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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 3: FEMA officials say they have already distributed three hundred and

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Speaker 3: forty four million dollars worth of assistance to victims of

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Speaker 3: Hurricane Helene in six states. FEMA has also shifted more

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Speaker 3: than seventeen million meals and nearly fourteen million liters of

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Speaker 3: water to the disaster area. As a result, FEMA is

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Speaker 3: plowing through its disaster relief budget and the Small Business

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Speaker 3: Administration could run out of money for low interest home

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Speaker 3: rebuilding loans by the end of the month.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're glad we're talking to somebody who's on the

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Speaker 2: ground in those areas, because it's hard to tell from

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Speaker 2: national stories how hurricane relief is actually going talking about

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Speaker 2: the first big Hurricane Helene and specifically North Carolina, and.

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Speaker 1: I think the attention being paid to what the federal

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Speaker 1: government is doing is fine and good, and they certainly

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Speaker 1: have a role, But as anybody who's lived through this

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Speaker 1: sort of thing knows, it's the state and then local

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Speaker 1: entities that provide a tremendous amount of the humanitarian relief

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Speaker 1: and the assistance when times are dark, which is why

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Speaker 1: we're helping to raise money for the good folks at

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Speaker 1: the United Way of Ashville and Buncom County, and their

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Speaker 1: president CEO, Dan Leroy, joins us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Dan, how are you, sir.

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Speaker 4: I'm doing all right. Thanks for having me today.

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Speaker 2: Busier than heck, I'm sure. Yeah. How are things in

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Speaker 5: Well, things are still pretty crazy, still pretty dire. You know,

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Speaker 5: this hurricane hit us so much harder.

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Speaker 4: Than we ever could have imagined.

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Speaker 5: And I'm sure your listeners have seen all of the

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Speaker 5: images and it is just as bad as folks have

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Speaker 5: seen it. It has just wiped out in structure across

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Speaker 5: our region and certainly here in Buncom County, from the

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Speaker 5: smaller towns like Swananoa, Barnardsville, Black Mountain. We're just so

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Speaker 5: good news is a lot of our infrastructure is starting

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Speaker 5: with communication. But in our county specifically, the biggest problem

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Speaker 5: that we have is water. The municipal water system was

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Speaker 5: as a heroic effort not just by our public Worse Department,

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Speaker 5: critical for our business community, it's critical for our schools,

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Speaker 5: and you know, you can't do anything without running water.

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Speaker 5: So that's the biggest issue for us right now.

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Speaker 2: So before we get into some of the relief stuff,

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Speaker 2: Joe and I worked in North Carolina for a couple

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Speaker 2: At what point did you realize holy crap?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'll tell you.

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Speaker 5: One of the things that we have thought about ourselves

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Speaker 4: Ourselves here in western North Carolina.

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Speaker 5: Is just how resilient this area is and and sort

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Speaker 5: We've been pretty well insulated from all of that for

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Speaker 4: Oh, and so that was really what made it so unique.

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Speaker 5: And so no, we were not I don't think anyone

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Speaker 2: Event and then a quick one before we move on,

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Speaker 2: how long were we all without self service? So all

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Speaker 5: Well, it's you know, to sort of answer your first

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Speaker 4: And so, you know, and to just give you an idea,

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Speaker 5: At a conference in Salt Lake City, so I was

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Speaker 4: About two days.

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Speaker 1: Wow, and then you're talking about the catastrophic damage to

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Speaker 5: And it's not the treatment system, it's the distribution system, Okay.

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Speaker 4: And so they have, like I said, they have been able.

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Speaker 5: To get the main line inter reconnected, which is pretty incredible,

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Speaker 4: And so they aren't giving us estimates. But you know,

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Speaker 5: We do a lot of work in partnership with our schools,

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Speaker 4: Definitely in the order of weeks and not in newer

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Speaker 1: So for what it's worth for folks, who haven't been there,

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Speaker 1: just so interesting because you have, you know, conservative retirees

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Speaker 1: if folks listening get a chance, if you can spare

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Speaker 1: a couple of bucks or more, go to Armstrong you

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Speaker 1: getty dot com. The banner is you can't miss it.

