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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 Jetty and no he Armstrong and Jetty.

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Speaker 3: In Seattle, this chilling message appeared briefly on a road

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Speaker 3: sign threatening other CEOs the city, blaming a private construction contractor.

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Speaker 3: At the University of Pennsylvania, where Menhioni graduated with engineering degrees,

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Speaker 3: an assistant professor appeared to praise the CEO's murder in

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Speaker 3: this TikTok video, saying she's never been prouder to be

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Speaker 3: a professor there, later saying she was regretful and doesn't

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Speaker 3: condone violence.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, except you just did publicly, Yeah, proudly and cheerfully. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was reading the column in the New York Posts

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Speaker 4: from David hers Sonny's seems to be an actual debate

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Speaker 4: going on in the progressive left over whether slaying CEOs

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Speaker 4: is a bad thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And you see those posters going up in

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Speaker 2: New York essentially urging people to hunt down other CEOs

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Speaker 2: with their pictures and stuff like that. I guarantee there

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Speaker 2: is a ninety nine point six percent overlap between the

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Speaker 2: people putting up those posters and people tearing down posters

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Speaker 2: of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. Sure that same

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Speaker 2: angry radical left nihilist, over educated moron class that's screwing

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Speaker 2: up so much about what is good in this country.

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Speaker 2: More on that attitude in a minute. Had a weird thing,

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Speaker 2: interesting thing happened on news Nation yesterday. A reporter facilitating

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Speaker 2: communication between prisoners were the murder scumbags being held and

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Speaker 2: the report, well, let's listen to it.

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Speaker 5: Let me tell them a question, Alex, hold on, let

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Speaker 5: me yell a question, guys, if you can hear me clearly,

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Speaker 5: do you guys have any sights on Luigi MANGIONI just

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Speaker 5: yell yes or no.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they're answering. They're flickering up.

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Speaker 6: They're saying no, okay, so they're actually watching her on

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Speaker 6: TV in the prison, and then it's it's a little

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Speaker 6: delayed from before it gets to her, and then they no,

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Speaker 6: we can't see him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have a follow up? Wait? Wait, wait, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's that's kind of funny. I I almost want to

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Speaker 2: hear more of that. What else? What else did she ask?

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Speaker 4: I know a lot of you are in the News Nation.

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Speaker 4: I have too many friends who are like avid watchers

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Speaker 4: of News Nation. I've got to get on board and

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Speaker 4: start recordings some of their shows on a regular basis

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Speaker 4: like I do every other cable cham.

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Speaker 2: I'm behind the curve on that. Yeah, I know a

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Speaker 2: lot of you that you are that I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: more sources is good if you have the time. We

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Speaker 2: played this yesterday.

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Speaker 4: But to bring back up the conversation, this is Bill Burr,

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Speaker 4: comedian who i'm I'm a big fan of his comedy act.

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Speaker 4: This particular attitude he has would destroy the country.

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Speaker 2: So that's a problem.

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Speaker 7: You know what's annoying me about this, This kid who

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Speaker 7: killed this CEO is none of these news programs are

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Speaker 7: talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general

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Speaker 7: public about this because of how these insurance companies treat

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Speaker 7: people when they are at their most vulnerable, after we've

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Speaker 7: all given them our money every month and now we

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Speaker 7: finally need you, and all you do is deny us,

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Speaker 7: and then these and all of these things are taking

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Speaker 7: the pictures of their CEOs off their websites. You know,

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Speaker 7: I gotta be honest with you, Okay, I love that

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Speaker 7: the CEOs are afraid right now, you should be, by

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Speaker 7: and large, You're all a bunch of selfish, greedy pieces,

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Speaker 7: and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just

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Speaker 7: don't pull the trigger.

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Speaker 2: See a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Those things in what he said there are true or

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Speaker 4: can be true, but don't have any connection to so

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Speaker 4: you can scare or or or violently attack or murder CEOs.

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Speaker 2: Right, are a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of companies greedy and sometimes CEOs are greedy and amoral? Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure that happens in all kinds of industries. But

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Speaker 4: what's that got to do with. You can either murder

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Speaker 4: them in the street or have them be afraid to

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Speaker 4: do their jobs the way they want because you will.

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Speaker 2: Hurt them or murder them. Play this through.

