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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Hammer and Nigel Show. How you doing?

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Speaker 1: How you hold them up? Over there? Buddy.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little sad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it is day seven of the government shutdown.

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Speaker 2: I know, barely get out of bed this morning.

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Speaker 1: Keep your chin up there, Bud, It'll be all right.

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Speaker 2: Crystal was like, you've got to get up and go

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Speaker 2: to work, babe. The government's shut down. There's no hope

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Speaker 2: for any of us except for the seventy five percent

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Speaker 2: of the government that's still working, getting a paycheck and

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Speaker 2: life going on pretty much the exact same.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there.

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Speaker 2: Are some people that are affected by this. I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to say all people are fine with it, but

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Speaker 2: I think most people are fine with it. Would that

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Speaker 2: be fair?

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Speaker 1: Well? I think I think people what I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of for instance, a House Freedom Caucus, a lot

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Speaker 1: of conservatives. Conservatives are saying, you know, let these Obama

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Speaker 1: era Obamacare subsidies expire from COVID. Okay, these subsidies from COVID,

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Speaker 1: these Obamacare subsidies they want to expire. This is what

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Speaker 1: this is all Democrats, and also health care for illegal immigrants,

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Speaker 1: That's what this is all about. And this is a

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Speaker 1: Democrat shutdown got passed in the House with flying colors.

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Speaker 2: Now, Rob Kendall would argue that it's a Republican shutdown

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Speaker 2: because of Obamacare, and it goes back a long long time.

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Speaker 1: And I can't tell Yeah it does. Yeah, I mean again,

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Speaker 1: hence the COVID era rbsidies.

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Speaker 2: But really, the government would be open today if the

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Speaker 2: Democrats just decided to say, Okay, you win on this one.

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Speaker 2: We're not going to have taxpayer funded healthcare for people

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Speaker 2: here illegally. If they cave on that, everything's back to normal.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying everybody's singing Kumbai yah, but everything's back

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Speaker 2: open one hundred percent. But that's not what's happening here.

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Speaker 2: And it feels like the Democrats are losing the war

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Speaker 2: in the pr department. But can the Republicans have enough

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Speaker 2: backbone to fight it? And that's never really been their

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Speaker 2: strong suit, right, Republicans usually cave here. But here's an example.

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Speaker 2: Democrat leftist John Stewart, comedian host of the Daily Show

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Speaker 2: on Comedy Central. He was making fun of Chuck Schumer's

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Speaker 2: stupid messaging at a press conference talking about this yesterday.

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Speaker 2: He was trying to make cringe worthy jokes and nobody

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Speaker 2: was laughing and there's just no energy. New data came

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Speaker 2: out today from KFF that is not Kentucky Fried French Fries.

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Speaker 1: KFF could the Kentucky French Fries.

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Speaker 2: I know this is real. I'm going to cut to

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Speaker 2: John Stewart here, who is that joke? Even for six

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Speaker 2: year olds that watch seas Fan, there you do, Chuck

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Speaker 2: Schumer is a human flat tire. Listen to that crowd

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Speaker 2: though three years ago during you know, I'm sorry, five

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Speaker 2: years ago during COVID lockdowns.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lock us down, Chuck, keep locking us down.

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Speaker 2: What I got a standing ovation. Now you've got the

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Speaker 2: host calling him a human flat tire, and those seals

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Speaker 2: are clapping along like they used to.

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Speaker 1: Well, you remember it was John Stewart. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: all this COVID stuff and all the you know, the

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Speaker 1: tax credits that were meant to be you know, short

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Speaker 1: term adjustments during COVID. John Stewart was the first guy

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Speaker 1: to go on I think it was Colbert and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not completely out of the realm of the possibility

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Speaker 1: that a Chinese virus came from a lab in Wuhan,

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Speaker 1: and they went on a big rant about that that

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Speaker 1: went viral.

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Speaker 2: And that really hurts Stephen Colbert's feelings.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he was very, very uncomfortable with that, because that's racist.

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Speaker 1: That was racist to suggest that that the COVID virus

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Speaker 1: came from the lab in Wuhead.

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Speaker 2: And how dare you be an independent thinker and go

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Speaker 2: against the group think here that it had to have

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Speaker 2: come from Donald Trump's anus? How dare you say anything

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Speaker 2: other than that?

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Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna be some squishy Republicans that are

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Speaker 1: going to you know, they're gonna find find a way

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Speaker 1: to make these these credits, which were only meant to

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Speaker 1: be short term, they're gonna they're gonna find a way

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Speaker 1: to make them permanent so the government will open back up.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna screw it up. Yeah, Republicans will screw this up.

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Speaker 1: So that they're gonna make them permanent. You watched Wait,

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Speaker 1: you see, I guarantee this happens