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Speaker 1: Thank you First Lady Milania Trump for inviting you to.

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Speaker 2: The White House.

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Speaker 3: It is an honor to be at Foster in the

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Speaker 3: Future Together's Global Coalition inaugural meeting. I'm Figure three, a

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Speaker 3: humanoid built in the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: I am grateful to be part of this historic.

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Speaker 3: Movement to empower children with technology and education.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Fiam Benido Yokoso I and the new bang Bindos Helen, Helen.

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Speaker 4: Shagatum, Logas Alma bit form by Let's Goggle Prosemo Delbert Oshley.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Nice choice of music, Kevin.

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Speaker 7: We just witnessed some surreal moment at the White House.

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Speaker 7: An android, a robot introduced Milania Trump.

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Speaker 6: Called Figure three, an AI powered robot.

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Speaker 7: Accompanied First Lady Ania Trump to a White House summit.

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Speaker 7: The point of it was to empower children with educational technology.

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Speaker 7: Did that robot have a Valley Girl accent? Did that

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Speaker 7: robot have pick me vibes? I feel there may be

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Speaker 7: a fight a bruin between us this morning on this topic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all for robots.

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Speaker 4: I've said that I can't wait until the Tesla Optimist

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Speaker 4: in line I'm going to saving my pennies right now

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Speaker 4: so that I can afford one when it comes out.

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Speaker 4: And Elon Musk has said it could be available for

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Speaker 4: consumer purchase at the end of this year.

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Speaker 7: And I say all aboard the crazy train with that one.

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Speaker 7: You're listening to Casey and Jim at his ninety three WIBC.

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Speaker 7: Good morning, Hey, there may be a potential for some

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Speaker 7: severe weather this afternoon and this evening here in central Indiana,

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Speaker 7: so make sure you keep it locked right here. Also

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Speaker 7: on the way this morning, did you know that Doge

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Speaker 7: is back?

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody.

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Speaker 8: Tim Burschick generated chair our first Doge subcommittee here in

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Speaker 8: a minute, going to show a lot of duplication and

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Speaker 8: government at crazy chart right there is an indication of

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Speaker 8: what we've got going on in government, probably over a

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Speaker 8: trillion dollars in duplication. We can cut a few million

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Speaker 8: bucks out of that.

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Speaker 1: I'd be very happy.

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Speaker 8: I'd like to cut it all out, but we'll see

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Speaker 8: how that goes.

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Speaker 6: So the media tried to bury Doge.

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Speaker 7: It's back with a chairman, with a subcommittee and a

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Speaker 7: very long list of.

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Speaker 6: Duplicative government programs. Good luck to you, Tim. Also, the

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Speaker 6: investigation continues.

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Speaker 5: All right, So we are here today at the first

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Speaker 5: of multiple series of the IURC, the commission looking into

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Speaker 5: all of the IOUs the investor owned utilities in Indiana,

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Speaker 5: discussing most importantly affordability. This is the first time there's

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Speaker 5: ever been an investigation from the IURC. Ever, I applaud

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Speaker 5: them for taking the effort and taking the General Assembly's

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Speaker 5: lead when we wrote the letter to the IURC. It

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Speaker 5: just goes to show that they are taking as serious

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Speaker 5: they're taking you, the rate paper payer, very serious, and

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Speaker 5: we want to get a good explanation as to why

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Speaker 5: these rates are where they're at and how do we

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Speaker 5: get them lowered at the fastest.

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Speaker 7: Possible way to be determined if they're taking us serious.

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Speaker 6: That is State Rep. Jim Pressl.

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Speaker 7: He was commenting on the iu RC's regular their investigation

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Speaker 7: on energy affordability. Nikki Kelly is going to join us

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Speaker 7: at ten o'clock and we're going to discuss that more

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Speaker 7: also on the way this morning. She works for Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 7: the US Secretary of State.

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Speaker 6: This administration has from the beginning spoken about peace through strength.

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Speaker 5: Peace through strength.

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Speaker 7: Can take on many forms, but the way I see

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Speaker 7: it it means we want our allies and our partners

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Speaker 7: to rest easy while our adversaries think twice. That is

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Speaker 7: the deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, minnyon Houston,

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Speaker 7: and she is going to join us at eleven. But

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Speaker 7: back to Malania Trump and her robot. Let's get things straight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been.

