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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 Gatty Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Jack Katy and no Hee arm drawn yet.

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Speaker 2: Why them?

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Speaker 1: From studio scene. It is a dimly lit room deeper

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Speaker 1: in the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communications compounds

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Speaker 1: and products, surrounded by razor wire here Doberman pincers and

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Speaker 1: some sort of anti flu vaccine that were spraying on everything.

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Speaker 1: And today we were under the tutelage of our general

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Speaker 1: manager at Jack's request. The super flu. The superflu, which

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Speaker 1: I've heard. I've heard that term about eight hundred times

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Speaker 1: already today and I had. I don't think I've heard

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Speaker 1: of reference to any gathering without somebody saying Jim wasn't there,

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Speaker 1: he's got the flu. Oh really, you know, Betty missed

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Speaker 1: and really, Yeah, I'm hearing that a lot. Uh huh,

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Speaker 1: it's that time a year, of course. Yeah, so is

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Speaker 1: it a worse flu than usual? Is that why they're

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Speaker 1: calling it the superflu? I don't really know. I'm not

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Speaker 1: hip to that. I was hoping you had Are you

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Speaker 1: going to bring the goods? Well, yeah, they're saying that,

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Speaker 1: but every statistic coming out of COVID, every statistic that

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Speaker 1: they give, I know kind of the background of how

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Speaker 1: those are compiled. For instance, they did the deaths and

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Speaker 1: then it said something down in fine.

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Speaker 3: Print of with flu related in addition to flu related

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Speaker 3: symptoms or something like that.

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Speaker 1: So how many.

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Speaker 3: People died of whatever and also had the flu? You

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Speaker 3: know that old question.

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Speaker 1: So I just died. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm just so skeptical about all the statistics. Obviously a

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Speaker 3: lot of people have the flu. Whether it's worse or not,

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't really quite understand that. Also a

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Speaker 3: lot of information contradicting each other about whether or not

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Speaker 3: getting the flu vaccine does any good on this the

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Speaker 3: superflu variant the vaccine doesn't really work on according to

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Speaker 3: the News Nation I was just watching. But the doctors

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Speaker 3: say it's still a good idea to get the flow.

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Speaker 3: Of course, they say that, Now, did you.

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Speaker 1: Get any sense of what sort of superness are we

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Speaker 1: talking about it? I mean, it's just a super flu.

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Speaker 1: You don't feel bad at all. I doubt it's that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably like super nasty or super transmissible

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Speaker 1: or what it seems to be. And again, this is

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Speaker 1: just based on the news I'm following, whether it's not a.

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Speaker 3: More easily spread it's just easier to catch and spread around,

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Speaker 3: and it seems to be moving looking at the map kind.

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Speaker 1: Of east to west across the United States.

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Speaker 3: That's another thing we learned right during COVID is you

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Speaker 3: know a state would have this, and state would have that,

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Speaker 3: and then be talking about what they're doing right or wrong.

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Speaker 1: But then you'd realize eventually.

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Speaker 3: All the other weeks later, Yeah, all the other states

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Speaker 3: get it to It just starts somewhere and then it

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Speaker 3: travels right right exactly if it is moving to the west.

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Speaker 3: According to you haul's that's the only thing moving to California.

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Speaker 3: As cal Unicornia has once again topped the biggest outflow

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Speaker 3: state statistics as people flee the crumbling util Really.

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Speaker 1: What the hell is going on? Yeah, mismanagement, gavy, horrim fyingly,

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Speaker 1: mismanaged policy.

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Speaker 2: We're all human, we all fall short sometimes.

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Speaker 1: And just the cost of living in California dumb as

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Speaker 1: an f and rock.

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Speaker 3: But looking at the flu map of where it's the worst,

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Speaker 3: it's the it's all your states that have all the

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Speaker 3: news channels have the worst flu right now. So that's

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Speaker 3: why they're going to talk about it so much, I suppose.

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Speaker 3: And it gets a little better as you move across

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Speaker 3: the United States, although the flu will probably travels as

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Speaker 3: these things do.

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Speaker 1: It's short for influenza Jack. Okay, it's all I go.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic, that's very helpful. Sorry, And you did get

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Speaker 1: the flu vac or didn't get the flu vaccine. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I did. I think we're a completely unvaccinated show.

