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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.

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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and.

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Speaker 3: Jettating and Arms range.

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Speaker 1: Live from studio see signor a diddly lit room deep

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Speaker 1: in them the bowels of.

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Speaker 3: The Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Word that Mike came up in the Diddy trial. I

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Speaker 1: probably will what now vowels there's some ball or some

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Speaker 1: awful lives. There's some awful words being thrown around in

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Speaker 1: the Diddy trial. I wouldn't be surprised that that word

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Speaker 1: doesn't come up at.

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Speaker 2: Some golly gee, hope not.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we were under the tutelage of our general manager.

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Speaker 3: Arabs bearing gifts.

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Speaker 2: I remember when I was a kid, I heard the

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Speaker 2: saying you wear Greeks bearing gifts or somebody bearing gifts.

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Speaker 2: It was kind of your old timey.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know, if somebody comes at you say, I'd just

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Speaker 2: like to give you a little gift, little token of

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Speaker 2: my affection. There's a string attached. There's something going on.

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Speaker 2: All the Arab governments are coming at Trump with gifts,

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Speaker 2: and I'm wary.

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Speaker 1: So how about the New York Times. I was just

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Speaker 1: reading it as I was coming up in the elevator.

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Speaker 1: They did a good job of laying out the whole

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden had promised MBS in Saudi Arabia would be

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Speaker 1: a pariah on the world stage after the bone sawing

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Speaker 1: of Kushogi. Then gas got real high and we decided

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Speaker 1: we need your help. So Biden went over there to

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Speaker 1: meet him and beg for help. Fist bumped him. Now

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Speaker 1: we're fully on back with Trump getting the red carpet

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Speaker 1: tree Minton right and the handshakes and hugs all around

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Speaker 1: and everything like that. So so much for the pariah

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Speaker 1: state that didn't last long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was just an incredibly undisciplined thing to say,

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Speaker 2: which is you know Biden's deal. Look, nobody's in favor

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Speaker 2: of bone sawing journalists who are dissidents of Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not many people are in favor of it.

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Speaker 2: But in geopolitics, a guy is not a basis for

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Speaker 2: severing an important relationship, even if it's an unsavory friend

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Speaker 2: of me weird relationship. Anyway, Biden was a Seena idiot

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Speaker 2: back to you. So, so Trump's there and getting the

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Speaker 2: full on I'm a king, You're a king. Treatment And

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Speaker 2: I was just listening to the Fox Report on how

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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia has got a project twenty thirty that they're

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Speaker 2: spending unimaginable amounts of money on it, especially for a

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Speaker 2: country that size. They want to be the most technologically

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Speaker 2: advanced place on Earth by twenty thirty, particularly around Ai

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Speaker 2: and green that all the world. That will be the

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Speaker 2: capital of the world if you're going to as a

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Speaker 2: country or a business for you know, investments, or where

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Speaker 2: all we're all where everybody who's anybody hangs out and

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Speaker 2: that's where the deals are made. That's what they want

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Speaker 2: to Yeah, well, and.

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Speaker 3: They might pull that off. Well.

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Speaker 1: Well, meanwhile, out in the you know, one hundred miles

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Speaker 1: outside of town, you got a bunch of camel humper

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Speaker 1: and fundamentalist Muslims who want to saw off NBS's head.

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Speaker 2: But right sure, yeah, and are belly kept under wraps

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Speaker 2: by the regime through bribery and threats. Yeah, boy, the

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Speaker 2: whole we want to be the world's biggest on AI. Thing.

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Speaker 2: That seems promising to me, But the isn't the bloom

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Speaker 1: I think they're I think they've missed. I think they

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Speaker 1: missed the reality of that one.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps, Yeah, I mean the Euros are still making all

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Speaker 2: sorts of noises and driving tight at right.

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Speaker 3: That's what that is. That's to get the whole euro crowd.

