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Speaker 1: Good morning Mike or Michael. Hey, I really hope I

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Speaker 1: didn't miss Michael's anatomical segment this morning. I missed you

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Speaker 1: for a little bit. I just I just wouldn't know

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Speaker 1: what to doss. It's like a soap opera. You gotta

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Speaker 1: have it every day.

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Speaker 2: How's your elbow? It's fine, elbow's fine.

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Speaker 3: Just you know, it's still.

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Speaker 4: A little creaky but stupid gas bubble in my eye

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Speaker 4: from the Reton appeal last when it was that last Friday,

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Speaker 4: I did that, yes, miss, Yeah, it was Thursday. Thursday,

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Speaker 4: came back to Fordy. I misunderstood the surgeon. I thought

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Speaker 4: the gas bubble would dissipate in five or six days.

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Speaker 4: So yesterday when it has dissipated a little bit. But

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Speaker 4: the more it dissipates, the more it mounts, because it's smaller,

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Speaker 4: so the more I you know, with every beat of

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Speaker 4: my heart, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, it moves a little bit.

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Speaker 4: And of course, even as I'm speaking right now, all

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Speaker 4: I can see is a stupid little circle down here

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Speaker 4: at the bottom of my eye bouncing around.

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Speaker 3: It's so annoying. So I thought.

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Speaker 4: About calling him, or calling the nurse at least and

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Speaker 4: finding out now what was the deal about the dissipation,

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Speaker 4: because it will be a week tomorrow, it'll be seven

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Speaker 4: days tomorrow, eight days on Friday, eight days a week.

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Speaker 4: And then I did what a really smart American should

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Speaker 4: do it. Of course I yes, I went to doctor

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Speaker 4: Google and the AI answer on Google was it depends

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Speaker 4: on the gas. Now, if it's just air, the air

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Speaker 4: might dissipate in five or six days, but air is

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Speaker 4: not commonly used. There's some SF six or sixty seven,

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Speaker 4: or maybe it's seren gas.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what it is, but it's some sort

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Speaker 3: of nerve gas.

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Speaker 4: But it's upwards of five weeks. So there's your anatomical

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Speaker 4: there's your old fart bitching about his health for Wednesday,

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Speaker 4: January fourteen, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I wonder also if we're ever gonna get those lights

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Speaker 2: fixed in the bathroom. Of course not.

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Speaker 4: And I keep, you know, And it's on my list

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Speaker 4: of things to do to make a new sign. It's

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Speaker 4: not on my actual list of things to do. It's

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Speaker 4: on my mental list of things to do. And I

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Speaker 4: just can't come up with anything that's just smartness enough

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Speaker 4: that might just piss them off enough that they might

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Speaker 4: actually get mad tear the sign down, but actually fix

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Speaker 2: What about the map? Is that on your list of

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Speaker 2: things to do? No?

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Speaker 4: Actually I did not. I thought, total confession here. I

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Speaker 4: didn't realize the map just got sent back. I didn't

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Speaker 4: realize that a replacement requested, there was a refund issued

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Speaker 4: and everything.

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Speaker 3: So I've got to order.

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Speaker 2: The map brand new, everything again.

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Speaker 3: Brand new. It's like that cycle started all over again.

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Speaker 2: And make sure you had a guy six inches, not

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Speaker 2: a real six inches.

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Speaker 3: No, that's right, a guy six inches.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right right, it's not that big versus you know,

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Speaker 3: Is man this segment, I really wanted to talk.

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Speaker 4: About the revolution going on in Iran, but since we've

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Speaker 4: already wasted a few minutes of it. Instead, I want

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Speaker 4: to go to a story that appeared I think at

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Speaker 4: least I saw it today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 4: It was published at five point thirty this morning on

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Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal. And here's the headline, the futile

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Speaker 4: campaign to get people to dress better on planes. The

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Speaker 4: subhead the US government thinks onboard behavior will improve if

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Speaker 4: passengers ditched the pajamas. Good luck with that. And the

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Speaker 4: story starts out with a question could dressing nicer, get

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Speaker 3: This is.

