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Speaker 4: Good morning, John, great show, Best submarine movie of all time,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I go hunt for Red October.

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Speaker 5: Top ten easy. You remove Star Wars out of the mix.

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Speaker 5: Throws off a top ten list for me, and I

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Speaker 5: Dost Boat's okay, it's a little on the slow side.

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Speaker 5: What is the that's McConaughey one you five, one, seven

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Speaker 5: It might be submarine theme. We just got off the

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Speaker 5: We'll get into this marble filled mansion once zoned by

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Speaker 3: Two point one million dollars.

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Speaker 5: We're also going to hop into the wayback machine and

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Speaker 1: Good morning, John Justice, thank you for what you do.

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Speaker 1: This is Jonathan on Ramsey. I am a sub mariner,

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Speaker 1: And absolutely he was absolutely right on down. Periscope is

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Speaker 5: It's crazy to me that we're in twenty twenty six

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Speaker 3: But in this she makes it sound like she's been

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much for everything, you know, Amy is

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Speaker 3: I've been in this.

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Speaker 6: We're the only immigrants did not get paid and work

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Speaker 3: We will fight.

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Speaker 6: We will fight hard. We will be there with you

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Speaker 5: Yes, it almost sounds like that could have been a

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Speaker 3: Beautiful, lavish home.

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Speaker 5: She had to go to add these wild, gaudy amenities.

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Speaker 3: Apparently with their mental gymnastics.

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Speaker 4: This isn't fraud of them, it's just creative means of reparations.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what it sounded like in that in that

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Speaker 3: Idea.

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Speaker 5: Hey, you know what, we had this feeding our future

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Speaker 5: I mean, everybody's to blame in this, but make no mistake,

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Speaker 5: In her application, Marrik Keegan claimed the restaurant would serve

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Speaker 5: But remember, I'm sure, going back to a story that

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, it's bogus to begin with. It was

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Speaker 5: Box trial. Marri Keegan, an East African immigrant, told the

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Speaker 3: Amy Bach was a god.

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Speaker 5: Mary Keegan testified she gave us the American dream life.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if that's actually where I pulled that from

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Speaker 5: The event was held in response to Bach's legal battle

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Speaker 5: Which attempted to cut funding over her suspected fraud.

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much for every team you know, Amy

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Speaker 3: I've been in this.

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Speaker 5: And she told me she figured out a way where

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Speaker 5: I just had to lie on a bunch of paperwork, makeups,

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Speaker 3: And now I am.

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Speaker 5: Look at my beautiful home and those gold doors in

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Speaker 3: Honey, please.

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Speaker 5: Money, please, Thank you for hanging out on the show today.

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Speaker 5: guys tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 3: Bye.

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Speaker 1: They knew, and they'd let it happen.

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Speaker 3: Walk out, walkout,