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Speaker 2: But friends, the populist right is on the rise fast

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Speaker 2: in Europe. And one of the things they're just I

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Speaker 2: think a little behind the US in that the populace

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Speaker 2: is going to say, we're paying enormous amounts and having

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Speaker 2: terrible damage done to our standard of living to realize

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Speaker 2: these fanciful green energy goals.

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't make a difference.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, So, uh, can we change?

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Speaker 3: Please? That's common trust me.

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Speaker 1: I'm all for living in reality. Uh, you got to

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Speaker 1: what other choice do you have? But man, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at the video of NBS and Trump walking through that palace,

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Speaker 1: and I mean, it's just so, you know, you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't think that could still exist on planet Earth.

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Speaker 2: But it does because they were the fist camel herders

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Speaker 2: back in the day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred and fifty years ago.

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Speaker 2: First to sign a big contract with the the Aramco,

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Speaker 2: the big oil company FDR. I don't know, you know

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Speaker 2: more about the history so out of Arabia in ninety.

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Speaker 1: I think FDR in the original house Asad is when

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Speaker 1: it started with this particular family. But it is something

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Speaker 1: that continues to be a thing. And you know, we're

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Speaker 1: as powerful as we are, we still got to deal

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Speaker 1: with them. They got a lot of oil, they got

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 1: H Meanwhile, is Putin and earned Zolensky are they're gonna

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Speaker 1: show up on Thursday to that meeting.

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Speaker 3: I think that's an exciting story.

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Speaker 1: Haven't heard anything lately of you, Well, Zelenski's still saying

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Speaker 1: he's gonna show. There hasn't been a word out of

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Speaker 1: Russia about it was his idea, Hey, Putin, it was

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Speaker 1: your idea, dude. You're the one who said you wanted

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Speaker 1: a meeting. He said okay, and then you haven't said

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Speaker 1: a word. What's going on there? The old tricker room,

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Speaker 1: you'ld switch a room, the old bait and switch.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's one of those. Certainly. Yeah, I still am

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Speaker 2: highly skeptical that it will happen. I think Putin may

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Speaker 2: have written a check for more what do they have

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Speaker 2: over rubles than his his mouth can cash or something

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Speaker 3: And then so it's the old switcher roo. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And how much time should we be spending on the

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Speaker 1: qataris give Trump a plane story that for much of

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Speaker 1: the mainstream media is a very big gift.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's not a good idea, it's a

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Speaker 2: bad idea, but I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Said yesterday, who turns down a gift? Who turns down

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Speaker 1: a free plane?

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Speaker 3: Who would do that? That's what Trump said yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know what, I've got a great example

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Speaker 2: of that, A fabulous example of that. Would you like

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Speaker 2: to hear it? Yes, you would. He's taking a drink

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Speaker 2: of water. I'll answer for you. In certain highly dysfunctional families,

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Speaker 2: sometimes gifts come from a controlling parent, and you know

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Speaker 2: there'll be strings attached and hell to pay and guilt

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Speaker 2: designed and the rest of it. You turn down a

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Speaker 2: gift when you know this is going to ensnare me

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Speaker 2: and do something unsavory and that's the quitar is evil folks.

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Speaker 1: Well, is there a chance Trump thinks you think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna ensnare me into something? I'm gonna take your plane?

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Speaker 1: You ain't getting nothing from me? Sure, yeah, yep, that's possible.

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Speaker 3: I was listening to the.

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Speaker 1: Just from a technological standpoint, the how would you take

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Speaker 1: that plane apart to make sure there's not you know,

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Speaker 1: any sort of like listening device or tracking device or

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Speaker 1: you know, stores data somehow you how would you do that?

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Speaker 1: You'd have to take it completely apart, wouldn't you? Like

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Speaker 1: every joy goodness goodness knows.

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Speaker 2: I am not up on the state of the art

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Speaker 2: of listening device, sweeping and surveillance equipment, you know, a detection.

