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Speaker 1: Live from the Hartland and the Crossroads of America.

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Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz today. Well, hi, everybody, welcome to another

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Speaker 2: episode of the Tony Kats today. I'm Andrew Langer in

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Speaker 2: for Tony Kats today, and there we go.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm hearing an echo in my own ear,

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Speaker 2: but that's on me, hope. Oh wow, listen, let me

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Speaker 2: dot feel back the curtain just a little bit here.

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Speaker 2: So Tony called me this morning or texted me this

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Speaker 2: morning because he couldn't call me. He is feeling under

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Speaker 2: the weather. He has no voice. So he asked me

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Speaker 2: to pitch in for him today. So this is what

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Speaker 2: I'm doing for him, and so glad that I could

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Speaker 2: do that. So the thing is, I got to work

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Speaker 2: there today, but the work that I do for Seapack,

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Speaker 2: and so I grab my gear and bring it with me.

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Speaker 2: I'm all set, I'm all getting it checked out. There

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Speaker 2: are lots of different ways for me to get things

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Speaker 2: set up, and of course it doesn't work. So poor

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Speaker 2: Land and I call him, Oh, well, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: twelve oh one conservatively twelve o one pm, And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I get on. I get on with him there. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: I feel feel terrible for him. Oh, I see what's

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Speaker 2: going on here. Hold on one second, guys, let me

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Speaker 2: try this. There we go. Now, maybe I won't to

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Speaker 2: still hear me. So we listen. We got a great

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Speaker 2: show today, as we always do. Because there's so much

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Speaker 2: going on in the world. You want to join the conversation,

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Speaker 2: you know, you can always email me while I'm on

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Speaker 2: the air. I've got the new email address, Andrew Langer

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Speaker 2: Radio at gmail dot com, Andrew Langer Radio All One

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Speaker 2: Word at gmail dot com. You can also add me

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Speaker 2: on x Let's let's also set the wayback machine. Oh

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Speaker 2: back just a little bit here till last Friday, where

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Speaker 2: and he said, Hey, here's this this Twitter feed. Here's

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Speaker 2: what's going on with uh this, uh, this this situation.

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Speaker 2: And what you should do is you should you talk

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Speaker 2: about you talking about the the not just this person,

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Speaker 2: but the the not just the story, but this person

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Speaker 2: hilarity ensued. And it was like several more hours after

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Speaker 2: by people. I think I had something on the order

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Speaker 2: of like twenty thousand different No twenty thousand different views,

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Speaker 2: not twenty thousand different messages, because that would just been

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Speaker 2: that would have been just crazy go nuts. Anyway, So

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Speaker 2: we got a jam pack show today. Jerry Rogers from

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Speaker 2: Real Clear Policy going to join us in a few minutes,

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Speaker 2: assuming that I can get my wherewithal squared away with

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Speaker 2: Let's go here the So if you don't Remember we

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Speaker 2: had the Grammys over the weekend and Billie Eilish was

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Speaker 2: She came up to get an award, and she talked

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Speaker 5: No one is illegal on stolen Land. And yeah, it's

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Speaker 5: just really hard to know what to say and what

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Speaker 6: And let's say sorry, so thank.

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Speaker 2: You for So that's Billy Eilish. We get end up there,

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Speaker 7: It's not ironic.

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Speaker 8: And massive gates keeping people out. I thought Billy didn't

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Speaker 8: A couple of cameras up there as well, the lights on,

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Speaker 2: Let us in, please, Belly. We are here because this is.

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Speaker 8: Stolen land, Billy, and we think we should be given

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Speaker 2: And this is exactly what we're talking about here. This

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Speaker 2: I think it is always helpful to point out the hypocrisy,

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Speaker 2: it right, right. You should if you are a wealthy,

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Speaker 2: prominent person like Billie Eilish, you should. You have every

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Speaker 2: But what you have to recognize is that these pronouncements

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Speaker 2: There are many roads to utopia. However, all must traverse

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Speaker 2: a much much different thing. That's why I spend so

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Speaker 2: and spend a little bit of time talking about Kamala. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: In fact, you know something to do me favorite, Let's

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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Langer. This is Tony Kats Today. I am

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Speaker 2: Andrew Andrew Langer in for Tony Kats Today on Tony

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Speaker 2: Kats Today. So glad I can join you and you

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Speaker 2: can join me right here on the Tony CAATs Radio Network. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's better, a little bit better anyway, still still hearing myself,

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Speaker 2: but that's all right, Landon, I will I will get

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Speaker 9: So as I was.

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Speaker 2: Pulling audio getting ready for the show today, there was

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Speaker 10: Well, I'm so glad you asked. I have good news.

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Speaker 10: So Kamala HQ is turning into Headquarters, and it's where

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Speaker 7: I'm really excited about it. So stay engaged, and I'll.

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Speaker 2: This is where we are now, this is what now

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Speaker 2: give you some really good examples for this. Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: When Joe Biden left office, I'll say this, Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: you know, these are our policy based organizations, serious organizations

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Speaker 10: they elected leaders, community leaders, civic leaders.

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Speaker 7: Faith leaders, young leaders. I'm really excited about it, So

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Speaker 7: stay engaged.

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Speaker 2: And as so Jerry. What she's basically doing is she's

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Speaker 2: creating an aggregation entity. Now Real Clear Politics policy, You

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Speaker 2: guys are an aggregator, that's what you do, but you

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Speaker 2: do it as a news outlet to make sure that

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Speaker 2: people can see and hear opinions and news from the

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Speaker 2: widest variety of sources. That's what you guys do. But

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Speaker 2: I think you would agree with me that there's a

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Speaker 2: certain danger when political organizations stop producing original content, stop

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Speaker 2: producing original policy work, and instead start trying to become

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Speaker 2: to create their own echo chambers. What are your thoughts.

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Speaker 3: Here, Well, you're exactly right, and again, Real Clear aggregates

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Speaker 3: the best arguments in terms of the political discussion. But

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Speaker 3: it also has original research. In fact, today we publish

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Speaker 3: the paper by Congressman Rogers and Peter Pitts from CMPI

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Speaker 3: on FDA.

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Speaker 4: So there's original research, and.

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Speaker 3: There's original commentary, there's investigations, there's journalism happening. We have

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Speaker 3: real clear of course, has a place in the at

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Speaker 3: the White House. We have a White House reporter, we

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Speaker 3: have a Congressional reporter. Uh And and I think it's

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Speaker 3: a little silly, and I'm surprised that more folks aren't

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Speaker 3: mocking the former vice president. She just said it's a

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Speaker 3: place to come and meet old friends and leaders, and say,

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Speaker 3: what is she talking about. It's just it's so silly.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's like, you know what, it's been too

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Speaker 3: long since I've been in the in the news cycle.

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Speaker 4: Let me let me offer a big nothing burger up

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Speaker 4: and so.

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Speaker 3: At least I get my name, h you know, on

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Speaker 3: MSN or or or wherever else.

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Speaker 2: Now before I let you go. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you've heard this other thing, but the sham Wow guy,

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Speaker 2: Vince ShamWow Schlowmy is running for Congress down in down

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Speaker 2: in Texas. Your thoughts here, You're much more up to

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Speaker 2: speed with.

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Speaker 3: This sort of thing. I know this, I'll say that

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Speaker 3: I'll be serious for a second. Look, history is against

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Speaker 3: Republicans in terms of the midterms. However, there is a

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Speaker 3: chance where Republicans, because the districts are are are so

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Speaker 3: Jerry manned already all over the country. I think that

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Speaker 3: those who care about freedom and keep more of what

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Speaker 3: you are and in small businesses and and free speech

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Speaker 3: and the rest, and push back on the defund ice,

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Speaker 3: which is just a defund the police, you know, a

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Speaker 3: two point zero. We have to make sure that that

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Speaker 3: Republicans maintain their majority in twenty twenty sixes.

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Speaker 2: Before I let you go. You know, there's this now,

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Speaker 2: this phenomenon in Minneapolis where folks are setting up private checkpoints. Well,

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Speaker 2: I possibly go wrong.

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Speaker 4: With you didn't like that. I thought we didn't like borders.

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Speaker 3: I thought we didn't like databases they're doing check Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and you know what I tell you, part of the

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Speaker 3: wishes I lived in Minneapolis because I know exactly what

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Speaker 3: I would do.

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Speaker 4: They stopped me.

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Speaker 2: There you go, Jerry, how to folks find out more

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Speaker 2: about the good work you're doing.

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Speaker 4: Go to Real Clear Pology. Go to Real Clear health.

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Speaker 3: Go to at Jerry Rodgers show on X Hey Andrew, God,

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Speaker 3: bless you buddy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy. I'll talk to you later on. That

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Speaker 2: was Jerry Rogers. Go check him out at Jerry Rodgers' show.

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Speaker 2: Listen Landon. I'm telling you this right now. I think

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Speaker 2: I figured out the technical issues. Hopefully we can have

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Speaker 2: the last two hours of the show goes smoothly. I'm

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Speaker 2: Andrew Langer. This is Tony Kats today. Was there anything

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Speaker 2: better than when this song was used in Guardians of

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Speaker 2: the Galaxy. It's so funny. Yeah, thank you. We started

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Speaker 2: watching this week wonder Man Landon. If you start watching

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Speaker 2: wonder Man yet, I have not no. Okay, So wonder

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Speaker 2: Man's the new Marvel show. It's on Disney Plus and

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Speaker 2: it is It's very meta. This is not where I

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Speaker 2: was going to go with this segment, but I'm going

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Speaker 2: to go there anyway because you played that and obviously

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Speaker 2: is in my head. Hi, everybody, By the way, I'm

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Speaker 2: Andrew Langer. You can email me while I'm on the

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Speaker 2: air complain about the audio for the first hour of

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Speaker 2: the show. Please do. Andrew Langer Radio All One Word

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Speaker 2: at gmail dot com. Andrew Langer Radio. You can also

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Speaker 2: at me on Twitter at Andrew Underscore Langer. Yes, I

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Speaker 2: still call it Twitter. So you know, obviously there have

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Speaker 2: been some real misses in the Marvel universe as of late.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure everybody can agree on that. Actually, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: not everybody can agree on that, but I think that

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Speaker 2: and I think a lot of folks agree with that, that

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Speaker 2: there have been a lot of misses in the Marvel

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Speaker 2: universe as of late. Like I couldn't get through the

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Speaker 2: miss Marvel one. I liked she Hulk she Hulk Attorney

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Speaker 2: at Law, I think is what it was called. So

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Speaker 2: wonder Man is and I don't know anything about the

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Speaker 2: comic property, but it's about an actor and he apparently

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Speaker 2: has superpowers and he's trying to get the role of

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Speaker 2: the Wonder Man and he winds up linking up with

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Speaker 2: Trevor Slattery who is the Mandarin in Iron Man three,

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Speaker 2: and then came back for Chung Shing in the Ten

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Speaker 2: Rings of Power whatever it was called. Uh, And I

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Speaker 2: love Ben Kingsley as that character. It's great he becomes

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Speaker 2: his acting coach, and it underscores This show underscores why

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Speaker 2: why when Marvel gets things right? And it also underscores

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Speaker 2: when they get things horribly wrong. You know, the best

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Speaker 2: Marvel movies are other kinds of movies, you know, genres

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Speaker 2: of movies that have the superhero element added in. Right,

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Speaker 2: So like ant Man, the original ant Man was a

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Speaker 2: heist comedy, but in the Marvel superhero mode, which was great.

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Speaker 2: And you know, Guardians of the Galaxy was this, you know,

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Speaker 2: tongue in cheek science fiction movie, but it's a Marvel movie.

