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Speaker 1: Line from Vall Heartbiner and The Crossroads of America. It's

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today.

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Speaker 2: A walkout of the State of the Union.

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Speaker 3: I could only hope, if only, because I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be there, Tony Katz, Tony Katz today. Good to be here,

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Speaker 3: Good to be with you. Find everything going on over

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Speaker 3: at tonykatz dot com, live streaming in all the places

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Speaker 3: we live, shream the YouTube, the twitter, x, the Facebook,

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Speaker 3: the Lincoln's.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know where else we are.

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Speaker 3: This is the story Newsmax with the headline DEM's plot

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Speaker 3: walkouts boycotts for Trump's State of the Union.

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Speaker 1: If that's the case, do I still have to sit

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Speaker 1: up in the gallery? Or can I have Bernie Sanders seat?

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Speaker 3: Right? Can I have Al Green's seat? And does he

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Speaker 3: have like an extra cane laying about?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna be fascinating.

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Speaker 3: So Democrats are weighing all of it, boycott's, walkouts and

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Speaker 3: competing rallies. So the President of the United States is

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Speaker 3: delivering the State of the Union as prescribed by the Constitution.

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Speaker 1: Agreed, it doesn't have to be the way we do it.

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't have to be something with all the pomp

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Speaker 3: and circumstance, it could be a one page letter, Hey guys,

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Speaker 3: everything is great, signed Donnie, and that would be enough

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Speaker 3: that you understand that how.

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Speaker 1: We do the State of the Union is stagecraft. It

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Speaker 1: was never meant to be this, and we should be clear.

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Speaker 1: It can be this, but it doesn't have to be this,

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Speaker 1: not in the slightest the The State of the Union

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Speaker 1: can just be a letter written, you know.

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Speaker 3: In crayon. Everything's cool, have a good day, signed President

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Speaker 3: of the United States. That's it, That's all that has

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Speaker 3: to be done. But Democrats, some of them might skip

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Speaker 3: the event altogether. Others might leave and protest in mid speech.

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Speaker 3: According to Representative Jared Huffman of California, the only question

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Speaker 3: for me is which of his disgusting lines prompts me

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Speaker 3: to get up and leave, because at some point I will.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what line you already said you're gonna do.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter whichever one you decide, whatever thing you decide,

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Speaker 3: because you can't actually sit.

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Speaker 1: There because you have to. You have to act.

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Speaker 3: Out against Donald Trump, because after all, that's the whole party.

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Speaker 3: The whole party none, there's no policy conversation, there's no

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Speaker 3: real disagreement that they can engage.

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Speaker 1: Rather, it's all emotion all the time.

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Speaker 3: Ten there's nothing else. So I'm not sure how they're

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Speaker 3: going to do this. I'm not sure what they're going

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Speaker 3: I was invited by Senator Todd Young. I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be in the gallo ticket. My plane ticket's already purchased

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Speaker 1: Get a hotel. I didn't know where I wanted to

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Speaker 3: And the only thing I have to figure out is

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Speaker 1: Up there, you can't take your phone with you.

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Speaker 3: You you you leave that somewhere, right, there's the whole

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Speaker 3: system for that. I don't know if I can bring

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to do that. I don't know

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Speaker 3: how to put that one together yet. So you have

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Speaker 3: I don't even know if that's a life out, but

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Speaker 1: So while they are thinking about, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what kind of signs they're going to use and

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Speaker 3: what kind of nonsense protests they're going to use, because again,

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Speaker 3: everything is about the sloganeering. Everything is about the emoji

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Speaker 3: slogan earing. This is how they talk. There's no actual debate,

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Speaker 3: is only how can we attack? How can we kill?

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Speaker 3: How can we destroy? How can we maim? How can

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Speaker 3: we ruin? Again and again? Over and over and over. Right,

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Speaker 3: there's no engagement.

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Speaker 1: On the facts at all.

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Speaker 3: But I wanted to share with you another story. This

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Speaker 3: was Abby Phillip over at CNN, just to prove a point.

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Speaker 1: And the point is that the rallying around.

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Speaker 3: media is. And you saved me, Tony. That's a pretty

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Speaker 3: don't know if it's a cold or if it's allergy.

