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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, Ketty arm Strong and

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Speaker 1: Getty and He Armstrong and Eddy.

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Speaker 2: You know, Mike Johnson's a very religious person that he

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Speaker 2: does not hide it. He'll say to me sometimes at lunch, sir,

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Speaker 2: may we pray?

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Speaker 1: Shay, excuse me, we're.

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Speaker 2: Having lunch, you know, dealble, It's okay with me. But

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Speaker 2: he's a very religious person, and he is popular, and

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Speaker 2: he's doing an unbelievable job. So I think God is

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Speaker 2: watching over here.

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Speaker 1: God is watching over him. I don't know about me,

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Speaker 1: so I hang around.

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Speaker 2: With him because I feel unprotected a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Trump, with the most support of the religious crowd, maybe

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Speaker 3: of any president in the last one hundred years, is

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Speaker 3: a guy who clearly doesn't take it that seriously.

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Speaker 1: No, not at all, And it's just it's just interesting.

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Speaker 3: And there he is at the National Prayer Breakfast of

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Speaker 3: the every every single year, you know, kind of mocking

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Speaker 3: the idea that he's religious. And now Mike's religious and

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Speaker 3: he says, you want to pray, and I'm like, we're

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Speaker 3: having lunch. Trump is the greatest warrior against woke in

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Speaker 3: the heights of our.

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Speaker 1: Government that's ever existed. That's it. But only Trump can

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Speaker 1: pull that off. Yeah, just this is amazing. Well, you

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Speaker 1: rarely feel like you're getting like, uh, bamboozled by Trump.

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Speaker 1: I prefer that transparent.

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Speaker 3: I prefer that to the pretending to be incredibly religious

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Speaker 3: when you probably aren't. By the way, by the way,

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Speaker 3: Trump said this morning on the Savannah Guthrie's Mom missing thing,

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Speaker 3: Trump said he's directing all federal law enforcement to be

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Speaker 3: at the complete disposal of Savannah Guthrie's family.

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Speaker 1: Is that good? All law enforcement at the complete disposal.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna send like five thousand nice guys to Tucson.

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Speaker 4: Or on whatever they ask for.

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Speaker 3: I need the entire FBI, and they need to stop

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Speaker 3: any sort of Chinese hacking, spy thing, anything like that.

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Speaker 3: Need them all come deal with this complete disposal all

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Speaker 3: of law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they was just saying, yeah, we'll help

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Speaker 1: if you need us. So here's a headline that falls

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Speaker 1: squarely under the umbrella of a you blanking kidding me

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Speaker 1: Wall Street journal. Parents are going broke from their kids

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Speaker 1: sushi obsession. Oh oh my god.

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Speaker 3: I love the pretending parents don't have agency version of stories.

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Speaker 4: I love it when they do that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, parents are going broke from their kids. Sushi obsession.

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Speaker 1: Raw Fish has replaced beats the pete. I'm sorry, Take two.

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Speaker 1: I was so proud of myself for getting through sushi obsession.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about, Wow, I really pulled that off,

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Speaker 1: and then I fed up pizza.

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Speaker 3: You're like Eric Clapton when he talks about soloing and

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Speaker 3: he thinks, man, I've been playing all night long and

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Speaker 1: It happens to anybody who plays knows that, Wow, I

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Speaker 1: am really playing. Oh crap, sushi obsession.

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Speaker 4: You said sushi obsession.

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Speaker 1: Yes, raw Fish has replaced pizza as a birthday party staple,

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Speaker 1: prompting plenty of regret.

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Speaker 3: Wow, my kids do not dig the sushi. That's interesting.

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Speaker 3: Kids prefer sushi over pizza for a birthday party.

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Speaker 1: Let's see. Here's a mom with a eight year old

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Speaker 1: and six year old. They regularly requested blah blah blah,

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Speaker 1: samon rolls, tunerals, blah blah blah. They would have sushi

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Speaker 1: every day if they could, But Embery Grace Embury's has

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Speaker 1: limited their int to weekly outings where bills can reach

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars. That headline is something Yeah

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Speaker 1: it is anyway, speaking to the young people. Parents are

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Speaker 1: going broke keeping up with their kids sushi obsession in

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Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal, which is supposed to be for

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Speaker 1: Here's some grilled cheese. Dream big kid. Neuroscientists are revealing

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Speaker 1: the first generation in history to be less intelligent than

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Speaker 1: their parents. I'm gonna lord this over my kidszer than you.