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Speaker 2: And of course what made what made Guardians of the

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Speaker 2: Galaxy grate was was the soundtrack, uh, and the use

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Speaker 2: of that soundtrack in that way, and they did that

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Speaker 2: in other in other movies. You know, I will never

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Speaker 2: forget uh in I want to say it was the

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Speaker 2: first of the two I don't know one of the No, no,

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Speaker 2: it was the second of the two Infinity Wars movies

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Speaker 2: where where uh they're they're listening to the Kinks are

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Speaker 2: playing the beginning of that that second movie land which

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Speaker 2: one wasn't the last one that they did with the

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Speaker 2: with the second of the Fantos movies. You're gonna tell

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Speaker 2: me so, I'm gonna I'm gonna have the brain freeze anyway,

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Speaker 2: it starts off that one starts off with Dear Mister

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Speaker 2: Fantasy by traffic. By the way, if you don't know

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Speaker 2: anything about me, I can wax about about classic rock

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Speaker 2: music for hours on end.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: It's so funny because I'm in firm agreement. If you're

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Speaker 2: not familiar with a guy named Rick Biato b E

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Speaker 2: A t O. He's got a h a channel on

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Speaker 2: YouTube and which he talks extensively about music. He did

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Speaker 2: a whole series about why is this song great? He's

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Speaker 2: also done a couple of videos recently about why music

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Speaker 2: stinks right now? And I love it? But anyway, so

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Speaker 2: Marvel going back and and uh and doing using songs

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Speaker 2: like Dear Mister Fantasy as a way of sort of

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Speaker 2: reintroducing us to Tony Stark as iron Man. It was great.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know me, the other thing you're gonna

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Speaker 2: know about me from time to time. If you see

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Speaker 2: any major professional pictures of me, if you see me

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Speaker 2: out at events, my head shots, my professional headshots that

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Speaker 2: are online, you see a lapel pin, and yes, that

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Speaker 2: is a Captain America shield lapel pin. Why because anyway,

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Speaker 2: I use a curse word when I talk about this

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Speaker 2: that that statust you forget that statust iron Man. I

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Speaker 2: am Team Cap all the way. It's the libertarian in

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Speaker 2: me here. So anyway, So wonder Man is very meta.

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Speaker 2: It is about it. It's yes, it's kind of about

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Speaker 2: the superhero thing, but it's essentially a move. It's it's

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Speaker 2: a series about life in Hollywood as a struggling actor

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Speaker 2: and all the things struggling actors go through. But it

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Speaker 2: has this added element of the superpowers that he has

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Speaker 2: and why people are interested in his superpowers. So I

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Speaker 2: recommend to listen. I recommend it more highly than the

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Speaker 2: New Muppet Show. I don't know if any of you

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Speaker 2: have seen this New Muppet Show. I had high hopes obviously,

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Speaker 2: I mean, and it goes beyond listen. I have a

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Speaker 2: hard time getting beyond whoever it is who's now doing

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Speaker 2: Kermit's voice in some of the other voices. There was

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Speaker 2: a weird moment last week where Kermit went on The

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel Show, and I of course watched it. Understand,

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Speaker 2: Muppet's huge to me, very important to me. The Muppet

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Speaker 2: Show very important to me. The Muppet movie, you know,

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Speaker 2: the Rainbow Connection, great song, but the Muppet was just

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Speaker 2: a great movie and I don't know what happened with

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Speaker 2: Kermit's voice, but whoever they had doing Kermit's voice is

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Speaker 2: not the person they have doing Kermit's voice on the

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Speaker 2: show either. And so anyway, I had a real hard

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Speaker 2: time with the New Muppet Show, a real hard time

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Speaker 2: with it. I mean, there are things that I liked,

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Speaker 2: there are things that I didn't like. I didn't think

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Speaker 2: it was particularly funny. Some of it was kind of

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Speaker 2: off putting. Now I get it. There were adult jokes,

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Speaker 2: and I get that they're going after this nostalgia gen

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Speaker 2: X millennial gen Z audience to an extent, But you know,

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Speaker 2: some of the songs selections they were picking, by the way,

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Speaker 2: that's a whole other thing that I want to talk

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Speaker 2: about in the next segment. You know, when we start

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Speaker 2: off the next the next segment, I want to spend

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Speaker 2: some time talking about weird music in commercials. Get your

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Speaker 2: thoughts on this. Andrew Langer Radio at gmail dot com

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Speaker 2: as my email dress and Andrew Underscore Langer. I'm Andrew

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Speaker 2: Langer and for Tony Katz, I think we got it

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Speaker 2: work out. This is Tony Katz Today.

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Speaker 1: Live from the Heartland and the Crossroads of America. It's

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz Today. Okay, so now we can do a

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Speaker 1: total reset.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously don't dismiss my chat with Jared Rogers

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Speaker 2: in the first hour, but you know, now we can.

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Speaker 2: Now we can sort of get back to the swing

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Speaker 2: of things. Hey everybody, I'm Andrew Langer. I'm in for

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Speaker 2: Tony Kats today. Right here on Tony Katz Today, you

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Speaker 2: want to. Got a new email address set up just

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Speaker 2: for this. It's Andrew Langer Radio. L A N G

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Speaker 2: E R S. How he spelled my last name. So

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Speaker 2: Andrew Langer Radio all one word at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 2: You can also at me on x also known as Twitter.

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Speaker 2: Confuse my dad when I started talking about this, go ahead,

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Speaker 2: and it's at Andrew underscore Langer there. Believe me. Lord knows.

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Speaker 2: I know after Friday show there are lots of people

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Speaker 2: out there who can do this. So listen. Before we

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Speaker 2: went to the break, I open this up. You know,

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Speaker 2: my wife and I we try to enjoy some TV

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Speaker 2: time together and and you know I obviously we try

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Speaker 2: to fast forward through ads or watch content on platforms

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Speaker 2: that don't have ads, but sometimes you just can't avoid it.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I mean you like hearing, you like

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Speaker 2: hearing songs that you remember from your from your childhood.

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Speaker 2: You know, stuff is supposed to be evocative and nostalgic,

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Speaker 2: and there are all kinds of all kinds of ways

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Speaker 2: to do it, and the ad, you know, the music

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Speaker 2: and an ed should have something to do with it. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, I wanted to find it. And there's a

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Speaker 2: car commercial that's out there. When I go to Google,

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Speaker 2: it says that it's a Taco Bell commercial and I

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Speaker 2: asked my wife and she doesn't remember. But last night

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Speaker 2: watching an ad, I swear to god, it was a

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Speaker 2: mom in a mini van driving around and do you

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Speaker 2: land and you have do you have a Harvey Danger's

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Speaker 2: flag Pulsit a handy? All right? So I'm watching this

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Speaker 2: ad and it's not you're not hearing any of of

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Speaker 2: the lyrics, but you're hearing the music from this song

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Speaker 2: from nineteen ninety seven. I like the song, Don't get

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Speaker 2: me wrong, I love you know, I loved it was

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Speaker 2: like the one hit and apparently the band just never

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Speaker 2: did anything after that. But go ahead, landon play Harvey

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Speaker 2: Danger's Flag Pulson. If you don't know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: This is what it is. Listen. It's a great tune.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a great tune for hitting the open road.

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Speaker 2: I guess you know it just it's got that dry

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Speaker 2: and listen. Don't get me wrong, I love music setting

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Speaker 2: a mood. I'm just talking about this with regards to

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Speaker 2: the Marvel movies. It's all wonderful here. But you know,

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Speaker 2: a song in which the guy is talking about or

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Speaker 2: we can end it there which the guy is sort

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Speaker 2: of Landa is not familiar the song, so lend you

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Speaker 2: should go watch, you know, listen to the song, see it.

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Speaker 2: Look at the lyrics. A good chunk of this. It's

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Speaker 2: about a disaffected guy, probably with ADHD who who who

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Speaker 2: essentially is engaging in various acts of self abuse or

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Speaker 2: self gratification. So that's that's the one it And then

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Speaker 2: we're also watching and an ad for Rover comes on.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you're familiar with Rover. I have

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Speaker 2: used this service. It's a pet sitting service. Essentially, it's

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Speaker 2: like an uber for getting someone to, you know, watch

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Speaker 2: your dog or cat walk your dog. You know, if

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Speaker 2: your dog sitting service during the day, doggie daycare, that

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Speaker 2: kind of things. But but I'm like listening to this music.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, let's go ahead and play. This is the ad, right,

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Speaker 2: go ahead and play the ad.

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Speaker 10: Land A nasty girl, Nasty up? A nasty girl is

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Speaker 10: somebody gonna met math freak?

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Speaker 6: Is somebody gonna met math Creek?

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Speaker 2: Okay, we can end it there now. Listen. I'm no prude.

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Speaker 2: It's tend to lead with my with my libertarian leg

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Speaker 2: on these kinds of things, believe me. But I don't

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Speaker 2: understand what this has to do with a with a

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Speaker 2: pet ad. I don't understand. I mean, I get it's

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Speaker 2: the match. You're trying to match your your pet, which

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Speaker 2: I guess is some as I mentioned, is some measure

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Speaker 2: your freak, which is not how I kind of think

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Speaker 2: about this. I don't. I don't sometimes I don't understand

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Speaker 2: what is happening with this world right there is there

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Speaker 2: is a clearly been a glitch in the matrix, and

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Speaker 2: something has gone very much awry. And I'd like to

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Speaker 2: know what the universe is, Where is the alternative Earth,

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Speaker 2: where where this is not happening, where it's just everything

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Speaker 2: is just normal, That's all I want to know. Where

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Speaker 2: we're not having songs about, you know, to match your

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Speaker 2: freak with a nasty girl as a pet walking ad. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about it. So clearly Rover's getting the play

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Speaker 2: in this. And this is not me saying don't use Rover,

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Speaker 2: though now I think I may be rethinking it, because

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Speaker 2: Lord knows, I don't want those kinds of folks babysitting

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Speaker 2: my pets. That's a very very odd thing. Now, listen,

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Speaker 2: I do want to talk about this. Yesterday there was

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Speaker 2: big news out of Washington, d C. Not unexpected. We

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Speaker 2: knew that this was coming. The Washington Post engaging in massive,

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Speaker 2: massive layoffs and lots of discussion here. Now you know,

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Speaker 2: the Washington Post has had it's had a journey. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: there were two daily papers of recording in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: For a very long time. Obviously, Washington Post hit its

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Speaker 2: international heyday with the Watergate scandal and the work of

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Speaker 2: Woodward and Bernstein, you know, Ben Bradley, Catherine Graham. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is these are these are people who have had

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Speaker 2: storied careers. Well, they laid off a bunch of folks yesterday.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to the why in a second, but here

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Speaker 2: is Nancy Pelosi again, because we want to continue with

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Speaker 2: the comedy. Nancy Pelosi speaking out of both sides of

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Speaker 2: her mouth. I know it's hard, given all of the

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Speaker 2: work that she's had to do that, nevertheless, she's trying.

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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and play cut number five.

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Speaker 12: I free press cannot fulfill its mission if it is

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Speaker 12: starved at its resources.

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Speaker 9: It needs to survive. And when the.

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Speaker 7: Newsrooms are weakened, our republic is weakened with it.

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Speaker 13: Because democracy, because democracy dies in darkness.

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Speaker 9: Are are we all ready to say that together? Democracy

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Speaker 9: dies in darkness? Democracy dies in darkness.

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Speaker 2: You know something, You know, it's fascinating. Stick with me

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Speaker 2: for a second, because I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot and

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Speaker 2: and you're gonna you're gonna wonder why I'm pivoting in

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Speaker 2: this way. I remember when when we were initially talking

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Speaker 2: as a society about the dangers of the incandescent light bulb. Right,

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Speaker 2: this miraculous invention, uh, the incandescent light bulb. You have

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Speaker 2: screw it in, you turn it on, and it gives

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Speaker 2: you this great bright, natural light. And and the left

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Speaker 2: didn't like it, so they were insisting that we use

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Speaker 2: these things called compact fluorescent bulbs. You remember these bulbs.

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Speaker 2: They were supposed to last longer than ever did. And

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Speaker 2: this is not me saying I do like led lights.

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Speaker 2: Set that aside, but the but the the compact fluorescent bulb.

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Speaker 2: I am not a particularly religious person, but I used

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Speaker 2: to call these if Satan had had wanted to invent

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Speaker 2: a light bulb, he couldn't have done a better job

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Speaker 2: than the compat pack fluorescent bulb because they gave bad light. Right,

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Speaker 2: you could go blind using them. They they damaged skin

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Speaker 2: apparently if you try to use them, and you couldn't

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Speaker 2: dispose of them, right if they didn't last as long

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Speaker 2: as they were proclaimed to promise to last. When I

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Speaker 2: hear Nancy Pelosi talk about democracy dies in darkness, I

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Speaker 2: think about an outlet like the Washington Post and the

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Speaker 2: supposed light that they shine on things, And all I

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Speaker 2: can think about is the fact that it is the

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Speaker 2: light from a compact fluorescent bulb. And what I mean

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Speaker 2: by that is that it is It may appear to

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Speaker 2: brighten things up, but what it does is distort, and

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Speaker 2: it damages. And you know by that. Here's a supercut

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Speaker 2: was put together by a guy named Mays Moore on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: This is some examples of Washington Post reporting, specifically having

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Speaker 2: to do with the Russian collusion hoax. Let's go on,

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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and play cut number six.

