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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mike or Michael.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm looking forward to another lesson Mediocre podcast this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Go get them.

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Speaker 4: Uh, mediocre is our middle name, less than less than mediocre. Okay,

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Speaker 4: all right, not more than mediocre, less than me. Well,

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Speaker 4: then you'll you'll be fully satisfied. So Dragon, you'll just

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Speaker 4: pull the show starts. Hey, Hey, you want to hear

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Speaker 4: a talkback that I can't play on air. So I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 4: I'm and I'm running back toward the control rooms.

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Speaker 3: Amazing how quickly you got up and ran in here?

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Speaker 4: Well because because here, Honestly, what I expected was I

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Speaker 4: hate talkback. I expected like some you know. Uh, but

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Speaker 4: I said who it was from? No, No, I didn't

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Speaker 4: hear that. Oh okay, see I didn't hear who was from.

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Speaker 4: I just heard you want to hear a talkback, and

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Speaker 4: you said, but you got to come in here. So

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Speaker 4: I just jump up and walk in there. So I

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Speaker 4: never heard of who was from?

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: So as I'm going there, I'm thinking, oh, this is

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Speaker 4: gonna be a doozy. It's gonna be like f bombs.

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Speaker 4: You know if you and you're just you know, you're

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Speaker 4: an idiot. Blah blah, blah blah and oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: Quite the opposite. It's quite the opposite, and I'd love

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Speaker 1: Just it ain't gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: I'm just curious. The only thing I am curious about

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm assuming.

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Speaker 4: That either they were like driving and they were at

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Speaker 1: It's our trucker friend, and he observed.

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Speaker 4: Some some a shenani he's he absorbed.

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Speaker 1: He he observed some.

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Speaker 4: Self induced shenanigans, some solo shenanigans, some do it by

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Speaker 4: yourself shenanigans.

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Speaker 3: I think we got the message here, Michael.

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Speaker 4: Of course, I don't know why he feels compelled to

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Speaker 1: You to hear this one.

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Speaker 3: And she's a passenger makes complete sense.

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Speaker 4: But if she's driving, oh I think, oh, I thought

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Speaker 4: You should ask truckers sometime. In fact, let's just ask them.

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Speaker 3: What text really dedicated in order to do that?

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Speaker 4: While right, well, or you're just trying to sometimes people

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Speaker 4: just try to show off to truckers. So here here's

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Speaker 4: my quest, my request for today.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to read any of them a layer.

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't. I shouldn't say that who knows, who knows?

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Speaker 4: Trucker, and by trucker, let's let's broaden the definition a

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Speaker 3: What a way to start a show one your Thursday.

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Speaker 4: And then the other thing I wanted to talk about

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Speaker 1: Dragon?

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Speaker 3: Barely?

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Speaker 4: and let's see what the weather report is for the day.

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Speaker 4: And so they're giving the weather report.

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Speaker 4: What we witnessed and went through yesterday establishes a new baseline.

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Speaker 4: We will now get almost regularly from Excel or Black

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Speaker 1: So there's that.

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Speaker 4: Here's what I really want to talk about before I

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Speaker 4: get on to other stories. Today, Corey Gains writes a

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Speaker 4: substack newsletter called the Colorado Accountability Project. I read it probably,

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Speaker 4: I can't say, with all due respect, Corey, I can't

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Speaker 4: it's dated. No, actually it's stated this morning. The headline

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Speaker 4: is this, Join me in emailing the Public Utilities Commission

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Speaker 4: about their natural gas rule this December updates on Colorado's

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Speaker 4: propose progressive tax. Wouldn't be a citizen journalist. I've got

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Speaker 4: an idea for you. He starts out with this. Corey writes,

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Speaker 4: I wanted to share with you another way you can

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Speaker 4: speak up to the PUC reference their clean Heat rule making.

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Speaker 4: In addition to speaking of at their January fourteenth meeting,

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Speaker 4: you can also send in an email prior to their

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Speaker 4: finalizing their clean Heat plan December twenty second, four days

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Speaker 4: from today. He says, I got the following from a

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Speaker 4: Commission's usual process, any individual, stakeholder or organization may request

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Speaker 4: that the Commission reconsider its decision on these rules. Such

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Speaker 4: consider these requests and publicly deliberate at a January weekly meeting.

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Speaker 4: Anyone wishing to make public comment or request reconsideration of

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Speaker 4: the decision may do so at this time by emailing

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Speaker 4: Let's go through it now before we go any further.

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Speaker 4: I've told you about a lot of hyperlinks. Is it

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Speaker 4: up yet?

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Speaker 1: Dragon?

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Speaker 3: Seconds away from hitting published, Michael says, go here dot com.

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Speaker 4: All right, we're going to republish Corey's article, or at

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Speaker 1: Michael says, go here dot com.

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Speaker 4: Saturday Night Life, the black comedian, Garrett Morris, and he

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Speaker 4: the you know, the weekend update. Chevy Chase and Garrett

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Speaker 1: The news tonight is so for those of you in

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Speaker 3: Com one more time for the truck driver he's preoccupied.

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Speaker 4: Well for him, Michael, Michael says, go.

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Speaker 1: Go here, go go here dot com.

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Speaker 4: Hyrolysis of tires is a thermal process that heats shredded

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Speaker 3: Have a great day.

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Speaker 4: Night and addresses the nation from the diplomatic reception room.

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Speaker 4: don't care. I don't count. It's not that I don't

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Speaker 4: care about the shooting. It's not that I don't care

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Speaker 4: about the people that were killed. Is that I don't

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Speaker 4: care about the incessant news coverage of it. It's just constant, constant, constant.

