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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.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jack Katie and now he Armstrong and Yetty.

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Speaker 3: The two positions are still pretty far apart. Actually, the

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Speaker 3: Ukrainians have essentially signed on to a thirty day ceasefire

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Speaker 3: without any preconditions, whereas the Russians are saying they want

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Speaker 3: all the root causes, as they put it, that caused

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Speaker 3: the conflict with Ukraine to be sorted out before the

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Speaker 3: weapons are silenced. Now, one of the things that the

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Speaker 3: Krelin scoffed at was the idea of any sort of

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Speaker 3: Western peacekeepers on the ground in Ukraine to sort out

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Speaker 3: the fact and enforce any sort of cease fire, saying

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Speaker 3: that would create new root causes, as they put it.

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Speaker 2: As CNN's version of the.

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Speaker 4: Preview of the Trump Putin call, which is going on

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Speaker 4: as we speak right now, a bit of a messaging. Well,

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Speaker 4: let me hear what Peter Doocey says here from Fox

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Speaker 4: on the same story.

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Speaker 5: White House officials are disputing a report by Semaphore that

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Speaker 5: to seal a peace deal, President Trump could recognize CRIMEA

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Speaker 5: as Russian territory, and as E spokesman Brian Hughes tells Fox,

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Speaker 5: we have made no such commitments and we will not

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Speaker 5: negotiate this deal through the media. However, President Trump is

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Speaker 5: openly speculating about Ukrainian concessions.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we'll we'll be talking about land.

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Speaker 6: We're already talking about that, dividing up certain assets.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting that Fox positioned it that way, since

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Speaker 4: I read Ian Bremmer's tweet earlier, where Crimea is gone

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Speaker 4: and everybody knows it.

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Speaker 2: Even Zolensky knows that.

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Speaker 4: So positioning it as the White House pushing back on

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Speaker 4: stories that Trump might give up CRIMEA, Well, okay, Zelensky

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Speaker 4: knows he's going to give up CRIMEA. So don't act

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Speaker 4: like it's a big giveaway if Trump is on that.

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Speaker 1: All I can come up with is Trump is dangling

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Speaker 1: it as he is. Something he knows Putin must have.

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Speaker 1: Now it's just a question of terms of lad Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about how you get I'm fine with you get

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Speaker 1: in crime here, here's.

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Speaker 2: What it'll cost you.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that makes sense. There was a messaging problem yesterday,

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Speaker 4: as the White House spokesman, who I haven't memorized her name.

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Speaker 1: Yet Caroline Levett. Okay, a forceful young gal, isn't she.

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Speaker 4: She said, we're on the ten yard line of a

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Speaker 4: piece deal between Ukraine and Russia.

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Speaker 2: And then Marco.

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Speaker 4: Rubio, the secret of State, was asked about that and

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Speaker 4: he said, we're not even close to a piece deal,

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Speaker 4: so not on the same page. Whoops, ten yard line

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Speaker 4: and not even closer, not the same thing. And which

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Speaker 4: the other headline? We're on the other ten yard line

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Speaker 4: where yeah, we just received the kickoff and we were

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Speaker 4: starting in our own tan, fumble.

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Speaker 2: It and had to go backward to pick it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody needs to specify which ten yard line? And here,

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Speaker 1: at least in her defense, Caroline Levitt is able to

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Speaker 1: speak the English language, unlike her predecessor.

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Speaker 4: And here's Trump talking about the phone call and what

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Speaker 4: they're trying to accomplish.

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Speaker 6: We're speaking with President Putin of Russia to save some

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Speaker 6: soldiers who are in deep trouble. They're captured, essentially, they're

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Speaker 6: surrounded by Russian soldiers. But it's a bad situation in Russia,

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Speaker 6: and it's a bad situation in Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: What's happening in Ukraine is not.