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Speaker 1: Oh nokie, I would approve it. I didn't get it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get it. Joe and Hans and none of

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Speaker 1: us got the flu vaccine. So I often do. I

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Speaker 1: just I don't think I did this here. I often don't.

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Speaker 3: And I've always been an anti tax tasker, not an

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Speaker 3: anti vaxxer. I'm not as bothered by the vaccines as

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Speaker 3: done and make time for that. The other hell thing,

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Speaker 3: speaking of the CDC and all that sort of stuff,

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Speaker 3: is RFK Juniors announcing the updated dietary guidelines today.

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Speaker 1: We update them every five years, I guess, although they

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Speaker 1: but this year they're expecting some major changes, which is

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Speaker 1: very exciting and I'll tell you why I'm excited about it.

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Speaker 1: According to The New York Times, which of course is

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Speaker 1: presenting this all in a scary, scary music sort of

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Speaker 1: Godzilla's Coming because they hate RFK Junior so much. In

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Speaker 1: recent months, mister Kennedy and the Agricultural Secretary have suggested

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Speaker 1: the new guidelines would be would be recommending more red meat,

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Speaker 1: in particular beef. I'm very excited about the new guidelines, yes,

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Speaker 1: and of course if that's true, there will be talk.

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Speaker 1: Of of course, the Agricultural Secretary wanted the guidelines to

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Speaker 1: say eat more beef for all the farmers, et cetera. Right, right.

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Speaker 3: The new guidelines also might encourage the consumption of saturated fats,

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Speaker 3: which has not been a thing recently encouraging. That doesn't

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Speaker 3: know whether or not the do guidelines will say anything

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Speaker 3: about ultraprocessed foods, which we've all decided.

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Speaker 1: In the last year like the worst thing in the

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Speaker 1: world for us and we should stop eating them, right,

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Speaker 1: whether or not. And they watching the guidelines poison and suicide, Yes,

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Speaker 3: The guidelines for what they say about alcohol. Given recent

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Speaker 3: evidence that no amount of drinking is safe.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, shut all. Yeah. I had a conversation on

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Speaker 1: mine about the question of the the decision, the choice

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Speaker 1: smell of bacon in the house, and and and how

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Speaker 1: that might change in life. And wow, we agreed that

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Speaker 1: that to awaken to one or the other is about

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Speaker 1: as good as life gets. Yeah, I would agree. I

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Speaker 1: certainly not at the age where I prefer bacon, though

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that happens at some point in

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Speaker 1: your life, but well, it's there was also the question

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Speaker 1: of likelihood that factored into the discussion. Yeah, right, right

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Speaker 1: there it was. It was a full full, you know,

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Speaker 1: exchange of ideas over the question of life. I can

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Speaker 1: make sure I'm going to have bacon. That's pretty easy

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Speaker 1: to do, right, yeah, exactly. But to wake up and

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Speaker 1: realize one significant other is already frying up God's gift

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Speaker 1: start to the day. And then she gives you sex. Wow, Wow, honey,

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Speaker 1: I brought bacon, you're naked. I would go the other

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Speaker 1: think bacon would be a great after sex snack. Well,

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Speaker 1: then where's the bacon. Well, the problem being, though, if

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Speaker 1: even be hard to concentrate on loving because you keep thinking, wow, Wow,

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Speaker 1: there's fresh bacon. It's getting cold. I'm both there ruminating

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Speaker 1: about your prowess enjoying a stick of bacony. In ten minutes,

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Speaker 1: you'll still be warm, but the bacon will be cold.

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Speaker 1: I'm just pointing that out. So maybe we I don't

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Speaker 1: know you're going to bacon first. That's just I'm just analyzed.

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Speaker 1: I'm mean you. I don't want group think here. I'm

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Speaker 1: waiting the ideas. Yeah, you really like breakfast, I really do, Michael,

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Speaker 1: you're so rightly and combining these two thoughts alcohol and

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Speaker 3: I guess it's a Frank Sinatra quote. He doesn't understand

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Speaker 3: people who don't drink, because that means when you get

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Speaker 3: up in the morning, that's the best you're gonna feel

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Speaker 3: all day long. Yeah, it's kind of funny, Like so

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Speaker 3: many folks, I'm drying out this January. And it's funny

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Speaker 3: because I remember in December when I was really I.

