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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: Arm Strong and Jettie and Hey Armstrong and Jetty.

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Speaker 3: American shoppers are looking forward to Cyber Monday after shattering

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Speaker 3: records on Black Friday. Adobe says consumers spent eleven point

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Speaker 3: eight billion dollars online on Friday. That's up more than

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Speaker 3: nine percent from last year. More than fifty five percent

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Speaker 3: of those sales came through mobile devices.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so let's jump into some of that stuff. We

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Speaker 4: have long mocked Black Friday and Cyber Monday as completely

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Speaker 4: made up things. Black Friday, going way way back, was

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Speaker 4: that's when businesses finally went into the black for the

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Speaker 4: first time for the year and it was never true,

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Speaker 4: and then built sales around it. Now, the idea of

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Speaker 4: contriving a day to try to boost commerce is not new.

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Speaker 4: See everything, Halloween, Christmas, not the Jesus' Birthday part, but

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Speaker 4: the Present's part. Just to everything, it's just to contrived,

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Speaker 4: you know, Mother's Day, Father's Day, they're all just they

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Speaker 4: try to convince us to spend money on a particular day.

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Speaker 2: Well, and even if.

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Speaker 5: There was a legitimate creation, like I think Mother's Day

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Speaker 5: and Father's Day were efforts by nice people to pay

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Speaker 5: tribute to family ties.

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Speaker 2: But you know, two minutes later, it's like, hey.

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, we could sell ties today, but so

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Speaker 4: Black Friday that there. So they often try to slice

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Speaker 4: it in such a way to come up with a

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Speaker 4: record to get people exciting, which is fine, And that

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Speaker 4: one it was online sales through mobile devices were up

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Speaker 4: more than they have been in the past. Okay, as

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Speaker 4: often happens, for whatever reason, people do most of their

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Speaker 4: spending the first week in November, I mean, the first

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Speaker 4: week of December, or the last week of December, or

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Speaker 4: on Black Friday, or they decide whatever it just and

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Speaker 4: then it evens out throughout the spending season because most

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Speaker 4: people are gonna spend x amount, Right, whether you spend

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Speaker 4: it the day after Thanksgiving or two days before Christmas,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna spend roughly the same amount. So you gotta

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Speaker 4: wait till the total numbers come in to decide whether

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Speaker 4: or not it's been a good season in terms of retail.

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Speaker 4: And you're looking at consumer confidence and trying to figure

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Speaker 4: out the economy and all that sort of stuff. You

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Speaker 4: can't figure out from three days after after Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: But so, what was the origin of cyber Monday?

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Speaker 5: Joe, Well, Gladys, perhaps we can cast our minds back

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Speaker 5: to the early two thousands.

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Speaker 2: George W. Bush was the president, the War on Terror

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Speaker 5: Good times anyway, everybody had crappy Internet connections at home,

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Speaker 5: and so retailers in those early days of this century.

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Speaker 5: Notice that you know our sales spike a little bit

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Speaker 5: the Monday after Thanksgiving. It's probably because people are using

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Speaker 5: their office internet connection to shop. And indeed, the term

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Speaker 5: cyber Monday was coined in two thousand and five by

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Speaker 5: the National Retail Federation. The reality of everybody having a

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Speaker 5: super slow internet at home and good at work was

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Speaker 5: over within weeks of the coining of that term, and

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Speaker 5: it has been stupid ever since because people can shop

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Speaker 5: wherever they want, whenever they want with their little supercomputer

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Speaker 4: Right, you can be sitting at your kids high school

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Speaker 4: basketball game in the stands and shop just as easily.

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Speaker 2: On your phone as you can at work or at home.

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Speaker 5: So I like the term mobile device as opposed to

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Speaker 5: what an immobile device? Am I using a mainframe in

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Speaker 5: the scenario, or what a computer console like NASA back

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Speaker 5: in the day. Now even my laptop is like an

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Speaker 5: inch bigger than my iPads.

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Speaker 2: I see cyber Monday is completely phony and silly.