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Speaker 1: Donate what you can to help out to your fellow Americans, and.

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Speaker 2: It's going directly to you. What can that money do

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Speaker 4: Sure thing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I just want to echo what you just

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Speaker 5: been beautiful. Our focus really is right now. We are

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Speaker 5: City of Asheville and Buncott County to help coordinate the

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Speaker 5: thousands of tons of supplies that are coming into our

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Speaker 1: Dan Leroy of the United Way of Ashville, Buncome County,

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Speaker 1: you guys are doing what is so sorely needed when

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Speaker 1: it's most needed, and you're all heroes. Keep at it.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what we can raise for y'all and good luck.

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Speaker 1: We're thinking of you.

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Speaker 1: Excellent point, you got it. Thanks Dan, great to talk

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Speaker 2: number of news pieces I've seen on how many people's

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Speaker 2: insurance doesn't cover this for all kinds of different complicated reasons, like, well,

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Speaker 2: you had flood insurance, but flood insurance caused by a

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Speaker 2: or you just all kinds of different caveats.

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Speaker 1: Oh right, and then you got to get into the lawyers.

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Speaker 1: Well it rained thirteen inches two days before. Well we

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Speaker 1: think it was the hurricane. So it's a nightmare. But

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Speaker 1: before you even get there, the roads are gone. It's

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Speaker 1: not that they're flooded, gone, the bridges are gone, the

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Speaker 2: Work, and what for weeks?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's like civilization, modernity was blotted out

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Speaker 2: what does insurance do for.

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Speaker 1: Replacing your house that you would have to get somewhere

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Speaker 1: else or bring in two hundred truckloads a dirt time?

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Speaker 1: I have no idea, no anyway, give what Ken Armstrong

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Speaker 2: So we got a little Tim Walls coming up for you.

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Speaker 2: Is on ABC, what's their show, Good Morning America talking

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Speaker 1: It's astonishing that he hasn't. That's what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: I just watch it. It's better than it was during

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Speaker 1: To do it. I'd argue, she's not even doing that.

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Speaker 2: Guttfeld was talking about that on his show on Fox

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Speaker 6: On Tuesday, he conducted an interview with Kamala Harris that

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Speaker 7: This is what keeps me up night. I don't understand how,

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Speaker 7: is close. Yes, I'm voting for you, but I would

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Speaker 7: also vote for that wall over there.

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Speaker 2: Well, he's half right. We do need a wall.

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Speaker 6: You had to keep out gang members, Fendyl dealers, human traffickers,

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Speaker 6: sick of a fan. He doesn't realize that telling Kamala that

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Speaker 2: One not to mention.

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Speaker 6: Trump is the wall candidate, not cackles McNee pads. Oh,

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Speaker 6: used to throw boloney slices at stripper's butt with accuracy,

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Speaker 6: I might add, cackles McNee pads.

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Speaker 6: On anyone daring to poke a little fun at Kamala.

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Speaker 7: Even when I watched them on Saturday Night Live with

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Speaker 7: I don't want you being made fun of. Oh my god,

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Speaker 7: it's too much at stake. I believe the entire future

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Speaker 6: So a guy who's supposed to be funny for a

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Speaker 2: Is too important to joke about.

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Speaker 6: This is the guy who once joked, right after the

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Speaker 6: But this pendulum swing from saying the most tasteless thing

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Speaker 2: What's going on here.

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Speaker 6: It's striking that the king of the most misogynistic humor

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Speaker 2: How about freaking Howard Stern of all people saying it

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Speaker 2: shouldn't do that. It's too important. You don't want jokes

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Speaker 2: is off limits for politicians on my side. From Howard

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Speaker 2: Stern who used to think obviously, as you just heard there,

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting aspect of Trump derangement syndrome that you

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of fancy word idiot worshipfulness syndrome. If

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Speaker 2: I just I love it.

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Speaker 1: She's an idiot, she has no beliefs, but she's not Trump,

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Speaker 1: so I love her.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 2: A gut film made a good point. Stern saying I'd

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Speaker 2: ringing endorsement. It's a you could be anybody and I

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Speaker 2: would vote for you, right exactly, Yeah, you could.

