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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, Joe, Katty.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Katty and He.

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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yeddy.

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Speaker 4: So Joe Biden's presidency is nearly over. His staff has

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Speaker 4: all but checked out. They'd even stopped changing the batteries

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Speaker 4: in his life alert. In an interview with USA Today,

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Speaker 4: the Old Cout insisted he could have beaten Trump in

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Speaker 4: the election. In fact, only two things were holding him back.

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Speaker 4: His widespread unpopularity and breathing.

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Speaker 2: Old Coot made me laugh more than the punchline.

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Speaker 3: Name funny words an old.

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Speaker 1: As a yes on a completely different topic. I was

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Speaker 1: just thinking about something else and as I said to

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Speaker 1: my beautiful bride before work today, so apparently the holiday

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Speaker 1: pounds aren't just going to magically melt.

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Speaker 2: Off, right, that's funny. I dismounted the scale, similar thought

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Speaker 2: myself just in the hole. I mean, it's a trite

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Speaker 2: saying at this point, you know, something like moment on

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Speaker 2: the lips, Lifetime and the hips or anything like that,

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Speaker 2: but it's true. Oh yeah, I mean I'm I'm on

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Speaker 2: the scale today and thinking those several eating choices you

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Speaker 2: made over the break worth it at this point, not

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Speaker 2: in any way whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Putting it on is falling off a log. Taking it

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Speaker 1: off is a job anyway. I wish you well in

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Speaker 1: your efforts, as I hope you wish me so. A

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Speaker 1: couple of things really quickly mentioned Pete hegxath earlier. I

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Speaker 1: was looking at this excerpt of this thirty three page

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Speaker 1: rant that Elizabeth Warren unleashed as we are heading toward

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Speaker 1: the hearings for a number of the appointees or you know,

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Speaker 1: designates Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 2: That's a big job, especially with a couple of wars

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Speaker 2: going on.

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Speaker 1: Oh, incredibly important. Yeah. One of the main problems that

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Speaker 1: that Elizabeth Warren has is she hammers him for saying

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Speaker 1: things like here it is you've claimed that the dumbest

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Speaker 1: phrase on planet Earth in the military is our diversity

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Speaker 1: is our strength. Yeah, that makes me want to support him.

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Speaker 1: Has noted above, you also called for firing the Chairman

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Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs and quote any general that was involved,

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Speaker 1: any general, admiral whatever, that was involved in any of

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Speaker 1: the DEI woke s Oh boy, Now I really really

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Speaker 1: want to support him. Additionally, you complained in the war

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Speaker 1: on Warriors. There was a book he wrote. I believe

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Speaker 1: that quote. A woke military emphasizes the made up military

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Speaker 1: values of diversity and inclusion and fails to recruit masculine

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Speaker 1: men who make up a warrior class.

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Speaker 3: Do you think she's.

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Speaker 2: Convincing me to not want him to be Yes. Obviously

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Speaker 2: we're the wrong target for this, but I think most

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Speaker 2: of those things are at least somewhere in the fifty

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Speaker 2: to fifty range in this country. If not, oh please,

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Speaker 2: overwhelmingly favored.

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Speaker 1: Right, right, So anyway, I don't love Pete's chances at

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Speaker 1: this point, but that's sure as hell, ain't why you

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Speaker 1: know what the for him?

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Speaker 2: You don't like his chances because of what.

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Speaker 1: Just whether he's worth the contentious hearings. Plus, I know

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Speaker 1: Jony Ernst, a veteran and senator from Iowa, is a

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Speaker 1: little concerned about some of the things he said about

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Speaker 1: women in combat. He has now walked back those comments. Well,

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Speaker 1: that'll all be explained in the hearing, right I think.

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Speaker 1: So I hope they give him a fair shot. I

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Speaker 1: just I fear that they will go with somebody who

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Speaker 1: be the energetic force for change that Pete wants to be.

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Speaker 1: So I'm anxious to hear the hearings. I hope they

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Speaker 1: give him a fair shot. But having said that, I

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Speaker 1: came across this in the Wall Street Journal, and the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal editorial board is absolutely great, as good

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Speaker 1: as there is on questions of woke crap and DEI.