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Speaker 5: But if people offer sales on today because they think

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Speaker 5: they have your attention, I suggest you take them up.

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Speaker 2: On the offer.

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Speaker 4: So I see Hassett, that's which which advisor is he

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Speaker 4: to Donald Trump?

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Speaker 2: Anyway?

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Speaker 4: On the economy, he's on Fox right now saying that

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Speaker 4: the Black Friday spending was up under Trump, so the

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Speaker 4: economy is good. That would defy the numbers we had

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Speaker 4: right before we went on vacation. That people in terms

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Speaker 4: We're setting records constantly, people thinking we're on the wrong

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Speaker 2: But we'll see.

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Speaker 4: We'll see how the spending is throughout the whole holiday season.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, you gotta wait till the end to

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Speaker 4: get an idea whether it was up or down. I'm

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Speaker 4: not optimistic. Is expensive out there. As I just traveled

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Speaker 4: I live in California.

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Speaker 2: Once you get out of California. The shocking news.

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Speaker 4: Is oh my god, this this is what other people

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Speaker 4: pay for gads. Yeah, but in terms of everything else,

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Speaker 4: it's just oh my god. And I always say to

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Speaker 4: holy cow, it's eighty five dollars.

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Speaker 2: And they say, I know, isn't it amazing?

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Speaker 4: For these years, that's thirty times a day. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: until we get used to that. I don't know what's

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Speaker 2: I do have a question about one news story.

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Speaker 5: Let me just say this very quickly, having talked to

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Speaker 5: several people from several different financial strata, there's much more

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Speaker 5: caution in the air than extravagance.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not even close.

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Speaker 5: So I would be shocked to hear that the holiday

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Speaker 5: numbers turned out to be especially great.

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Speaker 2: It would be it would be shocking.

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Speaker 4: It would run against all the polling of how people

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Speaker 4: feel about their current financial situations, right if it tends

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Speaker 2: So we'll wait and see.

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Speaker 4: There is one new story that happened while we were

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Speaker 4: on vacation that I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: I doubt Joe paid any attention to it, so I

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Speaker 2: can't ask.

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Speaker 4: I don't like to pay attention to a lot of

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Speaker 4: political stories when we're on the air, let alone when

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Speaker 4: we're on vacation. So that's not exactly something I was

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Speaker 4: digging into. But why did Marjorie Taylor Green resign? That

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Speaker 2: Least blind bad built, buts body that was a surprise

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, here's my assumption in k Well, first of all,

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Speaker 4: do you know anything about it?

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Speaker 2: I don't, No, I don't know anything.

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Speaker 5: Although a number of folks who who I no one love,

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Speaker 5: I were, and we're all speculating and wondering.

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Speaker 2: Nobody had a great theory.

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Speaker 4: My main speculation would be, Oh, that reminds me of

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Speaker 4: some audio we need to get. My main speculation would be,

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Speaker 4: Trump crowd or whatever, she's like, I don't need this.

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Speaker 4: And she'd been offered various very lucrative positions on boards

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Speaker 4: high profile personality in politics. But I can make so

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Speaker 4: much more money, My life will be so much easier.

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Speaker 4: But my main point remains that most of these people,

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, agreed. Hey, just asn't a side Michael,

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Speaker 2: Ago, police blind, bad built bush body.

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Speaker 5: That's Texas's own Jasmine Crockett, who is a crock herself

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Speaker 5: I was reminded recently that she invented this whole giant

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Speaker 5: Jesse Smolette thing where she got into she became a

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Speaker 5: Then it turns out it was completely fictional. Oh really,

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Speaker 2: Of those people.

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Speaker 5: Just oh, she is such a fraud and every says

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Speaker 5: that's right, Margie with the last word there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: She is a great example of the modern social media

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Speaker 4: So Donald Trump told the leader of Venezuela, you got

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Speaker 4: to get out now with your family.

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Speaker 2: Are you're gonna be killed?

