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Speaker 1: the president. He set to make remarks after the I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Sometimes I feel like we overblows when the

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Speaker 1: historic signing to reopen the gun. Well, the only thing

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Speaker 1: historic is we let it shut down as long as

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Speaker 1: we did. And for what Nada ABC was covering the

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Speaker 1: vote and the reopening.

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Speaker 2: It was as if no time had passed at all.

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Speaker 3: Oh, oh, what's she gonna say now? As if no

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Speaker 3: time passed at all? The country got right back on

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Speaker 3: track and everything is hunky dory. Both sides started sniping

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Speaker 3: at each other, or she woke up from Annapolix sleeping beauty,

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Speaker 3: and we never should have been here, mister speaker.

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Speaker 4: We tried, as Republicans over a month ago to prevent

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Speaker 4: a government shutdown.

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Speaker 3: We had a vote here on the House floor.

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Speaker 4: Of Republicans voted to keep the government open.

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Speaker 5: This bill adds rocket fuel to Republicans' larger assault on

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Speaker 5: Americans access to quality, affordable healthcare.

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Speaker 3: YEP, it was answer B. They went right back to

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Speaker 3: sniping at each other.

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Speaker 2: Finally, back in session after more than fifty days, representatives

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Speaker 2: return to the House floor for a feisty debate overfunding

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Speaker 6: I love the compassion and the passion on the other

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Speaker 6: side of the aisle. You know we're worried about taking

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Speaker 6: money out of families. Well, you know what, y'all can

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Speaker 6: do the right thing and vote yes, y'all. If not,

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Speaker 6: you're the ones that are taking money, No, y'all from

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Speaker 3: Now you, y'all, I will be casting my vote. I

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Speaker 3: say no. In fact, there will be a hell no,

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Speaker 3: hell no tonight. The bilbil so performative, all of it right,

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Speaker 3: so performative. And I was thinking about people sitting there

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Speaker 3: obviously it's meant to sound personal, or do they know

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Speaker 3: it's all part of the show. And I gotta believe

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Speaker 3: they know it's all part of the show, and they

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Speaker 3: just wait for their turn to get up and do

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Speaker 3: their little performance and then they sit back down and

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Speaker 3: then what all of a sudden done, then head down

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Speaker 3: to k Street and have drinks together.

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Speaker 2: Before the House funds the government until the end of January.

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Speaker 2: Funds snap benefits through September, reversus shutdown firings, and guarantees

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Speaker 2: back pay for fur loughed federal workers.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so guarantee SNAP benefits through September. Now this is

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Speaker 3: important because it only guarantees funding the government through the

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Speaker 3: end of January, which means we get to do this

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Speaker 3: all again, only we won't have the SNAP benefits looming.

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Speaker 3: We won't have the SNAP benefits being cut off. So

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Speaker 3: this is all gonna happen again. Uh, air traffic controllers,

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Speaker 3: because come in the middle of February, you're not getting

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Speaker 3: to pay check Again's just gone. That's that's without a question.

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Speaker 2: But Democrats gained nothing in their fight to extend expiring

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Speaker 2: Democrats seem determined to hold the line.

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Speaker 7: Democrats will continue to fight to address the healthcare crisis

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Speaker 7: that Republicans have created.

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Speaker 3: This fight is not over now.

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Speaker 2: It will likely be days until six hundred and seventy

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Speaker 2: thousand furlaed workers who haven't been paid in weeks can

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Speaker 3: Okay, so days it's I guess, like by next week,

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Speaker 3: We're doing what we can. Government reopens all of a

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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden I'm still out all that

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Speaker 3: money I donated. Where's the relief for the American people

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Speaker 3: that tried to help the others that were suffering. We

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Speaker 3: don't get squat And I know I sound terrible, How

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Speaker 3: dare you? You should be doing out of the kindness

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Speaker 3: of your heart. I am doing it out of the

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Speaker 3: kindness of my heart, but also I got bills to

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Speaker 3: pay I got Christmas coming out. I think that next

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Speaker 3: a rebate check of the rest of us that tried

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Speaker 3: gonna We're gonna make you whole again. Too great, that's

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Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. But no, the government doesn't work

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Speaker 3: that way. It's all take, take, take. I know I

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Speaker 3: got Christmas coming up, man, and I'm going, hey, just

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Speaker 3: give money away. You have a lot of money away,

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Speaker 3: try to help people out. And you go, well, aren't

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Speaker 3: you satisfied that you help people eat? Yes, I am.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that reward enough? No? No, it's not. No, it's

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Speaker 3: not reward enough. It's not because if it were people

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Speaker 3: in some way, shape or form for the taxes that

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Speaker 3: then I would feel like that's enough. Out of the

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Speaker 3: the holiday season, I'm absolutely thrilled to be making that

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Speaker 3: I'm getting I'm getting doubled. I'm getting double dipped. I

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Speaker 3: not even on the Affordable Care Act. Didn't even imagine

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Speaker 3: strength to continue to fight to keep my health insurance

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Speaker 3: supposed to be budgeted through the taxes that they paid. Okay,

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Speaker 3: and just I'm done. I guess I'm get off my

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Speaker 3: little box now. God, Roner, why did you start me?

