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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 3: Just well, too bad, you don't get one, wait till

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Speaker 3: you're thirty.

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Speaker 1: Sad part is, I don't really think Michael understands the

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Speaker 2: No, I just I get that it's this reference, but

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Speaker 2: I've never understood the whole six to seventh thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, then you got it.

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Speaker 2: There is no it's just it's it's it's just it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like it doesn't mean anything. Oh yeah, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean anything, but it can mean anything.

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Speaker 4: Right right now?

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Speaker 2: You think I am somehow behind the times, You think

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Speaker 2: that I'm somehow not in tune with with the youngsters

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Speaker 1: Well to those girls, age, I'm sure that you are

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Speaker 4: How'd you know? I thought we're going to keep that

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Speaker 1: Well you are one hundred and thirteen, so that doesn't help.

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Speaker 3: But I have an.

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Speaker 2: Appointment either Mondy your tusday with my with my longevity

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Speaker 2: be that day. Well, I've screwed up the past fifteen years.

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Speaker 2: You better go home and pack your bags. She was

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Speaker 2: six or seven iPhones? Yes, doing the six or seven?

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's the joke. Seriously, we just went over. No,

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Speaker 1: I know your memory that bad. You've already forgot.

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Speaker 2: But was she was she doing this? I thought I

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Speaker 2: heard her say six or seven? She was saying six seven, yes, okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, but dad said no until she turns thirty?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: Correct?

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Speaker 4: Okay? I think that who cares what dad said? Correct? Right?

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Speaker 2: So either one of us could add an additional phone

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Speaker 4: A month or something something like that, and I'd be.

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Speaker 2: I can get the goobers to contribute, you know, probably

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Speaker 2: one hundred dollars a month, and we get girl a

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Speaker 2: new iPhone, or not a new iPhone, just an iPhone.

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Speaker 2: You know what I do have? I have because Tameras

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Speaker 2: thing about trading as. Now, wait, minut I think I

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Speaker 2: got an old iPhone in the drawer. So I went

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Speaker 2: I need an address. I need an address. He's never

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Speaker 2: gonna we'll never get it now. But you know what

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Speaker 2: what he forgets is that I know people.

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Speaker 1: You know people people.

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Speaker 2: That's right, they can they can easily get that address

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Speaker 2: for me. Yes, So if you want to go dark,

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Speaker 2: I'll get the address.

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Speaker 1: We When she got for Christmas that hot Wheels car?

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Speaker 2: Because I want to fan expt with her name and

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Speaker 2: school she goes to, just the oh man, I want

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Speaker 2: I just got a text from my wife. Uh oh,

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Speaker 1: It's that bad? Your wife is that filthy?

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Speaker 4: No, but I don't know what because I don't know

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Speaker 1: Well yeah you can say that. Okay, that's wrong with that?

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Speaker 2: She writes me and says, you don't know who punched

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Speaker 1: That you've never heard of punch the monkey.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think what I thought of when I when

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Speaker 2: Because they thought punched the monkey was what obviously I

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Speaker 2: Palantiner punched the monkey. I don't know which I don't

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Speaker 1: Now, but it punched the monkeys. Okay. Now, I think

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Speaker 1: You really don't remember any I believe Tamara more than

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Speaker 4: But I had a really damn good margarita that night.

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Speaker 2: It's all over X, including remarkable a I of him fighting.

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Speaker 1: Back, the monkey's fighting back. Oh you don't want to

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Speaker 2: Come on, and it just irritates them at me too.

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Speaker 2: And of course not only hear about money, young, I

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Speaker 4: Punch the money up.

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Speaker 2: We're going back to palant here because who can help

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Speaker 2: all right, now, let's get the Senate Bill twenty four too.

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Speaker 2: Oh five, the color the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act sold

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Speaker 2: the notoriously bureaucratic EU framework. That is not a glowing

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Speaker 2: because Colorado is the sixth most heavily regulated state in

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Speaker 4: They modeled what happens.

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Speaker 2: It's even a fraction of the broader tech sector falls.

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Speaker 2: That's nearly fourteen hundred more jobs gone, and that's another

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Speaker 2: He says, and I quote, companies have choices on where

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Speaker 2: all due respects to Jjament, he is He's right, he's

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Speaker 2: master the obvious on that one, and we are not winning.

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Speaker 2: Palenteer came here in twenty twenty. What were they doing.

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Speaker 2: They were fleeing Peter Thiel and Wark or whatever's the

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Speaker 2: A gold dome, not the Denver with the empty Palanteer office.

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Speaker 2: They ought to sit with that irony for a moment.

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Speaker 2: What you did just chase a huge business out of

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Speaker 2: the biggest company in the state, and a business climate

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Speaker 2: has been declining in national competitiveness rankings year after year

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Speaker 2: after year. The Common Sense Institute didn't just tell us

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Speaker 2: what Pallaentteer cost us. They handed the Politburero. They handed

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Speaker 2: look in it. The only question now is whether anybody

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Speaker 2: likely scenario isn't that we lost Palenteer, It's that Palaentteer

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Speaker 1: everybody understands what we're referring to is punch the monkey.