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Speaker 4: And didn't he said now, didn't put a time limit

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Speaker 4: We ought to take a look at that at some point.

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Speaker 4: That whole story, that's spicy. I'd say peace negotiations between

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Speaker 4: There's lots of different businesses I would try, just because

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Speaker 4: I think that's gonna be something that a lot of

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you who should be scared, whoever gets elected

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Speaker 2: I'm watching the ratings.

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Speaker 1: People are consuming less news right now because they can't

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Speaker 2: To hell with all of it.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear you yelling at each other.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's the thing I mean in talk radio, there

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Speaker 5: But here's your trilemma. If you have too much debt.

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Speaker 5: The bond market hates it. What do we care, you

446
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Speaker 5: say to yourself, Well, that's how the US finances so

447
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Speaker 5: much of it's spending right now is we borrow money,

448
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Speaker 5: we sell bonds. And because it's the most safe bet

449
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Speaker 5: on the planet that the United States of America will

450
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Speaker 5: pay its debts, it's an extremely popular investment. The problem is,

451
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Speaker 5: as that great confidence in our debt service gets shakier,

452
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Speaker 5: the eels rise, the rates rise, the amount of interest

453
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Speaker 5: we must pay rises. So it matters from a budgetary

454
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Speaker 5: and tax point of view whether the bond market thinks, oh,

455
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Speaker 5: it's perfectly safe, or whether they're starting to think.

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Speaker 2: Man, they're running up a lot of debt.

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Speaker 5: And then the second leg of the trilemma is the

458
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Speaker 5: is the budget itself. I mean, you can't just spend

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Speaker 5: yourself into oblivion, so you have to be willing to

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Speaker 5: make cuts at some point or raised taxes. The third

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Speaker 5: leg of the trilemma is the voters. And again they

462
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Speaker 5: highlight voters in Britain, especially well France too, who have

463
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Speaker 5: said essentially no, no.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no.

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Speaker 5: No no, we want enormous welfare services and low taxes,

466
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Speaker 5: which is absolutely idiotically unsustainable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Elon spoke to that a little bit during the break.

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Speaker 4: He was on some podcasts talking about AI and robots

470
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Speaker 4: and stuff, but he was asked about the whole doge

471
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Speaker 4: thing and everything like that, and he said, basically, I'm

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Speaker 4: out of the whole trying to fix the country game.

473
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Speaker 4: He said, it can't be done, at least not in

474
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Speaker 4: our current political climate. People just don't want to deal

475
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Speaker 4: with reality. And he's a hand percent right. I can

476
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Speaker 4: see how he waited into that and thought, Wow, people

477
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Speaker 4: are just going to pretend this isn't a problem, or

478
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Speaker 4: that you can get out of this situation without cutting

479
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Speaker 4: programs right things wishing.

480
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Speaker 5: Or magic beans or something like that. And I'm sorry

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Speaker 5: I misstated the second leg of the trilemma, that is

482
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Speaker 5: the economy. If you raise taxes to a confiscatory rate

483
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Speaker 5: too high, you get a crush economic growth. As California,

484
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Speaker 5: the high tax is the most hostile environment to businesses.

485
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Speaker 5: Year after year after year, businesses are fleeing. If it

486
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Speaker 5: weren't for AI, Gavin Newsom would be in stocks getting

487
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Speaker 5: pelted with rotten tomatoes right now anyway. So you've got

488
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Speaker 5: the pressure of the bond market, the economy and the voter,

489
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Speaker 5: and the voter is in to a large degree the.

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Speaker 4: Key legacy, and the voter is the most the only

491
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Speaker 4: part you can really hope to have any effect on

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Speaker 4: the other two with.

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Speaker 5: Right, then we get bailed out, the United States get built,

494
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Speaker 5: gets bailed out because people need dollars around the world

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Speaker 5: to trade with. That is the the great trade currency

496
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Speaker 5: of the world. That's not sustainable forever for a variety

497
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Speaker 5: of reasons that I won't get into because it's long

498
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Speaker 5: and it's boring and I only half understand it.