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Speaker 1: Was getting after it too much. It was terrible. I

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Speaker 1: was drinking too much, and I would get up in

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Speaker 1: I realized, now that's just how I look in the morning. Oh,

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Speaker 1: sober or not? Are you doing terrible? I was gonna

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Speaker 1: ask this yesterday. You're doing dry January at least half

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Speaker 1: of it. I'm definitely gonna do two weeks. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: going to do what two weeks? Okay, at least Katie's

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Speaker 1: doing dry pregnancy. Michael.

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Speaker 3: Michael doesn't drink. I don't drink. Hanson, you're doing dry January.

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Speaker 3: Don't know if Hanson's doing druk.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't drink much at all. No, Hanson said he's

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Speaker 1: drunk right now. Who can blame him? Fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Let's start to show if I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe

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Speaker 3: Getty on this. It is Wednesday, January seventh, year, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five. Oh, twenty twenty six. We're arms strung and geddy,

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Speaker 3: and I approve of this program, all right.

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Speaker 1: Let's begin now. Officially, according to FCC rules regulations, the

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Speaker 1: show must start at mark in this.

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Speaker 2: Two year, there's three things that you best love doing.

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Speaker 2: But you wake up, make sure you're breathing, and then

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Speaker 2: where you're going the bathroom, look at the beer, look

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Speaker 2: at your teeth, and brush your teeth. And the third

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Speaker 2: thing you need to get dressed. And then the fourth

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Speaker 2: thing you do is say what a great day is

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Speaker 2: going to be?

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Speaker 1: America's philosopher King Garrie Busey with the three things you

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Speaker 1: need to do every morning to start the new year,

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Speaker 1: and then he lists four things. Verry Joe Biden like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: no kidding, Well, wake make sure you're breathing. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: well okay, brush was brush your teeth? The third one second?

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Speaker 1: One seconde Then get dressed, Get dressed, yes, and then

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Speaker 1: whatever he said, what a great day is going give

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Speaker 1: me right right? Yeah, I should try that. Maybe put

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Speaker 1: to be a fantastic day. Be one of those people.

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Speaker 1: See if it has the effect on my mood. That's

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Speaker 1: too jiv for you, I know you. It's got to

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Speaker 1: be more reasonable. Maybe I'll have a little bacon sex

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Speaker 1: start the day. Wow. No, I was working on the

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Speaker 1: other project. Now you're jerking me around something like, great

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Speaker 1: things could happen today, So we have it that we

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Speaker 1: have a Yeah, I like that, great though, this is

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Speaker 1: going to be a wonderful day. I'm like, what going

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Speaker 3: I don't see myself saying that in the morning. It's

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Speaker 3: not a me sort of thing to do.

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Speaker 1: We do have kind of a breaking news as we

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Speaker 1: go on there. It looks like we seized a tanker

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Speaker 1: the Russians. My tanker get in to the whole. This

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Speaker 1: I just heard this morning that China gets a third

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Speaker 1: great effect on them. And Venezuelan oil props up the

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Speaker 1: evil communist Cuban regime. It is their life's blood. Well

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Speaker 1: it's oil, but it's it keeps them afloat. Yeah, what's

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Speaker 1: not like Trump. Over the dispatch at all. But they're

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Speaker 1: expert that they are interviewed about the whole Maduro Venezuela thing.

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Speaker 3: Was this was going to happen eventually. It should have

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Speaker 3: happened a long time ago, and only Trump was the

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Speaker 1: which is very very blue and also very very beautiful

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Speaker 1: and has no sales tax am I correct, Yeah, blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah bah, and two with democratic governors North

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Speaker 1: Carolina Arizona have long head solidly republican legislatures. Florida, as

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Speaker 1: the company notes, has ranked in the top four every

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Speaker 1: year since the index started in twenty fifteen. And then

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Speaker 1: they get into the probably the most compelling stat which

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Speaker 1: is that three of the top four states attracting movers

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Speaker 1: had no personal income tax Texas, Florida and Tennessee. California,

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Speaker 1: ranked dead last in the index, imposes the highest top

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Speaker 1: personal income tax rate in the nation at thirteen and

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Speaker 1: a third percent. Oh is that what it is? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the top incremental rate. Yeah, or marginal rate. The

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Speaker 1: ten best ranked states in the index have significantly lower

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Speaker 1: personal income taxes than the indexes ten worst rank states.