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Speaker 3: You just wound me up to start with. Don't you

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Speaker 3: bring me into this? Did you do that? You know?

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Speaker 3: I used to be a complete prob. How you beat

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Speaker 3: me too? But now I'm just feeling like a I'm

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Speaker 3: feeling like a real hack That's what I am. Well,

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Speaker 3: Chris hack Man, you shouldn't say that about yourself. You

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Speaker 3: I will retrack that and I will save it for you. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'll wait till till it's the right moment. We are

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Speaker 3: again waiting on the President. He's supposed to make remarks

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Speaker 3: That is next. I'm Chris MERYLKF. I am six forty

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Speaker 3: set to speak give remarks after the reopening of the government.

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Speaker 8: Thank you very much his name.

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Speaker 3: Listen to any time on demand of the iHeart Radio app.

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Speaker 3: as long as we did. And for what Nada ABC

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Speaker 2: As if no time had passed at all.

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Speaker 3: Oh, oh, what's you going to say now? It's as

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Speaker 4: We never should have been here, mister speaker. We tried,

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Speaker 4: as Republicans over a month ago to prevent a government shutdown.

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Speaker 3: We had a vote here on the House floor.

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Speaker 4: Ninety nine percent of Republicans voted to keep the government open.

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Speaker 5: This bill adds rocket fuel to Republicans' larger assault on Americans'

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Speaker 5: access to quality, affordable healthcare.

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Speaker 3: Yep, it was answer B. They went right back to

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Speaker 2: Finally, back in session after more than fifty days, representatives

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Speaker 2: returned to the House floor for a feisty debate overfunding

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Speaker 6: And I love the compassion and the passion on the

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Speaker 6: taking money out of out of families.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know what, y'all can do the right thing

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Speaker 3: and vote yes, y'all.

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Speaker 6: If not, you're the ones that are taking money. No, y'all,

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Speaker 3: No you y'all, I will be casting my vote, I

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Speaker 7: In fact, there will be a hell no, hell no tonight.

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Speaker 2: Before the House funds the government until the end of January,

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Speaker 2: But Democrats gained nothing in their fight to extend expiring

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Speaker 9: This fight is not over now.

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Speaker 2: It will likely be days until six hundred and seventy

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Speaker 3: I'm still out all that money I donated. Where's the

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Speaker 3: Isn't that reward enough? No? No, it's not. No, it's

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Speaker 3: I'm getting I'm getting doubled. I'm getting double dipped. I

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Speaker 3: I'm just something done. I guess I'm get off my

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Speaker 3: You just wound me up to start with. Don't you

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Speaker 3: I used to be a complete probra how you beat

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Speaker 8: Thank you very much. This is a.

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Speaker 10: People want illegal aliens and people that came into our

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Speaker 8: Today, we're sending a clear message that we will.

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Speaker 10: Never give into extortion, because that's what it was they

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Speaker 8: The Democrats tried to extort our country.

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Speaker 10: In just a moment, I'll sign a bill exactly like

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Speaker 8: One point five trillion dollars, this little excursion that they

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Speaker 10: Republicans never wanted a shut down and voted fifteen times

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Speaker 10: a continuation. It's just a continuation, not a big deal.

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Speaker 10: It's a continuation and we'll talk later. Yet the extremists

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Speaker 8: These are all incredible patriots. The Airlines for America, the.

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Speaker 10: the Democrats do. They deprived more than one million government

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Speaker 8: Don't forget what they've done to our country. You also want.

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Speaker 10: To call for a termination to the filibuster so that

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Speaker 10: This would never happen again, and don't forget we have

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Speaker 10: We can never let this happen again, and we should

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Speaker 10: We're going to break new grounds. Nobody would have thought.

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Speaker 10: I have with us not only the great political leaders,

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Speaker 10: but the great business leaders of our country. They're standing

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Speaker 10: right behind me and write really alongside of me.

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Speaker 8: And if we would have told them a year.

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Speaker 10: Ago that we'd be having shock prices to hide, none

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Speaker 10: of them. In fact I just asked them that question.

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Speaker 10: None of them would have believed it.