499
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Speaker 4: But our.

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Speaker 5: The dollar status is that must have global asset is declining.

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Speaker 5: All right, Here's why I said the most frightened person

502
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Speaker 5: in the world ought to be the next president of

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Speaker 5: the United States. According to the re re rejiggered numbers,

504
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Speaker 5: the Social Security Trust Fund will be broke in twenty

505
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Speaker 5: thirty three. You remember when that year seemed really, really distant. Well,

506
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Speaker 5: the guy or Gallo wins in twenty twenty eight is

507
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Speaker 5: going to be in office, you know, barring some extraordinary

508
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Speaker 5: turn of events, until until twenty thirty two. And if

509
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Speaker 5: the trust me if Social Security is going broke in

510
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Speaker 5: twenty thirty three, that discussion is going to dominate that term.

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Speaker 5: And so between Congress and that poor son of a

512
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Speaker 5: gun or daughter of a gun who's going to be president,

513
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Speaker 5: they are going to have to make the utterly gut

514
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Speaker 5: wrenching decisions to save social security or benefits are going

515
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Speaker 5: to be cut across the board. And man, you want

516
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Speaker 5: to talk about a political blood path and a reckoning

517
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Speaker 5: with reality if we still have it in us, that's

518
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Speaker 5: gonna be it.

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Speaker 2: Hmm, I'll be fun to watch. Oh boy, Elon is right.

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Speaker 4: The current political climate, that's a problem that they got

521
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Speaker 4: in France in Britain is people just don't want to

522
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Speaker 4: deal with reality. They It's amazing. I just I can't

523
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Speaker 4: believe that the majority of people can't be convinced. Look,

524
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Speaker 4: this is unsustainable and we got to do things different.

525
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Speaker 4: All right, who's on board. Let's roll up our sleeves

526
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Speaker 4: and get no, we're going to keep demanding a dollar

527
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Speaker 4: seventy worth of government for the price of a dollar.

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Speaker 5: Okay, it's worth repeating the founding pop as. The last

529
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Speaker 5: thing they wanted was a democracy. They wanted a democratic republic, obviously,

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Speaker 5: and that's you can use the term democracy accurately enough

531
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Speaker 5: to describe that. But they knew a a lot of

532
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 5: common people are too dumb or unwise to understand that

533
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Speaker 5: the person telling them no, we can have low taxes

534
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Speaker 5: and high spending forever is a liar and a panderer

535
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Speaker 5: and is just telling you that because they want to

536
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Speaker 5: have power to figure out where all that money flows,

537
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Speaker 5: and a lot of people just don't get that. They

538
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Speaker 5: also understood that mobs tend to get in moods and

539
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Speaker 5: then do really really stupid stuff. But yeah, I think

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Speaker 5: it's all gonna come down in the next term, next

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Speaker 5: presidential term. So, speaking of criminals, not the kind under

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Speaker 5: the Capitol.

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Speaker 2: Dome, Oh I got.

544
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Speaker 5: Them, but the common type on the streets. Simply save

545
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Speaker 5: home security is so great for a couple of reasons.

546
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Speaker 5: But number one, it's because simply save stops criminals before

547
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Speaker 5: they enter your home. It's got AI cameras. They detect

548
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Speaker 5: threats early. They alert the live agents, who can speak

549
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Speaker 5: directly to the intruders.

550
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Speaker 2: What are you doing? You're being wh If I were.

551
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Speaker 5: You, I would leave before your window gets smashed, setting

552
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Speaker 5: off your old alarm.

553
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Speaker 4: I got my home broken into one time in my life,

554
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Speaker 4: and it was during the Christmas season, many many years

555
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Speaker 4: ago before I knew about simply safe or it existed.

556
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Speaker 4: Now I feel a lot better every time I drive

557
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Speaker 4: away from a house because I do have simply Safe

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Speaker 4: set up at my home. It's quite the security since

559
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Speaker 4: I got all the censors and the cameras and all

560
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Speaker 4: that different sort of stuff, and you can get into it.

