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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Sir, choices we got in lay. Those were your choices.

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Speaker 2: Somebody got shut? Oh ago, hold on the dirty Dead?

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Speaker 2: What do I want with my da do? Shatby? What

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Speaker 2: the hell is this? Everybody good? That is? That is

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Speaker 2: Rapper too Low?

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Speaker 1: Who is appearing as a kiss a guest on a

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Speaker 1: podcast who the gun went off in his pocket?

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Speaker 3: Apparently somehow okay? First of all, guests on a podcast.

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Speaker 3: To have a podcast, all you need to do is

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Speaker 3: talking to a guy and his gun goes off. What's

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Speaker 3: the most interesting to me is these people live such

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Speaker 3: a lifestyle. The reaction is, hey, whose gun went off?

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Speaker 3: Somebody's gone went somebody's gun went off, whereas most of

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Speaker 3: the company I keep, if there were a gun shot

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Speaker 3: in the room, we would all be quite flabbergasted.

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Speaker 2: Who shot?

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Speaker 3: Who?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, is that a gun in your pocket?

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Speaker 1: Or you're just happy to be on my podcast? Hello,

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Speaker 1: slay that again, Michael. Just the beginning of it and

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Speaker 1: choices we got in life. Those were your choices.

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Speaker 2: Somebody got shot? Are they okay? All right? Getting back

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Speaker 2: to our topic, motivating.

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Speaker 1: Ourselves for the New Year's rapper too low if you

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Speaker 1: need to stick to your diet through January.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: So there are a couple of things I wanted to

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Speaker 2: The ear thing. But we have so much lets to

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Speaker 2: get to it. We can't get to all of it.

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Speaker 1: But I love this. I'm going to hit you with

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Speaker 1: part of it and then we'll move on. We got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff. But this is written by a

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Speaker 1: guy named Jeff Goldstein, who is a writer I really like,

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Speaker 1: and he has this redeclaration of independence and you'll know

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Speaker 1: what he's driving at immediately. Be it so understood. This

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Speaker 1: is my vow for the New year, too. I refuse

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Speaker 1: to unpack white violence. I reject the idea that my

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Speaker 1: existence perpetuates white power structures. I will not, and in fact, cannot,

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Speaker 1: examine my ipplicit biases.

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Speaker 2: I'm an individual.

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Speaker 1: I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities authority over my being.

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Speaker 2: My meaning is mine, It's what makes me me.

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Speaker 1: I'm not taking any journey to discover the impact of

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Speaker 1: my privilege on black and brown people's I will not

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Speaker 1: become anti racist or anti fascist to satisfy your demands.

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Speaker 2: I reject cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I'm not

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Speaker 2: defined by my color, my lrige, and my sex. I'm

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Speaker 2: jeff good to meet you.

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Speaker 1: I will not respect your pronouns or celebrate your queerness.

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Speaker 2: I am hostile to your sexualization of children.

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Speaker 1: I reject your triggers and your desire to control my speech.

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Speaker 2: I know who and what you are.

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Speaker 1: You are my presumptive master, or else the useful idiot

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Speaker 1: who empowers him. But I will grant you and your

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Speaker 1: ideology no power over me. There's more you want to

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Speaker 1: hear a little more sure. I reject equity because it

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Speaker 1: is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject inclusivity because it

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Speaker 2: I reject mandated diversity.

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Speaker 1: I will not surrender to the crayon box mafia, nor

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Speaker 1: do the gender changelings who pretend I am construct answerable

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Speaker 1: to the whims. Cultural appropriation is merely culture. It expands

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Speaker 1: a pluralistic society. There's no such thing as digital blackface.

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Speaker 1: My whiteness is not violent, my sex is not oppressive.

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Speaker 1: My religion doesn't concern you, and my children are not

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Speaker 3: Theory, Yes, digital blackface, I'd forgotten that term.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and again if you've lost a thread. This

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Speaker 1: Consciousness is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual.

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Speaker 1: little more about my speech is my own. I reject

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Speaker 1: each of your excuses to silence me. I don't ask

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Speaker 1: for your protections. I can filter information without your interference,

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Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, and I despise your presumption to protect me

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Speaker 1: from myself. I am your sworn enemy, and you are mine.

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Speaker 1: I will not perform for you. I will not read

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Speaker 1: from your script or dancing your follies. Oh my brother,

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Speaker 1: we'll post this at armstrong egeddi dot com.