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Speaker 14: Russian President Vladimir Putin gave direct instructions to help elect

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Speaker 14: Donald Trump president. According to a Washington Post investigation, Former

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Speaker 14: President Obama received a secret CIA report in August. That

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Speaker 14: report quote captured Putin's specific instructions on the operations audacious

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Speaker 14: objectives defeat or at least damage the Democratic nomine Hillary Clinton.

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Speaker 15: This morning, the Washington Post is reporting that US intelligence

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Speaker 15: agencies had sourcing deep inside the Russian government, capturing Putin's

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Speaker 15: direct instructions in the operation. Obama officials felt that their

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Speaker 15: effort to expel Russian diplomat in retaliation was undermined by

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Speaker 15: the incoming administration right.

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Speaker 2: Which then, by the way, later later expelled a huge

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Speaker 2: number of diplomats and got really tough on Russia. But

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Speaker 2: the point at the end of the day is that yes,

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Speaker 2: democracy dies in darkness, but it also dies in false

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Speaker 2: light that is masquerading as some kind of truth bringing right.

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Speaker 2: That hastens that demise when you have someone sort of

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Speaker 2: putting themselves out there as a being enlightened and engaging

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Speaker 2: in enlightening behavior when they are doing just the opposite.

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Speaker 2: When they are all they are trying to do is

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Speaker 2: confuse and confound and tear down. By the way, the

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Speaker 2: reason why the Washington Posts had to fire a bunch

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Speaker 2: of folks is because they got away from their core mission.

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Speaker 2: You know, at the end of the day, nobody is

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Speaker 2: these days, nobody needs to go to the Washington Post

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Speaker 2: for news about what's going on in Moscow or news

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Speaker 2: about what's going on in Cairo or wherever. On foreign soils.

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Speaker 2: You're spending huge amounts of money to spend send people abroad.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's funny if you listen to WIBC and

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Speaker 2: I know I'm I'm you know, I'm someone who comes

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Speaker 2: in from from the outside. But the reason why stations

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Speaker 2: like IBC, and why so many in the Tony Kats

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Speaker 2: Today network exist is because they focus on local news.

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Speaker 2: And when you get away from focusing on local news,

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Speaker 2: you give folks less of a reason to tune in. Right,

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Speaker 2: They're not going to tune into the international stuff because

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Speaker 2: they can go to, you know, somebody else who is

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Speaker 2: a more recognized expert on the ground. In those foreign

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Speaker 2: capitals to get that news, and really, when your whole

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Speaker 2: purpose is to exist to tear down Yeah, sure, you've

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Speaker 2: got a huge amount of a DC audience that wants

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Speaker 2: to see how you're going to poke at how you're

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Speaker 2: going to poke at the Trump administration or whomever. But

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Speaker 2: you have so many other competitors in this marketplace that'll

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Speaker 2: do it, so you have to offer up something else.

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Speaker 2: In any case, Listen, I want to start to get

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Speaker 2: into what's going on with the President and the prayer

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Speaker 2: breakfast and the President and his appearance on this NBC

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Speaker 2: news situation. So more of that in a moment. I'm

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Speaker 2: Andrew Langer. This is Tony Katz today. You know, you

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Speaker 2: talk about things off the air, and I get it's

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Speaker 2: to be dangerous for me to go down this road

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Speaker 2: because we saw what happened the last time. By the way,

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Speaker 2: a nice shout out from listener, hold on, hold on

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Speaker 2: the listener stamp Jay stamped Junior stamp jr Uh giving

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Speaker 2: Rick Biano a shout out from me, which is really nice.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for that, my friend. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: You know, you go through and you look at stuff

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Speaker 2: and I'm scrolling through social media, and I was just

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Speaker 2: starting to tell end in this story. You know, you see, folks,

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Speaker 2: obviously we we we've reconnected with people and stuff comes

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Speaker 2: up and you never know where it's going to go.

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Speaker 2: And I don't believe in a sort of a mass collective,

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Speaker 2: unconscious or subconscious whatever, but stuff, you know, has a

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Speaker 2: way of trickling through. The other day, someone one of

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Speaker 2: my college classmates, I went to William and Mary. I

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Speaker 2: think I think I may have mentioned this on the air.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting story to tell. Went to William Mary

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Speaker 2: graduated in the early nineties, and I guess somebody is

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Speaker 2: doing some kind of queer history William and Mary, I know,

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Speaker 2: say which you will there make the appropriate motions with

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Speaker 2: your hands about that. But I made a tongue in

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Speaker 2: cheek joke because the student body president and William and

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Speaker 2: Mary at the time, was in the closet. But we

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Speaker 2: all knew him. It was like a secret. We all

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Speaker 2: knew about it. And I made a joke. You know that,

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Speaker 2: Oh I think, you know, I think that the president's

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Speaker 2: student body was gay, and you know, I don't know

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Speaker 2: whatever happened to him. His name was Joe something, and

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Speaker 2: someone else popped in because he was involved in this

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Speaker 2: murder situation, which became the subject of a documentary. It's

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Speaker 2: the documentaries on Peacock. Thank you Landon for pointing that

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Speaker 2: out to me, because I thought it was on Netflix,

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Speaker 2: but it's on Peacock. It's called Who Murdered Robert Wan?

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Speaker 2: W one Who Murdered Robert Wan And it's a bizarre,

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Speaker 2: fascinating story. I was starting to tell it to Lendon

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Speaker 2: to figure out tell the story on the air, and

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Speaker 2: I was just making a stupid joke, because that's the

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Speaker 2: kind of stupid joke that I'm going to make to people,

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Speaker 2: you know, and especially in these kinds of situations. What

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Speaker 2: was strange is that a couple of days later, another

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Speaker 2: classmate of mine, actually someone who's a couple of years

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Speaker 2: behind me, posted a picture of her with this guy,

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Speaker 2: Joe Price, at a party in the early nineteen nineties,

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Speaker 2: and it was like, this is a really strange thing

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Speaker 2: to say. Let me tell you the story. You go

858
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 2: and watch the Netflix documentary Who Murdered Robert wand WLNA

859
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 2: because it's well worth well worth seeing. For me, it's maddening,

860
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 2: it's frustrating because you know, again, you know you know

861
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 2: the people. Robert Wan was a lawyer, and he was

862
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 2: having this great career in DC, moving up in the world.

863
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 2: He was meeting the right people he had been. He

864
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 2: had been tasked with becoming the general counsel at Radio

865
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 2: Free Asia, which, if you're not familiar with it, for

866
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 2: a long time the Voice of America, which was the

867
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 2: sort of the US government officially US government sponsored media.

868
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 2: They would broadcast to places like Asia and places like

869
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 2: the Russian Soviet Communist controlled Europe. Radio for Europe was

870
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 2: very important, and so Robert decided he wanted to meet

871
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 2: with the staff at Radio Free Asia. And because there

872
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 2: was so much of the broadcasting was done at odd times,

873
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 2: you know, they were on a Pacific time, at a

874
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 2: Pacific like Pacific rim time, Asia time. So he came

875
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 2: in at night to meet the staff and to talk

876
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 2: to them, and then he decided to stay in town.

877
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 2: I do this, you know, I go to DC. I

878
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 2: live I live far enough outside of DC that if

879
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 2: I have meetings the night before and events the night before,

880
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 2: and I got events in the morning, I'll stay. I'll

881
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 2: stay in town. It's just easier that way. Well, he

882
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,879
Speaker 2: decides to stay at this guy Joe Price's house, and

883
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 2: this is where the story gets now. Joe was living

884
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 2: in a house with two other men and apparently was

885
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 2: involved with both of them in what was an early

886
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 2: description of what they call a threuple, a three way couple.

887
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 2: I know that sounds like a contradiction. Ostensibly married to

888
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 2: a lobbyist, but involved in a BDSM relationship with another

889
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 2: person living in the house. Robert goes to the house,

890
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 2: arrives at around ten o'clock that night, and sometime between

891
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: ten pm and midnight, somebody, I'm using air quotes here,

892
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 2: but you can't see it because I'm on the radio,

893
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 2: somebody discovers that Robert has been stabbed three times, which

894
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 2: is important. If you ask a buddy of mine who

895
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 2: writes for Hollywood, you know, weird humble brag there, who said,

896
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 2: you know the fact that there were three men in

897
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 2: the house and there are three stab wounds to him,

898
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 2: that was very that was very telling. But the body

899
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 2: had been cleaned up. The men were all in a

900
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 2: freshly laundered white robes. They're very clear that there had

901
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 2: been major cleanup done where the crime scene was. The

902
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 2: body was essentially laying there with this his hands across

903
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 2: his chest. There was no sign, no pun intended forced

904
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 2: entry into the house, no sign of an actual struggle,

905
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 2: and it just gets stranger and stranger as at all

906
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 2: goes on this weird story. And the three men, none

907
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:23,879
Speaker 2: of them charged with murder, all charged with obstruction of justice,

908
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 2: and all of them were acquitted, and they wound up

909
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 2: and wound up not being a jury trial. Two of

910
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 2: these guys were lawyers, major lawyers. The guy I knew

911
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:36,320
Speaker 2: Joe Price had built up a practice with a I

912
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 2: would say, not not the prominent prominent law firm in

913
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 2: d C. But let's say a second level a law

914
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 2: firm in d C doing lgbt Q I a equality law.

915
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,720
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, you know that he was working with talented

916
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:57,240
Speaker 2: lawyers and had decided, you know, they've made the conscious decision.

917
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 2: Turns out rightly so for them, strategic decision to just

918
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 2: have the judge oversee the case and not have a jury.

919
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 2: And because the prosecutor and the DC police bungled this,

920
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 2: they bungled the crime scene, they bungled the aftermath. Uh

921
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 2: and because the prosecutor couldn't prove which one of them

922
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 2: is specifically had obstructed justice, they all got off scot free.

923
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 2: It's it is a it is a crazy story. Later on, uh,

924
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 2: Joe tried to change his name and he tried to

925
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 2: get a job. He couldn't practice law over again, but

926
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 2: he was doing consulting. I mean it was let me

927
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 2: tell you something, and there was a there may still

928
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 2: very well be the the blog up there, the who

929
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 2: killed Robert Wan again? W o ny blog. You can

930
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 2: go and check that out where they went through it.

931
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 2: I mean, if you if you don't, if you're if

932
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,839
Speaker 2: you have a weak stomach, don't read through the indictment,

933
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 2: don't read through what the themound. I mean, allegedly the

934
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 2: victim was given some kind of a paralytic so that

935
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 2: he couldn't fight back. It was. It was a strange,

936
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 2: a very strange set of circumstances. And I just don't

937
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 2: understand for the life of me why this person on

938
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 2: Facebook was posting a picture of her with with this

939
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 2: and she knew the victim too. I mean, you know,

940
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 2: we all, we all did. I knew him, I knew

941
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 2: I knew the knew the alleged perpetrator. I knew the

942
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 2: victim as well. Very very sad set of circumstances listen,

943
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 2: what's not a sad set of circumstances of the National

944
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 2: Prayer Breakfast that happened today. So we're going to go

945
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 2: there next. I am Andrew Langer and for Tony Kats today.

946
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 2: This is Tony Kats Today. We're back. I am Andrew

947
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 2: Langer in for Tony Katz today. Yeah, we've gotten things

948
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 2: settled down here, so listen. The today's National Day Prayer

949
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 2: National Prayer Breakfast was today the President spoke. Before we

950
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 2: get into what the President had to say, I want

951
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 2: to start here because Chuck Schumer obviously there's a whole

952
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:08,399
Speaker 2: debate over the Save Act, which is this idea that, oh,

953
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe the federal government should say that

954
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 2: you need to present an ID when you go to vote,

955
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 2: and that's what they want to do here. And of

956
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 2: course Democrats don't like that. We know there are all

957
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 2: kinds of reasons why Democrats don't like that. If you

958
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 2: want to, you want to want to see you ask me, Andrew,

959
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 2: why don't democrats like this? You can you can message

960
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 2: me at on Twitter at Andrew Underscore Langer. You can

961
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 2: also email me Andrew Langer Radio at gmail dot com.

962
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 2: Go ahead and do that. But but you know, Chuck

963
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 2: Schumer has been asked about this, he keeps calling it

964
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 2: Jim Crow two point zero. Here goes on M Snow

965
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 2: as I call ms now used to be MSNBC M

966
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 2: Snow this morning. Here, Chuck Schumer, let's play couch the leader, Schumer.