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Speaker 2: But could there be anything more complex and difficult search

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Speaker 2: than a zillion dollar wildly tricked out seven forty seven

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Speaker 2: I mean, great, Scott, It's got miles and miles, hundreds

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Speaker 2: of miles probably of wiring, right for instance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, every tiny little piece of metal could be something.

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Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, and to be tricked out to be

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Speaker 2: Air Force one. It has astounding capabilities of you know,

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Speaker 2: evasion and self defense and communications and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't just take the plane from the Qataris

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Speaker 1: and then say, oh cool, there's a USB plug in

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Speaker 1: here right next to my chair.

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Speaker 2: I'll plug my phone in and charge it. Mean he

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Speaker 2: could work like that. Yeah, I would love to hear

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Speaker 2: from somebody. I wonder if we could seek out a guest.

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Speaker 2: What is the state of the art in A hiding

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Speaker 2: and B detecting the sort of surveillance devices that we're

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Speaker 2: talking about here. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know either.

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Speaker 1: We should start the show officially before we get in trouble.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe getting on. This is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: May the thirteenth.

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Speaker 2: We need a plane, the A and G force one cool,

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Speaker 2: probably Ford, a little Cessna. Don't need as much gold

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Speaker 2: then these work missing one wing. The Saudis like their goal.

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Speaker 3: They gold.

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Speaker 1: They got the same sort of decoration thing going as

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Speaker 1: Trump does. It looks like a Trump property, that big

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Speaker 1: Saudi building they're in right now. I'm looking at it.

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Speaker 1: So what is it about certain mindsets that really like

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Speaker 3: I don't know what that is exactly. It's not my tastes.

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Speaker 1: Particularly, they're twenty twenty five Armstrong in getting we approve

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Speaker 1: of this program. You're more a chandelier fashioned out of

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Speaker 1: a wagon wheel type con exactly.

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Speaker 2: Handler's yeah, all right, let's beg in the show now. Officially,

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Speaker 2: according to the FCC Rules of Regulations, here we go

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Speaker 2: at mark.

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Speaker 4: Their economic plans are really focused on how do we

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Speaker 4: keep the Chinese Communist Party in power? How do we

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Speaker 4: keep people employed, how do we keep people happy so

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Speaker 4: that their regene can stay in place? That they're economic goals.

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Speaker 4: They're just different than ours in the West, and we

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Speaker 4: have to figure out a way how to fit us.

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Speaker 4: We're peg into a round circle, if that's possible.

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Speaker 2: So true came across a great piece by one of

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Speaker 2: America's favorite business thinkers about how rotten China is to

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Speaker 2: deal with. Our theme seems to be frenemies this morning today,

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Speaker 2: because China is the weirdest sort of frenemy that I've

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Speaker 1: I think I'm going to be dead soon, so I

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Speaker 1: feel like I should say everything I've ever wanted to say,

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Speaker 1: oh good about any topic. I mean, I think I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be dead soon. Of the whooping cough. I didn't

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Speaker 1: mean oh good.

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Speaker 2: I meant that seems like an appropriate thing to do,

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Speaker 2: given your you know, hell love it.

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Speaker 3: You said, oh good, Yeah I did.

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Speaker 1: I meant to be supported, said I'm going to die,

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Speaker 1: and you said, oh good. I mean, go back to

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Speaker 1: the tape if you want to, perhaps you have something

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Speaker 1: you'd like to say about that, for instance. I meant

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Speaker 1: to be encouraging that. Oh you're going to say all

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Speaker 1: the things you want to say. Oh good, that was

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Speaker 1: my Oh good, there you go, Yes, express you to get.

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Speaker 3: It off your ches. That's the way I took it.

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Speaker 3: That's the way. Were good. Thank god. And we got

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Speaker 3: Katie's just don't croak. We got Katie's.

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Speaker 1: four one five two nine five k FTC. I noticed

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Speaker 3: So they're very excited about things. The turn. Everything is taken.

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Speaker 2: America's doll and pencil imports and continued now been reinvigorated.

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Speaker 2: Thank god. Hey, there's all sorts of stuff going on.