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Speaker 1: Three and a half percent is the average income tax

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Speaker 1: of the top ten three and a half percent among

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Speaker 1: the bottom ten ats seven point two percent average top

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Speaker 1: state personal income tax rate of the ten worst strength. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry they read that backwards. Anyway, As a group,

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Speaker 1: the ten worst rank states impose a top personal income

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Speaker 1: tax rate more than twice as high as the ten

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Speaker 1: best rank states. Yeah, I've heard. I've got a friend

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Speaker 1: who regularly says, like, are enjoy in California, and this

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Speaker 1: is why we pay taxes. And my argument would be

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Speaker 1: so they can be squandered on junkies. Well, you could

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Speaker 1: make the argument that that's why you're willing to put

458
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Speaker 1: up with the high taxes is the weather, the parks,

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Speaker 1: the whatever. But they don't have to go together.

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Speaker 3: You can still have nice weather and fantastic mountains and

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Speaker 3: oceans and stuff like that and have lower taxes.

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Speaker 1: They didn't cause the mountains and the Ocean's right, it's

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Speaker 1: not state funded beaches. I mean the sand was there, right.

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Speaker 1: And so finally, the conclusion, the general trend of people

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Speaker 1: moving from colder northern to warmer sunnier southern states makes

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Speaker 1: California's perennial dead last ranking all the more appalling. No

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Speaker 1: kid in good point. It takes a lot to alienate

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Speaker 1: people from California's glorious climate and scenery, and they are

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Speaker 1: both absolutely glorious. But it's politicians have been up to

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Speaker 1: the task. Yeah, you know, if you're leaving Minnesota for

471
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Speaker 1: someplace warmer, everybody understands that if you're leaving the most

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Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful places on earth, gotta be

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Speaker 1: a reason. There are push factors. Yeah. Well, And as

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Speaker 1: Dan McLaughlin points out in The National Review, states that

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Speaker 1: have a persistent outflow of their own residents can stave

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Speaker 1: off collapsing population only by parentally importing foreigners. That ring

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Speaker 1: a bell anybody. If that's bigot tries up, the bluest

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Speaker 1: of the blue state models are in even more trouble

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Speaker 1: than before. What is he going to do? Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: an interesting thing. But follow this migration year by year

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Speaker 1: by year. By the way, I'm very excited about this

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Speaker 1: weekend with the football action. I followed the NBA also,

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Speaker 1: Price Picks.

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Speaker 3: Lets you play fantasy football every week, not just like

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Speaker 3: and your team suck and it's over every week, even

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: good to be right. Just because I tease this. I'll

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Speaker 1: jam this in before we take a break and get

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Speaker 1: the mail bag. According to open source the website, the

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Speaker 1: negotiations yesterday with the Coalition of the Willing in Paris

510
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Speaker 1: and the European leaders about the whole rush of Ukraine thing,

511
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Speaker 1: they observed a significant shift in the United States stance

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Speaker 1: toward both Russia and Ukraine. You got Steve Whitkoff there,

513
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Speaker 1: and you got Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner there

514
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Speaker 1: as the main negotiators took a notably more assertive position

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Speaker 1: against Russia during the talks with European allies. According to

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Speaker 1: people that were in the meetings, Wow, I know, isn't

517
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Speaker 1: that interesting. I don't know what's driving that. I had

518
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Speaker 1: no idea whether you were gonna say Russia or Ukraine

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Speaker 1: at the end of that one sentence. When I was

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Speaker 1: reading the story, I had no idea how it was

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00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: gonna end. It was like a suspense thriller. For the

522
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Speaker 1: first time expressing strong and solid port for support for

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Speaker 1: deploying a multinational peacekeeping force and proposing robust security guarantees

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Speaker 1: along the lines of NATO's Article five, What where did

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00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: this come from? Whoa? Hey, hang on, plus the Game

526
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Speaker 1: of Thrones playing out in Venezuela. Can't wait to talk

527
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Speaker 1: about that good stuff and mail bag on the way

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Speaker 1: stay here. Every mail is obsessed with World War I

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Speaker 1: two or the Roman Empire. We all learned that last year.

