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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 Jetty.

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Speaker 3: I know he.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty.

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Speaker 4: And if these gorgeous be too bombers, give me that bomber, Andrews,

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Speaker 4: let me just hug.

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Speaker 2: That little sucker. Give me that bomber over there? Thank

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Speaker 2: You know immediately which one? This looks small, but in

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Speaker 2: person is very big.

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Speaker 4: It's the only plane capable of carrying a two hundred

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Speaker 4: thousand pound bombs. So I don't know how to do

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Speaker 4: it because it's very sleek and nice, but it carries

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Speaker 4: a lot of weapons and there's a lot of bombs.

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Speaker 1: That's Trump grabbing the model of the B two bomber

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Speaker 1: off of his desk.

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Speaker 2: Guy, let me hug that little sucker.

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Speaker 5: Carries a lot of weapons, a lot of bombs. Wow,

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Speaker 5: what an odd bird.

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Speaker 1: We do have a slight breaking news thing. The big

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Speaker 1: gas field in the world in Saudi Arabia has been

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Speaker 1: hit and a number of strikes by Iran and now

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Speaker 1: your oil gas markets are spiking.

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Speaker 2: We'll see where that goes today.

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Speaker 3: Boy, wow, they're in a hole and they are digging

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Speaker 3: as fast as they can, just trying to make everybody

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Speaker 3: at some point exactly. Oh, they're causing too much pain.

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Speaker 3: We've got to stop and let this regime continue. That's

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Speaker 3: the hell of a calculation. I suppose they think that's

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Speaker 3: the only car they have to play. So a bit

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Speaker 3: of a theme hour this hour. It's come together kind

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Speaker 3: of accidentally, but it's all super interesting in my opinion. It's, Oh,

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Speaker 3: how the mighty have fallen. We're going to take a

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Speaker 3: look at some very prominent characters, from Saisar Chavez to

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Speaker 3: economist rock star of the left Paul Erlik who wrote

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Speaker 3: the Population Bomb book, and also some of the most

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Speaker 3: interesting information I've come across about Jeffrey Epstein, if you

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Speaker 3: really want to understand how he and his cabal of

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Speaker 3: high flyers worked coming up this hour to stay with us.

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Speaker 3: But let's start with the Jack and Seesar Chavez.

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Speaker 1: Here to Caesar Chavez, he was the brown Martin Luther King,

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Speaker 1: as described by people, civil rights leader for migrant farm

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Speaker 1: some rights and all that sort of stuff and became

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Speaker 1: a is a it's not a national holiday, right, so

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Speaker 1: holiday in California, and yeah, right.

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Speaker 3: But he won all sorts of you know, this guy's

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Speaker 1: The years from Fariou press O ye, And as they

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Speaker 1: write in the California Post, every progressive history curriculum, every

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Speaker 1: California street sign, every March thirty first is proof that

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Speaker 1: here was a flawless champion of the oppressed. Schools were renamed, statues, erected,

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Speaker 1: documentaries produced with soft lighting and swelling violins. Well, now

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Speaker 1: he's going to be canceled because it turns out he

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Speaker 1: was raping a thirteen year old at least one, if

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sexually molesting multiple girls and raping grown women.

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Speaker 2: We got this text.

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Speaker 1: My friend at work was a migrant farm worker her

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Speaker 1: there was definitely a culture of taking young women and

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Speaker 1: way to confirm whether that was true or not, but

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Speaker 1: it seems to have been true for Caesar Shaves himself.

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Speaker 1: Whether that was true for other men of power in

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Speaker 1: the whole migrant farm worker world, I do not know.

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Speaker 3: So why did the I hate to call it the wokesters,

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Speaker 3: because I mean, we're all against raping children.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to be woke to be against raping children.

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Speaker 1: But why did this come out now? And the New

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Speaker 1: it his anti immigration stances which would become more problematic

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Speaker 1: for Caesar Shabz. Critics who noted Caesar shab Is anti

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Speaker 1: immigration stances way back in the nineteen seventies were dismissed

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Speaker 1: saint versus evil growers. Yet Chavez was no open borders

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Speaker 1: progressive at any point. He was a staunch opponent of

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Speaker 1: The United farm Workers blocked border crossing, brought border crossings,

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Speaker 2: How dare you turn in an illegal to ice?