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Speaker 2: Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story

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Speaker 5: Inflation eased to a four year low in April as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't see any reason it shouldn't continue

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Speaker 5: From ABC, of course, you guys talked about Trump lens

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Speaker 5: From Fox News, Colorado Capital, female staffers fear retaliation after

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Speaker 2: They don't like it. Boiling that down if you're not

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Speaker 5: From Elephants to inline skates, a history of foreign gifts

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Speaker 2: Elephant wearing the inlinees case. Now you've got something exactly

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Speaker 3: Somebody gave Harding a roller skating.

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Speaker 5: Elephant from Axios.

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Speaker 5: From Axios exclusive. As new book says Biden Aids discussed

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Speaker 3: For high levels of fecal bacteria.

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Speaker 3: There you go, they're gonna give you pgs.

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Speaker 5: Caveon from study fines this ping pong playing robot can

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Speaker 2: That seems like a lot a ping pong robot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what have time to be alive? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: It keeps kicking your ass because it can hit the ball.

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Speaker 2: At your thirty one miles per hour.

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Speaker 3: You surely you would have settings.

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Speaker 1: You put that us, You put that on top of

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Speaker 1: a roller skating elephant, and your life is complete.

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Speaker 3: You've seen it all.

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Speaker 2: There, he's doing another lap around the studios.

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Speaker 5: From Newsweek, study warns that psychopaths are more attractive.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 5: Said something about someone who is a narcissist makes them

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Speaker 5: That's odd and finally from the Babylon be Trump accepts

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Speaker 1: I think they're trying to make a point there. Star

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Speaker 5: And it was Reagan that got the roller skating elephant,

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, just the elephant.

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Speaker 2: The podcast Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 6: I think Trump is setting up a two front strategy.

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Speaker 2: So Trump is on the road in the Middle East

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Speaker 2: To take a few minutes to kick the Kataris at

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Speaker 2: The second is a more practical concern. They change so much.

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Speaker 2: If you're some budget wonk policy wonk inside the Beltway

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Speaker 2: It's like I will talk about April baseball games with

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Speaker 2: the great editorialist welfare as we know it is back,

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Speaker 1: More on that another time. There's another heavy meet the

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Speaker 3: It's funny. I've never reacted that way to those stories,

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Speaker 2: we're getting closer to that in this country where people

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Speaker 2: think all my neighbors are scamming the system and they

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Speaker 2: have a better life than me. I'm getting in on it, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's that would be a bad tipping point. I don't

446
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Speaker 2: know if we're already at it, but anyway, I could

447
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Speaker 2: howl about the food stamps program and how it's feeding healthy,

448
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Speaker 2: working age people, but I'll move along.

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Speaker 1: If you're an a shame, That's what I've been talking

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Speaker 1: about forever. You should be ashamed of yourself if you're

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Speaker 1: grabbing food stamps and you're an able bodied man, ashamed

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Speaker 1: of yourself.

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Speaker 2: Shamed ring a bell baby, show it out.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: This editorial have medicaid courage Republicans. The politics of reform

456
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Speaker 2: isn't nearly as dangerous as some of them think. And

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Speaker 2: again they point out that the Feds currently pick up

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Speaker 2: ninety percent of the bill for able bodied adults eligible

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Speaker 2: under the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare's expansion, but the federal

460
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Speaker 2: share is a tiny fraction of that for like a pregnant,

461
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Speaker 2: poverty stricken lady. So Obamacare distorted what medicaid is wildly.

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Speaker 2: And then the states play these games, and I wish,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's part of me that would like to

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Speaker 2: describe them to you, because you get an idea of

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Speaker 2: how crooked our system is. But like the states, they

466
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Speaker 2: put all these people on Medicaid, and then they charge

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Speaker 2: these taxes to hospitals and healthcare providers that then beefs

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Speaker 2: up how much money the state is spending. But then

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Speaker 2: they get that back from the Fed, and then they

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Speaker 2: give it back to the hospitals who know what's going

471
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Speaker 2: on and wink and nod because it's all induced to

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Speaker 2: get more federal money going. It's it's just a you

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Speaker 2: want to talk about corruption, good lord, And the Wall

474
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Speaker 2: Street journal is trying to convince the Republicans, guys, you

475
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Speaker 2: gotta do something about this, but the Republicans are afraid anyway.