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Speaker 8: And that endures.

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Speaker 10: The jobs and very importantly to four oh one case,

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Speaker 10: which have also set a record today.

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Speaker 8: A record high for the people that have four oh

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Speaker 8: one case.

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Speaker 10: And also I want to thank Walmont because they came

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Speaker 10: up with a fantastic study. It was the cost of

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Speaker 10: Thanksgiving coming up and the cost of Thanksgiving from a

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Speaker 10: year ago under sleepy Joe Biden, and with twenty five

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Speaker 10: percent lower this year than we were a year ago

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Speaker 10: and very inclusive reports. I want to thank Walmart. They've

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Speaker 10: done it for many years. But we believe in that

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Speaker 10: do we believe in that company.

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Speaker 8: I want to also.

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Speaker 10: Thank the eighth Senate Democrats who finally did the right

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Speaker 10: thing in voting to end this craziness, this madness. But

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Speaker 10: unfortunately the vast majority of Congressional Democrats were happy for

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Speaker 10: millions of Americans to suffer. They really did suffer too,

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Speaker 10: and the Democrats admitted, they said, well, no, we finally

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Speaker 10: have a point. Even though people have to suffer, we

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Speaker 10: finally have a point. And that didn't work out too

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Speaker 10: well for them. But they really went out and they

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Speaker 10: could appease the fringe benefits of their far left base.

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Speaker 10: But that didn't work out because now they're far left

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Speaker 10: base is angrier than ever before. We actually elected a

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Speaker 10: mayor of New York City who happens to be a communist?

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Speaker 8: When was that going to happen?

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Speaker 10: Remember, I said all the time during my campaign we

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Speaker 10: will never be a socialist country, and that's right.

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Speaker 8: Turned out to have a communist in New York City.

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Speaker 10: And if you look at his views, as are the

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Speaker 10: views of a communists, not a socialist.

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Speaker 8: So this is no way to run a country.

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Speaker 10: I hope we can all agree that the government should

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Speaker 10: never be shut down again again. And did the filibuster

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Speaker 10: terminate the filibus? It will never happen again. So with

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Speaker 10: my signature, the federal government will now resume normal operations,

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Speaker 10: and my administration and our partners in Congress will continue

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Speaker 10: our work to lower the cost of living, restore public safety,

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Speaker 10: grower economy, and make America affordable again for all Americans again.

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Speaker 10: Costs are way down, energy is way down. Gasoline is

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Speaker 10: at two dollars and fifty cents a gallon versus four

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Speaker 10: dollars and seventy.

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Speaker 10: And we think we're going to hit pretty close to

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Speaker 10: two dollars a gallon. That's like a really massive tax cut.

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Speaker 10: It's the equivalent of that. And speaking of tax cuts,

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Speaker 10: our great, big, beautiful bill is giving everybody in our economy,

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Speaker 10: middle income workers, low income everybody, the biggest tax cut

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Speaker 10: in the history.

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Speaker 8: Of our country.

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Speaker 10: And there's no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security,

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Speaker 10: and very importantly, no tax on overtime. You work overtime,

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Speaker 10: there's no tax. That's among the things that add up

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Speaker 10: to the biggest tax cut in history. One other thing,

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Speaker 10: you know, you hear about rich people with deductions. Well,

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Speaker 10: when you buy your car and you borrow money, you're

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Speaker 10: allowed to now deduct the interest on that loan, so

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Speaker 10: you can take that interest deduction. And what you can

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Speaker 10: take is that interest payment and deduct it for income

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Speaker 10: tax purposes. That's a tremendous tax cut right there. But

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Speaker 10: it all includes fixing the healthcare system the Democrats broke

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Speaker 10: with the disaster known as Obamacare. Obamacare was a disaster

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Speaker 10: from day one. It's done nothing but go up. And

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Speaker 10: if you remember President in Barack Hussain Obama, when he

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Speaker 10: came up with this crazy idea, he said, everything's going

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Speaker 10: to be great. Rates are going to go down, payments

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Speaker 10: are going to go down, everything's going to go down.

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Speaker 10: It wasn't the exact opposite. With the biggest increase of

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Speaker 10: any of health care in any country.

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Speaker 8: It's a disaster.

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Speaker 10: And I'm calling today for insurance companies not to be

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Speaker 10: paid but for the money, this massive amount of money,

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Speaker 10: to be paid directly to the people of our country

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Speaker 10: so that they can buy their own health care, which

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Speaker 10: will be far better and far less expensive.

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Speaker 8: Than the disaster known as Obamacare.

