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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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

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Speaker 2: Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: They lost a lot of faith in certain people, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: they got duped by the Democrats.

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Speaker 4: President Trump's wiping at what he calls his past supporters,

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Speaker 4: calling them weaklings for falling prey to quote Democratic bs

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Speaker 4: over what he's now branded the Epstein hoax.

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Speaker 3: Look at the Steele dossier that turned out to be

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Speaker 3: a total hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats, and some

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Speaker 3: stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.

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Speaker 4: You're stupid if you believe the whole Epstein thing. And

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Speaker 4: he doesn't want your vote anymore. So we talked about

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Speaker 4: this yesterday because it happened while we were on the air,

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Speaker 4: and we played all the clips for you. It's kind

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Speaker 4: of hard to explain you would use this tact to

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Speaker 4: try to deal with getting out of this mess. So

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Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk, he is a huge MAGA leader among particularly

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Speaker 4: the young crowd. He had that event the other day

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Speaker 4: where a number of right wing hosts say, who thinks

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Speaker 4: and all that sort of stuff. So then Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 4: put out a statement, what like the next day, Joe

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Speaker 4: that it seemed like Trump had given him a call

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Speaker 4: or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Because he said it's own that Trump called him.

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Speaker 4: Okay, and he and Charlie we're going out of a

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Speaker 4: statement where he basically said, look, there there's nothing there.

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Speaker 4: Let's all move on and make America great again or

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Speaker 4: I'm something. He was ready to turn the page. And

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Speaker 4: then I don't know if he got huge blowback from

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Speaker 4: his audience or what, but he has sounded different since then,

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Speaker 4: and yesterday this Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, on

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Speaker 4: his podcast yesterday attempted some damage can on Trump's behalf

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Speaker 4: don't take too seriously the whole truth social Here, Kirk

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Speaker 4: told his audience, I know some people are getting fired

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Speaker 4: up about this. I don't believe he was trying to

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Speaker 4: insult anybody personally. All right, well, you know, if you

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Speaker 4: call me, if you call me stupid and a dupe,

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Speaker 4: it seems fairly personal.

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Speaker 1: But and Charlie Kirk, counting on the fact that those

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Speaker 4: Apparently Still, he expressed frustration about the administration's handling of

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Speaker 4: the issue himself. We are now Wednesday, going into Thursday.

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Speaker 4: People are very very confused, and some people are very

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Speaker 4: disappointed and mad. Charlie Kirk said, we made so much

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Speaker 4: progress with gen Z and this is a big vulnerability

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Speaker 4: online on TikTok, this story is not landing.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's fix this and we can.

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Speaker 4: He does make a good point the Republican Party doing

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Speaker 4: better with young people than it has in my going

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Speaker 4: back to Reagan, right, and if this is the thing

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Speaker 4: that blows it up. But I don't, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Guess where I break down on this story all the time.

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Speaker 4: Is it seems so obvious to me what's happened that

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Speaker 4: I don't There was never any there there there's not

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Speaker 4: a child sex ring being run by Democrats in Hollywood.

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Speaker 4: Podcasters were saying it to get clicks and listeners.

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Speaker 2: That's what I assumed all along.

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Speaker 4: It's true. It turns out to be true. They're even

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Speaker 4: saying it's true. Right, and it's over. And maybe you

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Speaker 4: can be mad at them. If you fell for it

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Speaker 4: fell forward as a prejudicial you don't fall for something.

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Speaker 2: It's not on you.

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Speaker 4: If somebody you trust lies to you, that's not your fault.

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Speaker 4: You're not a dupe or week or any of those things.

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Speaker 4: You trusted somebody and they lied to you. You trusted

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Speaker 4: Now you know, I don't know what you.

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Speaker 2: Do with that, but right, right, yeah, gosh, dang it.

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Speaker 1: This thing has so many tentacles. I think one of

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Speaker 1: the more interesting aspects of this is that the sort

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Speaker 2: You know, fictions existed on the left very very close

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Speaker 1: But the Republican Party, for you know, try to be

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Speaker 1: of it. You know. I've been reading more about this

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Speaker 1: There's a term for it, pedo critical pedo theory. That's

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Speaker 2: That's the that's the markers of a hit song.

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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, all pop music now is completely

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Speaker 1: formulaa computer generator. They've realized what trips your triggers. This

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Speaker 4: We're working up to the latest polling which will show

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Speaker 4: you if your attitude is where most of Americas is.

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Speaker 4: We did get this text yesterday just to represent a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not, and never would. That's the point.

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Speaker 4: I would be calling for the death penalty for all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what again, Charlie Kirkin turning point, USA

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of certain people I've known who have

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Speaker 1: But they've done some fabulous things, giving conservative kids, young

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Speaker 4: Two things that get conflated a lot, which I think

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Speaker 4: Is there an Epstein file, Well, of course there is.