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Speaker 3: So it's not your radio, it's not your live stream.

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Speaker 3: And let me tell you, doing a live stream while

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Speaker 1: An attractive look. It really is it? You look like,

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Speaker 1: my god, it's Tony doing a hunder Biden impression. What's

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Speaker 3: We saw how poorly representative Occasio Cortez performed at the

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Speaker 3: Munich Security Conference. She was a mess. She could not

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Speaker 3: answer about Taiwan. She could not answer about you know,

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Speaker 3: she was trying to go after Marco Rubio for his speech.

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Speaker 3: She didn't know her or where the last name Cortes

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Speaker 1: No what's the word, She has no mind.

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Speaker 3: She claims that she did prep for this. This is

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Speaker 3: what you're like with prep. But did Joe Biden prep

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Speaker 3: with Trump. Oh gosh, so much prep. He's taking this

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Speaker 3: She was a disaster and complaining to New York Times

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Speaker 3: that her message against authoritarianism didn't come through. Oh no, no,

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Speaker 3: it came through, except it was a message for authoritarianism,

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Speaker 3: and you're the authoritarian. We got it, we understood it.

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Speaker 3: We're fully aware the kind of person that you are.

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Speaker 3: You want to control speech, you want to control dollars.

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Speaker 3: You're probably thrilled. That's on Momdannie. He's raising taxes in

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Speaker 3: New York. They're going to a ten percent property tax increase.

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Speaker 3: for this, You suffer. What do you want from me? Oh,

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Speaker 1: They'll all move. So let's not kid ourselves. Why are

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Speaker 3: Everybody is connected via zoom or some kind of video link.

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Speaker 3: I'm streaming via I use stream yard. Go ahay, it's

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Speaker 3: right there. I'm in my home, connected to my station,

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Speaker 3: Stop it, stop it. I think you're doing the shareholders

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Speaker 3: an incredible disservice by being in New York. I think

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Speaker 3: very poorly. And here comes Abby Phillip to her defense.

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Speaker 3: Abby Phillip hosts the show on CNN, which has become

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Speaker 3: you remember a couple of things, Yes, you do, and

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Speaker 4: A club for AOC, But the question is also what

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump in twenty twenty four said, I think Taiwan

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Speaker 4: I'm just asking for you all to apply the state SI.

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Speaker 1: Are you out of your minds? We're laughing at you.

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Speaker 3: We are laughing at you, Abby Phillip, because you deserve

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Speaker 3: That's over. It's over, doesn't matter. You actually want to

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Speaker 1: For four years? We said, are is anybody looking at

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Speaker 3: Is anybody going to notice that this guy is not okay?

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Speaker 3: No one questions his cognitive ability, and we're not questioning.

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Speaker 1: I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz Today.

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Speaker 3: Zuckerberg is testifying in a case in Los Angeles. Tony Katz,

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Speaker 3: Tony Katz Today, Good to be with you, Good to

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Speaker 1: The case.

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Speaker 3: Is about whether or not social media platforms harm children

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Speaker 3: I don't get to say with certitude that these social

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Speaker 1: Acted like platforms in a while. Tony Katz.

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Speaker 3: Today, New Yorkers are shocked to learn that Zaron Mamdani

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Speaker 1: They are shocked to learn that Zaron Mamdani.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't know how to govern, that he is going to

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Speaker 5: Initial reaction to how mom Donnie is governing at this point. Well,

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Speaker 3: on the federal level, I oppose all income taxes. Income

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Speaker 3: We have to raise your property tax and if you

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Speaker 1: Maybe you should get fired mayor town council. However it works,

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Speaker 3: Get fired, you need to get canned, and we'll bring

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Speaker 3: It's pretty important that you bring in people who know

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Speaker 6: At the heart of this path is a property tax increase.

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Speaker 3: But they are more than happy to turn to those

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Speaker 3: They're going to spend and they don't care if they

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Speaker 3: I cannot bring myself to care. Do they have budget issues? Sure,

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Speaker 3: they have budget issues. Into the billions, absolutely, into the billions.

