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Speaker 1: Hey, there're folks. It is Monday, March thirtieth, and Kenna

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Speaker 1: brother get a vacation. No, if you're a high profile

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Speaker 1: US senator and the government is still shut down, and

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Speaker 1: of all places you want a vacation is Disney World.

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Speaker 1: With that, Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 1: What in the actual hell is going on with Senator

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Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham right now? Robes.

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Speaker 2: It's not a good look. It's first of all, it's

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Speaker 2: not a good look. I'm just gonna say this, and

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Speaker 2: maybe I'll get some hate for this, but a lot

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Speaker 2: of people would just question in general, why a grown,

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Speaker 2: single adult man would spend a weekend at Disney World. Now.

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Speaker 2: I get it. Sometimes it's fun to ride the rides

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Speaker 2: and to go to Epcot and all of that, but

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Speaker 2: it is a little question.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, he's there with friends, is he not?

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Speaker 1: Isn't he there with people? He's just not there on

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Speaker 1: with a ticket on his own? I have that right,

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Speaker 1: don't I.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he says he was meeting friends, but in

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Speaker 2: all the photos I just see him by himself, writing

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Speaker 2: rides and holding a bubble Wand Okay, there reportedly were

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Speaker 2: other people with him, but still it's not a good

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Speaker 2: look when the government shut down.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this, folks, maybe you've seen it, but Republican Senator

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Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has been spotted over the

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Speaker 1: week Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Yes, pictures started emerging of

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Speaker 1: him at Disney World in Orlando. The first one I

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Speaker 1: saw was of him dining and Minnie was nearby.

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Speaker 2: Mickey was nearby. Yes, I think Mickey was nearby. So

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Speaker 2: it's a kind of a funny photo.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, that was one, and there's another one that

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Speaker 1: comes out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like he's standing by himself holding a

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Speaker 2: child's bubble wand in his hands.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, then there's another one. You tell me.

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Speaker 2: He's boarding Space Mountain. He stood in line, and of

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Speaker 2: course the jokes were made. They were much shorter than

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Speaker 2: the TSA lines to ride Space Mountain. Oh yes, Well,

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Speaker 2: his constituents and other folks here around the country are

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Speaker 2: waiting in four hours long lines and missing flights while

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Speaker 2: he's waiting to ride Space Mountain. It's not a good line.

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Speaker 1: Okay, before we break all of that down, give me

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Speaker 1: an idea. You went through more so than I do.

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Speaker 1: Just give an idea of the heat he's taking and

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Speaker 1: the things people are saying about these pics.

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Speaker 2: Don't we know how snarky social media is so Twitter

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Speaker 2: or I guess X, sorry, still call it Twitter, but

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Speaker 2: X is probably the most brutal there are. Just there

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Speaker 2: is so much like just headed his way and it's

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Speaker 2: low hanging fruit. It's easy obvious things to say about him,

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Speaker 2: people questioning, calling him creepy, calling just a bad look,

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Speaker 2: but just it runs the gamut. Are there are a

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Speaker 2: lot of comments.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all those comments, and he's not the only one.

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Speaker 1: We have seen this over the years in times of crisis.

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Speaker 1: I think the first one that comes to mind, folks

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Speaker 1: famously was during the ice storms and Texas. Ted Kruz

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Speaker 1: was a video where he was going somewhere tropical actually

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Speaker 1: was I can't.

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Speaker 2: Remember, Costa Rica or something, while Texas was being inundated

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Speaker 2: and his constituents were losing their home.

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Speaker 1: An emergency, it was an absolute emergency down there. I

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Speaker 1: remember that one comes to mind. Now we're talking about

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Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, but we want to mention and we'll explain

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Speaker 1: the whole story. But another congressman, Democrat from California, A

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Speaker 1: Robert Garcia was also spotted. Now I just saw the

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Speaker 1: think it allows for some context.

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Speaker 2: Look, so representative Robert Garcia from Long Beach was seen

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Speaker 2: at a Vegas casino over the weekend. Again, probably not

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Speaker 2: a good look when people are are struggling to pay

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Speaker 2: their rent payment, to put food on the table, living

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Speaker 2: out of their cars, taking second and third jobs, getting

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Speaker 2: eviction notices, he's gambling in Vegas. It just isn't a

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Speaker 2: good look. However, so here's the deal. I did point

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Speaker 2: this out. TMZ actually put out a car like a

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Speaker 2: citizen journalist call if you see a member of Congress

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Speaker 2: out and about enjoying their spring break, we want the photos. So,

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Speaker 2: of course that is now going to create a I

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Speaker 2: don't even know, but a large number of folks who

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Speaker 2: members of Congress. And I say catch because that is

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Speaker 2: what is being implied here, that they're doing something they

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Speaker 2: shouldn't be, which is questionable. This is their recess. However,

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Speaker 2: given the circumstances, they should probably be aware that people

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Speaker 2: I say that with you understand air quotes in a

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Speaker 2: Vegas casino, He says, Actually, I don't mind what TMZ

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Speaker 2: is doing here. Like the story says, my dad has

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Speaker 2: lived in Vegas for fifteen years and I had just

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Speaker 2: finished lunch with him. I try to see him whenever

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Speaker 2: I can. And like I said a few days ago,

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Speaker 2: Speaker Mike Johnson, should never have sent us all home.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I want to go back to something

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Speaker 1: you just said, Robes about the TMZ putting out almost

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Speaker 1: a bounty if you will, They have saying keep be

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Speaker 1: on the lookout, and folks are almost hunting. Are congressmen

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Speaker 1: and women at least in the sense of taking pictures?