967
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 16: This talk about election security has revived discussions of the Save.

968
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 2: Act, which you have said you oppose.

969
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 16: Proponents of it say that it's you know, to have

970
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 16: I do you have to prove you a citizenship to

971
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 16: be able to vote, though some of.

972
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 2: The claims they make, to be clear, are overstated.

973
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 16: We know there's not widespread election fraud, but polling does

974
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 16: egggerate them. You pe research poll that ninety five percent

975
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 16: of Republicans but also seventy one percent of Democrats like

976
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 16: this idea.

977
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 2: So why do you not?

978
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 17: It's Jim Crow two point zero And I called it

979
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 17: Jim Crow two point zero, and the right wing went

980
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 17: nuts all over the internet.

981
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 2: That's because they know it's true.

982
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 17: What they're trying to do here is the same thing

983
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 17: that was done in the South for decades to prove.

984
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 2: That okay, full stop, full stuff. No no, no, no, no,

985
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 2: that's not the way it works. Oh my god, Wow,

986
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 2: you called a Jim Crow two point zero because you

987
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 2: knew it would anger all kinds of Republicans. Why, because

988
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 2: to be called a racist in America in twenty twenty

989
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 2: six and for many many years is and rightly one

990
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 2: of the worst things you can call somebody. I mean,

991
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 2: setting aside the fact that what he's saying is completely ridiculous,

992
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 2: which is why seventy percent of Democrats support it, the evidence.

993
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:15,919
Speaker 2: We're gonna get into what Nicole Wallace had to say

994
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 2: about violence later on, but the evidence certainly points to

995
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 2: the contrary. I mean, wow, no, you know. The case

996
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:30,439
Speaker 2: in point is Georgia, right, Georgia the enacted this voter

997
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 2: ID requirement the Major League Baseball. Oh my god, this

998
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 2: is Jim Crow two point zho, we got a we

999
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 2: can't have the All Star Game in Georgia. They pull

1000
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 2: it out. They but then, of course what happens actions

1001
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 2: more votes cast than ever, more votes than ever, And

1002
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 2: that's that's just it. So the idea that it prevents

1003
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 2: people from voting is hogwash. And let mean, let me

1004
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 2: say this much for the amount of money that we

1005
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 2: are spending, I'm sorry, the Democrats are spending on pushing

1006
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 2: back on voter ID, which this really isn't even a problem.

1007
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 2: But well, first of all, it's not really a problem,

1008
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 2: then then you shouldn't then you shouldn't have a problem

1009
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 2: with it. But you know it's a problem. But if

1010
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 2: you think that that certain, if you have the bigoted expectations, right,

1011
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 2: the soft bigotry of low expectations, that you think a

1012
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 2: certain percentage of your voting electorate can't get voter ID

1013
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, which again is hogwash. But let's assume

1014
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 2: that it was true for the sake of argument. Then

1015
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 2: the money that you're spending on pushing back on this,

1016
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 2: the money that you might spend on lawsuits that are fruitless,

1017
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 2: the money you're spending on ads, how about this? Want

1018
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 2: just spend that money on getting people ID because they

1019
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 2: need it for everything else. Let's have a national ID

1020
00:59:55,560 --> 01:00:00,479
Speaker 2: initiative that's out there. I mean it, Oh my god,

1021
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 2: it is. It is just crazy. The president. So here's

1022
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 2: my point, Chuck Shermer says this. The President is at

1023
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 2: the National Prayer Breakfast this morning. He had this to say.

1024
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and play cut number nine.

1025
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 12: It polls at ninety seven percent, and even the Democrat.

1026
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 9: The people, the voters are eighty two percent for voter

1027
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 9: I D.

1028
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 12: But the leaders don't want to approve it, and they

1029
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 12: said they will strike.

1030
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 2: They will not allow it to happen.

1031
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 9: It's pulling it over ninety percent.

1032
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 2: It's called voter identification.

1033
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 12: When you go to the polls, you show if yes,

1034
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 12: my name is Soso and I live in the country,

1035
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 12: I'm here, I can vote.

1036
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 2: They said that's not allowed.

1037
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 12: And everyone started to figure it out, and they do

1038
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 12: something to win, you know what it is.

1039
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 2: They cheat.

1040
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 9: But let's get on to another subject.

1041
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 2: All right, we can end it there, so it was

1042
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 2: ending anyway. I mean, listen, this would never happen. I mean,

1043
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 2: this is the United States of America. But we would

1044
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 2: never have a situation in which one party in power

1045
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 2: would allow millions of people to enter the country illegally.

1046
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,439
Speaker 2: We would never allow that to happen, and we would

1047
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 2: we would also that same party would also never would

1048
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 2: never allow it to happen. Where they would they would

1049
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 2: then say, okay, we want to make it easier for

1050
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 2: anybody to vote. We want to make it easy for

1051
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 2: you to get a driver's license owned by the way,

1052
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 2: We're going to make it so when you go and

1053
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 2: get your driver's license, we're going to offer you the

1054
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 2: opportunity to register to vote. It would never happen in America.

1055
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 2: It would never happened that if someone was given the

1056
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 2: voter registration card and they knew that they were ineligible,

1057
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 2: none of them would ever take the voter registration card

1058
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 2: and fill it out. Now, this would never happen in America. Okay,

1059
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 2: we all know that all of those things wouldn't have happened.

1060
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 2: And again, even if it's not quote unquote widespread, whatever

1061
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 2: that means, the reality is our elections are so tight,

1062
01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 2: and our legislative majorities are so tight that a handful

1063
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 2: of voters moving from Columnae to columb or inserting a

1064
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 2: handful of voters into column A or columb changes elections drastically.

1065
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 2: And so if you have a state like Texas, or

1066
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 2: a state like Arizona, or state like Nevada, state like California, right,

1067
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 2: Jerry Rogers was talking about this earlier the Gerryman during situation.

1068
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 2: You know, having a few one hundred thousand people, a

1069
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 2: few thousand people can can massively change the policy trajectory

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Speaker 2: of this country. Speaking of which, by the way, there

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Speaker 2: was a change in in trajectory when it comes to

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Speaker 2: religious freedom. The President talked about that earlier today as well.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to cut number ten.

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Speaker 12: Under the Trump administration was standing strongly behind the Americans

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Speaker 12: of faith, stopping the attacks on our values, our traditions,

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Speaker 12: defending religious liberty like no president I believe, like no

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Speaker 12: president is done before.

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Speaker 9: I do believe that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, it's a circumstance in which you know,

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Speaker 2: when I was doing regulatory policy before the president got

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Speaker 2: re elected in the fall of twenty twenty five fall

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, came into power in twenty twenty five,

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01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 2: had been charting what the Biden administration was doing on

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Speaker 2: a whole host of issues, including religious liberty issues, and

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Speaker 2: they were engaging on these issues in areas that you

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Speaker 2: never would have thought about. What do I mean by that?

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Speaker 2: I probably talked about this in the airwaves. One of

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Speaker 2: the things that came up was the Biden administration had

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Speaker 2: gone so far in there trying to change history. Now

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Speaker 2: right now, what are they trying to do. They're trying

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Speaker 2: to get Roberty Lee's name off of his house. It

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Speaker 2: was really his wife's house. The Custus Lee Mansion at

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Speaker 2: Arlington National Cemetery, trying to get Lee's name off of that.

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Speaker 2: But long before this, during the Biden administration. I don't

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Speaker 2: know how many of you are familiar with William Penn,

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Speaker 2: the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn's homestead. You know his

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01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 2: home in Philadelphia. It's not standing anymore, but the site

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Speaker 2: is there an important place for an important monument for

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Speaker 2: religious freedom in America. William Penn one of the earliest

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Speaker 2: proponents of religious freedom in America. The left wanted the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration wanted his statue removed when they were redoing

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Speaker 2: the William Penn Homestead site in Philadelphia. They wanted to

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Speaker 2: revert to what Billie Eilish was talking about in her

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Speaker 2: Grammy speech, the issue of stolen land. They wanted it

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Speaker 2: to be all about Native Americans and stolen land and

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Speaker 2: nothing about William Penn, one of the earliest champions of

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Speaker 2: religious freedom in America. And we pushed back against that.

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Speaker 2: But that's what we're talking about here. We're talking about,

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Speaker 2: you know, the weaponization of the criminal justice system against

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Speaker 2: religious advocates in America. You know, the designation of of

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Speaker 2: of uh religious advocates as extremist organizations engage in extremist activities. Right,

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Speaker 2: the Nicole Wallace is of the world. Are you know

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Speaker 2: She's not alone in saying that. You know, White Christian

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01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 2: nationalism is the greatest threat to blah blah blah and

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01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 2: so on and so forth. So it needs protecting and defending.

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Speaker 2: That's why today is the National Day of Prayer. We

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Speaker 2: have the National Prayer Breakfast that's out there. Listen, We're

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Speaker 2: going to talk more about the President and his interview

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Speaker 2: with NBC. I'm Andrew Langer. This is Tony Kats Today. Oh,

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Speaker 2: let the star I'm sorry, there you go. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be get all philosophical poetic and quote the

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Speaker 2: song and I butchered it immediately. Take two. Oh, let

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Speaker 2: the sun beat down upon my face with stars to

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Speaker 2: fill my dream. Good Lord, you know you just want

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Speaker 2: to You just want to go home sometimes and be done. Hi, everybody,

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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Langer in for Tony Kats Today. Listen. No

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Speaker 2: new real updates on the Savannah Guthrie mom murder, No sorry, kidnapping, abduction, knockwood,

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Speaker 2: knock veneer here. All I know is that when I

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01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 2: hear that Savannah Guthrie's sister and brother in law may

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Speaker 2: be involved. All I can think is that movie Fargo.

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01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 2: It's my deed Wade, It's my deal. That's what I

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01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 2: think is happening here. So yeah, great, thank you. So no, no,

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Speaker 2: no news there. The President is doing this interview on

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01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:35,720
Speaker 2: NBC News. Clips are trickling out on it. It's supposed

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01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:38,439
Speaker 2: to go up before the super Bowl. Jimmy Kimmel made

1136
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 2: was a Kimmel that was Fallon who made a joke

1137
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 2: last night about about Trump then taking credit for the

1138
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 2: super Bowl audience numbers. I'm not going to get into

1139
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 2: all of it right now, but I did. I did

1140
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:57,240
Speaker 2: want to play this. You know, there's been this discussion.

1141
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 2: We had a situation I want to say was it

1142
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:04,479
Speaker 2: was folks who were doing diplomatic work in Havana were

1143
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 2: complaining of feeling uneasy and there was some rumor of

1144
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 2: a of a sub sonic weapon, ultrasonic weapon, something that

1145
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 2: was that was messing with them. Well, apparently the US

1146
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 2: may have adopted this technology and they're calling it the discombobulator.

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01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 2: The President was asked about this in the interview. Here's

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Speaker 2: what he had to say. Let's play cut number fourteen.

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Speaker 17: You talked about the weapon, the discombobulator discombobulated.

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Speaker 12: Well, I'm not allowed to talk about it, but let

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01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 12: me just tell you none of their equipment works.

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01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 2: That's what it does.

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01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 9: Everything was it was my name. I'm very proud of

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01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 9: the name. Everything was discombobulated.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 12: You know, practically a shot wasn't you know? They were

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01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 12: ready and when we came.

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01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 2: You saw this on the video.

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01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 12: You could tell it discombobulated everything.

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01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 2: It disbobulated everybody.

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Speaker 12: Well, we lost no equipment in a very strong hand.

1162
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 12: They're good fighters, great fighters in a very bad environment.

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01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 12: It was a military base, the biggest in South America

1164
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 12: in a very because the house was in a base

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01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:19,680
Speaker 12: in South in a very very tough environment. We lost

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Speaker 12: no men and we lost no equipment.

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Speaker 9: The discombobulator just knocked that.

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Speaker 2: Well, it did something, you know something. Remember the summer

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four, how they're eating the dogs, they're

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01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 2: eating the cats. Was the jam of the summer. I

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01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 2: just want to hear a jam for all of you

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01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 2: music officionados out there, if you can, if you can

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01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 2: do this, a jam where it's just the president saying discombobulated.

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01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:47,520
Speaker 2: I could. I could listen to the President saying, discombobulated

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01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 2: until the cows come up, until the cows are discombobulated.