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Speaker 6: Good but we're going to see if we can work

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Speaker 6: to a peace agreement, to ceasefire and peace, and I

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Speaker 6: think we'll be able to do.

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Speaker 2: Your response to that, good luck.

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Speaker 4: If I'm putin, unless I have unless there's some internal

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Speaker 4: information where he's really struggling, and some people say that

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Speaker 4: the economy certainly is, he's lost a lot of soldiers.

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Speaker 4: But other than that, I'm thinking I'm winning. I'm taking

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Speaker 4: back land. The United States is pressuring them, not me.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see Putin saying why are we having

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Speaker 1: a ceasefire? I'm gaining ground every day and I've got

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Speaker 1: plenty of North Korean machine gun fodder waiting to be

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Speaker 1: up with, back to your what sort of pressure is

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Speaker 1: he on? Under point is how much heat is he

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Speaker 1: getting from the oligarchs who are seeing their wealth and

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Speaker 1: their financial slash commercial connections around the world being shut off?

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Speaker 2: And right, I don't know that it's mysterious.

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Speaker 4: And is with any dictator, he has to worry about

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Speaker 4: the support of other powerful people who might at some

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Speaker 2: Person in charge. Right, that's always on the table when

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Speaker 2: you're a dictator. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Your network of support is pretty small, so more easily turned.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, it's tough to get a coup

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Speaker 1: going against the dictator, as everybody knows.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, brought you up to speed on that. We'll see

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Speaker 4: if any information leaks out from the phone call today.

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Speaker 1: I think it's impossible to make a prediction about how

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Speaker 1: it might come out. Oh really is no Speaking of

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Speaker 1: military action, this one a lot more easily understood. Donald

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Speaker 1: Jay has brought a completely new attitude toward dealing with

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Speaker 1: the Hohothies who have been firing with near impunity on

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Speaker 1: commercial and naval vessels, including ours now for months.

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Speaker 2: And months and months and months and months, and.

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Speaker 1: Watching the process of dealing with them under the weakest,

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Speaker 1: most pathetic senile US president history, Joe Biden. You'd have

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Speaker 1: thought that, well, there's nothing you could do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're just a medicine blah blah blah. Well Trump has said, no, no,

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Speaker 1: they're not much. As you know, the Biden administration said

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Speaker 1: the border is secure, as hundreds of thousands of people

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Speaker 1: were flowing in every month, and then it just stopped

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Speaker 1: under Trump. Trump is whooping the hell out of the

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Speaker 1: Hoothies and has promised them and their sponsors in Iran

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Speaker 1: that it's going to continue until they are subdued, unless

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Speaker 1: they subdue themselves willingly. And that's going to be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see unfold, said Marco Rubio. Willie essentially echoed what

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Speaker 1: Trump was saying, and he said that the strike should

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Speaker 1: be seen as the opening salvos of a sustained campaign.

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Speaker 2: Quote.

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Speaker 1: Some of the people involved in those missile launches are

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Speaker 1: no longer with us, and I can tell you that

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Speaker 1: some of the facilities that they used are no longer existing,

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Speaker 1: and that will continue. Instead of the idiotic Biden policy

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Speaker 1: of all right, missile launcher A launched a missile. It

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Speaker 1: almost hit our ship. We will take out missile launcher A.

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Speaker 1: Trump and Ruby are saying, no, how about we take

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Speaker 1: out all of your missile launchers.

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Speaker 2: Now, what are you going to do? Yeah? And the

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Speaker 2: interesting thing is on the two.

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Speaker 4: Aggressive social media posts that Trump has put out in

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Speaker 4: the recent days, he starts talking about the Houthis, then

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Speaker 4: toward to Iran. So on the Huthi one, he talks

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Speaker 4: about Houthis, you can't do this anymore overwhelming lethal force.

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Speaker 4: But then he says, then he addressed the militants in Iran.