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Speaker 4: I look, I don't know Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever met him. I may have,

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Speaker 4: But when he first announced back like in October November,

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Speaker 4: the same time, he wanted to get us to tone

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Speaker 4: everything else. And he thought a good way to start

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Speaker 4: that was for people to dress better. Now, I'm not opposed.

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Speaker 4: I really find it a little off putting. Sometimes I

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Speaker 4: find it actually disgusting people that wear flip flops on airplanes.

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Speaker 4: Come on, I don't want to see your grub old toenails.

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Speaker 4: I don't even care if they're very well done. You

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Speaker 4: got a nice pedicure, that's great. Still don't want to

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Speaker 4: see your ugly toes. I just want to see your feet.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to see the flip flops. Put some

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Speaker 4: shoes and socks on and keep them on. Those of

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Speaker 4: you who are wearing pajamas. Seriously, pajamas were made for bed,

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Speaker 4: they weren't made for an airplane.

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Speaker 2: What what if it's an overnight flight.

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Speaker 4: If it's an overnight flight and you have a life

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Speaker 4: flat seat, well then yeah, put on your pajamas and

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Speaker 4: life flat and go to bed. That's fine with me.

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Speaker 4: But you're easing into something I want to get to.

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Speaker 4: So just allose your horses a little bit. All right, Well,

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Speaker 4: let me just jump into it. I understand your point

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Speaker 4: about pajamas, but I think that the Wall Street Journal,

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Speaker 4: and for that matter, of the Federal Aviation Administration, and

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Speaker 4: for that matter, of the Secretary of the Transportation John Duffy,

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Speaker 4: are missing everything entirely. What's the proximate cause of people

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Speaker 4: dressing down to get on an airplane? Now, I as

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Speaker 4: because I am a almost I'm trying to get to that

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Speaker 4: two million mile mark. So I'm a one million mile

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Speaker 4: flyer on United Airlines. So that gives me a certain status,

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Speaker 4: and that status gives me a lot of upgrades, and

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Speaker 4: so I often upgrade, and I fly first class, not

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Speaker 4: because I'm wealthy and not because I've got status. It'll

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Speaker 4: be even better if I can just cross, and I'm

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Speaker 4: very close just crossing that two million mile mark. Well,

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Speaker 4: that gives me even better status on United Airlines, which

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Speaker 4: what means I get to fly first class. Even more so,

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Speaker 4: I tend to wear what I am wearing right now

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Speaker 4: when I get on an airplane. Some nice sneakers, nice

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Speaker 4: pair of socks, jeans, nice you know, salvage denim, and

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Speaker 4: abouton down white shirt. I should add in sometimes a

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Speaker 4: T shirt and always underwear boxers, not shorts, not briefs, boxers.

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Speaker 3: I think that's perfectly acceptable.

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Speaker 4: But if I'm going to be stuck in coach, I

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Speaker 4: won't change anything. If it's going to be a really

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Speaker 4: long flight, I won't change anything. But that's just me.

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Speaker 4: I'm conscious of how I look and how I appear

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Speaker 3: I judge me.

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Speaker 4: I don't care, but I understand those But I don't

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Speaker 4: necessarily blame solely the airlines. The Wall Street Journal talks

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Speaker 4: about let me see if I can find Let's see.

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Speaker 4: Comfort may be hard to find on fashion runways, but

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Speaker 4: it's firmly embedded on actual runways, even spawning travel specific

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Speaker 4: lines like Spanks Air Essentials. Some influencers on TikTok vowed

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Speaker 4: to make pajamas and slippers their official airport dress code.

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Speaker 3: Flyers are just dressing.

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Speaker 4: This is according to comedian Michelle Wolf. Flyers are just

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Speaker 4: dressing for the air travel they have, not the air

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Speaker 4: travel they want. It's a bus in the sky, she

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Speaker 4: said on an Instagram post. And I agree. So I

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Speaker 4: think there are two proximate causes for people dressing sloppily

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Speaker 4: when they travel by air. One is you're jammed in,

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Speaker 4: just like you would be on a greyhound bus. Let's

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Speaker 4: be honest, now, the premium economy seats United are not

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Speaker 4: quite as bad as the back of the bus seats.