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Speaker 4: There was an investigation, So there's a file showing an

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Speaker 4: According to people inside and outside and people leaking and

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Speaker 4: everything else. But people conflate those two regularly. They said

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Speaker 4: where's the list? Well, those two different things.

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Speaker 1: If you're not being charged and you just happen to

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Speaker 4: But when you're firing people up about a list, you mean,

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Speaker 4: is there a list of clients? And the listing, you know,

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Speaker 4: is proof of blackmail for child molestation, right, and the

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Speaker 4: blackmail and all that. So here's the polling from Morning consult,

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Speaker 4: a respected polling organization, the statement there's no evidence of

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Speaker 4: a client list or blackmail scheme involving Epstein and prominent people.

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Speaker 4: The plurality the biggest number no, at fifty one percent

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Speaker 4: Only twenty five percent of people say no, There isn't

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Speaker 4: it's sixty percent of Democrats think there's a list, which

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Speaker 4: And sixty percent of Democrats think there is a blackmail

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Speaker 4: to it, right. But overall, it's half of America now

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Speaker 4: But the biggest chunk of people, and again you break

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Speaker 4: like if he was killed, it's the Democrats that did it. Right,

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Speaker 4: the jokes about Hillary Clinton's sensible shoes click clacking away

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Speaker 4: But that's the biggest chunk that believes he didn't commit suicide. Democrats.

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Speaker 4: Half of Democrats think he did not commit suicide.

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Speaker 1: Right, Virtually all of the big names you ever hear

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Speaker 1: So yeah, this again, I'm completely befuddled. And only thirty.

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Speaker 4: Seven percent are Republicans think he commit didn't commit suicide.

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Speaker 4: So it doesn't fit with the narrative of everything we're

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Speaker 4: hearing the last couple of times, right, except that shouldn't

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Speaker 4: Trump be in shouldn't Trump be talking about all the

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Speaker 1: Yes, one hundred percent, And shouldn't be addressing his followers

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Speaker 2: Why would he?

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Speaker 1: Again? I get his frustration, but it was dumb politics.

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Speaker 1: So what I was about to say was the thing

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Speaker 1: just a mosaic of completely unrelated grievance groups that have said,

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Speaker 1: about mine, okay, And we're all borderline Marxists, so everybody

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Speaker 1: knows that that's a patchwork. But within conservatism, within the

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Speaker 4: Here's the story for you will get to do. You

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Speaker 4: What's your favorite Steve Miller band song? Had to beat

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Speaker 4: We hope to see you again. Wishing you peace, love

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Speaker 1: very very little. Supplying eighty percent of the world's primary energy, coal, oil,

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Speaker 1: and natural gas make up the lifeblood of modern civilization.

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Speaker 1: They power everything that's not electrical, and so it's just

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Speaker 1: a myth that if we can go green on the

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Speaker 1: electric grid, we will have won the battle and we

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Speaker 1: can eliminate fossil fuels. It's not even close. It's a tiny,

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Speaker 1: tiny fraction. And then let's see who is this VJ

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Speaker 1: jaijiraal Giraj writes, consensus on climate change is become a

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Speaker 1: form of bullying, intimidation, and censorship. Katie rites, which is

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Speaker 1: exactly what Julie from Canada tried to do. A blah

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Speaker 1: blah bah. It's been used to bludget and attack the

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Speaker 1: character of anyone who questions the very shallow claims. It

448
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Speaker 1: is a cult completely forced from science and reality. And

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Speaker 1: the larger problem with these climate change cultists is they

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Speaker 1: lack humility and any interest in self reflection. And it

451
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Speaker 1: goes into a great deal of detail on that and

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Speaker 1: how it's an excuse just to control things, which is

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Speaker 1: usually what the left wants to do. But they're one

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Speaker 1: other update. This is also in the Californian Globe, written

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Speaker 1: by somebody else. You know California's vaunted famous cap and

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Speaker 1: trade program where corporations have to pay for the right

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Speaker 1: to pollute, and if some other company isn't polluting, they

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Speaker 1: can sell their shares on the free market cap and

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Speaker 1: trade program, and that is going to take care of

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Speaker 1: climate change and also raise a bunch of money for California. Well,

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Speaker 1: it reminds me of that internet meme. How it started,

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Speaker 1: how it's going. So there's an auction every year, and

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Speaker 1: in past years the state has actually turned a profit

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Speaker 1: with these auctions, offset with business revenue. Ten years ago,

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Speaker 1: the state made one and a half billion dollars with

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Speaker 1: cap and trade auctions. But the market for it has

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Speaker 1: gone down, down, down, as fewer and fewer companies are

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Speaker 1: interested in participating in it, and California is going to

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Speaker 1: lose three billion dollars a year starting this year on

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Speaker 1: the cap and trade auctions. It's it's a miserable failure.

