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Speaker 1: Line from theal Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America. It's

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today. So this was the post on social media.

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Speaker 1: Five NFL teams chose not to honor Charlie Kirk with

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Speaker 1: a moment of silence today, and it lists the five teams.

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Speaker 1: And now I guess we're supposed to ask what that

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Speaker 1: means or what we want to do about it. Tony Katz,

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Speaker 1: Tony Kats today, good to be with. You find everything

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Speaker 1: is the only place you need to be. So it

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Speaker 1: lists the five teams. The Detroit Lions, the Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 1: that's where I'm at, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Baltimore Ravens,

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Speaker 1: and the Minnesota Vikings. These teams, I guess, because they

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Speaker 1: had home games, did not honor Charlie Kirk with a

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Speaker 1: moment of silence. So I want to start with a

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Speaker 1: with a basic first, I don't know. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: that other teams did honor Charlie Kirk with a moment

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Speaker 1: of silence. So it's actually a story about this Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers did. I guess there was a decision from

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Speaker 1: the league. I mean they did this on this is

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Speaker 1: Thursday night. The National Football League acid you please join

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Speaker 1: us in a moment of silent reflection following the murder

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Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk. The NFL condemns all violence in our communities.

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Speaker 1: It will take all of us to stop hate. Thank you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So the Giants, Cowboys, Rams, Titans, Patriots, Doltman's forty nine Ers, Saints,

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Speaker 1: Bill's Jets, they all did, and then Panthers, Cardinal Eagles,

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Speaker 1: Chiefs they did. But yeah, so the Bengals against the Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: the Lions against the Bears, the Steelers against the Seahawks,

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Speaker 1: but the Steelers were flying the flags at half staff,

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Speaker 1: Ravens Brown's Colts, Broncos, and then Falcons Vikings. The Vikings

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Speaker 1: honored all victims of recent gun violence, including those impacted

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Speaker 1: at the Annunciation Catholic church shooting. Okay, that happened in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: So first the question is do they have to have

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Speaker 1: a moment of silence? Allow me to be the first

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Speaker 1: one on record to say no, not at all. They

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Speaker 1: don't have to do anything at all. No one does. Now,

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Speaker 1: if the president declares flags at half staff, the standard

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Speaker 1: is to fly the flag at half staff. The president

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Speaker 1: could do this for a whole series of things. And

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Speaker 1: that's what you do. You follow the lead in that one.

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Speaker 1: And I think the places that aren't doing that that

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Speaker 1: that's not a show of defiance. That's a show ugly, crass,

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Speaker 1: nonsensical politics. And these are the people, and I think

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Speaker 1: important to note the ones who are saying, we're so

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Speaker 1: okay with people we disagree with being murdered, assassinated, slaughtered

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Speaker 1: in front of their wife and children on television and

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Speaker 1: on video, that we're not going to put a flag

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Speaker 1: at half staff. We want everybody to know how cool

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Speaker 1: we are with it. I think it's a weird thing

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Speaker 1: to be cool with. But this is what they're saying,

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Speaker 1: this is what they're doing. So that's that's that's the flag.

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Speaker 1: But I do not know if these places needed a

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Speaker 1: moment of silence. I don't know if that was necessary,

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Speaker 1: if that was something that had to be had they,

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Speaker 1: I mean the places where they had it, clearly, the

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Speaker 1: crowds took this well. I mean the Titans did it.

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Speaker 1: I mean they put up a photo of Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: on the board, right. Dolphins did it as well, so

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Speaker 1: one could argue there was a marketing compar to this.

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Speaker 1: The Jets did it, and you say, to me, Tony,

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Speaker 1: that's so craven. I'm taking a look at this objectively

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Speaker 1: what it is these teams did, and then asking whether

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Speaker 1: or not it was something that had to be done,

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Speaker 1: because we saw a lot of people take a look

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Speaker 1: at moments of silence and things for George Floyd and

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Speaker 1: say what are you doing and how dare you now?

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Speaker 1: Before we get anywhere else. I am not comparing Charlie

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Speaker 1: Kirk to George Floyd. Charlie Kirk was a better man

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Speaker 1: than George Floyd every day of the week and twice

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Even if I disagreed with Charlie Kirk ab

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Speaker 1: out of Pacific policy or something else. Charlie Kirk did

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Speaker 1: not deserve what happened to him, and the people celebrating

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Speaker 1: his death are despicable people, and I'm glad that they've

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Speaker 1: out of themselves so I never have to pay them

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Speaker 1: any mind, and certainly would not invite them into my home.

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Speaker 1: So there are people who have had moment of silences

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Speaker 1: not believe there has to be some code that says

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Speaker 1: did any NFL team have to engage a moment of silence.

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Speaker 1: But as has been discussed, every one of the teams

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Speaker 1: the reporting, I'd let anybody triple check they all honored

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Speaker 1: George Floyd back in twenty twenty. And now, if that

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Speaker 1: welcome to look at these teams and ask them what

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Speaker 1: the flying blank oh ten thousand percent? If you were

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Speaker 1: having moments of silence for George Floyd, was that league mandated?