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Speaker 1: Gen z ers have become the first generation since records

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Speaker 1: and at least one expert thinks he's uncovered the reason.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Jared Cooney Horvat, a former teacher termed neuroscientist bah

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Speaker 1: Bah Bah, has revealed that Gen Z, which is generally

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Speaker 1: recognized as you're born between ninety seven and twenty ten

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Speaker 1: on cognitive development in the late eighteen hundreds. Gen Z

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Speaker 1: now officially the first ever scored lower than the generation

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Speaker 3: There ain't nobody on planet Earth that could argue with

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Speaker 3: the attention part.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, no, and one might argue, and

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Speaker 1: abilities are going to suffer. Attention is really the whole

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Speaker 1: ball of wax when it comes to learning. It's an

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Speaker 1: excellent ball of axe. Yes, Doctor Harvath told the US

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Speaker 1: and Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that gen Z

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Speaker 1: intelligence has dropped despite these teenagers and young adults spending

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Speaker 1: more time in school than children did in the twentieth century.

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Speaker 1: The increase or I'm sorry, the cause and I've actually

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Speaker 1: read some of this guy's stuff and I have found

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Speaker 1: it very, very persuasive. It's directly tied to the increase

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Speaker 1: in the amount of learning that's now carried out using

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Speaker 1: what is called educational technology or ed tech, which includes

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Speaker 1: computers and tablets, which first flooded schools. When my kids,

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Speaker 1: they were the first generation of kids get a tablet. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's entirely that the neuroscientists explained that this generation has

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Speaker 1: falling behind because the human brain was never wired to

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Speaker 1: learn from short clips seen online and brief sentences, reading

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Speaker 1: brief sentences that sum up much larger books and complex ideas.

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Speaker 1: Humans are biologically programmed to learn from other humans and

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Speaker 1: from deep study, not flipping through screens for bullet point summaries.

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Speaker 1: I explained that humans evolved to learn best through real

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Speaker 1: human interaction face to face. Added that screens disrupt the

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Speaker 1: natural biological processes that build deep understanding, memory and focus.

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Speaker 3: I don't think this would be a problem if it

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Speaker 3: was happening gradually over a thousand years or a million years, maybe,

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Speaker 3: But it's happening in like six months. It went from

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some of the neuroscience behind this is actually pretty interesting.

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Speaker 1: I remember having a wow moment when and I think

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Speaker 1: out that if you read a book book as opposed

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Speaker 1: That is absolutely trying to remember something I've read. I

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Speaker 3: I can open up the book and get close to

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Speaker 1: Whereas it probably remember if it was toward the top

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Speaker 3: Whereas I'm reading Ulysses on kindle and I'm almost done. Uh,

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Speaker 3: James Joyce was alive right now. He slapped a kindle

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: In the US data for money, so James Joyce detail

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you know a lot of creative geniuses are bums.

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Speaker 4: They are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. In the US data from the National Association

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Speaker 1: I'm Sorry Assessment, National Assessment of Educational Progress uncovered that

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Speaker 1: when states roll out widespread one to one device programs,

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Speaker 1: gen Z has fallen off the path of constant human development.

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Speaker 1: Horvath claimed that the doctor that many teens and young

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Speaker 1: over confident about how smart they are. The smarter people

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Speaker 1: the post isn't that Dunning Krueger? Uh? It's a yeah,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah? What do kids do on computers in

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Speaker 1: real life? They skim? So rather than determining what we

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Speaker 1: education towards that, we're redefining education to better suit the tool.

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Speaker 1: That's not progress. That surrender the other problem with it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this plays a role or not,

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Speaker 1: But when I held a book in my hand, like

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Speaker 1: I was in eighth grade, on the other side of

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Speaker 1: that page, wasn't watching highlights from the basketball game, or

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Speaker 3: I mean, because I struggle with that every single I

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Speaker 3: I'll just check this real quick. And then oh, that

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Speaker 4: Next thing, I know, I didn't read.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've re embraced the physical book because I love,

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Speaker 1: it's wonderful, like when you're traveling, Oh my gosh, I

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Speaker 3: Well, why don't you just blacksmith your own horseshoes to wills?

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if I can explain it,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think it's an old timey person thing.

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Speaker 3: I I don't know if it's an old timey thing

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Speaker 3: if it's nostalgia or not like that if you didn't

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Speaker 3: I've bought the physical book of books that I've read

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Speaker 3: online just to have it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because that's what I'm talking I like having it

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Speaker 1: and why It's hard to explain, huh. Anyway, kids are

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Speaker 1: we go, and so it goes.