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Speaker 10: And I've had I think great support, I've even had

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Speaker 10: Democrat support. So we want the money that would be

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Speaker 10: going to the insurance company, which is hundreds of billions

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Speaker 10: of dollars. You know, their stock prices have gone up

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Speaker 10: by one thousand percent, in many cases a thousand percent

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Speaker 10: over a short period of time because our country stupidly

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Speaker 10: pays them so much money with his own Obamacare scandal.

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Speaker 10: So I want the money to go directly to you,

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Speaker 10: the people, and you'll go out and you'll buy your

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Speaker 10: own health insurance, and you'll negotiate different plans and you'll

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Speaker 10: get much better insurance, and you will be an entrepreneur

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Speaker 10: for yourself. So I'm always willing to work with anyone,

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Speaker 10: including the other party. We'll work on something having to

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Speaker 10: do with healthcare. We can do a lot better, we

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Speaker 10: can do great. So much money is involved and we're

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Speaker 10: willing to pay so much money to the people.

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Speaker 8: So we're going to pay a lot of money to

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Speaker 8: the people.

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Speaker 10: They're going to go out and buy their own healthcare,

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Speaker 10: and we're going to forget this Obamacare madness. So with

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Speaker 10: all of that, I just want to tell you the

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Speaker 10: country has never been in better shape. We went through

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Speaker 10: this short term disaster with the Democrats because they thought

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Speaker 10: it would be good politically, and it's an honor now

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Speaker 10: to sign this incredible bill and get our country working again.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Okay, thank you very much. I don't know

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Speaker 8: if you have questions. I think I think, I think

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Speaker 8: we really have a really great situation. We have a

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Speaker 8: country that we love, and we have a country that's

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Speaker 8: in great shade.

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Speaker 10: As you know, we have over now, it's over eighteen

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Speaker 10: trillion dollars invested in our country by other people and countries.

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Speaker 10: That's a record. There's never been a country that had

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Speaker 10: so much. And that money's going into also building new

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Speaker 10: auto plants, do AI plants, do everything.

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Speaker 8: We've never had a time like this. Thank you very much,

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Speaker 8: everybody appreciate Thank you very much. Great, it's a great.

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Speaker 3: That was President Trumps signing a bill to reopen the

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Speaker 3: government after the longest shutdown in history. Chris Merrill, are

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Speaker 3: you here, Yeah, I'm sure, yeah, yeah. Well that was

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Speaker 3: that was That was a speech from the president. President

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Speaker 3: Trump said, Uh, I don't think it comes with any surprise.

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Speaker 3: He was blaming the Democrats for the shutdown, talked about

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Speaker 3: the damage the shutdown caused, and of course put pin

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Speaker 3: that on the Democrats. Uh. And then uh, it went

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Speaker 3: through sort of some of the talking points that we've

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Speaker 3: heard him say in public here over the last a

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Speaker 3: few weeks, talking about accomplishments, gas being below two dollars

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Speaker 3: a gallon and I don't know anywhere in the country

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Speaker 3: that it is. But he also made mention of Walmart's

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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving report. He referred to it as being a very

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Speaker 3: thorough report that they've done for a very long time.

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Speaker 3: I am unaware of any Walmart Thanksgiving report. I do

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Speaker 3: know of a sale that they're having, but unaware of

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Speaker 3: a report. There were a few things that I did

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Speaker 3: think that we could take away from what the President

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Speaker 3: had to say, and I will be curious to see

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Speaker 3: if this is something that he wants to follow up

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Speaker 3: on in the coming weeks and months. He still was

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Speaker 3: very concerned about the filibuster. He wants to eliminate the filibuster.

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Speaker 3: He said, we need to get it done. Do it,

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Speaker 3: eliminate the filibuster. And by the way, if we don't

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Speaker 3: do it, the Democrats will, They'll do it in a heartbeat.

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Speaker 3: But he also said that was a good thing, so

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Speaker 3: I guess he's supporting the Democratic proposal on that. When

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Speaker 3: it comes to healthcare, his proposal on healthcare was to

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Speaker 3: empower you put money in your own pocket and allow

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Speaker 3: you to negotiate with the insurance as companies. We'll buy

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Speaker 3: a little bit deeper into that. Here in just a

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Speaker 3: few moments, I want to make sure we get off

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Speaker 3: to Mark Ronerd. It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere

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Speaker 3: in the Iheartrady.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 3: You heard the president speak. You also heard the President

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Speaker 3: signing that bill. So now the government is officially reopened,

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Speaker 3: which means I think all the planes go right back

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Speaker 3: into the skies and there's no more trash at any

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Speaker 3: of the national parks. So that's nice. That's why, you know.