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Speaker 1: But Rose, you said caught as if they're doing something

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't be. I want to stop right there. If

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Speaker 1: a member of Congress right now is enjoying himself, enjoying

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Speaker 1: herself with family out public, are they doing something they

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Speaker 1: should not be doing right now given the circumstances.

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Speaker 2: I think so, Yes, Damn, I do think so. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: but I just do because your job is to keep

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Speaker 2: the government running at its basist level and to pay

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Speaker 2: government employees. And if you've had six weeks to figure

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Speaker 2: it out, and you still couldn't for whatever reason. Point

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Speaker 2: the finger at whoever you want. I don't care. You're

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Speaker 2: a part of the problem if you weren't a part

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Speaker 2: of the solution. And then to go out on this

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Speaker 2: two week recess not having fulfilled your job and enjoy yourself,

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Speaker 2: spend your money with the paycheck that you didn't miss. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that is a rub That is like rubbing salt in

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Speaker 2: the wound of a lot of folks who are having

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Speaker 2: to quit positions to pay the bills because you won't

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Speaker 2: to do a job because you aren't doing your job.

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Speaker 2: But while you're not doing your job, you go ahead

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Speaker 2: and ride Space Mountain, You go ahead and gamble on

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Speaker 2: whatever you're doing blackjack. It. It just is a are

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Speaker 2: you technical doing something wrong? No? But visually and like

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Speaker 2: from like an emotional level, are you doing something wrong? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you are.

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Speaker 1: You could almost even say ethically yes, I mean okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a way in defense of I

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Speaker 1: really am. I'm trying to find a way to defend

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Speaker 1: They have a right and they should be able to

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Speaker 1: in this. But you get a break from work when

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Speaker 1: you do your job right. They're taking a two week recess.

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Speaker 1: You're right, It's just I don't know how to sit

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Speaker 1: with this and be okay, I don't know, and I'm trying, trying,

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Speaker 2: I'm also going to take issue with Robert Garcia because

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Speaker 2: I just think.

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Speaker 1: That, oh, I didn't know if this was going to

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Speaker 1: hit you. Go ahead, well it's.

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Speaker 2: Going to hit me that he's using it to point

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Speaker 2: and say, yeah, I'm here in Vegas cause because Mike

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Speaker 2: Johnson sent me home.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do not not.

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Speaker 2: Take responsibility for your part in the game of Chicken

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Speaker 2: or whatever it is you want to call it that

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Speaker 2: you all did for the last six weeks. So to

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Speaker 2: And so I'm just here in Vegas visiting my dad. No,

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Speaker 2: you're not. You're in a casino gambling. After you visited

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Speaker 2: your dad.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to mention. I thought the direction you

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Speaker 1: it because you were so hot when you were talking.

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm not going to add too. I swear

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Speaker 1: gotten hotter. He's in a casino gambling with whose money

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Speaker 1: they paid him?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the American people, damn, so don't salary didn't knowledge it.

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Speaker 2: Don't just point the finger at man. Go ahead and

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Speaker 2: own up to your part too, And I would have

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Speaker 2: I don't like the fact that you didn't take any

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Speaker 2: with his statement.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we have to go and we're going to read

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Speaker 1: the Lindsay Graham statement here in a second, But we

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Speaker 1: have to go back to this ropes. I don't know

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Speaker 1: exactly what or did he say. He was there for

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Speaker 1: he ends up. Yes, he's he's literally and clearly hanging

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Speaker 1: even riding rides robes does this the fact that he's

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Speaker 2: Earth without his family. There's even not on time. If

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Speaker 2: had you had bought months in advance, and this recess happened,

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Speaker 2: and you didn't want to disappoint your kids. I would

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Speaker 2: say that was a valid reason being there, grandkids, kids, whatever,

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Speaker 1: And we could say, okay, that is why I point that.

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Speaker 1: We see why he's there. We can't understand. We can't

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Speaker 1: I was this important enough. It seems almost a middle

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Speaker 1: Robes seems like not only did we not care enough

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Speaker 1: what you think about us, Like we think so little

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Speaker 1: of you that I don't want to even respect your

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Speaker 1: situation enough not to pour salt in the wound of

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Speaker 1: your unemployment, of your lights being cut off, of you

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Speaker 1: World getting photographed, and that's okay. Given what other people

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Speaker 2: Robes where you said space all I can think of

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Speaker 2: is space man, let me see that, like hands up

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Speaker 2: having fun.

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Speaker 1: You said he was boreding, he was boring? You sure

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Speaker 1: it's him?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, show this picture. He's right there, standing

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Speaker 2: in line. He's about to get on. Oh I can't

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Speaker 2: tell that's him. Yes it is. There's another picture of

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Speaker 2: him getting on a young kid.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe he's family.

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Speaker 2: He guess maybe. And according to folks who were nearby

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Speaker 2: who took the picture of him holding the little bubble

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Speaker 2: wond it was for a little girl who was using

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Speaker 2: the restroom, So maybe it's friends of the family. Whatever.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying there isn't a genuine reason for him

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Speaker 2: to be there. But the point being is it's tone

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Speaker 2: deaf as f af like you have to know that

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Speaker 2: on any other year, in any other time. Fine, go

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Speaker 2: enjoy your family, your friends, whomever you choose to be

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Speaker 2: with during this time, but also recognize that you have

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Speaker 2: chosen to leave your job without doing it, and you

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Speaker 1: Let me publicly split with my fiance right now. I

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