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Speaker 1: Caesar Shapez was doing that constantly, thousands of thousand on

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Speaker 5: He was like an amateur ice agent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Chavez saw unchecked illegal immigration as a direct threat to jobs,

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Speaker 1: I thought that because it's one hundred percent true. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: Anyway?

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Speaker 1: I just wonder if maybe that was becoming so uncomfortable

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to The New York Times isn't explicit in

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Speaker 3: just pissed off that Bakersfield was about to name a

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Speaker 1: That could be Kavanaugh's accuser. Even though she was a

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Speaker 1: can't I can't have to drive down a street name

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Speaker 2: Right right?

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Speaker 1: And that question remains, are they gonna take it? They're

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Speaker 1: going to cancel the holiday in California? It looks like

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Speaker 1: Caesar Shabaz Day. Are they gonna take his name off

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Speaker 2: There's got to be statues all over the place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, So wow, are they desanctifying this guy because

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Speaker 4: For it?

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Speaker 3: Did these women just come forward and it's what it

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Speaker 3: Raping a thirteen year old is really awful, but he

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Speaker 3: Gandhi was wrong on these things.

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Speaker 5: Jack lives in Mumbai, by the way, I kidd.

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Speaker 1: And somebody decided to know he was bad on these areas,

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Speaker 1: is there gonna be an anybody left that accomplished great

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Speaker 1: things but had a I'm not gonna say sordid, because

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Speaker 1: I don't know how we handle this historically.

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Speaker 3: Oddly enough, the reference to India is a good time

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Speaker 3: to move on to Paul Rlick, author of The Population Bomb,

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Speaker 3: hero of the left for many years, always wrong, and

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Speaker 3: yet his policies endured. He was more than wrong. He

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Speaker 5: He was a.

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Speaker 2: Terrible human being.

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Speaker 3: And we'll explain why after the So stay with us.

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Speaker 3: You're almost certainly not starving, though. And Paul Rlick, who

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Speaker 3: just passed away, was the author of a nineteen sixty

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Speaker 3: biologist turned rock star eco pessimist. According to Matt Ridley,

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Speaker 3: When he died, most people said, you know, he's wrong

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Speaker 3: the prologue of which is dismissed. All hope for humankind

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Speaker 3: Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in

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Speaker 2: Not? Really?

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Speaker 3: We're just telling the truth about prominent people, including in

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Speaker 1: That's not us right wing radio talk show host. That's

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Speaker 5: The stuff on Epstein is interesting.

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Speaker 3: Ah. I think a lot of people, for whatever reason,

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Speaker 3: And I'm not necessarily even talking about the obsessed you know,

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Speaker 3: He was an incredibly gifted networker, and I've heard that

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Speaker 5: That was his skill.

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Speaker 2: And this.

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Speaker 3: That's the long and short of it. That's what you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, because I just am naturally predisposed to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, guys, I'm I'm glad to be friendly

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like this guy was a master at it.

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Speaker 1: If I know a guy who's got you know, I

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Speaker 2: But then we'd have to have dinner and then I yeah,

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Speaker 3: On the other hand, Jeffrey Epstein people like him would think, now,

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Speaker 3: he let friends in on it and so they owed

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Speaker 3: him big and yeah, that's that's wild.

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Speaker 1: So on the topic of Cuba, I'll admit that really

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Speaker 1: everything I know about Cuba comes from Hemingway books and

447
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Speaker 1: The Godfather. That's about the extent of my Cuban knowledge

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Speaker 1: and the Cuban missile crisis.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's it. That's the beginning and end of

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Speaker 2: my cubanology.

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Speaker 1: But it's communist country, and it's been, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of a basket case on the verge of following my

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Speaker 1: entire life. But Trump said the other day, you know,

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Speaker 1: Cuba's next tod be my honored and I thought, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what he's got planned or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Then I saw this report on the news last night

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Speaker 1: which got my attention.