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Speaker 3: As Kurt Vonnegut would say, if you ever read a book,

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Speaker 3: you'd know what I was talking about.

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Speaker 1: We've got more on the way.

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Speaker 4: Stay here.

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Speaker 5: Jath Bezos coming under harsh criticism for his men management,

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Speaker 5: where you might say mismanagement, of The Washington Post. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 5: the Post announced sweeping layoffs, among the most severe cuts

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Speaker 5: laid off. I'm talking about three hundred staffers from the newsroom.

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Speaker 5: This was affecting all sorts of sections at the Post.

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Speaker 5: Sports is basically shutting down. The metro desk is being decimated.

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Speaker 1: Recognized mister Bessett. Please, all right, And here's a Democrat. Yes,

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Speaker 1: good name. Oh, back to a teachers union. This is

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Speaker 1: Raise Up Massachusetts, a lobbying group backed by the Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: Teachers Association in the state's American Federation of Teachers branch,

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Speaker 1: which filed the lawsuit last week to have a tax

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Speaker 1: cut declared unconstitutional because the language on the ballot fails

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Speaker 1: to inform petitions, signers and voters that the tax cut

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Speaker 1: would apply to capital gains in addition to wages and interests.

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Speaker 1: Ballot measures a response to a separate referendum referendum which

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Speaker 1: was pushed by the union during a low turnout vote

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Speaker 1: that raised the state's income tax an additional four percent.

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Speaker 3: So the argument that tax cut, and then people think

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Speaker 3: their taxes are going to be cut, But it's only

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Speaker 3: for people who have capital gains and interest on investments,

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Speaker 3: So it's only for that.

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Speaker 1: That's their argument, certain, But the Teachers' Union's real purposes,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to give up any money. We want

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Speaker 1: more taxes, higher taxes. And finally, this for two things

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Speaker 1: for our Oregonian friends. First of all, Portland area county.

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Speaker 1: It's Moltnoma County, which is where Portland is launched a

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Speaker 1: sanctuary fund providing taxpayer funded grants to assist illegal immigrants,

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Speaker 1: part of a quarter million dollar package approved by Moltnoma

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Speaker 1: County commissioners to help out illegals proud sanctuary jurisdiction. And finally,

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Speaker 1: this and this is interesting, a taxpayer revolt could shake

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Speaker 1: up Oregon politics. Nearly two hundred thousand Oregonians signed up

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Speaker 1: tition to put a tax repeal proposal on the ballot.

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Speaker 1: They did it entirely without professional signature gathers. It was

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Speaker 1: just volunteers and they delivered some one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: three thousand signatures. It was a lump of coal and

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Speaker 1: progressive stockings, writes jeffy Eeger and The Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 1: The organizers of the repeal effort, weary of being taxed

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Speaker 1: at some of the highest rates in the nation, gathered

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Speaker 1: signatures in about a month to give the voters the

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Speaker 1: chance to rescind a four point three billion dollar taxi.

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Speaker 1: The governor, Tina Kotech and her allies shoved through the

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Speaker 1: legislature along party lines. The progressive paradise of Oregon seeing

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Speaker 1: a taxpayer revolt, which is just interesting.

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Speaker 3: So that's an example if you can go too far

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Speaker 3: for everybody went they went too far in San Francisco,

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Speaker 3: they finally decided to hire somebody different to be mayor

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Speaker 3: and get rid of the homeless people. Maybe they got

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Speaker 3: too far. They went too far with legalized drugs in Oregon,

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Speaker 3: and people decided that ain't working right now.

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Speaker 4: Maybe the same thing with taxes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are so many states California, Oregon, Washington, in

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Speaker 1: Illinois that are big red states full of reasonable people

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Speaker 1: who are outnumbered by the wackadoodles of the big cities, who,

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Speaker 1: unlike the people in the red districts, who don't give

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Speaker 1: a crap, the people in the blue districts, think everybody

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Speaker 1: should live the way I want to live, and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna pass lots of rules that demand they live like

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Speaker 1: I want people to live. That's these untied states teats,

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Speaker 1: These untied.

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Speaker 4: Teats, sub get that an extras.

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Speaker 1: Teatah, good news if you're gonna eat chips, bad.

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Speaker 3: News if you're gonna eat pizza. We've got in the

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Speaker 3: economy coming up, among other things. We'll finish strong. Stay tuned.

