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Speaker 1: Well, guess what Barack Obama is focused on.

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Speaker 2: Let me guess the twenty twenty six midterms.

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, but also aliens. Oh okay, Yeah, he was

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Speaker 1: on a podcast and he said, aliens are real?

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Speaker 2: Are aliens real?

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Speaker 3: They're real, but I haven't seen them and they're not

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Speaker 3: being kept in what is it? Fifty one? There's no

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Speaker 3: underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hit

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Speaker 3: it from the president of the United States.

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Speaker 2: What was the first question you wanted answered when you

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Speaker 2: became president?

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Speaker 3: Where are the aliens?

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Speaker 2: Where the aliens?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so, yeah, it's fun and good to be curious

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Speaker 1: about the universe, but he he should be sticking to

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Speaker 1: the facts because this spiraled bigger than I think he

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Speaker 1: was even expecting that it would.

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Speaker 2: I think he was a little flippant in this conversation,

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Speaker 2: and I think that he was, you know, not choosing

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Speaker 2: his words very carefully, which is odd for Barack Obama

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Speaker 2: because he's a well seasoned politician and knows how these

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Speaker 2: things can spiral a lot of control. But this blew

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Speaker 2: up on social media over the weekend, which was a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a surprise because I remember, specifically during

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Speaker 2: the peak of COVID and the shutdowns. There were some

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Speaker 2: scientists that came out and basically said, yeah, aliens are real,

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Speaker 2: and American public basically went, hey, you know what, we

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Speaker 2: got some other problems we're dealing with right now. How

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Speaker 2: about your table that alien talk for a few minutes,

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Speaker 2: All right, big deal. We all kind of shrugged our

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Speaker 2: shoulders and went on with our masks, and government instituted

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Speaker 2: lockdowns across the country. So what I think Obama was

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Speaker 2: trying to say here is, look, it's a big, vast universe,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure that somewhere out there there's aliens. But again,

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Speaker 2: he was a little too flippant and a little too

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Speaker 2: casual in his language, and it blew up over the

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Speaker 2: weekend on social media.

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Speaker 1: Well, and of course he had to do a little backtrack,

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Speaker 1: and he said that he was just trying to stick

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Speaker 1: to the spirit of the speed Round, which is what

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Speaker 1: they were doing on that podcast. But he says, since

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Speaker 1: it's gotten so much attention, let me clarify statistically, the

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Speaker 1: universe is so vast that the odds are pretty good

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Speaker 1: that there is life out there. But he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: many empirical evidence.

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Speaker 2: I also don't think he did himself any favors by saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: there's no aliens buried underneath Area fifty one unless there's

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Speaker 2: some vast conspiracy, and they're not telling the president. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of things that we never

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Speaker 2: thought we would see in this world that have turned

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Speaker 2: out to be true. Some people have called them conspiracy

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Speaker 2: theories in the past, and then as time goes by,

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Speaker 2: evidence proves out to be true. Really, Obama, not the

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Speaker 2: best time to be talking about how, hey there's no

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Speaker 2: aliens there unless there's some conspiracy. I'm not aware of it.

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Speaker 1: Right as we're opening the box of conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 2: Right the Pandora's box of conspiracy theories is opened, and

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Speaker 2: I think you've got a public that is about willing

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Speaker 2: to believe the theory. So he did not do himself

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Speaker 2: as any favor when he said, unless there's this huge conspiracy,