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Speaker 2: The president was also asked, we're going to get into

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Speaker 2: the big thing of what everybody's saying. But the president

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01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 2: was also asked about how he feels he's eighty, and

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Speaker 2: I'm going to say it again. You know, eighty for

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01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,759
Speaker 2: Donald Trump very different than eighty was for Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and play cut number thirteen.

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Speaker 16: We first met ten years ago, when you're running the

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Speaker 16: first time, how do you feel now as you approach eighty.

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Speaker 12: I feel great, I mean physically and mentally.

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Speaker 9: I feel like I did fifty years ago. It's crazy.

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Speaker 12: Now there'll be a time when I won't be able

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Speaker 12: to give you that answer, but that time has income.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, I think that's that's true for

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Speaker 2: a lot of us. God, I was just talking to

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Speaker 2: somebody about the Actually, I'll say this much. I'm hanging

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Speaker 2: out with a friend of mine tonight, going to a

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01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 2: hockey game, and I'm going with someone I've known since kindergarten.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think back on just how many

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01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:52,439
Speaker 2: years that is how long I've known this person. And

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Speaker 2: I can't wrap my head around that. It does not

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01:09:55,680 --> 01:10:00,000
Speaker 2: feel like I it's possible for me to have known

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Speaker 2: own this person for for that long I was talking

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Speaker 2: to somebody else, right. You know, as you as you

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Speaker 2: get older, time seems to accelerate. You know, there's some

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Speaker 2: there's some kind of Einstein theory of relativity at work here,

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01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:19,400
Speaker 2: where as you get older, the clock seems to move faster.

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01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 2: We are one a full one twelfth I think I

1203
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 2: said this on the air last week, A full one

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01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 2: twelfth into uh into twenty twenty six. I don't know

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01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 2: how that's possible. And we're in the shortest month of

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01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 2: the year, which is which is a whole other part

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01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 2: of this. But I get it, man, I I literally

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01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:42,599
Speaker 2: I I you know the age that I am, I

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01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 2: certainly don't feel every once in a while that's sort

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01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 2: of the aches and pains. I had a major major

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01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:55,680
Speaker 2: achilles issue almost two years ago. Sadly enough that that

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01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 2: that put up you know, underscored you know, you know

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Speaker 2: my age. But I certainly don't feel materially any different

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01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 2: than I did when I was in my thirties. I

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01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 2: would I would say, maybe a little different than I

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01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 2: feel that. I felt like I feel like I'm in

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Speaker 2: my twenties when I was in my twenties, So I

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01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:19,120
Speaker 2: get it, mister Presnell. Listen, there was a one comment

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Speaker 2: on this news show that was that was dropped last

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Speaker 2: night that of course has the nattering nabobs of negativity

1221
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 2: all up in arms. So you know, after the news,

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01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna talk about that. Plus fireworks at

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01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 2: hearing Scott, the scent was up at was up on

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Speaker 2: the hill, and a couple of members of Congress, including

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01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 2: Maxine Waters, tried to dunk on him. It didn't quite

1226
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 2: go so well. So we're gonna listen to those things.

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Speaker 2: Plus you know what, listen. Want to hear from you,

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Speaker 2: Facebook dot com, slash Andrew Langer Show at Andrew Underscore

1229
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 2: Langer on Twitter, and the new email address Andrew Langer

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Speaker 2: Radio at gmail dot com. I'm Andrew Langer. This is

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Speaker 2: Tony Katz Today.

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Speaker 1: Live from dal Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America.

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Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz Today. Well, hey everybody, I am Andrew

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01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 2: Langer in for Tony Katz Today on Tony Kats Today.

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01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 2: Tony feeling a little unto the weather. So he uh

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01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 2: reached out to me this morning. Oh boy, And apart

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Speaker 2: from some technical difficulties early on in the show, I

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01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 2: think we've got it all worked out. You can join

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01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 2: the conversation here. In fact, you have something, I'll open

1240
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 2: up the phones too, phone number here if you want

1241
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,719
Speaker 2: to call three one seven six four three eighty seven hundred.

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Speaker 2: Actually want to get your take on what I'm about

1243
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 2: to play. Uh, three one seven six four three eighty

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01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 2: seven hundred, because this is the clip that everybody's talking

1245
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 2: about right now about President Trump. You can also email

1246
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 2: me Andrew Langer Radio at gmail dot com and at

1247
01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 2: me on on x at Andrew Underscore Langer. So the

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01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 2: President is doing this big exclusive interview with NBC News

1249
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 2: in advance of the super Bowl, or as I call it,

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01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 2: the superb Owl. You know something, Land that I messed up.

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01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 2: I should have spent a lot of time talking about

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01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 2: superb Owl Sunday, because that's what it is. It's all

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01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 2: about finding the superb Owl. You can figure it out,

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01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 2: write it down and you'll see what I mean. Thank you,

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01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 2: lad that gets the joke. But they got asked the question,

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01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 2: Oh good lord, you know they asked the question because

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01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 2: they want the answer, right. They want the answer because

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01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 2: they want to be able to talk about the answer.

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Speaker 2: So here's here's Donald Trump asking. He asked about the

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Speaker 2: third term of Donald Trump. Let's hit cut number twelve.

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Speaker 16: On January twenty first, twenty twenty nine. Do you see

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01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 16: any scenario where you are still president?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 12: It would be interesting, wouldn't it be terrible if I

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01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 12: agreed with you, know, if I gave you the answer

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01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:00,000
Speaker 12: that you're looking for, it would make life so much

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01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 12: less exciting. It would be so much less exciting. But

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Speaker 12: I only do this for one reason, make America great again.

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Speaker 9: And that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 12: We're making America grade again, greater than ever before. Our

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Speaker 12: country is greater than ever before.

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Speaker 2: We can edit there. He didn't say no. That's that's

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Speaker 2: what they're gonna say. He didn't say no. He didn't

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Speaker 2: rule it out. He's a fascist. He's gonna maintain.

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Speaker 9: He's gonna be unparrable good.

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Speaker 2: He says these things to get them moves, and it's

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Speaker 2: like it's like it's like a check Schumer calling the

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Speaker 2: Save Act Jim Crow two point oh. He wants to

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Speaker 2: get people spun up. He knows it's not Jim Crow

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Speaker 2: two point oh. He knows at the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: He knows at the end of the day that that it,

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Speaker 2: you know, requiring voter I D makes elections more secure

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Speaker 2: and that makes them worse for Democrats. Blah blah bah

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Speaker 2: so and so forth. But you know, he says these things,

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Speaker 2: brotherand TRUMPO. I'm not sure which answer would make it

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Speaker 2: less interesting. I mean, it's an odd way of sort

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Speaker 2: of phrasing it, but he's he's hedging to get people

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Speaker 2: spun up about these things. Yeah, it's like I think

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Speaker 2: I told you guys last week. I did German TV

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, a TV show called Meshburger. Meshburger.

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Speaker 2: It's on Twitter. I tweeted it out so you can

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Speaker 2: go check out my appearance, which is very odd. It

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Speaker 2: showed it to I think to one of my siblings

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Speaker 2: and like, wait, wait, it's very strange watching you with

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Speaker 2: the German hearing your voice but hearing the German translation.

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Speaker 2: But the point is they were all spun up about Greenland.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump He's going to invade Greenland. He's not ruling

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Speaker 2: out invading Greenland. He's gonna invent Greenland, the fascist, fastiest,

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Speaker 2: fastiest hitler hitlert. No, No, he was never gonna he

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Speaker 2: was never gonna invade Greenland. That was never on the table, never.

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Speaker 2: But what he wanted was the best deal. Now, I'm

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Speaker 2: not saying that he's trying to get the best deal

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01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,520
Speaker 2: out of this. That's not you know why he's doing this.

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Speaker 2: This is just because he knows that people get spun

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Speaker 2: up when he says these things. So, but that's the

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Speaker 2: one everybody's talking about. Now, what's really interesting because the

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Speaker 2: conversation turns to Minneapolis, and as somebody else, as other

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Speaker 2: folks that pointed, and I'm not saying that this is

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Speaker 2: all a conspiracy theory, that's all, I'm sorry, all a

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Speaker 2: conspiracy that all of the unrest in Minnesota has been

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Speaker 2: a conspiracy to get people's minds taken off of the fraud.

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Speaker 2: Other folks have suggested that. But the President brought up

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Speaker 2: the issue of fraud in Minnesota. Let's go ahead and

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Speaker 2: play cut number fifteen.

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Speaker 12: Minnesota and these other states, we have massive investigations going

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Speaker 12: into fraudeh You know, if we captured fifty percent of

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01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 12: the fraud of this country right now, we would have

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Speaker 12: better than a balanced budget.

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Speaker 9: And you got to mention.

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Speaker 12: That in Minnesota, nineteen billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: In fraud that we know of. You. Now, let's let's

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to say let's assume from them that

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Speaker 2: every state has that, because some states will have more,

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Speaker 2: some states will have less. But you know, the reality is,

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Speaker 2: let's sort of talk about a general principle of public policy.

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Speaker 2: The more of an ability that the government has to

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Speaker 2: move massive amounts of cash, in whatever amounts small or large,

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Speaker 2: whenever government has the ability to pick winners and losers

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Speaker 2: in a marketplace, but whenever government has the ability to

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Speaker 2: transfer cash out of the treasury into the hands of people,

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Speaker 2: into the pockets of people directly like this, the more

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Speaker 2: fraud and corruption you have. That's just the way it works, right.

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Speaker 2: Government can can pick and choose winners and losers in

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Speaker 2: a particular contractor or business. Businesses survive or fail based

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01:17:56,360 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 2: upon this. That's where corruption comes in. And so you

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Speaker 2: see these circumstances in which democrats are always calling for

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Speaker 2: direct infusions of cash into people's pockets, you know, whether

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Speaker 2: it's universal basic income or something else. And invariably there

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Speaker 2: are massive amounts of fraud that occur, right, and it's

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Speaker 2: worse when there's some kind of an emergency that is

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01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 2: at work these days. Now, I'm not saying that every

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01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 2: bureaucrat is lazy, infect I know that that's not the case,

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Speaker 2: but there are so many who are working in government

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Speaker 2: who don't actually want to do their jobs, and their

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Speaker 2: job being checking up on the people who are receiving

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Speaker 2: the money that the government is administering and giving to people,

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Speaker 2: that it becomes it's like mister hand in fast times,

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01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:54,040
Speaker 2: ridgemon high. You pretend you pretend they don't see you,

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01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 2: they pretend you don't ditch, and who winds up losing

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01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,600
Speaker 2: out you? They preen, They pretend that the fraud is

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Speaker 2: not being fraudulently given, and the fraudsters pretend that they're

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Speaker 2: not having it being given to them in a fraudulent manner.

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Speaker 2: I know that's a butchering way of saying this, but

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Speaker 2: this is why Democrats are constantly calling for finding ways

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01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,479
Speaker 2: to engage in this massive transfusion. I give you a

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01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:25,519
Speaker 2: really good example. You know it drove me up the wall.