476
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Speaker 2: That brings us to the main point, which is a

477
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Speaker 2: piece by Ron Johnson, the ugly truth.

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Speaker 3: About the big beautiful bill.

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Speaker 2: Year after year, I'm sorry, years after COVID, the overspending

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Speaker 2: continues even with the Republican Congress. The one big beautiful

481
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Speaker 2: bill the Congress is working on is certainly big, but

482
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Speaker 2: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Too often,

483
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Speaker 2: the reality these budget debates gets obscured in details, politically

484
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Speaker 2: charged issues in demagogurey. Let me attempt to clarify the

485
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Speaker 2: current discussion by focusing on the most important facts in numbers.

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Speaker 2: In fiscal twenty nineteen, federal outlays total four point four

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Speaker 2: to five trillion, or almost twenty one percent of gross

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Speaker 2: domestic product. This year, according to the CBO's report, total

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Speaker 2: outlays will.

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Speaker 3: Be seven point oh three trillion.

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Speaker 2: Why that's more than two and a half trillion dollars

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Speaker 2: more than twenty nineteen, a growth of almost fifty percent,

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Speaker 2: and gone from almost twenty one percent of gross domestic

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Speaker 2: product to over twenty three percent of it. That's a

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Speaker 2: fifty eight percent increase over six years.

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Speaker 3: Well, the country doubled in size, so good lord.

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Speaker 2: The CBO projects federal outlays will total There are so

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Speaker 2: many numbers here, here's where we get into the glazing eyes.

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Speaker 3: But this is important.

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Speaker 2: The CBO projects federal outlays will total eighty nine trillion

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Speaker 2: dollars across fiscal twenty six to thirty five. Much of

502
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Speaker 2: the blame goes to pandemic spending, but lockdowns are long over.

503
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Speaker 2: There's nothing now to justify this abnormal level of government spending. Pathetically,

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Speaker 2: Congress is having a hard time agreeing on a reduction

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Speaker 2: of even one and a half trillion dollars from that

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Speaker 2: ten year amount. That's a one point six to eight

507
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Speaker 2: percent cut, a little more than a rounding error. My

508
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Speaker 2: guess is that much of that minuscule decrease will be

509
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Speaker 2: backloaded to the end of the ten years for which

510
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Speaker 2: Congress is now budgeting, increasing the probability that those savings

511
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Speaker 2: will never be realized. There are a handful of Ron

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Speaker 2: Johnson's and Chip Roy's and guys like that who are

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Speaker 2: being pushed to the edges of the Republican Party. And

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Speaker 2: I think they ought to be our heroes. I think

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Speaker 2: they ought to be the guiding lights the north stars,

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Speaker 2: and I just am starting to lose hope.

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Speaker 1: Well, how would you not, I mean, from twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: to this year, We've gone from four point four or

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Speaker 1: five trillion to seven point h three trillion with roughly

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Speaker 1: the same population of people. So I mean, explain why

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Speaker 1: that's necessary.

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Speaker 2: Well, right, And once the program has started, it just

523
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Speaker 2: doesn't go away because they're cutting look ato one armed

524
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Speaker 2: dimish farmers, the a that they depend on to feed

525
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Speaker 2: their children. I mean, it's just it's so nakedly obvious

526
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 2: a scam that DC wants more power, which means more money.

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Speaker 2: They will come up with any rationale for it. They

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Speaker 2: will call a giant green energy new Deal, the Inflation

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Speaker 2: Reduction Act, and guff faw as it echoes down the

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Speaker 2: halls of Congress, just the laughter. And then because it

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Speaker 2: appeared once upon a time, those those spending levels must continue.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise you're you're yanking chicken soap out of the mouth

533
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Speaker 2: of blind little girls in America votes for it. So

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Speaker 2: I know, I give up a monarchy now.