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Speaker 8: Some of your favorite snacks will be cheaper, just in

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Speaker 8: time for the Super Bowl. PepsiCo says it is cutting

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Speaker 8: prices on Doritos, Lays and Cheetos.

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Speaker 1: After fifteen percent this week.

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Speaker 8: Company says it's responding to customer can plants that the

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Speaker 8: snacks have become too expensive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and if they're cutting the price, how tiny the

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Speaker 3: bag is going to get?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 4: You can open up a bag and there's going.

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Speaker 1: To be one flipping chip in there, one chip, and

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Speaker 1: they ad open up another bag to get your next chip.

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Speaker 3: Uh, that's the supposed good news. We'll see if they

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Speaker 3: do shrink flation to deal with the prices. Here's some

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Speaker 3: bad news if you're a lover of delicious pizza.

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Speaker 8: Pizza Hut is closing hundreds of restaurants across the US.

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Speaker 8: The chain has been struggling in a competitive pizza market,

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Speaker 8: recording another dismal quarter. It's parents company, Young Brands, is

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Speaker 8: Pizza Hut same store sales drop three percent in the US.

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Speaker 8: Young Brand's other restaurant chains, Taco Bell and KFC, have

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Speaker 8: reported higher same store sales of seven percent and one percent, respectively.

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Speaker 1: Well, you, cat's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 3: So it's not just you know, people don't want toy

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Speaker 3: crappy food, if you'll pardon that judgment, because taco bills taco.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I am when it comes eating.

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Speaker 3: Taco Bell and and KFC are up while Pizza Hut

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Speaker 3: is down.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I just think there's too much really good

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Speaker 1: pizza in the world, why not where I live.

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Speaker 3: So if you gotta if you've got to do a

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Speaker 3: chain pizza. What's the best chain pizza? Dominoes, Roundtable, Pizza Hut,

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Speaker 3: and what other else you can think of? You got one, Katie.

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Speaker 6: It's a close tie between round Table and Dominoes. Dominoes

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Speaker 6: has turned it up quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: I haven't had a Dominoes in forever. I should try it.

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Speaker 1: The only one of those name that I've had in

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Speaker 1: ages is round Table. I think they make a really

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Speaker 1: good pizza. Yea pizza sauce freak in the flavor of

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Speaker 1: their sauce is fantastic. Domino savory, it's not sweet and sugary.

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Speaker 6: Dominoes does the pan pizzas, so it's it's like all

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Speaker 6: baked together.

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Speaker 7: It's not I don't I love those things so much.

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Speaker 4: What happened to the Hut?

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Speaker 1: The hut used to be a big deal. Gotta shut

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Speaker 1: the Hut.

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Speaker 3: I really grew up with pizza because it was started

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Speaker 3: in Kansas, and so they expanded from there originally, and

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Speaker 3: so every tiny little town in Kansas had a pizza Hut,

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Speaker 3: didn't matter how small you were, Like, we had no

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Speaker 3: fast food in the town I grew up with. There

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Speaker 3: wasn't fast food within a half hour drive of me

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Speaker 3: growing up as a kid, But we had a pizza.

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Speaker 3: Everybody had a pizza. Every tiny little didn't matter. If

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Speaker 3: you had eight hundred people, you had a pizza.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And so that was the thing.

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Speaker 3: Unless my tastes have changed, I thought it was really

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Speaker 3: good back then, But the last several times I've had it,

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Speaker 3: I thought.

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Speaker 1: This is not that great. I know, in high school

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Speaker 1: I loved Pizza Hut and this is in Chicago Land,

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Speaker 1: where we got plenty of good pizza.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought it was a good pizza.

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Speaker 3: Now I've seen some charts and I haven't verified this,

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Speaker 3: some charts that say the price of pizza has remained

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Speaker 3: more stable than most other foods and the only way

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Speaker 3: they pulled that off is by having the ingredients get cheaper.

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Speaker 1: But it seems to ring true to me. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because a pizza, if you were going to keep keep

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Speaker 1: up the same quality that pizza used to have, you

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Speaker 1: might have to charge fifty five dollars for a large pizza.

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Speaker 4: And they just don't think anybody's gonna do that.

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Speaker 1: Well, right, and they're right, Yeah, Yeah. People just want

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Speaker 1: cheap stuff, you know, they want stuff they can afford obviously. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Michael plus let's be honest, pizza has to get really

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Speaker 1: bad before you won't eat it. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't usually have that much trouble with how it

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Speaker 3: tastes at the time. I do notice how I feel afterwards.