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Speaker 3: I took a vacation just to go to the World

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Speaker 3: War Two Museum and I have a bunch of notes

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Speaker 3: on that that I wanted to talk about. I haven't

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Speaker 3: gotten around to yet, so maybe in coming hours things

534
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Speaker 3: I learned or relearned.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, every man over the age of what it is

536
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Speaker 1: forty either chooses the Roman Empire or World War Two.

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Speaker 1: I would like to throw in the Civil War for consideration.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of into that. But yeah, it's true. It's

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Speaker 1: absolutely true, and we've talked about why that is. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's not a joke. No, it's not a

541
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Speaker 1: joke at all. Yeah, here's your freedom hating quote of

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Speaker 1: the day. Continuing on that theme, taking a break from

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Speaker 1: freedom loving quotes to look at people who really despise

544
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Speaker 1: liberty and see what sort of things they say. In

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Speaker 1: this case, yet another one of Zora Mumdani's cabinet. This

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Speaker 1: happens to be one al Monte da Costa, who is

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Speaker 1: his director of appointments whatever. That is. First of all,

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Speaker 1: back in the day, not long ago. She's not an

549
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Speaker 1: old person, but about a decade ago, she unleashed a

550
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Speaker 1: torrent of absolutely unbelievable Nazi level anti jew statements online,

551
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Speaker 1: just unbelievable anti Semite. She now says she doesn't think

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Speaker 1: that way. In fact, she's married to a Jewish fellow,

553
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Speaker 1: and she's very very sorry. So I don't know. You're young,

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Speaker 1: you're stupid, you shoot off your mouth. But she is

555
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Speaker 1: a communist. So here's your freedom hating quote of the day.

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Speaker 1: When Trump was first elected in twenty sixteen, she said,

557
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Speaker 1: this was a harsh blow. But it's not time, not

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Speaker 1: the first time this country has let me down. It's

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Speaker 1: important that white people feel defeated. Wow, for so long

560
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Speaker 1: power has been in the hands of men and or

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Speaker 1: white people. It has brought us to ruin. It's important

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Speaker 1: that white people feel defeated. That is something, it's your

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Speaker 1: freedom hating quote of the day.

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Speaker 3: That you can get away with saying that at any

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Speaker 3: point your life and then end.

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Speaker 1: Up in public office. It's just astounding to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: his his Cabala communists is going to be making some

568
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Speaker 1: serious headlines and uh, we're watching it. Mailbag. Drop us

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Speaker 1: a note mail bag at Armstrong in getty dot com.

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Speaker 1: You're blaming a race. You think the country's in a

571
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Speaker 1: bad shape, and you're blaming a race, and you can

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Speaker 1: get away with that if it's white. Yeah. I love

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Speaker 1: and respect people of whatever race or color or creed

574
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Speaker 1: if they're good people and they do great things. But no,

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Speaker 1: she hates white people. Hey. By the way, you know, uh,

576
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Speaker 1: we did come up with like most of the philosophies

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Speaker 1: that run the world in Western civilization and most of

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Speaker 1: the science and the rest of it. Not all of it, certainly,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of it. So maybe I ought to

580
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Speaker 1: cut us a little slack. It's the if you're going

581
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: to sit assign collective blame and credit. It's also the

582
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Speaker 1: definition of racism too. Yes it is, Yes, it is.

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Speaker 1: It's like distilled down to its essence. Anyway, Drop us

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Speaker 1: a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.

585
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Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday that I asked Google Gemini to designed

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Speaker 1: me a First Amendment tattoo. It was absolutely hilarious, riddled

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Speaker 1: with misspellings and typos and that sort of thing which

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Speaker 1: we talked about. Rich writes, Joe, the check is in

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Speaker 1: the mail, please get that tattoo. I assume he ma

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Speaker 1: he means the floundering typo riddled one. Jack to your

591
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Speaker 1: story of not tipping the maid, even though she dug

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Speaker 1: through the garbage like the big garbage to find your

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Speaker 1: dirty clothes. Good lord, even just in the retelling, it's disgusting.

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Speaker 1: Sean points out if this were George Costanzo instead of Jack,

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Speaker 1: you would have felt guilty about not tipping and not

596
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Speaker 1: wanting to see the maid again and feel bad. He

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Speaker 1: would have called Ice and had her rendition to an L.

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Speaker 1: Salvador in prison. The last shot would have been her

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Speaker 1: dressed like Maduro on the plane.