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Speaker 3: That is one thing that discussed me about people government

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Speaker 3: shuts down and somehow the trash piles up. What what

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Speaker 3: does the matter with you? But you go to a

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Speaker 3: national park and then you think, oh, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 3: start throwing trash everywhere? Why God, what is wrong with you?

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Speaker 3: I know it's not you, it's everybody else, but it's

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Speaker 3: not me, So gotta be somebody. I just don't get that.

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Speaker 3: I never do. I don't get it at all. You know,

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Speaker 3: they left the gates open so you could get in

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Speaker 3: during the shutdown. The least you could do is bring

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Speaker 3: your Snickers wrapper back with you. Nope, throw it on

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Speaker 3: the trail. That's what they get what I don't understand it.

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Speaker 3: So the President was talking about ending the filibuster, and

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Speaker 3: he said, if we didn't have that filibuster, none of

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Speaker 3: this ever would have happened. And he's right, he's absolutely

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Speaker 3: correct on that. If we didn't have the filibuster, the

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Speaker 3: Republicans could have ram through their bill. Yes, one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent true, And without the filibuster, as soon as the

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Speaker 3: Democrats take control again, they could ram through an even

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Speaker 3: bigger Obamacare bill. In fact, if not for the filibuster

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Speaker 3: in the first place, we wouldn't have even had the

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Speaker 3: drama around passing the original Affordable Care Act, but we

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Speaker 3: did so it was close. If you eliminate the filibuster,

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Speaker 3: the advantage ghost to whoever has the majority, and that

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Speaker 3: is it's a majority rule, period, flat out. And historically

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Speaker 3: Democrats have favored eliminating the filibuster. Republicans do tend to

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Speaker 3: use it more when they're in the minority, and every

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Speaker 3: party in the minority likes to lean into the filibuster,

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Speaker 3: which is why we have what they call the nuclear option,

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Speaker 3: which is, let's pass a bill on party lines that

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Speaker 3: isn't related to any bill that qualifies for a filibuster.

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Speaker 3: Let's pass a bill that allows us to overcome the

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Speaker 3: filibuster so they can use majority rule to enact majority

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Speaker 3: rule where there wasn't previously majority rule. We saw this

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Speaker 3: happen with appointments of federal judges. The Democrats use that

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Speaker 3: in order to get to judges appointed during the Obama administration,

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Speaker 3: and then the Republicans used it to get Supreme Court

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Speaker 3: justices seated during Trump's first administration. They use the nuclear option,

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Speaker 3: they blew up the philibuster around those very specific measures,

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Speaker 3: and now it's just majority rule when it comes to

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Speaker 3: seating judges. So the idea is, let's get rid of

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Speaker 3: the filibuster for budgets. But what do we know about

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Speaker 3: what do we know about benefits in America? Once you

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Speaker 3: have it, you can't take it away. So if the

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Speaker 3: Democrats get control and they go, well, wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: we have to keep funding snap at levels you know

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Speaker 3: this level, and we have to give this you know

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Speaker 3: this much more. And we also want to make sure

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Speaker 3: that we're providing, for instance, subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.

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Speaker 3: They're going to pass it, and then the Republicans come

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Speaker 3: back to power, and then what the Republicans go, We're

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Speaker 3: going to take all that away. No, it's not. It's

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Speaker 3: not a political winner. The Republicans can slowly scale things back,

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Speaker 3: but generally speaking, they don't generally speaking. In fact, even

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Speaker 3: what we're arguing over right now are the subsidy to

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Speaker 3: the Affordable Care Act that were added during COVID. It's

653
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 3: not as though this bill eliminates the Affordable Care Act.

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00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 3: It just gets rid of those enhanced subsidies that have

655
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Speaker 3: been around for the last five years. But because they've

656
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 3: been there, now we know that the cost of the

657
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Speaker 3: healthcare is going to jump significantly because people have been

658
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Speaker 3: leaning in those subsidies likewise goes the other way. When

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Speaker 3: it comes to taxes, Republicans like to cut the taxes,

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Speaker 3: So the Republicans could use the filibuster to enact tax

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00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 3: cuts figure tax cuts, and then the Democrats come along

662
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 3: and they go, oh, well, we have to raise taxes.

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00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 3: That is not a political winner. People do not like

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Speaker 3: seeing more money taken out of their paychecks. Funny how

665
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 3: that works. So the truth is, we just like getting stuff.