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Speaker 3: The back of the bus seats are absolutely horrific. I

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Speaker 3: don't you know.

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Speaker 4: I have a size thirty four waist. I can barely

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Speaker 4: fit in those seats. Poor old dragon over there, with

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Speaker 4: take the skin and lap the skin over.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry if I'm being a little too personal here.

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Speaker 2: It is it is so much nicer flying now than

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Speaker 2: when I was over three hundred and fifty pounds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure it is, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: For keep the armrest down. It's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Did you have to use the extender.

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Speaker 2: And never once die? But it came very very close

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Speaker 3: I see. I think you should be proud of it.

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Speaker 4: Now, when you get on the plane, do you usually

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Speaker 4: are you wearing what you would normally wear like right now,

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Speaker 4: shorts and a T shirt. Shorts and T shirt. But

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Speaker 4: you wear socks with your with your snippers. Yeah, of

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Speaker 4: course you do.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not taking my shoes off, even though I

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Speaker 2: was provided slippers on one of my overseas flights. No,

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Speaker 2: not gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Oh I will.

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Speaker 4: I'll use the socks on a transatlantic flight or overseas. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'll use the socks they in the little kipt if

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Speaker 4: you're flying, if you're flying in business or first class,

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Speaker 4: I'll do that. But if I'm flying in coach, I

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Speaker 4: still don't take my shoes off.

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Speaker 2: That's just crush.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, because.

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Speaker 4: Although my feet smells, feet smell is good aromatic.

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Speaker 3: Some people's aren't. You know, mine's very lovely. It's a

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Speaker 2: Does it go into food that you bring on the

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Speaker 4: It doesn't go into food. This is just about dress, Okay,

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Speaker 4: food's an entirely different issue.

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Speaker 3: Do not do that. That's just wrong.

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Speaker 4: Why can't you just eat before you get on the plane,

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Speaker 4: you dumbasses? Why do you have to wait you get

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Speaker 4: on the plane, you bring your cheeseburger on the plane,

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Speaker 4: bring there having to be a little curry place. Now,

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Speaker 4: don't get me wrong, I love curry, and I'm not

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Speaker 3: It doesn't make any difference to me.

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Speaker 4: Just eat your stupid curry out in the terminal somewhere.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, people are idiots. Go back to the clothing.

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Speaker 4: I think there are two causes of this one. The

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Speaker 4: airlines have really turned into a commodity. If you're flying

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Speaker 4: If you're on an airbus, if you're on a three eighty,

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Speaker 4: But the Wall Street Journal completely misses everything.

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Speaker 3: And again I'm not excusing it. I don't like it.

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Speaker 4: I want people to dress nicely, and I certainly want

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Speaker 4: you to not smell, you know, because you're on a

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Speaker 4: You're in this aluminum tube at you know, thirty six

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Speaker 4: thousand feet traveling five hundred and fifty miles an hour.

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Speaker 4: Airs recirculate. I don't care how many HEPA filters you

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Speaker 4: got on it. We can still smell you. I don't

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Speaker 4: smell you. Clean up, all right, Just take a shower

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Speaker 4: for once. That might be a thing. Hey, you know what,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to shower every time I get on an airplane.

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Speaker 3: What a concept? A concept.

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Speaker 3: You know about the Sella, the train, civilized travel, Michael.

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Speaker 2: And not if I'm treated like cattle. Yeah, if I'm

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Speaker 4: But Mitt Romney decides suddenly that he's disinterested in this

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Speaker 4: Because I'm you know me, I'm just passive aggressive enough

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Speaker 3: Just silence causes you to is he dead yet? Right?

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Speaker 4: Huh, just exactly You're you know, you're Mitt. I'm just

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Speaker 3: So I know all these people.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: Romney's disastrous loss to Barack Obama, whom I believe was

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Speaker 3: You could have won.

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Speaker 4: And I always resented him for not running a better

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Speaker 4: especially when he had no more elections to worry about

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Speaker 4: and he could just take off with that fundamental transformation

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Speaker 4: of America and.