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Speaker 4: Support for Huthi terrorists must end immediately, warning the government

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Speaker 4: in Tehran that America will hold you fully accountable and

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Speaker 2: Nice about it. So he went from Huthi's to Iran,

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Speaker 2: and then he did it again last night, every shot fired,

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Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah, talking about uh Hamas and

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Speaker 2: the Houthis, and then he gets to Iran again. Let

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Speaker 2: me find this, got it right in front of me, right,

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Speaker 2: at least I thought I did.

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Speaker 4: Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon

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Speaker 4: from this point ford as being a shot fired from

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Speaker 4: the weapons and leadership of Iran, and Iran will be

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Speaker 4: held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will

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Speaker 4: be dire. So it's all in the opposite way that

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Speaker 4: the Biden administration wanted to handle it, as you've been

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Speaker 4: playing out. They wanted to separate Iran and make it

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Speaker 4: just seem like a moss and hoothise and we're you

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Speaker 4: know how pinpricks here and there on those people.

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Speaker 2: We don't want to war with you. Iran.

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Speaker 4: Trump's going the other way, saying we'll go to war

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Speaker 1: At one point Biden himself admitted that the strikes had

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Speaker 1: not deterred the Houthies, but said.

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Speaker 2: We'll continue the same policy.

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Speaker 1: Nonetheless, they didn't want to escalate, and some people believe

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Speaker 1: that hits on the Houthies would inflame regional tensions and

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Speaker 2: And then the.

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Speaker 1: Second claim or the second argument against Trump right now is,

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Speaker 1: and I'm quoting what the Walston the National Review called

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Speaker 1: the vulgar Marxian analysis provided by Glenn Greenwald, quote, the

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Speaker 1: strikes are only a means by which the DC war

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Speaker 1: machine and ensures that its coffers are always full and

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Speaker 1: its own authority is always increasing. And these so cult

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Speaker 1: restrainers and the Trump's pentagon might agree with this this critique. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: global shipping has been held hostage by a bunch of scumbags,

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Speaker 1: all sorts of goods around the world. And Glenn, what

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Speaker 1: and an apology and maybe some flowers.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be interesting to watch how the politics

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Speaker 4: of this plays out, because Israel is the best friend

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Speaker 4: Trump is the best friend Israel they've ever had in

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Speaker 4: do what you got to do, which could lead to

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Speaker 4: confrontation with Iran obviously. And then we mentioned what Tucker

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Speaker 4: Carlson tweeted out yesterday that don't let the propagandists lie

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Speaker 4: to you. A bombing campaign will bring us into war

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Speaker 4: with Iran, thousands of dead US soldiers, billions of dollars loss.

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Speaker 4: So Tucker is really against getting into it with a

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Speaker 2: Fair amount of attention to the Tucker crowd. So I

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Speaker 2: don't know how.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how all those pieces are going to

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Speaker 1: I wonder does he pay attention to them as in

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Speaker 1: by them, really, I don't know. I don't know either.

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Speaker 1: If you know, let us know mail bagging, armstrung he eddio.

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Speaker 1: You don't know, so don't let him. Nobody knows.

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Speaker 4: This will be the most interesting presidency in US history

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Speaker 4: in terms of the history books, because nobody knows except

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Speaker 4: for Donald Trump's brain, because it's not like he's writing

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Speaker 4: this stuff down or you know, reading policy papers or whatever.

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Speaker 1: On a completely different note, in consumer news, countries that

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Speaker 1: had decided to go cash free have said, whoops, not

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Speaker 1: a good idea.

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Speaker 1: And you got a guy eating a rat on the

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Speaker 1: You watch commitedio uber news and that he's consuming a rat.

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Speaker 2: You watch the video. I want a full team coverage

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Speaker 2: of that boy. Do you carry cash around? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: some What do you think to write him out to

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Speaker 2: have for cash? Oh? It depends entirely on your financial state.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, does it. How often do you run

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Speaker 2: into a situation where you need cash? Not often?