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Speaker 6: Listen to this, and now once more, no power across

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Speaker 6: the island the nation. White black out yesterday is still

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Speaker 6: keeping much of the country in the dark. In a

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Speaker 6: nation used to hardship, Cubans say, the situation has never.

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Speaker 1: Been worse in a country used to hardship. The situation

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Speaker 1: has never been worse than it is right now in

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Speaker 1: Cuba because of us taking out my door in Venezuela

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Speaker 1: and cutting off the oil and all the different sorts

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Speaker 1: of things in the bargo and so we have forced

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Speaker 1: Cuba into the worst situation it's ever been in Domestically,

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Speaker 1: the country has been plunged into darkness this week by

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Speaker 1: a blackout. The third big failure of its power grids

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Speaker 1: since December, opening the door to Trump suggesting that he

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Speaker 1: might have to take Cuba energy blockade. Many of the

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Speaker 1: nation's eleven million residents struggling to keep food from spoiling

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Speaker 1: because they got no electricity. So soon the food will

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Speaker 1: spoil in the refrigerators that aren't running, and then it's

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Speaker 1: going to really be a crisis. Hospitals have canceled surgeries

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Speaker 1: all across the country. The leading universities are closed. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is bad in Cuba, and somehow that's not on

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Speaker 1: the radar. Well, pretty obvious reasons. Were at war with Iran?

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Speaker 5: Were you going to play the clump clump trip the

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Speaker 5: Trump clip?

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Speaker 2: I was not. Do we have one?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we do sixty.

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Speaker 4: I do believe I'll be the honor of having the

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Speaker 4: honor of taking Cuba a big good Honest's a big

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Speaker 4: honor in taking Cube, Taking Cube in some form.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, taking Guba. I mean, whether I.

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Speaker 4: Free it, take it, I think I could do anything

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Speaker 4: I want with it. You want another a very weekend

489
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Speaker 4: nation right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So fifty three states, you got Canada, Cuba, and Greenland.

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Speaker 1: Now Cuba really should be a state of the United States.

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Speaker 3: You go back East, an independent country that's not run

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Speaker 3: by a corrupt, fake communist mob.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I for one didn't know Cuba is in the

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Speaker 1: worst shape it's ever been. That's that's saying something. If

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Speaker 1: you know anything about the ups and downs of Cuba

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Speaker 1: over the years.

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Speaker 3: Wow, So as soon as all that food spoils in

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Speaker 3: all the fridges across the country, then it's gonna that's

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Speaker 3: going to turn into a serious, serious crisis really fast.

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Speaker 3: And Trump, who increasingly in that clip at least sounded

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Speaker 3: a little like Don Corleoni, is going to offer make

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Speaker 3: them an offer they can't refuse, which would be wonderful

504
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Speaker 3: for the Cuban people. I don't know what form it

505
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Speaker 3: will take. I certainly hope it leads toward a move

506
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Speaker 3: toward democracy and human rights and the rest of it

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Speaker 3: for the poor people. And it's not like, you know

508
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Speaker 3: the world is hungering for more vacation destinations exactly, but

509
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Speaker 3: that should be a prosperous I mean, pick your your

510
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Speaker 3: favorite Caribbean destination, Bahamas, Jamaica, the US Virgin Islands, something

511
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Speaker 3: like that. Cuba's a giant one of those, Plus it's closer.

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Speaker 1: There would be endless boat trips back and forth between Miami,

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Speaker 1: Key West and Cuba.

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Speaker 3: Well, how much fun would that be? It's seventy miles,

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Speaker 3: so how much fun would that be? Well, exactly, I

516
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Speaker 3: was going to say. The flight would be like one

517
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Speaker 3: of those puddle jumpers that you take from a Sacramento

518
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Speaker 3: to a San Francisco or a New York to a

519
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Speaker 3: you know what's the big city in Connecticut, Connecticut city,

520
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 3: doesn't matter, Bristol, whatever. Yeah, I mean it would be

521
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Speaker 3: incredibly quick and easy. And I have great affection for

522
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Speaker 3: Cuba for a couple of reasons.

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Speaker 1: Number on Havana, that's what we're going to see. That's

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Speaker 1: entirely possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, the music of Cuba. They have an incredibly rich

527
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Speaker 3: heritage music. There are various documentaries, you should watch them.