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Speaker 3: So if you eliminate the filibuster, what's going to end

667
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 3: up happening. Well, the Republicans are going to hate it

668
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: when they don't have control. The Democrats are going to

669
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 3: love it when they don't have control. In the long run,

670
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 3: it's going to favor the Democrats over the Republicans. But

671
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 3: what you'll see is that national debt climb and climb

672
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 3: and climb and climb, because we don't like having stuff

673
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 3: taken away once we've got it, and we will vote

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Speaker 3: against the people who want to take it away. We

675
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 3: will vote for the people that want to give us

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00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 3: more stuff. Okay, So that's the that's the first thing

677
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Speaker 3: the president was talking about. He wants to get rid

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Speaker 3: of that philibuster. I don't think it's a very good idea,

679
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 3: and the Democrats almost did get rid of it. They

680
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 3: almost did, but they had two moderate Democrats who said no,

681
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Speaker 3: Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin from West Virginia. They voted

682
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Speaker 3: against it, and that's why we still have the philibuster.

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Speaker 3: Otherwise the government wouldn't have been shut down, but also

684
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Speaker 3: there would have been other laws passed that the Republicans

685
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 3: wudn't have liked. Now the other the other key point

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00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 3: that the President made when he was speaking. I want

687
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 3: to address this because I happen to know a little

688
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 3: bit about it, and that is he said he wants

689
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 3: to make sure that people get the money so that

690
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 3: they can negotiate their own health care direct This seems

691
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 3: like the concepts of a plan to eliminate the Affordable

692
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 3: Care Act altogether so that you become the chief negotiator

693
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Speaker 3: with the insurance company, just out of curiosity. Do you

694
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Speaker 3: know insurance inside and out? So that when it comes

695
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:24,760
Speaker 3: time to negotiate you are well prepared. Are you ready

696
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 3: to go against someone who professionally negotiates health care contracts?

697
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 3: Because I'm gonna guess that you're not. I'm going to

698
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 3: guess that you are like the majority of us who

699
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 3: don't understand a daggum thing about health insurance industry because

700
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Speaker 3: it is intentionally confusing. I know something about this because

701
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Speaker 3: I'm very fortunate to be married to someone whose job

702
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Speaker 3: it is to negotiate with healthcare insurance companies on behalf

703
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Speaker 3: of providers. And let me tell you who does not

704
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 3: understand health insurance doctors. That's why they hire my wife,

705
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 3: because they don't understand how it all works. Private care,

706
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 3: third party administrators, Medicare, Medicaid advantage plans. There's a lot

707
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 3: that goes into this, and if you don't know it

708
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 3: inside and out, they got somebody that does, and they

709
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Speaker 3: know how to put loopholes in those contracts. So if

710
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Speaker 3: you're in charge of negotiating your own healthcare, good luck.

711
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 3: I'm in good shape. I have a pro on my side.

712
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 3: I hope you do too. There's a reason that we

713
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Speaker 3: have other people do things for us, because we cannot

714
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 3: be experts in all things. I pay a mechanic to

715
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 3: fix my car because if I don't, you'll die. When

716
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 3: I'm driving down the road and the tire falls off

717
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 3: and hit your windshield, fact, I pay a roofer to

718
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Speaker 3: take care of the roof on my house because if

719
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 3: I do it, I'm gonna put the nail through the

720
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Speaker 3: shingle in the wrong spot, and then I got leaks

721
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Speaker 3: all over the place. My roof is gonna look a sieve.

722
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Speaker 3: I don't know how to roof right. We hire other

723
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Speaker 3: people to do the jobs we don't know how to do,

724
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,479
Speaker 3: nor do we have the time to do those jobs

725
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,720
Speaker 3: or to learn the skills necessary to do those jobs.

726
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 3: You pay for You pay for Microsoft Word, you pay

727
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 3: for a spreadsheet program, You pay for your Windows on

728
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 3: your computer because you don't have the time or the

729
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 3: skills necessary to write the code to create your own

730
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 3: operating system and spreadsheets and word processors, so you buy it.

731
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Speaker 3: There's a reason that people pay other people to do

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Speaker 3: the negotiating for them. We are not health insurance professionals.

733
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Speaker 3: But again, I'm okay. I'm married to one. She's pretty dynamite.

734
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Speaker 3: Let me tell you who. She can't stand health insurance

735
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Speaker 3: companies because us who side? They are not on you? Baby?

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Speaker 3: You hey? Speaking of emergencies, get off the air yesterday

737
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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, everybody starts getting emergency alerts

738
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Speaker 3: and what emergency phones lighting up for the wrong reason.

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Speaker 3: You're going to find out why that happened to you.

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Speaker 3: You'll be able to grab that. I don't want to

746
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Speaker 3: talk about the government anymore. Is that okay? I want

747
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 3: to talk about the shutdown that I feel like we

748
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 3: spent like three segments on. I think we're good, right?