561
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Speaker 2: It's not very expensive.

562
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Speaker 4: About a dollar date and set it up yourself if

563
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Speaker 4: you want to, or get help if you'd prefer, and

564
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Speaker 4: there's no contract.

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Speaker 2: That's how confident they are. It's simply safe that.

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Speaker 5: You're going to like it better than the old systems

567
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Speaker 5: and less expensive. And this month only take fifty percent

568
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Speaker 5: off any new system. One of the best prices you'll

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Speaker 4: We got yet another word of the Year from a

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Speaker 4: different organization. Oxford University Press has named They're Worthy to

574
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Speaker 4: Year for twenty twenty five. I don't know if it's

575
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Speaker 4: a word of a year. Pretty good word.

576
00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 2: Though, rage bait.

577
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Speaker 4: Rage Bait's pretty good words kind of fits with what

578
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 4: we were just talking about.

579
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Speaker 5: Perfect lead into the article I came across on vacation

580
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Speaker 5: I unwisely opened.

581
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Speaker 2: I was intrigued.

582
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Speaker 5: I was hooked by the click baity headline, and it

583
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Speaker 5: pissed me off in the midst of.

584
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Speaker 4: The holiday cheer. I will explain in moments, and you

585
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Speaker 4: believe it was rage bait.

586
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Speaker 5: And partly and also partly just a great distillation of

587
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Speaker 5: what's wrong with social media in the Internet.

588
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Speaker 2: It's the perfect example.

589
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Speaker 4: So just to define rage bait, would it be like

590
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Speaker 4: if you if you got a headline that you know,

591
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Speaker 4: transboy dominates girls, track and field, they just know, Oh,

592
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 4: you're gonna hate the reading about this.

593
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's sure. That's an example.

594
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, or anything including the word the name Trump for

595
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 5: years and years and years in lefty media, Trump's latest outrage,

596
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 5: that sort of thing.

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Speaker 4: Wait, will you see this? You thought it was bad before? Yeah,

598
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Speaker 4: rage bait? Okay, what Joe mentioned. Oh and a congress

599
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 4: person over the break gave quite a speech about how

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Speaker 4: they all get rich. It was fantastic. I look forward

601
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Speaker 4: to getting to in hour three, I hope you can

602
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Speaker 4: stick around. As I was getting my coffee, I was

603
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 4: reminded that the long tradition of my brother's giving me

604
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Speaker 4: crap for putting cream in my coffee continued while I

605
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 4: was around everybody for the holiday, as my brother if

606
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Speaker 4: he could pass the cream, and he said, do you

607
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 4: need some high heels with that? Also, yes, that sort

608
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Speaker 4: of thing appropriate. Everybody looks down on me for putting

609
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Speaker 4: cream in my coffee.

610
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Speaker 2: Oh well, what are you gonna do?

611
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Speaker 5: Interestingly, my youngest, my daughter, she needs to put cream

612
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Speaker 5: in her coffee as a woman when she uses the

613
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Speaker 5: Kurrig machine, but not my espresso machine.

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Speaker 4: Oh really, because yeah, I put in there because otherwise

615
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Speaker 4: just eats a hole in my stomach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which, you know you don't want a hole in

617
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Speaker 2: your stuff. So there.

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Speaker 5: I was in a lovely mood, surrounded by family over

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Speaker 5: the holiday week. My all three of our kids, both

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Speaker 5: of my siblings, my dad, my brother's family were all

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Speaker 5: in town for Thanksgiving week, partly because, as I mentioned earlier,

622
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Speaker 5: my dad's eighty fifth birthday was Thanksgiving Day, and we

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Speaker 5: celebrated lavishly and also played eighteen holes of golf at

624
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Speaker 5: age eighty five, My brother and my dad and I played.

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Speaker 2: It was absolutely fantastic.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he's obviously not the player that he

627
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Speaker 5: used to be in all and gets annoyed about it.

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Speaker 5: Evidently that continues till the end of your life. Golf

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Speaker 5: is really annoying.

