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Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, I've never heard you quite so insightful as

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Speaker 1: forward for your new audience. But since your extra sharp today,

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Speaker 1: I have a question for you. Do you believe that

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Speaker 1: Mom Dommy is a true believer? Usually when the socialists

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Speaker 1: know better, they just wann't that leadership position?

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Speaker 2: Quick frame of reference. That talkback was left just after

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Speaker 2: we finished the show yesterday, So that's what I was

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Speaker 2: talking about right today.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well I don't hear yet.

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Speaker 4: If you'll remind me, if you have the brain cells

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Speaker 3: But because it's Veterans Day, I want to start.

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Speaker 4: That with Veterans Day because it's obviously a for me anyway,

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Speaker 4: not having served. It's a really important day because the

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Speaker 4: members of my family who served, the people who are

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Speaker 4: what he did wrong, but he did something wrong, and

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Speaker 3: At least we know, he's still.

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Speaker 4: Employed by the United States military, but we're not quite

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Speaker 4: sure in what capacity. You know, maybe he's peeling potatoes

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Speaker 3: Could be girl mom because well could be girl mom mom.

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Speaker 4: Maybe just trevist feeling the girl dad got in trouble

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So either that over on the brink of World

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Speaker 4: War three, somehow he's involved in it, and that scares

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Speaker 4: was no. Oh, before I start that, let me just

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Speaker 4: remind everybody once again. I have to keep reminding you

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Speaker 3: Keyword Mike or Michael.

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Speaker 4: Tell me anything, ask me anything, and talkbacks are the

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Speaker 4: other way that you can engage with the program. Now,

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Speaker 4: let's get started. So World War One, known at the

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Speaker 4: Treaty of Versailles was signed on June twenty eight, nineteen nineteen.

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Speaker 4: Signed in the Palace of Versailles. Do you ever get

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Speaker 4: visit the Palace of Versailles. It's really quite an amazing,

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Speaker 4: ceased had ceased seven months.

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Speaker 3: Earlier, when an armistice.

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Speaker 4: Or a temporary cessation of hostilities between the Allies and

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Speaker 4: and just as a quick little footnote and armistice deal.

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Speaker 4: that war is still going on. There's just an armistice

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Speaker 4: be observed on November eleventh, regardless of what day of

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Speaker 4: there is a huge difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.

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Speaker 4: You're going to hear in a minute from Ronald Reagan.

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Speaker 3: And he stood up.

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Speaker 5: A few moments ago, I placed to read that the

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Speaker 4: It's on Yosemite, off Bellevue in Greenwood Village, Oliver's Italian,

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Speaker 4: Oh, I get carriers get really mad at me when

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Speaker 4: When we've had these government shutdowns, we seem to have

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Speaker 1: I'll be right back, Michael Dragon for all the bowl

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Speaker 3: I just want to say, thanks man. It's truly my

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Speaker 5: God bless America, God bless the Constitution.

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Speaker 3: We didn't get a text message a little bit before

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Speaker 4: But that really that really hit me because Dragon's are

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Speaker 4: But that was very that was that was very kind

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Speaker 2: we had across the hall won't get easily translated over here.

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Speaker 2: We've got a new audience, plus some of the old

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Speaker 2: Goober's in here too. So there was a text from

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Speaker 2: Goober number fifty six eighty four just playing old asking Michael,

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Speaker 2: who is girl Dad? Well, that's the talkbacker was just played.

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Speaker 2: That is girl Dad. And he got that name because

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Speaker 2: with talkbacks he would have girl.

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Speaker 3: Like I says, go here, got co that's his daughter?

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Speaker 3: Leave talkbacks. Yeah, so he became came and his hitt.

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Speaker 4: And he has a history with this company because as

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Speaker 4: I said yesterday, which I know we have to repeat

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Speaker 4: sometime for if I get through your skulls, that he

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Speaker 4: is a He was an intern air quote I think

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Speaker 4: when they actually paid interns. So that's like, you know,

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Speaker 4: five hundred years ago. So he and he worked I

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Speaker 4: think on Rosen Show for a little while. Yeah, so

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Speaker 4: he's he's been in this studio, although the studio has

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Speaker 4: actually been truly remodeled. I have lights, I have blinds

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Speaker 4: that work. I have I mean, it's it's like it's clean.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing. I can see the sky is wonderful.