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Speaker 3: The budget is one hundred and twenty seven billion dollars. Wow,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an eye opening number. It's ten billion lists

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Speaker 3: In Florida, there are twenty three million people, twenty three

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Speaker 1: In New York there are eight million.

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Speaker 3: So to take care of eight million people, you need

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Speaker 3: Hundred and twenty seven and then there's a lot of zeros,

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Speaker 3: you go, and I divide that by twenty three million.

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Speaker 3: That's five thousand, eighty six dollars. It's takes ten thousand

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Speaker 3: more dollars per citizen to run New York instead of Florida.

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Speaker 3: Well Tony, Admittedly, in New York you have snow removal.

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Speaker 3: I saw what just happened in New York. No, you don't,

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Speaker 3: well Tony, I mean there is trash removal. I just

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Speaker 3: saw what happened this winter in New York.

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Speaker 1: No, you don't. They don't have a trash removal.

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Speaker 3: In Florida, they deal with hurricanes, they get the lights

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Speaker 3: back on. It got so cold that iguanas were falling

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Speaker 3: from the sky. You think that in Florida they have

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Speaker 3: a falling ice iguana budget. Maybe they do, but I

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Speaker 3: don't think it's that big. Someone get with Ron DeSantis.

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Speaker 3: Is there a budget for the falling frozen ice iguanas?

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Speaker 3: By the way, frozen ice Iguana's great name for a

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Speaker 3: band's better name for a tequila.

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Speaker 1: What what am i? Julian? Julian, we're making a tequila.

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Speaker 3: Frozen ice iguana, frozen ice iguana tequila falling or is

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Speaker 3: it just falling iguana tequila? Falling iguana tequila or frozen

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Speaker 3: iguana tequila. Honestly, we're gonna have.

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Speaker 1: To take a pole.

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Speaker 3: We need to get the boys in the lab. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna need a poll. We're gonna have to figure this out. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I'll have this tequila up in thirty days time.

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Speaker 1: To quote Neil Brennan, why.

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Speaker 2: In the world.

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Speaker 3: Does New York need all that money? Why don't they

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Speaker 3: cut a program? Progressives never cut a program. Progressives never

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Speaker 3: look at the situation and say, okay, we can't afford this.

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Speaker 3: They look at you and say you can afford more,

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Speaker 3: and then they say give us our money, and they

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Speaker 3: use the force of government to get it.

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Speaker 1: Remember, government is force. That's what it is. Government is

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Speaker 1: force in the end, that's what it is.

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Speaker 3: Even if you say, hey, I just want government to,

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Speaker 3: you know, have a military and enforce contracts. How do

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Speaker 3: you enforce a contract without force. Remember, I'm a liberty guy,

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Speaker 3: not a freedom guy. And there is a difference. It's

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Speaker 3: not that I have oppositions to the very concepts of freedom.

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Speaker 3: It's that I believe that a society thrives best when

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Speaker 3: there are a couple of guardrails, when there are a

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Speaker 3: couple of borders and we know how to operate within them.

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Speaker 3: When people know how to operate within the rules, that's

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Speaker 3: when I think people are most free, and it's easier

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Speaker 3: to engage in exchange and.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy.

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Speaker 3: When you have freedom and nobody knows the rules, it's harder.

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm a liberty guy. This is not to

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Speaker 3: say that I favor mass government.

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Speaker 1: No. I favor Article one Section eight.

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Speaker 3: I favor the leanest, smallest government humanly possible. But I

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Speaker 3: do favor some government. I'm not an anti government guy.

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Speaker 3: I just want government with inside a scope, right, I

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Speaker 3: want it within a framework, and I want that framework

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Speaker 3: to be outrageously, outrageously limited. Which is why I think

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Speaker 3: the Founding Fathers, I think the idea of the Constitution

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Speaker 3: is so remarkable, the how of America.

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Speaker 1: Here's how we do.

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Speaker 3: It versus the Declaration of Independence, which is the why

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Speaker 3: of America, which is of course a beautiful document and

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Speaker 3: nothing like it in the world. This explanation that we

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Speaker 3: indeed are free, which the Founding Fathers really believed.

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Speaker 1: And here's a really you know.