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Speaker 1: You could be I don't know, talentless, have no principles,

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Speaker 2: Wow. I hope I never become that person. I watched

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Speaker 2: Maya Rudolph and I just think they shouldn't be joking

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Speaker 8: Wowis So there's a couple of low points in my life.

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Speaker 8: I'm not I'm passing a line, and I'm gonna have

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Speaker 2: It's full of crap. This is crap. It's full of crap.

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Speaker 2: There's an unhappy Philly fan by being knocked out by

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Speaker 1: The Phillies were supposed to go on exactly anyway, and

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Speaker 1: because the other guy will say those sacrifices aren't necessary.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to take away your bloody blah or they're

439
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Speaker 1: trying to balance the budget on the back of the

440
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Speaker 1: blah blah. And then the disaster happens, the bloody bla,

441
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Speaker 1: and everybody's like, how did this happen? And then you know,

442
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Speaker 1: the politician says, we got no choice. You gotta do

443
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Speaker 1: these hard things. So if that's just the nature of democracy,

444
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Speaker 1: and I ought to just deal with it. But here's

445
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Speaker 1: the funny part. Here's the part I really wanted to

446
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Speaker 1: get to. Let's see, this is from the Wall Street

447
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Speaker 1: Journal editorial board. They say, voters deserve what they get

448
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Speaker 1: in a democracy, but no one deserves Chicago may or

449
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson, and certainly not Chicago school children. You know,

450
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Speaker 1: that's the heartbreaking part. No kidding in seeking to reward

451
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Speaker 1: his union benefactor. And then you know when these poor kids,

452
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Speaker 1: who are in large number black and Hispanic whatever, when

453
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Speaker 1: they don't achieve in these utterly corrupt schools. It'll be

454
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Speaker 1: blamed on white supremacy and systemic racism and whatever. And

455
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Speaker 1: Johnson and his ilk Kamala Harris are hardcore against school choice. No,

456
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Speaker 1: you will stay in your corrupt union bound at neighborhood

457
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Speaker 1: school anyway. So his honor is having in seeking to

458
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Speaker 1: reward his union benefactors. His honor is having a political

459
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: meltdown for the ages. On Monday, mister Johnson replaced the

460
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Speaker 1: entire Chicago school Board with his allies after the previous

461
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Speaker 1: board resigned on Moss last Friday. Every air sucking homo

462
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Speaker 1: sapien on the school board said we will not be

463
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Speaker 1: party to this.

464
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Speaker 2: We quit, and that's progressive Chicago. It was too much

465
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Speaker 2: for those folks.

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Speaker 1: The previous board opposed the mayor's three hundred million dollars

467
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Speaker 1: high in tresloan. We were talking about that to hand

468
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Speaker 1: raises to the CTU, which funded his election campaign. Asked

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Speaker 1: about the opposition to his loan scheme, mister Johnson pulled out,

470
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Speaker 1: wait for it, the slavery card. Yeah, and I quote,

471
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Speaker 1: when our people wanted to be liberated and emancipated in

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Speaker 1: this country. The argument was, you can't free black people.

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Speaker 1: Because it would be too expensive. They said that it

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Speaker 1: would be fiscally irresponsible for this country.

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Speaker 2: To liberate black people.

476
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Speaker 1: And now you have detractors making the same argument of

477
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Speaker 1: the Confederacy when it comes to the public education in

478
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Speaker 1: this system.

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Speaker 2: Wow. And this is with all the numbers that we've

480
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Speaker 2: talked about over the last year or so of the

481
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Speaker 2: achievement rate in Chicago, where you've got lots of schools

482
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Speaker 2: where it would seem that it wouldn't make any difference

483
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Speaker 2: if they were not open at all, right, because nobody

484
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Speaker 2: reaches his the proficiency level.

485
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Speaker 1: So literally nobody in some of the schools zero kids

486
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Speaker 1: actually zero percent reach reading and writing proficiency. So there's

487
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Speaker 1: just what do you even open for let alones asking

488
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Speaker 1: for more money?