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Speaker 4: I realize you're an artist, Bill Burr, but anybody who

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Speaker 4: has this mindset play this out for me. How would

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Speaker 4: this work? How would society be structured? If mob violence

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Speaker 4: is the way people approach their job every day? Is

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Speaker 4: the mob going to kill me or my family today?

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Speaker 4: Are they happy with this move?

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Speaker 2: I can do it? Okay, I mean, how would this work? Well?

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Speaker 2: I think Bill Burt would answer you in his charming

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Speaker 2: on the pavement by self righteous little rich boys.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, I would say to Bill Burr, I wish

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Speaker 4: I could have this conversation with him, because's pretty smart guy,

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Speaker 4: and I'd love to talk to him because I'm a fan.

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Speaker 4: But hey, Bill Burr, you are a very edgy comedian

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Speaker 4: and you make jokes about trans people and all kinds

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Speaker 4: of different sort of stuff. So what if the trans

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Speaker 4: community decided your causing harm in their community, and so

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Speaker 4: they threaten you physically to come around to their thinking,

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Speaker 4: or they're going to hurt you or shoot you in

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Speaker 4: the street. Then how do you where do you draw

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Speaker 4: the line on these things?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not as bad as a healthcare ceo. They

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Speaker 2: murder tens of thousands of people. Yeah, well, the trans

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Speaker 2: folks are gonna say, yeah, you caused thousands of duds,

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Speaker 2: You've made the world unsaved, blah blah blah. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you're obviously right. It's it's worth kicking Elizabeth Warren one

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Speaker 2: more time, At least briefly. Charlie Cook was writing about

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Speaker 2: this review A beer that's my favorite I'm gonna have

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Speaker 2: normal I and down to earth I am. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: have me a beer. Well, Harford academic has never uttered

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Speaker 2: in her life firewater indeed anyway, So she was one

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Speaker 2: of those people. Violence is never the answer, but people

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Speaker 2: can only be pushed so far. Then she explains why

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Speaker 2: it was justified to gun this poor son of a

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Speaker 2: gun down on the pavement, as Charlie Cook mentions. But

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Speaker 2: then he reminds us all. Oh. First of all, he

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Speaker 2: compares her to John Fetterman, who said, of the shooter,

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Speaker 2: he's the a hole. It's gonna die in prison. And

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Speaker 2: about anybody celebrating online, Fetterman said, a sore is going

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Speaker 2: to soar. That's what social media is about. I don't

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Speaker 2: know why the media wants to turn this into a story.

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Speaker 2: These trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously. But of

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Speaker 2: course these trolls anonymously include your fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren,

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Speaker 2: who is saying it publicly. But Fetterman went on, remember

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Speaker 2: he had two children that are going to grow up

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Speaker 2: without their father. It's vile. And if you've gunned someone

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Speaker 2: down that you don't happen to agree with their views

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Speaker 2: or the business they're in. Hey, you know, I'm next,

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Speaker 2: They're next, He's next, She's next, And as Charlie Cook writes,

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Speaker 2: Americans seeking good examples should resolve to be a fetterman

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Speaker 2: rather than a Warren. But then he points out that

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Speaker 2: she her cabal. You know, like in the NFL, they

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Speaker 2: have coaching trees, a bunch of the assistant coaches of

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Speaker 2: and because they influence each other and they end up being,

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Speaker 2: you know, just the source of great coaches. Elizabeth Warren,

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Speaker 2: her cabal became the Biden administration and pushed him way

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Speaker 2: to the left. She was also the person that pushed

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris way way to the left. In twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 2: during the campaign, she of her skinny old Northeastern woman academic,

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Speaker 2: you know image. She's she is unbelievably effective radical leftist

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Speaker 4: So she went on the warpath against anybody who didn't

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Speaker 4: agree with her and sent up smoke signals to let

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Speaker 4: of me.

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Speaker 2: Right, and well played there. I don't think I didn't

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Speaker 2: notice that. I appreciate I appreciate you completely ignoring it.

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Speaker 2: Final note from Charlie Cook. She pushed everybody way left.

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Speaker 2: It should have been obvious that Warren was a crank

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Speaker 2: when she started tweeting out sentiments such as and this

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Speaker 2: is a quote, black, trans and CIS women, gender, nonconformed

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Speaker 2: and non binary people are the backbone of our democracy.