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Speaker 2: Leaving cash.

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Speaker 1: Plus, I'd like to leave cash tips because then, you know,

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Speaker 2: You know what, Yes, a person should probably have you know,

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Speaker 1: Apple has put off its AI advances and stock has suffered.

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Speaker 2: Does it have greater significance than other than the video

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Speaker 2: Okay, stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 8: Forever twenty one is going out of business. The fashion

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't ever quite understand when big companies

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Speaker 1: Happy, right, yeah, yeah, everybody's miserable and angry at each

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's our moral overlord. What's going on there? Is

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Speaker 2: the person completely nuts that they convinced themselves that this

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Speaker 2: is different somehow? What is what is that?

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Speaker 1: I think she argued, just judging from some of the

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Speaker 1: statements made by her and her defense, that hey, look,

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Speaker 1: this is an incredible opportunity for this gal. I brought

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Speaker 1: her to the UK here habit a slave is really handy.

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Speaker 1: On top of that, you know what the justification boils

448
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Speaker 1: down to is indentured servitude. Look, I paid for her

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Speaker 1: to get over here. I feed and clothe her, give

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Speaker 1: her a place to stay. She owes me five years

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Speaker 1: of service, and we know she can't go find a

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Speaker 1: better job. She's my permanent employee, whether she likes it

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Speaker 1: or not. The term slave is so judgmental. I treat

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Speaker 1: her really nice. She just can't go anywhere. Do anything

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Speaker 1: I say is not okay. For several years, I'll beat her. Yes, anyway,

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Speaker 1: let's see moving along, just a little bingo bango bongo,

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Speaker 1: as we say, moving from story to story.

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Speaker 2: Worth you knowing about?

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Speaker 1: Really interesting analysis by Charles Lane about MAHA versus the

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Speaker 1: junk food lobby, the make America Healthy again folks versus

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Speaker 1: junk food and the most interesting part of that, God,

462
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Speaker 1: I gotta believe the junk food lobby has got a

463
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Speaker 1: lot of money.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh my gosh. Yeah, we're gonna get to that

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Speaker 2: in a second.

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Speaker 1: But obesity and its evil twin, diabetes are absolutely killing

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Speaker 1: American health.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. And both of those.

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Speaker 1: Ailments disproportionately afflict the poor, quoting mister Lane. Now, yet

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Speaker 1: for years, the federal government has been paying force. The

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Speaker 1: federal government has been paying Charles mm. Taxpayers have been

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Speaker 1: paying for soda, cookies, candy, and other nutritionally empty, obesity

473
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Speaker 1: engendering foods bya its main source of anti hunger aid

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Speaker 1: for low income people, the SNAP Program Supplemental Nutrition Assistance

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Speaker 1: Program previously known as food stamps. And anybody who tries

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Speaker 1: to limit or ban the use of SNAP benefits for

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Speaker 1: junk food gets hammered with accusations of being a racist

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Speaker 1: if it happens to be people of color, or let's

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Speaker 1: see what's the other this shame's the poor or violates

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Speaker 1: their freedom of choice, according to quote unquote activists. Well,

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Speaker 1: what's interesting about some of these activists is.

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Speaker 2: Who they are. There's a lot of money in play.

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Speaker 1: Based on the best available data, roughly one fifth one

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Speaker 1: fifth now of the ninety four billion dollars that SNAP

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Speaker 1: beneficiary spent in last year, or about nineteen billion dollars,

486
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Speaker 1: went towards sugary drinks, snack foods, and candy.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Now, a quarter of that nineteen billion dollars was spent

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Speaker 1: at Walmart based on a study of snap beneficiary shopping patterns.

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Speaker 1: Defenders of the status quot would have you believe that

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Speaker 1: banning candy again shames the poor.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: This is just another way to cut benefits, said Gina

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Speaker 1: Plato Nino Nino, deputy director of the DC nonprofit Food

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Speaker 1: Research and Action set her. It's like, how do we

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Speaker 1: restrict people more? How do we stigmatize them even more?

