

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Speaker 2: and a half dollars. We'll call that fifteen million dollars

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Speaker 2: a year in annual revenue.

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Speaker 3: So add it all up.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen million from the food and beverage tax, five million

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Speaker 2: from the hotel tax, fifteen million from the event tax.

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Speaker 2: We're at thirty million, thirty five million, and the state

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Speaker 2: is spending one billion. I'm trying to figure out where

573
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Speaker 2: the other money is going to come from. And here's

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Speaker 2: where it's coming from not so specific on this part.

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Speaker 2: These details are fuzzy, but the Northwest Indiana Professional Sports

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Speaker 2: Development Area could capture additional tax revenue on sales income

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Speaker 2: and use taxes to support the stadium. Oh and by

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Speaker 2: the way, they're trying to renegotiate the Indiana Toll Road lease.

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Speaker 2: The eighty ninety toll road runs in the northern part

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Speaker 2: of the state. They're trying to renegotiate that and put

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Speaker 2: the savings toward this as well. Seems like we're still

582
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Speaker 2: left with a massive shortfall to get to a billion dollars?

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Speaker 1: Is it worth it to have the Chicago Bears in Indiana?

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Speaker 4: You've got tax sikes for beer, hotels, and tickets.

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Speaker 1: All a little sneaky, right, sneaky ways for everyday people

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Speaker 1: to pay for these big sports projects.

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Speaker 3: My point though, all this is it doesn't seem to

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Speaker 3: add up.

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Speaker 2: It seems like we're looking at thirty five million dollars

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Speaker 2: a year in additional taxes, yet we're going to be

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Speaker 2: spending a billion dollars in public funds on this. Where

592
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Speaker 2: is the rest of the money coming from? And I'm

593
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: afraid that's going to come from that kind of non

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Speaker 2: specific area about the additional sales, income use taxes, toll

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Speaker 2: road renegotiation.

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Speaker 3: That seems like where the vast majority is going to

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Speaker 3: come from.

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Speaker 1: So you've got John Mellencamp who was on with Bill

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Speaker 1: Maher and they were talking about.

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Speaker 4: Well, a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: First of all, they were talking about farmers, and it

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Speaker 1: seemed like at one point Bill Maher actually he was

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Speaker 1: he was stumping John Mellencamp on something.

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Speaker 4: He just was befuddled. Listen to this.

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Speaker 7: The way that they tell us to eat now, you

606
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Speaker 7: couldn't eat that.

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Speaker 5: That's the way we ate back then. But the food

608
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Speaker 5: was real food, real food.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know when we started farm Aide, Willie and

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Speaker 7: Neil and I I think all of us were naive

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Speaker 7: enough to think that if we do this show that

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Speaker 7: the politicians ago, these guys have a good point. We

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Speaker 7: need to help the small family farmer. No, it's going

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Speaker 7: to take more than a concert. It's going to take

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Speaker 7: more than a march to get rid.

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Speaker 5: Of Trump wrote a lot of checks to farmers. Huh.

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Speaker 8: Trump wrote a lot of Czechs to farmers because he

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Speaker 8: them often with like tyrups and stuff, right like he

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Speaker 8: did stuff or the first term there was like, you know,

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Speaker 8: trade deals with China that we want. We wanted to

621
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Speaker 8: know so China, who's boss and who pays It's the

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Speaker 8: people who sell soybeans to China.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but so if you watch, if you watch in

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Speaker 7: the video that I made for a song called Rain

626
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Speaker 7: on the Scarecrow, it's talking to say young farmers and

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Speaker 7: it talks about that, and that was nineteen eighty.

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Speaker 1: Three, it seems like Mellencamp is a little disconnected there.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the problem when we look to celebrities

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Speaker 2: to have really difficult conversations about what's wrong in our

631
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Speaker 2: country and about the political situation.

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Speaker 3: It turns out maybe.

633
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Speaker 2: A hard case may be surprised to hear this, but

634
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Speaker 2: it turns out celebrities really.

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Speaker 3: Don't know a whole lot about that. These are really difficult,

636
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Speaker 3: hard situations.

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Speaker 2: People that have studied these problems for decades have trouble understanding.

638
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 3: Them and come up solutions.

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Speaker 2: So to think that we're going to go to celebrities

640
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Speaker 2: and have an in depth, intelligent conversation about difficult situations

641
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Speaker 2: in our country.

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00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 3: Right now, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: And John Mellencamp just comes across as being totally out

644
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Speaker 2: of his League on this.

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Speaker 4: It did.