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Speaker 2: I was very yours a couple of weeks ago, and

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Speaker 2: I was talking about this, the issue of credit cards

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Speaker 2: a I've had a couple of pieces published on the

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Speaker 2: issue of credit card interest rates and Donald Trump wanted

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01:19:36,080 --> 01:19:38,879
Speaker 2: to cap it and talking about the issue of Elizabeth

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01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 2: Warren and Bernie Sanders and AOC. They want to wreck

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01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 2: the financial loan system in America because they want to

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01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 2: see it replaced by some government run enterprise. Again, sounds

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01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 2: like a conspiracy theory, but you go back and look

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Speaker 2: right what they would want to do. They want to

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Speaker 2: get rid of, for instance, pay day landers, not like

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01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:02,720
Speaker 2: pay day lenders, or as I call them, short term

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01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 2: high risk lenders, right where your credit worthiness is carefully

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Speaker 2: determined and because you are a greater credit risk, and

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Speaker 2: because the loan you're getting is sometimes it's secured by

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Speaker 2: a car note, sometimes it's not, but the interest rates

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Speaker 2: are higher because you are a risk. Well, they want

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Speaker 2: to get rid of them. What do they want to

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Speaker 2: replace it with some kind of a system administered by

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01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 2: the Post Office, so a government agency handing out massive

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Speaker 2: amounts of cash. And because they want to do it

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01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 2: in a way that is not like a short term

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Speaker 2: high risk lender, there is a high probability of people

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Speaker 2: not being forced to pay back their loans. Right, where

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01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 2: have we seen this before. How much time has been

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Speaker 2: spent talking about loan forgiveness on the part of the

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Speaker 2: federal government. Can you imagine if all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: post offices in urban centers in America become the the

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Speaker 2: payday lenders of note. Imagine what's going to happen around

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01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:10,719
Speaker 2: election time. Small amounts of cash being distributed to lots

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Speaker 2: and lots of different people with no expectation that would

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Speaker 2: ever be paid back. What could possibly go wrong? So

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Speaker 2: the President talked about that, and then he talked about

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Speaker 2: the shooting. You know something. We're going to get into

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01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 2: the shootings and the President's discussion of that, and then

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Speaker 2: what's happening on the ground there in a moment. I'm

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Speaker 2: Andrew Langer. This is Tony Kats Today. Welcome back, everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Langers in for Tony Kats Today. You know something,

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01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 2: I am actually in a white room with black curtains

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01:21:39,439 --> 01:21:42,519
Speaker 2: at the station. No, I'm not at the so anyway,

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Speaker 2: So we're here, we're chatting about We're talking about all

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01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:49,640
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. Me and Landon are listen. So the

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01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:54,080
Speaker 2: President's doing this set of interviews and he was asked

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Speaker 2: about Minnesota and it was a very honest moment here,

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01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 2: good introduction to what's going on on the ground right now,

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01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:04,400
Speaker 2: which is which is just dangerous. We talked a little

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01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 2: bit about this with Jerry Rodgers. Let's go ahead and

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01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:07,320
Speaker 2: land and play cout number sixteen place.

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01:22:08,240 --> 01:22:10,800
Speaker 16: After the shooting of Renee Good, you said Ice made

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01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:11,479
Speaker 16: some mistakes.

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01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:12,719
Speaker 9: What were the mistakes?

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01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,840
Speaker 12: Well, look, I'm not happy with the two incidents. It's

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01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:18,880
Speaker 12: not you know, it's both of them got one or

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01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 12: the other. He was not an angel and she was

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01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 12: not an angel. You know, you look at some tapes

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01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 12: from back. But still I'm not happy with what happened there.

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01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:31,920
Speaker 12: Nobody could be happy, and Ice wasn't happy either. But

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01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:35,040
Speaker 12: I'm going to always be with our great people of

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01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:39,040
Speaker 12: law enforcement, ice police. We have to back them. If

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01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 12: we don't back them, we don't have a country.

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01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:44,160
Speaker 16: You mentioned Renee Good and not out and Alex Pretty's

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01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:45,480
Speaker 16: not being angels.

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01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 11: Do you think any of that justified what happened to them?

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01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 12: Though, no, it should have not happened. It was a

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01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,439
Speaker 12: very sad to me. It was a very sad incident.

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01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:57,720
Speaker 12: Two incidents, and you know they mentioned the one now,

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01:22:57,760 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 12: they don't mention the.

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01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 2: Other world I think they were both.

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01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 12: Said, and uh, you know who feels worse better than anybody,

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01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:09,160
Speaker 12: the people of Ice. They're strong, tough people, and they

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01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:12,640
Speaker 12: have to be tough because we're dealing with hardened criminals.

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Speaker 12: We're dealing with people. You know, jails had been emptied

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01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:19,480
Speaker 12: into our country from all over the world, from Venezuela,

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01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 12: where we had great success, you will admit, but from Venezuela,

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01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 12: from the Congo and Africa, from all over the world, jails,

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01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:29,799
Speaker 12: the jail population was emptied into our country.

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Speaker 2: We can, we can, we can end it there. So obviously,

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01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 2: you know, they wanted the president to say something else.

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Speaker 2: They wanted him to dance on the graves of Renee

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01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:41,760
Speaker 2: Good and Alex Pretty. He didn't do that, you know,

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01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:45,920
Speaker 2: And that's and that's just it. There is the element

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01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:49,160
Speaker 2: of this which is I've said this before, my old adage,

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01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:50,759
Speaker 2: if you didn't want to go to Chicago, you shouldn't

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01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 2: have gotten on this train. And I will say I

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01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 2: will say this much. If you were in Minnesota, I

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01:23:58,000 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 2: will say that, if you were, if you were within

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01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 2: the the Tony Katz listening area, and you are of

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01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 2: the left leaning persuasion, by the way, if you are

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01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:07,240
Speaker 2: of the left leaning persuasion, You're welcome to call on

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01:24:07,320 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 2: three one seven six four three eighty seven hundred. Three

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01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:13,960
Speaker 2: one seven six four three eighty seven hundred. You are

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01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:17,960
Speaker 2: being used. I'm telling you this right now. You are

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01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 2: being used by Democrats. We're going to get into this

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01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:24,320
Speaker 2: issue of of what Bacari Sellers and Scott Jennings there

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01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:28,559
Speaker 2: back and forth on CNN this morning about this. But

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01:24:28,680 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 2: this does not end well. Let let's go to cut

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01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 2: number seventeen. Landed. So there are these private checkpoints that

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01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 2: are being set up in Minneapolis, and CBS News interviewed

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01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 2: one of them. Let's go ahead and play cut seventeen.

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Speaker 18: We are literally creating a place that we know who's

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01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:48,000
Speaker 18: coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods.

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Speaker 13: In the middle of the road at thirty second in

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Speaker 13: Cedar Avenue and make shift roadblock.

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Speaker 2: Turn this part time about for a second, hold on

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01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 2: for a second. We landed, We got we gotta start

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01:24:56,280 --> 01:25:00,479
Speaker 2: that again because remember, by the way, that these are

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01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 2: the same people who were against the minuteman, you know,

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01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 2: and and various civilians going down to the border. I mean,

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01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:10,759
Speaker 2: let's let's start playing that one more time. Cut number seventeen.

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Speaker 18: We are literally creating a place that we know who's

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01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:17,040
Speaker 18: coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods in

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Speaker 18: the middle.

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Speaker 2: So you're creating checkpoints in your neighborhood to keep how

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01:25:23,200 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 2: people who shouldn't be there. How is that?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 2: I've talked about this before I got into it with somebody,

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01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:33,280
Speaker 2: maybe on these airwaves. I think it must have been,

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Speaker 2: you know, talking about about the issue of ice and

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01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 2: removals and and what it means to you know, the

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01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 2: laws that are out there and when you remove somebody

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01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,360
Speaker 2: and where you remove them to. I mean, this is

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01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:48,160
Speaker 2: think about how quaint it all was when we were

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01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 2: talking about Marilyn man Abrigo Kilmar Abrigo Garcia and and

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Speaker 2: him being him being removed. But now you know, yeah, okay,

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01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:03,280
Speaker 2: you guys get it. You set up checkpoints because you

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01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 2: want to know who's coming in and out. Let's go ahead,

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01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 2: IM sorry, let's start it one more time, Landing.

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Speaker 18: We are literally creating a place that we know who's

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01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:14,519
Speaker 18: coming and going in and out of our neighborhoods.

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Speaker 9: In the middle of the road.

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Speaker 13: At thirty second in Cedar Avenue and makeshift roadblock turn

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Speaker 13: this intersection into a roundabout. Horror slowed as drivers noticed,

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Speaker 13: some honked, others asked questions, and one man bron food

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Speaker 13: for the people standing watch. That you feel, how did

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Speaker 13: it make you feel just seeing a community checkpoint in

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Speaker 13: your neighborhood.

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Speaker 9: Well, you know it's it felt fine. I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 9: I don't have any trouble with folks helping out.

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Speaker 13: Wade Haynes has been standing at this way.

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Speaker 2: Wait, it's my ideal way. Don't we can end it there?

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Speaker 2: He doesn't have a problem with it. I mean again,

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Speaker 2: but the reporters not asking the question, which is, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's put the shoe on the other foot here. What

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01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 2: would you do if a group of conservatives set up

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01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:04,679
Speaker 2: a checkpoint in the middle of a road and started

1503
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:08,880
Speaker 2: asking people for their identification? Would you would be going

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01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:13,040
Speaker 2: ballistic about this? My point at the end of the

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01:27:13,160 --> 01:27:16,320
Speaker 2: day is this does not end well a because you're

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01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 2: blocking traffic and then they came out there and they

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Speaker 2: and they remove these things and remove the people that

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Speaker 2: I don't think they arrest anybody. This is the Minneapolis

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01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:29,559
Speaker 2: police that did this. But my point is this does

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Speaker 2: not end until somebody else is hurt. Right, that's that's

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Speaker 2: that's what I'm what I'm getting at here. And you

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Speaker 2: know who wants that are people like Bakari Sellers, who

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Speaker 2: was on CNN this morning. Let's go ahead and play cut

1514
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:47,840
Speaker 2: number eighteen. Would you advise someone, even if they're very angry,

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01:27:47,960 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 2: even if they don't like the laws, to insert themselves

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01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:53,760
Speaker 2: into the middle of an active law enforcement.

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01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 9: Situation if they see something wrong.

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01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you would advise a person or a client of

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01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,760
Speaker 2: yours to literally really engage in the middle of an

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01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:03,679
Speaker 2: active law enforcement matter.

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Speaker 19: If they see something wrong. I would say yes, I

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01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 19: would say definitely.

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Speaker 11: I would say I would say, you're advising.

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Speaker 9: People to commit crime.

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Speaker 2: So I I fitted it out there because you know,

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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings goes on to talk about this, and of

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01:28:18,800 --> 01:28:22,360
Speaker 2: course because the rest of the the Peanut Gallery was

1528
01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 2: jumping in there on this. But yeah, the Bacari Sellers

1529
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:29,200
Speaker 2: of the world, they they they want you to get involved.

1530
01:28:29,280 --> 01:28:32,400
Speaker 2: Why because your blood. If you are a liberal and

1531
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 2: you are listening to the show and you want to

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01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:36,639
Speaker 2: take up and you want to put a checkpoint out there,

1533
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:39,000
Speaker 2: or you want to go and interfere with what Ice

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01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:43,639
Speaker 2: is doing, you're being spurred on because the Bacari Sellers

1535
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:46,880
Speaker 2: of the world want your blood to be spilled because

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01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:48,759
Speaker 2: it gives them ready, the Rachel Maddows of the world.

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Speaker 2: It gives them ratings, the Democrats, the Nancy Pelosi is,

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01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:54,400
Speaker 2: the Chuck Schumers of the world. It gives them political power,

1539
01:28:54,439 --> 01:28:56,479
Speaker 2: the Geame Draft series of the world. It gives them

1540
01:28:56,479 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 2: political power. Because your blood on TV makes other Americans

1541
01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 2: unsure as to what's going on. It makes them feel

1542
01:29:04,320 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 2: bad about what's going on about America enforcing its laws.

1543
01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:09,840
Speaker 2: That's what they want. And a listen, I'm not telling

1544
01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:12,360
Speaker 2: you that there are no circumstances of which you shouldn't resist.

1545
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:19,360
Speaker 2: You shouldn't resist improper authority or authoritarianism. But you know,

1546
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:22,040
Speaker 2: someone doing their job in defending the border and defending

1547
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 2: America's immigration laws is not that thing you And if

1548
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 2: you think that they that folks need to be defended, well,

1549
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 2: this is where you go to the ballot box, right,

1550
01:29:30,960 --> 01:29:37,080
Speaker 2: this is where the midterm elections come in. Jennings asked

1551
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:39,800
Speaker 2: Bacari Sellers to further explain himself, and he did. He

1552
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 2: realized the dangerous grow that he was going down, so

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01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 2: he hedged his bets. Let's ahead and play cut number nineteen.

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Speaker 19: Just to be extremely clear, Just to be extremely clear,

1555
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:52,719
Speaker 19: because I know how these things get clipped and shipped

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01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 19: around on Twitter. What I'm actually telling you, Scott is

1557
01:29:55,120 --> 01:29:57,320
Speaker 19: if my client came to me and said, Makary, I

1558
01:29:57,400 --> 01:29:59,479
Speaker 19: was outside and I saw something going down, and I

1559
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:01,280
Speaker 19: saw some my being abused, and I went and tried

1560
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Speaker 19: to put myself in between him, or I raised the camera.

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Speaker 9: Do not hit officers, do not spit on officers.

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Speaker 19: But yes, by all means if you see something wrong,

1563
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:12,519
Speaker 19: videotape it, I mean, I can't sit here.