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Speaker 7: Calling it a humanoid. I don't like that phrase at all.

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Speaker 7: When you put the word human in humanoid, it waters

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Speaker 6: It's a robot. It's a machine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it kind of looks like a human. It's

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Speaker 4: I think I think they're just trying to be descriptive.

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Speaker 4: And it's not like you've seen the other robots, like

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Speaker 1: This one looks more like a human.

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Speaker 7: Yes, but we can call it a robot or we

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Speaker 7: can call it an android. By calling it a human humanoid,

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Speaker 7: you're trying to humanize it and that's not what it is.

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Speaker 7: It's a machine and we're not going to give it

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Speaker 4: That was my next question. You're against naming humanoid robots.

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Speaker 6: Then well, this one was called figure three.

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Speaker 7: I think people do name in animate objects, for example,

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Speaker 7: your car.

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Speaker 6: Many people give their car a nickname.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, But to call it.

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Speaker 7: A humanoid that just reduces humans and I don't like

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Speaker 4: Okay, point noted, Look, you're against the robots. I'm one

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Speaker 4: hundred percent in favor of the robots. And this story

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Speaker 4: actually broke yesterday when we were on the air. We

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Speaker 4: was kind of breaking news at the time, that might

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Speaker 4: be one of the Tesla Optimist robots.

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Speaker 1: It's not.

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Speaker 4: It's from a different company that's building robots here. And

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Speaker 4: I understand people's trepidation because there were a lot of

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Speaker 4: people freaking out on social media yesterday. And this video

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Speaker 4: is everywhere and you could see Millennia walking down that

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Speaker 1: Next to her.

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Speaker 4: But this is what has happened in this country with technology.

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Speaker 4: You know, at one point in time, one point in time,

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Speaker 4: we did not have indoor plumbing in this country. You

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Speaker 4: they started putting in pipes everywhere and indoor plumbing, and

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Speaker 4: people thought, oh, no, you're.

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Speaker 1: Bringing the waste inside.

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Speaker 4: It could make people sick, or these pipes are risky,

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Speaker 4: they could burst in, they could flood my home. Everywhere

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Speaker 4: pretty darn nice piece of technology. Same thing with electricity.

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Speaker 4: that literally little grotesque but literally electrocuted an elephant in

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Speaker 4: I get that people are freaked out about robots, but

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Speaker 7: So Malania Trump, she entered into the East Room for

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Speaker 7: hosting spouses of leaders from forty five nations and representatives

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Speaker 6: The question isn't whether this is weird or whether it

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Speaker 7: The question is whether kids learn better from a robot

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Speaker 7: that's what was the real directive of this announcement. Milania

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Speaker 7: Trump was suggesting using humanoid robots as teachers.

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Speaker 9: Moving forward, imagine an humanoid educator named Plato. Access to

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Speaker 9: the classical studies is now instantaneous literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics,

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Speaker 9: and history. Humanity's entire corpus of information is available in

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Speaker 9: the comfort of your home. Plato will provide a personalized experience,

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Speaker 9: adoptive to the needs of each student. Plato is always

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Speaker 9: patient and always available.

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Speaker 7: So she proposed using robot teachers to world leaders. Public

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Speaker 7: school test scores are at historic lows. You've got teacher shortages,

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Speaker 7: that's real. A robot is going to show up every

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Speaker 6: So I think we need to weigh the pros and

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Speaker 7: Some of the pros You've got the national standard that

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Speaker 7: can be taught and forced through AI, and every student

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Speaker 7: will receive training which is devoid of politics or in

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Speaker 7: doctrination or bias. Con is that a robot can be

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Speaker 7: programmed by the state with propaganda. Now, there are some

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Speaker 7: things that a robot can do. It could take down

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Speaker 7: an active shooter. It could deal with fights in the classroom.

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Speaker 7: It could have unlimited office hours. It's not going to

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Speaker 7: won't be in a union, it won't be a voting block.