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Speaker 1: It did seem like that his comment stood out as

647
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Speaker 1: like unexpected. Yes, technically true, Trump did provide those checks

648
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Speaker 1: two billion dollars in economic assistance to US farmers because

649
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Speaker 1: they were struggling with the exports from China, especially, you know,

650
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Speaker 1: these trade tensions, and Bill Marre.

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Speaker 2: Pointed to that out huh yeah again, celebrity. This is

652
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Speaker 2: why celebrities are usually and typically way out of their

653
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 2: field on these conversations. These are really difficult problems to

654
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Speaker 2: even understand, much less solved. And then you've got a

655
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Speaker 2: celebrity who thinks their opinion is more important than your opinion,

656
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Speaker 2: so much so that they're going to go on a

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Speaker 2: show with Bill Martin tell you all about what they think,

658
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Speaker 2: and then they get stumped on an easy question like this.

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Speaker 2: John Mellencamp just looked like he looked like a celebrity,

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Speaker 2: an uninformed celebrity.

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Speaker 4: He did.

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Speaker 1: He he did seem like he was a poe. Obviously

663
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Speaker 1: Trump's trade wars and that view I think will resonate

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Speaker 1: with some Hoosiers. Though here he is talking about the

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Speaker 1: first time that he met Donald Trump.

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Speaker 7: And cut to another time I saw him at some

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Speaker 7: award for I don't know something. Couldn't have been nicer.

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Speaker 7: Then I saw him again, couldn't have been nicer. And

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Speaker 7: then when I saw him running for president, I thought,

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Speaker 7: who is this guy?

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Speaker 5: Exactly, It's exactly what I said when.

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Speaker 8: I gave my report about the White House dinner and

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Speaker 8: people were attacking me, and I said exactly that I

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Speaker 8: went to that dinner and he was this nice guy

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Speaker 8: and you know, never argued with me, like allowed me

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Speaker 8: to dissent on anything, and just confront him with anything.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't blustery.

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Speaker 8: And then I went home and when I got home,

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Speaker 8: I turned on sixty minutes and there he was, like

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Speaker 8: on sixty minutes.

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Speaker 5: People are terrible people. I'm like, who the heck is this?

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Speaker 3: I know exactly.

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Speaker 8: You know again the small mindedness of so many people

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Speaker 8: on the far left that they can't under they're so

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Speaker 8: emotional about Donald Trump. They don't get it that. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: of course he is this crazy person. He's playing in public,

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Speaker 8: like you keep two thoughts in your head at the

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Speaker 8: same time. He's not that person always. He's a very

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Speaker 8: different guy. Like, let's figure out how to use that

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Speaker 8: to our advantage instead of just saying don't talk to

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Speaker 8: that guy.

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Speaker 5: Now, let's talk to that guy. Yeah, I think I know.

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Speaker 4: The problem there. When Bill Maher was saying that he

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Speaker 4: turned on sixty minutes, Oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sixty minutes, is that the problem?

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Speaker 4: That's the poor problem. I've identified it.

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Speaker 3: Look, this is why I like Bill Maher.

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Speaker 1: He seems to come and go with whatever way the

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Speaker 1: wind is blowing based on his guest though true.

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Speaker 2: But the reason why I like Bill Maher, even though

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Speaker 2: he and I disagree on so much, is he approaches

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Speaker 2: these topics with a certain set of intellectual honesty, and

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Speaker 2: he's not afraid to call out his own party when

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Speaker 2: he thinks that they're wrong. And he addresses these and

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Speaker 2: looks and sits there and says, Look, i may disagree

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Speaker 2: with everything that Trump does, but I'm still going to

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Speaker 2: have a conversation with the guy. Compare that to what

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Speaker 2: we're going to see at the State of the Union

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Speaker 2: tonight when Donald Trump gives his speech and half of

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Speaker 2: the audience is going to be gone because tons of

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Speaker 2: Democrats don't want to even be in the same room

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Speaker 2: as Donald Trump, much less have a conversation with him.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've got Mellencamp on one side saying that he

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Speaker 1: couldn't have been nicer. And then you've got Bill Maher

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Speaker 1: saying that he's different in public versus private, which is

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Speaker 1: a total disconnect, and it really does. It does do

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Speaker 1: away with the Trump derangement syndrome of the one dimensional

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Speaker 1: side that they the left always tries to portray Trump

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and again, the reason why Bill Maher knows that

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Speaker 2: information that he's a different guy in person and one

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Speaker 2: to one at him, it's because he went and met

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Speaker 2: with him. So maybe if you talk to people you

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Speaker 2: disagree with. And that's something that I've always given Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump credit for. He's not afraid to talk to any people.