489
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Speaker 2: How about we just close them down? The same result,

490
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Speaker 2: right exactly.

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Speaker 1: It's and you know, Jack, occasionally you god bless you,

492
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Speaker 1: will say how do these people sleep at night? The

493
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Speaker 1: answer is they have no shame. They're criminals, They're they're victimizers.

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Speaker 2: On some levels like this, you'd have to be just

495
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Speaker 2: to be have to be the criminal mind. It's just

496
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Speaker 2: like I'm stealing from people, because there's no twisting that

497
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Speaker 2: into a I'm doing the right thing for the kids.

498
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Speaker 2: There's just no way, right.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, that's the pose, and anybody who falls

500
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Speaker 1: for it as a sucker. You're not maybe you're not

501
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: the facts. I'm not gonna try to hurt anybody's feelings.

502
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Speaker 1: But oh yeah, the whole teacher's union thing, depending on

503
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Speaker 1: where you are, it's it's more scammy than others. But

504
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Speaker 1: so the accountants in the audience, I'm sure are are

505
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Speaker 1: asking now, Joseph, you've said that their high interest loans.

506
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Speaker 1: Tell me more about that. Well, the Chicago school district

507
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: is junk rated. When they borrow money, their IOUs are

508
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: rated as junk in the world of bonds, meaning you

509
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: might get your money back. So mister Johnson's plan for

510
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 1: the three hundred million dollar loan would cost Chicago Public

511
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Speaker 1: Schools not three hundred million.

512
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Speaker 2: Seven hundred million dollars.

513
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Speaker 1: So he is going to pay off the teachers union

514
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Speaker 1: three hundred million dollars at the cost of taxpayers of

515
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: seven hundred million dollars over the short term. I abhor

516
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Speaker 1: the very idea of political violence. On the other hand,

517
00:27:54,160 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: theft of this size and utter ammorality has been dealt

518
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: with throughout human history.

519
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,360
Speaker 2: In various ways.

520
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: Now he careful and constitutional investigation and prosecution is probably

521
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: the best way to deal with it. On the other hand,

522
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Speaker 1: if one's mind flies to tar and feathers, I can't

523
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: blame you.

524
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Speaker 2: I was trying to find it. A tweet I came

525
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 2: across the other day from several years back during the pandemic,

526
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: when Brandon Johnson whatever he was at the time, then

527
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 2: tweeted out that this effort to reopen the schools reeks

528
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Speaker 2: of white supremacy and blah blah blah. Why is the

529
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Speaker 2: president of the Chicago Teachers You. Oh, that's right, that's

530
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Speaker 2: what he was doing at that point, that this effort

531
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Speaker 2: to reopen the schools reeks of white supremacy. That's why

532
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 2: people want to reopen the schools.

533
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Speaker 1: That's why they want to get the little black kids

534
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: back to learning because of white supremacy. Good, good argument.

535
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Speaker 1: And now he's playing the effing slavery card.

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Speaker 2: You have. This guy is a monster, You just have

537
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: to be a criminal. But people vote for him. I

538
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 2: just said, what do you do?

539
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: It's a proof that democracy Chicago crumble monarchy. Now, well,

540
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: there are progressive cities and states around the country that

541
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Speaker 1: are realizing the air of their ways and trying to

542
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: backtrack a little bit? How far will Chicago fall? And

543
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: and you know, if another generation, a little kids or whatever.

544
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: Color their skin happens to be for goodness sakes.

545
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: Grow up completely uneducated and have no good options. But crime,

546
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Speaker 1: that's not an oh well. I mean this sol it'll

547
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: take Chicago another generation and a half or so to

548
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: figure out.

549
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 2: How screwed up it is. That's a tragedy. But what

550
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? I we got a funny clip

551
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 2: from Trump at one of his rallies. He's going to Aurora,

552
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:47,239
Speaker 2: Colorado today to point out the whole Venezuelan takeover of

553
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: apartment complexes thingy. And so we'll play a little bit

554
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Speaker 2: from that. Also got to ask Joe about one of

555
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Speaker 2: his favorite hobbies that is now becoming a sport. They're

556
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Speaker 2: declaring his sports. So stay tuned for that, lea, Yeah,

557
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 2: stay tuned for among other things.