497
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Speaker 1: Listener bravely standing up for the right of poor people

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Speaker 1: to get obesity and diabetes on the tax period of time. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Food Research and Action Center that she works for,

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Speaker 1: the nonprofit, the chair Doubles is the chief food lobbyist

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Speaker 1: for Craft Times.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

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Speaker 1: Its funders include Walmart General Mills Kellogg. During the Biden administration,

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Speaker 1: the Department of Agriculture funded Frack two. And that's the activist.

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Speaker 1: We can't restrict these people. In twenty twenty three, it

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Speaker 1: received a two million dollar grant to conduct and support research.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 4: Obviously that's a lot of conflicts of interest, right, Oh

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Speaker 4: my goodness. Yeah, and staff already bars them using the

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Speaker 4: money on alcohol or restaurant meals or even prepared meals

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Speaker 4: from grocery store food bars. So you can't get like

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Speaker 4: but you can buy candy and a coke, right, And

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Speaker 4: we've always heard from people who say that it's quite

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you hear somebody saying the stigmatizes the poor,

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Speaker 1: it's unfair.

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Speaker 2: It eliminates the freedom of choice.

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Speaker 1: That's somebody profiting mightily from their obesity. Interesting. So quick

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Speaker 2: So are you surprised? No word yet out of the

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Speaker 1: No, I think they're both gonna just keep their cards

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Speaker 2: Do you think we'll hear much today at all? You

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Speaker 2: very constructive topics.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think it'll be very vague, vague and

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Speaker 1: positive sounding. Wow, Trump will say again we've got to

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Speaker 1: stop the killing. Will he put any pressure, actual pressure

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Speaker 1: on Poot.

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Speaker 2: That's what I wonder. I wonder this now.

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Speaker 1: Jd Vance is super steeped in history, and I think

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Speaker 1: he knows, But I wonder if Trump is aware that

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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin really doesn't care how many guys he gets killed.

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Speaker 1: That's the history of Russian warfare. They will young men

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Speaker 1: are born to be killed in warfare in the Russian tradition.

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Speaker 1: That's rough so appealing to Putin. We've got to stop

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Speaker 1: the killing. Putin's like, I don't care.

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Speaker 4: So one of the hottest viral videos out there, it's

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Speaker 4: kind of gross.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to watch it.

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Speaker 4: Joe watched it, so we'll get full team coverage on

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Speaker 4: a viral video.

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Speaker 2: Is that what we are now?

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Speaker 1: You don't have the courage to watch the important videos

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Speaker 1: in the news today, Jack, guys eating a rat?

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Speaker 2: You need to face out to it. These are rat

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Speaker 2: eating times. Huh. So we got that and other stuff

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Speaker 2: all the.

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Speaker 1: Way, Ladies and gentlemen, we take you to the streets

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Speaker 1: of the Bronx.

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Speaker 2: This is unbelievably Nah, I gotta get out the wall.

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Speaker 2: I want to see this rat watching a man eat

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Speaker 2: a rat.

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Speaker 1: Sushi style uncooked. I know you're wondering. Let's just get

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Speaker 1: right to it. It is the call of the wild.

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Speaker 1: It is white fang on the streets of the bronx.

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Speaker 1: It's a guy killing and uh boy, I want to

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Speaker 1: say it.

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Speaker 2: Is this a homless stud or a drug addict sort

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Speaker 2: of person?

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Speaker 1: I doubt he's real gainfully employed. He's a street broker.

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Speaker 1: He has the look of a street person, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: He's wearing crocs for one thing. So he's down and out.

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Speaker 1: How does he catch a lot? He catches a live

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Speaker 1: rat or a dead rat. That's not how he procured

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Speaker 1: the rat. He could have gotten it from the rat store. Jack.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's unclear. It's not easy to catch

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Speaker 2: a rat unless you're practiced at the art. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, this woman came onto the scene at the point

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Speaker 1: that the fellow was preparing his meal.