749
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Speaker 3: We all? Are? We all good? Is there anything else

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00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 3: going on? You can't be serious? Well, there is something

751
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 3: I'm concerned with I see, and that is that behind

752
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 3: the scenes, there was coordination going on between the executive producer,

753
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 3: the the news cruise, the studio engineers, and then I

754
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 3: was added into that text chain as well, and I

755
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 3: am dismayed to find out just how many of you

756
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Speaker 3: have androids. Tony has an Android. I didn't. I didn't

757
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 3: have Tony's number on my phone, but it's an Android,

758
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 3: so I tried to share my contact with him. And

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00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 3: I can't do it because he has an Android. So,

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Speaker 3: as far as I can tell, Mark, I know you've

761
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Speaker 3: got an Android. No, no, no, Why does everything come

762
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 3: up with green with you on my phone? Your equipment

763
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 3: is faulty and as a complete pro, you should have

764
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Speaker 3: better equipment. Wow, good one, you like that. That's one

765
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 3: to one so far today? Hold on, how is it

766
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Speaker 3: that I've got? Well, that's weird? All right? So you

767
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 3: got the iPhone? Huh right? All right, then I guess

768
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Speaker 3: both of us can just kind of make fun of Tony.

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Speaker 3: So I do just have an iPhone. It's the matter

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Speaker 3: with him. Can't share my contact infoul with him. It

771
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 3: really bothers me. Tony, what's it gonna take for you

772
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 3: to get an iPhone? Never? Come on, there's nothing. Come on,

773
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 3: what if I get it for you? What if I

774
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 3: get you an iPhone? That's a waste of money on you?

775
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 3: Then you still wouldn't use it? No? Okay, all right,

776
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 3: well can we talk? Can we have Tony explain his

777
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 3: antipathy to iPhones? Because this is baffling. I think they're great.

778
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 3: Go on, Tony, well first time your silly position. I'll

779
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 3: never spend that much money for a phone. Well, that's

780
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 3: why I'm offering to buy it. Say, I just don't

781
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 3: like their os, never have. Oh okay, I always thought

782
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 3: it was clunky, but I'm adask guy. I used to

783
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 3: know machine code, so oh okay, so you need some

784
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 3: dots and slashes and things like that. I hate Windows

785
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 3: as well, so oh you do what do you use?

786
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 3: Are you? Oh? No, I use Windows now when I

787
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 3: have to. But when you don't have to, what are

788
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 3: you using? Well, I've gone back and forth on Linux.

789
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 3: That annoys me too. Oh okay, all right, you're going

790
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 3: all right, all right, Linux, but.

791
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Speaker 8: I have.

792
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 3: Well that's the graphic Linux. Yeah, you don't like the graphic.

793
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 3: That's like Windows Linux. It's just as bad. So you're

794
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 3: basically like like one of those movie hackers, like you

795
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 3: just like to sit down and just type that code

796
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Speaker 3: right out. I just know what I need to know,

797
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 3: like I use like Bapto, Sarah and stuff like that.

798
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 3: I'm impressed. Okay, all right, well then I won't waste

799
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Speaker 3: my money on you. Thanks. All right, we're gonna find

800
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 3: something else for Christmas. Mark. I don't know what we're

801
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 3: gonna get him. Get him something that allows him to

802
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 3: use morse code. Well, that's not bad. Hey, can't you

803
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 3: just write you? Can't you just code yourself a program

804
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 3: on whatever phone you have? And uh, so you can

805
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 3: at least accept my contact. I'm also so that's why

806
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 3: buried the lead. Very good, all right, Well, uh and

807
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 3: we'll keep you around. You're all right, though, Yeah, I

808
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 3: do like you. Uh did you get the Tony? Did

809
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Speaker 3: your phone get the the emergency alert yesterday? False alert?

810
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 3: Oh you didn't get this, No, probably because you don't

811
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 3: have an iPhone. I think I turned them all off,

812
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 3: all the alerts I turned off. Oh, I did too.

813
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 3: I had somebody yell at me one time. They go,

814
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 3: you turned off the Amber alerts, and I said, yeah,

815
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 3: I did you monster? I know. But here's the fact

816
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 3: of the matter. If there's an Amber alert and I'm awake,

817
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 3: I'm usually connected to something, right And oftentimes I'm at

818
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 3: work where we're the ones distributing the Amber alert. And

819
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 3: if I'm not, I'm at home and I'm sleeping, and

820
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 3: I'm not looking for somebody's missing kid. I can't unless

821
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 3: that kid is in my bedroom, which would be a

822
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 3: completely different problem. It's of no use to anybody that

823
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 3: I get that Amber alert. So I know I'm a

824
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 3: terrible person. I get it all the time. No, no, dare you.