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Speaker 2: He'll go on any podcasts, any show. He still does

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Speaker 2: interviews with The New York Times in sixty minutes, to

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Speaker 2: liberal media organizations that hate his guts. He'll go talk

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Speaker 2: to Kim John Noon in North Korea, he'll talk to

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Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin. Doesn't mean you agree with them, doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: that just by talking with them you support any of

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Speaker 2: their concepts and ideas. But we've got to talk with everybody,

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Speaker 2: including the people we disagree with and certainly our enemies

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Speaker 2: on the world stage.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to ninety three WYBC.

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Speaker 1: Are there any examples where someone fled to Canada and

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Speaker 1: their life actually improved. Here's a woman who went there

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Speaker 1: because of Trump's policies, and she said, Oh.

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Speaker 4: It's it's like from the movie to Hangover. I think

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Speaker 4: we messed up, except they don't stay messed up. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they don't say mess up.

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Speaker 3: The points still made.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Here she is putting her stuff out there for

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Speaker 4: everyone to see.

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Speaker 9: I'm a scholar of the far right who has fled

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Speaker 9: the United States to Canada, and I need help. The

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Speaker 9: situation in Canada is absolutely dire for Americans who don't know.

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Speaker 9: The housing crisis here is worse than in the United States.

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Speaker 9: I lived in LA for six years and I have

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Speaker 9: not faced rent as bad as here. When my partner,

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Speaker 9: our cat, and our dog fled the United States, we

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Speaker 9: headed north with the goal of being close to our

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Speaker 9: our families are located, which is on the west coast,

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Speaker 9: So we are now in British Columbia. More specifically, we

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Speaker 9: are in the Ceda Sky Highway in the Greater Vancouver area.

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Speaker 9: We are attempting to find housing in the western side

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Speaker 9: of this region. My partner and I are here on

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Speaker 9: a visitor visa which is a six months possible stay

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Speaker 9: for Americans. But while you're here on a visitor visa,

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Speaker 9: you can't work. So we are currently surviving off of

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Speaker 9: what savings we could get together before or we fled

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Speaker 9: the United States, and that's not terribly much. And in Canada,

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Speaker 9: I think it's actually the cost of living crisis is

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Speaker 9: worse here, especially when you are shut out of the

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Speaker 9: healthcare system, when you can't access any of the resources

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Speaker 9: that Canadians have access to. And that's understandable. You know,

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Speaker 9: I'm not a citizen in the country, but it is.

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Speaker 9: It is making the financial situation dire because we can't work.

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Speaker 4: Because there are.

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Speaker 9: Two adults, a cat and a dog. We are looking

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Speaker 9: for more than a room.

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Speaker 4: Help me, I chose poorly.

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Speaker 2: My favorite part of all of that was her opening line,

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Speaker 2: I'm a scholar of the far right. Ye nothing, no

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Speaker 2: statement could sound more elitist to start off with, I've

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Speaker 2: spent my entire life studying the far right. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm a scholar.

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Speaker 1: Specifically, we're in Vancouver at three twenty one Maple Streets.

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Speaker 3: Well leads you to believe.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she sounds well spoken, and the fact that

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Speaker 2: she calls herself a scholar to start off with. Sounds

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Speaker 2: like she's a reasonably intelligent woman. Does she not know

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Speaker 2: how Google works? Could she not sit here and say, Hey,

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Speaker 2: I wonder how much rent is in Vancouver? If only

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Speaker 2: we had a device that allowed us to get that. Oh,

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Speaker 2: right here in my pocket, it's called my phone, and

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Speaker 2: I can google that information. Look, I get it. There

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Speaker 2: are people that don't like the United States that live here.

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Speaker 2: There are citizens here that don't agree with our policies.

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Speaker 2: But you may find this shocking. We're better and we

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Speaker 2: may have a lot of laws, but for all those flaws,

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Speaker 2: we're better than every single other country on this entire planet.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes you got to move there before you figure

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Speaker 2: it out and get it through your thick head.

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Speaker 1: Why dodn't you go to another country on a visitor visa?

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Speaker 4: By the way, she.

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Speaker 1: Knew what kind of visa was not a working visa,

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Speaker 1: visitor visa and not have a tidy sum of money

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Speaker 1: to get you buy Oh that was the audio of

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Speaker 1: the day.

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Speaker 4: By the way, it is ninety three wibc

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