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Speaker 1: Hasn't worked.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever when you bought an airline ticket checked

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Speaker 4: that box where you like, donate some money to offset

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Speaker 4: your carbon footprint?

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Speaker 2: Who are you talking to You must not be talking

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Speaker 2: to me. How many people do that? And have I

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Speaker 2: No, I will not do that. Oh my god, amazing.

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Speaker 4: So why don't you jump on your big jet airliner

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Speaker 4: fly like an eagle, you joker, take the money and

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509
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Speaker 4: What do you think they're doing with that money, you joker? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's hilarious. It kind of makes me sad that a

512
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Speaker 4: lot of things make me sad with the modern world

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Speaker 4: in the Internet.

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Speaker 1: But it used to be I didn't know a damn

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Speaker 1: thing about what Steve Miller thought. Any of my musical heroes,

516
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Speaker 1: you can guess, like between the lines of the lyrics.

517
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Speaker 1: Maybe they do an interview with the Rolling Stone and

518
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Speaker 1: they say something. But you know they're smart, they're savvy there,

519
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Speaker 1: not going to lecture people about who ought to be

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Speaker 1: in Congress. Why would I do that. It's getting in

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Speaker 1: the way of my thing. Uh.

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Speaker 4: One of the best developments to happen yet between the

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Speaker 4: United States and Ukraine. Absolutely, I don't see how you

525
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Speaker 4: could argue with this thing that Trump and Zolensky are

526
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Speaker 4: trying to get a deal going. If this is true,

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Speaker 4: stay with us.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong Hetty.

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Speaker 5: Doctor say gaming for older Americans has benefits, allowing them

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Speaker 5: to use the brain, stay engaged, and maintain cognition. Research

532
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Speaker 5: shows puzzles, Skill and Chance, and arcade video games are

533
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Speaker 5: the most popular with older players.

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Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about video games for old people to

535
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Speaker 2: help their minds stay engaged. Yeah, Yeah, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I heard gaming and I thought gambling, because the gambling

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Speaker 1: industry is tried to rename it gaming because it sounds better.

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Speaker 4: I guess because I have teenagers, I hear gaming and

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Speaker 4: I think Call of Duty. Yeah, which, speaking of just

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Speaker 4: came across is this stat Thanks to our friend Tim

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Speaker 4: Sanderfer who tweeted it out, gamers specifically playing Call of

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Speaker 4: Duty have logged more than twenty five billion hours since

543
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Speaker 4: it first came out, equivalent to two point eight five

544
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Speaker 4: million years, surpassing the entire timeline of human history.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Meanwhile, a few of those people, well, you know

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Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, a few of the people

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Speaker 1: have actually answered a call to duty, although I'll bet

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Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of our military guys play

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Speaker 1: those games in their free time.

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Speaker 2: Probably. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, we played a clip earlier of Shane Gillis, the comedian.

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Speaker 4: He hosted the sp Awards last night. He was the

554
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Speaker 4: MC and he had some funny stuff. We'll play have

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Speaker 4: more clips later, but one of his jokes that he

556
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Speaker 4: does in his stand up routine is how it's one

557
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Speaker 4: of his problems is like he really loves his girlfriend

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Speaker 4: and they have a great relationship, But as soon as

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Speaker 4: they're done having sex, he just wants her to leave,

560
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Speaker 4: and the crowd always groans and and he says, oh, yeah,

561
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Speaker 4: I'm the only guy that likes play an Xbox alone,

562
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Speaker 4: and then all the dudes cheer. I guess that is

563
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Speaker 4: a thing, play an Xbox alone by yourself. I'm I

564
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Speaker 4: got one kid who loves video games and one that

565
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Speaker 4: doesn't like them at all, for better or worse. So

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Speaker 4: another thing you can do that's supposed to be helpful

567
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Speaker 4: is journaling.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever journaled consistently for a couple of months?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Really? And and why did you do it? When you

571
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Speaker 2: did it years and years ago?

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Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be delivering my drivel

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Speaker 1: in print as opposed to verbally for a living.

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Speaker 2: And you just trying to write more good practice?

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Speaker 4: Okay, interesting, Yeah, it's a lot of people claim it's

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Speaker 4: good for your mental health, get thoughts out of your

577
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Speaker 4: head or whatever. New York Times has a thing today

578
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Speaker 4: how to start journaling and actually stick with it, and

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Speaker 4: it's setting goals and all these different things. I'm still

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Speaker 4: very interested in whether handwriting is necessary for this stuff

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Speaker 4: or if typing counts. This particular person in the New

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Speaker 4: York Times says just do whatever, it doesn't make any difference,

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Speaker 4: and I'm not sure that's true.