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Speaker 1: But they're reporters, many of whom are young. Are absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: And I came across this piece Corporate America drew back

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Speaker 1: from DEI. The upheaval isn't over. And they named jack

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the exact quote supporters of DEI.

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Speaker 1: I say, most boards and executives still support diversity diversity efforts,

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Speaker 1: that DEEI is not about diversity.

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Speaker 2: That's fraud.

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Speaker 1: They say, it's about making sure that black people and

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Speaker 3: A fair shot. No, it's not. It's a technique of infiltration.

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Speaker 1: You have people who want to tear down the powers

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Speaker 1: that be in Western civilization. They're neo Marxists. Woke is

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Speaker 1: a pretty good overlap with the neo Marxists. Diversity means

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Speaker 1: getting more people in this organization who want to overthrow.

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Speaker 3: It like us.

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Speaker 1: Equity is just communism, and inclusion is back to that

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Speaker 1: first point. Include more people who want to overthrow this

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Speaker 1: institution like we do. It masquerades this racial justice. That's

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Speaker 1: not what they're trying to do. And that's the point

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Speaker 1: not about race. They're just trying to use racial tensions

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Speaker 1: DEI is you call something racist until you control it.

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Speaker 1: Having said that, moving along, a couple of woke world leaders,

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Speaker 1: actually quite a few are getting the bums rush, including

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Speaker 1: Lao the National Review did wrote a piece about his

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Speaker 2: It's miserable.

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Speaker 1: Not only just skyrocketing immigration that's causing the same sort

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting thing. The immigration change in Canada was stark.

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Speaker 2: I remember how many years ago, Gladys, do you still

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Speaker 1: Just no, no, no, no. Just saying I remember is

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Speaker 1: not eure abusing, Gladys. It's got to be clearly a

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Speaker 1: reminiscence of your past life, not your past life like

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Speaker 1: I'm a psychic, but you know what I mean. Michael Jgree,

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Gladys. I think she's quiet quitting. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: I had some Canadian friends and so I was just

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Speaker 1: Learned to nothing about how to remove your jacket. Apparently

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Speaker 1: I still take off my gat like a girl. It's Canadians.

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Speaker 1: They take off their jacket in a very manly way.

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Speaker 3: You're damn right.

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Speaker 2: I was asking about how to move to Canada, and

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Speaker 2: then they were both from Canada and they were like, no,

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Speaker 2: that's all. It's really hard to do, really hard to do.

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Speaker 2: You have to prove that you can support yourself without

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Speaker 2: in my head. That is really hard, and I like that.

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Speaker 2: I think we should be like that. I remember that

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Speaker 2: stuck in my head. Well, Trudeau, we kind of like

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Speaker 2: that if you follow the law. Yeah. Well Trudeau came

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Speaker 2: where anybody can come in for any reason. They were hardcore.

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Speaker 2: You better have enough money to support yourself for life

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Speaker 2: and make it clear you're not going to get on

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Speaker 2: a program, or you have a job skill we want

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Speaker 2: or you can't come for whatever in Canada, right, Europe.

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Speaker 1: Is absolutely the same. And then they threw the borders

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Speaker 1: open and it's been disaster. Speaking of which we'll get

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Speaker 1: to Angela Merkele in just a second.

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Speaker 3: But listen to this here.

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Speaker 1: Since Trudeau took office and through the third quarter of

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Speaker 1: GDP per person growth in nine years had been one

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Speaker 1: gap will almost certainly widen. Canada's real GDP per capita

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Speaker 3: And is expected to have fallen again.

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Speaker 1: This means that Canadians, on average would have seventeen percent

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Speaker 1: higher incomes today if Canada's real GDP growth had tracked

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Speaker 1: see Canada's economic and this is not about Canada and

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Speaker 1: Trudeau per se, It's about progressive policies. Canada's economic performance

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Speaker 1: Cumulative real per capita down eight point two percent since

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Speaker 2: Well, their main industries are maple syrup production and hockey pucks,

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Speaker 2: and people have found alternative pancake toppings.