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Speaker 4: Wow, she speak with FOURK tongue, but it was not clear.

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Speaker 2: If it was not clear, then the consequences of her

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Speaker 2: influence have now made the indictment clear. Of Warren is

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Speaker 2: a disaster for her party, a disaster for America, and

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Speaker 2: a disaster for the basic human decency that we are

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Speaker 2: entitled to expect from our politicians. No ifs or butts

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Speaker 2: apply a reference to her, well you shouldn't kill people,

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Speaker 2: but he had it coming speech. Yeah. So, the good

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Speaker 2: folks at Reason dot com with a great, great piece

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Speaker 2: entitled the people Cheering Brian Thompson's murder can't have the

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Speaker 2: medical utopia that they want, whether private or public. Third

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Speaker 4: Oh, drones have been spotted in Germany now similar to

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Speaker 2: I hope people fully.

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Speaker 4: Recognize this is a funny thing to say over the

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Speaker 2: I hope people fully realize.

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Speaker 4: What a dangerous philosophy is going on here with the

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Speaker 4: whole I'm glad the CEO got gunned down thing. This

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Speaker 4: is not just your normal left right back and forth,

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Speaker 4: look how bad the others. This is the sort of

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Speaker 2: you're accused of fulling violence. Right. But if you say

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Speaker 2: we ought to gun down these mother blankers and then

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Speaker 2: Police in Pennsylvania arrested Luigi Mandi and menu we know

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Speaker 2: It complicates things, It clouds things. They write. Contrary to

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Speaker 2: I'd love to drill down on that a little more,

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Speaker 2: to control costs. After all, the premiums already paid, right,

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Speaker 2: care systems have these problems and more because instead of profit,

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Speaker 2: rationed by time. It takes twenty eight weeks in Canada

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Speaker 1: Hype, the Armstrong and getty.

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Speaker 2: We should be doing some very virgin intelligence analysis and

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Speaker 4: That Senator Richard Blumenthal, so not a US House member, senator,

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Speaker 2: You'd think Blumenthal, with his access to.

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Speaker 2: It's not classified information, but lots of information, would know

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Speaker 2: whether it's necessary to shoot them down or not. Based

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Speaker 10: I understand why so many in our community in our

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Speaker 2: He needs to wake up, Pink. He's ignoring the Iranian mothership.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, here's the mothership, dude, Well here's the real deal, Harris.

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Speaker 9: You know, I'm also on the Transportation Committee, on the

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you the real deal.

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Speaker 9: Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that

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Speaker 2: That mothership is off. I'm gonna tell you the deal.

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Speaker 2: It's off.

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Speaker 9: The he's to the United States of America. They've launched

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Speaker 2: I don't say this lightly. Yeah, they're high.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well that's interesting, So Hanson's sake, whichever, those

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, so Hanson, our executive producer. Hanson's take on

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Speaker 2: Ah? Yeah, is that the way you took it? Yeah? Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 2: it's like the Salem witch hunt. Everybody's seeing witches in

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Speaker 4: I spotted them over a new house that's having an

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding. So yeah, it's become silly and confusing,

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Speaker 2: and there still might be something menacing going on. Witness

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Speaker 2: the Chinese freaking spy balloon or all of the software

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Speaker 2: the Chai cooms and all the spies in America. You're

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Speaker 2: not Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you. Well, okay,

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Speaker 2: play play fifty. This is John Kirby.

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Speaker 4: I mean he's as high up a spokesman that anybody

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Speaker 11: Using very sophisticated electronic detection technologies provided by federal authorities,

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Speaker 4: So is he saying there aren't a videotape on the news?

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Speaker 4: So is he saying there aren't any drones? I mean

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Speaker 4: that it's all made up. Maybe we should hear the

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Speaker 4: rest of us roll on.

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Speaker 2: We're concerned about it too.

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Speaker 11: We are still investigating this.

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you definitively.

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Speaker 11: I cannot characterize for you definitively what these sightings are.

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Speaker 11: I can just go back to what I said at

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Speaker 11: We can't corroborate some of the reported sightings through our

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Speaker 11: a national security or a public safety threat.

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Speaker 2: See.

436
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Speaker 4: That's the thing that has been driving me crazy for

437
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 4: several days, is the constant we don't know what these are.