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01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:13,759
Speaker 2: My dad was a member of SNICK.

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01:30:14,040 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: He was a professional business ru Okay, I want to

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01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 2: let's underscore that for a second for those of you

1568
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:24,280
Speaker 2: who who are unaware of what SNICK is. SNICK was

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Speaker 2: a progressive radical organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, very

1570
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Speaker 2: very prominent in the nineteen sixties. As he just said,

1571
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:36,280
Speaker 2: my dad was a professional disruptor. Now, my dad was

1572
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:39,960
Speaker 2: a university professor. My dad dealt with me. My father

1573
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 2: professor Art Langer, not the Art Langer who's the mathematician

1574
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:45,840
Speaker 2: of Colombia, the other Art Langer, who dealt with occupational

1575
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 2: safety and health issues. So while my dad is teaching

1576
01:30:49,400 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 2: me about comparative risk assessment and science based public policy

1577
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:57,360
Speaker 2: and unintended consequences of regulation, but Cary Seller's father was

1578
01:30:57,360 --> 01:31:01,720
Speaker 2: apparently teaching him how to be a professional disruptor, right,

1579
01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:07,719
Speaker 2: and that should give everybody pause. There. It's fine to film.

1580
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 2: You should film. That's the nature of independent journalism. That's

1581
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:13,040
Speaker 2: the nature of everybody with a cell phone camera becoming

1582
01:31:13,040 --> 01:31:16,560
Speaker 2: an independent journalist. But no, you should not put yourself

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01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:21,719
Speaker 2: in between someone who's being arrested and the person doing

1584
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:24,920
Speaker 2: the arresting. That's not what you're supposed to do. And

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01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 2: that only ends in someone getting hurt, namely you getting arrested,

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Speaker 2: getting hurt. Whatever, that's what they want. By the way,

1587
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Speaker 2: they want this, They want your blood because it gives

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01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:42,760
Speaker 2: them power, gives them ratings. Listen, Maxie Waters, she was

1589
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 2: all over it yesterday to Scott DESCENTI this is Tony

1590
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:48,799
Speaker 2: Kats today. By the way, if you haven't read Cameron

1591
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 2: Crow's autobiography, uncool, I can't recommend it highly enough. I mean, listen,

1592
01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:56,000
Speaker 2: I was talking to somebody the other day. I'm a

1593
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 2: big fan of biographies, autobiography. Has been reading a lot

1594
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:01,920
Speaker 2: of them. The Lord Michael's biography, The Man who Invented

1595
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:06,240
Speaker 2: Saturday Night excellent. It's amazing. Cameron Crows is just terrific.

1596
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:07,920
Speaker 2: I mean, just sort of talking about what he was

1597
01:32:07,960 --> 01:32:10,840
Speaker 2: doing in the nineteen seventies, how he became who he was,

1598
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Speaker 2: is really really great. I'm Andrew Langer in for Tony

1599
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:19,040
Speaker 2: Kats today. Tony hopefully back tomorrow. Excuse me, hopefully his

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Speaker 2: voice comes back in the meantime. You got me today.

1601
01:32:23,920 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 2: You can message me, email me Andrew Langer Radio at

1602
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:31,200
Speaker 2: gmail dot com. Also at me on Twitter at Andrew

1603
01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:35,200
Speaker 2: Underscore Langer. Go and check me out there. I want

1604
01:32:35,240 --> 01:32:37,440
Speaker 2: to explain those of you who don't understand these platforms.

1605
01:32:38,760 --> 01:32:43,080
Speaker 2: X is now or Twitter is now called X. I

1606
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 2: still call it Twitter. X dot com is the website

1607
01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:50,600
Speaker 2: short little messages that are out there. Facebook is still Facebook,

1608
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:53,840
Speaker 2: Facebook dot com slash Andrew Langer shows my specific show

1609
01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:57,360
Speaker 2: page and Gmail's Gmail. You know, Andrew Mlanger. I'm sorry,

1610
01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 2: Andrew Langer radiogmail dot com. Well listen. Obviously, so much

1611
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Speaker 2: so much of these oversight hearings that happen up on

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Speaker 2: Congress are now just kabuki theater. Obviously, the ones that

1613
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Speaker 2: are less. I'm gonna say sexy, right, you know, when

1614
01:33:17,360 --> 01:33:19,960
Speaker 2: the Treasury Secretary goes up to the hill, it's sexy.

1615
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,640
Speaker 2: I know that, Oh boy, Landon's going to isolate that.

1616
01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:25,160
Speaker 2: Somebody's going to isolate that. Let me just be really clear,

1617
01:33:26,840 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 2: don't mean that in a literal sense. This is not

1618
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 2: I'm not me making my own version of that Rover

1619
01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:34,479
Speaker 2: commercial get your match your freak with somebody else. No,

1620
01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:37,439
Speaker 2: that's not what I'm not what I'm doing here. But

1621
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:40,479
Speaker 2: the point is that folks pay attention, and there's a

1622
01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:44,240
Speaker 2: lot more grand standing at at those kinds of hearings

1623
01:33:44,240 --> 01:33:46,360
Speaker 2: as opposed to the hearings that I used to testify at.

1624
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:48,519
Speaker 2: It's been a bit since I've testified before Congress, but

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01:33:48,520 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 2: I have done a bunch of times, you know, where

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01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:55,840
Speaker 2: I'm talking about small business and regulation and very rarely

1627
01:33:55,880 --> 01:33:59,600
Speaker 2: are there these gotcha moments that are out there. But

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01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 2: so the Treasury Secretary goes up to the Hill, there

1629
01:34:03,400 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 2: are going to be moments of fireworks. And Greg Meeks,

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01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:11,040
Speaker 2: who represents the fifth District of New York, which is Queens,

1631
01:34:11,360 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 2: those are familiar with New York Queens. John F. Kennedy

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01:34:14,960 --> 01:34:19,280
Speaker 2: Airport JFK Airport, Rockaway Beach, famous in the Ramones song,

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01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:23,120
Speaker 2: Uh that's his that's his district. Well, he tries to

1634
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 2: have his moment and it doesn't go very well. Let's

1635
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:27,720
Speaker 2: play cut number twenty. That is yes and no.

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01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:32,840
Speaker 20: No, Congressman. You have to have is an independent entity.

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01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 20: And I know, Congressman, tell that.

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01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:40,679
Speaker 21: You traveled wal I take that as it on behalf

1639
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:48,120
Speaker 21: of take that, Take that as.

1640
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:53,680
Speaker 2: For a seven billion as your responsibility, Secretary of the Treasure.

1641
01:34:54,479 --> 01:34:56,680
Speaker 4: You do not make you.

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Speaker 2: Which you did, and.

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01:35:01,040 --> 01:35:03,559
Speaker 21: I'll pass your time, mister jam knowing that he did

1644
01:35:03,600 --> 01:35:06,080
Speaker 21: not answer my question, or he wouldn't want.

1645
01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:08,880
Speaker 2: To answer, he had actually he did answer the question.

1646
01:35:08,960 --> 01:35:12,519
Speaker 2: Go ahead, question and go ahead, yes or no. But see,

1647
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:14,559
Speaker 2: here's the thing, you know, at the end of the day,

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01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:16,759
Speaker 2: let me just say that they'll say this to folks

1649
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:20,320
Speaker 2: on both sides of the aisle here when you are

1650
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:23,920
Speaker 2: talking about complex questions of economic policy, which is the

1651
01:35:23,960 --> 01:35:26,880
Speaker 2: only reason why the Secretary of the Treasury should be

1652
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 2: going up to the hill for oversight, I mean, unless

1653
01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:33,160
Speaker 2: we're talking about operational stuff for some accusation against him,

1654
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:34,880
Speaker 2: but for the most part he's supposed to be going

1655
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 2: up there to answer questions about economic policy. He's one

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01:35:37,920 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 2: of those folks who's one of the architects of economic policy.

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01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:44,080
Speaker 2: If you are asking the Secretary of the Treasury a

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01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:48,559
Speaker 2: yes or no question, you're not doing your job. You're not.

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01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:52,839
Speaker 2: That's it's it's just that, it's just that simple.

1660
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:55,080
Speaker 9: You know.

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01:35:56,080 --> 01:35:59,160
Speaker 2: Defining what a woman is is a different question, right,

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01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:03,240
Speaker 2: Can you define a woman? Yes or no? That's no

1663
01:36:04,200 --> 01:36:06,360
Speaker 2: define a woman for me. That's the question. You need

1664
01:36:06,400 --> 01:36:10,920
Speaker 2: to ask substantive people in substantive jobs. You should demand

1665
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:16,000
Speaker 2: substantive answers of them. And Maximine Waters tries to say

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Speaker 2: the same thing. Now, there's a long version of it

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Speaker 2: that I'm going to play now and a short version

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Speaker 2: as well, because there's some things that I want to

1669
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Speaker 2: get into in this. But but here is here is

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Speaker 2: Maxine Waters, who just she has passed her prime. Let's

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Speaker 2: go ahead and play cut number twenty one.

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Speaker 22: So there's on housing affordability and putting the economy edwards.

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, you to representable?

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Speaker 9: Will you be the boss? Will you be the vice?

1675
01:36:40,720 --> 01:36:41,599
Speaker 9: Will you be the vice?

1676
01:36:42,200 --> 01:36:44,719
Speaker 2: Will you be will you be the boss?

1677
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:45,080
Speaker 4: Study?

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Speaker 22: Study, reclaiming time, reclaiming my time, reclaiming time.

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Speaker 2: Immigration. Okay, by the way, on it's a it's a

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01:36:55,560 --> 01:36:58,639
Speaker 2: two parts it's a two part song. Sorry, if you've

1681
01:36:58,640 --> 01:37:04,360
Speaker 2: already done the song, that combobulation song, you know the

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01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:08,720
Speaker 2: the it's it's it's discombobulation with the remainder of my

1683
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:11,200
Speaker 2: time whatever. She says about her time there, over and

1684
01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:15,960
Speaker 2: over and over again there, and the question is actually

1685
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Speaker 2: it's not a yes or no one. I mean, she's

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Speaker 2: asking a yes or no question if I gain so, well,

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Speaker 2: let's play the shorter version of it, because I want

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01:37:23,439 --> 01:37:24,360
Speaker 2: to make sure I don't want to I don't want

1689
01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:25,720
Speaker 2: to step on it. Let's go to only cut number

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Speaker 2: twenty two.

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01:37:26,560 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 20: Ten and twenty million emmigrants'll come.

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Speaker 2: Back, housing come back, We'll come Oh yeah, we'll come

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01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 2: back to that because it did. There's a there's a

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01:37:32,320 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 2: moment at the end she asks, actually, do my favorite

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Speaker 2: Linda and play cut number twenty one. Please do you

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01:37:42,320 --> 01:37:44,759
Speaker 2: can you know?

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Speaker 20: Don does to Hell's a woman on ten and twenty

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Speaker 20: million immigrants.

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Speaker 2: Stop stop it, stop it can stop it because he

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Speaker 2: gets so twenty one she starts off with the question

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Speaker 2: is will you be the voice of reason on housing

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Speaker 2: of afordability? Now, I don't know what that means. This

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Speaker 2: is this is the problem with that question, because we

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Speaker 2: can talk about housing affordability. And in point of fact,

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Speaker 2: he then starts to give her an answer about housing affordability.

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Speaker 2: The point that he is trying to make is when

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Speaker 2: you allow, let's not even say ten million people. I

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Speaker 2: think he says ten to twenty. Let's say that it

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Speaker 2: is five million people that get let in, let's say

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Speaker 2: that it's let's say that it's five million people with

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Speaker 2: an average family of four people, so one and a

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Speaker 2: quarter million people. Never do math on the air, by

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Speaker 2: the way, but let's say that it's a one on

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Speaker 2: a quarter million people who all of a sudden need

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Speaker 2: housing in America. That has an impact on housing affordability.

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Speaker 2: That's a million and a quarter one million, two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty thousand housing units, whether it's houses or apartments

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Speaker 2: or what have you. And we know they're not all

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Speaker 2: single that are no longer available to people who are

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Speaker 2: present in America legally. That has an impact. This is

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Speaker 2: a basic resource economics problem. And yet Maxine Waters, that's

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Speaker 2: not what she wants to hear. She doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: have a conversation about the basic resource economics problem, there's

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Speaker 2: a problem, I would go up to the hill. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's funny name cab Up. I was talking to a

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Speaker 2: colleague at Seapack earlier today about an old boss of mine,

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Speaker 2: and he referenced a member of Congress, a member of

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Speaker 2: Congress named Don Manzula who had a great small business

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Speaker 2: staffer who was very blunt. And I loved his bluntness

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Speaker 2: because he would have no problems calling somebody a dumb a.