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Speaker 4: I let it go. Now.

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Speaker 1: Michael. I was just happy at Tuesday when you gave

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Speaker 2: they would go or I'd say, you know he well,

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Speaker 2: either way, I could work it either way. But he

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Speaker 2: texted Dragon, he didn't text me correct and he texted

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Speaker 2: you and said, what.

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Speaker 1: If he says, punching the monkey one more time, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to drive off the road.

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Speaker 2: Punching the monkey, punching the monkey, punching the monkey.

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Speaker 1: But his name is punch the Monkey.

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Speaker 4: Punch. I don't care, you know.

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Speaker 2: I'm to the point where I don't give a rats

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Speaker 2: ass about punch or punching the monkey either one.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sick of it, and I was.

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Speaker 1: I was tired of it.

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Speaker 4: Anty Timer told me about it. It's like, really, this

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Speaker 4: is what everybody in the world's talking about. When we

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Speaker 4: could be talking about.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Guthrie but he was so cute, or.

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Speaker 2: You could be talking about Rashida talib or Alexander Cosi

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Speaker 2: Cortez or Jared Polis or you know any number of

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Speaker 2: other's stupid things going on in the world. Holy cow,

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Speaker 2: I want to read an email, but I don't want

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Speaker 2: to give you know, my general rule is you email me,

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Speaker 2: then your name is fair game. But I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to do this because I don't want to cause any problems.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Michael, on.

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Speaker 2: The topic of Palanteer moving out of state, it's part

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Speaker 2: of a broader issue. And then he tells me why

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Speaker 2: he has some insight, but I'm not going to cite

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Speaker 2: that because that might lead to his ID and I

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Speaker 2: just don't. I don't want to. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: cause him any problems. But I checked and it's true. Uh,

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Speaker 2: the ID Colorado is overregulated and the business climate is

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Speaker 2: becoming less friendly. The cost of living is also way

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Speaker 2: out of line with other states. It's too expensive for

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Speaker 2: employees to live work here. Back in the day, our

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Speaker 2: low utility costs were part of our sales pitch to

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Speaker 2: get businesses, manufacturing and power intensive companies to come here.

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Speaker 2: That ship is sailed and the problem will continue to worsen.

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Speaker 2: We legalize marijuana, which is problematic for companies in the

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Speaker 2: Department of Defense world. There are other factors like a

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Speaker 2: bad education system, public safety, and lows the infrastructure, but

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Speaker 2: I'll stop there.

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Speaker 4: One last point.

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Speaker 2: We lost space command to Huntsville for a reason, actually

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Speaker 2: many reasons, and he goes well beyond the president just

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Speaker 2: rewarding a friendly state.

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Speaker 4: Have a great day, Billy Bob.

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Speaker 2: Billy Bob is exactly right, and at some point we're

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Speaker 2: going to recognize exactly what's going on in this state,

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Speaker 2: which goes back to my lecture yesterday about the Colorado

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Speaker 2: Republican Party.

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Speaker 1: We have.

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Speaker 2: This election cycle. I'm not convinced that, based on the

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Speaker 2: bucket of candidates we have at most levels, that this

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Speaker 2: could be our turnaround election. And I don't mean turn

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Speaker 2: around in that we suddenly become a red state, but

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Speaker 2: I mean slowly start crawling out of this horrible hole

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Speaker 2: that we have allowed the Democrats to dig, and we

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Speaker 2: just sat and bitched the moans while they dug, and

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Speaker 2: we just kept getting deeper and deeper in the hole.

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Speaker 2: This election cycle, where you have a gubernatorial race, two

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Speaker 2: Senate races, Attorney General, Secretary of State, you've got the

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Speaker 2: Colorado State Senate, Colorado House representatives, you've got school boards

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Speaker 2: all over the place. You'll have all sorts of you know,

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Speaker 2: issues on the ballot where if we could, just as

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Speaker 2: I said yesterday, come within seeing the finish line like

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Speaker 2: a gubernatorial race or a Senate race where even if

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Speaker 2: they lost, but they lost fifty two to forty eight,

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Speaker 2: it would give us the momentum because someone losing a

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Speaker 2: race fifty two to forty eight means they were able

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Speaker 2: to raise money, they had an organization, they've got the

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Speaker 2: infrastructure that we could build on. Even if they're not

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Speaker 2: the candidate in the next cycle, their infrastructure should.

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Speaker 4: And if they're a decent human being, would.

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Speaker 2: Make that available to someone else to build on that,

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Speaker 2: and we can start climbing out of the hole. But

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Speaker 2: until we stop the infighting, and until we recognize that

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Speaker 2: we have a common purpose and that we need people

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Speaker 2: of all stripes in that bucket digging out.

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Speaker 4: We're never going to dig out, and this email from

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Speaker 4: Billy Bob is going to be is just going.

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Speaker 2: To get worse and worse and worse until I mean,

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Speaker 2: I already believe we're California. So what we need to

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Speaker 2: do is recognize where we are and start working our

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Speaker 2: way out of it into what we once were, but

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Speaker 2: even better than that taxpay with these shots coming up next,