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Speaker 3: You know what?

536
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Speaker 2: You know what Trump is over there in the Middle

537
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Speaker 2: East is learning how monarchies work, because that's.

538
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Speaker 3: Our only hope.

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Speaker 1: And neither party even pretends anymore to care really, and

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Speaker 1: and the public demands that one dollar ninety cents worth

541
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Speaker 1: of government for the price of a dollar and is

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Speaker 1: willing to borrow against it. Yeah, it's it's a it's frustrating, it's.

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Speaker 2: Very very Has anybody still got their tea party hats

544
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Speaker 2: and T shirts and placards and stuff? Can we fire

545
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Speaker 2: that up again? And then the media will say it's

546
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: about race again. That'll be tougher to call. Well, it's

547
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Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffries is the minority leader of the House and

548
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Speaker 2: these crazy white people.

549
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 3: Are against him, so clearly it's racism.

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Speaker 1: If you're an NBA fan, everything changed last night. Jason Tatum,

551
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: one of the best players in the league from the

552
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: defending champs, went down. He may never play again, certainly

553
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Speaker 1: probably not going to play next year, let alone this year.

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Speaker 1: So everything's up in the air in the NBA right now.

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Speaker 2: That's the Dallas Mavericks, who made what may be the

556
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Speaker 2: worst trade in the history of sports, got bailed out

557
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: by an incredibly unlikely pulling of the ping pong ball,

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Speaker 2: and they get the number one pick in the draft

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Speaker 2: and get that gifted bmth from.

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Speaker 3: Duke Yeah yeah, what's his face? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: God, I can't imagine what it's like to be twenty

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Speaker 1: seven years old in the peak of your career. I

563
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Speaker 1: meany you're young, godly rich, but then to have an

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Speaker 1: injury that might all be over, that'd be hard to

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Speaker 1: wrap around your head.

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Speaker 3: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's a wide open season, now, wide open playoffs. Now

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Speaker 1: we got mail bag on the way. Hope you can

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Speaker 1: stay here. One of the Shark Tank guys takes his

570
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Speaker 1: puts both fists. I'm sorry, I'm trying to read and

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Speaker 1: talk at the same time.

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Speaker 2: One of the Shark Tank guys beats the hell out

573
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Speaker 2: of China for the trade policies and says they're the

574
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 2: tariffs against them ought to be four hundred percent plus.

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Speaker 2: Cutter is trying to win the hearts and minds of

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Speaker 2: your children by turning them into Islamists. So more on

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Speaker 2: that to come next hour. I hope you can stay around. First,

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Speaker 2: your freedom loving quote of the day. I absolutely love

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Speaker 2: this from legendary sci fi author Robert Heinlein, who I

580
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Speaker 2: read avidly as a youth. I am free because I

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Speaker 2: know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

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Speaker 2: I am free no matter what rules surround me. If

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Speaker 2: I find them tolerable, I tolerate them. If I find

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Speaker 2: them too obnoxious, I break them. I'm free because I

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Speaker 2: know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

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Speaker 2: Like that, just have to be willing to take the repercussions.

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Speaker 2: As we've discussed many times, the brave little would be

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00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 2: Chay Guavera's at our nation's universities who like to chant

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Speaker 2: and commit nets of civil disobedience and vandalize and block

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00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: Jewish students from going to class. Then when you arrest them,

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Speaker 2: they squeal like hurt little children, say you're hurting my wrists. Mommy, mommy.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Oh, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 2: Mailbag perups note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.

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Speaker 3: I want to get this one in from Poolo.