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Speaker 3: Do it well.

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Speaker 4: There are four key takeaways from the twenty twelve election

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Speaker 4: that as Americans find ourselves in the second quarter of

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Speaker 4: the twenty first century, we ought to think about. First,

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Speaker 4: political realignment. Now there's all of those. The Republicans have

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Speaker 4: got to get back to the middleman. Almost independents are

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Speaker 4: turned off by all the rhetoric. Really, let's look at

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Speaker 4: some numbers. Forget the Big three of the Midwest. Instead,

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Speaker 4: look at Iowa, Ohio for that matter, even floor all

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Speaker 4: shaded in a sick blue for fifty three electoral votes.

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Speaker 4: That's back in twenty twelve. How did they vote in

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty four. I'le Trump up thirteen plus percent, Florida

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Speaker 4: Trump up thirteen plus percent, Ohio Trump up eleven percent.

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Speaker 4: You take those three states, which are now winnable statewide

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Speaker 4: for all Republicans. That puts Democrats on defense. By having

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Speaker 4: those solidly in our column, puts Democrats on defense in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,

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Speaker 4: and Michigan.

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Speaker 3: So instead of.

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Speaker 4: Starting the state to use a football analogy, instead of

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Speaker 4: starting at the fifty yard line, Democrats now begin in

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Speaker 4: the shadow of their own goalpost, trying to make any

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Speaker 4: progress whatsoever in the electoral college. Now, if we don't,

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Speaker 4: as Republicans revert back to the kinder, gentler Romneyism, I

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Speaker 4: think the traction in all battleground states can remain in

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Speaker 4: republicans favor for the foreseeable future. Now go back to

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Speaker 4: twenty twelve. Romney's only path to victory was to add

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Speaker 4: Florida twenty nine electoral college votes, Colorado nine at the time,

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Speaker 4: Ohio eighteen and either Iolewa at six or New Hampshire

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Speaker 4: at four, or Virginia by itself with thirteen, which seems

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Speaker 4: impossible without Colorado and Virginia vote today, so forget about that.

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Speaker 4: Had he managed to pull that inside straight, Republicans would

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Speaker 4: have never turned their attention to states that were ready

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Speaker 4: just waiting to change stripes, leading to what I think

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Speaker 4: would be long term failure of Republicans.

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Speaker 3: It was a political realignment.

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Speaker 4: The second point division brought Trump and Mago, not the

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Speaker 4: other way around. Now, for all the rhetoric critics out there,

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Speaker 4: including these quarters, sometimes I get sometimes I get really tighted,

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Speaker 4: like yesterday when Trump yelled f you to some you know,

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Speaker 4: autoworker and then gave him the finger and come on,

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Speaker 4: I don't like it. But I always point out that

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Speaker 4: a majority of Trump's base voters also voted for my

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Speaker 4: old boss Bush, They voted for John mccainna, and they

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Speaker 4: voted for Mitt Romney. We tried to make it work

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Speaker 4: with what we were given. But now we have the Internet.

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Speaker 4: We got the double edged sword that unleashes more information

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Speaker 4: than any anybody can truly handle. And that Internet alone

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Speaker 4: washed out the establishment Republican field in twenty sixteen and

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Speaker 4: gave Trump the megaphone he needed to get that message out.

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Speaker 4: And then remember Trump endorsed Romney back in twenty twelve.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, good luck with getting people not to wear

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Speaker 1: the pajama in public. Stupid people bring their dogs into

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Speaker 1: the grocery store, into the hardware store, or into the walmart. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: uh huh. The people have lost their minds. They can't

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Speaker 1: tell the difference what a woman is, and they don't

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Speaker 1: know where a dog belongs and doesn't belong.

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Speaker 2: But dogs, you have to turn your microphone their Michael,

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Speaker 2: Oh do I.

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Speaker 3: Have to do that? Can you not do anything back

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Speaker 3: there for me?

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Speaker 2: For you? No, not a chance.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: People.

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Speaker 4: I thought people were encouraged to bring their dogs to

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Speaker 4: home depot.