438
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Speaker 4: They aren't a threat. Those two sentences can't go together, right, right,

439
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 4: That doesn't make any sense. You know what the perfect

440
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 4: storm that I just realize it is occurring. The public

441
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 4: is going to demand something be done. We're only like

442
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Speaker 4: ten days away. The United States Air Force is going

443
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Speaker 4: to shoot down Santa Oh lord, that's what's going to

444
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Speaker 4: end up happening.

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Speaker 2: That's the worst possible outcome. It's among them me reindeer

446
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 2: meat everywhere.

447
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, toys scattered across the countryside.

448
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 2: Oh no, you wanted sometwn We shut some down. You're happy? Yeah,

449
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 2: it was, well, that was you know what. Honestly, you

450
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 2: remember after the whole Chinese spy balloon nightmare, and they did.

451
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Speaker 2: Biden is shockingly the Mummy in his administration didn't react

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Speaker 2: at all. Then, as it became clear how horrifying that was,

453
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Speaker 2: they shot down every kid's birthday balloon in America for

454
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Speaker 2: about a week, just so they look strong and decisive.

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Speaker 2: I forgot about that. So yeah, you keep.

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Speaker 4: That in your the back of your mind while you're

457
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Speaker 4: listening to all this. The US government at the highest

458
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Speaker 4: level is capable of incredible flailing. I mean that was flailing,

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Speaker 4: Like I'm in charge. You let the one thing go

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Speaker 4: clear gouns the country. Then you started shooting down gender

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Speaker 4: revealed balloons.

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Speaker 2: Depression weather Boy Scout packs doing an experiment for their

463
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Speaker 2: Eagle Scout Badge Bully. There goes the balloon.

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Speaker 4: Stupid though, Santa gonna be blasted out of a sky

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Speaker 4: by an ICBM if you.

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Speaker 2: Heard it here first. That's a lot of ordinance for

467
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Speaker 2: one obese gentleman and a sleigh guided by diminutive reindeer.

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Speaker 2: Why are they tiny reindeer in the popular conception of

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Speaker 2: Santa Claus because they would have to be fairly small

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Speaker 2: to fit on most roofs.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna make Tim the lawyer call in. This is

472
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Speaker 4: one of his things.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, is it? Yeah?

474
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Speaker 4: Really, the invention of the whole Santa sleigh reindeer thing

475
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 4: came from I believe Coca Cola, and Tim is big

476
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Speaker 4: on this. But they were, as it says in the

477
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Speaker 4: songs eight Tiny Reindeer. Everything was miniature, but somehow got

478
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Speaker 4: blown up over time to like regular size. And that

479
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Speaker 4: really bothers him that the origin story has been lost. Yeah,

480
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 4: because in all of your movies you got full size reindeer,

481
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Speaker 4: like the size of a horse up on your roof, right,

482
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Speaker 4: and that's full sized sleigh and all that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: So was the sleigh tiny as well as the reindeer,

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Speaker 2: because I'm familiar with the reference to eight tiny reindeer,

485
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Speaker 2: but nobody references the size of the sleigh. And I

486
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Speaker 2: don't need all of specs. I'm not, you know, that

487
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Speaker 2: serious about it. You know, my kids are and Santa's

488
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Speaker 2: normal size, right or is No, He's a jolly little elf.

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Speaker 4: My kids are past the age now of the of this.

490
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 4: And on one hand, you know the magic has gone

491
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 4: of just that whole thing. When Santa is full on

492
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 4: real and the wonder and everything. It's just it's nothing

493
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 4: could be more fantastic. As a child or a parent,

494
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 4: It's a hell of a lot easier this way, much easier.

495
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Speaker 2: We had so many wonderful traditions with the kids. I mean,

496
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Speaker 2: just I'll tear up thinking about it, but I mean

497
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 2: it was the It was the stockings and we would

498
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 2: put out reindeer foods Santa's reindeer and they would eat it.

499
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Speaker 2: Then he would leave candy in their their shoes, I mean,

500
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 2: because they would read about various cultures at school or

501
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: be told about him and their Christmas celebrations, and they'd say,

502
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Speaker 2: we should put our shoes out. What am I gonna

503
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Speaker 2: say no, put your damn shoes back in the closet.

504
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 2: That's fun to American Santa doesn't mess with people's shoes.

505
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 2: He messes with their.