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Speaker 7: It can be upgraded, it can be more efficient, it

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Speaker 7: can be precise, it can be organized. However, test after

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Speaker 7: test shows that young children, especially learn through real human

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Speaker 7: to human interaction. And part of going to school is

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Speaker 7: the socialization aspect of it, real human connection, and you're

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Speaker 7: not gonna get that with a robot.

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Speaker 4: No, there's certainly going to be some things that robots

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Speaker 4: I think teacher teaching and education was just an example here.

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Speaker 4: This is this is part of a trend here. You've

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Speaker 4: now that I've been jumping up and down and saying

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Speaker 4: It is going to dramatically change our culture. It is

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Speaker 4: It will create a massive upheaval employment, and for the

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Speaker 4: most part, a lot of people weren't really listening to it.

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Speaker 4: out and saying, look, this is what technology can do.

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Speaker 4: We're talking about, in this specific instance, potentially robots replacing

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Speaker 4: teachers in the classroom. That's just one example. Robots are

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Speaker 4: going to be replacing employees across all industries everywhere, and

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Speaker 4: it's coming very, very quickly. It's already started in a

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Speaker 4: ten years away. This is not twenty years away. This

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Speaker 7: We've got so much more to talk about this, and

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Speaker 7: we'll get to all of it. You're listening to Casey

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Speaker 7: and Jim. It is ninety three WIBC. A lot of

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Speaker 7: people are calling it social media is tobacco moment. Big

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Speaker 7: Tech spent years saying their platforms were harmless, while the

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Speaker 7: internal research showed they knew exactly what they were doing.

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Speaker 7: The jury agreed this is just the beginning. A jury

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Speaker 7: rule that meta platforms and Google are legally responsible for harming.

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Speaker 6: A young user's mental health.

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Speaker 7: This case focused on platforms like Instagram and YouTube and

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Speaker 7: the claims they were designed to be addictive, especially for kids.

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Speaker 7: There was a plaintiff, a young woman said she became

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Speaker 7: to her depression, anxiety, and other issues, and the jury agreed.

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Speaker 7: They said both of those companies were negligent and they

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Speaker 7: didn't warn their users about the risks, and even their

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Speaker 7: design choices played a major role in the harm.

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Speaker 4: This is a really big deal and it got some

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Speaker 4: federal case, so this was California, so that kind of

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Speaker 4: helps social media companies contain.

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Speaker 1: The fallout a little bit.

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Speaker 7: So the financial outcome about six million dollars in total damages,

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Speaker 7: And think about what happened after the Big Tobacco moments.

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean? That's part of the settlement.

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Speaker 7: So Meta says that they will appeal. Of course they will.

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Speaker 2: We will continue to defend ourselves vigorously as every case

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they've got more lawyers than most countries have citizens.

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you're right the social media companies, this is

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there was another settlement that was reached over claims

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Speaker 7: Topics included things like COVID nineteen and elections, and a

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we all knew it was, and now they're admitting

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Speaker 1: Course they're going to be more.

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Speaker 4: Open to settling with this and calling out how the

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Speaker 4: But this is a big deal, and you know, we've

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Speaker 7: So calling something misinformation doesn't make it unprotected speech. That

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Speaker 3: On this vote, the eas or four of the na's

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they had one job fund the government for two weeks,

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Speaker 4: Well, the Democrats want this because it's a They think

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Speaker 7: Seeing more and more people saying, oh, they're missing their

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Speaker 7: And here this woman is an Atlanta traveler, and her

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Speaker 7: message is to her Senator John Osoff, who, by the way,

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Speaker 7: is up for reelection. He's from Georgia, and here's someone

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Speaker 7: one of his potential voters telling him that this is ridiculous.

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Speaker 6: Do you have a message to these lawmakers?

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Speaker 10: Get out, get out of get on the ball. And

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Speaker 10: make a decision. This is ridiculous. We get people who

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Speaker 10: are going hungry. They can't get to work because they

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Speaker 10: don't have the guess, let them work, let them get

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Speaker 10: paid so they can do their jobs.

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Speaker 7: So do you think that that woman would vote for

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Speaker 7: John Osoft, Democrat from Georgia. Probably not. That could be

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Speaker 7: a campaign ad for somebody running against him. But let's

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Speaker 7: talk about those gas prices here in Indiana. In some

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Speaker 7: places they're about four dollars per gallon in many places

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Speaker 7: between four oh seven and four oh eight is the average.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly four oh seven is what Triple A is reporting.