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Speaker 2: But it was eighty five. You're like, how could I

631
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Speaker 2: hit that shot? Oh?

632
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah exactly. I'm like, Dad, this is incredible. It

633
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Speaker 5: is a blessing. He's like, I just keep shoving it

634
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Speaker 5: to the right. What the hell's going on here? Am

635
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Speaker 5: I wind up wrong?

636
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Speaker 2: Who cares? That's hilarious?

637
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Speaker 5: Oh?

638
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: I know it's something, isn't it so? Anyway?

639
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Speaker 5: But here there, I wasn't just such a lovely frame

640
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Speaker 5: of mind, ignoring the news more or less.

641
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Speaker 2: And I so come to I don't know why, to

642
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 2: the temptation.

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Speaker 5: I think it was Satan himself who said, take a

644
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Speaker 5: look at.

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Speaker 2: The New York Post. Why don't you see what they're

646
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Speaker 2: ragan about? Why didn't you see if there's something that

647
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 2: you want to click on?

648
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 5: Here?

649
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: Boy? And so I opened the New York Post app

650
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Speaker 2: for some reason.

651
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Speaker 5: There's this article Aaron Andrews fires back at sports personalities

652
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Speaker 5: after holiday comments backlash.

653
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Speaker 2: And I violated a sacred rule.

654
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Speaker 5: Any journalism about internet arguments is not journalism.

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Speaker 2: It's crap.

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Speaker 4: I wish everybody I wish the president would give an

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Speaker 4: Oval office address about this. Any news story built around

658
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Speaker 4: a couple of comments on social media, those people should

659
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Speaker 4: be drummed out of journalism.

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Speaker 5: Right, But it was the spirit of it that pissed

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Speaker 5: me off so much so. Aaron Andrews, the longtime female reporter,

662
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Speaker 5: sideline reporter et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Does very good job.

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Speaker 5: She was doing a podcast that I'm not familiar with.

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Speaker 5: She was the guest and they were talking to her

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Speaker 5: about her career and they asked her, and this isn't

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Speaker 5: made clear at the beginning of the article, I think

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Speaker 5: to draw you into the rage bait, they asked her

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Speaker 5: for young girls or or young women who are thinking

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Speaker 5: to get thinking about getting into your line of work,

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Speaker 5: what are some of the things they don't know about it?

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Speaker 2: Some of the downsides? And one of the things she said.

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Speaker 5: Was, well, you miss a lot of holidays that you'd

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Speaker 5: like to be home with your family, but you're on

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Speaker 5: the road and you're doing your job.

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Speaker 2: Okay, simple as that. Well you got this.

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Speaker 5: Jenna Lane, who's a reporter covering the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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Speaker 5: for ESPN, ways in saying saw Aaron Andrews remarks about

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Speaker 5: the challenges in this business above starting at a low

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Speaker 5: age and not having holidays. I appreciate what she's trying

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Speaker 5: to say, but let's consider the folks working two to

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Speaker 5: three jobs in retail, in warehouses, and in the service

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Speaker 5: industry right now, just trying to make ends meet. They're

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Speaker 5: not getting time with their families either. Oh my god,

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Speaker 5: your life would be a dream for them. I mean,

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Speaker 5: let's keep this in perspective. Let's have some perspective.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 5: And then you got hack loser Trey Wingo, former NFL

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Speaker 5: host back in the nineties at ESPN. That's literally what

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Speaker 5: they pay you for, he posted on X because You've

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Speaker 5: got to be angry, including a headline about her remarks.

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Speaker 5: Aaron said it herself once, they pay you for the

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Speaker 5: traveling sacrifices, because doing the games is the fun part.

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Speaker 5: And these people just what bothers me the most about

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Speaker 5: it is how obvious it is that they're just saying,

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Speaker 5: look at me, look at me, I'm morally superior to

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Speaker 5: Aaron Andrews. What about the poor working people? I got

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Speaker 5: a question for you, halfwits. If Aaron Andrews was in

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Speaker 5: a car wreck and broke her leg in two places

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Speaker 5: and the pain was horrible. Can she say the pain

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Speaker 5: is horrible? Or would you say, how about a little perspective?