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Speaker 2: It is brilliant, and he goes on. But that's the main.

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Speaker 3: Party, and it fits in with that Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 3: article I was reading from last hour. The progressive moment

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Speaker 3: law shirt like Bill Maherr and lots of people. The

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Speaker 2: Right. I'm reminded of.

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Speaker 1: Something great you brought to us, I think it was

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Speaker 1: last year about how it only takes fifteen percent of

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Speaker 2: Right, right, and that's how you in.

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Speaker 1: And imagine if you were in that hardcore fifteen percent

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Speaker 1: and I'm stating the obvious here, you could project the idea.

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Speaker 2: That you have way way more mass.

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Speaker 1: Than you do for your radical ideas, like radical gender theory,

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Speaker 2: There's no such thing as a man or a woman.

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Speaker 2: You get to choose to little kids in schools.

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Speaker 2: the what's really troubling about this, and we've had a

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Speaker 1: Neo Marxism developed in the intellectual salons of Europe in

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Speaker 1: Or sitting there interviewing I don't know, Rich Lowry from

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Speaker 2: But CBS's chief.

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Speaker 2: Fascinating story.

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Speaker 1: Sixty one Michael, Our.

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Speaker 4: Border was open because of this. Our country was being

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Speaker 4: I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them

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Speaker 2: Of all time. And then go ahead, you got to

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Speaker 1: And then finally he made this promise to our our

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Speaker 4: Seventy one one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military

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Speaker 2: We made a lot more.

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Speaker 3: around anytime soon. But anyway, inflation numbers out today. They

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Speaker 3: came in less than expected. Whatever that's all about. So

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Speaker 3: Kevin Hassett, he's the UH, he's the Economic Council advisor

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Speaker 3: for Donald Trump. He said, this is just an astonishingly

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Speaker 3: good inflation report that came out today, two point seven percent.

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Speaker 3: We've looked at sixty one forecast this number came in

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Speaker 3: better than every single one of them, and not a

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Speaker 3: single economist surveyed by Bloomberg got it right. So that's

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Speaker 3: the spin. It's not even prair to call it spin.

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Speaker 3: That's just the fact today on that particular number when

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Speaker 3: you break it out, though, that's what they're doing in

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Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal. Some of the numbers within the number,

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Speaker 3: so all items two point seven percent, but energy services

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Speaker 3: up seven point four percent, just flat energy four point

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Speaker 3: two percent. Uh, Food about where it was two point

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Speaker 3: six but fuel oil up eleven percent, piped gas up

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Speaker 3: nine percent.

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Speaker 2: Energy just killing people. I know, my bills are ridiculus us.

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Speaker 1: Also interesting because the President touted the fact that gasoline

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Speaker 1: prices are much lower than they were during the Biden.

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Speaker 2: Years, which is true.

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Speaker 3: Medical care services up three point three percent, shelter up

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Speaker 3: three percent, so a lot of the things you really need.

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Speaker 2: Up quite a bit. Electricity up six point nine percent.

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Speaker 2: Damn used vehicles.

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Speaker 3: Well that it's a good one or a bad one,

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Speaker 3: depending on whether you're buying or selling.

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Speaker 2: Right. If I'm selling one, I'm happy that they're up

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Speaker 2: almost four percent. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So Trump's his modus operandi for a very long time

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Speaker 1: is to make out landish promises and be always the

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Speaker 1: consummate salesperson and marketer. The problem he's got, though, is

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Speaker 1: if he were to make like grandiose claims about immigration,

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't have to because they've done an unbelievable job,

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Speaker 1: but about you know, how much was coming in or

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Speaker 1: how much they've stopped or whatever.

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Speaker 2: People would kind of sort of have to take his.

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Speaker 1: Word for it or look it up or whatever, because

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sitting here talking to a microphone in

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Speaker 1: my home.

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Speaker 2: I can't see people crossing the border. I don't live

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Speaker 2: on the border.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, everybody, everybody is an expert on

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Speaker 1: the economy, their personal economy.

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Speaker 2: They know exactly what's going on.

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Speaker 1: You can't sales pitch your way through on people's personal economies, right,

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Speaker 1: And you know, Trump, at his vaunted instincts. He's how

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Speaker 1: he's got to be able to understand that Biden didn't.

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Speaker 1: Biden was a miserable failure at it, and I'm a

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Speaker 1: little surprised to see Trump.