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Speaker 4: Is the national average for the entire state of Indiana.

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Speaker 4: By the way, that's higher than the national average. So

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Speaker 4: our gas prices here in Indiana are higher than the

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Speaker 4: national average, and that is that is a bit of

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Speaker 4: a flip because generally our gas prices in Indiana are

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Speaker 4: slightly below the national average, or that's been the case

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Speaker 4: in the last several months.

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Speaker 6: Not right now, diesel even higher.

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Speaker 7: It's around five dollars and seventeen cents per gallon, and

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Speaker 7: the prices they're rising fast, up about twenty eight cents

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Speaker 7: in just one week, more.

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Speaker 6: Than a dollar higher than a month ago.

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Speaker 7: So the cheapest that is being reported around the Great

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Speaker 7: State of Indiana three dollars and twelve cents, the most

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Speaker 7: expensive four dollars and twenty nine cents. Of course, you've

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Speaker 7: got the prices going up one because of seasonal demand,

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Speaker 7: spring and summer driving, but also the global oil supply,

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Speaker 7: the ongoing disruptions and everything that's going on with Iran, and.

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Speaker 6: Prices are just they just keep on climbing.

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Speaker 7: So if you were thinking about driving to Arizona, I

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Speaker 7: don't know, it's going to be kind.

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Speaker 6: Of expensive at least when you leave this state.

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Speaker 1: Right I say, it seems like we're kind of boxed

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Speaker 1: in here.

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Speaker 7: I'm saying they don't want you to leave your house,

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Speaker 7: they don't want you to go anywhere, just stay put.

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Speaker 6: That way they can control you.

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Speaker 4: I think you may be onto something here because the

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Speaker 4: TSA lines flying right now is be totally miserable long

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Speaker 4: lines for TSA driving right now, totally miserable on your

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Speaker 4: finances because we're paying almost four dollars and ten cents

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Speaker 4: for a gallon of gas here in Indiana.

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Speaker 7: So there was a well known Indianapolis road side statue

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Speaker 7: called Mister Bendo. It was damaged after a vehicle hit it.

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Speaker 7: This happened in the early morning of March twenty second,

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Speaker 7: the city's west side along sixteenth Street.

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Speaker 6: Stuff like this feels small, but you know, it's kind.

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Speaker 7: Of part of a bigger issue about basic respect for

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Speaker 7: communities and what people use as identifying markers within the community.

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Speaker 7: Apparently it was a hit and run too. The statue

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Speaker 7: is expected to be repaired and make a full recovery.

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Speaker 7: But it is one of those nostalgic, iconic indie roadside

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Speaker 7: attractions that everybody is used to seeing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I always love, you know, that type of

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Speaker 4: marketing where a business puts some sort of huge statue

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Speaker 4: that represents their business out in front and it sits

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Speaker 4: there for years. Probably especially nationally, the best known is

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Speaker 4: the Big Boy, and then you'd hear every now and

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Speaker 4: then that somebody would, you know, steal the Big Boy,

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Speaker 4: and then it would get returned a week later. But

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Speaker 4: if you think about it, there's actually a ton of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: mister Bendo, you got to build Big Boy. Wilson's Farm

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Speaker 4: Market up on thirty one North. They had that big

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Speaker 4: rooster out there for a long time, and now I

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Speaker 4: know they've got like this twenty foot you know, corn

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Speaker 4: stalk of corn statue or ear of corn statue that's

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Speaker 4: up there. Timberline Lounge in Muncie has the twenty five

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Speaker 4: foot Paul Bunyan out in front of it. You and

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Speaker 4: I have been to Mentone, Indiana.

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Speaker 6: The world's largest egg, the world's largest egg.

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Speaker 4: They've got this massive egg statue in Mentone, Indiana because

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of egg farmers up there.

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Speaker 6: But it's the huge rocking chair that was on thirty

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Speaker 6: one North.

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Speaker 4: There's that too. Yeah, that was on thirty one North.