506
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Speaker 4: Socks if they're hung by a fireplace for some reason,

507
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 4: hanging with careless, slovenly, hanging, zero presence.

508
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: So anyway, Yeah, there would be shoes to fill, and

509
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 2: the reindeer food would be put out, and that was

510
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 2: oatmeal and glitter. And then two continue the the the

511
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 2: loving idea that indeed the reindeer had been there consuming

512
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: the reindear food, somebody would have to clean it up

513
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 2: well by eating it, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah I did that. I'd almost forgotten many times.

515
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 4: It just helped got to eat part of the cookie.

516
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 4: Oh that Yeah, of course Grant was here. Nature cookie.

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00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 4: That stuff is awesome, But like I said, it's not

518
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 4: as wonderful now, but it's certainly easier. What is that

519
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 4: thing you wanted? Okay, I got it at the store.

520
00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:01,479
Speaker 4: It'll be under the tree considerably less magic.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's cute if your kid is five, but if

522
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: he's seventeen, it's not cute. No eh. Yeah, the UK

523
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 2: that the other day has postponed indefinitely hormone treatments for

524
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 2: momentarily confused adolescents. The National Health Authority just backtracked and

525
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 2: said no, trans women cannot breastfeed. After all, it's a

526
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 2: bad idea. The quote unquote milk is not comparable to

527
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: a woman's real breast milk. Yeah, as the comment went

528
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 2: to the story, I'm absolutely shocked that men can't breastfeed.

529
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: This is real breaking news, shocking stuff. You how did

530
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: we get swept away by such madness? Well, and it's

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Speaker 2: continuing in a lot of quarters.

532
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Speaker 4: But man, I got If you're taking so many drugs

533
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 4: that you start to leak out your male nipples and

534
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 4: then you're trying to feed an infant with that, you

535
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 4: are crazy.

536
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:08,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, agreed, Yeah, yeah, Wow. Super human elves delivering packages

537
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 2: worldwide at speeds that defy Einstein's series is reasonable compared

538
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 2: to that. You're right, You're right? Yeah?

539
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Any comment on any of this?

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Speaker 4: Our text line four one five KFTCARTROI on.

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Speaker 1: The eve of his ninety ninth birthday, beloved actor Dick

543
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Speaker 1: Van Dyke now sharing the harrowing moment he narrowly evacuated

544
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Speaker 1: this week's wildfire in Malibu.

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Speaker 8: I forgot how old I am, and I realized I

546
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Speaker 8: was crawling to get out anyway.

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Speaker 1: Twenty something appear as the wind driven Franklin fire came

548
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: down the canyon behind his home.

549
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Speaker 8: I have a fire hose the hooks up to my pool.

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Speaker 1: Van Dyke tried to douse the house, but it proved

551
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: too much.

552
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 2: I thought, my god, I'm not going to make it

553
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Speaker 2: out of here. Because I was trying to crawl to

554
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Speaker 2: the car.

555
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 8: I had exhausted my I couldn't get a Three neighbors

556
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 8: came and carried me out and came back and put

557
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 8: a little fire in the guest house and saved me

558
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 8: than gone for them.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Dick Van Dyke ninety nine today, ninety nine years old today.

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00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: Happy birthday. Dick hooked up.

562
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 4: A fire hose to his pool and was trying to

563
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 4: spray off the house himself. Exhausted himself so much. I

564
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 4: get so tired at my I'm half his age. Uh

565
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 4: to uh do things like that. I can't imagine being

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Speaker 4: ninety nine.

567
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, sounds great.

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00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, genetics and lifestyle. I don't know how much

569
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 4: of it is which, but who Yeah.

570
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 2: I got some doctor friends who Well, genetics, you've.

571
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 4: Got to have because my dad has it. I mean,

572
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 4: my dad absolutely has like the Dick Van Dyke genetics.

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00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can ruin your genetic advantage with your life, sure, absolutely,

574
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 2: but you cannot cancel your genetic disadvantage with a great

575
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: life style. He might be able to, you know, help,

576
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 2: there's certainly no reason not to be healthy. But you

577
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: know what I'm driving at all.

578
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Speaker 4: Those times he tripped over the ottoman and didn't break

579
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Speaker 4: a hip or anything.

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Speaker 2: What a talented dude, Oh my gosh, and a good

581
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 2: man too by all accounts.