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Speaker 3: I thought I was going to get most of my

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Speaker 3: hate for running through n Frank's bedroom, but I got

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Speaker 3: it for not tipping the maid. Neither one of them

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Speaker 3: are something i I'm proud of. Well, yeah, when you

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Speaker 3: gotta go, you gotta go.

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Speaker 1: Alex the Marine writes Pete Hegseeth is incompetent. Remember how

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Speaker 1: we were told again and again how incompetent sec def

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Speaker 1: Pete Taggseeth. Is this incredible rate into Caracas was executed

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Speaker 1: by Pete's war department. Let's compare this rate to Lloyd

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Speaker 1: Austin's Afghanistan withdrawal. You know, sec def How much credit

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Speaker 1: do they deserve?

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Speaker 2: Some?

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Speaker 1: Certainly, But you know it's funny. I'm not seeing a

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Speaker 1: lot of headlines in the New York Times, for instance,

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Speaker 1: saying we were wrong about Pete. Hegseeth his war department

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Speaker 1: is running like clockwork. That's good point, Alex. Thanks. Let's say,

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Speaker 1: Stephen on the topic of Trump in Venezuela, for the

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Speaker 1: way that Trump used all of his high tech resources

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Speaker 1: to swoop in quickly and capture a villain without anyone

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Speaker 1: knowing it until it was over, Can you please, please

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Speaker 1: please start referring to him as President Batman. Well, the

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Speaker 1: Cuban security forces knew what was going on, because forty

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Speaker 1: three of them are croaked, and Cuba's vaunted intelligence and

623
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Speaker 1: security forces have been pansed in front of the world

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Speaker 1: to you what, keep your eye on Cuba. Those commies

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Speaker 1: are shaken in their COMMI boots, yeah, and rightfully so.

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Speaker 1: And the human heels I'm guessing on those boots. I

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Speaker 1: mean the fact that Russia's air defense systems that they

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Speaker 1: sell the countries around the world because they're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be so great, we're just dismantled and we got buying

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Speaker 1: them easily. That's a big story. That is big, you're right.

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Speaker 1: And then this, it's a screen capture from Charlotte's x

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Speaker 1: feed and it is of the demonstrators in Iran, And

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00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: that's another story we really need to tune into, at

634
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Speaker 1: least to some extent. But it's a protester just going

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Speaker 1: by a sign that says, allegedly in Persian in Farsi,

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Speaker 1: Trump Street, and sure enough she verified it says Trump

637
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Speaker 1: seat Street waiting for the YMCA dance. Cheers Charlotte. So wow.

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Speaker 1: So the good folks in Iran, like the good folks

639
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Speaker 1: in Venezuela, are like yay Trump Yah.

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Speaker 3: According to the Associated Press, the Ayatola is in hiding

641
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Speaker 3: because he's concerned that we or Israel Is gonna snatch

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Speaker 3: him up, just like we snatched up Maduro.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And then we don't have a lot of

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Speaker 1: time for this, but twenty year school marm who is

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Speaker 1: a Minnesotan, makes a couple of points about thank goodness

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Speaker 1: for Nick Shirley and the investigation into the Minnesota fraud cartels,

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Speaker 1: and it's just enormous and as we've known it for

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Speaker 1: a long time in Minnesota, she says, But it didn't

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Speaker 1: really get much of attention. She says, I will never

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Speaker 1: forget as long as I lived, the moment I heard

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Speaker 1: on the radio that Kamala had picked Tim Here's a

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Speaker 1: real man. Waltz is her VP. Dear reader, I along

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Speaker 1: with all others, saying Minnesotan's guffaud, How in the world

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Speaker 1: did her team make such an absurd choice, right with

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Speaker 1: the scandal being out there for people who were paying attention. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how did Kamala's campaign not know he had that? You

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Speaker 1: know what's interesting in Waltz's debate with Jade Evans didn't

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Speaker 1: even come up once, even though there were already multiple prosecutions. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: just taxpayers waisted tax payer money. As you've pointed out,

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Speaker 1: people just don't pay much attention to it, or they

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Speaker 1: don't feel like they can do anything about it. I

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Speaker 1: guess ah, that could be. These scandals come and go

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Speaker 1: and nobody really pays a price, and everybody just moves

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