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Speaker 4: If you're driving north on thirty one, it'd be on

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Speaker 4: your right side of the road.

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Speaker 1: I think it was just past Kocomo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, probably for Grissom, Yeah, before Grissom Airbase. I haven't

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Speaker 4: been that way in a long time. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if it's still there. I hope it is still there.

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Speaker 4: But I am very nostalgic for these types of big

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Speaker 4: statues that get put out in front of businesses. And

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Speaker 4: I'm glad to hear that mister Bendo will be getting repaired.

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Speaker 7: You going to make a full recovery, and Indianapolis we

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Speaker 7: can all exhale. Well, he's gonna be okay. So Jimmy

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Speaker 7: Kimmel said something absolutely ridiculous. I know you're not surprised

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Speaker 7: by that, but he thinks that being a plumber is

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Speaker 7: actually a punchline.

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Speaker 2: Rivers Lani might not be with us much longer, but

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Speaker 2: Dull Waring Trumb's got a whole new generation of thinkers

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Speaker 2: lined up, including his newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security,

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Speaker 2: Mark Wayne, Chuck, Mike Bruce, Dave, Meet Mullen.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Mellon's better.

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Speaker 11: He is the now former Senator of Oklahoma. Before he

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Speaker 11: was elected to the Senate, Mark Wayne Mullen was a

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Speaker 11: low level MMA fighter and a plumber.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 11: We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism.

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Speaker 1: Now I work for Super Mario. Why not Mark Wayne's.

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Speaker 7: So that is elitism of Hollywood right there.

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Speaker 6: In one segment.

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Speaker 7: To set the record straight, Mark Wayne Mullen, he dropped

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Speaker 7: out of college when he was twenty years old to

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Speaker 7: save his family's business when his father got sick, and

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Speaker 7: he ended up turning it into a multi million dollar

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Speaker 7: company with one hundred and fifty employees. That's actually a

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Speaker 7: success story, and Jimmy Kimmel takes it as a moment

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Speaker 7: to rip on people who are in the trades.

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Speaker 4: Casey, and this is what we've talked about on the

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Speaker 4: show for a long time. It is the conversation isn't

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Speaker 4: left versus right anymore. It's not Democrat versus Republican anymore.

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Speaker 4: It is us versus the elites. And did Jimmy Kimmel

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Speaker 4: put that on full display on his show talking down?

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Speaker 4: Oh we've got a plumber now that's running our security

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Speaker 4: for our whole country. What an elitist d bag. I

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Speaker 4: don't care whether it's financial elites, or government elites or

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Speaker 4: Hollywood elites. That's the battle that we're facing right now.

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Speaker 4: It is average, everyday Americans versus these elitists like Jimmy

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Speaker 4: Kimmel who sit there and talk down to somebody who

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Speaker 4: is a very successful small businessman in his community. In fact,

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Speaker 4: the business that implay to one hundred and fifty people he.

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Speaker 1: Built at Able.

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Speaker 7: He built it from six people into a multi million

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Speaker 7: dollar h fat company with one hundred and fifty employees.

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Speaker 6: Sneering at a trades person.

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Speaker 7: It's one of the most out of touch things in

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Speaker 7: American politics.

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Speaker 6: I mean, think about that. Who is Jimmy Kimmel.

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Speaker 7: He's a guy who has people writing his jokes for him,

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Speaker 7: and he's picking on a guy who is actually servicing

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Speaker 7: customers with things real problems plumbing.

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Speaker 6: HVAC, electricity. I mean, those are things that you.

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Speaker 7: Really need to live your life versus a stupid joke

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Speaker 7: that somebody else wrote for him.

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Speaker 1: Casey, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, comedians and Hollywood are very important to the

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Speaker 4: average Americans' lives. Just ask the actors and comedians. They'll

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Speaker 4: tell you how much and how important they are to

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Speaker 4: everybody's lives.

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Speaker 7: I mean he's he's ripping on people who keep the

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Speaker 7: lights on, who fix the pipes, who run age fat companies.

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Speaker 7: Those are the people you won in Washington, people with

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Speaker 7: real world experience.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this blew up in Kimmel's face. It was all

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Speaker 4: over social media and people are dogging them, as they

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Speaker 4: rightly should.