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Speaker 1: Although again, this is about and the United States had

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Speaker 1: wonderful numbers. If if California did not have tech, those

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Speaker 1: The only thing that saves California's bacon is tech. If

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Speaker 1: all of tech moved to Texas overnight, holy crap, would

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Speaker 1: there be a reckoning anyway? Under Trudeau, businesses invested less

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Speaker 1: while the government, surprise surprise, expanded significantly. Twenty fifteen to

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Speaker 3: By eleven percent. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Of course, total employment natural resources fell one percent. Headcount

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Speaker 1: their multiple multiple departments they cite. And then finally consider

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Speaker 1: the social disorder that Trudeau sparked. There's been a recent

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Speaker 1: explosion in anti Semitism across the country, including violent attacks.

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Speaker 1: Police reported hate crimes more than tripled over the last

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Speaker 1: eight years, even after accounting for population growth. Huge increase

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Speaker 1: of crimes against Jews coincident with their importing many, many,

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Speaker 1: many many folks from Muslim countries.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was listening to National Review podcasts and they

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Speaker 2: were all in agreement on how horrible it would be

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Speaker 2: to take in Canada as a fifty first state because

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Speaker 2: they make California seem like Wyoming in terms of their

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Speaker 2: political beliefs. I mean, they are not a free speech culture.

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Speaker 2: They're They're also much more of a government takes care

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Speaker 2: of us culture cradle to grave than anybody in the

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Speaker 1: We don't want that culture. No, No, indeed, I want

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Speaker 1: to get to the Charman angle. Markle before the end

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Speaker 1: of the hour, she's put out a big new memoir

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Speaker 1: and it's not landing the way she thought it would.

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Speaker 2: Interesting. I don't know anything about that will if you

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Speaker 2: So this was on sixty minutes last night. Outgoing FBI

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Speaker 1: This is not a terrorist incident that is incredibly undisciplined.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've known quite a few FBI agents in

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Speaker 2: I don't remember any. Are they all like lefty stuff?

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Speaker 1: Well, that's because if you're an actual conservative, the idea

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Speaker 5: China's cyber program is by far and away the world's largest,

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Speaker 3: Every nation big or small combined.

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Speaker 5: But even beyond the cyber theft, there's another part of

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Speaker 2: I feel like the President should be having a press

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Speaker 1: I would hope the awareness and the taking of action

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Speaker 2: But that whole they have a bigger yber program than

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Speaker 3: They're already in our systems.

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Speaker 6: As he explains, the Chinese have already insinuated malware into

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Speaker 2: Well, let's roll on with more of what China's doing

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Speaker 6: They have been listening to the telephone calls of people

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Speaker 3: Some people.

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Speaker 5: We believe that they have collected their content, the actual communications.

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Speaker 3: Of those people.

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Speaker 6: Ray wouldn't say it, but we have confirmed China gathered

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Speaker 2: So I'll ask you, Joe, we've been talking about this

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Speaker 3: Three percent? Maybe?

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Speaker 2: How do you explain that because we hate media sucks.

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Speaker 2: The part of it's that part of it is just

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Speaker 2: the safe and comfortable thing. Getting to what I was

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Speaker 2: talking about. France had been the dominant military power in

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Speaker 2: Europe for century, and everybody just kind of ignored that

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Speaker 2: Germany had come up with all these new weapons systems

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Speaker 2: and everything like that that France hadn't. And this is

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Speaker 2: the history of the world. It repeats itself over and

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Speaker 2: over and over again. You've been for so long, you

447
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Speaker 2: think we'll always be done. Nobody can touch us, nobody's

448
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Speaker 2: ever been able to touch us. We're fine, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean I could probably cook up like three reasons that

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Speaker 1: this is such an under told story or under emphasized story.

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Speaker 3: Part of it has to do with a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of our media is uncomfortable with anything that like talks

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Speaker 1: harshly about the Chinese because well, wait a minute, because

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Speaker 1: we have Chinese American people and Chinese immigrants and Chinese students,

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Speaker 1: and we don't want any racism because there's just so stupid.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, I don't know when when

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Speaker 1: the smacking comes, when the poop hits the fan, I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping it's a long time because China's weakened enough economically

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Speaker 1: that as Ian Bremer was saying when we interviewed them recently,

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Speaker 1: and that podcast is available wherever you get podcasts Armstrong,

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Speaker 1: you get extra large or on demand. But what was

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Speaker 1: he saying, Oh, they're weakened enough that they've had to

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Speaker 1: scale back some of their global ambitions.