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Speaker 1: Well, given the fascinating discoveries scientists have made about the

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Speaker 1: way handwriting connects various centers in your brain and gets

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Speaker 1: them to work in concert, it's really intriguing and discouraging.

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Speaker 1: Since I'm left handed and I despise handwriting.

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Speaker 4: But one of the things I want to bring up

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Speaker 4: about handwriting somebody mentioned this to me. Well, I had

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Speaker 4: noticed this in myself, but just kind of blown it off.

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Speaker 2: I thought maybe it was age or something.

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Speaker 4: I got to write, which I very rarely do, like

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Speaker 4: I fill it out a check or whatever. My handwriting

594
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Speaker 4: is so horrible, and I didn't know if it was

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Speaker 4: just age or like I need a new pen or what.

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Speaker 4: But somebody had pointed out to me that they thought

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Speaker 4: they had gotten real their handwriting had gotten really bad,

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Speaker 4: worse just from lack of doing it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's it.

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Speaker 2: You're out of I'm out of practice.

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Speaker 4: I haven't I haven't written regularly in decades, and so

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Speaker 4: I go to do it now and I look like

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Speaker 4: a third grader. That wasn't that bad when I was

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Speaker 4: in third grade. But man, I am now. It's just

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Speaker 4: it looks like there's no way an adult wrote.

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Speaker 1: This check third grader or a maniac exactly the pinched,

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Speaker 1: angry handwriting of the maniac. We've received those letters back

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Speaker 1: when we used to get letters.

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Speaker 4: I know how you're going to react to this. I

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Speaker 4: had a teacher who I really really like say the

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Speaker 4: other day and I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 4: Well, I won't say this particular student doesn't spell well

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Speaker 4: and it's not their fault, but they can't spell. And

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Speaker 4: the teacher said, doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. I don't

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Speaker 4: care about spelling anymore. That's never going to be a

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Speaker 4: thing again. You just got to get close and the

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Speaker 4: computer tells you you fix it, and you move on.

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Speaker 4: So I don't drill spelling anymore. Do you think that

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Speaker 4: makes sense or not?

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Speaker 1: No? No, because you the various autocorrect stuff is cumbersome. Well,

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Speaker 1: and I don't as certain autocorrects are pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: It depends what platform you're using.

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Speaker 1: It's I tell you what if somebody really struggled with

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Speaker 1: spelling and it would take an enormous amount of time

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Speaker 1: and energy to get them up to speed. No, I

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Speaker 1: probably wouldn't devote that time and energy. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a real time saver to be a good speller. But

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Speaker 1: I see their point. You know what's funny is I

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Speaker 1: mentioned I'm a lefty, and and I always reacted horribly

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Speaker 1: to stories of back in the day parents would force

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Speaker 1: their kids to write right handed. They'd even, like, you

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Speaker 1: know whatever, put a mitten on the left hand and

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Speaker 1: make them right handed, or you know. Certainly I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be in favor of beating a kid or whatever. But

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Speaker 1: recently I've been on this kick of I will occasionally

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Speaker 1: because I do things I'm partially I'm ambidextrous. It's practically

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Speaker 1: at random what I do with my right hand what

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Speaker 1: I do with my left, and I will occasionally realize, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's funny, I use my right hand for that. I'm

641
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Speaker 1: going to try it left handed for a week, and

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Speaker 1: so I'll try to do that because I've heard that's

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Speaker 1: good for the brain too.

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Speaker 4: I've interesting new corrections, and I've never tried to do

645
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Speaker 4: things left handed. Maybe I will, but I got I

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Speaker 4: got really good.

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Speaker 1: I got pretty damn good at brushing my teeth with

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Speaker 1: the opposite hand.

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Speaker 2: And I thought, you know, what.

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Speaker 1: Writing right handed is much more efficient than left handed,

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Speaker 1: and if I put a little time into it, I

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Speaker 1: can learn to do that. As a kid, it would

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Speaker 1: have been, you know, a little more difficult than learning

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Speaker 1: to write left handed, which was what my brain wanted.

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Speaker 2: But it would have been fine.

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Speaker 4: I'll try brushing my teeth with my left hand a nine.

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Speaker 4: See if I or a Saturday. I brushed my teeth

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Speaker 4: every Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Fair warning, you will jab yourself in the gums, right

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Speaker 1: in the eye. Brush it.

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Speaker 2: Well, that happened too.

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Speaker 1: I have had the thing come out of my mouth

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Speaker 1: and smeared toothpaste toothpaste all over my cheek.

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Speaker 2: It's funny.

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Speaker 4: Gently gently Trump's making a deal with Zelensky that I

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Speaker 4: think everybody will be on board with, no matter how

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Speaker 4: interventionists or non interventionous you are. That's that I'm pretty

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