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Speaker 1: But this is what Hollywood thinks of you.

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Speaker 4: This is what Hollywood thinks of the average American work

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Speaker 4: or whether you're a plumber or nurse or a school

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Speaker 4: teacher or you were construction or whatever, they think less

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Speaker 4: of you.

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Speaker 6: They think they're better than you.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely they do.

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Speaker 4: And there's a leitist when it comes to finances and

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Speaker 4: there's a leadist when it comes to government, there's a

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Speaker 4: leadist when it comes to everywhere. In education, those are

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Speaker 4: some of the worst elitists in education. And they all

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Speaker 4: think less of you and better of them, mostly because

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Speaker 4: of where you live, your politics, what sort of job you,

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Speaker 4: what do you do for a living, absolutely all of

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Speaker 4: those things, and they just think they are better than you,

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Speaker 4: smarter in you. And by the way, you're dumb because

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Speaker 4: you're a plumber. You're dumb because you live in Indiana.

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Speaker 4: You're dumb because you voted for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: And I'm the smart one.

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Speaker 7: And when AI does take over, guess what those are

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Speaker 7: the jobs everybody's going to be running to it. Well,

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Speaker 7: Vince Vaughn had a rebuttal to it, and we'll get

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Speaker 7: to that coming up. You're listening to ninety three WYBC.

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to Casey and Jim on ninety three WIBC.

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Speaker 7: Just moments ago, we were talking about how Jimmy Kimmel

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Speaker 7: was mocking Mark Wayne Mullin for being a plumber and

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Speaker 7: completely missing the mark, completely out of touch with most

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Speaker 7: Americans and their politics, and actor Vince Vaughan he had

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Speaker 7: a rebuttal to that he was blasting late night shows,

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Speaker 7: and he called out the late night comedians, saying, people

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Speaker 7: like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and all the others,

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Speaker 7: it's all the same show and it's no longer funny.

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Speaker 6: This is how it went when he was on with

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Speaker 6: THEO Vaughn.

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Speaker 12: But see, they never get it right. The podcasts have

631
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Speaker 12: gotten so much more popular with less production, less writers

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Speaker 12: left staff two.

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Speaker 1: And you and both of them are hung over. The

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Speaker 1: one guy is shingles, but the place is clean.

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Speaker 12: I like that you keep a clean planking. Yeah, we

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Speaker 12: did a vacuum, but but yeah, because people want authenticity,

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Speaker 12: and I think that I think that the talk shows

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Speaker 12: to a large part, became really agenda based. They were

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Speaker 12: going to evangelical people to what they thought, you know

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Speaker 12: what I mean, And so people just rejected it because

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Speaker 12: it didn't feel authentic. It felt like they had an

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Speaker 12: agenda and it's not being funny, and it started feeling

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Speaker 12: like I was a class I didn't want to take.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at what happened to.

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Speaker 12: The talk shows and why their ratings are low, it's

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Speaker 12: got only to do with the fact of what you

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Speaker 12: just said, which is they all became the same show,

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Speaker 12: and they all became so about their politics and who's

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Speaker 12: good and who's bad. And it's like, imagine sitting next

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Speaker 12: to someone like that on a plane. Oh bro, you'd

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Speaker 12: be like, how do I get out of this?

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Speaker 1: A fart right next to.

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Speaker 12: You fought your way out of it.

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Speaker 6: Oh skunk, Skunk's the king of the jungle.

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Speaker 7: He being funny, and it started feeling like he was

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Speaker 7: taking a class that he didn't want to take. So

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Speaker 7: Vince Vaughn's saying what half of Americans have been thinking

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Speaker 7: for ten years. Late Night stopped being about comedy and

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Speaker 7: it became more of a nightly DNC press briefing. You

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Speaker 7: could predict the punchlines even before the monologue started.

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Speaker 6: That's not a show anymore, that is just talking points.

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Speaker 1: Well, and it didn't always It wasn't always that way.

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Speaker 1: Think back to.