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Speaker 3: The food is fantastic. It's a beautiful, beautiful place.

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Speaker 5: I've never been.

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Speaker 3: I've just seen you know, cigars, you got your cigars,

531
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Speaker 3: you got the attractive chiquita's. And I just hate whenever

532
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Speaker 3: people are oppressed by these communists swine and and.

533
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Speaker 5: This like it's so close, I mean, it's right there.

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Speaker 3: Why are we letting a communist regime poison our neighborhood. Well,

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Speaker 3: I don't think it. I think it's coming to an end.

536
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Speaker 3: Like in days, What sort of deal do they cut?

537
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Speaker 3: You got to just buy off anybody who's anybody and say, look, go,

538
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Speaker 3: you know, go wherever you want, Go to Hell, go

539
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Speaker 3: to Texas. We don't care if I own Texas and Hell,

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Speaker 3: I'd live in el and run out Texas anyway.

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Speaker 5: Blah blah blah Eh what did I say?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, right, whatever form the deal takes, let's let's get

544
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Speaker 5: it going.

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Speaker 3: It would be a bit of a basket case for

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Speaker 3: a while, but not permanently.

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Speaker 1: Here's Mark Alpern's riding on it. Cuba is all teed up,

548
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Speaker 1: and Trump is going to do pretty much any anything

549
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Speaker 1: he wants, anytime he wants. After Secretary Rubio dots a

550
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Speaker 1: few more eyes. So and there's nobody more excited about

551
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Speaker 1: this than our current secretary of State, whose family fled

552
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Speaker 1: Cuba so they.

553
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Speaker 3: Were driven out by the brutality of the communists. Yeah

554
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Speaker 3: that he hates them for real.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's gonna be a heck of a thing.

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Speaker 2: A darn. I didn't realize it was that bad. I

557
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Speaker 2: didn't realize it was the worst it's ever been.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well they're patrons. I mean, Soviet Union's gone. Russia

559
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Speaker 3: continue to help out some, but Russia's got its own problems.

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Speaker 3: Venezuela was a pipeline for fuel and money and the

561
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Speaker 3: rest of the LENSUALEI doing nothing now yeah, yoink. Indeed,

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Speaker 3: it's one of the great yoankings in the Western Hemisphere's history.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we will finish strong next Armstrong. It is titled

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Speaker 2: Cold Coffee. Yes, cold Coffee. Oh yeah right.

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Speaker 1: I knew it had coffee in the title, but I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. I was trying to find

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Speaker 1: it the other day. That is a cool tune. Who's

568
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Speaker 1: the artiste? Why did I say it like that? McDermott questions,

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Speaker 1: I have Gate McDermott.

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Speaker 5: Okay, dat did you say date?

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Speaker 2: G Ai T. You're making up names.

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Speaker 3: Ok she's making random noises, g Ai T. MacDermott, Gate McDermott, Okay,

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Speaker 3: thank you.

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Speaker 1: So I got a story completely wrong earlier. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I was reading too fast or just or

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Speaker 1: I'm dumb, but uh, it is true that the biggest

577
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Speaker 1: natural gas field on planet Earth got attacked. But it

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Speaker 1: was It's in Iran, and it was attacked by Israel. Oh,

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Speaker 1: so Israel had attacked their oil refineries the other day,

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Speaker 1: and at least the news reporting was the United States

581
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Speaker 1: was very unhappy about that. That we said, who, well,

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Speaker 1: you can't do that. We're trying to get people to

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Speaker 1: rise up take back their country. We can't obliterate their

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Speaker 1: infrastructure and expect them to take over a country that

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Speaker 1: has no infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: So don't do that.

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Speaker 1: The reporting today is, according to Ian Bremer, that Israel

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Speaker 1: attacked the biggest natural gas field on the planet in

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Speaker 1: Iran with our encouragement, And according to Ian Bremer, that

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Speaker 1: is a signal that the war is escalated and we're

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Speaker 1: on to a different trajectory.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: We gotta do whatever we can to weaken them, even

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Speaker 1: if we have to damage their infrastructure a great deal.