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Speaker 2: He would just go in if they gave a dumb answer,

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Speaker 2: dumb ay, the posterior, a dumb posterior. And so here

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Speaker 2: is the Treasury secretary speaking substanively. In fact, let's go ahead.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Lynda. Let's play cut number twenty one again, please, and.

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Speaker 22: On housing affordability and putting the economy edwards.

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, you don't have to represent. Will you be

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Speaker 2: the bos you see?

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Speaker 9: Will you be the vice? Will you be the vice?

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01:40:15,880 --> 01:40:18,400
Speaker 2: Will you be will you be the boss?

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Speaker 22: Study, study, reclaiming time, reclaiming my time, reclaiming.

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Speaker 2: All right, so and so, so you know she is

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01:40:26,479 --> 01:40:30,080
Speaker 2: getting a graduate level education. I won't even say that

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Speaker 2: at college level education. In the way housing affordability works

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01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:37,439
Speaker 2: and how it difference differs from inflation and inflationary pressures

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01:40:37,640 --> 01:40:40,320
Speaker 2: and what leads to these things. And what's more, he's right,

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Speaker 2: by the way he said correct about this. And we

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01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:46,320
Speaker 2: can also talk about what the Biden administration is not

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Speaker 2: going to talk about efforts. We won't talk about voices

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Speaker 2: of reason. You know, the question is, you know, mister

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Speaker 2: Treasury secretary, what do you think about this idea of

1751
01:40:56,400 --> 01:40:59,360
Speaker 2: capping credit card interest rates of ten percent for a year?

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Speaker 2: We will that due to our financial markets. Well, well

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01:41:02,439 --> 01:41:04,960
Speaker 2: that due to housing affordability or the extension of credit.

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01:41:06,800 --> 01:41:08,679
Speaker 2: But it went off the rails. Let's hear cut number

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Speaker 2: twenty two.

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Speaker 20: In twenty million immigrants look at the housing housing stock

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Speaker 20: of working Americans, and can you maintain.

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Speaker 2: Some level a data in life? His time has expired,

1759
01:41:22,160 --> 01:41:25,240
Speaker 2: she tells him. She says, can you shut up, which is,

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01:41:25,439 --> 01:41:28,400
Speaker 2: oh my god, what? And he says, can you maintain

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01:41:28,439 --> 01:41:33,000
Speaker 2: some level of decorum? Again, You've got the Treasury Secretary

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Speaker 2: in front of you, and he is he is giving you,

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Speaker 2: let's say, an econ one oh one, a macroeconomics discussion

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Speaker 2: of housing affordability in America and inflation. And you tell

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01:41:47,920 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 2: him to shut up because you don't like what he

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01:41:50,600 --> 01:41:52,599
Speaker 2: has to say and you want it to be too

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01:41:52,600 --> 01:41:55,679
Speaker 2: cute by half. Anyway, some final thoughts in a moment.

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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Langer. This is Tony Kats today. Well, hey everybody,

1769
01:41:58,800 --> 01:42:00,800
Speaker 2: so it has been a thin slice of heaven once

1770
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Speaker 2: we got all of our technical delios worked out. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's funny. I walked away from where my my my

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01:42:08,960 --> 01:42:12,599
Speaker 2: box was hooked up and anyway go to get the details.

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01:42:12,600 --> 01:42:14,800
Speaker 2: But we we lost we lost the connection like an

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Speaker 2: hour ago, and land and I realized realized what it

1775
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:20,760
Speaker 2: was pretty pretty pretty quickly. So list if you like

1776
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 2: what you hear, you know you could check me out everywhere.

1777
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:27,000
Speaker 2: So additional work that I do on the radio, you

1778
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:29,400
Speaker 2: can tell I'm still an amateur here at all of this.

1779
01:42:30,680 --> 01:42:33,960
Speaker 2: My day job is I wear two hats with with SEAPAC,

1780
01:42:34,280 --> 01:42:36,360
Speaker 2: the folks who put on the big the big conference.

1781
01:42:36,400 --> 01:42:39,040
Speaker 2: I think Tony's going down at the end of March

1782
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:41,800
Speaker 2: to the big conference down in Dallas. I do regulatory

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01:42:41,800 --> 01:42:45,479
Speaker 2: policy for SEAPACK as well as healthcare policy as the

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Speaker 2: executive director of the Coalition Against Socialized Medicine. And you

1785
01:42:49,280 --> 01:42:51,880
Speaker 2: know you can you can follow me in just about

1786
01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:54,720
Speaker 2: whatever I'm doing. If you're not following me on X

1787
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:58,960
Speaker 2: you should at Andrew Underscore Langer is the best way

1788
01:42:59,040 --> 01:42:59,840
Speaker 2: to get a hold of me.

1789
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Speaker 9: So like I do.

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Speaker 2: In addition to doing this, I do a weekly podcast.

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01:43:04,080 --> 01:43:08,479
Speaker 2: Everybody does a podcast. I know that mine, you know

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01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:11,040
Speaker 2: I do one. I'm supposed to be doing one with Jerry,

1793
01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:14,519
Speaker 2: the forementioned Jerry Rodgers, my best buddy. With him and me,

1794
01:43:14,560 --> 01:43:17,240
Speaker 2: it's usually the issue of time and figure out when

1795
01:43:17,280 --> 01:43:20,240
Speaker 2: we can go and do this. But weekly I do

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01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:24,599
Speaker 2: a show for an outfit called the Federal Newswire called

1797
01:43:24,600 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 2: The Lunch Shower, and it is a deep dive into

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01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:31,720
Speaker 2: public policy and issues of public policy, and sometimes it

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01:43:31,800 --> 01:43:36,000
Speaker 2: gets a little thematic. Last week and this week it

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01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:39,920
Speaker 2: has been all about PBMs and healthcare policy. In that way,

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01:43:39,960 --> 01:43:43,639
Speaker 2: it's not always about that. Next week, I've got Daniel Rundy,

1802
01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:47,000
Speaker 2: who you heard on these airwaves, the foreign policy expert,

1803
01:43:47,080 --> 01:43:50,160
Speaker 2: Daniel Rundy is joining me and we have a long

1804
01:43:50,200 --> 01:43:54,120
Speaker 2: discussion about Greenland. We have a long discussion about Venezuela.

1805
01:43:54,320 --> 01:43:56,519
Speaker 2: We have a long discussion about the Middle East. So

1806
01:43:56,560 --> 01:43:59,400
Speaker 2: you're gonna want to check those things out. And normally

1807
01:43:59,439 --> 01:44:03,320
Speaker 2: with my Twitter feed, I take the little excerpts from those.

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01:44:03,320 --> 01:44:06,920
Speaker 2: So the Federal news wire I'm actually at the lunch

1809
01:44:06,960 --> 01:44:11,439
Speaker 2: hour pod is the Twitter account. There they put out

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01:44:11,479 --> 01:44:14,960
Speaker 2: little clips of the show, and so you know, you

1811
01:44:14,960 --> 01:44:18,240
Speaker 2: can see those weeks after it happens. A couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks I got Jennifer Huddleston from Cato joining me. In fact,

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01:44:22,280 --> 01:44:23,800
Speaker 2: boy oh boy, I'm shaking my head right now because

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01:44:23,800 --> 01:44:25,719
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to set up another interview with somebody else

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01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:30,479
Speaker 2: about something called Section two thirty of the Telecommunications Decency

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01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:33,679
Speaker 2: Act of nineteen ninety six. It turns thirty this year,

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01:44:34,479 --> 01:44:36,720
Speaker 2: and so a bunch of folks are essentially saying, this

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01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:41,080
Speaker 2: is the law that gave rise to the Internet. But

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01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:46,280
Speaker 2: at my most basic level, I do regulatory policy. This

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01:44:46,320 --> 01:44:50,720
Speaker 2: is why it's important to you all, because I am

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01:44:50,920 --> 01:44:55,600
Speaker 2: constantly filing comments with federal regulatory agencies. What do I

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01:44:55,600 --> 01:45:01,240
Speaker 2: mean by that Congress passes a law or Congress change

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01:45:01,320 --> 01:45:03,719
Speaker 2: is a law, and it's up to the executive branch

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Speaker 2: agencies to interpret and enforce those laws. And the way

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Speaker 2: that they do it is through the regulatory process. And

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Speaker 2: the example I always like to use is the Clean

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Speaker 2: Water Act. Congress says you can't pollute a navigable water

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Speaker 2: the United States, but doesn't define what pollute or navigable

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Speaker 2: or whatter the United States is or means. And so

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Speaker 2: they left it up to the agencies. And depending on

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Speaker 2: who's in power, those definitions could be very broad and expansive.

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Speaker 2: Right the Democrats want to control every last little bit

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Speaker 2: of land out there, or you know, Republicans who believe

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Speaker 2: in private property rights, they want to make those definitions

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Speaker 2: very narrow. So it goes back and forth, and sometimes

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01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:42,360
Speaker 2: the courts get involved, and so there was a recent

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court decision and part of that is what has

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Speaker 2: spurred the EPA to revisit the issue. So every week me,

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Speaker 2: I AM, ME and my colleagues we are looking at

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01:45:55,920 --> 01:45:58,519
Speaker 2: regulatory proposals and there's something on the order of like

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Speaker 2: three thousand different proceedings of this type in any given year,

1842
01:46:05,040 --> 01:46:09,080
Speaker 2: but we're picking you know, the five, six, seven, eight, nine,

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01:46:09,200 --> 01:46:13,200
Speaker 2: sometimes even ten most important proceedings in a given year,

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01:46:13,920 --> 01:46:17,000
Speaker 2: and we're filing comments on them. So you know, for instance,

1845
01:46:17,040 --> 01:46:20,000
Speaker 2: like this week, I've I've been putting together comments on

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01:46:20,640 --> 01:46:25,880
Speaker 2: electricity generation a coal powered coal fire power plants. A

1847
01:46:25,960 --> 01:46:28,599
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago was on liquid natural gas. This

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01:46:28,640 --> 01:46:31,280
Speaker 2: week it was also about fuel economy standards and how

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01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:34,240
Speaker 2: that relates to the affordability of cars. You know, Maxine

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01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:39,160
Speaker 2: Waters talking about the issue of affordability in housing. You know,

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01:46:39,200 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 2: the issue of permitting and permitting reform. You know, this

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01:46:42,280 --> 01:46:44,559
Speaker 2: Clean Water Act stuff has an impact on the on

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Speaker 2: the price of housing.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: None of this isn't a vacuum. You know. I did

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Speaker 2: some stuff this week on affordability of prescription drugs and

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01:46:55,160 --> 01:47:00,479
Speaker 2: what ought to be done there. So here's so that's

1858
01:47:00,479 --> 01:47:01,760
Speaker 2: what I do. So you can look at what I've

1859
01:47:01,760 --> 01:47:05,439
Speaker 2: done in any given week by checking out our seapack

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Speaker 2: blog seapack dot org slash blog Regulatory freedom anything, regulatory

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Speaker 2: freedom is going to be something that I've done. Most

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Speaker 2: of the healthcare stuff is stuff that I'm working on there.

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Speaker 2: But I advise you guys don't check out a website

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Speaker 2: called regulations dot gov. It's a federal website, but it

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01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:25,519
Speaker 2: gives you the listing of all of the proceedings that

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01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:27,840
Speaker 2: are going on at any given point in time and

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01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:30,680
Speaker 2: invites you most of the time, like ninety percent of

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01:47:30,720 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 2: the time, you can send comments directly from the website

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01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:35,280
Speaker 2: and they want to hear from you. They want to

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Speaker 2: hear from regular people, average, everyday Americans. And I mean

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01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:44,200
Speaker 2: that in the best way, because I can talk about

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01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:47,040
Speaker 2: statistics and I can talk about data, but you can

1873
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:49,439
Speaker 2: talk about the real world implications of what's going on

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Speaker 2: out there. As always want to thank you all for

1875
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Speaker 2: letting me into wherever you are consuming Tony Katz today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you to all my friends who are out there,

1877
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Speaker 2: Mike and Alexa especially. Anyway, guys, have a great night,

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Speaker 2: have a great week, feel better toning, have fun, and

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Speaker 2: stay sick.