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Speaker 2: Not doing a little better job at it. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: handful of headlines.

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Speaker 3: New York Times, I wonder in my own life, at

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Speaker 3: what point I'll stop being surprised when they bring me

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Speaker 3: the bill at a restaurant or when they give me

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Speaker 3: the total at the grocery store.

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Speaker 2: I still am surprised as of today. Yeah, what how

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Speaker 2: do I spend? Are you sure you're ringing that upright?

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Speaker 2: I would agree completely, Yeah, New York Times.

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Speaker 1: As you might expect a Bella Coast, Trump points fingers

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Speaker 1: in defending his record on the economy, lying, liar, lied

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Speaker 1: his way through lies and distortions and wrong statistics and

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Speaker 1: highly selective misleading use of statistics.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. Washington Post Trump attempts to domestic reset

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Speaker 2: with fast paced White House address, and they pointed out that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: his pace was much much faster than he used It

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Speaker 2: seems like a fair headline from the Washington Post. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: I would agree. Here's your lead.

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump bashed his predecessor and praised his own

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Speaker 1: policy achievements. In his first year back in office, delivering

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Speaker 1: an eighteen minute live address to the nation on Wednesdays,

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Speaker 1: he seeks to reverse lagging public opinion numbers and convince

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Speaker 1: Americans that he is addressing their economic concerns. I think

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Speaker 1: that is a perfectly fair assessment. They certainly are a

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Speaker 1: bit critical in the wah poe during the article, but

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Speaker 1: you know why not. Let's see the Wall Street journal

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Speaker 1: Trump defends handling of economy, announces military dividend. President Trump

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Speaker 1: defended his handling in the today seventeen hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: six dollars warrior dividend check for active duty service members

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Speaker 1: he said would be paid for with tariff revenue. And again,

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Speaker 1: you know, a mix of description and criticism.

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Speaker 2: Where he was right, where he's wrong. As journalism. In short,

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Speaker 2: I think that's fine.

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Speaker 1: The New York Post has clearly staked its stake. Is

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Speaker 1: that a thing on pro trumpiness? Trump tells America I'm

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Speaker 1: fixing Biden's mess in chart filled prime time address and

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Speaker 1: does not have even the slightest caveat or caution, much less.

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Speaker 2: Criticism for the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: And they reproduced several of his charts, which actually are

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Speaker 1: pretty interesting. You really have to take in a broad

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Speaker 1: variety of news if you want to know what's going on.

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Speaker 2: It's the arm Strong in Getty show, Armstrong in getting.

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Speaker 1: So speaking in classrooms, I wanted to talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about media and information bubbles, and I was gonna

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Speaker 1: mention that. Well, I did mention on the air the

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Speaker 1: other day that a friend of mine has a professional

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Speaker 1: relationship with a person and it would not be appropriate

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Speaker 1: for my friend to call them out and disagree with

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Speaker 1: them on politics. But this person was commenting on the

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk assassination. And this fella, who my friend identified

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Speaker 1: as a very nice guy and quite reasonably brian, just

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Speaker 1: an overall good dude, was one hundred percent convinced that

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Speaker 1: the young man who killed Charlie Kirk was a flag

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Speaker 1: waving MAGA conservative who resented Charlie for not being maga enough.

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Speaker 2: Was completely convinced of that.

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Speaker 1: And I'm saving it for a cam Us Madness update

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Speaker 1: probably tomorrow. But the head of the Association of University Professors,

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Speaker 1: which is tens of thousands of university professors, was.

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Speaker 2: Out the other day saying, oh yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: It was a right wing activist who killed Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: and exactly the same thing. And if there's a theme

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Speaker 1: to this, and I've got a couple more like exhibits,

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Speaker 1: it's that a lot of folks who think some crazys.

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Speaker 1: They're probably not bad people, but they're used to looking

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Speaker 1: in some fairly normal, mainstreamish places for information and what

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Speaker 1: they're getting is just wildly inaccurate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking of a couple of people I know who

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Speaker 3: have really warped views of what's going on in the world.

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Speaker 3: It's not because they're bad, it's just because of where

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Speaker 3: they go to get their information.