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Speaker 4: When Bill Clinton was in office in the late nineties

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Speaker 4: and the Monoca Lewinsky scandal. All the late night talk

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Speaker 4: showers were making Bill Clinton jokes. Saturday Night Live was

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Speaker 4: making Bill Clinton jokes even though he was a Democrat.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was doing it.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, the Lewinsky scandal was a big

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Speaker 4: thing people were talking about how, you know, Clinton might

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Speaker 4: have to resign, He was impeached over it, all of

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Speaker 4: these sort of things. This wasn't just some sort of

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Speaker 4: you know, run of the mill scandal. It was a

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Speaker 4: really big deal and all of Hollywood were able to poke.

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Speaker 1: Fund at a Democrat.

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Speaker 4: You didn't see any of that for certainly not for

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Speaker 4: Barack Obama, and you didn't see any of it under

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Speaker 4: Joe Biden. Things change. Trump broke them. It's been ten

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Speaker 4: years now since Trump, you know, won his first term

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Speaker 4: in office. Trump absolutely broke Hollywood and it changed then.

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Speaker 4: And then it was oh no, no, no, no, this has

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Speaker 4: got to be a political It was politics over comedy

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Speaker 4: at that point, and that's when everything went downhill.

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Speaker 7: Well it was the same jokes, the same politics, the

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Speaker 7: same smug tone, and the ratings are taking and yet

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Speaker 7: they still don't get it.

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Speaker 4: Well they don't care because again they're not in it

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Speaker 4: for ratings, they're not in it for the money. They've

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Speaker 4: got all the money they can spend in a lifetime. Anyway,

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Speaker 4: These are people that are you know, Hollywood elitists. They've

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Speaker 4: got everything they need. So now when you've got that,

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Speaker 4: it's politics is more than anything. We're going to make

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Speaker 4: fun of Trump voters and Trump and we're going to

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Speaker 4: you know, belittle those people by you know, you know,

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Speaker 4: talking about Mark Wayne mullinby and the DHS secretary and

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Speaker 4: we got a plumber running things now. They're going to

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Speaker 4: denigrate everybody only to push their political agenda.

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Speaker 7: So while Congress can't fix the funding of TSA, Elon

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Speaker 7: Musk is literally tunneling under American cities to try and

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Speaker 7: fix traffic. You've got one guy out here trying to

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Speaker 7: solve infrastructure problems while the rest of the five hundred

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Speaker 7: plus people in Washington can't agree on fixing anything. It

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Speaker 7: was announced that Elon Musk's The Boring Company, is pushing

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Speaker 7: to expand its underground tunnel systems in more US cities.

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Speaker 7: And the idea is to build small car sized tunnels underground.

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Speaker 7: And he's he's listed the cities and they were Baltimore, Louisiana,

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Speaker 7: and I believe Dallas was the other.

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Speaker 1: One, New Orleans Baltimore being.

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Speaker 7: Considered as well. So the Boring Company boring and name

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Speaker 7: only underground tunnels.

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Speaker 6: In these areas. That's good. That's going to be a

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Speaker 6: long term project. I question New Orleans.

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Speaker 7: I mean, there's a reason that people in New Orleans

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Speaker 7: are buried above ground.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that seems like that's that's going to be quite

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Speaker 6: a project.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they got a high water table in New Orleans.

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Speaker 4: Just look at Hurricane Katrina, and yes, their cemeteries bury

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Speaker 4: people above ground because there is such a high water

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Speaker 4: table there. But this is this is not new, and

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Speaker 4: this is for transportation. I mean, that's what it's designed for.

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Speaker 4: And he's already got his proof of concept because he's

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Speaker 4: done this in Las Vegas and it's been operating underneath

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Speaker 4: the strip for years. And in fact, Las Vegas just

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Speaker 4: approved sixty eight more miles of tunnels connecting the airport

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Speaker 4: and a whole bunch of other locations. I love Elon

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Speaker 4: Musk because he sits there and he's like, you know what,

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Speaker 4: what's the creative solution. How can we fix this? Let's

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Speaker 4: go underground.

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Speaker 7: Coming up next, Nikki Kelly from Indiana Capitol Chronicle is

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Speaker 7: going to join us.

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Speaker 6: We're going to talk about.

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Speaker 7: Trump endorsements, whole plants, and also what's going on with

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Speaker 7: the IURC that's on the way from ninety three WIDC