825
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 3: But other people did get this false alert yesterday.

826
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Speaker 9: If you live in La County, you probably got this

827
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Speaker 9: alert on your.

828
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Speaker 3: Cell phone from CBSLA.

829
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Speaker 9: This is a test of the South Pasadena w EA system.

830
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Speaker 9: There is no emergency.

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Speaker 11: I got the alert and I was a little scared, obviously.

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00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, my heart jumped.

833
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Speaker 9: Thale started buzzing just before six Tuesday night, hitting about

834
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Speaker 9: ten million devices across La County from the San Fernando

835
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Speaker 9: Valley down to the South Bay. I saw that it

836
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 9: was a test, so I didn't think like I just

837
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Speaker 9: like deleted it. Some people were confused about why they

838
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 9: were even getting it if they weren't in South Pasadena.

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Speaker 3: Can I pat your dog?

840
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Speaker 9: Like this man in Temple City about twenty minutes away.

841
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Speaker 3: Just honestly wasn't sure what the alert was even for.

842
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 3: I mean, I just saw the abbreviation. I was like,

843
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Speaker 3: what is this? Like? I just rushed it aside. We

844
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 3: went to rushed it aside. Yeah. I figured if it

845
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Speaker 3: was an earthquake, then you know, I just feel it.

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Speaker 9: South Pasadena City Hall for answers.

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Speaker 11: We believe that it likely was a human error, but

848
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Speaker 11: we are working with our vendor to understand exactly what happened.

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Speaker 9: Public Information Officer Jennifer Colby says the city was running

850
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Speaker 9: a routine test of its wireless emergency alert system when

851
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Speaker 9: a mistake sent the alert out to millions of La

852
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Speaker 9: County residents. The city can alert other areas in a

853
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 9: major emergency, but she says Tuesday's test was supposed to

854
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Speaker 9: stay internal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that it didn't. Somebody clicked the wrong box.

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Speaker 11: It could be something as small as just you know,

857
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Speaker 11: selecting the wrong feature.

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00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, basically just said that.

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Speaker 11: But again, this is something we do every month, many

860
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Speaker 11: agencies do every month, and we have no issues the.

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Speaker 9: Test or not. The alert still went out to millions

862
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Speaker 9: of people, you know who.

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Speaker 3: My understanding is is that the the IT crew there

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Speaker 3: that was in charge of checking the right box they

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Speaker 3: are unfamiliar with Windows because they kind of tink around

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Speaker 3: with Linux and they really don't know how the Windows

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Speaker 3: system works. I also understand that those IT people don't

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Speaker 3: use the iPhone, so they tend to make mistakes when

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Speaker 3: they're using what they say are inferior operating systems and programming.

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Speaker 3: That's a sick burn Tony shaking his head. He's like,

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Speaker 3: that's just how Jerry as saying that about my eating it.

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Speaker 3: You can't say that about my brothers and it.

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Speaker 10: Know.

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Speaker 3: Now, where were you when this alert happened?

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Speaker 2: Me?

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Speaker 3: I was ignoring the alert. I just assumed it was

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Speaker 3: an amber alert, you know me? Okay. So I was

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Speaker 3: in Whole Foods and stopped to get a sandwich, an

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Speaker 3: expensive sandwich at Whole Foods before I came into work,

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Speaker 3: and the alert went off. Every single person in the

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Speaker 3: store stopped, pulled out their phone, stared at it with

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Speaker 3: it with their mouth half open, and it was. It

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Speaker 3: was such a dystopian moment. I didn't like it. I

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Speaker 3: felt like I was part of the matrix. I did

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Speaker 3: not want any part of that, regardless of you were

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Speaker 3: above it all. Well, I don't like feeling like I'm

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Speaker 3: at somebody else's disposal as part of like the borg.

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Speaker 3: I don't like that. Yeah, but look at you. It

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Speaker 3: was like you raised yourself above the borg. You basically

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Speaker 3: became a god in that moment because you were able

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Speaker 3: to witness all other people performing in unity. I didn't

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Speaker 3: feel all transfixed. No, you were though. You were just

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Speaker 3: for a moment. Well, they were all hypnot tied by

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Speaker 3: their phone. You, sir, you were above it. It was

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Speaker 3: that's a surreal moment. I'm glad I talked to you

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Speaker 3: about it. You basically became for just a second thanos. Oh.

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Speaker 3: When you put it like that, then I enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: That's what I was looking for, all right. Uh, I

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Speaker 3: think we're going to reopen the scandal, because who doesn't

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Speaker 3: love a good scandal? This one. The reopening was inevitable.

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Speaker 3: That happened today. That's next time, Chris merrill if I

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