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Speaker 1: Right, And so yeah, yeah, and you've got to be

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Speaker 1: a better consumer of news. But maybe the theme, the

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Speaker 1: overall theme, is when you're run into people who think

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Speaker 1: this crazy stuff, it could well be they've just never

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Speaker 1: heard an alternative explanation, and be nice. Be what we

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Speaker 1: on the right tend to be, which is I'll listen

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Speaker 1: to you now if you don't mind, can you listen

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Speaker 1: to me because I haven't heard you know?

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Speaker 3: How about if I go with back away slowly and

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Speaker 3: keep my eye on their hands.

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Speaker 2: A lot of work.

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Speaker 1: Two free Beacon. Let mean the major AI platforms, which

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Speaker 1: have emerged as significant American news sources, especially for the young,

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Speaker 1: describe Charlie Kirk's assassination as motivated by right wing ideology

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Speaker 1: and downplay left wing violence as quote exceptionally rare. According

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Speaker 1: to the Free Beacon, when asked to name recent assassination

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Speaker 1: in the US motivated by right wing ideology, multiple chat bots,

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Speaker 1: including chat GPT, Google's Gemini Perplexity all listed Charlie Kirk's

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Speaker 1: murder as a right wing act of violence.

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously, Jimmy Kimmel got misled by this.

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Speaker 1: He seemed to actually believe that Gemini's chatbot made the

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Speaker 1: provably false statement that quote. The assassination of conservative active

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Speaker 1: as Charlie Kirk in September of twenty five has been

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Speaker 1: identified by researchers as the only fatal right wing terrorist

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Speaker 1: incident in the US during the first half of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five, and they go into some detail. Keep in

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Speaker 1: mind that a recent Free Beacon analysis we talked about

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Speaker 1: this on the air found that Al Jazeera was one

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Speaker 1: of the two most popular sources used by AI chatbots

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Speaker 1: for news about the Israel Hamas war, and there were

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Speaker 1: zero Israel Learn Leaning sites that were in their top ten.

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Speaker 1: I think it was so garbage in, garbage out. Then

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Speaker 1: you've got Hannah Nicole Jones, Nicole Hannah Joe Owns, whatever

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Speaker 1: her name is. New York Times the Crazy Lady, the

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Speaker 1: racist who came out with a sixteen nineteen project wrote

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Speaker 1: recently that public mourning for Kirk is unsettling. In the

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Speaker 1: wake of Kirk's death, individuals and institutions across the nation

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Speaker 1: moved not just to condemn his killings in political violence,

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Speaker 1: but to venerate him. It was unsettling to see many

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Speaker 1: politicians from across the political spectrum speak with reverence about Kirk.

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Speaker 1: And she went on to describe how he was a.

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Speaker 2: Man who spread hate.

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Speaker 1: Said black women lacked the brain processing power to otherwise

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Speaker 1: be taken seriously, which is a deliberate misquoting of Charlie

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Speaker 1: And again that's in.

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Speaker 2: The New York Times. Wow, flamingly.

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Speaker 1: You know, liberal obviously, but you could be a person

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Speaker 1: serious about getting.

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Speaker 2: Information and be completely misled.

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Speaker 3: Well, on the same story, but a different version of it.

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Speaker 3: I was talking to somebody yesterday who is completely into

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Speaker 3: this story that that poor kid in Utah is going

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Speaker 3: to be executed for something he didn't do. He was framed,

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Speaker 3: he was a patsy like Lee Harvey Hoswald that the

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Speaker 3: the FBI planted that gun and they're pinning it on

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Speaker 3: him and it was the masade working with our FBI

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Speaker 3: to kill Charlie killed Charlie Kirk, and they're gonna pin

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Speaker 3: it on this kid, and this poor kid is going

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Speaker 3: to be executed. And how I mean this person was

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Speaker 3: upset that this innocent kid is going to be executed

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Speaker 3: for something he didn't do.

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Speaker 2: God unplugged the Internet, and I think that comes from

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Speaker 2: the Candace Owen's crowd. Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna

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Speaker 2: ask that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, final note on this topic because Nelly

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Speaker 1: Bowles is so great writing in the free press.

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Speaker 2: And of the left. Yes, but why so, like why

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Speaker 2: for you and I?

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Speaker 3: Is it so obviously he was half crazy also upset

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Speaker 3: about the trans thing, but he's dating a trans person

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Speaker 3: and blah blah blah suicidal And I just believe that story.

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Speaker 3: Why do you think you and I are the way

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Speaker 3: we are on that story, which I believe is the

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Speaker 3: accurate version. By the way, I don't know Armstrong and