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Speaker 4: I was referring to the opening of the Dick Van

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00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 4: Dyke Show, which was in black and white. That's how

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00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 4: old that show is. And so his heyday was what

585
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty is that when he was like at the

586
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Speaker 4: beak of his popularity long before we were born.

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00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, ish, I mean he continued to be a

588
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 2: loved figure in movie Oh yeah, yeah, that sort of thing.

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00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he was old when he was in those

590
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 4: Disney movies when I was a kid, though middle aged certainly.

591
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, though he could hoof it like a kid.

592
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 4: Elon tweets about Doge a lot the Department of Government

593
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 4: Efficiency because he's going to be the guy running it

594
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 4: with Vivik Ramaswani. He tweets out various programs that are

595
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 4: wasting money or statistics. He comes acro it's really interesting.

596
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 4: If you don't follow what you should, you should be

597
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 4: on Twitter and you should follow us. But Peter Thiel,

598
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 4: one of his buddies from the old PayPal mafia, they

599
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 4: all became super rich out of inventing PayPal and all

600
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Speaker 4: what they're separate ways and did different great things, got

601
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Speaker 4: retweeted by Elon today Peter Thiel saying, the strong consensus

602
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Speaker 4: view in the DC establishment is that this is going

603
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 4: to go nowhere, that it's just absolutely impossible to fix things,

604
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 4: and this is going to be a very frustrating dead end.

605
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 4: The alternate view, I would say is you should never

606
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Speaker 4: bet against Elon. We all know there's an extraordinary amount

607
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 4: of waste and it's unsustainable. The six percent GDP deficits

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Speaker 4: the US has cannot be sustained. They probably can't even

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Speaker 4: be sustained for the rest of this decade, let alone longer.

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00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 4: See that's the thing, there is a math equation involved

611
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Speaker 4: in here. I'm frustrated that even some of my favorite

612
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 4: pundits are going with he's nibbling around the edges. It

613
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Speaker 4: won't make a difference. Ah, how about directionally we do something?

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00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 4: What is your answer?

615
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 2: Nothing? Do nothing? And let's direct people's gaze at the

616
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 2: growing impossibility of dealing with this enormous debt. Right, no kidding,

617
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 2: thing has to be done. Now. There are giant, powerful,

618
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 2: vested interests who want nothing to be done, and they'll

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Speaker 2: be fighting this tooth and nail. But again, let's lay

620
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Speaker 2: the spot or shine the spotlight on them.

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Speaker 4: As amazing as Elan is with all the different things

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Speaker 4: that he's accomplished, making electric cars even possibly viable, or

623
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 4: space stuff or whatever, he's up against the most immovable

624
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Speaker 4: object in the history of a movable objects, the United

625
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 4: States federal bureaucracy. So I don't like his chances, but

626
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Speaker 4: I'm all for trying in any even incremental accomplishment I

627
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 4: feel like is good.

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Speaker 2: Well, right, yeah, I would agree just in dollars and cents,

629
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Speaker 2: You're one hundred percent right. But I think there's an

630
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 2: even greater significance to the what would you call it,

631
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 2: flushing them out of the underbrush and letting DC show

632
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 2: its true colors, make them fight you on making legitimate cuts,

633
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 2: get awareness going among the American people. Let's talk about

634
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 2: how much we all owe per person. Let's talk about

635
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 2: public employee unions. Let's talk about the fact that FDR

636
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 2: thought they were a terrible idea, just unworkable, and now

637
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: Trump's new Secretary of Labor is staunchly in favor of

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Speaker 2: public employee unions. What the hell is going on there? Anyway,

639
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 2: It's worth a fight by absolutely worth it.

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00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 4: Or talk about how no government or society has ever

641
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 4: survived this sort of excess spending. Ever it always ends

642
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 4: the same way. Yeah, Yeah, it's not a mystery. What's

643
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 4: going to happen?

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00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 2: No, We're gonna be already spending as much on interest

645
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Speaker 2: as we are in defense.

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Speaker 4: Horrifying. We do four hours of this every single day, shocking.

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Speaker 4: It's in our contract. If you ever missed a segment

648
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 4: or an hour and you want to make it up,

649
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 4: you can listen to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: You just subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand. Great hour,

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Speaker 2: next hour or two. A mystery at a California recruiting office.

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Speaker 2: What the hell is going on there? Armstrong and Getty