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Speaker 3: And I hope that's true.

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Speaker 1: But if indeed the pooh hits the fan and China

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Speaker 1: decides to pull all those triggers that they have in

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Speaker 1: our infrastructure right now, it will be the only thing

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Speaker 1: anybody in America talks about for weeks and weeks until

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Speaker 1: it's straightened out.

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Speaker 2: More decades or centuries, depending on how it plays out.

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Speaker 2: I was reminded the other day, was it Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: guess it was it tucking it in inner or it

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Speaker 2: might have been sixty minutes that that whole what was

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Speaker 2: the that pipeline on the East coast, that can that

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Speaker 2: carries ninety percent of the gas or whatever.

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Speaker 1: That was Chinese hacking, yeah? Or was it Russian hacking?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. The point was it was hacking all

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Speaker 1: of our infrastructure that's connected to a computers hackable, and China,

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Speaker 1: to their evil, evil credit, has been working like crazy

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Speaker 1: to infiltrate it.

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Speaker 2: We might be saved just by the fact that China

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Speaker 2: has mismanaged their economy so poorly that they think we

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Speaker 2: can't get into a war right now. They've got all

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Speaker 2: the all the groundwork laid for when they were going

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Speaker 2: to pull the trigger on Taiwan or something or baker,

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Speaker 2: but they just start too broke and economically weak to

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Speaker 2: do it right now, because Yeah, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: your water's not safe to drink, your cell phone doesn't work,

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Speaker 2: so everybody's in a panic. You got no electricity at home.

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Speaker 2: The level of disruption, you can't even hardly imagine it.

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Speaker 1: I'm reminded of you're oft mocked prayer that God will

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Speaker 1: send you a minor health scare so you'll clean up

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Speaker 1: your act, as if you know cancer and organ loss

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Speaker 1: wasn't enough. But there's part of me that thinks we

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Speaker 1: need something like that in the US that gets everybody's attention.

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Speaker 1: So we wake the hell up, because if we go

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Speaker 1: down a couple more years down this road of just

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Speaker 1: whistling happily and ignorantly and thinking we're a big, fat

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Speaker 1: strung you preparer.

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Speaker 3: We will always be. Nobody can hurt us.

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Speaker 1: Huh, we're just gonna get screwed all the worse.

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Speaker 2: Joe's referencing my many times where you're saying I wish

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Speaker 2: I'd have a mild heart attack because then I would

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Speaker 2: probably get my eating together. Uh it's blasphemous to say

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Speaker 2: that sort of thing, but I feel like we've had

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Speaker 2: the mild heart attack as a country China. Hacking into

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Speaker 2: all your cell phones, reading all your texts and listening

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Speaker 2: to all your phone calls is not a mild heart attack.

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Speaker 2: But nobody's interested.

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Speaker 1: Among their conclusions. Boy, Joe Ginney and his wife are sappy. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: they hacked into the Kamalis Harris campaign.

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Speaker 3: They're thinking, what the hell? Who's running this? Why don't

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Speaker 3: they write a speech for why is she stupid?

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Speaker 2: Well, they've got a whole file today on how I

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Speaker 2: take them off my coat like a girl because they've

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Speaker 2: been following my text line.

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Speaker 1: So you're blackmailable, right, Probably not because you're you're open

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Speaker 1: about it.

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Speaker 3: Uh, do we want the final slip ray? It might

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Speaker 3: as well. Yeah, it's good.

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Speaker 5: There was a guy, a Pakistani citizen, just a few

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Speaker 5: months ago who we worked with our Canadian partners to arrest.

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Speaker 5: This guy was trying to get into the US to

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Speaker 5: get to New York City to conduct a mass shooting

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Speaker 5: at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, and in his words,

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Speaker 5: not my words, his words, he wanted to conduct the

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Speaker 5: largest attack in the US.

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Speaker 3: Since nine to eleven.