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Speaker 2: Guys, you're talking about is there some sort of unified

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Speaker 2: explanation for all that troubles us these days? We're talking about,

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Speaker 2: you know, whether it's anxiety and depression and weird sexual

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00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: stuff and incumbents being thrown out of office and the established

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Speaker 2: political parties losing power and just there seems to be

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Speaker 2: a global angst and dissatisfaction anyway, Powell says.

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Speaker 3: Polo says, I.

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Speaker 2: Honestly don't know what it is, but I always enjoy

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Speaker 2: theorizing i e.

606
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Speaker 3: Making stuff up.

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Speaker 2: So I think we're changing our environment much faster, and

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Speaker 2: we're able to change ourselves right now. I don't think

609
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Speaker 2: any species has ever done that. If humans expect to

610
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Speaker 2: live satisfying lives into the future, we'll need to radically

611
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Speaker 2: modify what it is that gives meaning and satisfaction to

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Speaker 2: our lives. For example, much, if not all, of the

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Speaker 2: work we do now will eventually become unnecessary. That should

614
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 2: be a good thing, not a bad thing. The reason

615
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 2: we get satisfaction from doing work is that it's been

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Speaker 2: necessary for us to thrive. Feeling rewarded for doing that

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Speaker 2: work is an important survival mechanism. In the future, of

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Speaker 2: very different things will be important to us. It's up

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Speaker 2: to us to learn to derive the same or even

620
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Speaker 2: greater satisfaction from these new things. If we can't do that,

621
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Speaker 2: maybe the human race just doesn't cut out for the

622
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Speaker 2: long haul, and then we have, of course, Katie, the

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Speaker 2: planet of the beavers. Here's the problem, though, You can't

624
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Speaker 2: will yourself to have different fundamental primal urges. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're the beast that we are because of millions of

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Speaker 2: years of experience and evolution. I don't think you can

627
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Speaker 2: just will yourself as an average working guy or girl

628
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden not need a life of purpose

629
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Speaker 2: and just write like groovy poetry and lay around and

630
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 2: feel good about that and amuse yourself.

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Speaker 5: I feel like that's making an excuse for giving up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's well, yeah, but if there's no point

633
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Speaker 2: in working, there's no need to or what have you.

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Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah, Paolo, I wish you were right. I

635
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Speaker 2: wish you could will yourself to do that. Let's see,

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Speaker 2: you got this from Brad. Your coverage of the teriff

637
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 2: issues have been mostly terrible. You continue to not discuss

638
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 2: the impact of these tariffs on small business. The explains

639
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: how no small business can handle that kind of price

640
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: shock on stuff they've already ordered. In addition, lead times

641
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 2: are weeks and months.

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Speaker 1: These changes can't be fixed because Trump played golf is

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Speaker 1: chesion ping. These changes are devastating two thousands of business, says.

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Speaker 1: You always say you stand up for the little man,

645
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: but only the large corporations had any reasonable way to

646
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Speaker 1: mitigate these drives to consudden changes. Shame, shame, shame. He

647
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: hits us with a triple shame. I wrote back to him, We've.

648
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Speaker 2: Talked about that specific aspect of this many times. But

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Speaker 2: thanks for your hysterical shaming. Nonetheless, best wishous. Yeah, we've

650
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Speaker 2: talked about that a bunch.

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Speaker 5: I was just gonna say, you've covered the hell out

652
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Speaker 5: of that.

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Speaker 2: We've covered how tariffs become a cesspool of swampy lobbying, yea,

654
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Speaker 2: And how favorites get picked and winners and losers are

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Speaker 2: chosen by government and how that's that's awful in a

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Speaker 2: what ought to be a free ish market.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. But you know what, Brad, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe A, if you're gonna come at us with that

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Speaker 2: sort of you know, tears running down your cheeks shaming, A,

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Speaker 2: you got to listen to every minute of the show,

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Speaker 2: and B you've got to.

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Speaker 3: Like take detailed notes.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember what we talked about last hour, you know.

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Speaker 2: It's so yeah, Wow, ease up, brother, that was a beating. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he triple shamed us. Let's see. Kelly writes the plane

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