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Speaker 3: You take a look at Adams and Jefferson and Jefferson

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Speaker 3: it was tasked with writing the Constitution. And part of

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Speaker 3: that is because John Adams, being from Massachusetts, knew that

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Speaker 3: he needed to get other states to agree, and Thomas

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Speaker 3: Jefferson being from Virginia and being the largest state and

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Speaker 3: certainly the most prosperous state, if he wrote it, it

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Speaker 3: would be more likely to get passed. And he Adams

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Speaker 3: believed that Jefferson had better flourish of the pen than

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Speaker 3: Adams did.

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Speaker 1: He wrote in Jefferson wrote in.

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Speaker 3: More of a prose, and Adams was much more practical

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Speaker 3: a being, and certainly wasn't as jovial or anything like that. Right,

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Speaker 3: But we come to the Constitution and how Madison is

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Speaker 3: considered the father of the Constitution but didn't necessarily engage

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Speaker 3: in the full writing of the Constitution.

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Speaker 1: I have yet to be convinced that somehow there's something better.

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Speaker 3: The left will tell you, well, look at the South

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Speaker 3: African Constitution I have.

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Speaker 1: It sucks.

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Speaker 3: And if you buy into the South African Constitution, holy hell,

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Speaker 3: are you not allowed anywhere near power in my country?

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Speaker 3: Oh dear God. But I believe in this small government.

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Speaker 3: And that is a government that says we can't afford

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Speaker 3: to do all these things. It makes the hard decisions.

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Speaker 3: It says no. Mom, Donnie doesn't say know, except to

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Speaker 3: you when you say I want to keep my money, Mom,

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Speaker 3: Donnie says no. Why are people staying? You are watching

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Speaker 3: the last pages of Atlas Shrugged come to life.

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Speaker 1: And it's only a matter of time before the lights

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Speaker 1: go out.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if Florida's Galt's gulch me I happen

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Speaker 3: to like the Midwest, but it's certainly better than whatever

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Speaker 3: the hellscape is that New York is offering. I'm Tony

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Speaker 3: Katz and this it's Tony Katz Today. Talks continue between

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Speaker 3: Russia and Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Oh they're not done yet. They're still talking.

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Speaker 3: And Witkopf is saying they're gonna keep having conversations and

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Speaker 3: they're gonna keep working towards peace. Tell me when they

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Speaker 3: get there, Tony Kats, Tony Kats today, good to be here,

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Speaker 3: Good to be with you. Tell me when they get there,

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Speaker 3: because it would.

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Speaker 1: Seem to me that they're not there at all.

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Speaker 3: Putin doesn't want to be there. And Zelenski's argument is

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Speaker 3: you're all crazy.

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Speaker 1: He's the problem. It's not a support of Zelenski, you know,

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's a he's the greatest guy in

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Speaker 3: the world, but he is the one who's been invaded.

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Speaker 3: Graine's the one that's been invaded. And you don't have

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Speaker 3: any movement from NATO to try and stop this. There

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Speaker 3: doesn't seem to be enough pressure on here to try

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Speaker 3: and put an end to this. So all right, all

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Speaker 3: you have is more chit chat and jibber jabber and

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Speaker 3: all the rest. You don't have.

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Speaker 1: Anything actually done.

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Speaker 3: I had hoped, and certainly I did think that we

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Speaker 3: would have had this done already.

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Speaker 1: I don't expect this to get done.

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Speaker 3: I will be shocked if all of a sudden I hear, hey,

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Speaker 3: there's a deal they're gonna keep working on They're gonna

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Speaker 3: keep working on it. But there is no part of

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Speaker 3: me that believes that Vladimir Putin would adhere.

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Speaker 1: To any deal for any length of time. A deal

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Speaker 1: is not.

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Speaker 3: Worth the paper it's written on when dealing with Flatimir Poot.

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Speaker 3: I think we've proven this by now, which could be.

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Speaker 1: Part of the problem.

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Speaker 3: The White House briefing is set to begin. I will

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Speaker 3: bring it to you in full.

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Speaker 1: Keep it here.

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Speaker 3: I'm Tony Katz, and this is Tony Katz today,