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Speaker 5: So what I would say to the American people is

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Speaker 5: that when you think these things are happening half a

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Speaker 5: world away, it's like that little inscription on your.

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Speaker 3: Mirror in your car.

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Speaker 5: Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.

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Speaker 2: Tic tick tick. Objects in mirrors are closer than they appear.

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Speaker 1: Yes, objects, like I said, objects in the mirror. Scott Kelly, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I actually think Chris Ray is a pretty good guy.

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Speaker 3: I think he suffers, perhaps.

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Speaker 1: From being downstream of eight years of the Obama administration

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Speaker 1: and the pressures they put on the FBI and hiring

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Speaker 1: decisions and affirmative action and DEI crap and the rest

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Speaker 1: of it. And now I think he's sitting atop an

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Speaker 1: organanization that's suffering from those decisions and policies.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know I don't. I don't. I can't

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Speaker 3: see any the guy's heart and.

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Speaker 2: Mind well, and yeah, to whatever extent that matters at

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Speaker 2: this point. But I want to be wrong about all

547
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 2: this stuff. I want to be wrong. I want China

548
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Speaker 2: to not have the big win at some point. I

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Speaker 2: want there to not all of a sudden one day

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Speaker 2: be a terrorist cell do all kinds of horrible things

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Speaker 2: and they all stuck across the border during the Biden administration.

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Speaker 2: I don't want those things to happen. But man, there's

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Speaker 2: sure a decent chance that it does.

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Speaker 1: Uh yes, yeah, In fact, the idea that it doesn't

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Speaker 1: happen is really wishful thinking.

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Speaker 2: Right, We'll finish strongs to hear.

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Speaker 3: Big thirty six?

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Speaker 1: Why open that Samuel sag some sacks, the slips of a.

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Speaker 3: Tackle, he's taking it home for the.

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Speaker 2: Touchdownd, How is Josh Allen throwing a touchdown pass for

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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills as they stomped the Broncos. Getting a

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Speaker 2: closer to what practically every NFL fan has been waiting

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Speaker 2: for and expecting Chiefs Bills to see. Who goes to

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl again. That's going to be a heck

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Speaker 2: of a game. Can't wait.

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Speaker 1: The Philadelphia Eagles might have something to say about that matchup. Jack,

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Speaker 1: stay with us, stay tuned. We'll break down the players

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Speaker 1: and the How.

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Speaker 2: Would the Eagles in the NFC have anything to say about?

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Speaker 2: Who's in the AFC Championship game?

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Speaker 3: Oh? AFC Championship?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I was dot you're on the super Bowl. There

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Speaker 1: was only half paying attention back to you.

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Speaker 2: Okay. So I want to know if anybody's tried one

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Speaker 2: of these Aura rings. I saw him at Target. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know anything about him, and my son was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you don't know anything about this, and he went on

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Speaker 2: a rant. I don't know why he knows about it. Uh,

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Speaker 2: seeing add somewhere, I guess AnyWho. They look like a

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Speaker 2: pretty nice modern ring, although I don't I'm not a

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Speaker 2: ring guy and I'm not married, so I don't know

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Speaker 2: where I would wear it. But it's a smart ring.

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Speaker 2: They're about four ner dollars like this the cost of

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Speaker 2: a you know, a medium smartphone, but you get the

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Speaker 2: app for your iPhone or whatever kind of phone you have,

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00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: and it tracks over thirty different biometrics. You wear it

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Speaker 2: on your finger all the time, sleep, activity, stress, heart health,

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Speaker 2: women's health metrics. You know, Lady Time, the or ring Forest,

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00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 2: powered by smart sensing which adapts to your unique finger,

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Speaker 2: delivering the most accurate continuous data day and night. They

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Speaker 2: claim that it's a lot of the information that you

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Speaker 2: get from smart bit sort of things watches, but it's

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Speaker 2: better because it's tight around your finger, and it's also

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Speaker 2: needs a smaller battery can last longer. Blah blah blahs.