558
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Speaker 9: Right, are you surprised that she's not doing like five

559
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 9: events a day like barnstorming. I mean, there's only twenty

560
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 9: six days barnstorming every battleground state three or four events

561
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Speaker 9: a day. Forget the interview thing, Okay, I realize I'm

562
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Speaker 9: biased as a reporter.

563
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Speaker 2: I want interviews the.

564
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Speaker 9: Local news for the local news, interviews, town halls round like,

565
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Speaker 9: it just seems like it doesn't feel like October with.

566
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Speaker 2: The schedules I'm looking at for both of them. But

567
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 2: I kind of think he has the edge right now. Yeah,

568
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 2: that's Jake Tapper on CNN saying what a lot of

569
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Speaker 2: Democrats are apparently saying behind the scenes, what is she doing?

570
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 2: I mean, when is she? Is she gonna at some point?

571
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Speaker 2: You know how presidential candidates usually are in the closing weeks.

572
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: They're like on a plane from five in the morning

573
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Speaker 2: till eleven at night, and we all marvel at their

574
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 2: schedules and think, how would anybody do that She's doing, Like, yeah,

575
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Speaker 2: I'll go to a Marrabi state and do a luncheon

576
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Speaker 2: this afternoon, but I'm leaving at eleven. I want to

577
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Speaker 2: me back by four.

578
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: Why what this is the mirror image of back when

579
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: you know, after the debate and everybody's saying, Joe's got

580
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: to get out there and show they still has it.

581
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: It's got to do interviews in town halls and a

582
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Speaker 1: parises and stuff. And the answer, obviously was he can't.

583
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Speaker 2: He's not up to it. That's the same reason that

584
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Speaker 2: Kamala is not doing what she's doing.

585
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: She goes to get softballs like what would you do

586
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: differently than the previous administration? And she can't string together

587
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of BS to adequately answer that question.

588
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Speaker 2: She's awful. She could do rallies though she's good at that.

589
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 2: Why isn't she doing eight rallies today in four different states.

590
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: Nobody see him drunk. You see drunk.

591
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Speaker 1: So one of the great things I came across in

592
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Speaker 1: I think the New York Times a couple of years ago,

593
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Speaker 1: was the loss of hobbies in America, making the argument

594
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Speaker 1: that for some reason culturally, we had gotten into a

595
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Speaker 1: habit of if you can't turn a profit on this,

596
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Speaker 1: it's not worth doing. Yeah, yeah, And I found that

597
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: very very liberating for lots of different things that I

598
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Speaker 1: could be interested in.

599
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Speaker 2: Just do it because you like it, and it's for fun.

600
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Speaker 2: You don't. It's good for your brain, it's good for

601
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Speaker 2: your heart. Right, you don't have to like get into

602
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: painting or leather work, or or I've got a specific

603
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 2: thing I'm gonna mention here in a second mine playing

604
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Speaker 2: musical instruments. It was hard for me to do. But

605
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Speaker 2: to get to the point that I'm just doing this

606
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Speaker 2: because I like doing it. I don't need to have

607
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Speaker 2: in my mind how I'm gonna, you know, play in

608
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 2: front of people or put together a band or whatever.

609
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 2: I'm just doing it because I like it.

610
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Speaker 1: That's a perfectly good reason to play a musical.

611
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 2: Instrument or do lots of different things. So you know,

612
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 2: like if you like the knit scarves, you don't have

613
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Speaker 2: to have an Etsy site and figure out how many

614
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 2: you could make a week and how much money the

615
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Speaker 2: yarn will cost and what the profit to do it.

616
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Speaker 1: Just do it because you'll even if they just go

617
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: on a drawer, you give them a good will. It's

618
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: perfectly reasonable. People have always had hobbies. In other words,

619
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Speaker 1: and tell your liberal friends if Trump wins, don't hang

620
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: yourself with this as you hand it to them.