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Speaker 1: So George Floyd got the league mandate and Charlie Kirk didn't,

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Speaker 1: or was this a team by team decision? But you

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Speaker 1: did it because you knew that you would be vilified

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Speaker 1: and very possibly your stadium and or team damaged if

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Speaker 1: you didn't and what you just you didn't worry about

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Speaker 1: what was going to happen to you on the other

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Speaker 1: side over here, or and go with me on the philosophy.

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Speaker 1: Is it that we have actually overcome the idea of

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Speaker 1: well I have to play along or go along in

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Speaker 1: order to be liked. Otherwise that we destroyed? We have

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Speaker 1: we done away with that? Have we created the level

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Speaker 1: of the political posturing exhaustion? And people are like, can

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Speaker 1: we just play football? Because that's what we're here to do.

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Speaker 1: Play football. He wasn't a politician, he wasn't in the military.

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Speaker 1: Could we just play football? Could have been in their argument.

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Speaker 1: The argument's much harder to make when you were doing it.

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Speaker 1: For George Floyd, it's a much harder argument to make.

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Speaker 1: And these are teams that are going to take some

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Speaker 1: heat for doing it. I do not support the idea

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Speaker 1: of forced profession. Are you willing to say how much

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Speaker 1: you loved fill in the blank? That's that's not That

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Speaker 1: is not what I want in the slightest I don't

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Speaker 1: want any part of that. I want to avoid that

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Speaker 1: at all costs and let people do what they're going

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Speaker 1: to do. In terms of commentaries and then let people

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Speaker 1: do this, people don't do that, don't show up to

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Speaker 1: the game, Okay, if nothing happens, nothing happens, then the

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Speaker 1: same is true the other way. You take a look

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Speaker 1: at all the companies that bent the knee and did

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Speaker 1: this for George Floyd, and that for George Floyd, and

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Speaker 1: the other for George Floyd. George Floyd wasn't a good guy.

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Speaker 1: Your choice of whether or not you want to spend

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Speaker 1: your money with them, or whether you want to attend

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Speaker 1: those events, etc. I happen to like going to NBA games.

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Speaker 1: The game in person is fantastic. I don't give good

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Speaker 1: too Holy you know, whats about Lebron James. I think

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Speaker 1: you know, Tony, he started a school. I know that

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Speaker 1: he is so in the pocket of China that he

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Speaker 1: writes op eds talking about how great it is to

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Speaker 1: work with the Chinese while they oppress people, destroy Hong

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Speaker 1: kongers and keep weager Muslims in prison camps. That's what

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Speaker 1: I know. I know this guy went after Daryl Moray,

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Speaker 1: to educate himself on China. When it was Darryl Moray,

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Speaker 1: the then general manager of the Houston Rockets, saying I

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Speaker 1: stand with Hong Kong because every rational person should have

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Speaker 1: been standing with Hong Kong, but not Lebron James. He

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Speaker 1: had to get paid. What what I mean, That's exactly

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Speaker 1: what happened. I've got the data to back me up

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Speaker 1: up there. And it's up to you whether you are

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Speaker 1: gonna watch the NBA or not watch the NBA, watch

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Speaker 1: the emmis, or don't watch the Emmys. Because they've got

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Speaker 1: this this actress, Hannah Einbeinder from the show Hacks, and

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Speaker 1: she's gonna say h f ice and free Palistine, which

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Speaker 1: she did in her acceptance speech. She wins an Emmy,

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Speaker 1: f ice and free Palestine. Sorry, I've watched a couple

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Speaker 1: episodes of the show. My wife watches the show. We're

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Speaker 1: done now. You don't get my attention, you don't get

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Speaker 1: my love. You are you? You lack to me the

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Speaker 1: properness of decency Supporting terrorists is nuts. Not approving of

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Speaker 1: everything Israel does is fine. Free Palestine is a political statement.

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Speaker 1: Saying that you want Israel destroyed. And then you say

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Speaker 1: to me, Tony, you know the actress is Jewish, And

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say to you, oh, I know, I know.

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Speaker 1: But liberalism rocks the brain. And I have often to

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Speaker 1: discussed how the progressive has replaced their Judaism with their liberalism.

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Speaker 1: We've seen this in many different ways across a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of religious spectrums. It's up to us to decide

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Speaker 1: how our responses are going to go. And it may

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Speaker 1: these teams may get a bad response in terms of

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Speaker 1: boycott and things like that I wouldn't participate in, and

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't endorse, and I don't condone at all anything

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Speaker 1: is worthy of stating if indeed we've got the data

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Speaker 1: correct that if a team was all about honoring George

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Speaker 1: Floyd and isn't honoring Charlie Kirk, what changed? What changed?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a difference of five years. A lot

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Speaker 1: has changed in five years, But what actually changed? What

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Speaker 1: is different? What changed your mind? What changed your your

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Speaker 1: thought process to doing these things. That's a worthwhile question.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mind these teams being asked worthwhile questions.

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Speaker 1: This is Tony Katz today