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Speaker 4: Are Yeah, how about a single mom who has to

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Speaker 4: work the night jift to Denny's.

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Speaker 2: She knows what pain is.

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Speaker 5: If her like broken two places, she'd be having pain

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Speaker 5: and she's gotta go work at denny.

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Speaker 2: So want's to have a little perspective, Jennal? Or what's

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Speaker 2: your erin?

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, you people are perth pathetic. Boy, God,

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Speaker 5: your need to be morally superior to somebody is so

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Speaker 5: bad you actually go with a criticism that bad. She's

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Speaker 5: telling little girls, Look, you're gonna be away a lot.

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Speaker 5: You've got to travel, You're gonna miss your family.

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Speaker 2: Oh about a little perspective.

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Speaker 5: Oh god, that just pissed me off, and I thought,

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Speaker 5: what are you doing? Look you get the internet, you idiot,

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Speaker 5: Go deal with the people in your life who are

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Speaker 5: actually there, which reminded me of one of my you know,

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Speaker 5: my vows that I have to renew every now and again.

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Speaker 5: I hate the expression touch grass because it's gotten such

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Speaker 5: it's such a cliche. But make your life your life.

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Speaker 5: The people you actually see and talk to and deal

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Speaker 5: with interact with, do business with, play sports with, not

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Speaker 5: everybody online, that's not your life.

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Speaker 4: I saw somebody write eloquently about this sort of news

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Speaker 4: story where they grab two comments, often not even you know,

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Speaker 4: well known people like in your case, just random comment

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Speaker 4: ers on social media, and they build a story around

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Speaker 4: it that needs to be outlawed. And I'm a free

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Speaker 4: speech guy that needs to be outlawed. But too many

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Speaker 4: people fall forward. And sometimes I'll click on a story

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Speaker 4: and then I'll get halfway through it and think, wait

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Speaker 4: a second, is the only thing to this story is

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Speaker 4: Jim and Omaha said something mean on Twitter about this thing.

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Speaker 2: That's it. That's the whole story that ed in Miami

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Speaker 2: had said, fright right, God, that's the worst journalism out there.

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Speaker 2: We need to do better.

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Speaker 5: As a completology Controls waded in and said sarcastic things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 4: The Internet did not like this person's version of the

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Speaker 4: national anthem, and they'll pick two random cults from people

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Speaker 4: and build a story around it. We got to stop

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Speaker 4: doing that. It's the consumer that drives it. Though you

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Speaker 4: read it, they know how much time you spent on

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Speaker 4: the article. They got the algorithm.

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Speaker 5: Uh so to two final points about this. Number one,

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Speaker 5: I'm a little surprised that Aaron Andrews dignified that jackass

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Speaker 5: a couple of comments with responses, but she also took

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Speaker 5: aim at NFL News aggregator Dove Climan, who I've never

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Speaker 5: heard of in my life, whose headline was Andrews.

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Speaker 2: Under heavy fire for her holiday's remarks under heavy from

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Speaker 2: losers online? Who cares? Oh, my lord is to break

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Speaker 2: out of this?

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Speaker 5: I don't know if there is no I was just

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Speaker 5: gonna say, can you get a shot or something that

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Speaker 5: it's well, it's like the we GOVI is in the

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Speaker 5: other weight loss drugs where you look at food and

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Speaker 5: thinking nah, I don't need that. I need a shot,

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Speaker 5: where I see a headline like that and think, eh,

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Speaker 5: that's stupid. Just pass it.

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Speaker 4: HM. One way too if you're under heavy fire would

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Speaker 4: be to ignore the heavy fire from random losers. If

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Speaker 4: you missed a seconment of the podcast ARM showing a

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Speaker 4: yety on demand good stuff planned for hour three, be there,

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Speaker 4: strong and