621
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Speaker 2: But I came across this because I think this is

622
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Speaker 2: one of your things. You've mentioned a couple of times.

623
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Speaker 2: I've never unders one of.

624
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Speaker 1: My hobbies has become a sport. Self pleasurement is now

625
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Speaker 1: a sport. Sorry, obvious joke, folks, obvious that the comedy

626
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: the laws of physics of Comedy demanded, somebody make that joke.

627
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: Well, if it ever, if ever does become a sport,

628
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 2: clear room for a bust in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying, Katie. Katie's got her eyes closed.

630
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because I'm trying to take myself to my

631
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Speaker 1: happy place in a way.

632
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Speaker 2: From what you guys are saying. Anyway, now we'll try

633
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: to move on. We really should, Dick, Sorry, cut that

634
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 2: out of the podcast so nobody ever hears that, and

635
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: some that doesn't need to be hurt Bright anyway. Yeah.

636
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: The Federalist has an article today about how bird watching

637
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 2: is now a sport, should be considered a sport. Oh no,

638
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 2: it shouldn't. You have mentioned you're a birdwatcher. The only

639
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 2: reason I don't mock bird watching otherwise I would, is

640
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: because I just don't. I'd have no interest in watching birds.

641
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: But my grandma was into it, and I really liked

642
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 2: my grandma, and she had lots of books about it

643
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 2: and wrote down the birds she saw and everything like that,

644
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:21,959
Speaker 2: so she was into it. So I'm not gonna mind.

645
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 2: I for whatever reason, I just don't have any interest

646
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: in birds. If you told me the rarest bird in

647
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Speaker 2: the world was in the studio next door, I probably

648
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 2: wouldn't even walk over there and look at it. I

649
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 2: just don't care.

650
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Speaker 1: Well, if it's in the studio next door, something's gone

651
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: terribly wrong. But you don't trap them to watch. You

652
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Speaker 1: observe thee If I was sitting on my car the

653
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Speaker 1: parking lot, still I would I'd shoot it away so

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Speaker 1: it doesn't poop on my car, and I'd get my

655
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: car drive home.

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00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 2: Birdwatching is a sport. I'm not exactly sure what the

657
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 2: sport would part would be.

658
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: I know some people who are like crazy into it,

659
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: who want to cite the most birds and brag about

660
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: it and that sort of thing, and you know, to

661
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 1: each their own. I suppose I just for for Judy

662
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: and me, it's boy, that's a pretty bird.

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00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 2: I wonder what that is and you figure it out.

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00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: Or we have apps that identify bird songs, so you

665
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: hear something tweeting melodically in the trees and.

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00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 2: You record it on the app, but it tells you

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00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: what bird it is. Wow, that's cool technology. So it's

668
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: like the Shazam for bird calls exactly. Yeah, wow, binoculars

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00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 2: in our bird books and stuff. I'm so anti bird.

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00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 2: When I go to the zoo, it's like the bird section,

671
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 2: It's like, why is that here? It's filler, It's like

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00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: the bran and raisin bran. You just you just had

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00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 2: to kill some of the space to claim you have

674
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 2: a big zoo. Nobody wants to see a bird what

675
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 2: the brand? And raisin brand is that?

676
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: What? What? Do you just want to eat a bowl

677
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: of raisins. Maybe that's a bad example, but I said

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00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: the other day, I said, a zoo with my daughter

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00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: and my wife. I said, you know, when I was

680
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: a kid, I had no interest in the birds, but

681
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Speaker 1: now there's just beautiful. Maybe maybe a j I'm not

682
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: sure it's a sport. Maybe it's my low tee Billiard's

683
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: not a sport. Bird watching sport golf, you say, it's no.

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00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: It depends who you are and how you play. But

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00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: as the great Jim Rome once said, if you can

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00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: gain weight while you're doing something, it's not a sport.

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00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 1: That I have no counter argument. Even though that sounds

688
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: like a joke. It's a pretty good way to define

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00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 1: a sport.

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00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 2: If you can gain weight doing it, it's not a sport.

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Speaker 7: Armstrong and Getty