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Speaker 2: I would say home depot, fine, that's that's great. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: grocery store, let's let's.

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Speaker 4: Not yeah, I would not take it. I like to

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Speaker 4: take my dogs into any like retail, like even home depot.

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Speaker 2: Your dogs are huge.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 4: That's why I don't like to And they have although

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Speaker 4: I think they have incredibly sweet eyes and sweet faces.

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Speaker 4: Many people see that black mask on their face and

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Speaker 4: they think right, it's a vicious dog. They're just big.

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Speaker 4: They're just big, right, But people are intimidated by big dogs,

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Speaker 4: big dogs. So I finished by just reminding you that

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Speaker 4: Trump endorsed Romney in twenty twelve, but of course Romney

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Speaker 4: stabbed Trump back in twenty sixteen because well.

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Speaker 2: He's you know, a part of the ruling elite.

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Speaker 4: But the third point I make real quickly is this

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Speaker 4: losing decently creates a national Minnesota. If you've heard that

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Speaker 4: phrase Minnesota nice or Midwestern nice, and you may know

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Speaker 4: what I'm talking about. Minnesota nice is how you get oh,

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Speaker 4: you know, Mogadishu and people like elon Omar who then

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Speaker 4: use their tribe to reach the highest office in our

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Speaker 4: land and commit fraud, you know, out the wall zoo. Well,

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Speaker 4: Romney claubret Obama in the first debate so badly, in fact,

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Speaker 4: that even the Cabal had to rig the next debate

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Speaker 4: to stop is momentum. After being described as a racist,

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Speaker 4: Rodney folded like a cheap suit, took it easy in Obama,

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Speaker 4: hoping to win that fable coalition of moderates that the

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Speaker 4: old stupid Republican Party thought that delivery would you know

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Speaker 4: that would deliver victory for them being Midwest Minnesota, and

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Speaker 4: I says, how you get to two hundred and six

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Speaker 4: electoral votes and then lose your bud in the Midwest,

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Speaker 4: And that makes it possible for the national Democrats to

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Speaker 4: replicate their isolated insane asylums.

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Speaker 3: On national scale.

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Speaker 4: But unfortunately, there will always be a coalition of voters

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Speaker 4: that wants things to go back to normal, as they

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Speaker 4: paired every mainstream talking point that they saw on CNN

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Speaker 4: and the airport somewhere. Going back to normal means every

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Speaker 4: white person is a racist, wars without end, borders that

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Speaker 4: don't exist, jobs in other countries, entire industries wrecked, billions

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Speaker 4: of stolen government funds. A Romney victory as much as

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Speaker 4: I wanted it, because I feared Barack Obama would have

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Speaker 4: delayed this country's required political trajectory to survive well into

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Speaker 4: the twenty first century, because if Romney had won in

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Speaker 4: twenty twelve, he probably would have been re elected in

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Speaker 4: twenty sixteen just because of the momentum of the pendulum,

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Speaker 4: especially if he managed to have any economic success at all. Now,

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Speaker 4: it probably would have been a very narrow electoral majority,

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Speaker 4: kind of like Bush was back in two thousand and four.

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Speaker 4: But the Democrats would have absolutely cleaned the House in

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty, and probably that would have meant Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 4: running without eight years of Democrats in front of her,

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Speaker 4: we would have three more years of her and her

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Speaker 4: Clinton associates to deal with, including now competing against the

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Speaker 4: structured inequality of election laws that have been put together

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Speaker 4: in blue states that we didn't even know we're a

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Speaker 4: problem backed until at the twenty twenty election. Here's the

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Speaker 4: moral of the story. Even if you're frustrated with Trump

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Speaker 4: and you spend probably too much time on X reading

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Speaker 4: negative opinions, a victory by Mitt Romney would have sealed

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Speaker 4: our fate in a way that no political movement probably

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Speaker 4: could have overcome. So as much as you may dislike

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Speaker 4: and I dislike Trump giving the finger to somebody in

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Speaker 4: public on national television, yeah I'll take that over Democrat

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Speaker 4: control anytime,