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Speaker 3: How's your second monitor over there? Though?

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Speaker 4: That's well, they're they're all backwards up there at the

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Speaker 4: other host stand. So the folks in Los Angeles at premiere,

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Speaker 4: we're listening yesterday, and one of them jokes and send

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Speaker 4: me a text program director, Hey, congratulations on taking a

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Speaker 4: breaking time.

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Speaker 3: So I took that is a good sign.

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Speaker 2: And just so everybody knows that last break was all Michael.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have to remind him or anything, all on

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Speaker 2: his own. I'm learning.

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Speaker 3: I'm twenty years later, you'll finally get it. Yeah, I will.

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Speaker 4: It will twenty years when they finally kicked me out

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Speaker 4: the door, I'll be well, wait a minute, I understand

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Speaker 4: the clock. Now I got the breaks sometime. He Anyway,

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles also was laughing because I said the thing

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Speaker 4: I am having a little difficult time with. I even

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Speaker 4: told Temper this. The one thing I'm having a little

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Speaker 4: difficult time is is that the design.

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Speaker 3: Of the studio is back assword. Yeah, it's just it is.

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Speaker 4: You kept telling me that, but until you sit here

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Speaker 4: and do it, you don't realize that what ninety people

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Speaker 4: are right handed, and one hundred percent of studios have

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Speaker 4: everything on the right side at an angle, so you

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Speaker 4: can just easily reach not have to like do a

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Speaker 4: you know, a some sort of square arm move.

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Speaker 3: So I'm having a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Of a difficult time adjusting to the layout, and in fact,

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Speaker 4: I may just have to come in here from evening

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Speaker 4: just kind of reader.

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Speaker 2: I'm still surprised that with the years that this studio

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Speaker 2: has been set up this way, that not as much

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Speaker 2: equipment has fallen through that.

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Speaker 3: Massive hole in the countertop. I know that the hole

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Speaker 3: is larger than your monitor.

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Speaker 4: It is, I mean, which begs the question you could

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Speaker 4: have two monitors here, But you know, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 4: say anything about that. I would never say I would,

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Speaker 4: you know, I would. Dragon, I'm just turning over new

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Speaker 4: leaf and I'm gonna stop complaining.

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Speaker 3: And that's about as long as it'll last.

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Speaker 4: So in the little bit of time I have left,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna continue this story about the human

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Speaker 4: dimension involved in the shutdown because the Cabal. And again

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Speaker 4: for my new listeners, the cabal is this unholy alliance

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Speaker 4: between the ruling elite, particularly in DC, but it also

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Speaker 4: includes lik in Colera or your state.

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Speaker 3: It includes the media.

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Speaker 4: And by the media, I mean you know, the dominant

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Speaker 4: mainstream media plus the cable news channels. And then you

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Speaker 4: have the tech giants. And I used to include X

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Speaker 4: formally Twitter, I kind of take that out now, but

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Speaker 4: Facebook and tech talk and the rest of them, the

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Speaker 4: big tech giants. In fact, to some degree now the

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Speaker 4: artificial intelligence platforms all connive and they all collude to

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Speaker 4: deliver you particular stories. I mean sometimes if you want to,

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Speaker 4: you ought to, you got to sit in a room

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Speaker 4: like I do, with three or four monitors and have

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Speaker 4: all the monitors onto ABC, NBC, and CBS, the three

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Speaker 4: major networks, the three only networks really, and you'll watch

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Speaker 4: and you'll see that while they're rundown, their presentation of

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Speaker 4: stories may differ chronologically, the substance of the stories remains

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Speaker 4: pretty much the same. So that for people that are

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Speaker 4: absorbing that through osmosis, that news from what I call

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Speaker 4: the cabal, you're getting one side, totally one side. So

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Speaker 4: more about what's the human reaction to, or the human

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Speaker 4: aspect of the shutdown.

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Speaker 3: Next