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Speaker 4: He was already barrated, and then she says, what is

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Speaker 4: he going to do? Let's see what he does with

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Speaker 4: this thing, and then.

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Speaker 2: He eats it. Yeah, he begins, yes, Yes.

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Speaker 1: The New York Department of Health has cautioned residents against

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Speaker 1: eating raw rats. Oh don't do or don't don't heed rats, Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you, because they can carry a variety of illnesses,

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Speaker 1: including trichinosis, don't you know, and and grossiteria.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's disgusting. So did he maybe, but like

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Speaker 2: it had the feet and the tail, the head, the

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Speaker 2: oh that's not it was a rat. It was a rat.

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Speaker 4: Yes, so yes, so he didn't prepare it. He didn't

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Speaker 4: get his missing claws in place. And and then, uh,

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what that is filled dress. That

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Speaker 4: would be getting your your all year different to your

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Speaker 4: little bowls with all your spices, and get your knights.

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Speaker 4: It's it's getting everything ready to cook.

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Speaker 2: Jack, Yeah, exactly what what are you thinking of for

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Speaker 2: a garnish? There? Friend? Uh? Yeah, not not clear at

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Speaker 2: all the comments online. Naturally thinking about an old button

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Speaker 2: that had to be a good garnish. Maybe maybe a

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Speaker 2: battery I found on the sidewalk, double a battery.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking a nice toshed spinach shallow with me a

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Speaker 1: little uh, strawberry and walnut to balance the rattiness.

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Speaker 2: In the main dish. And then maybe the sock I

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Speaker 2: found some saut potatoes a little fiddle. Right, So you

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Speaker 2: you watched the video?

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Speaker 6: Is it?

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Speaker 2: It's pretty gross.

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Speaker 1: It's it's distant enough that it's not as horrible as

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Speaker 1: you might guess, but it's.

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Speaker 2: Did you watch the whole thing? No?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Oh, do you want me to you want me to

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Speaker 2: go for it? This is a news program.

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Speaker 7: We need to He's holding the rat up and he

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Speaker 7: spreads the stomach apart, and he sticks his face into it.

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Speaker 2: And when he pulls the rat away.

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Speaker 1: From his face, there is a string of all right,

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Speaker 1: all right, people are driving off the road all over

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Speaker 1: America right now.

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Speaker 2: This was a bad idea Katie news program. This is

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Speaker 2: going into your permanent file. I asked for it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: my favorite, my my favorite comment online was new Pandemic

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Speaker 2: in three two. Right, holy cow.

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Speaker 1: Now in most mainstream media, he will be described as

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Speaker 1: a homeless man, right because homeless because of high housing prices,

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Speaker 1: equity one medical bill.

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Speaker 2: And systemic racism and uh rent prices.

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Speaker 1: It's not at all that he's a transient drug addict, obviously,

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Speaker 1: and so out of his mind on trank or god

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Speaker 1: knows what else he's.

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Speaker 4: Well, you are out of your mind because it's in

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Speaker 4: New York and like a lot of blue cities, there

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Speaker 4: are so many flip and food programs.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to starve well or dumpster dive for

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Speaker 2: the love of heaven, yeah you yeah.

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Speaker 4: And then on the street, as far as we know,

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Speaker 4: I mean, because that's what we do. We just leave

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Speaker 4: people like it because you're not not our business to

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Speaker 4: tell them how to live their lives.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird.

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Speaker 1: It's progressives that will let people die and eat rats

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Speaker 1: on the sidewalk instead of saying, all right, this guy's

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Speaker 2: He's eating a rat.

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Speaker 1: He's obviously mentally ill, let's help him. Oh no, No,

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Speaker 1: that's when progressives are in favor of liberty. When your

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