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Speaker 4: And I think that while we are fascinated by violence,

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Speaker 4: when we actually see what you is technically violence. You know,

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Speaker 4: when you grab somebody and you throw them to the

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Speaker 4: ground and you handcuff them and you throw them back

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Speaker 4: in the back of a paddy wagon to haul them

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Speaker 4: off to be deported. You could call that violence. And

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Speaker 4: now people are seeing it and they're like, ooh, I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure.

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Speaker 3: I like that.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Michael and Dragon. I typically listen to you

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Speaker 5: guys ninety four point one FM instead of eight fifty AM,

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Speaker 5: but it's just been pure static since your show yesterday.

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Speaker 5: Did the FM station get taken off the air with

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Speaker 5: the power outage? It's just kind of bad, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I assume it probably did. Guess that is one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent correct. The FM transmitter is located in the zone

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Speaker 3: where Xcel turned off the power.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is the tower still standing? Do we know?

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Speaker 3: Pretty sure? Pretty sure? You never know?

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Speaker 1: Just Dominic up there hanging on.

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Speaker 3: Jan the Dylan from what I understand.

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Speaker 1: Dylan's hanging up there, hanging from the wires, poor Dylan.

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Speaker 4: So Trump's speech last night really was just a litany

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Speaker 4: of his accomplishments.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure that.

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Speaker 4: Some of you want to dispute, you know, my joking

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Speaker 4: around about you know, he was he was delicate, and

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Speaker 4: he barely you know, criticized his predecessor blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 4: But Paul was troubled like to to do. He was

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Speaker 4: elected to seal the border and start turning the economy around,

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Speaker 4: get rid of the green energy scam, and all of

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Speaker 4: that is quickly becoming true. Above all, he was elected

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Speaker 4: to restore confidence in and enthusiasm about this country, and

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Speaker 4: that current of cultural self confidence I think is going

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Speaker 4: to be absolutely central if you're if we're going to

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Speaker 4: fulfill the imperative of make America great again. So this

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Speaker 4: inventory was probably a proper thing to do. Now, is

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Speaker 4: he a Ronald regu when it comes to delivering speeches. No.

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Speaker 4: Did he appear at times to me anyway, to be

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Speaker 4: angry as I listened to.

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Speaker 1: Watch the clips. Yeah, but that's that's kind of vintage Trump.

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Speaker 4: But his litany of accomplishments and promises for the future

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Speaker 4: are actually.

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Speaker 1: In line with what he and his team have managed.

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Speaker 4: To deliver over the past eleven months, and that is

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Speaker 4: an extraordinary series of accomplishments on the economy and energy

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Speaker 4: and in cultural self confidence generally. Donald Trump has very

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Speaker 4: much taken to heart the wisdom contained in the Gospel

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Speaker 4: parable about not hiding your light under a bushel. But

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Speaker 4: he says that we have achieved more than anybody could

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Speaker 4: ever imagine. Everybody gets old. But the truth is that

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Speaker 4: Trump is pretty much stating the truth because you look

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Speaker 4: back over the past. Let's see, let me let me

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Speaker 4: count here, so four years that let's let's take out

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Speaker 4: Trump one point oh, because Trump one point oh truly

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Speaker 4: didn't accomplish all that much, because he was too busy

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Speaker 4: litigating and too busy fighting off impeachments to really get

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Speaker 4: a lot done, although he did get some stuff done.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to minimize I just want to say,

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Speaker 4: let's take that out of the equation. You take it

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Speaker 4: out of the equation. You look at what my old

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Speaker 4: boss did for eight years. Oh, we created that monstrosity

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Speaker 4: called homeland security. Yeah, that was wonderful, wasn't it. Oh

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Speaker 4: we did the Medicare drug program. You know, that's costing

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Speaker 4: us a boatload and not really saving us any money either.

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Speaker 4: And then you go to Obama and now we've got Obamacare,

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Speaker 4: which is you know, oh, keep your doctor, like your doctor,

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Speaker 4: keep your doctor. Oh, a family will pay what was it,

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Speaker 4: twelve hundred and fifteen hundred dollars a year, you know

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Speaker 4: for your insurance premium. Well that's that's a big joke.

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Speaker 4: And now we're faced with a big stupid political battle

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Speaker 4: over whether not to continue those subsidies. And then Biden,

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Speaker 4: Biden just went down the southern border. That took you know,

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Speaker 4: took some wirecutters, just opened the gates and said, come

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Speaker 4: on down, you're the next winner for you know.

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Speaker 1: Take take the textpayer's money.

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Speaker 4: And then you look at what Trump's done in terms

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Speaker 4: of all of you know, trying to reverse those things,

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Speaker 4: trying to fix those things, what he's done with the economy,

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Speaker 4: you know, the Let me pull up today's Wall Street Journal,

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Speaker 4: because the headline earlier today on the Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 4: was pretty fascinating. Inflation eased to two point seven percent

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Speaker 4: in a report November risis, No November rising prices cooled

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Speaker 4: from a three percent game in September. And you dig

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Speaker 4: down on the story and you realize that that inflation

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Speaker 4: number is actually lower than economists expected. So yes, I

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Speaker 4: think we are on the right trajectory where just not

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Speaker 4: everybody is feeling it yet. And I know if you

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Speaker 4: look at the Drudge Report or you read you know,

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Speaker 4: CNBC or MSNB, whatever it is now, you're going to

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Speaker 4: get a really negative attitude. Well, I just refuse to

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Speaker 4: do that