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Speaker 1: If I eat a cheaper pizza and good mentioned in

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Speaker 1: the past Pizza Hut, Westmont, Illinois, nineteen eighties, early eighties,

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Speaker 1: if you look to be older than twelve, they'd pour

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Speaker 1: you a pictuer of beer. It was a favorite stop

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Speaker 1: for me and my friends, my baseball teammates. Yes, indeed,

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Speaker 1: we love the Zaha.

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Speaker 3: Really so you could be a fifteen year old and

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Speaker 3: just order a pitcher beer. Nobody blinked an eye.

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Speaker 1: Yeah pretty much. Yeah, I mean we might have been

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Speaker 1: a little older than that when we do. But I

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Speaker 1: can picture a couple of vacations with my friends and

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Speaker 1: my sister or whatever, going in and having a couple

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Speaker 1: of pictures of beers. High schooler.

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Speaker 3: Man, I have had some flat, barely cooler than room

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Speaker 3: temperature pictures of beer at pizza, which was.

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Speaker 1: Fine at the time. I wasn't picky, but oh but

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Speaker 1: when it's frosty and cold, come.

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Speaker 4: On, yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, here's here's your host for final thoughts, Joe, let's

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Speaker 1: get a final thought from everybody on the crew to

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Speaker 1: wrap up the show for the day. Wouldn't that be delightful.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with Michaelangelo or technical director Michael had it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I got a text about my bean dip for

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Speaker 6: the souper for the game coming up.

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Speaker 1: But yes, you can add ground beef to it. That

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Speaker 1: was your question. I'm sure ground beef would be fine.

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Speaker 4: Is there no meat in it?

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Speaker 1: Currently? No meat, but you can cook up some ground

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Speaker 1: beef put it in there. I'll probably add some sausage.

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Speaker 1: There's no meat in it. It's got Maren Katie Green

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Speaker 1: are esteemed newswoman. Do you have a final thought? I do.

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Speaker 6: I've already gotten a couple of tweets asking about the

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Speaker 6: no flour banana muffins, So I'm going to put the

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Speaker 6: recipe up at Armstrong and Getty dot.

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Speaker 1: Com or like a cooking show. Are anti flowerists enthusiastic

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Speaker 1: It's a gluten thing, Yeah, gluten gleaban jack. Final thought

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Speaker 1: for us if that is true that this generation of

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Speaker 1: young people are the first kids to be dumber than

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Speaker 1: their parents. Yes, that's really interesting and how long will

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Speaker 1: we let that go before it's seen as a crisis.

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Speaker 1: Not enough people are aware of it. That's why the

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Speaker 1: activists are activating. My final thought. Green iguanas are a

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Speaker 1: scourge in South Florida. First documented in the nineteen sixties,

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Speaker 1: their populations exploded to by some estimates, more than a million.

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Speaker 1: They wreak tavoc on the region's infrastructure, brewing holes around

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Speaker 1: home sidewalks and seawalls. I did not know that I

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Speaker 1: had a pair of iguana boots once. Really really liked them.

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Speaker 1: Kind of expensive, though, I are at guana book's expensive.

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Speaker 1: If they got aguanas all over the place, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go falling out of the freaking trees in Florida. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go with the suitcase. I'm gonna bap a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guang on his on the head. I'm gonna bring

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Speaker 1: him back to California. You're gonna have somebody show me

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Speaker 1: up some boots. It'll be much cheaper, one more fascinating.

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Speaker 1: You're gone effect in Florida. It is lawful to dispatch

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Speaker 1: them in a humane way, but it is legal to

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Speaker 1: transport them.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'll keep that in mind.

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

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Speaker 1: What are you in for? Transport?

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Speaker 4: New corners?

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Speaker 1: So many people, Thanks so long time. Go to Armstrong

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Speaker 1: and Getty dot com. A lot of great clicks for you,

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Speaker 1: including in Katie's Corner that delicious muffin recipe. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you on Friday.

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Speaker 3: God bless America, Armstrong and get.

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Speaker 1: It if you missed any part of these Strong and

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Speaker 1: Getty show. Hey Ma, I'm gonna store this rat poison

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Speaker 1: this here bottle. You don't be drinking anything, I promise.

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Speaker 1: Why do you keep all your urine in bottles? Jim,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need it. Don't question me. Woman, Armstrong and

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