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Speaker 3: Got to admit, I'm starting to be concerned about the

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Speaker 3: amount of time, effort, and money it's going to take

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Speaker 3: to prevent Iran from turning into a doggy dog quagmire

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Speaker 3: of a nightmare of a dystopian you know, hellscape post war.

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Speaker 3: Even if there is an thing, what does the transition

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Speaker 3: look like a new regime and how long does that

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Speaker 3: take and what sort of sectarian fighting will there be

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Speaker 3: for how long?

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Speaker 5: So where is it unfolded?

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Speaker 1: Sort of ends up like such a barren wasteland. You've got, uh,

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Speaker 1: the Kurage trying to take a chunk, and al Qaeda

606
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Speaker 1: is involved in what's left of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,

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Speaker 1: and maybe Iraq thinks will expand and.

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Speaker 3: It's a country of ninety million people. Yeah, history will

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Speaker 3: tell you can't have a nuke though, and here sure

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Speaker 3: as hell trying to get.

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Speaker 2: One unleash the dogs of war.

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Speaker 5: That's the thing that a lot of people can't accept.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you have two very bad options and you have

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Speaker 3: to choose one of them.

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Speaker 2: Ready to.

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Speaker 1: Again, I don't want the show to be over already.

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Speaker 2: I do. Here's your host McDermott.

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Speaker 3: There with Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 3: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew

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Speaker 3: to wrap up the show. Wouldn't that be delightful? Michaelangelo,

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Speaker 3: our technical director, will lead the way away. Michael final thought.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I got an idea about Cuba. Disney buys it.

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Speaker 5: They've already got a park in Florida. You add that

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Speaker 5: to the Disneyland.

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Speaker 3: Disney is evil, Michael sorry, they have lawyers. Allegedly according

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Speaker 3: to Katie.

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Speaker 5: The thought I'll take it, Katie Green are esteemed to

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Speaker 5: Newswoman as a final thought, Katie, I.

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Speaker 3: Can't figure out if I am normal or sick and

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Speaker 3: twisted for looking forward to the Netflix series about this

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Speaker 3: grief author. Yeah, no kidding, that'll be interesting. There needs

632
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Speaker 3: to be a really really good documentary about that. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 3: yeah yeah Jack. A final thought, Oh god, bless you,

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Speaker 3: this is aproposa.

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Speaker 1: Nothing just came across this headline in the New York Post.

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Speaker 1: I could hear them working on me. Why more patients

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Speaker 1: are choosing to stay awake during three hour facelifts?

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Speaker 5: What well?

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Speaker 2: I just passed out. I could hear them working on me.

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Speaker 3: Oh golly, oh boy. I was thinking of my final

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Speaker 3: thought during the last segment. There are some presidents have

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Speaker 3: been referred to as caretaker presidents.

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Speaker 2: They really didn't do much whatever.

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Speaker 5: The opposite of that is. That's Donald j.

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Speaker 2: No kidding, crap. He is not a caretaker president, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Armstrong Ngeeddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

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Speaker 2: So many people, thanks, so little time.

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Speaker 3: Go to Armstrong and Geddy dot com for the swag

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Speaker 3: store pick up an ang T shirt helps keep everybody

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Speaker 3: on the stab during these challenging times. How about I

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Speaker 3: shirt or a hat, hoodie, whatever you like, drops a

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Speaker 3: note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com and

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Speaker 3: hit the hot links.

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Speaker 2: We will see tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: God bless America. I'm strong and geta And the reporting

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Speaker 1: was yesterday. It was just accidental that he didn't die.

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Speaker 1: He should have died. He stepped outside to take a call.

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Speaker 2: Or a smoke.

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Speaker 1: I forget what I read yesterday, but he like he went,

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Speaker 1: he went down the stairs. He was headed outside for something.

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Speaker 2: Hit like this, Dude, the y'all.

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Speaker 5: Song ain't Kenny? So the yah song Ain't Kenny?

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Speaker 4: Show?

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Speaker 5: Get the podcast of song and Kenny on the

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Speaker 2: Man Armstrong and Jeddy