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Speaker 2: Seems like a fairly good idea. I just wondered if

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Speaker 2: anybody had ever used it. You should text us or

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Speaker 2: email it. Email us if you've used this and liked

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Speaker 2: it on eight days of battery life, so you could

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Speaker 2: just leave it on pretty much all the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, A good friend was urging me to check out

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Speaker 1: tracking my sleep via the Apple Watch, for instance. But

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Speaker 1: I hate the idea of wearing a watch while I sleep.

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Speaker 1: I know you get used to it.

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Speaker 2: I have a watch I never take off ever, ever, ever,

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Speaker 2: ever congratulates full sleep, shower whatever, so I'm very used

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Speaker 2: to it. So I could do that for the biometric stuff.

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Speaker 2: But how about a ring? Could you wear a ring

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Speaker 2: all the time. I'd prefer not to, but I suppose

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Speaker 2: so it would be nice to have that information, THO,

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Speaker 2: wouldn't it a week or how I sleep or when

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Speaker 2: my heart rate gets the highest or lowest, or all

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Speaker 2: kinds of different stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'd be kind of interested when I'm having my lady time,

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Speaker 1: because men can menstroy it. As we've learned recently from

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Speaker 1: a freaking lunatics who definitely believe you'll fall for anything.

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Speaker 2: How many people have My question would be, like a

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Speaker 2: lot of tech, is this something I would continue to

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Speaker 2: be interested in? Or would I be interested in it

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Speaker 2: for like a week or two like the latest VR

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Speaker 2: headset and then it goes in a drawer. I am

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Speaker 2: actually kind of interested in my sleep patterns. I'd like

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Speaker 2: I haven't. I don't really know how much sleep I

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Speaker 2: get every night or every week. I'll make some good data.

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Speaker 2: Here's your host from Final four, Final thoughts, Joe Getty.

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Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the true

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Speaker 1: wrap things up for the day. There is our technical director,

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Speaker 1: Mike Langelo, Michael lead us Off.

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Speaker 3: My message is very simple for Jack.

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Speaker 5: Even though you you know, take your coat off like

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Speaker 5: a lady, we still we still like you.

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Speaker 3: You're still you know, we still look up to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wow, yeah, thank you the diversity of coat removal.

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Speaker 1: Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought for us, Katie.

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Speaker 2: I tried that sleep tech with the ring and it

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Speaker 2: told me I slept like crap. And then I was

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Speaker 2: like neat and that was pretty much dand neat. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for the in for that. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now I can't sleep at night because I'm worrying

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Speaker 1: about how I sleep at night.

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Speaker 3: Jack a final thought.

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Speaker 2: We are seven days away from Trump's innauguration. They have

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Speaker 2: announced the singer of America, the Beautiful will be Carrie Underfed,

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Speaker 2: among other fantastic acts there at the inauguration.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that reminds me. Robin Zander a cheap trick.

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Speaker 1: Sang the national anthem for the which was one of

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Speaker 1: the playoff games yesterday in Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 3: Did a really good job too. Sounded completely not like

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Speaker 3: cheap trick. He was crooning it.

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Speaker 2: Humm.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, my final thought it was our Freedom Living quote

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Speaker 1: of the day this morning, Clay Routledge.

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Speaker 3: She's a writer, economist or professor of some sort.

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Speaker 1: We're living in an era of woke capitalism, in which

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Speaker 1: companies pretend about to care about social justice to sell

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Speaker 1: products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

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Speaker 2: That is good Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling

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Speaker 2: four hour workday, so.

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Speaker 1: Many people who thanks so a little time. Go to

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty dot com. You can pick up some

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Speaker 1: amng swag, drop us a note to grab the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Say tomorrow, God but less America.

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Speaker 3: I'm Strong and gattate.

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Speaker 2: Mash Maid and Heaving. The two get together every morning

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Speaker 2: at six o'clock over a ton of stuff.

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Speaker 3: We're all better off, we're all better off, we're all

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Speaker 3: better off. We're working together. What the hell was that?

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Speaker 3: That was quite entertaining for no Joe.

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Speaker 2: It's outrageous and so good, says I'm Garnet. Call my lawyer, Garnet.

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Speaker 2: This is not the time, finger pointing, Joe, Yes it is.

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Speaker 3: It's perfect time. Okay, So everybody chill.

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Speaker 2: On that high note. Bye bye, Armstrong and Getty